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  • An international student packs their bag, including their passport, to come to the UK

    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

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  • A person is holding an ECG or Electrocardiogram result on a piece of paper. We see their hand holding it up.

    Discovering how to save cardiac patients' lives with deep learning

    University mathematics expert Alain Zemkoho had worked on optimising decisions in areas such as transport. PhD supervision led to him and his team developing a way cardiologists can use hours, not seconds, of data provided by heart activity tests.
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  • A maths teacher writes on a white board and looks intently at the equations. We imagine he is in front of a classroom of pupils.

    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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  • An exterior view of HMS Victory docked at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

    Conserving maritime history

    Engineers at Southampton are working with the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) to help find the best materials to ensure Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, is weatherproof and watertight for the next half century.
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  • A patient and Southampton student nurse smiling at each other in a hospital room, as the nurse takes the patient's blood pressure.

    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.
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  • A close-up stock image of various ancient coins.

    Understanding our relationship with money

    A research project led by Southampton is revealing how finance has been imagined and represented by art and other forms of visual culture over the last three centuries.
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  • Professor Hugh Lewis sitting on the front bench of a lecture theatre as he consults his laptop. A graphic of satellites orbiting Earth is projected on the screen behind him.

    Sustainability at astronomical levels

    A space research collaboration between the University and Astroscale UK Ltd has made considerable progress towards a safe and sustainable orbital environment.
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  • A view of Earth from orbit, centred on the European continent.

    Life's survival depended on luck

    A recent study gives a new perspective on why our planet has managed to stay habitable for billions of years – concluding it is almost certainly due, at least in part, to luck.
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  • Dr Devon Lewis standing by a football pitch as a player kicks the ball. Devon is holding an iPad that shows live data streamed from a wearable sensor.

    Muscle analytics for elite sports

    PhD Researcher Dr Devon Lewis is developing a new type of wearable muscle sensor to accelerate injury recovery and performance training in elite sports.
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  • Professor Nullin Divecha working at a lab bench, surrounded by various containers and equipment.

    Supercharging your immune system

    Research led by Professor Nullin Divecha and his laboratory team has identified a way to boost the power of the human immune system to find and destroy cancer cells within the body.
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  • A row of 5 memory crystals on stands, softly lit against a black background. They have been imprinted with copies of the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

    Fitting an entire library into the palm of your hand

    Scientists at the Optoelectronics Research Centre have developed a digital data storage solution that can contain the complete history of human knowledge – and is able to survive for billions of years.
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