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Festival of Social Sciences 2024

Free family-friendly events heading to Sheffield as Festival of Social Science returns

A series of family-friendly events and activities is heading to Sheffield this month as the UK’s Festival of Social Science returns to the city to shine a light on how university research is tackling some of the most urgent problems facing society.
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New platform Playces launches to transform children’s access to play spaces

Our researchers have partnered with Play England and Passport365 to launch Playces, a new digital platform designed to help identify and address inequalities in access to playgrounds.
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Understanding Society: A Festival of Social Science 2026

A series of free events and activities examining the ideas that shape our everyday lives. From Saturday 17 to Saturday 31 October 2026 in various venues across Sheffield City Centre.

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University of Sheffield recognised as a leader in research collaboration and knowledge exchange

The University of Sheffield has reaffirmed its position as one of England’s top universities for external collaboration and engagement with businesses and communities according to the latest Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
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'Bridging Care Gaps' - Call for Papers

The University of Sheffield and the Centre for Care invites scholars working on inequalities in care to the 'Bridging Care Gaps' Workshop to be held at the Novotel- Sheffield on the 3rd and 4th of June 2024.
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FORTITUDE: Empowering children & young people through law and play

Professor Dawn Watkins, from the School of Law, is leading a project to teach children and young people about their legal rights and responsibilities and is seeking participants to help with evaluation.
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Understanding Well-being Data

A presentation and discussion of Dr Susan Oman's book Understanding Well-being Data. It follows well-being data back centuries, showing they have long been used to track the health and wealth of society.
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Professor Mike Thelwall gives inaugural lecture

Professor Mike Thelwall of the Information School recently delivered his inaugural lecture, 'How helpful are AI and bibliometrics for assessing the quality of academic research?'
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Smarter, Greener Extractivism

Upcoming research seminar from Pat Brodie, School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, organised by the Information School Digital Societies Research Group.