¾Ã²Ý¸£Àû

¾Ã²Ý¸£Àû stories

Latest news from the school.
Tony Crook looking at the camera.

Professor Tony Crook Legacy Seminar

Join us on the 9th of October 2025 for an afternoon event to celebrate the contribution of Professor ADH (Tony) Crook CBE to applied housing and planning policy research.
Black and white image of a buried glacier on Mars
3D perspective view of a buried glacier on Mars, generated from images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Sean Doran

Dr Frances Butcher receives £1.8m Royal Society University Research Fellowship to investigate the glacial and climate history of Mars

The eight-year University Research Fellowship from The Royal Society will focus on poorly understood water-ice glaciers on Mars, which contain archives of martian climate information and could inform future human missions to the planet.
Timothy Joubert

New research project explores how collective ownership could protect, improve and democratise crucial public services

A new Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship sees Dr Timothy Joubert join the School of Geography and Planning to investigate how public-commons partnerships can be realised through collaboration between local governments and community organisations.
Foam stress ball

Sheffield Geography students' work featured in the Science Museum

Geography students at The University of Sheffield have become some of the youngest students to publish a paper and contribute to the Science Museum.

Four students look down on Sheffield city centre

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning achieves excellent results in the National Student Survey

USP celebrates success in championing student voice in the 2023 NSS.

A photo of students smiling and chatting during a seminar

Geography 1st overall for student voice in the Russell Group in the National Student Survey

The University of Sheffield's Geography and Environmental Science courses are ranked highly in multiple categories of the 2023 NSS.

A person holding one disposable coffee cup and one reusable coffee cup

Study calls for reusable packaging users to join project to help prevent plastic waste

A new study from the University of Sheffield is looking for people in Yorkshire who have tried reusable packaging, to join a project to investigate ways to combat plastic waste.

BA Geography Graduate Selina Treuherz releases Local Food Action Plan for Sheffield

Selina is currently working as ShefFood Partnership Coordinator, in this interview she offers some insight into her role and discusses how studying Geography at TUOS influenced her work...