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Steve ThompsonInterim Deputy Director of Corporate Communications and Head of Digital
Steve Thompson is the Interim Deputy Director of Corporate Communications and Head of Digital at the University of Sheffield, with a focus on digital communications and showcasing research and its impact. He and his team are behind the re-launched University-wide campaign #WeAreInternational which aims to ensure International students and staff are welcome in the UK post-Brexit.
Since joining the University of Sheffield, his team has won several CASE and Heist awards such as the Best Use of Social Media and the CASE European District Circle of Excellence award for Best Practices in Communication and Marketing.
Previous roles include eBay Enterprise where he led the implementation of the digital communications for the Times newspaper paywall launch and delivered global email marketing communications for British Airways.
Founded in 1905, the University of Sheffield has grown in reputation and size to become one of the UK’s leading universities with a global reputation for teaching and research. As part of the UK Russell Group, the University is a premier-league, research-led institution with over 26,000 students including more than 7,000 international students from 121 countries and over 7,000 members of staff.
The University of Sheffield was voted number one in the UK for accommodation, social life, and community atmosphere in the 2015 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. Its Students’ Union was also voted number one in the UK for the seventh year running. The University is renowned for its friendliness and sense of community; an experience which students enjoy so much that many settle in Sheffield after they graduate.
The University has produced a number of leading figures in the area of research including six Nobel Prize winners, 12 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and 18 fellows of the Royal Society, and many of our alumni have gone on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence around the world.
The Latest from The University of Sheffield
Beyond the Strongman: What’s at Stake in South Korea’s Snap Presidential Election
co-written by our very own Dr Nahee Kang @nahee with Dr Kahee Jo @sheffielduni
@Diplomat_APAC
This week,@UUKIntl launched their #IndianStudentsInUK campaign in collaboration with
@StudyUKBritish 🇮🇳🇬🇧
Sonal's experience studying at leading universities in the UK, and now teaching at a Russell Group institution, shows the lasting impact of the UK's academic excellence. 🥇
Water = life 💧
But who gets to control it?
A river in Tanzania tells a bigger story - about rice, farming & fairness.
Frances Cleaver shares 20 years of research from the Usangu Plains.
🌍 Watch for #WaterSavingWeek: https://bit.ly/4k6m7S7
@Satinder0892696 @sheffielduni @BRUKresearch Welcome 🤗 to Sheffield, Satinder! With you here, we can officially announce our lab’s move @sheffielduni. Huge thanks to you & the rest of the lab members for making the transition smooth. Exciting science ahead 🧬 🧪 🧫
‘It All Starts with Play’ – New National Campaign and APPG on Play in England -@SheffieldUni
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography-planning/news/it-all-starts-play-new-national-campaign-and-appg-play-england
Researchers from the University's School of Architecture and Landscape and School of Geography and Planning help launch @PlayEngland's new 10-year strategy at…
⏳ Just one week left to join the Big Walk! ⏳
Be part of Sheffield’s biggest fundraising challenge and help power life-changing neuroscience research!
📍 https://cstu.io/5074df
It takes a village to raise children, as they say - the same can be said for long-tailed tits 🐣
A recent study from @JenniferMorinay and Prof Ben Hatchwell explored why one of the UK's tiniest bird species often act as foster parents, read more in their @ConversationUK piece👇…
What does true protection look like for sanctuary seekers in higher education?
Explore the final part of this series 👇
https://bit.ly/3H4Hy7v
Support goes beyond access - it means housing, legal help, advocacy and care.
#SeekingSanctuary #InclusiveEducation
📢 £18.8 BILLION!
That’s the economic impact delivered in just one year by northern universities, including the University of Sheffield, that comprise the @N8research - a collaboration of the eight most research-intensive universities in the north of England.…
The combined impact of the N8's universities in 2021–22 saw:
🔹 £8.6bn generated from research activities
🔹£1.7bn generated from knowledge exchange & commercialisation
🔹 £8.5bn generated from institutional expenditures
Explore the N8 report in full: …
New report reveals northern research universities generate £18.8 billion boost to UK economy - N8...
Report demonstrates that the N8 universities are not only major drivers of economic growth in the North of England...
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Our £80m @amrc @boeing Composites at Speed and Scale (COMPASS) programme is just one of many examples of how our collaborative R&D is tackling global challenges while boosting economic growth.
Discover more about COMPASS:
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Boosting Sustainable Aviation - N8 Research Partnership
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Ranked in top 50 most international universities in the world
The University’s research partners and clients include: Boeing, Rolls Royce, Unilever, Boots, AstraZeneca, GSK, ICI, Slazenger, and many more household names, as well as UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.
We work with partners that are recognised as excellent in their regions, and who recognise educational values and systems operating in those regions without compromising the values of our guiding principles. The expertise of our partners complements our own knowledge, creates increased value and strengthens our collaboration. These strategic partnerships will help us to develop teaching and research activities at a scale that could not happen otherwise, by adding value to our own knowledge through the collaboration and thereby extending our global reach and reputation.
Mission and vision
- To educate others and ourselves and to learn through doing so, thereby improving the world.
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That research, teaching, and learning together create a positive culture of higher education.
Ranked in the top 1% of world universities
1,476+
Research staff
£197.5m
Income from research grants and contracts (17/18)
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are passionate about tackling the great global challenges of our time.
The key issues facing humanity are embedded within complex systems, which cross the boundaries of academic disciplines. They recognise that effectively addressing these challenges means working together across the traditional boundaries of our research fields.
Tackling complex issues requires interdisciplinary and translational research – taking academic research and turning it into real-world solutions.
Our researchers are making life-changing discoveries and solving problems that have a global impact.
From developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and making our energy sources sustainable, to addressing the challenges of food security and an ageing population, we’re finding ways to improve our world.
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