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24 June 2020

One in four working carers considering quitting their job, research shows

University of Sheffield study reveals an estimated 1.6 million working carers in England and Wales are struggling to combine caring responsibilities with their jobs - with women worst affected.

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24 June 2020

Shaping the cities of tomorrow in the wake of covid-19

Has the scale and severity of global pandemic COVID-19 changed the perspective of what urban development and an ‘urban future’ might look like?
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22 June 2020

The Lovebug Effect: How spending timing in nature could change our bodies and influence our decisions to spend more time outdoors.

PhD student Jake Robinson, from the Department of Landscape Architecture, suggests that invisible biodiversity (i.e. microbiota) within and around us, could influence our desire to affiliate with natural environments.

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22 June 2020

Boosting productivity and wellbeing in the UK workplace

Researchers at the University of Sheffield, along with six further institutions in the UK, have contributed to a new initiative to help boost productivity and wellbeing through supporting the growth of better management practices in the UK.
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Repurposing ‘the corporation’ for a more resilient economy

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed weaknesses within large, well-established companies. But are those weaknesses caused by the pandemic, or are they the consequence of excesses in the non-financial (or non-banking) corporate sector post-2008?

2 July 2020
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Red tape and digital divide threaten success of post-Brexit sustainable farming incentives, research shows

‘Digital divide’, scheme complexity and social isolation make some farmers less likely to contribute to the design and delivery of a ‘public money for public goods’ scheme.

23 June 2020
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A new resource for behavioural science - developing tools for understanding the relationship between behaviours

A team led by Professor Thomas Webb at the University of Sheffield’s Healthy Lifespan Institute and the Department of Psychology has been awarded £435k from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

17 June 2020
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A worrying picture: unpaid carers face intolerable pressures during pandemic

Research from the Sustainable Care programme at The University of Sheffield, along with the University of Birmingham, has revealed that unpaid carers are twice as likely to have used a food bank during the pandemic. 

17 June 2020
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Nurseries forced to support families in poverty through coronavirus crisis, research shows

New research from The School of Education and Early Education has found that nursery staff are having to provide food and help families with benefit claims as the coronavirus pandemic impacts parents with young children.

12 June 2020
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Fit for the future: creating stronger research leadership in Social Sciences

Professor Matthew Flinders, from the University’s Department of Politics and International Relations has released a National Review on research leadership in partnership with UKRI.

10 June 2020
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Researchers seek to improve deployment of volunteers after pandemic

Team led by University of Sheffield to investigate how volunteers have supported communities during Covid-19 pandemic

5 June 2020
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Brexit, health & me: Educating young people on the links between politics and healthcare

Academics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Law have teamed up with Shout Out UK to produce a documentary exploring the perspectives, hopes and expectations for health and the NHS in the aftermath of Brexit.

4 June 2020
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Media making progress on complaints and corrections, Sheffield study finds

Marked improvement under IPSO but researcher warns "more needs to be done"

2 June 2020
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Tracking Ourselves? Launch of Interactive Web Tool ‘House of Tracking’

Researchers at the Department of Sociological Studies and the Universities of Sussex and Brighton have launched the ‘House of Tracking’, an interactive web tool that showcases the empirical findings of the ‘Tracking Ourselves?' research project.

2 June 2020