Researcher support
Discover the ways that we support our research staff - personally and professionally
We have more than 240 different research groups at the University of Southampton, all of which engage in cutting-edge research.
About our research groups
A research group (also sometimes called a research centre) is a group of researchers from the same faculty working together on a particular issue or topic. Research groups may be composed of researchers all from the same academic unit/subject or from different subjects within a faculty.
At the University of Southampton we also encourage our research groups to collaborate with each other across disciplines to make the most of our incredible knowledge base of expertise. In this way we hope to stretch boundaries, challenge traditional ways of thinking, and innovate towards finding new solutions to problems.
Browse research groups by faculty and academic unit
You will find more information about individual research groups on the relevant faculty and/or academic unit website.
Business, Law and Art
Engineering and the Environment
Health Sciences
Humanities
Southampton Digital Humanities
Archaeological Computing Research Group
Archaeological Prospection Services of Southampton (APSS)
Centre for Applied Archaeological Analyses
Centre for Applied Human Origins Research
Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins
Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Classical and Historical Archaeology Research Group
Osteoarchaeology Research Group
Social Prehistory Research Group
Southampton Ceramics Research Group
Theory, Representation and Cultural Politics Research Group
Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCECS)
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCECS)
Centre for Imperial and Post Colonial Studies
Southampton Centre for Nineteenth Century Research
Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
Southampton Centre for Nineteenth Century Research
Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR)
Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS)
Centre for Mexico - Southampton Collaboration (Mexsu)
Centre for Transnational Studies
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCECS)
Southampton Centre for Nineteenth Century Research
Composition and Music Technology Research Group
Music Performance Research Group
Musicology and Ethnomusicology Research Group
History of Philosophy Research Group
Analytic Aesthetics and the History of Aesthetics Research Group
Political and Legal Philosophy Research Group
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology Research Group
Medicine
Cancer Sciences
NIHR/Cancer Research UK Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Southampton Cancer Research UK Centre
University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit (In conjunction with NIHR and Cancer Research UK)
Clinical and Experimental Sciences
NIHR/Clinical Research Facility
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
Human Development and Health
Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
Translational Immunology Partnership
Primary Care and Population Sciences
Southampton Primary Medical Care Research Group
Wessex Institute
Natural and Environmental Sciences
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Advanced Composite Materials Facility
Characterisation and Analytics
Chemical Biology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Functional Inorganic, Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry
Organic Chemistry: Synthesis, Catalysis and Flow
Geology and Geophysics Research Group
Marine Biogeochemistry Research Group
Palaeoceanography and Palaeclimate Research Group
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Electronics and Computer Science
Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research
Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group (AIC)
Electronic and Software Systems Research Group (ESS)
Electronics and Electrical Engineering Research Group (EEE)
Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Research Group
Southampton Nanofabrication Centre
Southampton Wireless Research Group (SW)
Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory
Vision, Learning and Control Research Group (VLC)
Web and Internet Science Research Group (WAIS)
Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training
Optoelectronics
Advanced Fibre Technologies and Applications Research Group
Advanced Solid-state Sources Research Group
Computational Nonlinear Optics Research Group
Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors
Fibre Bragg Gratings Research Group
High Power Fibre Lasers Research Group
Infrared Science and Technology Research Group
Integrated Photonic Devices Research Group
Laser-Induced Forward Transfer Research Group
Microstructured Optical Fibres Research Centre
Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Research Group
Nonlinear and Microstructured Optical Materials Research Group
Novel Glass and Fibre Research Group
Optical Biosensors and Biophotonics Research Group
Optical Fibre Communications Research Group
Optical Microfibre Devices and Sensors
Optical Parametric Oscillators Research Group
Optical Sensors and Instrumentation Research Group
Optoelectronics Research Centre
Photonic, Electronic and Plasmonic Microstructured Optical Fibres Research Group
Photonic Systems Circuits and Sensors Research Group
Physical Optics Research Group
Planar Optical Materials Research Group
Planar Waveguide and Slab Lasers Research Group
Power Photonics and Applications Research Group
Pulsed Fibre Lasers Research Group
Pulsed Laser Deposition Research Group
Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy Research Group
Semiconductor Fibre Devices for Nonlinear Photonics Research Group
Silica Fibre Fabrication Research Group
Telecommunications Devices and Sub-Systems Research Group
Ultrafast Laser X-Ray Research Group
Physics and Astronomy
Adaptive Photonics Group
Hybrid Photonics Research Group
Laboratory for Inorganic Colloidal Nanocrystals
Magnetism and Superconductivity Research Group
Nanomaterials Research Group
Quantum Control Group
Quantum Light and Matter Research Group
Quantum Nanophysics and Matter Wave Interferometry Research Group
Solid-State Quantum Optics Group
Southampton High Energy Physics Theory Group
Space Environment Physics Group
The Terahertz Laboratories Group
Theory of Light Matter Coupling in Nanostructures Research Group
Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-laser Research Group
Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences
Earth Surface Dynamics Research Group
Economy, Governance and Culture Research Group
Global Environment Change and Earth Observation Research Group
Palaoenvironmental Laboratory at the University of Southampton (PLUS)
Population, Health and Wellbeing Research Group (PHeW)
Applied Mathematics Research Group
Pure Mathematics Research Group
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute
Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information (CORMSIS)
Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity Research Centre (STAG)
Centre for Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology (CCCAHP)
Centre for Research on Self and Identity (CSRI)
Centre for Sexual Health Research (CSHR)
Centre for Vision and Cognition (CVC)
Developmental Brain-Behaviour Laboratory (DBBL)
Emotion and Personality Bio-behavioural Laboratory
Experimental Psychopathology Laboratory (EPL)
ESRC Administrative Data Research Centre for England (ADRCE)
ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC)
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
QUEST: Qualitative Expertise at Southampton
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)
EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme
Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA)
Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance (C2G2)
Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy (GHP3)
Research partnerships
Find out more about the breadth of our research partnerships, and the benefits they bring
Doctoral Training Centres
Take a look at the Doctoral Training Centres at the University