
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.
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 school/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.
You will find more information about individual research groups on the relevant faculty and/or school website.
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
Acoustics Group
Advanced Prosthetics & Orthotics Group
Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group
Astronautics Group
Bioengineering Science Group
Carbon Management Research Group
Computational Engineering and Design Group
Dynamics Group
Energy and Climate Change Group
Energy Technology Group
Engineering Materials Group
Infrastructure Group
Maritime Engineering Group
Mechatronics Engineering Group
national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS)
Signal Processing, Audio and Hearing Group
Transportation Group
Waste Management Group
Water and Environmental Engineering Group
Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group
Biomedical Electronics Group
Cyber Physical Systems Group
Cyber Security Group
Electrical Power Engineering Group
Next Generation Wireless Group
Smart Electronic Materials and Systems Group
Sustainable Electronic Technologies Group
The IT Innovation Centre
Vision, Learning and Control Group
Web and Internet Science Group
Advanced Fibre Technologies & Applications
Advanced Solid-State Sources
Coherent Optical Signals
Computational Nonlinear Optics
Compound Glass and Fibres
Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors
Fibre Bragg Gratings
High Power Fibre Lasers
Integrated Photonic Devices
Laser-Direct-Write (LDW) Technologies for Biomedical Sensors
Laser-Induced Forward Transfer
Microstructured Optical Fibres
Nanophotonics & Metamaterials
Nonlinear & Microstructured Optical Materials
Novel Glass & Fibre
Optical Biosensors & Biophotonics
Optical Engineering and Quantum Photonics Group
Optical Fibre Communications
Optical Fibre Sensors and Devices
Optical Parametric Oscillators
Photonic, Electronic and Plasmonic Microstructured Optical Fibres
Photonic Systems Circuits and Sensors
Physical Optics
Planar Waveguide and Slab Lasers
Pulsed Fibre Lasers
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Nonlinear Semiconductor Photonics
Silica Fibre Fabrication
Silicon Photonics
Ultrafast Laser X-Ray
Astronomy Group
Quantum, Light and Matter Group
SHEP – Southampton High Energy Physics theory group
SEP - Space Environment Physics group
Characterisation and Analytics Group
Chemical Biology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics Group
Computational Systems Group
Electrochemistry Group
Functional Inorganic, Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry Group
Magnetic Resonance Group
Organic Chemistry: Synthesis, Catalysis and Flow
Chemistry Education Group
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Geology and Geophysics Research Group
Marine Biogeochemistry Research Group
Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate Research Group
Physical Oceanography Research Group
Marine Biology and Ecology Research Group
Economy, Society and Governance
Environmental Change and Sustainability (ECaS)
Landscape Dynamics and Ecology (LDE)
Population, Health and Wellbeing Research Group (PHeW)
Centre for Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology (CCCAHP)
Centre for Research on Self and Identity (CSRI)
Centre for Innovation in Mental Health (CiMH)
Centre for Perception and Cognition (CPC)
Cancer Sciences
DOHaD center
Genomics and bioinformatics
Primary Care
Clinical Neuroscience
Nutrition Metabolic Endocrinology & Cardiovascular
Population Health
Respiratory Allergy and Critical Care
Clinical Ethics and Law
Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
Immunology and Inflammation
Infectious Diseases
Musculoskeletal Disease
Global Health
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)
ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC)
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)
EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme
Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA)
Economic Theory and Experimental Economics
Centre for Global Health and Policy (GHaP)
Institute for Criminal Justice Research
Institute of Educational Effectiveness and Equity (IE3)
Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Internet and Culture (iCLIC)
Centre for Geometry, Topology and Applications
Centre for Law, Policy and Society
Centre for Private and Commercial Law
Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law
Centre for Global Constitutionalism
Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking
Centre for Accounting, Accountability and Governance
Centre for Inclusive and Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Centre for Research on Work and Organisations
Advanced Project Management Research Centre
Product Returns Research Group
Centre for Political Ethnography
Discover the ways that we support our research staff - personally and professionally
Find out more about the breadth of our research partnerships, and the benefits they bring
Take a look at the Doctoral Training Centres at the University