University of Southampton

Dr Alison Wright, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Biosciences, has been awarded a prestigious £100,000 prize by the Leverhulme Trust to further her promising career in evolutionary biology. Dr Alison Wright, a Lecturer and…

Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured unprecedented data from the Sun’s magnetic field. The groundbreaking data collected from the US National Science Foundation's…

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can be tricked into producing malicious code, which could be used to launch cyber attacks, according to research from the University of Sheffield.  The study, by academics from the…

An ambitious new digital healthcare hub in South Yorkshire is set to lead the UK’s digital health revolution and address inequalities in patient care.  Led by the University of Sheffield, in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University,…

People across Kenya were mysteriously plunged into darkness last month as the country suffered its worst power outage in a generation – except for a tiny remote village. Now experts from the University of Southampton have revealed how…

Business and public engagement activities at the University of Southampton have again been recognised as amongst the best in England in a set of assessment results. In the third round of the annual UK-wide Knowledge Exchange Framework…

The University of Southampton is officially one of the world’s leading universities – after being named in the top 100 of a major international league table. The Times Higher Education’s world university rankings placed the south coast…

Teaching has been praised at the University of Southampton as it retains its ‘silver’ rating in a national teaching assessment. The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) silver award reflects the university’s focus on enabling and…

An international team of scientists has found early human migrants left Africa for Eurasia, across the Sinai peninsula and on through Jordan, over 80-thousand years ago. Researchers from the University of Southampton (UK) and Shantou…

Teenagers in Hampshire have experienced life as doctors on the hospital frontlines as part of drive to develop a new generation of healthcare professionals. The initiative was organised by the University of Southampton through its …