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8 September 2019

Secret telling apps: Is anonymity liberating or a danger to young people?

While parents, teachers and regulatory bodies focus on the safety of social media giants like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, there’s a host of new, trendy anonymous apps stealing young people’s attention, and they’re going under the radar.
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8 September 2021

Rapid response: Government plans to nationalise water fluoridation in effort to improve dental health

Dr Gary Lowery has publish a Rapid Response to the government’s plans to fluoridate water across the nation in an effort to improve dental health.

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5 August 2021

Young people desperate for gender education in schools

While culture may suggest that Gen Z are clued up when it comes to sex and gender, new research shows that young people are desperate for further education, and they want schools to take the lead. 
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21 July 2021

Climate urbanism researcher honored with award for outstanding contributions to climate science

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, from the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, has received an AXA Award for her outstanding contribution to climate science. The Award is endowed with €50,000.
Voices of the Future: Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine Treescapes

Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes

A research project that aims to explore how young people perceive and connect with treescapes – involving Department of Landscape Architecture academics – has been announced in the first set of Future UK Treescapes projects.

9 August 2021
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Multilingual Streets: Translating and Curating the Linguistic Landscape

We’re now in the final stages of the linguistic landscapes-focused research project, Multilingual Streets: Translating and Curating the Linguistic Landscape, which explored how people experience languages in public space in their everyday lives.

28 July 2021
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Investigating the impact of social frontiers on the lives of migrants

Gwilym Pryce, Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics at the Sheffield Methods Institute, is leading a project to investigate whether migrants really have the opportunities and resources to feel part of wider society.

28 July 2021
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New map shows where millions of UK residents struggle to access food

In one out of every six local authorities, rates of hunger are more than 150 per cent the national average. Shockingly, in one in 10 local authorities, the rate is almost double, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.

22 July 2021
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From daily actions to big changes: responding to climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation

According to Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, from the Urban Institute, attaining low carbon cities depends on mundane actions; the kind of small shifts in everyday life whereby citizens themselves become the agents of change.

15 July 2021