Understanding employment in Britain's seaside towns
Research by Professors Beatty and Fothergill in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) has broken new ground by finding new ways to collect and understand the evidence on the people and work available in these coastal areas
Calculating the costs and benefits of community projects
Finding new ways to measure the success of government initiatives for disadvantaged communities
Building more cohesive communities
Research provides the facts policy-makers need to build better communities
Faster, more accurate 3D scanning and Face Recognition
The Geometric Modelling and Pattern Recognition (GMPR) Group at Sheffield Hallam University has developed and patented internationally-known line projection technologies for fast 3D scan, reconstruction and recognition
Building mobile software to support rural cooperatives
Project defines new approaches to software development for rural communities in India and Africa
Better management of diversity in prisons
Alternative inquiry methods at a Yorkshire prison lead to better policies on prison diversity nationally
Improving maps for the visually impaired
Research, led by Professor Paul Chamberlain, has explored the value of artefacts in developing knowledge and the role of haptic (touch) cues in improving the design and usability of products
War and Medicine
Through negotiated access David Cotterrell was able to view the militarised healthcare pathway from point of wounding to domestic rehabilitation
My Dangerous Loverboy
With funding from the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC), Professor Virginia Heath and Senior Lecturer Steve Sprung created My Dangerous Loverboy, a film and cross-platform media project about sex trafficking
Explaining Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research to public and practitioners
Professor’s research has led to vital treatments and better patient and practitioner understanding