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Engineering You’re Hired students showcase innovation and creativity at the Engineers and Scientists in Business Final

The entrepreneurial talent and creativity of our students was celebrated at the 2026 Engineers and Scientists in Business Competition Final.
Carolina Scarton

“If you tell kids they can’t go on social media, that’s exactly what they will do.”

Dr Carolina Scarton speaks to Sheffield Tribune on the increasing number of children using social media who are being targeted with lies online.
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School of Computer Science awarded funding to build datasets shaping the future of AI

The project builds datasets to stress-test AI’s ability to safely analyze complex charts, tables, and long text within professional fact-checking scenarios.
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ARIA Funding Launches New Innovator Circle in Sheffield

Dr Charles Grellois, Lecturer in Verification at the School of Computer Science, has secured £20,000 in funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).

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MSc student contributes to paper published in a major NLP conference.

Congratulations to our MSc student who has had their paper accepted by the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) .
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Athena SWAN Silver Award win

The Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield is proud to announce that it has been successful in renewing its Athena SWAN Silver Award for another five years.

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Less chat can help robots make better decisions

New research that could help us use swarms of robots to tackle forest fires, conduct search and rescue operations at sea and diagnose problems inside the human body, has been published by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
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Free access to robotics resources urgently needed to prepare UK’s workforce for 2030

Everyone in the UK should be given free access to high-end robotics resources in order to close the skills gap and ensure everyone has the skills needed to be part of the workforce in 2030, a new report has called for today (Friday 23 July 2021).
A young couple in bed with the man lying on his back snoring and the woman covering her ears with a pillow

AI could be the secret to a better night’s sleep

Proof of who snores the loudest and advice on how to stop it may finally be coming to families across the country thanks to artificial intelligence developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.