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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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Uncovering the importance of mentoring in supporting young writers
The Romantic myth of the lone poet has dominated our understanding of creative practice. Yet a collaborative project led by the University’s Will May has shown how mentors shape the work of contemporary poets
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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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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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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 cou...
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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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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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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.
