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10 August 2022

Community ownership key to levelling up Britain’s high streets, according to new research

A new report from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University and Power to Change has shone a light on the need and opportunity for supporting communities to save ailing high streets and support the levelling up agenda.


21 July 2022

Child victims of trafficking share their views and experiences in new research

Young victims of modern slavery have shared their experiences following identification of human trafficking through the UK immigration and social care systems in a new interim report published today.


14 July 2022

Levelling up event with Mayor Oliver Coppard

Sheffield Hallam's Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority co-hosted a panel to discuss levelling up in South Yorkshire


06 April 2022

Sheffield Hallam reveals health-tech businesses set to join its accelerator programme

A Finnish start-up that delivers online postnatal exercise programmes to help new mothers recover safely after childbirth is part of the cohort of health businesses accepted onto Sheffield Hallam University’s latest Wellbeing Accelerator.


03 March 2022

New research exposes systemic racism in the NHS as nurses launch Manifesto for Change

A manifesto has been drawn up to demand action from health authorities as part of a ground-breaking study that has uncovered ‘shocking and systemic’ levels of racism in the NHS.


25 November 2021

Leading women’s rights campaigner wins national award for support of victims of gender-based violence in India

A Sheffield Hallam University lecturer whose work has helped to transform the support for female victims of violence in India has won a prestigious national award.


24 June 2021

New academic review of sport in UK confirms racial inequalities still exist and lays out recommendations for improvement

Extensive analysis of data on race and ethnicity in sport by academics at Sheffield Hallam University has found that racism and racial inequalities still exist, with longstanding issues leading to ethnically diverse communities being consistently disadvantaged within sport in the UK.


02 June 2021

Hallam women’s rights campaigner shortlisted for prestigious award

A lecturer whose work has helped to transform the support for female victims of violence in India has been shortlisted for an Asian Women of Achievement Award.


30 April 2021

Sheffield Hallam Student’s raise over £40,000 for charity

Sheffield Hallam students have successfully raised over £40,000 for Sheffield Charities by organising a variety of virtual events.


29 April 2021

Geoscientists call for action on tackling racial inequality

An article published in the journal Nature Geoscience has highlighted the shocking under-representation of students from ethnic minority backgrounds in the Geosciences.


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