Public Policy|Southampton works across all faculties of the University of Southampton supporting researchers in making connections with policymakers in their field of research. We do this by providing access to networks in local and national government, providing policy contexts to ongoing research and building researchers capacity to effectively engage with policymakers.
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Read about the 'Coastal Res' project led by the University of Southampton, University College London, Middlesex University, University of East Anglia, Bournemouth University and the Channel Coastal Observatory.
Read Ann Garbett, Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris and Dr Sarah Neal report which uncovers the childbearing trends of West Africa's youngest adolescents.
Read Dr John Boswell's, Dr Roger Tyers' and Joshua Huckins' report on the impact of Citizen's Assemblies in British Government.
This project led by Prof. Martin Solan brings together Russian and UK experts that can address climate change effects on Arctic marine ecosystems.
This project seeks to understand recent fertility trends in the UK and develop methods for fertility forecasting.
The Rebooting Democracy Project led by Dr Matt Ryan brings together leading contributors to the study of democratic innovation in social and computer sciences.
This project set out to explore the costs and consequences of variations in nurse staffing levels in acute hospital wards in NHS hospitals.
This project seeks to understand the importance of self management support in people living with cancer.
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This project looks at potential mechanisms by which marine plastic debris may impact marine communities as a whole, to ultimately understand the scale of impact and sensitivity of ecosystems and food security.
LifeLab is the only facility of its kind in the UK contributing to tackling the current health crisis that our children and young people face.
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Bowel cancer is the most common cancer to affect both men and women. This project set out to explore how people recover their health and wellbeing after being treated for bowel cancer.
When so prorogued, Parliament cannot exercise its legislative authority or scrutinise the government. This project considers options for reform - including the case for abolition of prorogation.
The overarching aim of QuantMig is to produce comprehensive, multi-perspective and robust quantitative migration scenarios to support various areas of European migration policy.
This study will fill a vital gap in knowledge about the dynamics of social licence and trust for operational data linkage and analytics among parents of dependent children.
PPS seeks to support the delivery of the findings of a project examining the Mekong Delta's resilience and sustainability to changes in water and sediment fluxes.
Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, this collaboration aims to draw on the findings of four key research studies to inform UK nursing policy and practice in preparing for a post-pandemic future.
Researchers from the UoS have developed a prototype personal respirator intended to address the limitations of the existing protective equipment doctors and nurses are wearing on the wards.
A UoS project that analyses the illegal trade of endangered plants and and seeks to develop digital resources to assist law enforcement in countering and disrupting this criminal market.
A UoS project that aims to address the need for repeated valve replacement for the treatment of aortic heart valve disease by developing new design concepts.
The University of Southampton will be at the forefront of developing the next generation of experts and leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) thanks to a £100M investment from UK Research and Innovation.
A project pointing to a new emphasis on preparing for conception as a way of preventing disease and improving public health.
A joint initiative between the University of Southampton business school, the GRI team of Aviva Investors and the Living Wage Foundation.
Southampton is one of five UK cities bringing drones to the UK.
The project 'Exploring the Secondary Pains of Indeterminate Imprisonment: The case of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) families' provides the first empirical exploration of IPP sentencing.
Following the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, the topic of migration from other EU countries and free movement has been highlighted as critical and policy-relevant.
Early LifeLab is a classroom based intervention for primary school children to tackle childhood obesity by empowering children to lead the change.
The impact of Brexit on EU nationals' vulnerability: the case of Polish nationals. This pilot project from the University of Southampton was led by Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta and Dr Ingi Iusmen.
Find out more about our affiliation with the CSaP Policy Fellowship Programme at the Cambridge Science.
View examples of Policy Briefs from research projects we have worked with recently.
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