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KE Awards 2025 winner

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced

The University's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards honoured colleagues for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations with partners at local, national and international levels.
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Professor Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize

Robertus has received their award for outstanding contributions to solar theory over the decades and innovative approaches and leadership for ground-based solar instrumentation with application to space weather.
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NERC celebrating the five year anniversary of its publicly-funded Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF)

NEOF is provided by the Universities of Liverpool and Sheffield, and like its predecessor NBAF, has been managed by the British Geological Survey (BGS).

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Why some women experience side effects while taking the pill

Researchers have identified a “nocebo effect” in relation to the contraceptive pill, where psychological factors such as negative expectations or anxiety about using a medicine drives a physical response in the body.
KE Awards 2025

Faculty of Science Postdoctoral Researcher Awards 2025

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year's Postdoctoral Researcher Awards that recognise outstanding contributions in the Faculty of Science.
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University of Sheffield leads £8 million study unlocking fungi's power for boosting food security and tackling climate change

A transformative £8 million project aims to revolutionise global food security and climate change strategies by uncovering the fundamental role of soil fungi.