Primary and Early Years Education conference
The 2017 Primary and Early Years Education Conference is designed to support teachers, educators and researchers in primary and early settings.
Launch of Sheffield Robotics
On the 10th of December 2014 the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) and the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) together with the University of Sheffield celebrated the launch of Sheffield Robotics (previously known as SCENTRO)
Innovation Support: What your clients need to know
Join us at our world-class research facilities to find out how your clients can benefit from our funded innovation support programmes.
ASE Futures Conference 2020
The ASE Futures Conference has a thought-provoking programme appropriate for everyone involved in teacher training, advising, and professional development.
A linguistic perspective on primary mathematics education
The relationship between language proficiency and mathematical achievement is proposed by a wide range of empirical studies and points to the contemporary relevance for research on the topic in mathematics education.
MERI Symposium: Professor Andrew Alderson
Negative reactions: Auxetics and related materials which do the opposite of what you expect, quite laterally!
The Sheffield Multimodal Imaging Centre
The Sheffield Multimodal Imaging Centre (SMIC) is a research and development facility bringing together industry-recognised equipment and expertise in biosciences, health and materials.
Learning to read movies
This seminar is organised jointly by the Humanities Research Centre and Sheffield Institute of Education. Studies of two-year-olds are comparatively rare. Yet the third year of life is a period of momentous change: for example learning verbal language, becoming confidently mobile, discovering how to participate in social and cultural worlds. Research that does investigate this age-group tends to focus on learning that is recognised as important in later life: speech, awareness of rules and conventions, creative play, sharing, etc.
Disability Research Forum session
Hannah Ebben will host two papers. Antonios Ktendis (University of Sheffield). Height as "Elephant in the Room": (Un) Learning the 'Growing' Body and Dr Erin Pritchard (Liverpool Hope University). "He's Adorable": Representations of Dwarfs in Family Guy.
Professor Fin O'Flaherty Inaugural Lecture
This professorial lecture will explore how to ensure infrastructures are fit for purpose with ideas on how to design a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly infrastructure to improve and increase its lifespan and how they can be retained which will in turn reduce the need for more costly demolition and replacement processes.