| Sheffield Hallam University | |||||||||||||||
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| Motto | Learn and Serve | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1843 (Founded) | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Professor The Lord Winston | ||||||||||||||
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Philip Jones | ||||||||||||||
| Academic staff | 4,360[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Students | 33,830[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 25,555[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 8,275[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Campus | City campus and Collegiate crescent campus. | ||||||||||||||
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| Affiliations | University Alliance Association of Commonwealth Universities |
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| Website | http://www.shu.ac.uk/ | ||||||||||||||
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a higher education institution in South Yorkshire, England, based on two sites in Sheffield. City Campus is located in the city centre, close to Sheffield railway station, and Collegiate Crescent Campus is about two miles away, adjacent to Ecclesall Road in south-west Sheffield.
The university is the fourth largest in the UK after The Open University and the Manchester universities,[2] with more than 33,000 students, 4,360 staff and 572 courses.
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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, the Sheffield School of Design which is now in collegiate crescent campus was founded. For over a century it enjoyed a distinguished history as one of Britain’s top schools of art and design.
1905 The City of Sheffield Training College on Collegiate Crescent admitted its first 90 students.
1967 The Owen Building is constructed.[3] Built in a functional 1960s design, it has been modernised and renovated numerous times since construction.[4]
1969 The Sheffield School of Design merged with the city’s College of Technology to form Sheffield Polytechnic.
1976 Sheffield Polytechnic absorbed the city’s two teacher training colleges, and was renamed Sheffield City Polytechnic.
1987 The institution becomes a founding member of the Northern Consortium.
1992 Sheffield City Polytechnic became Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), with the right to award its own degrees.
2004 SHU appointed its first clinical medical Honorary Professors.
2005 SHU was reorganised into four large faculties (see below). The new Faculty of Development and Society, with an emphasis on 'people, places and spaces', brought together education, geography, humanities, law, and social sciences. At the same time, with the intention of further developing research and teaching in the new Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, a new Clinical Academic Group was launched. The building that had been designed and constructed to house the National Centre for Popular Music became the university's students' union building (the HUBS). The former students' union building, the Nelson Mandela Building, was sold and has since been demolished.
2007 SHU took over the teaching of nursing and midwifery from the University of Sheffield. These activities are based at the Collegiate Crescent Campus.
2008 The Psalter Lane campus (formerly the Sheffield College of Art) was closed, and the activities transferred to the City Campus. The Psalter Lane site has been sold and is to be used for housing. A £26 million energy-efficient Furnival Building (renamed Cantor Building in 2011) opened in September. The building, which includes teaching spaces and an art gallery is said to be "the impressive new entry point to the campus".[5]
SHU is divided into four faculties:
Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences (ACES): Art & Design; Business Systems & IT; Communication & Media; Computers & Computing; Engineering & Technology; Mathematics & Statistics; and Multimedia & the Internet.
Faculty of Development and Society (D&S): Architecture & Planning; Built Environment; Education; English; Geography & Environmental Science; Humanities; Law & Community Justice; Social Sciences, Performing Arts.
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB): Biosciences; Diagnostic Radiography; Nursing & Midwifery; Occupational Therapy; Operating Department Practitioners; Paramedic Studies; Physiotherapy; Radiotherapy & Oncology; Social Work; and Sport.
Sheffield Business School (SBS) – formerly known as the Faculty of Organisation and Management (O&M): Business & Management; Facilities Management; Finance; Food & Nutrition; Language & Culture; and Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management.
SHU has 30 research centres, including the following:
Through these centres of excellence, a number of spin-off companies have been formed, including:
SHU is the lead partner for Higher Futures, the Lifelong Learning Network (LLN) for South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire.
In the National Student Survey, several subject areas at SHU have performed very well in terms of overall student satisfaction with their courses: architecture and geography were placed first, and planning and housing studies was placed second.[6]
In the most recent university league tables, SHU was placed 49th out of 119 UK universities by The Guardian,[7] 68th by The Independent, 69th by The Times and 64th by The Sunday Times.
Life peer and fertility expert Lord Winston was installed as Chancellor of SHU in a ceremony at the Millennium Galleries on Friday 5 October 2001.[8] Winston has a long history in academia, being at present, and for the majority of his career, a full time faculty member at Imperial College London.
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