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Image: Group of Brazilian and UK researchers in a field day in a traditional Amazonian community (Quilombola) during the workshop led by Dr Penfield and Dr Nobrega, funded by the British Council (July 2024). Other researchers from Bristol in the photo are Dr Jaskiran Kochan, Dr Shirley Famelli, and Dr Rayane Pacheco. Researchers from the…

Image l-r: A young Elizabeth Blackwell; Henrietta Lacks statue outside Royal Fort House, Bristol; A-Book-of-Medical-Discourses, by Rebecca CrumplerUS National Library of Medicine In January 1859, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first ever woman on the British Medical Register. She was born in Bristol on 3 February 1821, and throughout last year we celebrated her bicentenary. Here…

Ola Thomson, previous EBI Research Associate in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, penned an overview on narrative CVs, explaining how they can enable researchers to showcase a broad array of outputs and outcomes from their research beyond published papers. Research & Development People and Culture strategy paper (published July 2021) released by the Department for Business, Energy &…

‘Autism is one of my biggest strengths, and my greatest insecurity.’ In this honest and eye-opening blog we hear from an Autistic student at Bristol about what life is like and how having autism at University affects her. When people hear the word autism, they often think of Sheldon Cooper/Rain Man type characters. I don’t…