Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorships:
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Dr Felicity Ann Jensz from The University of Munster, Germany, will be working with Professor Hilary Carey in the Department of history on Translating Colonialism.
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Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, will be working with Dr Karim Thebault in the Department of Philosophy on Quantum Theory without Quantum States.
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Professor Edson Leonel from Universidade Estadual Paulista – Rio Claro Campus, Brazil, will be working with Professor Carl Dettmann in the School of Mathematics on Unravelling the mysteries of dynamic phase transitions.
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Professor Tita Chico from the University of Maryland, USA, will be working with Professor Elaine McGirr in the Department of Theatre on Performances of Wonder: Science and Spectacle.
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Professor Miriam Ticktin from the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA, will be working with Dr Juan Zhang in the Department of Anthropology and Archeology on Social Justice, Innocence and Discomfort.
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Professor Jackie Leach Scully from the University of New South Wales, Australia, will be working with Professor Sally Sheldon in the Bristol Law School on Values in the regulation of human organ transplantation.
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Dr Josiane Zerubia from Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France, will be working with Professor Alin Achim in the School of Computer Science on Learning Stochastic Geometry Models for Ship Identification in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images.
Bristol Next Generation Visiting Researchers:
- Chittaranjan Hens from the Center for Computational Natural Science, IIIT-Hyderabad, India, will be working with Professor Luca Giuggioli in the School of Engineering Maths and Technology on Disease propagation in complex networks: a biased random walk approach.
- Professor David Bissell from the University of Melbourne, Australia, will be working with Dr Vickie Zhang in the School of Geographical Sciences on Rearticulating the promise of non representational theories: affect, labour and passivity in negative times.
Details of these projects and visitors' lectures/seminars will be available on our website in due course. In the meantime you can contact the Bristol hosts listed above for further information.
As mentioned in our July Newsletter, we are reviewing and revamping our portfolio of funding awards, and will be launching our new schemes in the coming months. Further announcements will be made in due course, including in our next newsletter in October. If you have any questions, please contact the IRD team: ird-office@bristol.ac.uk.