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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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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
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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.
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Should we be looking to eco-communities as ways to radically transform our cities? 

Could the collective and collaborative projects seeking to balance human and environmental needs be a solution for more people to live sustainably?
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Under-paid and under-valued: assessing mandatory vaccination for care home workers in England

A new Sustainable Care paper has been published today, entitled ‘Under-paid and under-valued: assessing mandatory vaccination for care home workers in England‘.
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Top 100 for Social Sciences: 2022 THE World University Rankings 2022

We've been ranked in the top 100 in the 2022 THE World University Rankings for Social Sciences.