Your Learning

We include many opportunities for students to learn through active and applied learning. Sheffield students become very skilled in contributing to group work and this skill is valued greatly by employers. Exchange of ideas in group work informs students’ development of their own personal agendas.

Examples of these projects include the Level 1 Matter-reality project; peer reviews; Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer projects – many of which have been developed with recent graduates or Postgraduate students.

We believe that engaging with others and with communities outside the University is important. Many of our courses include projects and opportunities that encourage engagement with other groups. Sheffield is well known for its 'Live Projects' programmes where students work on real projects to lend their expertise to local communities.

Engagement within and outside our community of learning is central to our ethos. Examples include peer-reviews, peer-mentoring; outreach activities; volunteering.

We encourage you to be reflective about your own education. This helps you to gain a balanced perspective on your learning and development and helps you to plan your own learning agendas.

Examples of how we help you to form a framework for reflection include: Reflections on Architectural Education module; Reflections on Live Projects as part of Management; peer reviews; feedback in its many manifestations.

Student-led activities populate the academic year and are of great value in developing students’ resourcefulness, initiative and confidence.

Examples of student-led activities include ‘lunchtime specials’ series of skill-based workshops; whole school events; postgraduate society; lines of flight research group.

Your own development and growing knowledge is a form of transformation. At Sheffield we also have groups who try to influence the transformation of outside institutions and communities.

Examples of this include the Agency Research group whose research and writing seeks to question and challenge assumptions about the production of architectural space; live projects that seek to contribute to the transformation of local community groups.