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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.

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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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.
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Lowering voting age boosts long-term participation in elections

Young people given the vote from age 16 in Scotland are not only more likely to continue voting as they get older, but do so in higher numbers, a new study shows.

Journalism Lecturers launch two groundbreaking books
Christiaan Roell receiving an award at EAMSA 2022.

Christiaan Röell presents his paper at EAMSA’s annual conference and at NordCham

Christiaan Röell receives the Best Paper Award at the EAMSA 2022 in Tokyo and presents his research at the Sustainability Committee of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia.
Green barrier toolkit

Download: Green Barrier Toolkit

Our free toolkit – by the team behind the award-winning green barrier at Hunter’s Bar Infant School – outlines a step-by-step process for creating plant barriers, that improve air quality and offer environmental and economic benefits to schools.
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12,000 people in the UK become unpaid carers every day

Around 12,000 people become unpaid carers every day in the UK, according to new research from the Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield