| Project | Keywords | Year start | Year end | Funder | Budget (£) | URI |
| FEVER: Future Electric Vehicle Energy Networks supporting Renewables | Electric Vehicles; Smart Energy; AI | 2022 | 2027 | EPSRC | 6.6M | |
| AUTONOMY | Drones; Multi-agent Systems; Human-swarm Interaction | 2022 | 2025 | EPSRC | 800k | |
| Centre for Maritime Futures | Maritime; Digital Twins | 2021 | 2025 | Shell | 1.2M | |
| Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship: Citizen-Centric AI Systems | AI; Explainable AI; Human-AI Interaction; Multi-Agent Systems | 2021 | 2025 | EPSRC | 1.4M | https://ccais.soton.ac.uk/ |
| Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub | Trust; Autonomous Systems; AI | 2020 | 2024 | UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund | 11.9M | https://www.tas.ac.uk/ |
| ProTechThem | NLP; Criminology; Law Enforcement; AI | 2021 | 2024 | ESRC | 758k | http://www.protechthem.org/ |
| UKRI MINDS Centre for Doctoral Training | Autonomous Systems; Safe AI; Explanable AI; Embedded AI; AI Hardware; IoT | 2019 | 2024 | EPSRC | 5.8M | https://www.mindscdt.southampton.ac.uk/ |
| Rebooting Democracy: Democratic Innovation for the Information Age | Argumentation; NLP | 2020 | 2024 | UKRI | 1.2M | https://www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk/ |
| The Scaling-up of Purpose in Evolution (evo-ego): Connectionist approaches to the evolutionary transitions in individuality | Evolutionary theory; Natural selection; Natural induction; Agency; Emergence of self | 2021 | 2024 | Sir John Templeton Foundation | 304k | https://www.richardawatson.com/ |
| How Exploratory and Selective Developmental Mechanisms Generate facilitated variation, confer agency on organisms and impose purpose on evolution | Evolutionary theory; Immune systems; Animal Learning; explore vs exploit; Extended Evolutionary Synthesis | 2021 | 2024 | Sir John Templeton Foundation | 200k | https://www.richardawatson.com/ |
| COVER: COalgebraic Foundations for Quantitative VERification | Quantitative verification; Temporal logic; Model checking; Synthesis | 2021 | 2024 | The Leverhulme Trust | 410k | |
| GloSAT | NLP; Environmental Science; AI | 2019 | 2023 | NERC | 3.3M | https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/1020 |
| REACH | Responsible AI; Human-machine Interaction | 2018 | 2023 | AXA | 200k | www.responsibleai.info |
| SafeSpacesNLP | NLP; Criminology; Applied Linguistics; AI | 2021 | 2022 | TAS Hub | https://www.tas.ac.uk/safespacesnlp/ | |
| AI-Assisted Resilience Governance Systems (ARGOS) | AI for Social Good; Resilience; Climate Change; Sustainability; AI | 2021 | 2022 | TAS Hub | 175k | https://www.tas.ac.uk/current-research-projects/argos/ |
| FloraGuard | NLP; Criminology; Law Enforcement; AI | 2018 | 2021 | ESRC | 300k | https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/1018 |
| CYShadowWatch | NLP; Criminology; Law Enforcement; AI | 2020 | 2021 | DSTL DASA | 116k | https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/1019 |
| Legal & Property Language Processing (LPLP) | NLP; Legal | 2019 | 2020 | Innovate UK | 142k | https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/1017 |
| ASSET: Augmented Safety through Smart Environments | Safe AI; Normative Systems | 2017 | 2019 | British Council | 230k | https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/960 |