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For the first time, the “impact” of academic research on the wider world has been included in a large-scale assessment of the quality of university research, which has just been published. One-fifth of…
The UK’s video games industry body Tiga has called for the products to be treated like other creative industries such as television or film, rather than mere “software”. There is a good argument for this…
There are five trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans, weighing a total of 268,000 tonnes. That’s according to a paper by an international team of scientists who took a substantial amount of…
The UK is having what might be called a constitutional moment. In the wake of the Scottish referendum and after nearly five years of coalition government, the fundamental rules of the political game are…
In recent years there has been growing global awareness of the interplay between rights and the development process and a generalised recognition of social determinants of health connecting poverty, equality…
More of us are living longer, but a crucial qualifying factor needs to be considered: namely whether this added life expectancy is likely to be times spent in good health. There is considerable evidence…
Electric eels can incapacitate prey by producing a stunning 660-volt zap of electricity, but what’s really shocking is how they use that power. The mechanism of the eel’s attack was a mystery, but an experimental…
We know the world is warming and that, unless things drastically change, we will keep emitting more carbon. We know the two are linked. But exactly how much warmer will it become as we emit more carbon…
The evisceration scene. Connoisseurs of zombie cinema will know that this is near mandatory but, at this point, I’m going to assume that you have no idea what I am talking about. It goes like this. Imagine…
Most people probably have an image of World War I derived as much from popular culture as from school textbooks, especially in this centenary year. It is the image of hopelessly naïve soldier-victims marching…
It’s no secret that the global population is ageing. We’re living longer than ever and are healthier until much later in life. But we’re still struggling to adapt to this changing demographic – and some…
It’s one of the big mysteries in my career as a marine biologist. Something lurking in the seas off Britain has been chomping away at local porpoises and none of the usual suspects fit the bill. Now scientists…
One of the UK’s largest market research firms has caused a stir with an online tool that gives a peek into its treasure trove of consumer profiles. YouGov describes its Profiler app as “a showcase for…
The thing everyone seems to talk about with the moon landings is the idea of the whole world stopping to watch. It was a mission that overcame nationalism, it wasn’t “America” putting a man on the moon…
We live in a time when our climate is warming more rapidly than ever before. Rising temperature and associated changes in weather are driving shifts in the distributions of species on Earth. Some are thriving…
The past week saw two significant events in European science. You know about the first one: the triumphant Rosetta mission which landed a probe on a comet. But the other event was less publicised, and…
A sterilisation camp held in Chhattisgarh, an impoverished state in central India, has claimed the lives of 13 women, most of whom were young and marginalised. The women, who died within hours of the procedure…
They are all as bad as each other. You can’t believe anything they say. It doesn’t make any difference. There are perhaps as many reasons for not voting as numbers of non-voters (35% of the electorate…
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them – some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing…
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Professor in Operations Management, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Psychology, Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow, Primary Care, University of Southampton
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow in Politics, University of Southampton
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Professor of Property Law, Policy & Practice, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Law, Southampton Law School, University of Southampton
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Digital & Data Driven Marketing, University of Southampton
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Professor in Health Psychology and Dean, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, University of Southampton
