World class research, making a difference.
Faculty of Social Sciences. World class research, making a difference.
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Research Centres
Contents Sustainable Growth.
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Wellbeing & the Life Course.
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Inclusive Society.
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Digital Society.
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p31 Innovative Methods & Training. Methods Institute.
World class research, making a difference.
An introduction to the Faculty. The Faculty of Social Sciences is comprised of thirteen Departments, including both classical social science disciplines and specialist fields of social scientific study that are distinctive to Sheffield. We have a longstanding reputation for delivering world class research. Consistently over the last twenty years our departments have been ranked at the very top in UK research assessments. The work of our academics is highly cited; the Faculty of Social Sciences is currently ranked in the top ten for citations amongst the UK leading research intensive universities. The impact of our research is exemplary and is recognised by national research council prizes and international awards. We have an ambitious interdisciplinary research agenda. Our researchers are working together to make a difference to the society we live in. We are working extensively with non-academic organisations and joining forces with a network of international partners. Our research addresses the major challenges facing society and our ideas are leading academic debates internationally and shaping policy and practice across the globe. We are also developing innovative new research methods and our work is at the leading edge in the co-production of knowledge and in exploring the potential of big data. We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved to date and we are excited about our ever more ambitious research agenda. We hope you enjoy reading about our research strengths and successes in Sustainable Growth; Inclusive Society; Wellbeing and the Life Course; Digital Society; Innovative Methods; and Training and Skills over the pages that follow.
Professor Gill Valentine Pro-Vice-Chancellor Social Sciences
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THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES CAN BE BARRIERS TO PROGRESS IN TACKLING KEY GLOBAL CHALLENGES. OUR RESEARCHERS ARE WORKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES TO PRODUCE WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
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We are working together to tackle the key global challenges – balancing economic growth with protecting the environment and social justice.
Sustainable Growth. #sustainablegrowth
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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute LEADING THE DEBATE IN THE SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY
The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) brings together leading international researchers, policymakers, journalists and opinion formers.
Climate change. Financial crisis. The shift of global commercial power. These developments pose tougher and more complex political and economic challenges than the world has ever known. An intense debate in academic, business, journalistic and political circles suggests that traditional models of political economy may be ineffective in the face of these struggles. The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) brings together leading international researchers, policymakers, journalists and opinion formers to develop new ways of thinking about these issues. Using the unique insights generated by this interdisciplinary approach, SPERI has become an international focus for debate, discussion and policy development. Launched in 2012 by The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP, SPERI has continued to host an exciting programme of events, with two following annual lectures given by Robert Peston and George Monbiot (pictured right). It has an active online presence with a popular blog and publishes a series of papers and policy briefings digitally. One such paper, co-authored by SPERI’s directors, Professors Colin Hay and Tony Payne, sets out the case for a new model of ‘Civic Capitalism’ as a possible alternative to the failed anglo-liberal growth model of recent times. Professor Payne noted: “We want SPERI to be absolutely at the forefront of the urgent process of advancing new ideas about how we can manage political economies differently in a world of great uncertainty and we have in this paper tried to lead from the front by proposing nothing less than a new model of post-crash capitalism!” The paper was published as a book by Polity Press in March 2015. : sheffield.ac.uk/speri : speri@sheffield.ac.uk : @sperishefuni : /sperishefuni
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Political Economy in focus:
UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN ECONOMY The informal economy may be ‘hidden’, but it definitely exists. Traditionally, the ‘informal economy’ has been seen as something exploitative and damaging to both individuals and the economy. Research led by Professor Colin Williams (Sheffield University Management School), has challenged these assumptions and helped to shape and implement European policy and legislation. Working with three private sector partners, Regioplan, Rockwool and TNS, the research covered some 33 countries and showed that embracing and harnessing undeclared work can bring benefits to the economy, business and citizenship. His research has contributed to the creation of the UK ‘Hidden Economy Expert Group’ which seeks to coordinate discussion and strategy across government departments. : c.c.williams@sheffield.ac.uk
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Urban Institute BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES By 2050, the world’s population will be more than 9 billion and around 70 per cent of those people will live in cities. With this in mind, the Urban Institute, a new joint initiative between world-class researchers in the Faculties of Engineering and Social Sciences, has developed an innovative and ambitious interdisciplinary research programme which responds to the distinctive challenges and opportunities of 21st-century urbanism and seeks to reshape urban futures. The Institute, directed by Professors Craig Watkins and Martin Mayfield, recognises that cities are shaped by the interplay between technological innovation, individual and collective behaviour, institutions and governance. Although the issues surrounding cities are examined by disciplines such as engineering, architecture and planning, traditionally these issues have been studied in isolation. The Urban Institute seeks to offer a holistic, socio-technical perspective on urban challenges. The Institute is committed to working with public and private sector partners to design and develop research-based solutions to the major societal challenges faced by our cities. Challenges include: sustainable urban growth, urban governance, smart cities, critical urban infrastructure, resilient design and buildings, and urban systems modelling. : sheffield.ac.uk/urbaninstitute : urbaninstitute@sheffield.ac.uk
World class research, making a difference.
Sustainable cities in focus:
KEEPING OUR CITIES GREEN A worldwide television audience of billions witnessed the flowering of the Olympic Park during London 2012, and 5 million people visited the Olympic Games and the Paralympics, enjoying the 80,000 square metres of colourful meadows. These were the work of Professors Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough – the leading exponents of perennial meadows in the UK. After a decade of research, Professors Dunnett and Hitchmough from the Department of Landscape have developed radically new types of designed urban plant communities which support a rich native biodiversity, lower atmospheric carbon, and contribute to storm-water infiltration into soils, reducing urban flooding. These communities are simple to maintain, costeffective, and highly attractive. Their research has been put in to practice by government agencies, local authorities and by the public, most notably at the Olympic Park, which was the largest and most high-profile landscape architecture project in the world. Created from former industrial land in east London, the 250 acre Olympic Park is the largest new urban park to be developed in the UK for 150 years. The legacy of the Olympic Park has been far-reaching, demonstrating the great value of urban parks and ‘city greening’, and introducing a worldwide audience to the urban planting approaches developed at Sheffield. : n.dunnett@sheffield.ac.uk : j.d.hitchmough@sheffield.ac.uk
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Understanding the food, energy, environment nexus The world is rapidly approaching, if not already exceeding its resource capacity and is at risk of crossing planetary boundaries. Looking at each problem in isolation has proved ineffective and there is a growing need and recognition that these problems require nexus thinking. The Faculty has developed cross-cutting initiatives that speak to major environmental challenges.
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Food security in focus:
THE CONANX GROUP Research at Sheffield has helped to shed light on consumer anxieties about food, from the global scale of international food markets, to the domestic scale of individual households. Research by the Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety (CONANX) group, has shown that changes in food and farming, the globalization of supply chains, agricultural intensification, retail concentration and technological change have all led to increased consumer anxieties about food safety and security. Consequently, CONANX has developed new ways of thinking about food supply chains and consumer anxieties, with tangible benefits in terms of food safety and public health. By working with Government agencies such as the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA), this research has shaped public policy. It has also enhanced academic and public understanding, influenced commercial practice for a leading UK food retailer and encouraged healthy eating via museum exhibitions, an educational website and changes to school curricula. CONANX includes Sheffield academics Dr Megan Blake, Dr Angela Meah and Dr Matthew Watson, and is led by Peter Jackson (Professor of Geography). A related research project Food, Convenience and Sustainability (FOCAS), also led by Professor Jackson, examines the contested category of convenience food and considers its significance for environmental sustainability and public health. Looking at four European case studies of processed baby-food, supermarket ready-meals, canteen food and food-box schemes, the project seeks to understand the different stocks of knowledge that consumers use when making food-related choices and the extent to which these create barriers and opportunities for healthier, more sustainable modes of consumption.  : sheffield.ac.uk/conanx and sheffield.ac.uk/focas ď€ƒ : p.a.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Climate change in focus:
PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE The melting of the two remaining ice sheets, caused by global warming, could drastically affect sea levels. Academics in the newly formed group Ice and ClimatE Research at Sheffield (ICERS), led by Professor Grant Bigg in the Department of Geography, are using innovative methods to understand and predict the interaction between the ice sheets and climate change. Professor Chris Clark is focusing on the former BritishIrish Ice Sheet, measuring how rapidly ice retreated across the continental shelf and using this knowledge to improve numerical ice sheet models that will be used to predict changes in our existing ice sheets. This research is the product of a five-year project BRITICE-CHRONO, funded to the value of £3.75 million by the National Environment Research Council (NERC). The project involves over 40 researchers from eight universities, plus the British Geological Survey, British Antarctic Survey, NERC’s radiocarbon facility and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre. : britice-chrono.org : c.clark@sheffield.ac.uk
The Greenland ice sheet is one of two ice sheets left on our planet. Professor Edward Hanna’s research on the Greenland ice sheet mass balance is both pioneering and influential. He uses climatic and glaciological data sets and models, to estimate the present day surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and its contribution to global sea-level change. The project is in collaboration with partners in America (including NASA), Belgium, Denmark and Wales. Professor Edward Hanna was a contributing author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report ‘Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis', which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. : sheffield.ac.uk/geography/research/groups/climate : e.hanna@sheffield.ac.uk
REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS Professor Lenny Koh, of Sheffield University Management School, is a leading authority in the supply chain field and is utilising her expertise to reduce carbon emissions. Her research and work on the Supply Chain Environmental Analysis Tool (SCEnAT) aims to help companies cut their carbon emissions by creating a database of carbon usage. The tool arms businesses with ways to reduce their carbon emissions and costs by providing interventions and offering guidance and support. This project has helped to shape supply chain strategy and policy at a local, national and international level by both businesses and policy makers. Nick Tovey, Chairman of the Sheffield City Region LEP – Low Carbon Sector, said: “We estimate that the total impact from this research and contribution to the supply chain growth and improvement, along with Professor Koh’s extensive work on the skills agenda, could be worth many millions of pounds to the overall local and national economy.” : s.c.l.koh@sheffield.ac.uk
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World class research, making a difference.
Helping to improve the wellbeing of people at all stages in the life cycle.
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Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision Making PLACING A VALUE ON DECISION MAKING How does one person decide whether to invest in a pension, to attend a university, or start a new job? How do these decisions affect the finances and wellbeing of their family? If whole sectors of society take similar decisions, how does this impact on trends in economics, health and social cohesion across a nation? The Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision Making (InstEAD), directed by Professors Sarah Brown and Jenny Roberts, aims to facilitate research which deepens our understanding of the behaviour and decision-making of individuals and households. Using a transdisciplinary approach that combines expertise from behavioural, health and labour economics with economic psychology, InstEAD generates fresh insights and puts forward practical ideas that inform policy and make a positive impact in the world. : instead.group.shef.ac.uk : instead@sheffield.ac.uk : @insteadsheff
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Applied economics in focus:
REDUCING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND SAVING LIVES Over three-million people die every year from consuming alcohol. It’s attributable to approximately 25 per cent of the total deaths in the age group 20 to 39 years. It’s a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions. Understandably, many governments are looking for solutions.The Sheffield Alcohol Research Group's research has attracted international interest and informed debate, policy agenda and interventions in the UK and abroad. Professor Karl Taylor from the School of Economics, together with colleagues in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), were commissioned by the UK Department of Health to undertake an Independent Review of the Effects of Alcohol Pricing and Promotion, the first empirical study exploring the relationship between the pricing of alcohol, alcohol consumption and health outcomes. Their research found that minimum pricing would bring considerable health and social benefits and lead to significant savings in the NHS and criminal justice system. If drinks were sold for no less that 50p per unit, deaths per annum would be cut by seven per cent, 50,000 individuals would be saved from illness per decade, and there would be significantly lower hospital admissions. This research has had a phenomenal impact. The UK Government released its alcohol strategy in March 2012, and the headline measure was the commitment to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol in England and Wales. Evidence from the report was used by the Scottish Government when proposing the Alcohol Minimum Pricing Bill, which was passed in May 2012. The team have worked with World Health Organisation, policymakers in Australia and New Zealand and researchers in Europe and Canada. The research has also ignited a wealth of media interest – featured in national newspapers and UK primetime TV programmes including the BBC’s Panorama and Question Time.
Over threemillion people die every year from consuming alcohol.
: k.b.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk
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The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050 the number of people 60 years old or older will rise to 2 billion. Whilst we can celebrate an ageing population, it also brings pressing challenges. The Faculty has a long standing history of leading, policy-relevant research on ageing and its societal impact.
Informing ageing policy and practice Ageing in focus: The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is the largest, most ambitious research programme on ageing ever undertaken in the UK.
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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OLDER GENERATIONS In response to the global challenges posed by an ageing population, acclaimed research on ‘active ageing’ led by Professor Alan Walker in the Department of Sociological Studies, has driven changes to policy and practice on a local and international scale, improving the lives and wellbeing of countless older people. ➤
World class research, making a difference.
The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is the largest, most ambitious research programme on ageing ever undertaken in the UK. Professor Walker leads the £22 million, eight year, multidisciplinary collaboration, which involves over 200 researchers across 25 universities and is funded by five UK research councils. The programme uses an interdisciplinary ‘life course’ perspective. This is a bottom-up, empowering and inclusive framework, which runs counter to popular stereotypes and age-determinist practices and policies. He is also leads two other major funded projects. INNOVAGE is a project dedicated to improving the quality of life and wellbeing of older people, making a major contribution to the EU Horizon 2020 goal of extending healthy life years, whilst Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe (MOPACT) seeks to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can begin to make longevity an asset for social and economic development. Professor Walker was the first to be named ESRC Impact Champion of the Year at the inaugural ceremony in 2013 because of his contribution to social science and the challenge of ageing. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Social Policy Association, British Society of Gerontology and University of Sheffield. He was the first to receive the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) European Medal for Advances in the Social and Behavioural Sciences, and in June 2014, he was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for Services to Social Science. : newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk : s.f.howson@sheffield.ac.uk : @NDAprogramme
SUPPORTING THE MOBILITY OF OLDER GENERATIONS Helping older people to lead independent and fulfilling lives in their own homes and neighbourhoods is a government priority. Helping older people to lead independent and fulfilling lives in their own homes and neighbourhoods is a government priority. However, little is known about how older people move around their homes and neighbourhoods and the problems they experience. Research led by Professor Sarah Wigglesworth (School of Architecture), with colleagues in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the School of Health and Related Research, is exploring how the design and management of housing and neighbourhoods can be improved to better support the mobility of older people and their participation in community life. The three year project, funded by three UK research councils, looks beyond a single discipline and involves non-academic partners such as the City Council and community groups in Sheffield. : s.wigglesworth@sheffield.ac.uk
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Ageing in focus:
CHALLENGING AGEING STEREOTYPES Age discrimination has been formally acknowledged in recent legislation, but stereotypes and prejudice in everyday life still very much exist. The project Look at Me! Images of Women and Ageing, led by Dr Lorna Warren (Department of Sociological Studies), is challenging age-based stereotypes by exploring the experiences of older women through art. This has culminated in a campaign to challenge ageism and sexism through a range of policy and school-based initiatives. The project worked with women from Sheffield aged 43 to 96, creating ‘nontraditional’ images of themselves, which were then exhibited in several venues across the UK. Dr Warren and colleagues have introduced workshops that explore age-based stereotypes in schools with a view to including ageism in personal social health and economic education. This research has helped to change people’s assumptions about older people, and consequently, Dr Warren was recognised in the ‘society’ category at the ESRC Impact Awards 2014. : l.warren@sheffield.ac.uk
Photo credit: Representing Self-Representing Ageing project, funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing cross-council research programme
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Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth PLACING CHILDREN’S LIVES CENTRE STAGE Understanding the challenges and opportunities for children growing up in the 21st century requires an interdisciplinary approach. The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY) unites researchers from across the social and health sciences, arts and humanities, to place children’s lives and voices at the heart of the research process. CSCY breaks new theoretical, ethical and methodological ground to explore the complexity of contemporary childhoods. It is directed by Professor Elizabeth Wood and Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice in the Faculty, along with Penny Curtis, Professor of Child and Family Health and Wellbeing. Through international research collaborations and partnerships with policy and user communities, CSCY is informing policy and practice across a wide range of children’s services - from the design of hospitals to video games. : sheffield.ac.uk/cscy : d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk : @cscyshefuni
Education in focus:
RAISING LITERACY LEVELS OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN One in five eleven year olds are leaving primary school unable to read to the minimum standard for that age group. This has negative effects on the rest of their education and their future prospects. Our academics are enabling children to have a better future, improving the literacy levels of over 150,000 pre-school children in the UK. As part of a 20 year research programme, Professors Peter Hannon and Cathy Nutbrown in the School of Education developed a pioneering framework that has provided families and pre-school educators with a way of thinking about the role of parents in children’s early literacy development. The framework entitled the Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Models Framework (ORIM) was informed by a longitudinal study spanning from 1994 to 2006. Professor Cathy Nutbrown worked with early-years practitioners and teachers to encourage and enable parents of children aged between three and five years to support the early literacy development of their children. The effectiveness of the framework was tested through the largest ever pre-school education randomised control trial. The framework was used to develop a toolkit for practitioners to support families through home visits, provision of literacy resources, postal communication with families and special events. The original practitioners shared their work resulting in around 300 practitioners getting involved – between them reaching 6,000 families. To celebrate this huge achievement, Professor Nutbrown’s work was recognised through the Children and Young People Early Years Awards 2012 and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Outstanding Impact in Society Prize 2013. She was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nursery World Awards 2013. : c.e.nutbrown@sheffield.ac.uk
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iHuman DISCOVERING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain. This is coupled with the development of powerful new technologies with the potential to augment our bodies and modify behaviour. Developments in science and technology have allowed for diagnostics for the early detection of disease, drugs to aid cognition, and methods to enhance physical capabilities. How are these developments changing how we understand what it means to be human? This may seem self-evident, but how we have understood ‘the human’ differs markedly between disciplines and has changed radically over time in the light of scientific discovery. Whilst remaining a central subject of academic research in many disciplines, so far these disciplines have neglected to work together to understand the human being in its entirety. iHuman, led by Professors Paul Martin and Dan Goodley, is bringing together social sciences and humanities with psychological and biological sciences, to understand what it means to be human like never before. : sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/ihuman : ihuman@sheffield.ac.uk
Disability in focus:
THE IMPACT OF AUSTERITY The UK Coalition Government programme of austerity has hit low-income families and welfare recipients hard. Researchers in the Faculty of Social Sciences are seeking to understand what this means for people with physical, sensory and cognitive impairments. Working with researchers from three other Universities, and organisations of and for disabled people including Mencap and Speakup, our researchers are looking at the transdisciplinary process of theorising disability and challenging the conditions of disablism. Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities and Civil Society, is a three-year study to explore the opportunities for disabled people with learning disabilities to contribute to and benefit from the Coalition Government’s ‘Big Society’ initative. The project seeks to uncover how people with learning disabilities are experiencing and participating in their communities, employment and public services, whilst understanding the networks of interdependence and the emotional wellbeing of people with learning disabilities in a context of austerity. : disabilityuos.wordpress.com/author/disabilityuos : d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk : @disabilityuos
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Justice. Equality. Difference. Our academics are leading debates and answering the big questions facing modern society.
Inclusive Society. #inclusivesociety
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Understanding changing societies Immigration, social exclusion and inequality are major issues dominating newspaper front pages and political manifestos. Our Inclusive Society research brings together a wide range of work concerned with questions of social justice, fairness and investigations of processes of exclusion and the moderation of social inequality. Professor Rowland Atkinson is leading work in this thematic area, and an exciting programme of events, including conferences around the themes of ‘pro-social’ and ‘fracturing societies’, and events focusing on issues of segregation and migration.
Inequality in focus:
INVESTIGATING LONDON’S ‘SUPER-RICH’ NEIGHBOURHOODS Despite public and political interest in the wealthy we know surprisingly little about where and how they live, nor how they fit into the social, cultural and economic life of the metropolitan centres where they cluster. Since the financial crisis, many people are becoming interested in questions of inequality and wealth. London has experienced rapid social and economic change as a result of international wealth pouring-in via the property market. Understanding these changes is important. Attractive and safe spaces for captains of industry, senior figures in political and non-government organizations, are often regarded as markers of urban vitality and the foundation of social networks that help the broader glue of civic and political society. Yet we know very little about how such neighbourhoods operate, who they attract and how they are linked to other cities and neighbourhoods globally. Social research has generally ignored the very wealthy, largely because they are hard to locate, and even harder to collaborate with in research. In an ESRC-funded project being led by Rowland Atkinson, the gaps in social research are being addressed by focusing extensive research effort on a range of super-wealthy localities in London. The main aim of the research is to examine the life and wider role of 'alpha territories' inhabited by the extremely affluent. The result of this research will be a unique series of datasets from which the public, policymakers and academic commentators can learn more about these spaces, the social networks within and beyond them, and their role within contemporary city life more broadly. : rowland.atkinson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Social inclusion in focus:
ARE WE BECOMING A MORE DIVIDED SOCIETY? Nowadays, European cities are witnessing unprecedented levels of migration and population change. In an era of super mobility and super diversity, how do people develop the capacity to live in increasingly diverse societies? This is one of many questions that Gill Valentine’s (Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Social Sciences) ‘Live Difference’ research programme sought to address. Funded to the value of €2.1 million by the European Research Council (ERC) for four years, the Live Difference transdisciplinary research programme combines expertise from fields such as geography, urban studies, planning and sociology. Collecting empirical data using a large-scale survey, in-depth life history interviews with time-lines, audio-diaries and focus groups, the research focuses on an international comparison between two European societies: the UK and Poland. The project continues to influence the work of academics, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers with a series of policy briefings. : livedifference.group.shef.ac.uk : @livedifference
Migration in focus:
UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION We know quite a lot about why people migrate and about the legal and policy responses in the places to which they move. We know less about how people within these governance systems understand international migration and how these understandings shape the possibilities and limits of migration governance. The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield is home to some truly outstanding research into international migration. The Migration Research Group, led by Professor Andrew Geddes and Dr Majella Kilkey, brings together scholars from across the Faculty and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to analyse the main forms of international migration in local, national and global contexts. The researchers in the Migration Group share ideas and participate in common projects, hold a regular seminar series, organise conferences and workshops, and host major international projects. Professor Andrew Geddes also leads the €2.14 million project ‘Prospects for International Migration Governance’ (MIGPROSP) funded by the European Research Council. The project seeks to uncover how actors involved with governing migration understand international migration, how susceptible these understandings are to change, and what these understandings mean now and in the future for the governance of international migration at state, regional and international levels. : migrationgovernance.org : migprosp@sheffield.ac.uk : @migprosp
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Centre for Criminological Research REDUCING REOFFENDING & EMPOWERING VICTIMS The biggest challenge facing the UK criminal justice system is reoffending. The Ministry of Justice estimates that the annual cost of reoffending is £7-10billion , the equivalent of the UK holding the Olympic Games every single year. Whilst traditional criminology has focused on why people commit crime, Sheffield academics are driving policy to help people stop offending and empowering victims of crime. The Centre for Criminological Research (CCR) is the focal point for criminology and criminal justice at the University of Sheffield and home to leading academics in the field. Director Professor Joanna Shapland and Professor Stephen Farrall, have helped to transform criminal justice policy and practice in the UK and beyond. In 2014, CCR held a landmark conference to share research with post-doctoral, early career and world-leading criminologists, to map where desistance research might go in the future, and to inform probation practice and crime reduction policy. The results of this Conference were published in a book by Routledge in 2015. : shef.ac.uk/law/research/clusters/ccr : criminology@sheffield.ac.uk
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Criminology in focus:
REDUCING REOFFENDING Professor Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Queen’s Belfast University and the University of Glasgow have undertaken a pioneering project known as the ‘Desistance Knowledge Exchange’ (DesKE). Funded by the ESRC, the team used common threads from individual rehabilitation stories to compile a ‘desistance framework’, which is now a dominant conceptual model within offender rehabilitation policy and practice in England and Wales. The research, cited in the UK Ministry of Justice’s 2011 Green Paper, provided the National Offender Management Services (NOMS) with research evidence for its new practice skills model for probation. The framework has also been influential in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Chile, Singapore and the United States. The team produced a short documentary entitled ‘Road from Crime’ (2012), available as a free download, which outlines key research findings and practical applications. As a result, the project won a ‘Public Policy’ ESRC Impact Prize in 2014. : s.farrall@sheffield.ac.uk
EMPOWERING VICTIMS OF CRIME Including victims in the justice processes empowers victims and can also reducing reoffending. The process, which has come to be known as restorative justice, was developed by Professor Joanna Shapland. In a sevenyear, £7 million research project funded by the Ministry of Justice, Professor Shapland led the evaluation of the use of restorative justice in the first major study of a randomised controlled trial in criminology in the UK. The research directly influenced policy, informing the legislation to promote pre-sentence restorative justice in the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and a government policy action plan outlining guidance for practitioners. Professor Shapland was invited to join the Ministry of Justice Steering Group, advising the government on restorative justice policies and the research formed the basis of a BBC Panorama programme in 2011. Consequently, Professor Shapland was honoured with the prestigious British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award in 2013. : j.m.shapland@sheffield.ac.uk
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Sheffield Institute for International Development SETTING THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Understanding the challenges of global development is increasingly important in our interconnected world. The Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) promotes a vision of international development as a struggle for social justice and a space for activism and engagement. Bringing together researchers, partners, students and other stakeholders, SIID seeks to address some of the major global challenges that face the contemporary world: sustainable growth, environmental crisis, liveable cities, global health, social inequalities in security, migration, human rights and democracy, and secure exit from economic crisis.
International Development in focus:
ID100
With the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals fast approaching, and a new post-2015 development agenda emerging, SIID’s ID100 project will identify the 100 most important questions in international development, establishing priorities for policy and research to tackle the world’s problems and helping to shape the post-2015 agenda. In July 2014, 30 experts from all over the world met in Sheffield to select 100 critical questions from over 700 questions, submitted from thirty-four countries. The workshop marked the culmination of a four-month global consultation with non-governmental organisations, academics, think tanks, international organisations and governmental agencies, wh¬ereby individuals, organisations and the general public were invited to contribute their most important questions for the development agenda. The final 100 questions were selected for their potential to contribute to frontier research, to address important knowledge gaps, as well as their potential to generate societal impacts and to contribute to policy development. : siid.group.shef.ac.uk : siidgroup@sheffield.ac.uk : @SIIDgroup
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Using innovative methodologies to explore what the digital world means to both individuals and society.
Digital Society. #digitalsociety
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Digital Society Network EMBRACING NEW METHODOLOGIES TO UNDERSTAND THE DIGITAL WORLD Ever evolving technology has opened up new opportunities, rewritten social values and redrawn social boundaries. This unchartered territory brings possibilities but also potential problems and questions. The Digital Society Network (DSN) draws together an interdisciplinary team of academics engaged with research at the cutting-edge of society-technology interactions.. The DSN are pursuing new methodologies in social and computer sciences to study the digital world at all levels, from global debates and trends, to national and local practices and engagements. Underpinning the network is a concern not only with how societies and individuals use digital technologies, but also the social implications of an increasingly digitised world. The DSN launched by hosting an event for the House of Commons Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy. The two-part event invited people to contribute to current debates on how online technologies could be used to re-engage citizens with politics, law-making and Parliament. Speakers included members of the Commission, Natalie Bennett (Leader of the Green Party), Michael White (Assistant Editor of The Guardian) and speakers from the Democratic Society, Russell Group Universities and Sheffield Students’ Union. Responses and opinions were gathered through a variety of different mediums such as a question and answer session, an interactive activity, a video diary room and Twitter. Provocations by the speakers feature in the final Commission report. : sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digital-society-network : digitalsociety@sheffield.ac.uk
Digital world in focus:
A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS Images have a depth and density that words often lack
There is no denying social media has transformed the face of social interaction. Coupled with the wide-spread use of tablets and smart phones, interaction is instant and goes beyond conventional communication boundaries. One important recent social media trend is the rise of platforms and apps that centre on the use of images. People now share 750 million images on social media every day. So far, the role of the visual in effecting these transformations has been neglected compared to other forms of data. As a specific form of big data, images have a depth and density that words often lack and can tell us much more than short, verbal format of most status updates. This opens up the possibility for a much deeper and richer understanding of this naturally occurring data and their social context.
An innovative project, as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Transformative Research Scheme, led by Faculty Research Fellow Dr Farida Vis, is focusing exclusively on the explosion of images now shared across different social media platforms and apps. The key aim of the project, funded by the ESRC, is to use insight from both academia and industry to build a free research tool for the academic community. The Visual Social Media Lab brings together an interdisciplinary team from four universities and industry with expertise in: Media and Communication Studies, Visual Culture, Software Studies and Sociology, and Computer and Information Science. : visualsocialmedialab.blogspot.co.uk : f.vis@sheffield.ac.uk : @VisSocMedLab
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HOW DO PEOPLE ENGAGE WITH BIG DATA VISUALISATIONS? Big data sets are increasingly ubiquitous and are assumed to have the power to explain our social world. The main way that people get access to big data is through visualisations, which, like the data on which they are based, are widely circulated, online, in the mainstream media, and elsewhere. Yet despite our increasing exposure to visualisations and dependence on them as conduits of information, little is known about how they get received and what skills and literacies are needed in order to make sense of them and so engage with data that is increasingly used to represent and shape society. ‘Seeing Data: are good big data visualisations possible?’ explores the reception of big data visualisations. The project uses social semiotic analysis, expert interviews, diary-keeping and focus group methods to investigate engagement with data visualisations, with a particular focus on the contentious social issue of migration. The Seeing Data team is led by Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, and includes co-investigators from the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford and visualisingdata.com. : seeingdata.org : h.kennedy@sheffield.ac.uk : @seeing_data
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Digital world in focus:
MAKING SENSE OF BIG DATA With increasing amounts of freely available and re-usable data, there is a global demand for understanding and using this data from organisations across a wide range of sectors and industries. Dr Jo Bates is leading an exciting project to develop an innovative understanding of big data production and use – with weather data in the spotlight. The research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), traces the metaphorical journey of a single weather datum from its production and collation into big datasets, to its distribution and re-use in different contexts. The findings will be presented online via a novel interactive map visualisation that allows users to explore the secret life of the weather datum as it travels through these different spaces. The project will deepen our understanding of how socio-cultural values and practices shape the production, flow and use of big data. : jo.bates@sheffield.ac.uk
People online in focus:
UNDERSTANDING TRUST & EMPATHY There are many studies that have endeavoured to understand empathy and trust in social situations, but we know little about how trust and empathy manifest themselves online and how they shape online communities. Vulnerable people affected by crises such as natural disasters and terminal diseases may seek support online that could make the difference between life and death. Empathy and trust are crucial in these situations and Professor Peter Bath (Information School) is leading research to investigate how they develop online in such circumstances. The research, which has potential to transform how resources and aid are distributed both locally and globally, brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds: sociology, international relations, computer sciences, health informatics, philosophy, media studies and bioethics. Birmingham, Kent, Nottingham, King’s College London and Edinburgh are also involved with the £1.1million ESRC project. : p.a.bath@sheffield.ac.uk
Jenny Roberts, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Economic Analysis of Decision Making (InstEAD), is part of an innovative research project seeking to unlock online empathy. Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy (CEDE), a project led by the University of Sheffield, aims to improve quality of life by reducing isolation across communities, groups and individuals by creating and enabling a new dimension and expression of digital personhood – digital empathy. A two-year Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project funded to the value of £761,000, the project brings together expertise in data analysis, design, human computer interaction and economic philosophy. : j.r.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk
Photo credit: Met Office, UK
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Developing innovative methods to answer the big questions.
Innovative Methods & Training. #innovativemethods
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Driving innovation through co-production Working with partners and groups beyond academia can generate fresh insights and ideas to tackle the major societal challenges. Right across the research spectrum, we are at the forefront of coproduced knowledge, but we also have dedicated research centres that specialise in building partnerships across and beyond academia.
Research Exchange for the Social Sciences WORKING BEYOND THE ACADEMY Involving key stakeholders in the research process can improve the validity, scope and reach of the research. The Research Exchange for the Social Sciences (RESS) is the Knowledge Exchange Gateway for the Faculty and helps to foster new partnerships between our world class researchers and other key stakeholders to help achieve research-informed, strategic change across society. RESS plays a central role in driving innovative ways to collaborate with private, public an third sector organisations. It helps to foster relationships that underpin collaborative ethnographic research, practice-based research, action research, interpretative policy analysis and other innovative methods of co-production. : sheffield.ac.uk/ress : ress@sheffield.ac.uk : @uos_ress
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Coproduction in focus:
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESEARCH Our academics are showing how co-produced research is particularly useful and appropriate for understanding communities. If communities are included in the design, methods and evaluation of research, it allows for the collection of richer research with deeper impact. Professor Kate Pahl, (School of Education) is the Principal Investigator on ‘Imagine Communities’, a five-year funded project. The project seeks to explore the changing nature of communities and community values over time. At the heart of the programme is a vision to connect communities with research. Engagement with communities at all stages of the research places collaborative research methods in a central role to widen the ways community partners and universities can work together. The project is a collaboration with Universities of Brighton, Durham and Huddersfield, as well as over 30 community organisations and many international partners. Working with community groups united by the creative arts and media, outdoor activities, childcare and more, the project allows for previously marginalised voices to be heard. : imaginecommunity.org.uk : k.pahl@sheffield.ac.uk : @imagine_connect
Sir Bernard Crick Centre PROMOTING ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP It is widely acknowledged that in recent times, a gap has emerged between politicians and the public. In the UK, voter turnout is low and scandals reported in the media have led to a public lack of trust in politicians and political parties. The Crick Centre, led by Professor Matthew Flinders, seeks to close the gap that has emerged not just between politicians and the public but also between academe and society more broadly. The centre, named after Professor Sir Bernard Crick (founding Professor of our Department of Politics, and a leading advocate for a distinctive model of ‘engaged’ scholarship), seeks to understand and promote political engagement in a manner that cultivates debate and encourages engaged citizenship around the world. Using a plethora of mediums to reach different groups, The Crick Centre is bridging the gap between politics ‘as theory’ and politics ‘as practice’. Through specialised training, co-production, public engagement and the use of arts-based methodologies the Crick Centre leads a range of projects around five central themes: • youth, politics and citizenship; • media, science and technological change; • art, politics and expression; • participation, protest and transformation; • political institutions and democratic reform These interconnected strands are held together through a common focus of understanding the challenges and opportunities for enhancing democracy and citizenship in the twenty-first century. : crickcentre.org : crick@sheffield.ac.uk : @CrickCentre
Engagement with politics in focus:
PROTEST INC. Mass protests have taken place since the global financial crisis of 2008. Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism (Polity, 2014) by Dr Genevieve LeBaron, Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Politics, and her collaborator Professor Peter Dauvergne, tells a story of corporatized global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are courting billionaire philanthropists and marketing and branding causes. This landmark book sounds the alarm about the dangers of this trend for the future of transformative change in global politics. as a result and the book is expected to be made in to a documentary film. : g.lebaron@sheffield.ac.uk
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The Faculty of Social Sciences has developed a reputation nationally and internationally for its excellent research training. We have received investments from major funding bodies to develop a training pipeline that supports students at every level, from our bespoke undergraduate Q-Step Quantitative Methods programme funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), to world-class advanced postgraduate research training delivered by the Sheffield-led ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre.
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MAKING SOCIETY COUNT Climate change, energy and the environment, poverty and inequality, conflict and social division— the big problems facing society transcend academic boundaries. Furthermore, a capacity to understand and utilise the analytical potential of ‘big data’ is ever-more important as we try to understand the consequences of social and economic change. By facilitating interdisciplinary programmes on substantive issues and harnessing new types of analysis and data – the SMI, directed by Professor Gwilym Pryce, is closing the gap between methodological research and policy. Drawing together expertise from across the Faculty, the SMI encourages methodologically sophisticated, cross-discipline examination of the big issues, drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Methods in focus:
PRODUCING SKILLED GRADUATES The UK has a nationally-recognised shortage of social science graduates with strong quantitative skills, and the number of academics well-versed in quantitative research methods is in decline. This is a problem that funders, government and other stakeholders beyond academia are keen to address. We are leading the efforts to tackle this. The SMI promotes the take-up of world-class research methods in social science, through the development of new methods, training and applied research. Q-Step is a £19.5million national programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training. Sheffield is one of fifteen universities funded by the Nuffield Foundation, ESRC and HEFCE, to support the development and delivery of high-level quantitative and qualitative methods training for undergraduate and postgraduate taught interdisciplinary programmes in the social sciences. Students are part of innovative, interdisciplinary research projects that use sophisticated methods to examine the big issues. At the heart of the Q-Step centre activities, students discover what it means to be a social scientist through a range of projects such as the Achieve More: State of Sheffield programme. With opportunities in enterprise, work based placements and voluntary work, students will work across disciplines developing potential solutions to some of the biggest global challenges facing society today. : sheffield.ac.uk/smi : smi@sheffield.ac.uk : @shefmethods
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White Rose Doctoral Training Centre DEVELOPING FUTURE RESEARCH LEADERS The ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre (WRDTC) is home to national excellence for training in co-production, big data analysis and advanced quantitative and qualitative methods. Providing postgraduate social scientists with training opportunities, the WRDTC equips doctorates to go on to rewarding careers and meet the demands of future global challenges, whether working within academic, industry, government or other sectors. The WRDTC operates as a consortium between the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York, led by the University of Sheffield and headed up by Martin Jones (Professor of Geography at Sheffield). : sheffield.ac.uk/social-sciences-dtc : enquiries@wrdtc.ac.uk
Research with impact:
PUTTING FOOD BANKS ON THE POLICY AGENDA With rising inequality in Britain, food banks and other forms of emergency food provision are a rapidly growing phenomenon in the UK. The first rigorous appraisal of food poverty and provision in the UK has been produced at Sheffield, by Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford, now a Research Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). As a PhD student in the Faculty, and one of the first cohorts to be part of our Doctoral Training Centre, her doctoral research provided policymakers, the charitable sector and media with thought-provoking evidence to inform the food poverty debate. Working with churches and third sector organisations in the UK including Trussell Foodbank Network and FareShare, she has brought to light the underlying causes of food poverty. Lambie-Mumford co-authored the research report ‘Household food security in the UK: a review of food aid’ (February 2014), commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Her research findings were used in the flagship report Walking the Breadline from Church Action on Poverty (CAP) and Oxfam May 2013, and helped to shape the terms of reference for the April 2014 all-party parliamentary inquiry into hunger and food poverty. The research was featured in national media such as The Guardian newspaper, and research evidence was given to Public Health Wales, NHS, the London Assembly’s Health and Environment Committee, and Sheffield City Council’s Public Health team. She was appointed to the advisory boards of charities including Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group’s (CPAG), and as a Registered Specialist in food and poverty at the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The impact of Dr Lambie-Mumford’s research was nationally recognised for the huge societal difference that it has made by the funding body ESRC, who awarded Dr Lambie-Mumford with the Early Career Impact prize in 2014. : h.lambie-mumford@sheffield.ac.uk
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Working with industry:
CHILDREN’S ENGAGEMENT WITH TV AND RELATED MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE Watching programmes on television, and now online on smartphones and tablets, is still one of the main leisure activities of young children. Nevertheless, we actually have little evidence about how young children engage with television in the digital age and how their television viewing relates to other aspects of their media lives. Fiona Scott, is currently working on an industry collaboration PhD project with CBeebies. Scott’s research aims to understand how 3-6 year olds engage with television and other forms of digital media in their homes every day, merging a critical psychological approach with an awareness of wider developments in cultural and media studies. In particular, the study will seek to better understand the television viewing patterns of this age group, the relationship between their television viewing and engagement with other media, and the transitions in their programme and channel choices over time and at key life points. It will also consider the digital media experiences of children living in deprived communities in the UK, an area of research which is currently underexplored. The research results will have implications for CBeebies' programme development, the children’s media industry, parents and early years educators. : flscott1@sheffield.ac.uk
Working with international partners:
PASTORAL FOOD SECURITY IN EASTERN AFRICA Raising livestock in Eastern Africa is a vital economic platform for development but challenges to the sustainability of this livelihood exist. With rising populations and shifts from subsistence to market economy practices there is increasing pressure on the region’s food production systems. As a result, Eastern Africa is seeing significant disruption to intricate environmental, economic, religious, legal, political and cultural relationships with its land. Understanding these relationships and the challenges and opportunities facing agricultural and livestock farmers will be vital to addressing concerns of rangeland governance, resilience to future disasters and challenges of global food insecurity.
Chris Flower is carrying out collaborative field research in Kenya and Ethiopia, to evaluate how shifts in livelihood affect farming societies in Eastern Africa. Flower is working in close collaboration with the International Land Coalition (ILC) − a global alliance of civil society and farmers’ organizations, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organisations and research institutes, based within the United Nations in Rome. The project sits within the ILC’s Rangelands Governance Initiative (RGI), a collaborative learning and action programme made up of a ‘community of practice’ of practitioners, researchers, community representatives, and government officials who all hold a common interest in developing effective and innovative solutions for securing the rights of rangeland users. : chris.flower@sheffield.ac.uk
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Contacts. Research institutes Centre for Criminological Research Bartolomé House The University of Sheffield Winter Street Sheffield, S3 7ND : sheffield.ac.uk/law/research/clusters/ccr : criminology@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6859 Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth ICOSS, 219 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : sheffield.ac.uk/cscy : d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6069 : @cscyshefuni Digital Society Network : sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digitalsociety-network : digitalsociety@Sheffield.ac.uk iHuman : sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/ihuman : ihuman@Sheffield.ac.uk Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision Making The University of Sheffield 9 Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 4DT : instead.group.shef.ac.uk : instead@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 3315 : @insteadsheff Sheffield Institute for International Development ICOSS, 219 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : siid.group.shef.ac.uk : siidgroup@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6282 : @SIIDgroup
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Sheffield Methods Institute University of Sheffield ICOSS, 219 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : sheffield.ac.uk/smi : smi@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 8345 : @shefmethods : /shefmethods Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ICOSS, 219 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : sheffield.ac.uk/speri : speri@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 8346 : @sperishefuni : /sperishefuni Sir Bernard Crick Centre University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU : crickcentre.org : crick@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 1681 : @CrickCentre Urban Institute ICOSS, 219 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : sheffield.ac.uk/urbaninstitute : urbaninstitute@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6925
Academic departments School of Architecture The University of Sheffield Arts Tower, Western Bank Sheffield, S10 2TN : sheffield.ac.uk/architecture : ssoa@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 22 20399 : @SSoA_news The School of East Asian Studies The University of Sheffield Shearwood Road Sheffield, S10 2TD : .sheffield.ac.uk/seas : seas@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 8400 : @shefuniSEAS : /EastAsiaSheffield Department of Economics The University of Sheffield 9 Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 4DT : .sheffield.ac.uk/economics : econ@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 5151 : @Sheffeconomics : /SheffieldEconomics School of Education The University of Sheffield 388 Glossop Road Sheffield, S10 2JA : .sheffield.ac.uk/education : edu-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 8177 : @EducationSheff : /tuosSOE Department of Geography The University of Sheffield Sheffield, S10 2TN : .sheffield.ac.uk/geography : Geography@Sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 7900 : @geographylives : /sheffieldgeography
Information School The University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP : .sheffield.ac.uk/is : is@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 22 22662 : @InfoSchoolSheff : /ischoolsheffield Department of Journalism Studies University of Sheffield 9 Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 4DT : .sheffield.ac.uk/journalism : journalism@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 2500 : @sheffjournalism : /SheffieldJournalism Department of Landscape University of Sheffield Floor 13, The Arts Tower, Western Bank Sheffield, S10 2TN : .sheffield.ac.uk/landscape : landscape@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 2220600 : @LandscapeSheff School of Law Bartolomé House The University of Sheffield Winter Street Sheffield, S3 7ND : .sheffield.ac.uk/law : law@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6771 : @lawsheffield : /sheffieldlawschool
Management School Sheffield University Management School Conduit Road Sheffield, S10 1FL : .sheffield.ac.uk/management : mgt.reception@sheffield.ac.uk : 0114 222 3232 : @UoS_Management :/sheffielduniversity managementschool Department of Politics University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU : .sheffield.ac.uk/politics : politics@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 1700 : @Shefunipoltics Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield Department of Sociological Studies Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU : .sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies : sociological.studies@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6400 : @SocStudiesShef : /SociologicalStudiesSheffield Department of Urban Studies and Planning University of Sheffield, Western Bank Sheffield, S10 2TN : .sheffield.ac.uk/trp : planning@sheffield.ac.uk : +44 (0)114 222 6900 : @tuosTRP : /tuosTRP
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