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EXPLORE University of Southampton | Postgraduate prospectus 2018 prospectus | Postgraduate of Southampton University NEW POSSIBILITIES POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2018 FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE RUSSELL GROUP With a masters degree from Working alongside world-leading Southampton, you can realise academics, with access to OPEN DAYS AND your career ambitions. cutting-edge facilities and global collaborations, a research degree VISIT AFTERNOONS Research has shown that completing a at Southampton is the first step Postgraduate Visit Afternoons masters programme increases your average lifetime earning potential by £150,000* to becoming a leader in your field. Information about our monthly Postgraduate Visit We work in collaboration with global High-profile organisations such as Apple, Afternoons can be found on our website. CHOOSE SOUTHAMPTON Ernst & Young, IBM, the MoD, the BBC and businesses, including Rolls-Royce, Lloyd’s Register, Formula 1 and PwC, Book your place at: the NHS recruit our graduates giving you the chance to work on www.southampton.ac.uk/pg/visit We are a founding member of the Russell projects with a real-world impact Group of research-intensive universities, Postgraduate Open Day which means your education will be We are among the top 10 per cent of UK informed by research as it unfolds universities for attracting research funding Wednesday 22 November 2017 Southampton is ranked eighth in the UK Our research funding exceeds £100m Book your place at: for research intensity** per year www.southampton.ac.uk/pg/openday Over 96 per cent of our research We are part of the Science and environment is assessed as world leading or Engineering South Consortium, the most internationally excellent, while 90 per cent powerful cluster of research-intensive of our research is assessed as having universities in the world world-leading or internationally excellent impact** We will give you support to enable you to build your profile as a researcher – from * The Sutton Trust, 2010 writing research papers and enhancing your ** Research Excellence Framework, 2014 presentation skills, to applying for funding to attend international conferences and CHOOSE research visits SOUTHA MPTON EXPLORE MORE Can’t wait for our Open Day? Experience Southampton through a virtual tour. Find out more: www. southampton.ac.uk/virtualopenday 2 3 OVER CONTENTS Top 1% £124m 24,800 Top 10 global received in students enrolled in the UK for research grant and at our campuses research university* contracts income** in the UK and intensity*** Malaysia Choose Southampton Your courses COURSECONTENTS TITLE Tuning into success 6 Course index 42 Cracking cybercrime 8 Interdisciplinary research 10 Applying and finance World-class facilities 12 Applying 174 Enterprise 14 Fees and Funding 176 A global university 16 Our people 18 Support International community 22 Supporting you 178 Student life 24 – Counselling 178 Your campuses 26 – Enabling services 178 Learning environment 28 – Student Support Services 179 Accommodation 30 Your city 32 General information Arts and culture 34 How to find us 180 Your study options 36 Terms and conditions 182 The Doctoral College 38 Course index 183 Advance your career 40 “The University of Southampton is renowned for its international community and multi-cultural atmosphere with a beautiful campus. Accommodation and transport facilities are also APPLY NOW convenient, offering an Achieve your goals and challenge yourself attractive environment to me at the University of Southampton. as an international student” Nan Zhou Find out more and apply at: PhD Material Engineering, www.southampton.ac.uk/pg second year * QS World University Rankings, 2017/18 ** University of Southampton Financial Report, 2014/15 *** REF Research Intensity Rankings, 2014 4 Helen and Neil Robinson are the first couple to have cochlear implants fitted together at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant TUNING Service (USAIS). INTO TUNING INTO SUCCESS SUCCESS For 50 years Helen and Neil Robinson have lived in a silent world. Now they are beginning to hear each other for the first time after having cochlear implants fitted at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS). Southampton is in the unique position of “We are very engaged in research and teaching having the only auditory implant centre of as well as our staff being involved in the its kind based on campus, where the next training of the next generation of audiologists,” generation of audiologists are being trained says Professor Carl Verschuur, Director of and where research is being developed that is USAIS. “It means we also have the opportunity allowing people to hear for the first time. to interact with our patients who may want to help with our research by sharing their Helen and Neil now enjoy listening to their experiences.” first sounds after being fitted with the devices. The couple will remain under the care of Initially thought to only benefit those who had experts at Southampton for a number of only recently lost their hearing or children in follow-up appointments where the devices infancy, cochlear implants are now having will be fine-tuned to hopefully increase the tangible benefits for people who have been range of the sounds they can hear. profoundly deaf for decades. Exactly how much the pair will eventually be able to hear Neil and Helen are two of the 100 patients that remains to be seen, but their experiences will are fitted with an implant each year at the help researchers at Southampton shape USAIS. Since it was set up in 1990, over 1,100 future understanding about how the implants people have successfully been fitted with can benefit a less developed auditory system. cochlear implants by the Service, which is the regional centre for the south and the only one of its kind that is based at a university rather than at a hospital. Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/pg/ rhighlights 6 7 CRACKING CYBERCRIME CYBERCRIMECRACKING In the UK alone cyber-attacks are costing companies hundreds of millions of pounds each year and putting personal and financial data at risk. Protecting that information is at the core Gary says: “We provide a stimulating of a world-leading academy based at the environment for our students, including University of Southampton. opportunities to work with companies such as IBM and Microsoft, which set real-world As one of the few GCHQ-accredited problems for our talented students to solve.” Academic Centres of Excellence for Cyber Security in the UK, the University has a PhD student Zeyad Aaber’s research leading role in research and education involves testing the performance of the to tackle cybercrime, both today and in government’s Cyber Essentials scheme the future. that was set up to protect SMEs from threats online. The Southampton Cyber Security Academy is a partnership between the University of He explains: “Many system designers try Southampton and world-leading industry to apply human understanding in what a and government partners to provide a focal secure system can do, but computers are point for cybersecurity research, education not as good at making decisions as we would and outreach. like to think, so they often miss subtle things that we, as humans, easily spot. Dr Gary Wills, Associate Professor in Computer Science, leads a team of “Through our research, we are ensuring that researchers who work in the field of the rules we use to implement the secure secure systems engineering. The team use systems behave the way we want them to. computer simulations and mathematical models to develop tools to help “It has been a privilege to study here in organisations test how secure their Electronics and Computer Science at systems are. Southampton, working with world-class professors on national projects. As well as looking at the systems themselves, they work with businesses to glean the “This research environment has kept me latest information on current cybersecurity challenged and has brought out the best measures particularly for Small and in me.” Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/pg/ rhighlights 8 9 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH Southampton is home to many cutting-edge research RESEARCH INTERDISCIPLINARY centres, groups and institutes, creating connections between disciplines to tackle global problems through groundbreaking research. Here are just some examples of how our researchers work together. Centre for Operational Parkes Institute Web Science Institute Research, Management Science The Parkes Institute is a unique world- Southampton has taken the lead in and Information Systems class centre for the study of Jewish/ developing new forms of economic, (CORMSIS) non-Jewish relations. The Institute social, political, technological and The Centre is one of the largest crosses a broad range of disciplines cultural resources based on a deep groups of its kind in the UK and including history, English, German understanding of the Web. The Web enjoys an international reputation, and music. Science Institute coordinates particularly in risk, optimisation, education, research and enterprise finance and health. Southampton Centre for initiatives on web-related Biomedical Research developments. Economic and Social Research The Southampton Centre for Council (ESRC) Centre for Biomedical Research (SCBR) lies Winchester Centre for Global Population Change (CPC) at the core of our clinical and Futures in Art Design and Media As the first centre of its kind in the biomedical research partnership with The Winchester