Our staff in the news

Cancer scientists at UoS and UHS have received £1.2m from World Cancer Research Fund to improve breast cancer treatments.

Lead researchers Professor Ellen Copson and Professor Ramsey Cutress and their team will explore how information about body fat, muscle and exercise could help individualise treatments. Read more.

Media coverage

• BBC Online, BBC South, Southern Daily Echo, Greatest Hits Radio, Heart Hampshire, BBC Radio Solent and Time News (California).

Oceanographer Dr Simon Boxall spoke to media about the hurricane that brought 185 mile-an-hour winds to Jamaica.

He discussed how storms are getting stronger and more intense, and how a ‘category six’ may be needed for hurricanes in the future.

Media coverage

• Sky News, Sky News Radio, LBC News, Heart FM, BBC Radio Oxford, BBC Radio Berkshire and RTÉ Radio, Ireland.

• Professor Gopal Ramchurn featured in a BBC Online piece about robots and caring for older people. The same article was on the BBC website in Brazil and in Brazilian broadsheet newspaper Estado de Minas.
• Sophie Gray spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today about her research into tracking the distinctive buzz of the invasive Asian hornet.
• Dr Michael Head was quoted by ITV News in an online article about a new Lancet report into climate change and health.
• Professor Mark Chapman was quoted in finance magazine Barron’s, Singapore newspaper The Straits Times and numerous regional media outlets in the US, talking about the need to grow alternative crops to wheat as our climate changes.
• Professor Hasan Arshad commented on the findings of a peanut allergy study in the US covered by the Financial Times.
• Dr Jane Lavery was interviewed by BBC Radio Solent about celebrating the Mexican festival, Day of the Dead.
• Professor Taufiq Choudry spoke to Greatest Hits Radio about ‘shrinkflation’.
• Professor Phil Wiseman’s involvement with the powerful new telescope 4MOST was covered by the Southern Daily Echo.
• Professor Matt Loxham and Dr James Parkin’s research into the toxicity of brake pad emissions was referenced in the Daily Mail in a piece about a separate study into EVs.
• Dame Wendy Hall spoke to Sky News about regulations around the development of AI ‘superintelligence’.
• Dr Graeme Bragg was quoted in the Independent and the Hindustan Times talking about the huge Amazon internet outage which affected banks and social media sites.
• Professor Ben Oliver’s Ivor Novello Award nomination featured in the Southern Daily Echo.
• Professor Tony Brown told the Guardian how DNA can be preserved in mineral structures.
• Professor Hazel Everitt commented in a Daily Mail article about antidepressants being prescribed for insomnia.
• Professor Jane Falkingham told Vogue many women have decided to postpone having their children from their 20s into their 30s.
• Professor Catherine Bowen was quoted in the Southern Daily Echo commenting on news the UoS and UHS have received £16m from the NIHR to continue vital health research through ARC Wessex.
• Phillip Moxley featured on BBC Radio 4 programme Curious Cases talking about whether the human body has a resonance frequency that causes shaking and injury.
• Dr Phil Wiseman was interviewed by the Southern Daily Echo about a meteor seen over Southampton.
• Jessica Boxall was interviewed by Austrian national radio station FM4 about climate change pushing up food prices.
• Professor Davide Filingeri was quoted in a BBC article about Alan Carr sweating on Celebrity Traitors.
• Dr Bernice Kuang told the Standard that people are waiting longer to have children across the western world.
• Professor Tony Kushner was interviewed on Voice FM’s Book Show about his new book, The Jewish Pedlar.
• Dr Christoph Witzel’s work into why we sometimes see colours that aren’t really there was covered by the Daily Mail.
• Dr Alessandro Silvano was quoted in a Daily Mail story about Elon Musk’s idea to control the climate using AI powered satellites.
• Professor Cathy Hill and Professor Samuele Cortese spoke to BBC South Today and Radio Solent respectively about a new sleep study aiming to help families of children with ADHD.
• Professor Mark Stoyle spoke to BBC Radio Solent (1’18”) on Halloween about witch hunts in Tudor and Stuart England.
• Dr Michael Head told Scientific American the ‘holy grail’ will be a combined all-in-one flu and COVID-19 vaccine.
• Professor Mark Sullivan was quoted in The Times and New Scientist about research challenging the idea that the universe’s expansion is accelerating.