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The latest news about research, events, staff and students from the Sheffield Methods Institute.
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Towards joyful ways of learning

Dr Lauren White, along with colleagues from the SMI, Library and SU are working on a project to consider how the process of creative learning can be a joyful & transformative educational experience. Read Lauren's reflective blog on joyful learning.
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Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) with Disabled Young People (DYP)

‘Reimagining TAS with DYP has been an interdisciplinary and collaborative project using methods of co-production and makerspaces (collaborative workspaces for making, learning, exploring and sharing) to explore TAS.
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"Don't let the fear of reading control you" New podcast about student experiences of academic reading in Higher Education.

Academic reading is key skill in Higher Education (HE) & a fundamental part of most degree programmes - Despite this little is known about how students experience reading & what educators can do to support students with the reading they assign.
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Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference

In June we hosted Project TIER as part of the UKRN’s Open Research Training Programme. TIER’s Norm Medeiros & Richard Ball led 3 days of activities around incorporating reproducible methods in teaching reproducible research.
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What creativity and joyfulness means to us as educators! 

Dr Lauren White & Dr Will Mason along with Dr Vicky Grant (Library) and colleagues from the Student Union are launching a new project to consider how the process of creative learning can be a joyful and transformative educational experience.

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Lowering voting age boosts long-term participation in elections

Young people given the vote from age 16 in Scotland are not only more likely to continue voting as they get older, but do so in higher numbers, a new study shows.
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Audience Diversification in the Arts, working with Deakin University, Australia

Dr Mark Taylor has been working with Deakin University - Melbourne, with their initiative to help arts and cultural organisations diversify their audiences.
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“Fighting the academic machine”: using illustration to depict student reading experiences.

Dr Will Mason (SMI) & Dr Meesha Warmington (School of Education) investigated student reading experiences in HE. In this blog, Will and Meesha unpack the results of the study, introducing 4 illustration by Harry Venning.
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Evaluating the Transformation of Mental Health in Sheffield

Dr Abigail Tazzyman, in partnership with Professor Damian Hodgson from Sheffield University Management School, have worked with healthcare and voluntary sector partners to learn lessons on transforming mental health services.