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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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Love Square: Future proofing the city

Are people and nature destined to be adversaries? A new model of urban green space seeks to show the way forward in bringing together people and nature in a modern city.
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Living Life to the Fullest: Co-Researcher Collective demonstrates the power of grassroots engagement

Disability research has long sought to increase visibility of people historically marginalised due to a disability or chronic condition.
A group of women sit beneath a tree in Niger.

To the rhythm of Niger: using radio to empower women in one of the world’s poorest countries

“They say everything, in detail, they don’t hide anything, and there is no darkness”
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Understanding Alzheimer’s: how chemoinformatics is driving the development of new treatments

With nearly 40 million sufferers worldwide and no known cure, Alzheimer’s is rarely far from the headlines, as the world begins to grapple with the effects of an ageing population.
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Breaking the ice: How glacial cycle 22,000 years ago sculpted Britain’s landscape

Researchers have mapped how glaciers and glacial lakes once covered Britain and helped to sculpt the landscape 22,000 years ago.