You can request a visit from one of our Physics and Astronomy academics to carry out a lecture or presentation at your school or event. Our available lectures are listed in the table below and you can request more than one lecture, and from more than one speaker for any event.
Most speakers have a maximum travel limit of 1 hour each way from Southampton and there are no fees to cover. The University will cover all travel costs for the speaker.
| Speaker | Subject | Suitable audience |
| To be confirmed | Aliens, the solar system and cxoplanets: An interactive talk | Year 4 |
| Professor Betty Lanchester | Aurora: Amazing light shows in the sky | Year 5 |
| Professor Christian Knigge | Hubble highlights: Amazing images and what they mean | Year 6 |
| Dr Christian Knigge | Extra solar planets | Year 7 |
| To be confirmed | Teaching the electromagnetic spectrum | Year 7 |
| Professor Malcolm Coe | Tides in the cosmos: Making stars in our nearest galaxy | Year 7 |
| Dr Nick Higgingbottom | Quasars: Engines of the ancient universe | Year 7 |
| Dr Diego Altamirano | Tick tock, tick tock: Predicting explosions on neutron stars | Year 8 |
| Dr Diego Altamirano | The heartbeats of black holes: Hints on how they devour their companions | Year 8 |
| Dr Diego Altamirano | What are black holes? How can we study them? | Year 8 |
| Dr Rob Fear | Earth's aurora and magnetosphere | Year 8 |
| Pearl John | Holography: The art and science of holography | Year 8 |
| Dr Sebastian Hoenig | Exploring the universe with giant telescopes | Year 9 |
| Dr Sadie Jones | Hungry supermassive black holes | Year 9 |
| Dr Sadie Jones | A mysterious supermassive black hole | Year 9 |
| Dr Sadie Jones | Aurora Quest: In search of the Northern Lights | Year 9 |
| To be confirmed | Aliens, our solar system and exoplanets | Year 9 |
| Pearl John | The Light Express roadshow | GCSE to A-Level |
| Dr Phil Wiseman | Exploding stars: What are supernovae and why do we care? | GCSE |
| Dr John Coxon | Auroras | AS/A-Level |
| Dr Nick Evans | Dark energy | AS/A-level |
| Dr Nick Evans | Introduction to particle physics | AS/A-Level |
| Dr Nick Evans | Understanding nothing: The structure of the vacuum | AS/A-Level |
| Professor Christian Knigge | Cataclysmic variable: 10 breakthroughs in 10 years | AS/A-level |
| Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis | Nanoscience and nanotechnology | AS/A-Level |
| Professor Ian McHardy | Cosmology | AS/A-Level |
| Professor Ian McHardy | The high energy universe | AS/A-Level |
| Professor Doug Ross | Einstein's revolution | AS/A-Level |
| Dr Francesco Shankar | Discovering evolutionary patterns that shape the most MASSIVE galaxies | AS/A-level |
| Dr Mark Sullivan | Cosmic explosions, dark energy and the fate of the universe | AS/A-level |
Request a lecture with our 'Make an enquiry' button and select a date that you’d like them to speak. We'll respond to you with availability and to make further arrangements.