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Festival of Social Sciences 2024

From robotic sheepdogs to tackling global challenges: Explore the free Festival of Social Science in Sheffield

The UK’s Festival of Social Science returns to Sheffield this month to shine a light on how the city’s world-leading social scientists are tackling some of the most urgent problems facing society.
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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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Professor Tony Crook Legacy Seminar

Join us on the 9th of October 2025 for an afternoon event to celebrate the contribution of Professor ADH (Tony) Crook CBE to applied housing and planning policy research.
Academics from the University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence being presented with an award on stage at the UKAIRS symposium
Academics from the University's Centre for Machine Intelligence have won an impact award at the UK's first national conference for AI research. The award recognises their research that is driving the responsible use of AI. Credit: UK AI Research Symposium

University of Sheffield researchers win UK first national AI prize

A new award recognising the strength and impact of the UK’s AI research, has been awarded to academics at the University of Sheffield.

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Doing qualitative research on inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic

Researchers in the Department of Sociological Studies have launched a directory of resources about doing qualitative research in socially distant times.
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Researching power, authority and land in Lagos: Taking an oblique approach to the unwritten

Dr Lindsay Sawyer discusses Lagos' unwritten but widely practiced rules for Insight Magazine.
The Times Higher Education Rankings for 2021

University of Sheffield ranks in the top 100 in the world for Social Sciences

Social Sciences, including Law and Education, have been ranked in the top 100 subjects to study in the world, by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021.

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MArch student designs winning bench

Sheffield School o Architecture MArch student Luke Brennan-Scott has winning bench design installed at Victoria Station in London.
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Congratulations to our new Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Three Faculty of Social Sciences colleagues have been successfully nominated to become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences: Jackie Harrison (Journalism); Damian Hodgson (Management School) and Kate Reed (Sociological Studies).