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The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> or TUOS)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884.<ref name="MATHERS"/> The University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as the University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII.
Sheffield is formed from 50 academic departments which are organised into five faculties and an international faculty. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £887.9 million, of which £185.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £651.4 million.<ref name="Sheffield Financial Statement 23/24"/> Sheffield is regarded as one of the top engineering universities in Europe. As of the latest HESA statistics, it had the highest engineering research income and expenditure among all the universities in the UK for two consecutive years.<ref> https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/university-sheffield-leads-uk-engineering-research-income-and-investment</ref>
The university is one of the original red brick universities and a founding member of the Russell Group. It is also part of the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium. Sheffield has been ranked in between 66th and 105th best university in the world by QS for the last fifteen years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The THE ranked the university 22nd in Europe for teaching excellence in 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021, Sheffield is ranked 11th in the UK for research power calculated by multiplying the institution's GPA by the total number of full-time equivalent staff submitted.<ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
There are six Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield, as either the alumni or former long-term staff of the university.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They are contributors to the development of penicillin, the discovery of the citric acid cycle, the investigation of high-speed chemical reactions, the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA, the discovery of fullerene, and the development of molecular machines. Alumni also include several heads of state, Home Secretaries, Court of Appeal judges, Booker Prize winners, astronauts and Olympic gold medallists.
HistoryEdit
OriginsEdit
The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three local institutions: the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College, and the Sheffield Technical School. With a history dating back to as early as the 1810s, the Sheffield School of Medicine is the university's oldest predecessor institution, which is also the oldest higher education establishment in Sheffield. In 1795, the General Infirmary was opened, becoming the first hospital in the city. Because of the apprenticeship-type training, the medical education at that time was largely unstructured. Regarded as the father of Sheffield's medical education, surgeon apothecary Hall Overend began to train medical students in 1811.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> His school of anatomy and medicine was externally recognised in 1828,<ref name="Overend">Template:Cite ODNB</ref> and he conducted and taught human dissection in an anatomy museum at his home in Church Street. Overend, however, was not officially registered as a lecturer with the Society of Apothecaries, a recognised body for medical education.<ref name = "med history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Physicians and surgeons of the General Infirmary suggested that a school associated with the hospital would be highly eligible for recognition by the society. As a result, in 1828, a public meeting was called by physician Sir Arnold Knight, and supported by Overend, to establish a new medical school. The Sheffield Medical Institution was formally opened a year later in 1829 on Surrey Street, with the Latin motto Ars longa vita brevis (Art is long, life is short), which refers to the difficulty to acquire and practice the art of Medicine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Knight laid the foundation stone and delivered the opening lecture.<ref name = "Med Origins">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name = "med history"/>
The University Extension Movement emerged in the 1870s with the aim of providing education in the city which lacked any tertiary institutions.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During the period, the steel industry in Sheffield was prospering and the city's population was doubled to around 240,000 from the 1840s.<ref name="MATHERS"/> In 1871, the university extension scheme arrived in Sheffield, and a group of lecturers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge travelled to the city giving lectures and educating people about the benefits of tertiary education. Steel manufacturer and former mayor of Sheffield Mark Firth and clergyman Samuel Earnshaw therefore organised courses in English literature and political economy. The courses became popular so Firth decided to donate £20,000 and purchase a site in the city centre (now Leopold Street and West Street) in 1877 to build a new institution for the classes.<ref name="MATHERS"/> Firth College was founded during Firth's late year in 1879 and developed out of the Extension Movement scheme to teach arts and pure science subjects.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The college saved the medical school, which had an insecure early history, from collapse and took over the teaching of all background subjects to medical students.<ref name="Historical note">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1888 the medical school was relocated, opposite Firth College, to a new building on Leopold Street.<ref name = "Med Origins"/>
Firth College also helped to fund the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The Sheffield Technical School was created by collecting funds within Firth College because of local concern about the need for technical training, particularly steelmaking in Sheffield. Former mayor of Sheffield Sir Frederick Mappin started to fundraise for the school and £10,240 was raised.<ref name=Legacy>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A grant was secured in 1883 to fund a professor of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering.<ref name="MATHERS"/> Many of the steel-making firms in Sheffield contributed to funding the Technical School, and research from the school in turn helped develop new processes and products for the companies.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Technical School was originally founded as a new technical department in Firth College, and in 1886, the school moved to St George's Square (later renamed Charlotte Street and now Mappin Street) on the site of the old Grammar School.<ref name="Historical note"/> William Ripper was appointed as Head of Mechanical Engineering at Firth College from 1889, then Principal of Sheffield Technical School.
FoundationEdit
Sheffield was at that time the only large city in England without a university. William Mitchinson Hicks, who was Principal of Firth College from 1892 to 1897, had an ambition to establish a university in the city.<ref name="Hicks">Template:Cite journal</ref> As a first stage of his ideal, Hicks was devoted to the union of the three higher education institutions in Sheffield and to transform Firth College into a university college. He also extended the college by creating new departments and adding new buildings.<ref name="Hicks"/> In 1897, Firth College merged with the Medical School and the Technical School to form the University College of Sheffield, and Hicks served as its first principal.<ref name="MATHERS"/><ref name="Historical note"/> Six years since the foundation of the university college, on 18 May 1903, the resolution to apply for a royal charter was passed.<ref name="birthday">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university college started to develop its estate soon after: Western House by Weston Park on Western Bank was bought and demolished in 1903 for building a new university property.<ref name="birthday"/> A building with a traditional collegiate quadrangle (later known as Western Bank building and now Firth Court) was planned on the site.<ref name="birthday"/> Sir Frederick Mappin later successfully sought financial support from the Sheffield City Council and appealed for public donations.<ref name="birthday"/> In 1904, steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield donated over £50,000 via penny donations to help found the University of Sheffield.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web
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It was originally envisaged that the university college would join Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as the fourth member of the federal Victoria University. The new university was proposed to be named "Victoria University of Yorkshire" by Leeds<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> but was rejected by the Privy Council.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Victoria University, however, began to split up as independent universities before this could happen, when Liverpool gained a charter of its own in 1903. Rather than joining a Yorkshire university with Leeds, the University College of Sheffield was driven by civic pride to pursue independent university status,<ref name="birthday"/> to bring higher education, give support to industries and serve as a centre for disease study. Hicks also advocated the independent degree awarding power would attract talented staff.<ref name="MATHERS"/> The University College of Sheffield's charter was sealed on 31 May 1905 and became the University of Sheffield.<ref name="birthday"/> On 12 July 1905, Firth Court on Western Bank was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. St George's Square remained the centre of departments of Applied Science, and the departments of Arts, Medicine and Science moved to Western Bank.<ref name="Historical note"/> Sheffield is one of the six pre-World War One red brick universities, the civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England.
20th centuryEdit
In 1905, when the university first opened, there were 363 students<ref name ="tour">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and 114 of them were enrolled full-time.<ref name="Historical note"/> Sheffield at the time had 71 members of staff.<ref name ="tour"/> By then, the first Hall of Residence (Stephenson Hall) and library (Edgar Allen library) had been established. The number of students increased to a short-lived peak of 1,000 in 1919 when returning ex-servicemen were admitted to the university. During the First World War, some of the academic subjects and courses were replaced by teaching of munitions making and medical appliances production.<ref name="Historical note"/> The university has expanded since the 1920s from two ends on Western Bank and on the St George's site.<ref name=cmpart2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The number of full-time students was stabilized at about 750 between the two world wars.<ref name="Historical note"/> In 1943, the University Grants Committee announced that universities in the UK should look forward to expansion in the years after the Second World War.<ref name="CMp20">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sheffield predicted a 50% increase in student population but the university was unprepared for such growth. There was pressure on the university to expand since the student numbers had increased from around 1,000 to 3,000 by 1946.<ref name="CMp20"/> The university announced proposals for development in 1947, which emphasised the need for new departments, medical school, library, administration building, halls of residence, as well as the completion of the Western Bank quadrangle and the extension of the Students' Union.<ref name="CMp20"/>
The university then grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings (including the Main Library and the Arts Tower) were built and older houses were brought into academic use. Student numbers increased to their present levels of just under 26,000. At the same time in the 1950s, the university was expanding at other sites, including the St Georges area.<ref name=cmpart2/> From the 1960s, many more buildings have been constructed or extended, including the Union of Students and St George's Library. The campus master plan proposed in the 1940s was completed by the 1970s, and the university required a new development plan.<ref name="CM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The 1980s saw the opening of many new buildings and centres, such as the multi-purpose Octagon Centre and the Sir Henry Stephenson Building. The university's teaching hospital, Northern General Hospital, was also extended.<ref name="CMp20"/> In 1987 the university began to collaborate with its once would-be partners of the Victoria University by co-founding the Northern Consortium; a coalition for the education and recruitment of international students.<ref name="Historical note"/> The university continued to expand in the 1990s. New premises were opened for School of the Clinical Dentistry, the Division of Education, and the Management School.<ref name="CMp20"/> In 1995, the university took over the Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, forming a new School of Nursing and Midwifery. The St George's Hospital was extended and a new building at the Northern General Hospital has been constructed, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty.
Hans Adolf Krebs was appointed as lecturer in pharmacology in 1935. At Sheffield Krebs and his postgraduate student discovered the citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs cycle) in 1937,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> which earned him a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for 1953. In 1938, the university opened the Department of Biochemistry (renamed since the 1990s as the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) and Krebs became its first Head. Krebs Institute, a research centre for mechanistic biology, was founded in 1988 within the Department of Biochemistry. George Porter joined the university as Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1955 and he further developed his later Nobel Prize-winning work flash photolysis at Sheffield. Porter was appointed Firth Professor of Chemistry and became Head of the Department of Chemistry in 1963.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
21st centuryEdit
In the 21st century, the university opened many more major buildings in the area immediately to the east and west of Upper Hanover Street, such as the Jessop Building, the Soundhouse, Jessop West and the Information Commons. The Arts Tower building, the Students' Union and University House buildings, the Sheffield Bioincubator and University Health Centre were also refurbished. A new campus, North Campus, was opened.<ref name="Historical note"/> In 2003, a development framework was produced by Turnberry Consulting, with proposals aimed to densify the campus.<ref name = "main campus"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2005, the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority announced that it would split the training between Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University – however, the university decided to pull out of providing preregistration nursing and midwifery training due to "costs and operational difficulties".<ref name="guardian-nursing">Template:Cite news</ref> On 28 September 2015, a new six-storey building, the Diamond, was opened.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In February 2016, the university started to work with Sheffield City Council to transform public spaces around the campus.<ref name=transforming>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The £8 million project includes building and improving pedestrianisation, crossings, cycle routes, as well as greening the campus.<ref name=transforming/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university intended to expand the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and provision for apprenticeships; however, while the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership recommended that the £10 million funding bid should be approved, the university withdrew the bid in November 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The University Concourse was refurbished in 2019 to replace the 50-year-old paving and walls.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Major development projects in the 2020s include constructions of a new Information School building (Northumberland Road Building), Social Sciences Building, Royce Discovery Centre, energy centre (the Transformer), Translational Energy Research Centre, and redevelopment of the original Henderson's factory.<ref name=estate>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Campus and locationsEdit
The University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its 430 buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other.<ref name=estate/> It is divided geographically by the Sheffield Inner Ring Road.<ref name = "campus master plan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Upper Hanover Street section of the ring road splits university buildings into the Western Bank and the St George's campus areas.Template:Efn Instead of growing from a single centre, since receiving its royal charter, the university has expanded from two academic foci about 1 km apart: Firth Court on Western Bank and Sir Frederick Mappin Building on St George's. The two foci started to fuse in the 1960s, as more buildings have been constructed or acquired by the university. The completion of the Information Commons and Jessop West buildings, in the late 2000s, bridges both west (Western Bank) and east (St George's) campus,<ref name = "campus master plan"/> and in 2017, a new pedestrian crossing was installed on the Upper Hanover Street, physically connecting the two campus.<ref name = "campus master plan"/>
The university campus is composed of an eclectic range of buildings from Victorian style to modernism to contemporary. Sir Frederick Mappin Building and Central Block are two Victorian university buildings, now linked by a contemporary curved glass roof constructed in 2020. Opened as the Western Bank Building, Firth Court is a red brick Edwardian building in Perpendicular Revival style,<ref name="List Entry">Template:NHLE</ref> and is connected to the 1971 modernist Alfred Denny Building. The nearby Arts Tower is also an example of postwar modernist building in the International Style.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Diamond, a contemporary architecture designed by Twelve Architects, is situated next to the Victorian Jessop Building on the former site of Jessop's Edwardian wing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
A total of 36 university estate are listed.<ref name = "campus master plan"/> Of these, the Arts Tower and Western Bank Library are Grade II* listed buildings. Firth Court, Mappin Building, St George's Church, Jessop Building and the Drama Studio are listed Grade II.
Main (Western Bank) CampusEdit
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The centre of the university's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre, where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the university. This main campus area<ref name = "main campus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is bounded by Upper Hanover Street to the east, Glossop Road to the south, Clarkson Street to the west, and Bolsover Street to the north. Western Bank (A57) runs through the campus.<ref name = "campus master plan"/> The area to the north of Western Bank includes Firth Court, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank Library and Arts Tower, Geography and Planning building, Bartolomé House, and Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings. Within the southern area of the campus are the Sheffield Students' Union, the Octagon Centre, Graves Building and Hicks Building.<ref name="Campus map">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A concourse under the A57 flyover connects Alfred Denny Building on the north side and Students' Union on the south. Until the completion of three pedestrian crossings on Western Bank in 2017, the concourse underpass was the only link that allowed students to easily move between buildings in this cluster.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Information Commons, a library and computing centre opened in 2007, is also located at the Western Bank Campus on Leavygreave Road. In addition, throughout 2010 the Western Bank Library received a £3.3 million restoration and refurbishment, the University of Sheffield Union of Students underwent a £5 million rebuild, and work commenced on a multimillion-pound refurbishment of the Grade II* listed Arts Tower to extend its lifespan by 30 years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
St George's CampusEdit
To the east of the main campus lies St George's campus, named after St George's Church (now a lecture theatre and postgraduate residence). The campus is the historical location of the Sheffield Technical School. It is bounded by Upper Hanover Street to the west, Broad Lane to the north, Rockingham Street to the east, and West Street to the south,<ref name = "campus master plan"/> and is part of St George's Quarter, one of the seven official Sheffield city centre quarters.<ref>Sheffield City Council Quarters plan Template:Webarchive</ref> Also known as the Engineering campus,<ref name="Engineering campus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> St George's campus is centred on Mappin Street, the location of the Faculty of Engineering (partly housed in the Grade II-listed Mappin Building) and the Department of Journalism Studies, Department of Economics and Department of Computer Science. The university also maintains the Turner Museum of Glass in this area. As part of the 2000s development plan, the university has converted the listed Victorian Jessop Hospital for Women into the new home of the Department of Music in 2009. The formerly Grade II-listed Edwardian wing of the Jessop Hospital was demolished after Sheffield City Council's planning committee voted for approval.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The building was replaced by a new £81 million building for the Faculty of Engineering which opened in September 2015, named the Diamond. It is a purpose-built multi-disciplinary building that houses lecture theatres, laboratories, workrooms and other facilities for the teaching of engineering.<ref name=StarDiamond>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Amongst the more recent additions to the university's estate located on this campus are the Soundhouse (2008; a music practice and studio facility) and the Jessop West building (2009; the first UK project by Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web
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The Sir Frederick Mappin Building is a Grade II-listed building in an area known as the St George's Complex. The building houses much of the Faculty of Engineering and St George's IT centre.<ref name="Campus landmarks">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Completed in 1885, the oldest part of the building, the former Sheffield Technical School, now the Central Wing, lies in the centre of the building. The extensive Mappin Street frontage includes the main entrance, the John Carr Library and Mappin Hall, and is connected to the Central Wing by a bridge. In early 2020, the Mappin Building and the Central Wing were refurbished. As a result of the refurbishments, the two buildings are joined by a quadruple-height atrium with curved glass roof.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The atrium, called the Engineering Heartspace, houses laboratories, offices and social spaces.<ref name="Engineering campus"/>
Given its name to the campus, St George's Church was the first of three commissioners' churches to be built in Sheffield under the Church Building Act 1818. It was built in the Perpendicular style. The church closed in 1981 and was acquired by the university. It was converted for use as a lecture theatre in 1994,<ref name="Pevsner">Harman, R. & Minnis, J. (2004) Pevsner City Guides: Sheffield, p88. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. Template:ISBN</ref> while the upstairs has been converted for use as student accommodation.
Other sitesEdit
Further west lies Weston Park, the Weston Park Museum, the Harold Cantor Gallery, university's sports facilities Goodwin Sports Centre in the Crookesmoor area, and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health around the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (although these subjects are taught in the city's extensive teaching hospitals under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and throughout South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire). It is in this area that the new £12 million Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 2010, is located.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There is a cluster of buildings located to the north of Broad Lane, opposite St George's campus, collectively called the north campus. Kroto Research Institute, Kroto Innovation Centre, Nanoscience and Technology Building, Graduate Research Centre, George Porter Building and the International College are based on this campus area.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> To the south of the city on Warminster Road are where the sports pitches at Norton Sports Park located.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university also operates Advanced Manufacturing Research Centres (AMRCs) on the border of Sheffield, in Rotherham and Lancashire.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Conference Centre and Teaching Hall at Philadelphia Campus of St. Thomas' Church are used as exam venues by the university.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Former locationsEdit
The old Firth College building was built in 1879 at the corner of Leopold Street and West Street. It was designed by Thomas James Flockton and Edward Robert Robson with the front facing West Street. Firth College moved out of the building following the establishment of the university. The building later housed the Sheffield Central Technical School and is currently home to Education Committee offices of Sheffield City Council.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> Situated on 7 Leopold Street opposite Firth College, the old Medical School building was designed by John Dodsley Webster and completed in 1888. The school moved to Firth Court in 1905 and the building is now used as offices.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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The Manvers campus, at Wath-on-Dearne between Rotherham and Barnsley, was where the majority of nursing was taught. A three-storey building, Humphry Davy House (named after chemist Humphry Davy), was built in 1998 on Golden Smithies Lane opposite to Dearne Valley College.<ref name = "Rotherham"/> The building was home to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, which was established in 1995 after the merger of the university with Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2004, the university disagreed with the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority's decision to take away part of its nursing and midwifery training contract, and declined the offer due to financial and operational constraints.<ref name="guardian-nursing"/> The last intake of midwifery studies students was in July 2006, and the campus was closed one year later.<ref name = "Rotherham">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The building was sold in 2018 and to be converted for residential lettings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
From 2022 to 2023, students protested against the university working with and accepting payment for various activities from companies including Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, and Boeing who are involved in the arms manufacturing industry.<ref name=":0" />
OrganisationEdit
Faculties and departmentsEdit
Sheffield had four faculties in 1905, which were Arts, Pure Science, Medicine and Applied Science. The Faculty of Applied Science later split into Engineering and Metallurgy in 1919.<ref name="Historical note"/> As well as educating full-time students, in the early 20th century, the university taught non-degree courses that covered non-conventional, occupation-focused subjects such as cow-keeping, railway economics, mining and razor-grinding.<ref name="Historical note"/>
The university has currently five faculties comprising 50 departments and 82 research centres and institutes,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> plus an international faculty.<ref name=Faculties>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The current faculty structure is:
- Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Archaeology
- School of English
- East Asian Studies
- School of Languages and Cultures
- History
- Modern Languages Teaching Centre
- Music
- Philosophy
- Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
- Digital Humanities Institute
- Faculty of Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Material Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health
- Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Medicine
- School of Dentistry
- Medical School
- Neuroscience
- Health Sciences School
- Oncology and Metabolism
- School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
- Faculty of Science
- Animal and Plant Science
- School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Biomedical Science
- Chemistry
- Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
- Physics and Astronomy
- Psychology
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Architecture
- Economics
- Education
- Geography
- The Information School
- Journalism
- Landscape Architecture
- Law
- Management School
- Politics and International Relations
- Sheffield Methods Institute
- Sociology
- Urban Studies and Planning
- International Faculty – CITY College
- Business Administration & Economics
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Executive MBA
Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesEdit
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is made up of eight schools and departments. It is also home to three institutes (Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, and Digital Humanities Institute) and 16 research centres. The Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism of the faculty was the first centre devoted to scholarly research into Freemasonry in a UK university.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The centre was closed in 2010, ten years after its establishment, due to its failure to capture substantial grants to support the centre's activities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2021, archaeology staff at the university have been told their jobs could be at risk after a review. A petition to save the department has gathered more than 35,000 signatures but the university said no decisions had yet been taken, but later changed to announcing they intended to dissolve the department, which was met with international outcry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Faculty of EngineeringEdit
The precursor to the Faculty of Engineering is the Sheffield Technical School established in the 1880s, which offered part-time and evening class programme to adults working in the steel industry.<ref name="Engineering history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During 1917, departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were founded in response to the needs of the First World War. The departments provided training courses for injured and incapacitated soldiers, and manufactured inspection gauges and munition shells.<ref name="Engineering history"/> The Faculty of Engineering has now over 6,700 students and 1,000 staff.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Over 90% of the research from the department was rated as 4* (world-leading) or 3* (internationally excellent).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and HealthEdit
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health is made up of four schools, including the Medical School, Health Sciences School, School of Clinical Dentistry and School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). The Medical School is the oldest school of the university. It operated independently as the Sheffield School of Medicine until its mergers with Firth College and with Sheffield Technical School.<ref name=history>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Medical School is located next to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, one of the Sheffield's teaching hospitals, and the school is associated with Sheffield Children's Hospital, Northern General Hospital, Weston Park Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital. It is one of 32 bodies entitled to award medical degrees in the United Kingdom by the General Medical Council (GMC), the body responsible for registering doctors to practise medicine as well as regulating medical education and training in the United Kingdom.<ref name="GMC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Faculty of ScienceEdit
The Faculty of Science comprises seven classical science departments: Animal and Plant Sciences, Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology. All of the university's six Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with this faculty.<ref name ="Nobel"/>
The Department of Animal and Plant Sciences is one of the largest departments dedicated for whole-organism biology studies in the UK.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Biology has been taught in Sheffield since 1884 in Firth College. Appointed the first Professor of Biology in 1888, Alfred Denny was the only biologist in the Department of Biology at the college who taught zoology and botany to science and medical students. In 1896, a second biologist, botanist Bertram H. Bentley, joined the college.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Soon after the university was founded, in 1908, two separate departments were established: Zoology (head by Denny) and Botany (head by Bentley).<ref name = "APS History">Template:Cite book</ref> The departments were not merged until the establishment of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences in 1988, as part of a major rationalisation at the university. David H. Lewis, who was Head of Botany, was the first Head of Animal and Plant Sciences.<ref name = "APS History"/> The department was awarded a maximum score of 24 points in the QAA Teaching Quality Assessment in 1999, and top five for biological sciences research in the REF 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name = "REF14">Template:Cite news</ref>
Faculty of Social SciencesEdit
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The Sheffield School of Architecture is consistently ranked among the top 10 in Europe and the UK for "Architecture and the Built-Environment" and is one of the longest established architecture schools in the UK, opening in 1908. It was first located in the tower of Firth Court but soon moved to the Sunday School in Shearwood Road and is located on the top 6 floors of the Arts Tower since 1965.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The school has courses accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and has an active student society (SUAS). In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Sheffield School of Architecture ranked 4th in the UK.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Established in 1986, the Management School is a triple-accredited (AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS) business school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013 the school moved into newly refurbished facilities close to the University of Sheffield campus and Broomhill. It now has dedicated learning and teaching space, a courtyard, dedicated café and Employability Hub.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Information School (iSchool) is a constituent school of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It was founded as Postgraduate School of Librarianship in 1963 and became the Department of Information Studies in 1981. In 2010, the Information School devoting to the study of the information field was established. The current head of school is Professor Peter Bath. The school is ranked second in the world and first in Europe for Library and Information Studies in the QS World University Rankings 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (USP) was founded as the Department of Town and Regional Planning (TRP) in 1965 and is located in the Geography Building in the Western Bank Campus. It was ranked as the top RTPI accredited planning school in the UK by the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) and second for "Building and town and country planning" by the Guardian University Rankings 2021.
International facultyEdit
The university has an international faculty called CITY College in Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece, which is the only faculty operating outside the UK. The faculty was established in 1989<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in order to bridge the UK with the Southeast and Eastern Europe. It is a private legal entity operating as CITY College according to the local law in Greece.<ref name="city college"/> The International Faculty consists of four departments, namely Business Administration and Economics, Psychology, Computer Science and English Studies. These departments are housed in the L. Sofou Building and the Strategakis Building, two buildings in close proximity in Thessaloniki city centre.<ref name="city college">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The faculty also operates the South East European Research Centre (SEERC), a multidisciplinary research centre established in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GovernanceEdit
There are several bodies which govern the university, including the council, the Senate and the faculties.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The council is the governing body of the university, which is responsible for the strategic development, legal and regulatory affairs, and performance of university business (finance and property).<ref name="shef.ac.uk"/> Council membership comprises a majority of non-executive lay members appointed under the statutes of the university.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The chair and pro-chancellor of the council is currently Tony Pedder.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Senate manages the academic side of the university. It is the highest academic authority of the university, and is also responsible for the regulation of research work and students' discipline.<ref name="shef.ac.uk"/> The Senate is chaired by the vice-chancellor, with its membership drawn mainly from the university's academic staff.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The five faculties regulates departmental teaching, research, examination, and also admission. They are responsible for making recommendations to the Senate on the award of degrees, fellowships, and academic staff appointments and promotions.<ref name="shef.ac.uk"/>
The university central committees also include the University Executive Board, whose members are: president and vice-chancellor (or simply vice-chancellor), provost and deputy vice chancellor, chief financial officer, executive director of corporate services, executive director of academic services, five faculty vice-presidents, three cross-cutting vice-presidents (education, innovation and research), and university secretary.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The board provides leadership and management, as well as advises the vice-chancellor on operational matters. the vice-chancellor is the chief executive and accountable officer of the university. The current vice-chancellor is Koen Lamberts, and the provost and deputy vice chancellor is Gill Valentine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Court of the university is no longer a university committee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Court was a large body which fosters relations between the university and the community, and included lay members, many of whom are university alumni. Ex-officio members of the Court included all the members of Parliament (MPs) of Sheffield, the Bishops of Sheffield and Hallam, and the chief constable of South Yorkshire Police.<ref name="shef.ac.uk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It also included representatives of professional bodies such as the Arts Council, Royal Society and the General Medical Council.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Court met annually to receive reports from the council, the Senate and the Students' Union. It served many official functions including chancellor election.
Vice-chancellorsEdit
- 1905: William Mitchinson Hicks<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 1905: Charles Eliot
- 1912: Herbert Fisher
- 1917: William Ripper (acting)
- 1919: William Henry Hadow
- 1930: Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge
- 1938: Irvine Masson
- 1953: John Macnaghten Whittaker
- 1965: Arthur Roy Clapham (acting)
- 1966: Hugh Robson
- 1974: Geoffrey Sims
- 1991: Gareth Roberts
- 2001: Bob Boucher
- 2007: Sir Keith Burnett
- 2018: Koen Lamberts
FinancesEdit
In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, the University of Sheffield had a total income of £887.9 million (2022/23 – £880.2 million) and total expenditure of £651.4 million (2022/23 – £790.5 million).<ref name="Sheffield Financial Statement 23/24"/> Key sources of income included £401.8 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £397.5 million), £109.1 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £111.5 million), £185.8 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £198.6 million) and £32.6 million from endowment and investment income (2022/23 – £24.2 million).<ref name="Sheffield Financial Statement 23/24"/>
At year end the University of Sheffield had endowments of £55.2 million (2022/23 – £47.1 million) and total net assets of £1.886 billion (2022/23 – £1.630 billion).<ref name="Sheffield Financial Statement 23/24"/>
Coat of armsEdit
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The arms of the university was granted by the College of Arms on 28 June 1905. It is on an azure shield with a gold-edged book inscribed with the Latin Disce Doce (Learn and Teach) at its centre, a sheaf of eight silver arrows on either side (from the arms of the city), the Crown of Success and the White Rose of York. Below is a scroll carrying the motto Rerum cognoscere causas (To Discover the Causes of Things; from the GeorgicsTemplate:Efn by Latin poet Virgil), which was also the motto of Firth College since 1879.<ref name="The Arms of the University of Sheffield">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Azure, an open book proper, edged gold, inscribed with the words Disce Doce between in fess two sheaves of eight arrows interlaced saltireways and banded argent, in chief an open crown or, and in base a rose also argent barbed and seeded proper.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The current university's logo, consists of a redrawn version of the coat of arms and the name of the institution, is introduced in 2005, the centenary year of the university. However, the logo should not supersede and be confused with the coat of arms, which remains the official heraldic symbol of the university.<ref name="The Arms of the University of Sheffield"/>
University FontsEdit
The university's fonts are TUOS Stephenson (serif) and TUOS Blake (sans-serif). Both TUOS Stephenson and TUOS Blake are modified versions of a typeface designed by Sheffield company Stephenson & Blake Co. The two fonts are the copyright property of the University of Sheffield and are restricted only to university users.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university brand (encompassing the visual identity) is led by its motto Rerum cognoscere causas and centred on the theme of "discovery". The theme has been applied across print, screen and other areas such as signage, vehicle livery and merchandising.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CeremonyEdit
Academic dressEdit
As at most universities, Sheffield graduands wear academic dress appropriate to the degree they are to be received when graduating. Bachelors wear a black Oxford BA [b1] gown (see Groves classification system). The hood is in green, half-lined with white fur, and edged with two inches of silk of the colour distinctive of the degree or the faculty.<ref name = "academic dress">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Masters wear a black Oxford MA [m1] gown with a hood of green silk which is lined throughout with the faculty colour. The PhD and the MPhil hoods are lined in green.<ref name = "academic dress"/> Research doctors have a fine scarlet cloth gown with green silk facings, with bell-shaped sleeves [d2]; higher doctorates wear the robe with full sleeves that are lined scarlet silk and the lining held up at the elbow level with a scarlet cord and button [d1]. The hood is of the Cambridge shape [f1] and is made of red ottoman silk.<ref name = "academic dress"/><ref name = "Dress timeline">Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1993, the postgraduate diplomate hood is entered in the Calendar of the University of Sheffield.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It is a blend of Bachelors' and Masters' hoods,<ref name = "Dress timeline"/> with a hood of green silk and a neckband of the faculty colour.<ref name = "academic dress"/>
The faculty and degree colours are: Arts and Humanities—crushed strawberry; Music (only for BMus, MMus, and DMus degrees)—cream brocade; Engineering—purple; Medicine and Surgery—red; Dental Surgery—pale rose pink; Health—cerise; Science—apricot; Social Sciences—lemon yellow; International Faculty—Saxon blue; Board of Extra Faculty Provision—pale blue.<ref name = "academic dress"/> Some schools at Sheffield had previously their own colours but are no longer used.<ref name = "Dress timeline"/><ref name="Shaw AD">Template:Cite book</ref> They were: Metallurgy—steel grey; Education—pearl; Architecture—old gold; Law—olive green.<ref name="Shaw AD"/><ref name="Grad2015">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The old colour of the Faculty of Social Sciences was pale green.<ref name="Grad2015"/>
University maceEdit
The university mace is an ornament of governance of the University of Sheffield. It is silver-gilt and carries the coats of arms of both the university and the city of Sheffield, and the White Rose of York. A figure of Minerva holding a wreath and palm branch on a heraldic crown adorns the top of the mace. Used for the first time in 1909, the mace is carried in academic procession as the symbol of authority, which precedes the presiding officer.<ref name="Grad2015"/>
AcademicsEdit
Reputation and rankingsEdit
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The university has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education.<ref name="timesuos">Template:Cite news</ref> The university is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, the Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose University Consortium.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was ranked 12th in the UK, 35th in Europe and 98th in the world by Times Higher Education WUR 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Sheffield has been voted University of the Year, Best Students' Union and Best for Student Life at the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2024,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and named runner-up for University of the Year 2025 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It has also come to the top position in the Russell Group based on 2024 National Student Survey (NSS).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sheffield has received the Queen's Anniversary Prize five times in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2007 and 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2011 it was named 'University of the Year' in the Times Higher Education awards.<ref name=THE2011>Template:Cite news</ref> The latest Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories. It was also named as one of the top 50 most international universities in 2018 around the world<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and its reputation of outstanding teaching has been underlined in the most recent league table which put Sheffield joint 9th in the UK and 11th across Europe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Sheffield was ranked 11th for research power in the UK, moving up from 13th in REF2014,<ref name="auto1"/> with 92% of the research submitted by the academic staff having been rigorously judged as world leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).<ref name="auto2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university was one of only ten in the country to include more than 1500 staffs for the submissions in a wide range of subject areas. A number of areas of research at the University of Sheffield are in the top 10 nationally in terms of the assessment of their research and impact as world-leading or internationally excellent. Some highlights include: Physics and Astronomy – which achieved 100 per cent and came top for research and impact; Biological Sciences – which came in the top five with 98 per cent; Architecture, Built Environment and Planning – which came in the top three with 95 per cent and Engineering – which achieved 96 per cent and came in the top 10.<ref name="auto2"/>
The University of Sheffield achieved global recognition for its academic strengths in specific fields. In 2023, it secured the top position for Library and Information Management and ranked 32nd for Architecture and Built Environment, along with a 42nd rank for Archaeology, according to QS.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the ARWU rankings of 2022, the university achieved 8th place in Geography and Urban Planning, 38th in Civil Engineering, and 46th in Ecology.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
AdmissionsEdit
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The University of Sheffield has a total of 30,195 students in the 2018–19 academic year, including 19,610 undergraduates and 10,585 postgraduates.<ref name="HESA citation">Template:HESA citation</ref> In terms of average UCAS points of entrants, Sheffield ranked 29th in Britain in 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university gives offers of admission to 85.6% of its applicants, the 4th highest amongst the Russell Group.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
According to the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 13% of Sheffield's undergraduates come from independent schools.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Subscription required</ref> In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 71:5:24 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 51:49.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 57.8% of international students enrolled at the institution are from China, the second highest proportion out of all mainstream universities in the UK.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
LibrariesEdit
The University of Sheffield has currently four libraries: Western Bank Library, the Information Commons, Health Sciences Library (Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital), and The Diamond,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> holding a total of 1.5 million printed books.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Western Bank Library was the university's main library until the opening of the Information Commons in 2007. The Grade II* listed library has 730 study spaces and contains 1.2 million texts for most subjects, as well as archives and special collections.<ref name ="self-guide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Jisc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Information Commons (IC) is a 24/7 learning centre combining both library and IT services, which was the first of its kind in the UK.<ref name ="self-guide"/> The IC houses 120,000 core textbooks for all undergraduate and postgraduate subjects, and has approximately 1,300 study spaces and 550 PCs.<ref name="Jisc"/> The university has two medical libraries collectively called the Health Sciences Library.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was opened at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in 1978, and a year later a branch at the Northern General Hospital was opened.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The Royal Hallamshire Hospital library has collections cover medicine, dentistry, nursing and midwifery, and the Northern General Hospital library contains material for medicine and nursing.<ref name="Jisc"/> Opened its door in 2018, the Diamond provides 24-hour library services (and other teaching facilities), with in-demand textbooks, a non-loanable reference collection and over 1,000 study spaces.<ref name="Jisc"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It replaces the 1992 St George's Library on St George's Campus as the main engineering library and study space. The University of Sheffield Library is a member of Research Libraries UK.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Former libraries include Edgar Allen Library closed by the late 1950s and St George's Library closed on 14 June 2015. Edgar Allen Library was the first university library. In 1905 when the university was established, the library was housed in a lecture room due to lack of funds to construct a purpose-built library. William Edgar Allen, a member of the University Council, provided £10,000 to build a proper library named Edgar Allen Library, locating beside the main university building (Firth Court). Edgar Allen Library had 100 seats in its reading room, shelves for 20,000 books, and a stack space for 60,000 more books. Sir Charles Harding Firth, the first lecturer in Modern History in Firth College, donated part of his personal collection to the library. Sheffield Town Trustee also helped the university to transform the General Lecture Theatre into a reading room housing the Firth Collection (rare book collection of approximately 20,000 volumes) in 1931.<ref name="Library Collection">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As the university rapidly expanded in the 1950s, it became necessary to replace Edgar Allen Library with a modern post-war era library. The library, later known as the Western Bank Library, was opened on 12 May 1959.<ref name="Library Collection"/> Edgar Allen Library (now the Rotunda in Firth Court)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> became the Registrar and Secretary's Office. St George's Library (now 38 Mappin Street) was refurbished as an exam venue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Museums and collectionsEdit
The Alfred Denny Museum is a zoology museum operated by the university.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Established in 1905, the museum was located in Firth Court, spanning three floors,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was named after the first professor of biology at Sheffield in 1950. It has specimens from all major phyla, and two letters written from Charles Darwin to Henry Denny, father of Alfred Denny. Many of the specimens have been collected since the 1900s, but much of the information about the collection was lost during the Second World War. The museum, now reduced in size, has been moved to Alfred Denny Building after the war.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The museum is not open to the public at all time but usually on the first Saturday of each month.
The Turner Museum of Glass houses the university's collections of 19th and 20th century glass.<ref name="About the Museum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It contains items mainly from major European and American glassworkers and examples from ancient Egypt and Rome. It is in the Hadfield Building. It was founded by W. E. S. Turner of the university in 1943.<ref name="About the Museum" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One of the exhibits is the wedding dress of Helen Nairn (Turner's wife) which is made of glass fibre. This has been selected as one of the items in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects.<ref name="bbc100">BBC A History of the World Template:Webarchive Glass Fibre Wedding Dress</ref>
The Traditional Heritage Museum (THM) was opened to the public in 1985 as part of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition.<ref name="The Traditional Heritage Museum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was created (and curated) by Prof John Widdowson in 1964 and was entirely run by volunteers and students.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The THM housed collections including a replica kitchen from the 1920s, reconstructed workshops and retail shops, such as Pollard's tea and coffee.<ref name="The Traditional Heritage Museum" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The university decided to close the Museum in 2011 because the building could not afford continued public access.<ref name="The Traditional Heritage Museum" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2013, the collections from the Traditional Heritage Museum were relocated and are accessible again to the public. The majority of the items was transferred to not-for-profit organisation Green Estate (operators of the Sheffield Manor Lodge). Other major recipients include Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust and Ken Hawley Trust.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Western Bank Library has an Exhibition Gallery.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located on the mezzanine level of the library, enabling special collections from the university library and the National Fairground Archive to be displayed in controlled conditions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, the gallery was restored and refurbished by a grant from the Wolfson Foundation. The library usually schedules three temporary exhibitions per year, and most of the exhibitions are free to visit during library opening hours.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web
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The Henry Clifton Sorby Collection contains glass lantern slides of marine organisms prepared and donated by Henry Clifton Sorby in the 1900s. Sorby was president of Firth College after the death of Mark Firth, vice-president of the University College of Sheffield, and a member of the Council of the University of Sheffield. His broad interests included marine biology, and he had developed a technique for preparing and mounting invertebrate marine animals onto slides. The specimens were cleared and stained so that enabling projection onto a screen for viewing. The glass lantern slides are now held in the Department Animal and Plant Sciences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Sheffield Herbarium is also operated by the Department Animal and Plant Sciences, with a collection of preserved plant specimens collected in the late 19th century and early to mid 20th century. The collection is mainly from the British Isles and Europe focusing on tracheophytes, bryophytes, charophytes and fungi. Many of the micro-fungi specimens are from the collection of mycologist and Sheffield alumnus John Webster.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) is a living archive that collects material from the fairground, circus and the allied entertainment industries.<ref name="NFCA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> NFCA was in 1994 developed out of the PhD research by Vanessa Toulmin, who was later director of the archive from its inception until 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With its own Reading Room situated in Western Bank Library, the archive holds 150,000 photographs, 4,000 books and journals, together with over 20,000 items of printed and video ephemera. Major collections include the Shufflebottom Family Collection, the John Bramwell Taylor Collection, the Malcolm Airey Collection and the John Turner Collection.<ref name="NFCA"/>
Flagship institutesEdit
Sheffield has four research institutes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Launched in 2019, the institutes focus on clean energy generation, sustainable food, health improvement and quality of life.<ref name="flagships">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Energy Institute is one of the largest energy research centres in Europe.<ref name="flagships"/> It has over 300 researchers working on energy-related problems, including improving energy efficiency and developing ways to achieve clean growth.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Neuroscience Institute works on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. This includes the exploration of artificial intelligence applications in healthcare for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and improving prognosis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Healthy Lifespan Institute researches multimorbidity and slowing down the ageing process.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Institute for Sustainable Food studies food security and environmental sustainability.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="flagships"/>
Academic and industrial partnersEdit
The University of Sheffield's major research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Unilever, Boots, AstraZeneca, GSK, ICI, and Slazenger, as well as UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is a network of centres and a partnership between the university and over a hundred industrial companies on the Advanced Manufacturing Park.<ref name = "About AMRC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The university also works with local small and medium enterprises through the dedicated physical spaces at the Sheffield Bioincubator and Kroto Innovation Centre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For many years the university has been engaged in theological publishing through Sheffield Academic Press and JSOT Press. The university is also a partner organisation in Higher Futures, a collaborative association of institutions set up under the government's Lifelong Learning Networks initiative, to co-ordinate vocational and work-based education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
As well as the research carried out in departments, the university has over 180 specialised research centres or institutes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The last Teaching Quality Assessment awarded Sheffield University grades of "excellent" in 29 subject areas, a record equalled by only a few other UK universities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The National Epitaxy Facility at Sheffield is leading the semiconductor research & development in collaboration with The University of Cambridge and University College London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The University of Sheffield has around 250 student exchange partners in nearly 40 countries world-wide including exchange programs with Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, National University of Singapore, University of Munich and University of Melbourne.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ControversiesEdit
Proposed closure of the Department of ArchaeologyEdit
On 25 May 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Sheffield Executive Board (UEB) including Vice Chancellor Koen Lamberts and Deputy Vice Chancellor Gill Valentine voted to close the Department of Archaeology and move two areas into other departments; a world leading institution since its formation in 1976.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The decision had been made through a commissioned Institutional Review process chaired by Valentine and was met with national and international outcry including a petition signed by over 40,000 people.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The decision was announced first on 19 May. Template:Citation needed The review process had begun in February 2022 led by Valentine.Template:Citation needed
Involvement with the arms tradeEdit
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre conducts a wide range of research projects including some funded by arms manufacturers such as BAE Systems.<ref name="About AMRC" /> In 2008, the university partnered with BAE Systems to launch a new Centre for Research in Active Control which aimed to improve the stealth of BAE Systems' submarines.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012 the Students Union voted in favour of the university ending all links with the arms trade.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In October 2022, students occupied 'The Diamond' over the university's alleged links with Rolls-Royce, and their involvement in arms manufacture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This resulted in the closure of the building, with the occupiers refusing to leave until negotiations with the Vice-Chancellor commenced. Over the past eight years, the university has received some £47 million from Rolls-Royce.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following month, the university hired a private investigator to investigate two students for "alleged misconduct" in relation to the protests.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In November 2023, students interrupted the opening ceremony of the university's newest building, in support of Palestine and in protest over the university's financial contracts with arms manufacturers, including BAE Systems, GKN and Boeing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Student lifeEdit
Students' UnionEdit
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The University of Sheffield Students' Union was founded in 1906 and has nearly 300 student societies and nearly 50 sports teams. The Students' Union has been voted best in the UK for ten consecutive years, from 2009 to 2018, by The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sheffield University Football Club has been established for many decades and has previously competed in the FA Amateur Cup and FA Vase. The Union building contains society and union workplaces and coffee shops, restaurants, shops, and the student run cinema Film Unit. Facilities include two bars (Bar One – which has a book-able function room with its own bar, The Raynor Lounge – and The Interval); a three-room club venue (Foundry); There is also a student radio station called Forge Radio, a TV station called Forge TV, and a newspaper called Forge Press, which are run under the umbrella of Forge Media since 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In November 2009 a development project began to redevelop the Students' Union building, funded by £5 million by the HEFCE, which was completed and re-opened in September 2010. Works centred on improving circulation around the building by aligning previously disjointed floors, improving internal access between the Union building and neighbouring University House, and constructing a new entrance and lobby that incorporates the university's traditional colours of black and gold.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During 2012–13 the Students' Union went under a further redevelopment costing £20 million which led to the refurbishment of the University House. University House, completed in 1963, has been integrated with the university's Students' Union in one single building.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Student accommodationEdit
The university halls of residence comprises two separate sites: Ranmoor/Endcliffe and City.<ref name = "Accommodation">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ranmoor/Endcliffe is situated in the western suburb of Sheffield, which is close to Broomhill and Ecclesall Road. The Endcliffe Village was opened in 2008 and the Ranmoor Village in 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ranmoor House, opened in the autumn term of 1968, was once the largest hall of residence at the university, housing around 800 students. As part of the university's Student Residences Strategy, Ranmoor House was demolished in March 2008, a year before the new Ranmoor Village was scheduled to open.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Endcliffe and Ranmoor villages have been together referred to as Ranmoor/Endcliffe since 2016. The Endcliffe Village was renamed "South accommodation (near Endcliffe)", and the Ranmoor Village "North accommodation (near Ranmoor)".<ref name = "Accommodation"/> City accommodation, including Allen Court, Broad Lane Court, St. George's Flats, Mappin Court and Studio 300, are located on the Main Campus, on St George's Campus, or near the North Campus.<ref name = "Accommodation"/>
Off campus can be found Sheffield Student Housing Co-operative, a student housing cooperative providing not-for-profit, student-managed housing for its members. They currently manage a property on Northfield Road in Crookes, Sheffield.
Sheffield VarsityEdit
The annual Sheffield Varsity is an annual varsity match that takes place between sports teams from the university and its rival Sheffield Hallam University starting from 1996.<ref name="Sheffield Varsity 2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The varsity is divided into winter and summer competitions. Over 1,000 students from both universities compete in over 30 varsity sports in more than 70 events.<ref name="Sheffield Varsity 2012"/> The university's sports colours are black and gold. Sheffield won the Varsity competition in 2013, beating Hallam for the first time in ten years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It extended the newfound winning streak to seven years in a row; winning again from 2014 to 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
People associated with the universityEdit
Notable alumniEdit
Template:Main list Many notable people in a number of disciplines have attended Sheffield. A number of politicians are alumni of the university, including President of Dominica Nicholas Liverpool, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Nurettin Canikli,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Home Secretary David Blunkett, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Seychelles Jean-Paul Adam,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Downing Street Chief of Staff Nick Timothy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At least ten Members of the UK Parliament and two Members of the European Parliament have studied at Sheffield. Notable public servants who have studied at the university includes Secretary General of the Higher Commission for Industrial Security of Saudi Arabia Khalid S. Al-Ageel,<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> Chief Economist at the Bank of England Andy Haldane,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> head of London Metropolitan Police Bernard Hogan-Howe,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Chief of the Defence Staff Stuart Peach,<ref name=WW>Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2010, Template:ISBN</ref><ref name=official>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Children's Commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sheffield has educated a number of judges and lawyers. The university has the highest number of alumni appointed to the bench of the Court of Appeal after Oxford and Cambridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In November 2013, the court had a bench consisting of judges all graduated at Sheffield; the sitting judges were Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal Maurice Kay, Anne Rafferty and Julia Macur.<ref name="Outstanding Sheffield Alumni"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Sheffield School of Law has also produced lawyers around the world. This includes Deputy Minister of Justice of Afghanistan Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Chief Justice of Bangladesh Md. Muzammel Hossain,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Supreme Court Justice of Sierra Leone Henry M. Joko-Smart,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Chief Justice of Malaysia Arifin Zakaria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Writers who attended the university include two-times Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel,<ref name="Outstanding Sheffield Alumni">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Lee Child,<ref name="Outstanding Sheffield Alumni"/> Andrew Grant,<ref name="Outstanding Sheffield Alumni"/> Brooke Magnanti (Belle de Jour), Lindsay Ashford and Katie B. Edwards. Actors and actress Brian Glover, Ian Hallard, Rachel Shelley and Eddie Izzard were students at the university. Notable Sheffield alumni in religion includes Dean of Westminster Abbey Wesley Carr,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Dean of Christ Church of Oxford Martyn Percy,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland Stephen Smyth, and Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies. Many pioneers were students at the university, including first British astronaut Helen Sharman,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Polar explorer Roy Koerner, and the first female pilot to fly solo from London to Australia Amy Johnson.<ref name="Outstanding Sheffield Alumni"/> Sheffield students have also excelled in sports. Jessica Ennis-Hill and Hollie Webb are Olympic gold medalists.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bryony Page and Nick Beighton have won medals at the Olympics and Paralympics respectively. Notable alumni in sports also include Herbert Chapman, Zara Dampney, Catherine Faux, Tim Robinson and David Wetherill.
Warburg Medal winning scientist Hans Kornberg have been studied at Sheffield, along with Olive Scott and Donald Bailey, inventor of the Bailey bridge. Sheffield's Department of Chemistry has also educated two winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<ref name ="Nobel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Nobel prizesEdit
The university's Faculty of Science is associated with six Nobel laureates, two for the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology:<ref name ="Nobel"/>
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And four to its Department of Chemistry:
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- 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (joint award), Richard J. Roberts, "for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence"<ref name="Richard J. Roberts">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Sir Harry Kroto, "for their discovery of fullerenes"<ref name="Sir Harry Kroto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Sir James Fraser Stoddart, "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"<ref name="Sir Fraser Stoddart">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Two Nobel laureates associated with the university are not officially counted. They are: Sir John Vane (research worker)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Wole Soyinka (visiting professor).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In popular cultureEdit
A fictionalized version of the University of Sheffield is the setting of the award-winning comic book series, Giant Days. Comedy Love in the Time of Britpop is set at the university in the 1990s Cool Britannia era.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The university's Western Bank Library is featured in Barry Libin's novel Mystery of the Milton Manuscript.
See alsoEdit
- Armorial of British universities
- Hughes Professor of Spanish
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
- List of universities in the United Kingdom
- Sheffield school
- Sheffield Hallam University
ReferencesEdit
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Further reading
There are two official histories of the university:
- Arthur W. Chapman (1955) The Story of a Modern University: A History of the University of Sheffield, Oxford University Press.
- Helen Mathers (2005) Steel City Scholars: The Centenary History of the University of Sheffield, London: James & James.
External linksEdit
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