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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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Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies Announces Research Seminar Schedule

Join the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies for its 2025–26 online seminar series, exploring fresh perspectives on biblical texts and their impact on culture, politics, and society.
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The power of language apps in a multilingual world

Dr González-Fernández, senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, explores the powerful role language apps can play in an increasingly multilingual world.
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Beyond the algorithm: Shaping AI for people, not just progress

Explore the impact of artificial intelligence on society — from reimagining creativity to transforming law and challenging ethical frameworks, this campaign reveals both the promise and the peril of AI.
Centre for Poetry and Poetics (Spring, 2022-Series’ Opening event, Arts Tower, LT01 plus online. A Reading with Ansgar Allen, Andrea Brady and Richard Parker

Centre for Poetry and Poetics Spring, 2022-Series Opening event

Centre for Poetry and Poetics (Spring, 2022-Series’ Opening event, Arts Tower, LT01 plus online. A Reading with Ansgar Allen, Andrea Brady and Richard Parker
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LingLunch' research seminars

A series of online research talks open to staff and students, featuring Dr Lisa Donlan and Prof Joan Beal.

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Voices from The Past

"Voices from the past" Symposium, Oxford, co-organised by Ranjan Sen in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Archaeology.

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The Bible isn’t ‘pro-life’ — and the Old Testament God isn’t ‘more violent’ than the New one

Dr Meredith Warren, Director of SIIBS, and external SIIBS members Sarah Rollens and Eric Vanden Eykel wrote this piece for The Independent.

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Megan Shackleton wins a bronze medal at the Tokyo Paralympics

A huge congratulations to our very own Megan Shackleton who won a bronze medal the Tokyo Paralympics.

| The Yorkshire Post