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A group of students play the life size boardgame, one is holding a card and reading aloud, whilst everyone stands on the board in their own space.

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.
Professor Jim Wild with colleagues in front of an MRI scanner

Transformative lung imaging research recognised by international award

Professor Jim Wild, from the University of Sheffield, has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics (IOP) Peter Mansfield Prize for his distinguished contributions to lung imaging with hyperpolarised gas MRI
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Sheffield scientists awarded £1.2 million to design Parkinson’s drug

Researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have been awarded over £1 million from Parkinson’s UK to develop a drug to slow down the progression of the degenerative disease.

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University counselling effective in reducing students’ distress, research finds

Counselling at in-house university services is effective at improving depression, anxiety, wellbeing, social anxiety and academic distress, research suggests.

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Sheffield researchers hope to improve provision for children with rare diseases

A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield are starting a new research project which aims to improve provision for families and children with rare genetic syndromes.

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Huge gaps in UK regulation exist following transition from EU, new academic report finds

The UK is still not in a position to assume responsibility for regulation in several critical policy areas including trade, crime and the environment, a new academic report - UK regulation after Brexit - has found.
Professor Mark Rainforth sat next to imaging equipment in his lab

Breakthrough in steel manufacturing could lower carbon emissions from the car industry

A new breakthrough in steel manufacturing that could also help to lower COâ‚‚ emissions from the car industry, has been made by engineers at the University of Sheffield.