Welcome to Southampton Solent University’s media centre. Here you can find details on how to contact our press office, find an expert for comment on a range of issues, and read our latest press releases.
Solent sits in the heart of Southampton, with fantastic access to Hampshire, the New Forest and the wider south coast of England. The winner of three Teaching Excellence Framework Gold Awards, our University is forward thinking, helping students to succeed in the classroom and setting them up for the future. Home to more than 8,000 students, we offer a range of professional development opportunities alongside our undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
If you are a journalist or member of the media and would like to learn about any aspect of Southampton Solent University, including the work of Warsash Maritime School, or to speak to one of our academics, please contact our press office.
Please note our working hours are 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
You can access a range of opinion pieces from our academic and professional services staff here. These are free to republish and reference with the relevant credit for the author.
If you would like to request an original opinion piece, please contact the press office using the details above.
Solent is home to a large array of academics, specialising in everything from architecture to nursing. We are also home to the world-leading Warsash Maritime School, which sees more than 8,000 delegates and students pass through its doors every year.
Our professional services staff are also specialists in their field, with significant experience in student recruitment, civic engagement and the issues facing higher education.
You can view our experts directory below. Please contact the press office if you would like to arrange a media appearance or request a comment from any of our staff.
Head of the Department of Science and Engineering
Expertise: impact of social, economic and political factors on the development of housing standards in the UK.
Research: widening access to higher education and embedding professional practice in the curriculum.
FHEA
Associate Professor of Photography and Visual Arts, and Strategic Lead for Research
Expertise: photography, contemporary art, visual culture
Research: landscape, modernity, cultural history, and the image of landscape in the locale of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz constructions in England and Norway.
BBA, MBA, PGCE, MRES
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Organisational strategy, organisational collaborations, structuration theory, managing people, leadership practices.
Research: Informal organising, strategy in practice, collaborative work, and research methodologies.
PhD, MA, DipM, PGCLTHE, MCIM, FIDM, MIDM, AFHEA
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: semiotic analysis, storytelling and narratives in business and politics, the history of Ordnance Survey.
Research: strategy and business planning, semiotic anthropology, knowledge management.Â
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: music and national identity, music and climate change, music reunions, Britpop, music PR and media, record companies, social media.
Research: music videos, photography, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, soul music, reggae.
MA, SFHEA, FRSA
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: retailing, second-hand fashion, creative SMEs, entrepreneurship.
Research: retail histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.Â
Course Leader
Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.
Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.
Associate Professor
Expertise: Entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in education.
Research:Â Female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, strategy in small and medium-sized companies.
DProf
Module Leader
Expertise: User experience/interface design, human computer interaction, augmented reality/virtual reality, mixed reality, interactive and immersive webinar design, educational use of AI.
Research: Immersive webinar design using augmented reality, computer simulations for learning and assessment, professional social networked learning models and technology.
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: computer games and virtual reality, health and wellbeing games, videogame theory.
Research: mixed realities, games, health and wellbeing.
DProf
Module Leader
Expertise: User experience/interface design, human computer interaction, augmented reality/virtual reality, mixed reality, interactive and immersive webinar design, educational use of AI.
Research: Immersive webinar design using augmented reality, computer simulations for learning and assessment, professional social networked learning models and technology.
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: computer games and virtual reality, health and wellbeing games, videogame theory.
Research: mixed realities, games, health and wellbeing.
Head of the Department of Science and Engineering
Expertise: impact of social, economic and political factors on the development of housing standards in the UK.
Research: widening access to higher education and embedding professional practice in the curriculum.
Course Leader
Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.
Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.
MA, SFHEA, FRSA
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: retailing, second-hand fashion, creative SMEs, entrepreneurship.
Research: retail histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.Â
Course Leader
Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.
Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.
PhD, FHEA, MA, BA
Lecturer
Expertise: Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), documentary film, LGBTQIA+ cinema.
Research: Equity, diversity and inclusion in the MCU, identity representation in film and TV, performance and performativity, sex in documentary film, Global LGBTQIA+ cinema.
MA, PhD, PGCLTHE, NTF
Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender
Expertise: sex on screen, representations of sexual violence, masculinity and gender in contemporary film, TV and culture, acting and performance.
Research: British Academy-funded project 'Screening Sexual Violence', short film as a tool for activism and awareness-raising, female filmmakers, gender-based violence, #MeToo.Â
PhD, AFHEA
Lecturer
Expertise: Visual communication, production, postproduction, video editing.
Research: Egyptian animated TV and its effect on Egyptian children's social values, social media studies.
PhD, SFHEA
Lecturer
Expertise: Hollywood, British, and Australian films, television, media practice, gender, and the representation of intersex people.
Research: Intersection of media, society and storytelling alongside underrepresented narratives.
FHEA
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Television, documentary filmmaking, real-world learning, creative industries.
Course Leader
Expertise: Technical media, broadcast, acoustics, audio engineering, computing.
Research: Acoustics.
Associate Professor of Screen Histories
Expertise: Film and TV history, the work of Agatha Christie.
Research: Archival research into the development of Agatha Christie’s career and the impact of her work.
LLB, LLM, SFHEA
Academic Registrar
Expertise: university governance, quality assurance, commercial law - e-commerce, data protection.
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: seafarer occupational health and safety, organisation of work and employment.
Research: seafarer safety, inequalities among seafarer workforce.
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FHEA
Associate Professor of Marine Sustainability
Expertise: low-carbon shipping, sustainable marine fuels, vessel efficiency, and life cycle assessment.
Research:Â energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions, the impact of future fuels on the sustainability of the maritime sector.
SFFEA, FCILT
Course Leader
Expertise: shipping operations and supply chain, salvage law and practice.
Research: ship salvage, commercial law and practice, maritime law.Â
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: architecture and marine engineering.
Research: hybrid propulsion and hull resistance to reduce the environmental impact of shipping, renewable composite material and their application in the marine industry.
MSc, MBA, PGCE, SFHEA, FNI, FRIN
Associate Professor, Maritime Simulation and Autonomy
Expertise: maritime operations, pedagogy and simulation, ship handling, autonomous shipping.
Research: marine autonomous systems, sea traffic management, maritime simulators, modern navigational equipment.
PhD, MBA, BSc, FHEA
Associate Professor
Expertise: Music festivals, live music, music business.
Research: Cultural economy, history and heritage; and the future of music industries.
FHEA, FRSA
Course Leader
Expertise: music business, music education and arts funding.Â
Research: music business, music education, arts funding, music management and copyright.
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: music and national identity, music and climate change, music reunions, Britpop, music PR and media, record companies, social media.
Research: music videos, photography, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, soul music, reggae.
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Sound design, popular music, film sound.
Research: Music, sound.
Chief Marketing Officer (PVC)
Expertise: marketing and communications, PR strategies, partnerships (national and international), university strategy, internationalisation, civic engagement.
Chief Financial and Operating Officer (PVC)
Expertise: corporate finance, endowment management, investments, pensions, strategy and innovation.
Chief People and Culture Officer
Expertise: wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion, reward and recognition, organisational development, trade unions.
LLB, LLM, SFHEA
Academic Registrar
Expertise: university governance, quality assurance, commercial law - e-commerce, data protection.
PhD, SFHEA
Professor of Learning and Teaching
Expertise: teaching and learning support, evaluating course performances and metrics, innovation in learning and teaching, community building in HE.
Research: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), human problem solving and decision making, design thinking and prototyping in HE.
PhD, MBA, SFHEA
Pro Vice-Chancellor Education
Expertise: future thinking of education, media and technology, immersive media, emerging forms of technology, virtual reality.
Research: understanding narrative forms of virtual reality, application of new technologies in education.
PhD, CPsychol
Lecturer
Expertise: psychology of elite sport, applied sport psychology, stress and sport performance.
Research: regulation of stress and emotion.
PhD, MPhil, BA (Hons), PGCE, SFHEA, MBASW
Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences and Nursing, and Course Leader
Expertise: working with vulnerable adults in mental health, medical social work, regional HIV services.
Research: qualitative research, social work, education, teaching, gender, human development and the life course.
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFHEA
Lecturer
Expertise: mental health among marginalised communities including refugees and asylum seekers, athlete mental health.
Research: the experiences of women athletes in male-dominated sports, human rights violations in sport.
FHEA, MSc, BA (Hons)
Lecturer
Expertise: performance psychology in football and golf, attributions, motivation, social identity.
Research: attribution retraining in sport.
PhD, MPhil, BA (Hons), PGCE, SFHEA, MBASW
Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences and Nursing, and Course Leader
Expertise: working with vulnerable adults in mental health, medical social work, regional HIV services.
Research: qualitative research, social work, education, teaching, gender, human development and the life course.
COS, MSc, PGC LTHEA, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: advanced interviewing of child abuse suspects and victims, inter-familial child homicide in Cambodia.
Research: forensic behavioural psychology.
BA, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Associate Professor of Sociology
Expertise: LGBT inclusion in sport, sports media representation, anti-discrimination policy, head trauma in sport, sport and sexuality, sports fandom, sport and gender.
Research: gender and sexuality, masculinities, non-exclusive sexualities, sports policy.
MSc
Lecturer
Expertise: lower limb biomechanical investigation in sport and health.
Research: injury identification and mitigation in active populations.
PhD, CPsychol
Lecturer
Expertise: psychology of elite sport, applied sport psychology, stress and sport performance.
Research: regulation of stress and emotion.
BA, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Associate Professor of Sociology
Expertise: LGBT inclusion in sport, sports media representation, anti-discrimination policy, head trauma in sport, sport and sexuality, sports fandom, sport and gender.
Research: gender and sexuality, masculinities, non-exclusive sexualities, sports policy.
FHEA, MSc, BA (Hons)
Lecturer
Expertise: performance psychology in football and golf, attributions, motivation, social identity.
Research: attribution retraining in sport.
