Undergraduate Prospectus 2011 - University of Southampton

Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR)
ISVR is the world’s leading centre for research and
teaching in the area of sound and vibration offering
its own undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
It relies on external research contracts and grants for
about two-thirds of its financial support, which comes
from industry, research councils, government
departments, the European Community and health
authorities in the UK, Europe and across the world.
Considerable emphasis is placed on cooperation and
collaboration with these external bodies to ensure that
research and teaching are directly related to the
everyday needs of society. These industrial links are
also important to graduates seeking employment and
include many companies in the audio, automotive and
consulting industries.
In 2005, ISVR was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary
Prize for Higher and Further Education ‘for improving
the quality of life for the profoundly deaf and reducing
noise pollution’. This honour reflects the successful
integration of engineering and medical research in
sound and vibration within the Institute.
The Parkes Institute
The Parkes Institute is a unique centre for the study
of Jewish–non-Jewish relations across the ages.
The Institute is made up of a community of scholars,
curators, librarians, students and activists, whose
work is based around the rich resources of the Parkes
Library and archive, held in the Hartley Library.
Through a combination of research, publications,
teaching and conservation work, the Institute provides
a world-class centre for the study of themes such as
the experience of minorities and outsiders, and the
examination of the power of prejudice from antiquity
to the contemporary world.
Centre for Maritime Archaeology
This flagship Centre is embedded in one of the largest
and most successful archaeology departments in
Europe. With high-performance computing facilities
complementing sonar imaging and fluid flow
measurement, researchers at the Centre have
developed unique non-intrusive techniques to assess
buried materials in the marine environment. Such work
epitomises the modern maritime archaeology
spearheaded at Southampton, integrating cutting-edge
science with archaeological and historical investigation
to provide a detailed window onto past societies.
The Centre works closely with NOCS on many
international ventures, has active research projects
on all five continents and collaborates with the
world’s foremost research institutes, including
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution in the USA, and
English Heritage here in the UK. The Centre also works
with industry and government, including the Royal
Navy, to develop innovative underwater technologies.
Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and
Governance (C2G2)
The field of citizenship is changing in response to
global forces and this brings new governance demands.
Migration, human rights, issues of global warming,
pandemics of ill health and a looming crisis in energy
provision are challenges that cannot be contained or
addressed within national boundaries. With participants
from throughout the School of Social Sciences and the
wider University, C2G2 merges insights from political
science and international relations. The Centre focuses
on the central political questions of today about power,
cooperation, security, inequality and democracy.
Much of the Centre’s agenda will be set by the problems
of the political world as perceived by our fellow citizens,
although it will continue to challenge traditional ideas.
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