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Steve ThompsonInterim Deputy Director of Corporate Communications and Head of Digital
Steve Thompson is the Interim Deputy Director of Corporate Communications and Head of Digital at the University of Sheffield, with a focus on digital communications and showcasing research and its impact. He and his team are behind the re-launched University-wide campaign #WeAreInternational which aims to ensure International students and staff are welcome in the UK post-Brexit.
Since joining the University of Sheffield, his team has won several CASE and Heist awards such as the Best Use of Social Media and the CASE European District Circle of Excellence award for Best Practices in Communication and Marketing.
Previous roles include eBay Enterprise where he led the implementation of the digital communications for the Times newspaper paywall launch and delivered global email marketing communications for British Airways.
Founded in 1905, the University of Sheffield has grown in reputation and size to become one of the UK’s leading universities with a global reputation for teaching and research. As part of the UK Russell Group, the University is a premier-league, research-led institution with over 26,000 students including more than 7,000 international students from 121 countries and over 7,000 members of staff.
The University of Sheffield was voted number one in the UK for accommodation, social life, and community atmosphere in the 2015 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. Its Students’ Union was also voted number one in the UK for the seventh year running. The University is renowned for its friendliness and sense of community; an experience which students enjoy so much that many settle in Sheffield after they graduate.
The University has produced a number of leading figures in the area of research including six Nobel Prize winners, 12 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and 18 fellows of the Royal Society, and many of our alumni have gone on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence around the world.
The Latest from The University of Sheffield
Researchers from @sheffielduni visited nearly 6,000 houses across 42 developments , and this is what they found .
Read the summary and/or full version here:
NEW report from us @WildJustice_org today – #LostNature – which details how housing developers are failing wildlife across the board on every measure . 🧵
The South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub (@SoYoDHH) is marking its first anniversary by awarding £500,000 to new projects designed to improve disease diagnosis and treatment by using wearable tech together with NHS data to create novel clinical tools.
Tackling health inequality in South Yorkshire with wearable technology
Pioneering projects using smartphones and wearable technology to address the high levels of health inequalities and di...
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What makes ChatGPT able to answer the questions it does? Here's an explainer from academic Mark Stevenson - with the briefest of summaries in this thread.
https://theconversation.com/large-language-models-how-the-ai-behind-the-likes-of-chatgpt-actually-works-244701
So ChatGPT, trained on trillions of words and uses reinforcement learning to interact with human prompts. And then AI-generated feedback is used, to simulate human feedback (and cut down costs).
And it’s trained to be flexible - it can respond to a wide range of tasks, like completing a sentence or answering questions. It uses the prompt to determine the context of the task, and goes from there.
We’ve been ranked 27th globally out of 1,751 institutions in the 2025 QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, as well as 10th in the UK and 16th in Europe!
The rankings assess universities’ impact on the world’s greatest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues.…
Our scientists are fully committed to finding other alternatives to animal research.
Sansanima, a University of Sheffield spinout, has created a technology that will prevent animals from being used to quality control major global medicines like the tetanus vaccine.
How do we make tomorrow better than today? 🌍
We transform ideas into breakthroughs that have world-changing impact.
This is the future. And it will be Sheffield made.
Find out more 👇
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/future
Wonderful to see @DrSharronH's ‘Age of Love’ project with @PeteMcKee & regional partners recognised with the prestigious Presidents' Medal at the Market Research Society and Research Live Awards 2024 🏅
Their efforts to tackle discrimination & promote healthy sex lives for older…
Soil is a key resource in our fight against climate change.
In this piece for @ConversationUK, PhD candidate Meg Meredith takes us through five novels that help to understand our relationship with soil and its importance:
Five speculative novels that can help to understand our relationship with soil
By looking at how it is represented in works of fiction, we can try to understand how we relate to soil. And...
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Ranked in top 50 most international universities in the world
The University’s research partners and clients include: Boeing, Rolls Royce, Unilever, Boots, AstraZeneca, GSK, ICI, Slazenger, and many more household names, as well as UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.
We work with partners that are recognised as excellent in their regions, and who recognise educational values and systems operating in those regions without compromising the values of our guiding principles. The expertise of our partners complements our own knowledge, creates increased value and strengthens our collaboration. These strategic partnerships will help us to develop teaching and research activities at a scale that could not happen otherwise, by adding value to our own knowledge through the collaboration and thereby extending our global reach and reputation.
Mission and vision
- To educate others and ourselves and to learn through doing so, thereby improving the world.
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That research, teaching, and learning together create a positive culture of higher education.
Ranked in the top 1% of world universities
1,476+
Research staff
£197.5m
Income from research grants and contracts (17/18)
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are passionate about tackling the great global challenges of our time.
The key issues facing humanity are embedded within complex systems, which cross the boundaries of academic disciplines. They recognise that effectively addressing these challenges means working together across the traditional boundaries of our research fields.
Tackling complex issues requires interdisciplinary and translational research – taking academic research and turning it into real-world solutions.
Our researchers are making life-changing discoveries and solving problems that have a global impact.
From developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and making our energy sources sustainable, to addressing the challenges of food security and an ageing population, we’re finding ways to improve our world.
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