Our research impact

Debt and inequality are two issues that increasingly dominate discussions across Western Europe.

Research by Southampton’s Centre for Research on Ageing and the ESRC Centre for Population Change – Connecting Generations project can directly inform social policies to reduce and try to eliminate the unmet need for social care among older persons.

A University of Southampton team has invented an electronic glove that enables movement in the paralysed hands of stroke survivors – supporting their rehabilitation.  

A team of astronomers, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has discovered the largest cosmic explosion ever observed.

Southampton research is pushing forward the frontiers of our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature by revealing insights into the interiors of neutron stars.

Southampton PhD student Karolina Zarzyczny is improving our understanding of the mass movement of marine life in our oceans due to global heating.

A team of researchers, led by Dankmar Böhning and supported by Rattana Lerdsuwansri and Patarawan Sangnawakij from Thammasat University, has developed a powerful new method to measure the effectiveness of contact-tracing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand.

World-leading Southampton research into Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) is enabling earlier
diagnosis and access to treatment of young children with the disease.

An innovative Southampton initiative, that brought together mathematicians and theoretical physicists from around the world, is helping shed light on complex challenges in mathematics and physics.

Discover how Southampton’s research is empowering families to trust the digital data shared about their lives.

Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business, is exploring how characters on screen could help us reduce our carbon footprints.

A programme of activities created by Southampton academics is empowering families in England and Jamaica to talk about numbers early in their children’s lives.