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Students in Sheffield

Student events already in the Sheffield calendar, places around the universities, local areas to explore and practical routes for housing, work and support.

From the live calendar

Student events coming up

Matches come from published event text containing freshers, student or university terms.

Browse the full Sheffield calendar

Plan the academic year

Term dates, travel and days off

The two universities use different calendars, and some courses have non-standard dates. Check the official page for your institution before booking travel or assuming campus services are open.

Plan ahead

Next bank holidays

England and Wales

  • Christmas Day
  • Boxing DaySubstitute day
  • New Year’s Day
  • Good Friday

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From public partner feeds

University and partner events

Checked server-side

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From the local directory

Student places and venues

Directory entries whose published names identify a university or students’ union connection.

Local area links

Explore beyond campus

Start with areas already represented in the Sheffield Events directory and calendar. The counts show local content tagged to each place.

Living here 5 cards

Highest qualification of the 456,292 Sheffield residents aged 16 and over at the 2021 census, and how old the city is.

Highest qualification

Degree or above
33.4%
Level 3 (A level)
18.6%
Apprenticeship
5.5%
Level 2 (GCSE)
11.7%
Level 1
9.1%
No qualifications
19.4%
Other
2.4%

Ages

Aged 15 to 19
6.7%
Aged 20 to 24
9.1%
Aged 25 to 29
7.3%
Aged 65 and over
17%

Youngest neighbourhoods

Share of residents aged 20 to 24. Across Sheffield it was 9.1%.

  1. Cultural Industries Quarter 50% 2,474 residents
  2. Crookesmoor 48.1% 6,531 residents
  3. City Centre 43.8% 1,469 residents
  4. Saint Vincent's and Shalesmoor 43.2% 4,667 residents
  5. Devonshire Quarter 40.9% 2,166 residents
  6. Broomhall 40.1% 5,595 residents

Most degrees per head

Share of adults qualified to degree level or above. Across Sheffield it was 33.4%.

  1. Banner Cross 66.5% 1,301 residents aged 16 and over
  2. Fulwood 66.3% 2,352 residents aged 16 and over
  3. Ecclesall 65.7% 2,624 residents aged 16 and over
  4. Cathedral Quarter 65.3% 1,941 residents aged 16 and over
  5. Nether Green 65.1% 1,411 residents aged 16 and over
  6. Greystones 63.5% 3,454 residents aged 16 and over

Source: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, via Nomis, Open Government Licence v3.0. Neighbourhood figures sum the census areas whose population-weighted centres (ONS Open Geography, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026) fall inside each boundary. Census 2021 on Nomis · All data sources

Department for Education

School absence in Sheffield, 2024/25

The latest published DfE figures for Sheffield local authority against England, academic year 2024/25. A persistent absentee misses 10% or more of possible sessions; a severe absentee misses 50% or more. These describe the whole authority, not any one school.

MeasureSheffieldEngland
Persistent absence, all state-funded schools2024/25 academic year · 16,113 Sheffield pupils21.3%18.1%
Persistent absence, primary2024/25 academic year · 6,040 Sheffield pupils15.4%13.0%
Persistent absence, secondary2024/25 academic year · 9,324 Sheffield pupils27.1%23.4%
Persistent absence, special schools2024/25 academic year · 749 Sheffield pupils35.6%35.3%
Severe absence, all state-funded schools2024/25 academic year · 2,781 Sheffield pupils3.7%2.4%
Severe absence, primary2024/25 academic year · 543 Sheffield pupils1.4%0.9%
Severe absence, secondary2024/25 academic year · 1,991 Sheffield pupils5.8%3.9%
Severe absence, special schools2024/25 academic year · 247 Sheffield pupils11.7%6.9%

Contains Department for Education data from the Explore education statistics API, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data set: Absence for persistent and severe absentees (version 1.0), published 26 Mar 2026, Sheffield local authority (E08000019) and England. Checked 10 Oct 2026. Pupil absence in schools in England · Open Government Licence v3.0 · All data sources

Share of residents aged 16 and over who were full-time students at the 2021 census. Across Sheffield it was 14%.

  1. Cultural Industries Quarter 79% 2,472 residents
  2. Devonshire Quarter 67% 2,163 residents
  3. Netherthorpe 64% 4,129 residents
  4. Endcliffe 64% 5,151 residents
  5. Saint Vincent's and Shalesmoor 64% 4,665 residents
  6. Highfield 62% 5,106 residents
  7. Broomhall 58% 5,596 residents
  8. Crookesmoor 57% 6,531 residents

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Census 2021 tables via Nomis; population-weighted centroids from ONS Open Geography, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census 2021 on Nomis · All data sources

Highest qualification of Sheffield adults, Census 2021
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Highest qualification of Sheffield adults, Census 2021
PointSheffield
No qualifications19.4 %
Level 19.1 %
Level 2 (GCSE)11.7 %
Apprenticeship5.5 %
Level 3 (A level)18.6 %
Degree or above33.4 %
Other2.4 %
Sheffield by five-year age band, Census 2021
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PointSheffield
0 to 45.4 %
5 to 95.8 %
10 to 145.8 %
15 to 196.7 %
20 to 249.1 %
25 to 297.3 %
30 to 347 %
35 to 396.3 %
40 to 445.8 %
45 to 495.8 %
50 to 546.5 %
55 to 596.2 %
60 to 645.3 %
65 to 694.5 %
70 to 744.4 %
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80 to 842.5 %
85 and over2.3 %

Money and energy 2 cards

Cheaper, greener electricity today

Greenest time to charge today

10:30 to 12:30

About 58 gCO2/kWh, the lowest two hours in the next day. Right now the Yorkshire grid is low carbon at 62 gCO2/kWh; the dirtiest half hour is 08:00 at 143.

Generation mix now: 44% wind, 33% biomass, 11% imports, 7% nuclear.

Carbon Intensity API, CC BY 4.0. Forecast for the S1 postcode district.

Cheapest electricity half hours on Agile

The rest of today, Yorkshire Agile Octopus unit rates including VAT. Tomorrow appears after 4pm.

  1. 12:00 to 12:30: 29.2p/kWh
  2. 12:30 to 13:00: 29.4p/kWh
  3. 11:30 to 12:00: 30.2p/kWh
  4. 11:00 to 11:30: 30.9p/kWh
  5. 10:30 to 11:00: 31.5p/kWh
  6. 13:00 to 13:30: 31.8p/kWh

Tariff E-1R-AGILE-24-10-01-M. Only Agile customers pay these rates; other tariffs differ. Source: Octopus Energy API (terms).

What you should be paying for electricity in Yorkshire, and help if the bill is the problem

Carbon intensity and generation mix: National Energy System Operator Carbon Intensity API, CC BY 4.0. Forecasts, not meter readings. Electricity prices: Agile Octopus unit rates for Yorkshire (including VAT) from the Octopus Energy API, used under the Octopus API terms. Only Agile customers pay these rates; check your own tariff. GB generation and demand: Elexon Insights Solution, initial outturn data.

Agile Octopus half-hour unit rates for Yorkshire
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Agile Octopus half-hour unit rates for Yorkshire
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Community 2 cards

The latest posts from the community maker space run by Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers CIC: what members have been building and what is changing at the space. Each one links to the full post on the Hackspace site.

News from Sheffield Hackspace, taken from its public feed. No licence is stated, so only titles, links, dates and a one-line summary are held here; every post lives on the Hackspace site. Checked 28 Oct 2026. Sheffield Hackspace · Feed · All data sources

Department for Education

Train to teach in Sheffield

102 postgraduate teacher training courses starting in 2027 are published by 4 Sheffield providers, with 102 open for applications. QTS is the qualified teacher status every route leads to; a PGCE or PGDE adds a postgraduate award. Fees are the UK fee for the course; each course page has the entry requirements, funding and how to apply.

Courses
102
Open for applications
102
Providers
4
With a PGCE or PGDE
88
Student visa sponsorship
46

Primary

Secondary

Further education and skills

Providers: University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, The Sheffield SCITT, NIoT@Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance.

Teacher training courses from the Department for Education, Publish teacher training courses, Open Government Licence v3.0. Checked 27 Oct 2026. Publish teacher training courses API · Find teacher training courses · All data sources

Data and research 4 cards

OpenAlex university research · Beta

Recent research from Sheffield universities

A small selection of recent works with an author affiliated to the University of Sheffield or Sheffield Hallam University. Affiliation does not mean the research is about Sheffield. Publication dates and metadata may change; inclusion is not an endorsement or a peer-review check.

More from this selection (14)

Research metadata from OpenAlex. CC0 1.0. Snapshot saved 27 Oct 2026. About the source.

UKRI Gateway to Research

Research funded in Sheffield

The newest research and innovation awards from UK Research and Innovation's councils and Innovate UK where the lead organisation is in Sheffield, newest start first. Since Jul 2023, Gateway to Research lists 114 such awards.

Awards led from Sheffield
114
University of Sheffield
94
Sheffield Hallam University
18
Sheffield firms and organisations
2
Value of 11 awards listed
£4.5m

Recently started

Who funds it

Awards led from Sheffield by lead funder
Awards led from Sheffield by lead funderBars for the number of recent Sheffield-led awards from each UKRI council and Innovate UK.Awards09.318.527.837EPSRCAHRCMRCBBSRCHorizonEuropeGuaranteeDSITISCF
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Awards led from Sheffield by lead funder
FunderAwards
EPSRC37 awards
Innovate UK29 awards
AHRC12 awards
STFC10 awards
MRC8 awards
ESRC5 awards
BBSRC5 awards
NERC2 awards
Horizon Europe Guarantee2 awards
UKRI CRCRM1 awards
DSIT1 awards
ISPF1 awards
ISCF1 awards
Sheffield firms and organisations doing R&D (66)

Organisations with a Sheffield postcode that take part in UKRI-funded projects, as lead or partner, with the number of projects Gateway to Research links them to.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (UKRI Gateway to Research). Checked 26 Oct 2026. Gateway to Research · All data sources

From the university repositories

Sheffield research, recently added

847 records added or updated in the last 90 days that are about Sheffield or come from its universities. These are discovery records, not the papers: each link opens the repository page that holds the work.

White Rose Research Online

  • Base-mediated annulation strategy to naphthol boronic ester derivatives Obaida, S.M.B., Harrity, J.P.A. · Article · 2025-11-07

    The base-promoted annulation reaction of homophthalic anhydrides with potassium ynone trifluoroborate salts offers a convenient method to access a range of ortho-acylphenol derivatives with complete regiocontrol. The products can be further functionalized chemoselectively by cross-coupling…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:234730
  • Fidelity as a scalar representation for post-hoc XAI: Toward uncertainty quantification and adversarial detection Tang, Y., Esnaola, I., Panoutsos, G. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-19

    Post-hoc explainable AI (XAI) methods, particularly those that produce explanations formed by feature-wise importance scores, have become central to interpreting opaque AI models. However, post-hoc explanations often suffer from instability arising from their inherent stochasticity and are also…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:239992
  • Wide steering 128QAM direct digitally modulated E-Band time modulated array transmitter Ball, E.A., David Joseph, S. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    A new, joint use, of RF switchable phase inverting TX hardware and time modulated array (TMA) signal processing control is demonstrated at 73 GHz. The techniques control beam steering and apply direct digital modulation. The system provides increased steering range of the modulated beam, compared…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:241509
  • Design and test of a 73 GHz push-push oscillator using voltage controlled tuning without varactors Ball, E.A., David Joseph, S. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    Two push-push mmWave voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) implemented in a commercial GaAs pHEMT process are presented, operating at 73 GHz. Frequency tuning uses Vgs bias control, with no additional varactors. In a set of dies, the maximum tuning range achieved is 795 MHz for design MMIC V4 and…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:241510
  • Heterogeneous integration for D-band communications: A broadband metasurface AiP on glass interposer David Joseph, S., Ball, E.A., Ford, L. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    This paper presents a high-performance broadband metasurface Antenna-in-Package (AiP) solution designed for D-band applications, leveraging glass interposer technology for advanced heterogeneous integration (HI). The antenna architecture utilizes a dual-layer glass interposer stackup with a total…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:242380
  • Broadband GaAs On-chip E-band series fed antenna arrays David Joseph, S., Ball, E.A. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    This paper presents an E-band (70-90 GHz) series-fed antenna array designed for GaAs-based phased array systems. While the initial design was optimized for a thinned 200 µm substrate, the prototype was fabricated on a standardavailable 350 µm GaAs wafer to investigate the feasibility of using…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:242379

White Rose eTheses Online

SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA)

  • Comparative Analysis of Sinusoidal Oscillators with a Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor in the Feedback Loop Dantas Silva, Henrique, Fernandes de Araújo, Jalberth, Carlos Silvério Freire, Raimundo and others · Data Collection · 2026-07-16

    This dataset provides Monte Carlo simulation results for three surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor-based oscillator topologies: Pierce, Colpitts, and Clapp. The simulations were performed by incorporating a SAW sensor equivalent model into the feedback loop of each oscillator, while considering…

    oai:shurda.shu.ac.uk:362

Discovery metadata from White Rose Research Online, White Rose eTheses Online and the SHU Research Data Archive, harvested by OAI-PMH. Records link to the repositories, which hold the papers, theses and data. Checked 26 Oct 2026. White Rose Research Online · White Rose eTheses Online · SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA) · All data sources

The largest groups among the recent records, with a few examples from each. Links open the repository record.

Article 420 records

  • Base-mediated annulation strategy to naphthol boronic ester derivatives Obaida, S.M.B., Harrity, J.P.A. · Article · 2025-11-07

    The base-promoted annulation reaction of homophthalic anhydrides with potassium ynone trifluoroborate salts offers a convenient method to access a range of ortho-acylphenol derivatives with complete regiocontrol. The products can be further functionalized chemoselectively by cross-coupling…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:234730
  • Institutional testimonial injustice and asylum claims Blomfield, M. · Article · 2026-07

    People seeking international protection as refugees are often treated unjustly by receiving states. Examination of an institution that is key to the refugee system but underexplored by philosophers-namely, asylum adjudication-suggests that some of this unjust treatment is distinctly epistemic in…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:232297
  • The effect of business accelerators on regional venture capital funding in the UK Kutuzov, A., Sena, V., Samei, A. and others · Article · 2026-09-25

    Over the past twenty years, numerous local governments in various countries have set up accelerators and incubators to fund start-ups and help transform their local economies. However, there is limited evidence regarding the impact of these programmes on the availability and supply of seed and…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:240796
  • New synthetic mimics for heteroatom polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-based cosmic dust Chan, D.H.H., Brotherton, E.E., Armes, S.P. and others · Article · 2025-11-04

    We report the preparation of new synthetic mimics for nitrogen-based polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PANH) cosmic dust particles. From a small library of candidate molecules, we chose to study benzo[h]quinoline (mp = 51 °C). This simple PANH was processed by hot emulsification in the presence of a…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:233854

Thesis 338 records

Proceedings Paper 29 records

  • Fidelity as a scalar representation for post-hoc XAI: Toward uncertainty quantification and adversarial detection Tang, Y., Esnaola, I., Panoutsos, G. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-19

    Post-hoc explainable AI (XAI) methods, particularly those that produce explanations formed by feature-wise importance scores, have become central to interpreting opaque AI models. However, post-hoc explanations often suffer from instability arising from their inherent stochasticity and are also…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:239992
  • Wide steering 128QAM direct digitally modulated E-Band time modulated array transmitter Ball, E.A., David Joseph, S. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    A new, joint use, of RF switchable phase inverting TX hardware and time modulated array (TMA) signal processing control is demonstrated at 73 GHz. The techniques control beam steering and apply direct digital modulation. The system provides increased steering range of the modulated beam, compared…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:241509
  • Design and test of a 73 GHz push-push oscillator using voltage controlled tuning without varactors Ball, E.A., David Joseph, S. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    Two push-push mmWave voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) implemented in a commercial GaAs pHEMT process are presented, operating at 73 GHz. Frequency tuning uses Vgs bias control, with no additional varactors. In a set of dies, the maximum tuning range achieved is 795 MHz for design MMIC V4 and…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:241510
  • Heterogeneous integration for D-band communications: A broadband metasurface AiP on glass interposer David Joseph, S., Ball, E.A., Ford, L. · Proceedings Paper · 2026-10-08

    This paper presents a high-performance broadband metasurface Antenna-in-Package (AiP) solution designed for D-band applications, leveraging glass interposer technology for advanced heterogeneous integration (HI). The antenna architecture utilizes a dual-layer glass interposer stackup with a total…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:242380

Book Section 26 records

  • Das Grundgesetz und die deutsche Frage. Vom staatsrechtlichen Provisorium zur vollwertigen Verfassung Gehrig, S. · Book Section · 2026-08-06oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:225140
  • Contests Chowdhury, S.M., Kovenock, D., Mukherjee, A. · Book Section · 2026-11-28

    Contests are situations in which agents compete by irreversibly expending costly resources in an attempt to win a prize. Due to their applications in conflict, rent-seeking, organizational incentives, sports, litigation, and political campaigns, contests are widely applied in the social sciences.…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213704
  • What more is there to say ? Yeats’s questions Callaghan, M. · Book Section · 2027-12-31

    “Yeats is supremely the poet of questions” , writes Francis O’Gorman, identifying the interrogative streak that enlivens Yeats’s “passionate syntax”. But Yeats’s questions are not all alike. According to Brian Arkins, 42 poems in Yeats’s oeuvre close with questions, and “Questions play a crucial…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208599
  • Reconsidering Josiah Royce's philosophy of loyalty: meaning, community, and memory Forstenzer, J. · Book Section · 2027-02-28oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213686

Preprint 12 records

  • Quantitative methods in research evaluation citation indicators, altmetrics, and artificial intelligence Thelwall, M. · Preprint · 2024-06-28

    This book critically analyses the value of citation data, altmetrics, and artificial intelligence to support the research evaluation of articles, scholars, departments, universities, countries, and funders. It introduces and discusses indicators that can support research evaluation and analyses…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216046
  • Differentially private regression and classification with sparse Gaussian processes Smith, M.T., Álvarez, M.A., Lawrence, N.D. · Preprint · 2019-09-19

    A continuing challenge for machine learning is providing methods to perform computation on data while ensuring the data remains private. In this paper we build on the provable privacy guarantees of differential privacy which has been combined with Gaussian processes through the previously published…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155233
  • Skorohod's topologies on path space Freeman, N., Swart, J.M. · Preprint · 2022-12-15oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196169
  • Variation of stable birational types of hypersurfaces Shinder, E., Voisin, C. · Preprint · 2019-03-25

    We introduce and study the question how can stable birational types vary in a smooth proper family. Our starting point is the specialization for stable birational types of Nicaise and the author and our emphasis is on stable birational types of hypersurfaces. Building up on the work of Totaro and…

    oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148427

Data Collection 9 records

Discovery metadata from White Rose Research Online, White Rose eTheses Online and the SHU Research Data Archive, harvested by OAI-PMH. Records link to the repositories, which hold the papers, theses and data. Checked 26 Oct 2026. White Rose Research Online · White Rose eTheses Online · SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA) · All data sources

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