Welcome to research at Sheffield Hallam University
There’s no doubt that cutting edge research and innovative development, and their application to markets and customers, are absolutely vital to the UK’s future economic success. Here at Sheffield Hallam, we emphasise both fundamental and applied research to underpin our teaching and research culture.
The University has 16 research centres and institutes, two Yorkshire Forward Centres of Industrial Collaboration, and several specialised research groups, many of national and international renown featuring key research platforms such as materials science, art and design, sports science and engineering, biomedicine, and economic and social research. This reputation is reflected in the fact that we are one of the leading new universities in the UK, building on our previous successes in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
In addition we're driving and promoting cross-disciplinary research, such as encouraging traditional science disciplines to bring together artists, designers, healthcare professionals and industrial partners into their research activities. And through our portfolio of European and international research projects, we are partnering with academic research institutes, industry, SMEs, public, voluntary and community sectors, and not least the end users themselves.
Sheffield Hallam has an ambitious growth strategy to sustain and develop our programme of research, so we're building on our research environment to support this - investing in infrastructure, research careers and a sense of research community.
Professor Mike Smith BSc MSc PhD CSci CPhys FIPEM FInstP
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer
