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Our first cohort of new Benjamin Meaker Annual Award holders

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6 June 2025

This year we launched our revised Benjamin Meaker Annual Awards (BMAA) scheme. We are delighted to announce the first cohort of award holders, who will undertake collaborative research development in the 2025-26 academic year.

Exploiting Quantum Phenomena in Earth Abundant Photocatalysts

  • UoB Lead: Dr Tom Oliver in the School of Chemisty

  • International Collaborator: Professor Stephen Bradforth (University of Southern California, USA)

Where do we go from here? Conceptualising Peace Research

  • UoB Lead: Professor Roddy Brett in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

  • International Collaborators: Professor Norbert Koppensteiner and Professor Josefina Echavarría Alvarez (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Meaningful Work and Exploitation from a Kantian Perspective

  • UoB Lead: Dr Martin Sticker in the Department of Philosophy

  • International Collaborator: Professor Corinna Mieth (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Climate change and Alzheimer's disease: the role of the hypothalamus

  • UoB Lead: Professor David Murphy in the Bristol Medical School

  • International Collaborator: Dr Andrew Mecawi (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Gambling Harms and Urban Growth

  • UoB Lead: Professor Agnes Nairn in the Bristol Business School

  • International Collaborator: Dr Kah-Wee Lee (National University of Singapore)

Fractional calculus and its application to movement ecology in a changing world

  • UoB Lead: Professor Luca Giuggioli in The School of Engineering Mathematics

  • International Collaborator: Professor Mujeeb ur Rehman (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan)

Enhanced Alzheimer's protection: A multidisciplinary approach elucidating optimum melatonin levels required to reduce lipid membrane damage by amyloids at a physico-chemical level utilising Bristol's world-leading holistic microscopy

  • UoB Lead: Dr Robert Harniman in The School of Chemistry

  • International Collaborator: Professor Zoya Leonenko (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Using Gold-Rush Migration History to Connect Cultural Heritage Industries in the UK and Australia

  • UoB Lead: Professor Simon Potter in the Department of History

  • International Collaborator: Dr Benjamin Mountford (Australian Catholic University)

Further information

Please email ird-office@bristol.ac.uk if you have an enquiry about our Benjamin Meaker Annual Awards (BMAA).

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