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The 'University of Sheffield' is a research university, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.
The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges. The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828, followed in 1879 by the opening of Firth College by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects. Firth College then helped to fund the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the 'University College of Sheffield'. Sheffield is one of the six original Red Brick Universities.
It was originally envisaged that the University College would join Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as the fourth member of the federal Victoria University. However, the Victoria University began to split-up before this could happen and so the University College of Sheffield received its own Royal Charter in 1905 and became the 'University of Sheffield'.
From 200 full-time students in 1905, the University grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings (including the famous Arts Tower) were built and student numbers increased to their present levels of over 20,000.
In 1995, the University took over the Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty although in 2005 it decided to pass these subjects over to Sheffield Hallam University.
Over the years, the University has been home to a number of famous writers and scholars, including the literary critic William Empson, who was head of the Department of English; author Angela Carter; five Nobel Prize winners; and Bernard Crick, who taught politics with future Labour Party politician David Blunkett as one of his students.
The University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its buildings are close together. The centre of the University's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the University. This area includes the students' union, the Octagon Centre, Firth Court, the Geography and Planning building, the Alfred Denny Building (housing natural sciences and including a small museum), the Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings (chemistry) and the Hicks Building (mathematics and physics). The Grade II
★ -listed library and Arts Tower are also located there. The Arts Tower houses one of Europe's few surviving examples of a Paternoster Lift. A concourse under the main road (the A57) allows students to easily move between these buildings. The Information Commons is the newest building, added in 2007. The Information Commons is a modern concept of a 24/7 learning environment that includes a new library, coffeeshop and restaurant, state of the art digital and computer infrastructure, lounge areas and flexible learning space.
To the east lies St George's Campus, named for St George's Church, now a lecture theatre. The campus is centred on Mappin Street, home to a number of University buildings, including the Faculty of Engineering (partly housed in the Grade II-listed Mappin Building) and the Sheffield University School of Management and Department of Computer science. The University also maintains the Turner Museum of Glass in this area. The University has recently acquired the listed old Victorian Jessop Hospital for Women buildings and HSE Building. Both buildings are currently being refurbished to house the Departments of Law, History and English, thus fully joining the West and St. George's campuses.
Further west lies Weston Park, the Weston Park Museum, the Harold Cantor Gallery, sports facilities and the faculties of law in the Crookesmoor area and medicine, in the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (although taught in the city's extensive teaching hospitals under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and throughout South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire).
Further west still lie the University halls of residence, Ranmoor House, Halifax Hall of Residence, Stephenson Hall of Residence and Tapton Hall of Residence, and the music department, in the Broomhill and Crookes areas of the city.
The Manvers campus, at Wath-on-Dearne between Rotherham and Barnsley, is where the majority of nursing is taught.
Like most British universities, the University of Sheffield is headed by a Vice-Chancellor, Prof Bob Boucher, CBE and a titular Chancellor, Sir Peter Middleton. Recently Professor Keith Burnett was appointed as the university's next Vice-Chancellor, taking office at the end of 2007 when Prof Boucher's period of office comes to an end. Prof Burnett is currently Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the University of Oxford and before that Chairman of Physics.
The University is organised into seven faculties, with all the faculties except Law being sub-divided into numerous departments:
★ Faculty of Architectural Studies
★ Faculty of Arts
★ Faculty of Engineering
★ Faculty of Law
★ Faculty of Medicine
★ Faculty of Pure Science
★ Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Sheffield is a major contributor to research, being the sixth most highly rated research university in the UK (2001).
In the latest round of Teaching Quality Assessments (TQA 1993-2001) Sheffield ranked third in the UK for the highest number of "Excellent" rated subject areas. Nearly 75% of all teaching subjects achieved a 24/24 (Excellent) score. Firth court.jpg
The University is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, the Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose University Consortium.
The University of Sheffield is rated 8th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 69th in the world in an annual academic ranking of the top 500 universities worldwide published in August 2005. Researchers at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University evaluated the universities using several research performance indicators, including the number of highly cited researchers, academic performance, articles in the periodicals Science and Nature, and the number of Nobel prizewinners. A separate ranking, published in the US by Newsweek magazine, and released in August 2006, ranked Sheffield 9th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 70th in the world in a list of the Global Top 100 Universities.
The University has won Queen's Anniversary Awards in 1998, 2000 and 2002. It was also named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001. In 2005, the Sunday Times rated the University as the 24th best in the UK.
Sheffield is particularly famous for its Archaeology, Architecture, Management, Chemistry, Engineering, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Dentistry, English, Geography, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics Physics, Computer Science and Town Planning departments, which are heavily oversubscribed.
Major 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.
For many years the University has been engaged in theological publishing through Sheffield Academic Press and JSOT Press.
The University of Sheffield is also a partner organisation in Higher Futures, a collaborative association of institutions set up under the government's Lifelong Learning Networks initiative, to co-ordinate vocational and work-based education.[2]
The University's Faculty of Pure Science may boast an association with four Nobel Prizes, one for the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology:
★ (1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Prof. Hans Adolf Krebs, "for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration")
As well as three to its world-renowned Department of Chemistry:
★ (1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Prof. George Porter (later Lord Porter), "for their work on extremely fast chemical reactions" (see Flash photolysis)
★ 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (joint award), Richard J. Roberts, "for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence"
★ 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Sir Harry Kroto, "for their discovery of fullerenes").
With another nobel laureate, Howard Florey, Sheffield shares some glory. Howard Florey was the Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology at Sheffield from 1932 until his move to Oxford in 1935. In 1945 Florey and his colleague Ernst Chain, together with Alexander Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on penicillin.
The University of Sheffield's 25,000 students arrive mostly from the UK, but include some 3,700+ international students from 120 different countries that come to Sheffield not only for its world-class research and teaching quality but also for the city's renowned student and social scene and its relatively cheap costs of living.
The university employs nearly 6,000 people, including almost 1,400 academic staff.
Main articles: University of Sheffield Union of Students
The University of Sheffield Union of Students is one of the largest students' unions in the UK, and was founded in 1956. It has two bars (Bar One (which has a book-able function room with its own bar, The Raynor Lounge) and The Interval), three club venues (Fusion, Foundry and Octagon), one off-campus public house (The Fox and Duck) and coffee shop (Coffee Revolution), various restaurants, shops, a supermarket, the cinema Film Unit, a fully functioning and student run theatre company (suTCo), a student radio station called Sure Radio, its own newspaper, The Steel Press, and about two hundred student societies, many sports teams and a turnover of around £8,000,000.
The Union is also home to a variety of advice and support services and manages the successful USports sports facilities.
In addition to the student union-supported sports teams, Sheffield University Bankers Hockey Club play top-flight field hockey in the national first division. The annual Varsity Challenge takes place between teams from the University and its rival Sheffield Hallam University in over 30 events.
As part of rag week, University of Sheffield students used to take part in the Pyjama Jump[2] pub crawl, dressed only in nightwear in mid-winter: the men often to dress in nighties and the women in pyjamas. This event was banned in 1997 following the hospitalisation of several students.[3] The roleplaying society run a 24 hour roleplaying event on RAG weekend. Another rag week tradition is the Spiderwalk, a fifty mile trek through the city and the Peak District, the first half through the night. Although publication has been sporadic in recent years, Twikker, the Rag Magazine, is usually sold to raise funds. Sheffield's students are also very active when it comes to volunteering for good causes. The Union's "SheffieldVolunteering" scheme is one of the countries most active and well-recognised student volunteering schemes that has won various national acclaim over the years.
See also .
Arts
★ Nicci Gerrard, author
★ Joanne Harris, author (later became faculty)
★ Jack Rosenthal, playwright
Education
★ Professor John Brooks, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University (PhD Microbiology 1978)
★ Professor Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor, Bournemouth University (Bsc Geography 1968)
★ Professor Tolu Olukayode Odugbemi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos (Bsc Physics 1970 PhD 1973)
★ Professor Sir David Melville, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent (Bsc Physics 1965 PhD 1970)
★ Professor Michael Sterling, Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham (BEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering 1967 PhD 1971)
★ George Martin Stephen, High Master, St Pauls PhD
Industry
★ John Devaney, Chairman, Marconi PLC
★ Penny Hughes, former president of Coca-Cola Enterprises (UK) (BSc(Hons) Chemistry
★ Edward H Ntalami, Chief Executive, Capital Markets Authority, Kenya
★ Sir Peter Middleton, Camelot Barclays Group Chairman
★ Jim O'Neill, Head of Global Economic Research, Goldman Sachs
Law
★ David Childs, Clifford Chance, Managing Partner LLB
★ The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Maurice Kay, Lord Justice of Appeal LLB PhD
★ Dame Julia Macur, High Court Judge LLB
★ Dame Anne Rafferty, High Court Judge LLB
★ Phil Wheatley, Director-General, HM Prison Service LLB
★ Dato' Arifin Zakaria, Federal Court Judge of Malaysia LLB
Media
★ Stephen Daldry, film director
★ John O'Leary, Times Higher Education Supplement editor
★ Martin Fry, lead singer of ABC
★ Eddie Izzard, comedian
★ Linda Smith, comedian
★ Rachel Shelley, actress (BA(Hons) English and Drama)
Pioneer
★ Amy Johnson, pilot (BA(Hons) Economics, 1926)
★ Helen Sharman, astronaut (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1984)
Politics
★ David Blunkett, politician (BA(Hons) Political Theory and Institutions, 1972)
★ Ann Taylor, politician
★ Anne Margaret Main,Conservative MP for St Albans.
Science
★ Sir Donald Bailey, civil engineer and inventor of the Bailey bridge
★ Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-winning chemist (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1961; PhD, 1961-1964)
★ Sir Hans Kornberg, biochemist
★ Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1965; PhD, 1968)
★ Vanessa Lawrence, Ordnance Survey Director General
Sport
★ David Davies, The Football Association Chief Executive
★ Jessica Ennis, heptathlete
★ Tony Miles, Britain's first chess grand master
★ David Wetherall, footballer
★ Francis Berry, poet and literary critic
★ Professor Peter Blundell Jones, professor in architecture, author, historian and critic
★ Angela Carter, author (1976-1978)
★ Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, archaeologist
★ Charles Eliot, Vice Chancellor
★ William Empson, poet (The School of English named its facilities after him)
★ Joanne Harris, author (2000; was also a student)
★ Peter Hill, world famous pianist and expert on the works of Olivier Messiaen
★ Prof David Hughes (Astronomer), Award winning Astronomer. Asteroid 4205 is named in his honour.
★ Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
★ Hans Adolf Krebs, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1935-1954)
★ Stephen Laurence, philosopher and cognitive scientist
★ David Marquand, politician
★ Edward Mellanby, pharmacologist and discoverer of Vitamin D
★ George Porter, Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1955-1966)
★ Dominic Sandbrook, historian (2001-2004)
★ William Sarjeant, geologist
★ Professor W E S Turner (1881-1963), Eminent professor of Glass technology and founder of the Museum which bears his name
★ Professor Sir James Underwood (? - ?), Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
The Sheffield Students Motor Club
existed from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s and membership was open to students and post-graduates from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University). The club organised twelve-car rallies and treasure hunts and two major annual rallies, the Rallye Escafeld and the Witchhunt rally. The club also ran the Mid Summer Venture Rally one year. Many of the members subsequently made their careers in the motor industry including Ford, Austin-Rover and Lotus. There was a reunion of members on 12th - 14th October 2001 in Sheffield and another one on 25th & 26th of September 2004. See also Sheffield Students Motor Club reunion
There are two official histories of the university
★ Arthur W. Chapman (1955) ''The Story of a Modern University: A History of the University of Sheffield'', Oxford University Press.
★ Helen Mathers (2005) ''Steel City Scholars: The Centenary History of the University of Sheffield'', London: James & James.
★ Sheffield Hallam University
1. Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06
2. Partners
★ University of Sheffield
The 'University of Sheffield' is a research university, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.
History
The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges. The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828, followed in 1879 by the opening of Firth College by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects. Firth College then helped to fund the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the 'University College of Sheffield'. Sheffield is one of the six original Red Brick Universities.
Firth Court.
It was originally envisaged that the University College would join Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as the fourth member of the federal Victoria University. However, the Victoria University began to split-up before this could happen and so the University College of Sheffield received its own Royal Charter in 1905 and became the 'University of Sheffield'.
From 200 full-time students in 1905, the University grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings (including the famous Arts Tower) were built and student numbers increased to their present levels of over 20,000.
In 1995, the University took over the Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty although in 2005 it decided to pass these subjects over to Sheffield Hallam University.
Over the years, the University has been home to a number of famous writers and scholars, including the literary critic William Empson, who was head of the Department of English; author Angela Carter; five Nobel Prize winners; and Bernard Crick, who taught politics with future Labour Party politician David Blunkett as one of his students.
Location
The Arts Tower. In recent years the windows of south facing facade have occasionally been blanked out with paper to form massive advertisements for charity campaigns.
The University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its buildings are close together. The centre of the University's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the University. This area includes the students' union, the Octagon Centre, Firth Court, the Geography and Planning building, the Alfred Denny Building (housing natural sciences and including a small museum), the Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings (chemistry) and the Hicks Building (mathematics and physics). The Grade II
★ -listed library and Arts Tower are also located there. The Arts Tower houses one of Europe's few surviving examples of a Paternoster Lift. A concourse under the main road (the A57) allows students to easily move between these buildings. The Information Commons is the newest building, added in 2007. The Information Commons is a modern concept of a 24/7 learning environment that includes a new library, coffeeshop and restaurant, state of the art digital and computer infrastructure, lounge areas and flexible learning space.
The Information Commons.
To the east lies St George's Campus, named for St George's Church, now a lecture theatre. The campus is centred on Mappin Street, home to a number of University buildings, including the Faculty of Engineering (partly housed in the Grade II-listed Mappin Building) and the Sheffield University School of Management and Department of Computer science. The University also maintains the Turner Museum of Glass in this area. The University has recently acquired the listed old Victorian Jessop Hospital for Women buildings and HSE Building. Both buildings are currently being refurbished to house the Departments of Law, History and English, thus fully joining the West and St. George's campuses.
Further west lies Weston Park, the Weston Park Museum, the Harold Cantor Gallery, sports facilities and the faculties of law in the Crookesmoor area and medicine, in the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (although taught in the city's extensive teaching hospitals under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and throughout South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire).
Further west still lie the University halls of residence, Ranmoor House, Halifax Hall of Residence, Stephenson Hall of Residence and Tapton Hall of Residence, and the music department, in the Broomhill and Crookes areas of the city.
The Manvers campus, at Wath-on-Dearne between Rotherham and Barnsley, is where the majority of nursing is taught.
Organisation
Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Faculty of Engineering.
Like most British universities, the University of Sheffield is headed by a Vice-Chancellor, Prof Bob Boucher, CBE and a titular Chancellor, Sir Peter Middleton. Recently Professor Keith Burnett was appointed as the university's next Vice-Chancellor, taking office at the end of 2007 when Prof Boucher's period of office comes to an end. Prof Burnett is currently Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the University of Oxford and before that Chairman of Physics.
Bartolome House, new home of the Faculty of Law.
The University is organised into seven faculties, with all the faculties except Law being sub-divided into numerous departments:
★ Faculty of Architectural Studies
★ Faculty of Arts
★ Faculty of Engineering
★ Faculty of Law
★ Faculty of Medicine
★ Faculty of Pure Science
★ Faculty of Social Sciences
Research and Teaching Quality
The University of Sheffield is a major contributor to research, being the sixth most highly rated research university in the UK (2001).
In the latest round of Teaching Quality Assessments (TQA 1993-2001) Sheffield ranked third in the UK for the highest number of "Excellent" rated subject areas. Nearly 75% of all teaching subjects achieved a 24/24 (Excellent) score. Firth court.jpg
Firth Court Quad
The University is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, the Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose University Consortium.
The University of Sheffield is rated 8th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 69th in the world in an annual academic ranking of the top 500 universities worldwide published in August 2005. Researchers at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University evaluated the universities using several research performance indicators, including the number of highly cited researchers, academic performance, articles in the periodicals Science and Nature, and the number of Nobel prizewinners. A separate ranking, published in the US by Newsweek magazine, and released in August 2006, ranked Sheffield 9th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 70th in the world in a list of the Global Top 100 Universities.
The University has won Queen's Anniversary Awards in 1998, 2000 and 2002. It was also named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001. In 2005, the Sunday Times rated the University as the 24th best in the UK.
Sheffield is particularly famous for its Archaeology, Architecture, Management, Chemistry, Engineering, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Dentistry, English, Geography, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics Physics, Computer Science and Town Planning departments, which are heavily oversubscribed.
Major 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.
For many years the University has been engaged in theological publishing through Sheffield Academic Press and JSOT Press.
The University of Sheffield is also a partner organisation in Higher Futures, a collaborative association of institutions set up under the government's Lifelong Learning Networks initiative, to co-ordinate vocational and work-based education.[2]
Nobel Prizes
The University's Faculty of Pure Science may boast an association with four Nobel Prizes, one for the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology:
★ (1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Prof. Hans Adolf Krebs, "for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration")
As well as three to its world-renowned Department of Chemistry:
★ (1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Prof. George Porter (later Lord Porter), "for their work on extremely fast chemical reactions" (see Flash photolysis)
★ 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (joint award), Richard J. Roberts, "for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence"
★ 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Sir Harry Kroto, "for their discovery of fullerenes").
With another nobel laureate, Howard Florey, Sheffield shares some glory. Howard Florey was the Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology at Sheffield from 1932 until his move to Oxford in 1935. In 1945 Florey and his colleague Ernst Chain, together with Alexander Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on penicillin.
Students and faculty
The University of Sheffield's 25,000 students arrive mostly from the UK, but include some 3,700+ international students from 120 different countries that come to Sheffield not only for its world-class research and teaching quality but also for the city's renowned student and social scene and its relatively cheap costs of living.
The university employs nearly 6,000 people, including almost 1,400 academic staff.
View from Weston Park
Students' Union, Sports and Traditions
Main articles: University of Sheffield Union of Students
The University of Sheffield Union of Students is one of the largest students' unions in the UK, and was founded in 1956. It has two bars (Bar One (which has a book-able function room with its own bar, The Raynor Lounge) and The Interval), three club venues (Fusion, Foundry and Octagon), one off-campus public house (The Fox and Duck) and coffee shop (Coffee Revolution), various restaurants, shops, a supermarket, the cinema Film Unit, a fully functioning and student run theatre company (suTCo), a student radio station called Sure Radio, its own newspaper, The Steel Press, and about two hundred student societies, many sports teams and a turnover of around £8,000,000.
The Union is also home to a variety of advice and support services and manages the successful USports sports facilities.
In addition to the student union-supported sports teams, Sheffield University Bankers Hockey Club play top-flight field hockey in the national first division. The annual Varsity Challenge takes place between teams from the University and its rival Sheffield Hallam University in over 30 events.
As part of rag week, University of Sheffield students used to take part in the Pyjama Jump[2] pub crawl, dressed only in nightwear in mid-winter: the men often to dress in nighties and the women in pyjamas. This event was banned in 1997 following the hospitalisation of several students.[3] The roleplaying society run a 24 hour roleplaying event on RAG weekend. Another rag week tradition is the Spiderwalk, a fifty mile trek through the city and the Peak District, the first half through the night. Although publication has been sporadic in recent years, Twikker, the Rag Magazine, is usually sold to raise funds. Sheffield's students are also very active when it comes to volunteering for good causes. The Union's "SheffieldVolunteering" scheme is one of the countries most active and well-recognised student volunteering schemes that has won various national acclaim over the years.
Notable alumni
See also .
Arts
★ Nicci Gerrard, author
★ Joanne Harris, author (later became faculty)
★ Jack Rosenthal, playwright
Education
★ Professor John Brooks, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University (PhD Microbiology 1978)
★ Professor Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor, Bournemouth University (Bsc Geography 1968)
★ Professor Tolu Olukayode Odugbemi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos (Bsc Physics 1970 PhD 1973)
★ Professor Sir David Melville, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent (Bsc Physics 1965 PhD 1970)
★ Professor Michael Sterling, Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham (BEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering 1967 PhD 1971)
★ George Martin Stephen, High Master, St Pauls PhD
Industry
★ John Devaney, Chairman, Marconi PLC
★ Penny Hughes, former president of Coca-Cola Enterprises (UK) (BSc(Hons) Chemistry
★ Edward H Ntalami, Chief Executive, Capital Markets Authority, Kenya
★ Sir Peter Middleton, Camelot Barclays Group Chairman
★ Jim O'Neill, Head of Global Economic Research, Goldman Sachs
Law
★ David Childs, Clifford Chance, Managing Partner LLB
★ The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Maurice Kay, Lord Justice of Appeal LLB PhD
★ Dame Julia Macur, High Court Judge LLB
★ Dame Anne Rafferty, High Court Judge LLB
★ Phil Wheatley, Director-General, HM Prison Service LLB
★ Dato' Arifin Zakaria, Federal Court Judge of Malaysia LLB
Media
★ Stephen Daldry, film director
★ John O'Leary, Times Higher Education Supplement editor
★ Martin Fry, lead singer of ABC
★ Eddie Izzard, comedian
★ Linda Smith, comedian
★ Rachel Shelley, actress (BA(Hons) English and Drama)
Pioneer
★ Amy Johnson, pilot (BA(Hons) Economics, 1926)
★ Helen Sharman, astronaut (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1984)
Politics
★ David Blunkett, politician (BA(Hons) Political Theory and Institutions, 1972)
★ Ann Taylor, politician
★ Anne Margaret Main,Conservative MP for St Albans.
Science
★ Sir Donald Bailey, civil engineer and inventor of the Bailey bridge
★ Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-winning chemist (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1961; PhD, 1961-1964)
★ Sir Hans Kornberg, biochemist
★ Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist (BSc(Hons) Chemistry, 1965; PhD, 1968)
★ Vanessa Lawrence, Ordnance Survey Director General
Sport
★ David Davies, The Football Association Chief Executive
★ Jessica Ennis, heptathlete
★ Tony Miles, Britain's first chess grand master
★ David Wetherall, footballer
Notable faculty
★ Francis Berry, poet and literary critic
★ Professor Peter Blundell Jones, professor in architecture, author, historian and critic
★ Angela Carter, author (1976-1978)
★ Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, archaeologist
★ Charles Eliot, Vice Chancellor
★ William Empson, poet (The School of English named its facilities after him)
★ Joanne Harris, author (2000; was also a student)
★ Peter Hill, world famous pianist and expert on the works of Olivier Messiaen
★ Prof David Hughes (Astronomer), Award winning Astronomer. Asteroid 4205 is named in his honour.
★ Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
★ Hans Adolf Krebs, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1935-1954)
★ Stephen Laurence, philosopher and cognitive scientist
★ David Marquand, politician
★ Edward Mellanby, pharmacologist and discoverer of Vitamin D
★ George Porter, Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1955-1966)
★ Dominic Sandbrook, historian (2001-2004)
★ William Sarjeant, geologist
★ Professor W E S Turner (1881-1963), Eminent professor of Glass technology and founder of the Museum which bears his name
★ Professor Sir James Underwood (? - ?), Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Clubs & Societies
The Sheffield Students Motor Club
existed from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s and membership was open to students and post-graduates from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University). The club organised twelve-car rallies and treasure hunts and two major annual rallies, the Rallye Escafeld and the Witchhunt rally. The club also ran the Mid Summer Venture Rally one year. Many of the members subsequently made their careers in the motor industry including Ford, Austin-Rover and Lotus. There was a reunion of members on 12th - 14th October 2001 in Sheffield and another one on 25th & 26th of September 2004. See also Sheffield Students Motor Club reunion
Histories
There are two official histories of the university
★ Arthur W. Chapman (1955) ''The Story of a Modern University: A History of the University of Sheffield'', Oxford University Press.
★ Helen Mathers (2005) ''Steel City Scholars: The Centenary History of the University of Sheffield'', London: James & James.
See also
★ Sheffield Hallam University
References
1. Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06
2. Partners
External links
★ University of Sheffield
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