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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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Kenyan film Supa Modo, follows nine-year-old Jo after being diagnosed with a terminal illness
18 December 2020

Girls on film: a playlist for our times this Christmas

Dr Becky Parry, Programme Director of the new MA Digital Literacies, Culture and Education at the School of Education, shares recommendations for children’s films with a unique female perspective to watch over the Christmas holidays.
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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?
Icebergs
26 November 2020

Melting icebergs affect oceanic heat delivery towards major glacier

Icebergs are a crucial factor affecting how much heat the ocean delivers towards a major Greenland glacier, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and University of St Andrews.
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Research from the University of Sheffield shows how ways of working during the pandemic offer a new blueprint for social action

Covid-19 has enabled the kinds of collaborative and community-based working that can offer a new blueprint for social action, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.

7 December 2020
Small house with solar panel in East Africa

Sheffield academics awarded large grant to help develop and enhance access to renewable energy in East Africa.

Sheffield academics awarded £1.3 million in UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund to accelerate clean energy transitions in low and middle income countries.

20 November 2020
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Caring for our carers: report calls for investment in digital tech to support unpaid carers in lockdown

A new report launched this week urges local authorities to invest in digital technology to support unpaid carers during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

10 November 2020
Timber logs

The fight against deforestation in Europe

Over recent years, Romania has frequently made headlines as a country where illegal logging seems an out of control violent business.

9 November 2020
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Collaborative research with the Faculty of Social Sciences

Working collaboratively across the University, our researchers in the Faculty of Social Sciences help to tackle the biggest world challenges and toughest debates of our time.

9 November 2020