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A group of students play the life size boardgame, one is holding a card and reading aloud, whilst everyone stands on the board in their own space.

Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with board games

Helping young people who have moved to University navigate online and digital spaces necessary for their education, and overcome the pitfalls they may encounter, is the subject of a new board game from the University of Sheffield.
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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.

Groundbreaking project digitally documents rich built heritage of the indigenous Dong people

Digital technology has been used to document the wooden architecture of the indigenous Dong people in the south-west of China for the first time.
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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.
Kate Campbell Pilling

Law Teacher of the Year 2024

A huge congratulations to Kate Campbell-Pilling who has been shortlisted for this year's Law Teacher of the Year award.