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Roots and Futures
13 May 2022

Celebrating how our research changes lives

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31 March 2022

A summer of Sheffield heritage, designed by you

Residents of Sheffield have the opportunity to shape a summer of heritage decision-making in the city thanks to a new project at the University of Sheffield.

Dr Efthymia Nikita
8 March 2022

Dr Efthymia Nikita is awarded the Dan David Prize 2022

We are delighted and proud to announce that Dr Efthymia Nikita, a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in Archaeology at Sheffield, is among the first cohort of winners of the new Dan David Prize 2022 - the "world's largest history prize".
A close up of hands using a trowel to uncover soil at a dig site.
3 March 2022

Searching for evidence of 'witchcraft links' at Creswell Crags

Archaeologists from the Department of Archaeology joined the BBC Digging for Britain team to understand the lives of people who occupied a village near the famous caves.
An ariel view of Sheffield
An ariel view of Sheffield
21 February 2022

AHRC Funding award for Sheffield heritage project

Dr Elizabeth Craig-Atkins has been awarded funding from the AHRC for a project focusing on enabling, empowering, and embedding the voices of diverse communities more explicitly in Sheffield’s current heritage stratagy.
Decorated Lion Dagger

Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places

For the last few decades more and more lion bones have been dug up in Greece. Read more in this article which features Emeritus Professor Paul Halstead.

12 January 2022 | Published by The Atlantic
A jawbone from a medieval-era horse (University of Exeter/PA)

Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, research finds

Academics from our Department have worked with researchers at the University of Exeter and others to uncover that medieval warhorses were really small by today's standards - so small, in fact, that they would be classed as ponies instead of horses!

12 January 2022 | Published by the Independent
Umberto Albarella

Umberto Albarella awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

It is with great joy that we announce that Umberto Albarella has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which will give Umberto three years of research leave to dedicate to his new project: ‘A History of Britain in 50 Animals’.

21 December 2021
Roman Bust

Unearthing Roman busts from Stoke Mandeville

Our Teaching Associate in Roman Archaeology Dr Penny Coombe contributed to Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Friday morning, on the amazing new finds of Roman busts from Stoke Mandeville, unearthed in the course of the HS2 excavations.

9 November 2021 | Published by bbc.co.uk
Jessop West building

University of Sheffield ranked among world’s best for arts and humanities

The University of Sheffield has been ranked 62nd out of more than 500 universities worldwide, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2020.

3 November 2021