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KE Awards 2025

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced

The University's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards honoured colleagues for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations with partners at local, national and international levels.
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Engineering student team wins People’s Prize in global design competition

Two student teams from the University of Sheffield's Global Engineering Challenge (GEC) programme represented the faculty at the Engineering for People Design Challenge 2024/25.
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2025 Engineering Research Symposium

PGR and PDRAs from the Faculty came together for the annual Engineering Researcher Symposium.
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Great British Chemicals to turn industrial waste into world-first green chemistry

A major research centre that is set to position the UK as a global leader in clean technology, is being launched by the universities of Sheffield, Newcastle and Nottingham.
Dr Dan Blackburn from the University of Sheffield introducing a study participant to the CognoSpeak system on a laptop

AI tool could speed up dementia diagnosis

A new AI tool that could help doctors assess the early signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s more quickly and efficiently, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
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Reflections on collaborating with Tom Scott and the importance of making research accessible

Senior Lecturer, Dr Sam Rigby, from the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, recently collaborated with YouTuber Tom Scott.
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Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests

New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
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AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots

Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to Department of Computer Science research.
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University of Sheffield duo win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes

Congratulations to Professor Serena Cussen and Professor Claire Corkhill who have both been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry 2023 Research & Innovation Prizes.