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Professor Jonathan Rayner shortlisted for Maritime Media 2025 Best Book Award

Professor Jonathan Rayner, from the School of English, has been shortlisted for the Maritime Media 2025 Best Book Award for his open access monograph Screening the Fleet: The Representation of the Royal Navy in Film and Television since 1945.
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Prof. Mary Vincent joins Yanis Varoufakis to discuss Greece’s civil war

The University of Sheffield's Mary Vincent joins Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis and fellow historian Paul Cartledge to discuss the impact of civil war on families and nations.

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Sheffield leading the way in Early Career Researcher Network for the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences

The British Academy has launched their new Early Career Researcher Network cluster in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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Historian Sarah Frank awarded the prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship

Sarah Frank, Lecturer in the History of the Francophone World at the University of Sheffield, is one of seventy-seven talented early-career researchers who have been awarded the prestigious Future Leader Fellowship.

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Over half of UK’s arts and cultural venues at risk from pandemic

Over half of the UK’s arts and cultural venues and organisations believe they are at risk due to the decline in income during the pandemic, a new study from the University of Sheffield has shown.
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Examining the Effects of the Pandemic on Education in Argentina

Dr Lauren Rea (SLC) and colleagues in Argentina have been awarded funding under the British Academy GCRF Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges scheme for their project, Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Argentina.
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Who the Guardians? Republic III with Angie Hobbs

Following Socrates' claim that the ideal republic should be ruled by a class of "guardians," the question naturally arises: Who or what will keep these guardians in check?

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Online workshop: Professor Eric Anchimbe on Postcolonial Pragmatics - “Centring Anti-Racist Scholarship in the Linguistics Curriculum”
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Mozart the performer: famous composer had a liberal approach to performing his string quartets and we should too

Mozart’s autograph manuscripts reveal he prioritised the practical considerations of performance over compositional authority, according to a musicologist from the University of Sheffield.