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Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social Sciences has a long-established reputation for producing world-leading research (REF 2014). We tackle the greatest challenges of our time and work to implement solutions.

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The shift to home working during Covid-19 threatens the survival of local goods and services
The shift to home working during Covid-19 threatens the survival of local goods and services
15 January 2021

Will Covid-19 kill the high street once and for all?

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only drastically changed how we live, but also how we work, and this could have long term consequences for the future of our cities, say academics from the University of Sheffield.
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13 January 2021

Melting icebergs key to sequence of an ice age, scientists find

Melting icebergs in the Antarctic are key to triggering a series of chain reactions that plunges Earth into a prolonged period of cold temperatures.
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16 December 2020

10 ways our research has helped to understand the impacts of covid-19 in 2020

Researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences have been working tirelessly to understand how Covid-19 has impacted on people, policy and planet, since the pandemic hit in early 2020.

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11 December 2020

Is learning more accessible now we’re living online?

The arrival of the covid-19 pandemic at the start of 2020 forced the world into a new way of life. For many of us in the Western world, we’re spending even more time online. But how does education come into that?

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