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Pioneering therapy could offer hope for psychosis patients struggling with disturbing mental images

A pioneering therapy targeting distressing and disturbing mental images for people with psychosis could lead to a transformative intervention for a condition estimated to cost England almost £12 billion a year.
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Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with board games

Helping young people who have moved to University navigate online and digital spaces necessary for their education, and overcome the pitfalls they may encounter, is the subject of a new board game from the University of Sheffield.
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Mediterranean diet beats standard advice for IBS patients

A Mediterranean diet is significantly more effective than traditional dietary advice for managing IBS symptoms, new research from the University of Sheffield has found.
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AI could learn from data beyond vision and language to make it more practical, trustworthy and improve its understanding.

New ‘blueprint’ for advancing practical, trustworthy AI

A new ‘blueprint’ for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data to make it more deployable in the real world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Alan Turing Institute.
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South Yorkshire to lead UK R&D for sustainable aviation fuels

The University of Sheffield’s new Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre (SAF-IC) has reached a key milestone in its construction
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Sheffield scientists benefit from £4.25 million to kick start UK-wide research effort to end MND

Researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have been awarded part of a new £4.25 million grant that seeks to discover meaningful MND treatments within years, not decades.
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Sheffield student wins national award for innovative palliative care research

A medical student from the University of Sheffield has won a national award for her research into understanding the experiences and needs of palliative care patients.

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New partners, new projects and a new non-profit: University of Sheffield gathers leading funders to set priorities for global research

Leading global research funders and top academics are meeting at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern this week (Monday 20 June 2022), to set priorities for the next decade of global research.
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£4 million awarded to University of Sheffield to turn bright ideas into global opportunities

The University of Sheffield has been awarded £4.29 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to jumpstart the early-stage translation of research that can create real impact for people across the UK.