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A master’s degree from Southampton will help Working alongside world-leading academics, with Please see www.southampton.ac.uk/pgp/ you realise your career ambitions, deepen your access to cutting-edge facilities and global knowledge and further your potential. collaborations, a research degree at Southampton for frequently asked questions, and COURSECHOOSE TITLE SOUTHAMPTON coronavirus is the first step to becoming a leader in your field. page 183 of this prospectus for more information. We are a founding member of the Russell Alternatively, you can contact us directly using the Group – an organisation of research-intensive We work with global businesses, including details on the back cover of this prospectus. universities – which means your education Rolls-Royce, Microsoft, Lloyd’s Register, will be informed by research as it unfolds. Formula 1 and PwC. Nearly 90 per cent of our research is We are part of the Science and Engineering assessed as having world-leading or South Consortium, the most powerful cluster internationally excellent impact.* of research-intensive universities in the world. ighprofile organisations such as Apple, We will give you support to enable you to Ernst & Young, IBM, the MoD, the BBC and build your profile as a researcher from the NHS recruit our graduates. writing research papers and enhancing your presentation skills, to applying for funding to attend international conferences and CHOOSE research visits. SOUTHA MPTON OPEN DAYS AND INFORMATION AFTERNOONS For the latest details on postgraduate Open Days and Information Afternoons, go to: www.southampton.ac.uk/pgp/visit Top 20 Top 100 * Latest Research Excellence Framework (REF), 2014 UK global ** Ranked 17th in the Complete University Guide, 2021 *** Ranked 90th in the QS World University Rankings, 2021 university** university*** 2 3 CONTENTS BOLDREWOOD Choose Southampton Your courses INNOVATION COURSECONTENTS TITLE Choose Southampton 2 Your courses 42 NATIONAL CAMPUS OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE Expect the unexpected 6 SOUTHAMPTON (NOCS) WINCHESTER Interdisciplinary research 8 Applying and finance SCHOOL OF ART Learning environment 10 How to apply 174 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Preventing disease in 12 Fees and funding 176 SOUTHAMPTON NHS AVENUE HIGHFIELD polluted port cities FOUNDATION TRUST (UHS) CAMPUS CAMPUS World-class facilities 14 Support Enterprise 16 Supporting you 178 A global university 18 – Academic Centre for 178 Our people 20 International Students Your international community 24 – Enabling Services 178 Your student life 26 – Student support services 179 Your campuses 28 Accommodation 30 General information Your city 32 ow to find us 180 Arts and culture 34 Terms and conditions 182 Coronavirus (COVID-19) 183 The Doctoral College 36 Course index 183 Centres of Doctoral Training 37 Advance your career 38 Your study options 40 OVER AROUND Top 10 APPLY NOW 22,000 96% students enrolled in the UK for Achieve your goals and challenge yourself of our research at our campuses in research intensity* at the University of Southampton. environment is the UK and Malaysia, assessed as world including 7,600 Find out more and apply at: leading or postgraduates internationally www.southampton.ac.uk/pgp excellent* * Ranked 8th in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) Research Intensity Rankings, 2014 4 5 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Benjamin Pritchard (LLM Maritime Law, 2014) is making waves as a Para-rower for British Rowing – but this wasn’t the career he was expecting when he graduated from Southampton. After studying for his master’s, Benjamin “I enjoyed my time at Southampton. I think the worked in London as an account executive one thing that stood out for me was how with a Lloyd’s broking house (RKH diverse my course was. Studying within such Specialty), within their marine division. It an international peer group brings so many was while he was there that his path took a different perspectives to the lectures, and I very different turn. feel that this added a real strength to my education,” he says. In 201, I suffered a lifechanging inury while competing in a cycling race, which left me “I would advise anyone looking to join paralysed from the ribcage down – and that’s Southampton with a clear career path or where my journey to a career with British ambition to stay open to opportunities Rowing began,” says Benjamin. outside of this plan – you might not know where it could take you!” He undertook rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which was the birthplace Benjamin hopes that this new path of his will of the Paralympic Games: “It was here that I propel him to the top of the podium at future was found by British Rowing and, as they say, Paralympic Games: a goal he set himself at the the rest is history.” start of his rowing career. Since then, Benjamin has decided to put his “The biggest thing I’ve learned is that life can career in insurance on hold to give himself change in an instant. Post-injury, I try to live in the best opportunity to reach his goal of the present and enjoy any opportunity that competing at the Paralympic Games. presents itself. Never shut that door, because you don’t know the path it may take you down. Throughout all of this, his experience at Southampton has stayed with him; not “I am Ben Pritchard, and I am Able.” least because he was a recipient of the James Atherton Scholarship for sports, and was involved in triathlon and cycling student societies. In fact, it prepared him for being ready for unplanned, but exciting, opportunities. “The biggest thing I learned while studying at Southampton was that there are far greater opportunities than you first might think.” Benjamin Pritchard LLM Maritime Law, 2014; Para-rower for British Rowing Image credit: British Rowing, Nick Middleton Photography and All Mark One 6 7 INTERDISCIPLINARY “These last four years in the RESEARCH Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have been inspirational Our collaborative approach enables us to push the and full of experiences that have boundaries of knowledge and change the world. driven me to develop skills, which INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH I will use in my future career In order to solve the world’s greatest any of our institutes are the first of challenges, make a difference to their kind in the UK, providing novel and beyond. A PhD is not only a people’s lives and impact industry, we environments for the very best degree; it is a lifetime opportunity break down boundaries between research, collaboration and innovation. disciplines and subjects. to learn about yourself, your In 2017, the University was awarded a Working together in this way Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher capabilities and your limits.” combines different epertise, and Further Education, recognising Angeles Camacho Rosales perspectives and experiences to decades of innovation and cutting-edge PhD Optoelectronics, fourth year; focus on some of the biggest global research from our Optoelectronics Named by Forbes as one of the 100 Most issues, achieve groundbreaking Research Centre (ORC). Powerful Women in Mexico, 2018 and 2019 results, and open up even more Our research groups bring together opportunity for breakthroughs. researchers from the same specialist Southampton is home to many area to focus on a particular issue or cutting-edge research centres, topic. Each research group is groups and institutes, creating encouraged to work with other groups connections between disciplines to make the most of the knowledge to make this possible. and skills available to come up with innovative solutions. Sharing ideas and knowledge in this way also means that our courses Research groups span our departments benefit directly from the latest work, to cover areas such as sustainable “Attaining water and food security enabling you to learn from the source energy, maritime law, acoustics, of the research and giving you and your modern and contemporary writing, in developing regions is a complex, education the edge. cancer research and pure mathematics. intertwined challenge that requires research across a range Research institutes and groups Research partners Our research institutes are Our collaborative work with research of disciplines. We are working multidisciplinary centres of expertise, partners also allows us to push within the BRECcIA project with research and teaching that enable our boundaries even further, through researchers to work closely together sharing equipment, data, knowledge and researchers and practitioners at with colleagues exploring the same expertise. By working with other Southampton from the physical problem from a different perspective. universities around the world, and and social sciences, with a range Our many institutes include the building partnerships