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Encouraging healthier eating for adolescents
University researchers have conducted focus groups with young people to understand the different factors that play a role in their food choices.
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Informing policy for the future of work
During the Covid-19 pandemic, office workers had to migrate from the office to work from home.
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): Uncertainty and Attention Indices
Academics collaborate to create a series of news based cryptocurrency using a big data approach.
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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?
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Working out how nations can better take everybody into account
University statistical researchers, led by Professor Paul Smith, have helped nations better estimate their populations. This work to improve censuses has had a big economic and political impact.
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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.
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The motivational power of positive news stories
Professor Denise Baden challenged traditional ideas about how news should be reported, inspiring initiatives by leading media organisations such as the BBC and “the Guardian”.
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Giving young people the skills to challenge myths about history
Professor Jonathan Conlin teamed up with teachers to give students the skills to challenge popular historical myths about the 1923 Lausanne Treaty.
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Developing a new way to inform international student migration policy
Government statisticians needed help to find out if migration statistics were accurate. They turned to University researchers to carry out research on how many international students settle in the UK
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Getting policymakers to focus on England's left-behind towns
University experts have made the fortunes of coastal and former industrial towns easier to see. Thanks to research by professors Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker, data on towns is now routinely collected.
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Maximising teachers' ability to improve pupils' maths skills
Southampton education expert Professor Christian Bokhove is leading on a project to make high-quality mathematics textbooks available for teachers across the UK. The aim is to improve pupils’ maths scores to draw even with those achieved in other countries
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Keeping patients safe in hospital
Professor Peter Griffiths, Professor Jane Ball, Dr Jeremy Jones and their team have shaped the public debate around safe nurse staffing levels in hospitals, and informed clinical guidelines and legislation in the UK.
