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unusual facts about Bristol University



Andrei Nekrasov

He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, taking a master's degree, and film at Bristol University Film School.

Chris Moulin

Moulin completed his PhD ("Does a metacognitive deficit contribute to the episodic memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease?") at Bristol University in 1999 under the supervision of Tim Perfect and Alan Baddeley.

Dugald Steer

He completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature and philosophy at Bristol University, then completed a TEFL course and lived in Spain for five years.

Georgie Twigg

Having moved up a year at school she arrived at the age of 17 at Bristol University in September 2008 where she read Law and resided at Wills Hall, playing hockey for the university first team and Clifton Hockey Club.

Keith Scholey

Scholey graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Zoology in 1978 and subsequently completed a PhD in Zoology at the same university.

Krissi Murison

Murison attended The Abbey School in Reading from 1993–2000, going on to study English Literature at Bristol University, where she edited the music pages of student newspaper Epigram.

Michael Hogg

Hogg received a PhD in social psychology from Bristol University and subsequently taught for 20 years in Australia, most recently at the University of Queensland.

N. G. L. Hammond

In 1954 he became headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol and in 1962 was appointed professor of Greek at Bristol University, a post which he held until his retirement in 1973.

Polly Frame

A graduate of Bristol University and the Old Vic Theatre there, Ms. Frame is currently appearing in a modernized version of William Shakespere's Macbeth that was a hit on the West End of London that recently made an appearance in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in 2008.

Ralph Henstock

His academic career began as Assistant Lecturer, Bedford College for Women, 1947–48; then Assistant Lecturer at Birkbeck, 1948–51; Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, 1951–56; Lecturer, Bristol University, 1956–60; Senior Lecturer and Reader, Queen’s University Belfast, 1960–64; Reader, Lancaster University, 1964–70; Chair of Pure Mathematics, New University of Ulster, 1970–88; and Leverhulme Fellow 1988-91.


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Adrian Mourby

A graduate of the University of Wales, Lampeter and Bristol University Film School, he was a producer at the BBC for twelve years, where, amongst other series, he produced a television adaptation of Sir Kingsley Amis' The Old Devils.

Martin Rieser

Originally a graduate of English Literature and Philosophy from Bristol University, he subsequently studied Printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris with Stanley William Hayter and then at Goldsmiths, where he also developed an abiding interest in Photography.

Susan Hurley

Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 – August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994, professor of philosophy at Bristol University from 2006 and the first woman fellow of All Souls, Oxford.