This is the future

Our pioneering and innovative research is making a real-world impact on some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. This is the future. And it will be Sheffield made.

Powering tomorrow's electric vehicles

Our Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is partnering with The Ultimate Battery Company to create lighter, higher capacity, faster-charging and more eco-friendly batteries.

Creating eco-friendly batteries

Rock: a weapon against climate change

We have discovered that adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets.

The unexpected power of rock dust

Propelling aviation to Jet Zero

We're bringing our world-leading innovation and research together with industry powerhouses to create technologies for sustainable fuels, lighter aeroplanes and new propulsion systems.

Our mission to revolutionise air travel

Unravelling the causes of neurodegenerative conditions

Our researchers are pioneering advanced therapeutics to combat devastating neurodegenerative diseases, with the potential to transform millions of lives.

Reducing disability and giving hope to patients

Transforming the experience of ageing

Our Healthy Lifespan Institute is the UK’s first research institute entirely dedicated to the understanding and prevention of age-related disease, multimorbidity and frailty.

Helping people live healthy, independent lives for longer

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Feeding the world with climate-ready crops

The University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food finds dynamic solutions to the challenges of food security and sustainability. The interdisciplinary team is developing ways to feed the world using less water.

Facing the future's food supply challenges

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Mapping food insecurity in the UK

For the first time, the extent of food insecurity in the UK has been mapped at a Local Authority level by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

Finding solutions to food insecurity in the UK

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Decarbonising industry

The clock is ticking for making net-zero a reality for industry. Our national scale R&D facilities bring low carbon energy technology to market quicker; decarbonising industrial processes, whilst retaining jobs.

Supporting industry to reach net-zero

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