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  University of Southampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Southampton is a British university situated in the city of Southampton, on the south coast of Great Britain.
Southampton is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network and has close links with MIT in the United States.
The University's main buildings are situated on a large site on the Highfield Campus in Highfield, but the university has other campuses elsewhere around the city: at Boldrewood (biomedical sciences),Southampton General Hospital and on the waterfront at the National Oceanography Centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Southampton   (1653 words)

  
 Southampton Solent University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southampton Solent University (formerly: Southampton Institute of Higher Education) is a university of 17,000 students based in Southampton, United Kingdom.
One of the United Kingdom’s newest universities, it was made a university college on 1 November 2004 and, as such, now has the powers to award its own degrees.
Southampton Solent University should not be confused with the older and larger University of Southampton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southampton_Solent_University   (277 words)

  
 University of Southampton
The University of Southampton enjoys an international reputation for innovation and excellence in research.
Southampton is a great place to be a student.
University recognises outstanding achievements with its honorary degrees 2006
www.soton.ac.uk   (148 words)

  
 University of Southampton Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
University of Southampton researchers have just published a paper detailing their pioneering study into near death experiences (or near-death experiences) that suggests consciousness and the mind may continue to exist after the brain has ceased to function and the body is clinically dead.
In the Southampton study 63 heart attack survivors were interviewed within a week of their cardiac arrest and asked if they remembered anything during their period of unconsciousness.
In the Southampton study none of the four patients who had near-death experiences had low levels of oxygen or received any unusual combination of drugs during their resuscitation.
www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/NDE/university_of_southampton_research.htm   (873 words)

  
 University of Southampton - Hartley News - Autumn 2002 - Volume 4 No.2 - British Heart Foundation awards personal chair ...
On 29 April 1952, in the early weeks of the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the University of Southampton was granted its Royal Charter, enabling it to award its own degrees and to determine its own future.
The 50 years of the University celebrated in 2002 have therefore mirrored the reign of HM the Queen, and also witnessed a period of unique development for the UK's higher education sector.
The University of Southampton: An Illustrated History, by Martin Sherwood and Sally Nash, is published on 25 June.
www.dolphin.soton.ac.uk /June2002/history.html   (203 words)

  
 Aimhigher: Southampton Solent University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Southampton Solent University is one of the UK's newest universities, having become a university as recently as July 2005 and changed our name on 15 August.
Southampton Solent University was formed as Southampton Institute in 1984 from an amalgamation of the then Southampton College of Higher Education with the College of Nautical Studies, located at Warsash.
The main campus at East Park, occupying 2 hectares, is adjacent to Southampton city centre and is the central base for the administration and management of the university.
www.aimhigher.ac.uk /universities___colleges___hei/south_east/southampton_institute.cfm   (394 words)

  
 Sociology & Social Policy - Sociology & Social Policy, University of Southampton
Southampton is a vibrant and lively city, ideally situated at the heart of the south coast of England.
While the city is rich in history, present-day Southampton is the cultural centre of the region, hosting a wide range of entertainment and leisure facilities, and one of the largest shopping centres of the south.
Southampton is the home of the "Saints" (Southampton football club) and the Hampshire County Cricket Club hosts regular first class fixtures.
www.sociology.soton.ac.uk   (566 words)

  
 University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections - Guide to Archive and Manuscript Collections of the Hartley ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With the establishment of local record offices, in Hampshire, for the county and city of Winchester, in and after 1947, for the corporation of Southampton in 1951 and for the corporation of Portsmouth, papers of local interest were directed there and local topographical manuscripts ceased to be an active focus for the University's collecting policy.
There are close links between the University and the Dukes of Wellington: the seventh Duke became in 1952 the first Chancellor of the new University of Southampton, the fruition of a campaign supported by his family for a university of Wessex.
The conversion of a part of the University Library in 1982-3 to provide appropriate accommodation for the Wellington papers was followed in 1987, in conjunction with major extension works, by the provision of new archive strongrooms and an enlarged reading room.
archive.lib.soton.ac.uk /guide.shtml   (689 words)

  
 Education UK - The best you can be
Southampton has a population of 221,000, of which almost 20,000 are students studying at the University.
Southampton is situated on the south coast of England, around one hour from London by train and a short flight away from the major cities of Europe.
University accommodation is guaranteed to all international students without dependants for the full duration of their course (conditions apply).
www.educationuk.org /pls/hot_bc/bc_profile.page_pls_profile_details?a=91&z=5625&p_lang=31   (569 words)

  
 University of Southampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is a member of Russell Group of research-led British universities and is among the top 10 universities in the UK according to both government's official Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Sunday Times newspaper league table.
In addition the university is home to Southampton Oceanography Centre a leading research centre for oceanography.
The University of Southampton was originally called Hartley Institution and was formed in 1862 as the result of a benefaction a local wine merchant.
www.freeglossary.com /University_of_Southampton   (520 words)

  
 University of Southampton
The University's origins date from 1862 when the Hartley Institution was founded in central Southampton, the result of a generous benefaction by local philanthropist Henry Robinson Hartley, heir to a millionaire wine merchant.
Re-named as Hartley University College, it moved a few miles from the city centre to the present Highfield Campus in 1919, and was granted its Charter as a University in 1952.
Dr Bagnall joined the Microelectronics group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton University in 1999 and is now involved in several projects concerned with the fabrication of electronic and quantum devices based around the epitaxial growth by low-pressure chemical vapour deposition of materials in the Si/Ge/C system.
www-icprocessing.ee.surrey.ac.uk /3,6southampton.htm   (1111 words)

  
 OA Self-Archiving Policy: University of Southampton
A decision by the University to provide core funding for its Institutional Repository establishes it as a central part of its research infrastructure, marking a new era for Open Access to academic research in the UK.
The University of Southampton is the first in the UK to announce that it is transitioning its repository from the status of an experiment to an integral part of the research infrastructure of the institution.
Southampton established its repository (http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/) in 2002 as part of the JISC TARDis project (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure), to explore issues surrounding the Open Access paradigm.
www.eprints.org /openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Southampton%20   (289 words)

  
 Freedom of Information Act 2000 Publication Scheme :: University of Southampton
According to the definition of this Act, the University of Southampton is a public authority.
A publication scheme is a document outlining the information to be made available by the University of Southampton either now or in the future.
The University of Southampton has adopted the model publication scheme developed for the Higher Education sector and is therefore committed to publishing the information it lists.
www.southampton.ac.uk /inf/foi.html   (675 words)

  
 Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
It is in the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton.
The University of Southampton Programme has the overall aim of ensuring that high quality clinical psychology services are made available to the public.
The academic programme is taught at the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton, which has all of the facilities that one would expect of a large, well-resourced academic base.
www.psychology.soton.ac.uk /studyhere/degreeprogrammes/postgraduatetaught/dclinpsyc/dclinpsyc1.php   (671 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | University of Southampton
Founded in 1952, Southampton is a forward-thinking university with a diverse student population.
Its main Highfield campus is located two miles from the centre of Southampton, with other sites spread across Southampton and Winchester.
The university has an innovative careers service which in 2005 achieved accreditation against the Matrix standard - the nationally recognised quality standard for information, advice and guidance.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/universityguide/profile/story/0,,490864,00.html   (194 words)

  
 Fairtrade - University of Southampton
Both Southampton University and the Students' Union are committed to supporting, using and promoting Fairtrade wherever possible and are working towards being accredited with Fairtrade status by the Fairtrade Foundation.
PURE is a society at Southampton University that was set up in late 2002 to campaign for, amongst other things, Fairtrade.
If you want to get involved with Fair Trade at Southampton or simply want to find out more about what it all means contact PURE or visit them at their Market stall, every Monday in the Students' Union concourse.
www.fairtradeuniversity.org.uk   (650 words)

  
 Southampton Uni goes Open Access | The Register
Southampton University has made all of its academic and scientific research output available for free on the web.
The University said the decision marks a new era in Open Access to research in the UK; it will host workshops for other academic institutions thinking of making a similar transition.
Southampton describes the self-archiving project's purpose as "to make the full text of the peer-reviewed research output of scholars/scientists and their institutions visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet".
www.theregister.co.uk /2005/01/10/southampton_academic_research   (1027 words)

  
 SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY AND DON WOOD'S SOLENT CROSSING IN SOLAR SOURCE 1998 - SOLAR NAVIGATOR CATAMARAN WORLD ELECTRIC ...
The University of Southampton is as with the city rich in culture.
As a Postgraduate Student of the University of Southampton, you would be joining one of the world's leading and most prestigious research-intensive institutions.
The University of Southampton is as internationally acclaimed for its pioneering academic staff as it is for its investment and development in its research environment.
www.solarnavigator.net /southampton_university.htm   (354 words)

  
 University of Southampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The University of Southampton invites applications for the following two appointments in Statistics.
The University is in the top ten of research-led universities in the UK for both research quality and research income.
The University of Southampton is seeking a Professor to enhance and further its research in Statistics and to play a leading role in the newly created Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute.
www.stat.ufl.edu /vlib/jobs/southampton3.html   (226 words)

  
 Winchester School of Art
This exciting move followed the merger of the Textile Conservation Centre with the University of Southampton in August 1998: the Centre is now part of the University’s Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.
The addition of the TCC to the University’s Winchester School of Art creates a unique combination of specialisms, ranging from fashion and design to textile conservation, textile and dress history and museum studies.
Since joining the University the TCC has offered postgraduate programmes: the MA Museums and Galleries MA Textile Conservation each offer a career entry qualification for those wanting a career in the heritage sector.
www.wsa.soton.ac.uk /conservation-and-museums   (413 words)

  
 Genome Therapeutics, University of Southampton and Schering-Plough identify novel asthma gene
Waltham, Mass., Southampton, U.K. and Kenilworth, N.J., July 10, 2002 — In a study released today in the leading scientific journal Nature, researchers at Genome Therapeutics (Nasdaq: GENE), University of Southampton and Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) describe the identification of a specific susceptibility gene linked to asthma.
As part of an alliance with Schering-Plough, a leader in respiratory care, to develop therapies for asthma, researchers at Genome Therapeutics and University of Southampton amassed clinical information and biological samples from over 450 families that suffered from the disease.
The University of Southampton has an outstanding record of success in the provision of high-quality teaching across the range of university subjects, and is widely recognised for its leading-edge research and scholarship, its commitment to innovation in teaching and learning, and its support for business and industry through consultancy, research partnerships and technology transfer.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-07/fkh-gtu070802.php   (1192 words)

  
 Politics & International Relations - Politics & International Relations, University of Southampton
Southampton is a research led university, and our students benefit from familiarity with staff working at the cutting edge of their discipline.
On all measures of academic excellence the Politics and International Relations Division at Southampton has received rankings which place it among the leading departments in Britain in terms of research output and expertise.
In the last assessment exercise undertaken by the Universities Funding Council, the Division received a rating of 4 (scale 1-5, 5 highest), confirming its status nationally and internationally.
www.politics.soton.ac.uk   (390 words)

  
 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON - The IET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton University is the biggest and strongest academic unit in the country in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Graduates from Electrical and Electromechanical courses at Southampton are in great demand by industrial and research institutions.
Teaching of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Southampton was awarded a perfect mark of 24/24 in Teaching Quality Assessment and is consistently ranked top in The Times league table.
www.iee.org /poweracademy/southampton.cfm   (395 words)

  
 SWAP staff
Jackie Rafferty holds a University of Southampton Principal Research Fellowship and is Director of the Centre for Human Service Technology (CHST) in the School of Social Sciences and of SWAP.
Julia Phillips was a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton where she did her M.Phil.
Hilary Burgess is Senior Lecturer in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, where she taught on the social work courses, and was Programme Director for the DipSW from 1990 to 1997.
www.swap.ac.uk /about/staff.asp   (839 words)

  
 People - Economics, University of Southampton
University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 0203.
University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 0109.
University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 0010.
www.economics.soton.ac.uk /People/StaffDetails.php?Name=AntonellaIanni   (248 words)

  
 Catering Home Page
The University bars can be hired outside of normal operating hours for conferences, meetings, parties and private functions.
We cater for 3 restaurants in the Student Halls of the University of Southampton.
Offices and departments at the University of Southampton can order Hospitality Menus and Refreshment packages for their meetings and other functions by contacting us directly.
www.catering.soton.ac.uk   (192 words)

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