Staff
Did you know?
- Around 14 per cent of staff were born overseas.
- Many of them have lived and worked abroad for significant periods.
- Academics at Bristol frequently travel internationally to attend conferences, take up visiting professorships and other posts, and conduct research.
Try to describe a 'typical' member of University staff, and you soon run into difficulty. As befits an institution with a global reputation and a cosmopolitan student population, Bristol’s academics and support staff are a diverse group.
Bristol was one of several UK universities that became a safe haven for German scientists and scholars who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s, among them the physicist and future Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe.
In the decades following World War II, as this institution grew from an excellent provincial university into a world-renowned centre of learning and research, its staff - like its student body - became ever more diverse, with academics from every continent taking up posts across the University.