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Sheffield Launches Powerful New Alliance to Transform Adult Social Care

Excitement is building across Sheffield as a ground-breaking initiative takes shape to reshape the landscape of adult social care.

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram stood in front of a brick wall

Head North - Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram at Festival of Debate

Join Andy and Steve in conversation with Professor Beth Perry from the Urban Institute, as they outline how we can spread political and economic power throughout the UK and push forward for a fairer future.
Dr Sabine Little stood with a group of children looking at the camera in a school setting at one of her previous Storytelling events.
Dr Sabine Little at a storytelling event with local school students. Credit: Ross Jarman

Sheffield declared a UK City of Languages

Sheffield is the latest city nationally to be declared a ‘City of Languages’, in a new initiative aimed at promoting and helping the city’s multilingualism to flourish.
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New research reveals billions made by companies involved in UK border security

New research from a team of leading UK universities has revealed that over £5 billion in government contracts has been awarded to private companies for managing border security and small boat crossings.
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Innovative programme supports social scientists to develop new ventures

The Faculty of Social Sciences has received funding from the ESRC which will support entrepreneurial research staff in developing their venture ideas from their research.

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Exhibition gives insight into children’s play in pandemic

New research from the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield, º£½ÇÉçÇø College London (UCL) and play specialists from Great Ormond Street Hospital has revealed the impact the Covid-19 pandemic had on children’s play.
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International Women’s Day in the Faculty of Social Sciences

This month marks International Women’s Day 2022 and we want to celebrate the amazing research from across the Faculty, by women who are making a difference.
Young Innovator Award Winners 2021/22, L to R: Ben White, Tendai Taruvinga, Ella Hopkin

Sheffield’s Innovators of the future

Three graduates, including Ella a Sheffield Methods Institute graduate, from the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield have been announced as winners within the cohort of the Innovate UK Young Innovators Awards 2021/22.
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Sheffield researchers are part of a team aiming to support sustained change in national responses to domestic abuse and child protection, thanks to a Nuffield Foundation award

Researchers at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield are part of a team that has received an impressive £430k Nuffield award to better understand and enhance our national response to domestic abuse and child protection.