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School of Information, Journalism and Communication host ECREA Radio and Sound Conference 2025

Titled “Cog in a Wheel? Radio and Sound in the Changing Mediascape,” the event will bring together scholars and practitioners to take a fresh look at how radio has evolved—and continues to evolve—within today’s fast-moving global media landscape.
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Tim Herrick receives prestigious UK teaching excellence award

The 2025 winners of higher education's most prestigious UK teaching excellence awards have been announced by Advance HE with Dr Tim Herrick recognised for his outstanding contribution to excellent teaching in higher education.
Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced

Colleagues across Social Sciences were among those honoured for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations in the University's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards.
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Professor Kate Dommett co-chairs new taskforce to champion research access to social platform data

Smart Data Research UK (SDR UK) has formed a new taskforce to address longstanding challenges researchers face in accessing data from digital platforms with Professor Kate Dommett as co-chair.

Maximising Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Beyond Severe Mental Illness (SMI)

Teaching Digital Literacy: Videogames in Education
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Enhancing our public benefit research with SafePod

Our researchers can now save on travel, cost and time to access securely protected data by using the newly installed SafePod in the Western Bank Library.
Thanes Thavarajah

Sheffield University Management School student selected for a Lloyd Scholars Champion Award

We are pleased to celebrate that Thanes Thavarajah has been selected in the 2022 Lloyd Scholars Awards.
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New standards for tax transparency published for governments around the world

New international standards to improve global tax transparency have been approved by the General Assembly of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT).