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Photograph: Heather Ellis

Immersive School Dinners exhibition offers food for thought

A new School Dinners exhibition, created in collaboration by researchers from the University of Sheffield, brings the mixed memories and tastes of school food to life.

Tony Crook looking at the camera.

Professor Tony Crook Legacy Seminar

The School of Geography and Planning is holding an afternoon event to celebrate the contribution of Professor ADH (Tony) Crook CBE to applied housing and planning policy research.
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Dr Tim Herrick made a Principal Fellow of the HEA

Congratulations to Dr Tim Herrick on being awarded Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (HEA).
A photograph of the Suyuparina Mountain Glacier, in Peru.
Suyuparina Glacier, Peru

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supply of 90 million people, global policy makers warned

Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers hosted by UNESCO.
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Social care research centre: new £10 million funding award for University of Sheffield

£10 million in funding has been awarded to the University of Sheffield’s Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities for a new ‘Centre for Care’ to address the urgent need for accessible research and evidence on social care.
Grenfell Tower

Mental health research highlights devastating impact on leaseholders affected by cladding scandal

Four years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, leaseholders in apartments with flammable cladding are still suffering the fallout which is taking a huge toll on their mental health and wellbeing.
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How are multilingual pupils being compared to their monolingual peers?

Dr Sabine Little's research into how multilingualism and identity has fed into the Literacy Trust’s 2021 Research Report.
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From a climate of fear to a climate of solidarity: talking climate and migration around the UN Climate Change Conference 2021

by Ankit Kumar, Lecturer in Development and Environment for the Department of Geography
An aerial view of the University campus.

10 ways our researchers are working to understand and fight against climate change

Researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences are working to understand and fight against the impacts of climate change.