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Can AI be used to undermine elections?
Online political disinformation and voter profiling spiked during recent elections in the UK and US. How can we now protect democracies from threats posed by AI? -
Giving displaced women and girls a voice
Professor Pia Riggirozzi highlights the perilous journeys migrant women and young girls from Central America and Venezuela undertake, including the risks they face and failures of current policies to protect them.
Research institutes, centres and groups
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Centre for Democratic Futures
We carry out interdisciplinary research on the conditions of achieving democratic futures, ranging from conceptual debates to challenges of institutional innovation and public policy. -
Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
We are dedicated to advancing knowledge of a complex region that has been of key significance in shaping both historical and contemporary developments across the world. -
Centre for English Identity and Politics
The political salience of England and British identities was evident in recent elections and referenda. The centre explores both the formation and meaning of these identities and England’s local and national governance. -
Centre for Global Health and Policy
GHaP aims to be a central focus of social science related global health research within the School of Social, Economic and Political Sciences and the whole of the University of Southampton. -
Centre for Political Ethnography (CPE)
The research group aims to rescue ethnography from its current void in political science and build the UK's first centre for ethnographic research in politics and administration. -
Centre for Transnational Studies
Our interdisciplinary research centre brings together researchers, educators, cultural producers and the refugee voluntary sector to increase understanding of cross-border processes. -
Gender and Inequalities Centre (GAIN)
GAIN is an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying gender and inequalities at Southampton. -
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
We work with partner organisations to tackle global marine and maritime challenges, from developing green technologies to influencing government policy. -
The Parkes Institute
The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations researches, teaches and raises awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from the ancient to the contemporary world. -
Web Science Institute
We study the relationship between society and the largest information system in history: the World Wide Web.
