Sheffield Hallam University

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Sheffield Hallam University
Motto Learn and Serve
Established (1969 as a polytechnic) became a university 1992
Type Public
Chancellor Professor the Lord Robert Winston
Vice-Chancellor Prof Diana Green
Faculty 3,000
Students 28,000
Location Sheffield, England
Website www.shu.ac.uk

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a university in Sheffield, England. It is based at three main campuses, one at Pond Street in Sheffield city centre and two (Psalter Lane and Collegiate Crescent) along Ecclesall Road in southwest Sheffield. The University Chancellor is Lord Winston [1].

With more than 28,000 students, over 3,000 staff and 650 courses, the University is the country's sixth largest. The Research Assessment Exercise in 2001 placed SHU joint top amongst the newer universities.

The university claims that one of its top priorities is promoting regional wealth creation through enterprise and knowledge transfer. This commitment is represented at strategic level via the Sheffield First Partnership – a high-level public, private and voluntary sector partnership which exists to develop and implement economic and social strategies for the city.

One of SHU's leading researchers and scientists is Prof. F.B.Pickering, a metallurgist.

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[edit] History

A view of the Surrey, Harmer and Owen Buildings.
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A view of the Surrey, Harmer and Owen Buildings.

In 1843, as the industrial revolution gathered pace and Sheffield was on the verge of becoming the steel, tool and cutlery making capital of the world, Sheffield School of Design was founded. After a distinguished history as one of Britain’s top schools of art and design for more than a century, it became one of the colleges that merged with the city’s College of Technology in 1969 to form Sheffield Polytechnic—one of the first polytechnics in the United Kingdom.

In 1976, the Polytechnic was renamed Sheffield City Polytechnic when it absorbed the city’s two teacher training colleges, one of which was itself founded back in 1902. Along with all other British polytechnics, Sheffield City Polytechnic became a university with the right to award its own degrees in 1992, and thus became Sheffield Hallam University.

In 2005, the university reorganised into faculties, including a new Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, reflecting the holistic approach of the university to health and social care-related matters. At the same time, a new Clinical Academic Group was launched to incorporate the appointment of several new medically-qualified Honorarary Professors, all of whom are Consultants based at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest hospital trusts in the United Kingdom. This was set up with the intention of developing research and teaching energetically, and the initiative is set to expand further in 2006. Sheffield Hallam University is already extremely active in the training of the professions allied to medicine, and in 2006 will take over all of the teaching of nursing and midwifery from Sheffield University. The university is very keen to increase and develop its overseas links, and a new range of qualifications with an international flavour; including a Masters degree in International and Travel Health (the first of its kind in the United Kingdom), were launched in 2005.

The Faculty of Development and Society focuses on 'social inclusion' bringing together the subject disciplines of the built environment, education and humanities and social science and law. The main emphasis is on 'people, places and spaces'.

[edit] Chancellor

Life peer and fertility expert Lord Winston was installed as Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in a ceremony at the Millennium Galleries on Friday 5 October 2001.[2]

[edit] Organisation

[edit] Faculties

The university's Owen Building, part of the City Campus on Arundel Gate.
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The university's Owen Building, part of the City Campus on Arundel Gate.

Sheffield Hallam University is divided into four faculties:

  • Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Science (ACES): Computing & Management Sciences, Cultural Studies, Engineering and Science & Mathematics
  • Faculty of Development and Society (D&S): Built Environment, Architecture, Surveying, Construction, Urban Regeneration, Cultural Studies, Education, English, Environment and Social Science & Law
  • Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB): Health & Social Care, Science & Mathematics, Sport & Leisure Management
  • Faculty of Organisation and Management (O&M): Business & Finance, Environment & Development, Sport & Leisure Management

[edit] Research centres

In the bid to push its research agenda, approximately 20 centres for pure research had been formed. Of this the following have had outstanding success in government research exercises, income generation and industrial co-operation:

  • Materials and Engineering Research Institute - MERI
  • Biomedical Research Centre - BMRC
  • Centre for Education Research - CER
  • Centre for Sport and Exercise Science - CSES
  • Centre for Health and Social Care Research - hsc
  • Centre for Professional and Organisational Development - CPOD
  • Centre for Sustainable Consumption - CSC
  • Centre for Tourism, Leisure and Environmental Change- [3]
  • Centre for Homosexuality and Sexuality Integration
  • Culture, Communication and Computing Research Institute - C3RI

Through these centres of excellence, a number of university spin-off companies were formed. Some include:

[edit] Notable alumni

See also Category:Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University.

[edit] Notable staff

[edit] In the news

Rollout of Space Shuttle Discovery.
  • 1 July 2005 - Sheffield Hallam graduate, Jef Graham, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Netgear, one of the largest manufacturers of networking equipment. News item at Yahoo Financial News
  • 10 July 2005 - ex-Sheffield Hallam researcher, Gary Nicholson, invents a hard-wearing material made from 85% recycled glass called GlassStone. News item at The Guardian
  • 1 August 2005 - The Faculty of Heath and Wellbeing wins a prestigious £45 million government contract to develop medical training courses. News items at Medical News Today and StaffNurse.com
  • 3 August 2005 - the design of the 50-foot robotic arm aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery was carried out at Sheffield Hallam University. News items at the Europa and Yorkshire Post

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Universities in Yorkshire and the Humber

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