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The 10 December marks International Human Rights Day and the 2020 theme is Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights with a focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to put human rights at the centre of global responses and recovery.

Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. As recent studies have shown, the way we take selfies – and the specific camera angles we choose – varies depending on what we intend to do with them.

The COP29 climate conference concluded 33 hours late, with a final sprint of chaotic late-night negotiations.

The UK’s Festival of Social Science returns to Sheffield this autumn to delve into the ideas that shape our everyday lives through the pioneering work of the city’s world-leading social scientists.

People are more willing to adhere to Covid-19 restrictions if they are praised for their efforts and told why guidelines are changing, according to behavioural science experts from Sheffield Hallam University.

A Sheffield Hallam University social justice professor whose research aims to transform care and protection of child victims of human trafficking has been conferred as a fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences.

A new plaque to commemorate Abiah Higginbottom, a Sheffield woman who led the first-ever petition for the right of all women to vote, has been unveiled at Sheffield Hallam University.

Staff profile for Jon Dean, Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University

Councils could help improve rights for local workers most vulnerable to insecure, exploitative and unsafe working conditions by working with trade unions, new research shows.

Different camera angles used by men and women when taking selfies serve as a type of non-verbal communication about the photo taker’s intentions, according to new research.