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More than 30,000 pupils across South Yorkshire benefit from Children’s University

More than 30,000 pupils from schools across South Yorkshire have completed more than 2.5 million hours of extra-curricular activities as part of the Children’s University in 2024.
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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 disease across the region, have been awarded funding at the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub (SYDHH).
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Tim Chico, Director of the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub, outlines the Hub's mission.

South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub: a year of community building and innovation

Twelve months in, the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub (SYDHH) is making strides along the road to addressing the stark health inequalities that exist across the region.
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New £3 million programme launched to support South Yorkshire innovation

The South Yorkshire Innovation Programme (SYIP) has been officially launched to help regional organisations to innovate, accelerate, and grow
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Festival of the Mind is a thank you to ºù«Ӱҵ

As Festival of the Mind approaches, Professor Vanessa Toulmin explains how this is our thank you to the city that founded us, a time when we share freely our world-class collaborative research for the citizens of ºù«Ӱҵ.
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Off the Shelf: Landmarks of society and literature to be celebrated at ºù«Ӱҵ book festival

Journalistic heavyweights, a punk pioneer, one of design’s leading names and a hugely successful US novelist are among the writers appearing at the returning Off The Shelf festival in ºù«Ӱҵ.

Archaeologists start work to reveal ºù«Ӱҵ’s lost medieval castle - and to inspire urban regeneration

A team of archaeologists is set to reveal the lost remains of ºù«Ӱҵ Castle as part of a project that could be used to help regenerate part of the city.

Five-year funding confirmed for University's High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres

Ongoing funding has been confirmed for the University of ºù«Ӱҵ's two High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres.

Archaeologists start work to reveal ºù«Ӱҵ’s lost medieval castle - and to inspire urban regeneration

A major new exhibition celebrating 250 show-stopping years of circus in the UK has launched this week thanks to a researcher at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ.