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KE Awards 2025

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced

The СŷÊÓƵ's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards honoured colleagues for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations with partners at local, national and international levels.
Winning student team with certificates

Engineering student team wins People’s Prize in global design competition

Two student teams from the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield's Global Engineering Challenge (GEC) programme represented the faculty at the Engineering for People Design Challenge 2024/25.
Digital generated image of H2 hydrogen molecule made out of liquid on green background.

Great British Chemicals to turn industrial waste into world-first green chemistry

A major research centre that is set to position the UK as a global leader in clean technology, is being launched by the universities of Sheffield, Newcastle and Nottingham.
Students from Project SunRide stood with a representative from their sponsor - Labman Automation
Students from Project Sunride who are representing the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield in Race2Space, with their sponsor Labman Automation. Credit: Project Sunride.

UK’s future space scientists take off in world’s largest rocket firing competition finale

Some of the UK’s brightest young engineers have gathered at the historic site of Britain’s Cold War rocket programme for the climax of the world’s biggest student rocket firing competition (25 June - 11 July).
A delivery truck with ligh trails

Hidden cost of transport infrastructure revealed by new study

New research shows that transport’s carbon problem stems not only from tailpipe emissions but also from the construction, maintenance and operation of roads and railways themselves.
The outside of Bath Abbey on a warm summer's day

Historic buildings could be protected from rising energy bills by solar panels

Solar panels could be used to help protect key historic buildings from the rising cost of energy bills whilst also reducing their carbon footprint, according to a new study by researchers at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield.
Damaged buildings in a coastal region of East Japan following a tsunami

Fukushima simulant material to provide major boost to cleanup effort

A new simulation of the most dangerous radioactive debris remaining at the Fukushima nuclear power plant that could provide a huge boost to the cleanup operation, has been developed by researchers at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield.
A mixture of magnetic and acoustic waves inside a spot on the Sun

Sunspot three times the size of Earth provides a major advance in stellar physics

A major new breakthrough that could help scientists more accurately understand the effect of magnetic fields on the oscillations of stars, has been made by researchers at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield.

Dr Candice Majewski

Academic short-listed for 3D Printing Innovator Award

Dr Candice Majewski, a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, has been nominated by her peers in the 3D printing community for this year’s TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator Award.