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Written by Claire Garnett I have applied for three fellowships since finishing my PhD, two immediately afterwards (both of which were unsuccessful) and more recently to the NIHR Advanced Fellowship (now called NIHR Post-doctoral fellowship), which was successful and I started this at the University of Bristol in September 2023. This blog post is about […]

Written by Chris Stone Smartwatches are back. The 2010s was the decade when wearable technology became established, with companies such as Apple, Motorola, Samsung, LG and Sony all producing wrist worn computing devices capable of communicating with their owners’ smartphones. At the same time, fitness bands became popular amid a growing trend for personal health […]

Society for the Study of Addiction annual conference 2025, Newcastle Written by Chris Stone Five members of the University of Bristol’s Translational and Applied Research Group, covering all career stages in the group from PhD student to director, have attended the 141st annual conference of the Society for the Study of Addiction, held in Newcastle.  The […]

Written by Katie De-loyde Back in 2022, a few colleagues and I from the University of Bristol set out to explore a simple but important question: Could offering a draught alcohol-free beer in pubs and bars reduce how much alcoholic beer people drink? To find out, we ran a field study in a range of […]