The University Of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1905 as successor to the University College of Sheffield, which was established in 1897 by the merger of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884).

Sheffield is a multi-campus university predominantly over two campus areas: the Western Bank and the St George's. The university is organized into five academic faculties composed of multiple departments. It had 20,005 undergraduate and 8,710 postgraduate students in 2016/17. The annual income of the institution for 2017–18 was £678.3 million of which £196.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £627.8 million. Sheffield ranks among the top 10 of UK universities for research grant funding, and it has become number one in the UK for income and investment in engineering research according to new data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Sheffield was placed 78th worldwide and 12th in the UK according to QS World University Rankings and 106th worldwide and 12th in the UK according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It was also ranked 12th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. In 2011, Sheffield was named 'University of the Year' in the Times Higher Education awards. The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories.

It is one of the original red brick universities, a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium. There are eight Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield and six of them are the alumni or former long-term staff of the university.

Buildings

• Main (Western Bank) campus
• Octagon Centre
• Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings
• Hicks Building
• Arts Tower and Western Bank Library
• St George's Campus
• Sir Frederick Mappin Building
• St George's Church
• West of the main campus
• Bartolomé House

Libraries and museums

The University has currently five libraries: the Information Commons, Western Bank Library, Health Sciences Libraries (Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital), and The Diamond. The University of Sheffield Library is a member of Research Libraries UK.

The Western Bank Library has an Exhibition Gallery. The Gallery space enables collections from the University Library and the National Fairground Archive to be displayed in controlled conditions.

The Alfred Denny Museum is a museum operated by the University. It was established in 1905, and was located in Firth Court then moved to Alfred Denny Building. The Museum has specimens from all major phyla, and two letters written from Charles Darwin to Henry Denny. Many of the specimens have been collected since the 1900s, but much of the information about the collection was lost during the Second World War.

The Turner Museum of Glass houses the University's collections of 19th and 20th century glass. It contains items mainly from major European and American glassworkers and examples from ancient Egypt and Rome. It is in the Hadfield Building. It was founded by W E S Turner of the University in 1943. One of the exhibits is the wedding dress of Helen Nairn (Turner's wife) which is made of glass fibre. This has been selected as one of the items in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects.

The Traditional Heritage Museum (THM) was part of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition opened to the public in 1985. It was created by Prof Widdowson in 1964 and was run by volunteers and students. The THM housed collections including a replica kitchen from the 1920s, reconstructed workshops and retail shops, such as Pollard's tea and coffee. The University decided to close the Museum in 2011 because the building could not afford continued public access.

Faculties and departments

The University has five faculties plus an International Faculty in Thessaloniki, Greece.

• Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• Archaeology
• School of English
• French
• Germanic Studies
• Hispanic Studies
• History
• Modern Languages Teaching Centre
• Music
• Philosophy
• Russian & Slavonic Studies
• Faculty of Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
• Bioengineering
• Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Civil and Structural Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electronic and Electrical Engineering
• Material Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health
• Cardiovascular Medicine
• School of Dentistry
• Human Communication Sciences
• Human Metabolism
• Infection and Immunity
• Medical School
• Neuroscience
• School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Oncology
• School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
• Faculty of Science
• Animal and Plant Science
• School of Mathematics and Statistics
• Biomedical Science
• Chemistry
• Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• Physics and Astronomy
• Psychology
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Architecture
• East Asian Studies
• Economics
• Education
• Geography
• Journalism
• Landscape
• Law
• Management School
• Politics
• Sociology
• Urban Studies and Planning
• International Faculty – City College, Thessaloniki
• Business Administration & Economics
• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Humanities and Social Sciences

Student accommodation

The University halls of residence comprise two separate sites: Ranmoor/Endcliffe, and City.

Off campus can be found Sheffield Student Housing Co-operative, a student housing cooperative providing not-for-profit, student-managed housing for its members. They currently manage a property on Northfield Road in Crookes, Sheffield.