News News stories The latest news about research, events, staff and students from the Sheffield Methods Institute. 31 January 2024 Our research has real world impact! Here at the SMI we use research to tackle the BIG social science challenges - from understanding food poverty to the impact of lowering the voting age. 5 December 2023 Blurring The Edges - Using Research & Creativity to Bring Communities Together A new film documenting the impact of an on-going research project which highlights how a creative response to research has helped bring people together, changing perceptions and started new initiatives in Rotherham. Search "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. 6 July 2023 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. 27 June 2023 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. 19 April 2023 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. 16 January 2023 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. 16 December 2022 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page Next › Last page Last »