
Staff Matters February 2026
In this edition:
- NSS and Survey Fortnight: A community-wide effort for a shared goal
- Promoting our research impact
- Major respiratory study celebrates completing patient recruitment
- New podcast from Southampton Education School bridges gap between practice and research
- Game poems: Challenging traditional boundaries between art forms
- Samantha Ege becomes Fellow of the Royal College of Music
- Our staff in the news
- International research explores links between food insecurity and mental health
- Spärck AI Scholarship programme opens for applications
- Building belonging and enhancing employability: A Careers & Awarding Gap Project collaboration
- Winter Wellbeing photography competition winners announced
- Benefits Spotlight
Editor’s Message
We are very pleased to share February’s Staff Matters with you. In this edition of your staff magazine we: hear how staff and students are working together to make NSS and Survey Fortnight a success; learn about the impact of our colleagues’ research in several subject areas; celebrate a major respiratory study reaching an important milestone; and, find out how a new podcast from Southampton Education School is bridging the gap between practice and research. We feature news of colleagues’ remarkable work and achievements across academic disciplines and professional services, as well as the usual round up of appearances in the media.
