Our impact
Find out about the far-reaching impact of our research
Take a look at our full list of facilities across the University.
Facilities
For more information about any particular facility, take a look at your faculty's website or see facilities below.
Biological Sciences facilities
Visit the Research Facilities page for an overview of research facilities for Biological Sciences, or read in detail at the links below.
Chemistry facilities
Electronics facilities
Engineering facilities
Visit Facilities page for an overview of Engineering research facilities, or read in detail at the links below.
- Acoustic test facilities
- Anechoic and reverberation chambers
- Bioengineering Laboratory
- Drop Test Rig
- Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centres
- Human Factors Research Unit Laboratory
- Flight Simulator
- Geotechnics Laboratory
- National Centre of Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS)
- Testing and Structures Research Laboratory (TSRL)
- The R. J. Mitchell wind tunnel
- Thick Film Unit
- Towing tank
- μ-VIS: Multidisciplinary, Multiscale, Microtomographic Volume Imaging
- Wind tunnels
- Wolfson Unit for Marine Technology & Industrial Aerodynamics
Geography and Environmental Science facilities
Visit the SoGES facilities website for an overview of research facilities in Geography and Environmental Science.
Or use the links below for detailed information on SoGES facilities for University of Southampton staff and students via SharePoint, and to find out more about Environmental Sensing @Southampton.
SoGES facilities SharePoint
Specialist libraries
Visit Special Collections website for an overview of the Specialist Libraries, or read in detail at the links below.
- Language Resource Centre
- Wellington Archive
- The Mountbatten Papers Database
- The Palmerston Papers Database
- Printed Special Collections
- The Cope Collection
- Parkes Library
- Avenue Library
- Chawton House Library
- Secure Data Laboratory (S3RI)
- The Creative Services Centres
- Winchester School of Art Library
- Health Services Library
- Phillipa Kaye Library (Institute of Maritime Law)
Medical facilities
- Biomedical Imaging Unit
- Histochemistry Research Unit
- NIHR Welcome Trust Clinical Research facility
- Biomechanics Laboratory
- WISH laboratory
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
- Southampton Clinical Trials Unit
- NIHR Clinical Research Facility
- WISH
- University of Southampton Tissue Bank
- Southampton CRUK Centre Protein Core Facility
- Clinical Research Imaging
- Clinical Informatics Research Unit
- Flow Cytometry Facility
- Clinical Metabolomics Unit
Ocean and Earth Science facilities
Visit Facilities page for an overview of the facilities for Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, or read in detail the links below.
- 3D Chirp
- OBIC
- Carbonate Chemistry Facility
- Coastal Laboratories
- Coral Reef Laboratory
- Dissolved Organic Carbon and Total Dissolved Nitrogen Facility
- Environmental Sequencing Facility
- GAU-Radioanalytical (GAU)
- High Resolution Marine Geophysics
- Inorganic Elemental and Isotopic Analysis by ICP-MS
- NNUF-EXACT Facility
- Organic Geochemistry
- Palaeomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism Laboratory
- Pressure Lab
- Research Aquarium
- Research Vessels
- Rock Preparation and Thin-Sectioning Laboratories
- Scanning Electron Microscope Facility (SEM)
- Seafloor EM
- Stable Isotope Ratio - Mass Spectrometer
- X-Ray Diffraction Facility (XRD)
- National Oceanographic Library
Optoelectronics facilities
Humanities facilities
Social Sciences
Research centres and institutes
Our research centres are home to some of the most innovative research in the world
Research partnerships
Read about our research partnerships which we have with some of the top institutions and businesses from around the world