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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.

Festival of the Mind 2022

Festival of the Mind – Arts and Humanities Events

Festival of the Mind returns this month and features talks, exhibits, performances and film screenings from contributors across the faculty.
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Filling the silence: the powerful music of Afghanistan's exiled musicians

Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey is working with Afghan musicians now living in exile to create new platforms to share their work.
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Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Learning and Teaching 2022

Colleagues across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities have been recognised in the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Award Scheme for Learning and Teaching.
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True story of how fear of war in Europe led to heartbreaking marriage collapse

A new drama revealing the tragic true story of how one couple’s marriage was torn apart and mental health destabilised by the fear of war breaking out in Europe, is set to be performed in public for the first time next week (28 June 2022).
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The “Xinjiang Papers”: How Xi Jinping commands policy in the People’s Republic of China

This report shows how “the Xinjiang papers” reveal the centralised decision-making processes behind mass mobilisation, mass detention, and dispersal of Uyghur and other Turkic-speaking Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.