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Busy bees: Male bumblebees prove more active and adaptable than females

Male bumblebees are more active and behaviourally flexible than female bees, according to new research that uses a series of specially designed tasks to test how the insects explore unfamiliar ...
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The race to ‘Decode ALS’: Sheffield scientists awarded global prize for breakthrough AI drug discovery

The University of Sheffield has been named a winner of the Longitude Prize on ALS, cementing its reputation as a world leader ...
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Professor Hajirasouliha appointed as an editor for a world-leading engineering journal

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Iman Hajirasouliha has been appointed as an Editor for Thin-Walled Structures. We are thrilled to announce that Professor Iman Hajirasouliha has been ...
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University of Sheffield Jessup Team Places in Top 32 Worldwide

The University of Sheffield Jessup team has placed among the Top 32 teams in the world, marking a historic achievement at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2026 and ranking ...
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University of Sheffield becomes founding signatory of UK Packaging Pact

The University of Sheffield has become a founding signatory of the UK Packaging Pact, a new ten-year collaborative programme led by WRAP to help transform the UK’s packaging system through coordinated ...
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Teens three times more likely to start with alcohol than no/low alternatives

Young people aged 16-25 in Great Britain are three times more likely to start drinking alcohol than non- and low-alcohol alternatives, according to new reearch from the University of Sheffield Alcohol ...
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Professor Matt Flinders awarded Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize 2026

Congratulations to Professor Matt Flinders, who has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize 2026 for outstanding professional contributions to political studies. The ...
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Our community’s response to the People’s Emergency Briefing

On Wednesday, 15th April, we hosted a live screening of the People's Emergency Briefing and held a group discussion to explore how we, as individuals and an institution, should respond to the climate ...
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Scientists unveil breakthrough tool that could help stop the world’s third‑biggest driver of deforestation

The Defra-funded study, published today in Communications Earth and Environment, combines chemical fingerprinting of soybeans with advanced geospatial machine learning to estimate where crops were ...
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New Study Calls for a ‘Pedagogy of Joy’

In a new groundbreaking paper published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, University of Sheffield researchers argue that the modern university experience is increasingly defined by ...
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Spring Careers Fair 2026

Meet employers offering internships, placements, and graduate job opportunities in a range of different sectors, including regional opportunities within an hour’s commute from Sheffield! Open to all ...
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Reshore semiconductor manufacturing to UK and US to meet sustainability goals, study says

Making semiconductors in the UK and the US would be the most sustainable way to manufacture the materials that power every electronic device on the planet, according to new research from the ...