University of Bristol

Researchers from Bristol’s School of Education sought to determine what types of humour are present in early development and the ages at which different types of humour emerge. The team created the 20-question Early Humour Survey (EHS)…

Ultraleap’s hand-tracking and mid-air haptics technologies allow users to touch and manipulate the virtual world.Sensors track the hand’s intricate movements, creating 3D projections that can interact in the digital realm.Ultraleap CEO…

Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, such as grains, fruits and vegetables, and they build many familiar landscapes such as wetlands, meadows, and forests. From 100 to 50 million years ago, the flowering…

Focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, items from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections will illustrate the ways in which these exchanges have shaped literature, book production and…

The 16 to 18-year-olds took the roles of interest groups - from lesser-known countries and Greenpeace to the UK and the UN - and thrashed out deals in the University of Bristol’s Wills Memorial Building.Over a fraught day of negotiations…

The Care of Childhood Obesity (CoCO) clinic at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has been supporting children in the area since the early 2000s. It is led by clinicians and researchers from the University of Bristol, University…

The Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list, from Clarivate, recognises 16 University of Bristol researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during…

Mr Lansley is currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is a social scientist, broadcaster and journalist and has published widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His new book, The…

In a new study of lizards and their relatives, Dr Jorge Herrera-Flores of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and colleagues have discovered that ‘slow and steady wins the race’.The team studied lizards, snakes and their relatives, a group…

The team analysed 70 primary teeth collected from 70 children enrolled in the Children of the 90s study (also known as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) based at the University of Bristol. Parents donated primary teeth…