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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Learn about our scholars and their expertise from research interests to contact details.

Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering

Professor David Sear

Professor

Professor Denis McManus

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Ethics and Philosophy of Mind
  • The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Mr Dickon Buckland

Principal Research Fellow

Dr Dina Lupin BA, LLB, LLM, PhD

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Environmental and human rights law
  • Silencing
  • Epistemic injustice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Dominic Hudson

Shell Professor in Ship Efficiency

Research interests

  • All aspects of hydrodynamics, 
  • particularly as related to ship design,
  • operation for energy efficiency. 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Dominic Taunton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • My research interests lie in improving the design and operation of ships and other maritime artefacts, in particular high speed craft such as semi-displacement catamarans and hard chine planning craft, through the development of accurate but efficient tools for predicting and evaluating their performance.
  • Experimental Hydrodynamics | This research focuses on the efficient use of experiments at both model and full-scale to measure the hydrodynamic performance of various ship types and maritime artefacts from wave energy devices to aircraft ditching on water. Recent research has looked at methods for quiescent period prediction for safe launch and recovery
  • Human Element | This research developed from a project to integrate human performance into the design of high speed planning craft. This integration of the human element into the design process has resulted in collaborations with human element experts in order to improve ship design and operation. This approach has led to the development of human like autonomy behaviours to improve the seakeeping and fuel consumption of autonomous surface vehicles.

Professor Donna Davies

Prof in Resp. Cell & Molecular Biology

Research interests

  • Mechanisms of lung diseases
  • Viral-induced exacerbations of lung disease
  • Asthma

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Rex Taylor BSc PhD

Email: rex@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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