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Placement Year Awards 2025

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the Placement Year Awards 2025

Congratulations to our engineering students who excelled at the Placement Year Awards this year.

Race2Space team winning award
Photo credit: BIS/Geir Engene

'The Arthurs' honour Sheffield’s Race 2 Space initiative for notable achievement in space activities

The Faculty’s Race 2 Space (R2S) team was awarded the 2025 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for best Industry/Project Team by the British Interplanetary Society at an awards ceremony in London last month.

Net-Zero Industries Award logo

Major award for Flue2Chem Project at COP30 in Brazil

The Flue2Chem project has been recognised at the Net-Zero Industries award. The project received the National Winner United Kingdom award in the category of Outstanding Project.
polyurethane mesh
A section through the new material showing how it mimics the native female tissue in having three layers of interconnected fibres which distend when stretched but then bounce back to their size and shape

Hope on the horizon for women with urinary incontinence

Researchers have identified a promising alternative material for treating the condition of stress urinary incontinence.
Skys the limit

Smash the barriers to your dream job in construction, Dame Julie tells schoolgirls

Rotherham’s best-known businesswoman Dame Julie Kenny CBE has urged schoolgirls not to let sexism stand in their career path.
Professor Joan Cordiner
Professor Joan Cordiner

Prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowship for Sheffield Engineering professor
Butterfly by led lights

New University of Sheffield spin-out company developing game-changing micro-LED technology

A new spin-out company from the University of Sheffield that is developing the next generation of micro-LED technology has officially launched this week (4 February 2020). The company is harnessing research from our Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering - a world leader in semiconductor materials and devices.
Dr Claire Corkhill - Reader in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Sheffield engineers chosen to advise government on nuclear waste management

Professor Neil Hyatt and Dr Claire Corkhill are set to support the development of policy and strategy for the safe long-term management of the UK radioactive waste inventory
Graphic image of a semiconductor

University of Sheffield launches Quantum centre to develop the technologies of tomorrow

University of Sheffield launches new research centre to revolutionise computing, communication, sensing and imaging technologies