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What the awards mean The awards also reflect how effective As you’ve probably guessed, the our Students’ Union is at representing entertainment and the social life are you and delivering the services first rate. But there’s more to a you ask for. successful students’ union than cafes, bars and live music. There are over 300 clubs and societies based at the Students’ Union. Our Give It a Go scheme allows you to try things you never thought you would, whether it’s paintballing, crochet or improvisational comedy. Our volunteering is one of the biggest and best in the UK.

What next for the UK’s best? Work is currently underway to expand the Students’ Union building so there’s even more room for the things you want to do.

“the union runs amazing club nights, gigs and massive events, as well as being an incredible force for student representation.” India-Chloe Woof, BA French and Linguistics

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Whatever your tastes, you’ll find it You can tell it’s the real deal from the here. Across the city there’s a delicious line of vespas and lambrettas outside mix. You’ll find your own favourites but on a Saturday. here’s just a few to get you started. Kelham Island Hunter’s Bar and Sharrow Vale Road The Milestone Ceres This gastro pub appeared in Gordon This easygoing, homely French bistro is Ramsay’s Best Restaurant. It’s a short a gem. Don’t think it’s out of your price walk or tram ride from campus. The range – it’s cheaper than a lot of pubs, early bird menu is a great deal and a and the food is made with real care good choice when you’ve got visitors. and attention. City Centre Fancie Silversmiths Beautifully made cakes, local ice cream, Another restaurant that’s received the milkshakes and other good stuff. Take Gordon Ramsay treatment. your cakes away, or sit inside and have Silversmiths was in Ramsay’s Kitchen them on proper china plates with a Nightmares, but it’s been lovely ever Above: Leopold nice cup of tea. since with locally sourced food and a Square brilliantly cheap pie night. Right: Okeh Cafe Two Steps Below: If you really, really love fish and chips Leopold Square Fancie Left: this is heaven. It’s better than going to a This beautifully redeveloped Victorian WasabiSabi posh restaurant. plaza was voted the people’s favourite new building in the 2010 Sheffield London Road Design Awards. It houses seven bars You’ll be spoilt for choice here. There’s and restaurants including Wagamama, a seemingly limitless selection of Zizzi, and Aagrah. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Turkish and Caribbean restaurants. Division Street and West Street Japanese restaurant, WasabiSabi, puts Here you’ll find Mexican, Thai, Indian, on a spectacular teppanyaki show, and Lebanese and traditional pub food. at Zeugma they cook delicious Turkish You’ll also find many bars and pubs in kebabs in front of you. The Vietnamese this area, see page 8. cafe, Little Hanoi, has a karaoke room tucked away upstairs. Blue Moon Cafe A vegetarian and vegan cafe serving Abbeydale Road hearty, wholesome dishes. It’s always Okeh Cafe packed with local community groups Liked Quadrophenia? You’ll love this and the decorative ceiling is stunning. place. With red leatherette booths, and Ask to try the homity pie. a jukebox that plays all the motown, soul and ska classics.

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Meadowhall The Vintage Trail One of the biggest indoor shopping Whether it’s 1920s flapper or 1970s centres in the UK, Meadowhall has surfer style you’re after, start at Cow, more shops than you can count, plus five minutes’ walk from central restaurants and a multiplex cinema. campus. Cross the road, and Bang Bang Palm trees and fountains line the vast Vintage is just a hop and a skip away. boulevards and there are American ice Freshmans, the shop that kick-started cream parlours everywhere. Retail the vintage trend in Sheffield, is a heaven is a short tram ride from leisurely stroll down the street. campus; new additions include Urban Outfitters and Cath Kidston. Record Collector Indie shops, traditional markets, Rare and Racy Downloading music from the internet vintage parlours and all the high-street A treasure trove of books, art, records The Forum might be convenient, but where’s the names. When it comes to shopping you and CDs, as well as a kind of centre for The laid-back Devonshire Green area, fun? The promise of a bargain? The might not have realised that Sheffield’s interesting cultural goings on in the city with its indie shops, cafes and bars, is a thrill of finding something you couldn’t got it all. – be lured inside by out-of-this-world slice of city life Sheffield-style. The find anywhere else? Record Collector jazz, avant garde electronica, or Forum is an emporium of quirky, has all the above. antique bluegrass; find rare first independent boutiques where you’ll editions, textbooks, fanzines, local find reworked vintage fashion and poetry, self-published comics and carefully crafted menswear. other surprises.

6 7 after hourS – barS, pubS, clubS and GiGS

“tuesday club at the university is my favourite place to play in the uK. the energy and hunger for new sound is unprecedented in Steel city. in fact i love Sheffield so much i moved here.” Mary Ann Hobbs DJ and Broadcaster

Here are some of our current students’ Broomhill The Leadmill favourites. A popular student area with shops, Former flour mill and Sheffield restaurants, pubs and bars on your institution, The Leadmill brought the The Students’ Union doorstep, you’re bound to bump into Human League and Cabaret Voltaire to There’s something to do every day of someone you know. The Place has pool the city when it opened as an artist-run the week. Club nights cater for all tables and shows the football; the Fox space in 1980. Voted Best Live Music tastes, whether you want Dubstep and and Duck serves guest ales and does a Venue by NME readers, it’s still going Hip Hop at Tuesday Club, dance at good quiz on a Sunday; friendly pub strong as an independent nightclub Space, chart anthems at ROAR, pop the Nottingham House (or The Notty) and gig venue, and is a pilgrimage for singalongs at Population, or Yorkshire’s is cosy and popular with students. top bands. Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys biggest LGBT night, Climax. and The Strokes have all played here.

Division Street and West Street Plug, Corporation and The O 2 From traditional pubs to gigs or Academy cocktail bars this area has it covered. These city centre clubs put on student- Bands and DJs play regularly at friendly nights throughout the week so Bungalows and Bears, and both the Old there’ll be something for you, whether House and the Wick at Both Ends are you’re a niche music fan or just want to great for cocktail connoisseurs. A short sing along to some cheesy pop. walk up West Street brings you to The Harley, where you can see all the best The University Arms new music talent. We also have our own real ale pub. It supports local breweries and serves homemade, locally sourced food.

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Tramlines Peace in the Park Sheffield’s parks, pubs and public Anything goes at this hippy spaces become one big music venue extravaganza so don’t be surprised if for the weekend. There are even bands you come across ukuleles, trapeze on the buses. It was voted the Best artists or a world record attempt. Metropolitan Festival 2011. And it’s free. Popular with students, it all takes place in a park close to central campus – just Doc/Fest follow the sound of steel drums. An international film festival in the heart of the city. Expect back-to-back Sensoria screenings and talks by influential A free film, music and digital festival documentary filmmakers. that celebrates Sheffield’s rich musical heritage. Off the Shelf For those who love a good book. Festival of the Mind Off the Shelf attracts well-known A unique collaboration between the literary names such as Will Self, Nick University of Sheffield and the city’s Hornby and Stephen Fry. Readings, creative community, the Festival of the workshops, talks and author signings Mind is a chance to see your lecturers are held throughout October. putting on events with local artists, poets, musicians and magicians. Sheffield Food Festival This free festival is a mouthwatering The main stage at Tramlines. Over feast for foodies with pop-up 150,000 people attended last year’s restaurants, gastronomical festival. Past acts include The xx, Annie Mac, and Reverend and the Makers. masterclasses and an artisan food market.

10 11 The Crucible and Lyceum cinemaS and theatreS theatres in Tudor Square

Sheffield Theatres Cinema The Crucible, Studio and Lyceum The Showroom is the largest indie cinema outside London. The restaurant Three distinctive venues and a lively bar there is a popular meeting place. If mix of family musicals, new mainstream movies are more your interpretations of the classics, taste, the good old Odeon is five contemporary drama and minutes away. Film Unit is your own groundbreaking work make this one of 400-seat cinema on campus. the most important theatre complexes in the UK. The Crucible, Lyceum and Offbeat venues Studio theatres all overlook Tudor We have our own theatre in a Square. converted church, the University Drama Studio, where you can produce, direct, or tread the boards. At Sheffield’s oldest playhouse, the Lantern Theatre, you can see plays, gigs and comedy in an intimate Victorian setting. The Botanical Gardens (see page 16) put on outdoor plays every summer, meaning you can wine and dine whilst you watch.

12 13 GallerieS and The Millennium Galleries muSeumS

Millennium Galleries S1 Artspace Known affectionately as The Lennie Sheffield has the most artists’ studios Gees, the city’s Millennium Galleries outside London, and this young, artist- have close links with the Tate and the led organisation was showcased in the V&A. The stately Graves Gallery is just Guardian as a champion of the city’s next door on Surrey Street. art scene. They have an annual artist in residence and a varied programme of Graves Gallery exhibitions and screenings. The Graves’ permanent collection is a stroll through the history of modern Heeley City Farm art, taking in works by Picasso, Lautrec, An escape to the country in the city: Bonnard, Spencer and Hockney. meet cows, goats, rabbits, chipmunks, Temporary exhibitions have featured and more. This free farm helps the etchings by Goya, paintings by William environment and the local community. Blake, and the late drawings of Andy Their vegetarian and vegan cafe serves Warhol. homemade and home-grown food.

Site Gallery Sheffield’s beacon of everything animated and digital and one of the country’s leading lights in the contemporary arts. Site specialises in photography, film, video and new media from around the world, championing new artists and new kinds of work.

Kelham Island Museum “every time i see the Explore the streets of the Industrial millennium Galleries it Revolution and see how Sheffield amazes me. it changes so craftsmen, known locally as little often it’s like having an mesters, lived. Don’t miss the annual unlimited supply of Victorian christmas market. galleries.” Jessica Kirk, BSc Biomedical Science

the GraveS Gallery haS ShoWn WorKS by dali, hocKney and Warhol.

14 15 Peak District Winter Garden parKS and peaKS “On your doorstep” doesn’t quite The largest temperate glasshouse cover it. The Peak District National in any European city is home to The Botanical Park is so close that 38 per cent of more than 2,000 plants from Gardens the city is, technically, in it. This is around the world, many of which the perfect playground for wouldn’t look out of place in climbing, hiking, mountain-biking Jurassic Park. The building is an and generally roaming free. You architectural spectacle in its own can bus it in 20 minutes. Cycle or right. It’s connected to the walk from The Endcliffe or Millennium Galleries by the Ranmoor Villages (see page 20). gallery shop.

Chatsworth House Famous as the location for the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, Chatsworth House is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, not Mr Darcy. The house is brimming with unusual treasures, and the sprawling, manicured gardens are a day out in themselves. There’s a calendar of events including concerts, There are around 50 public parks and Botanical Gardens firework displays and a christmas lots of other specially designed public Across the road from The Endcliffe market. areas. Some of the most popular spots Village (our student accommodation, are right near the heart of the city. see page 20), the gardens were the concept of a 19th-century gent named Weston Park Robert Marnock. He knew a good Brilliant for sunbathing between picnic spot when he saw one. Marnock classes, Weston Park is right next to later designed the gardens of the Royal campus, in fact, our library’s in it. The Botanical Society in London’s Regent’s park is also home to a free children’s Park. museum, where you can visit the giant woolly mammoth and dress up as a Endcliffe Park Viking. There are concerts throughout Five minutes’ walk from The Endcliffe the summer in the park bandstand. Village it’s a great place to get together for a BBQ on warm summer evenings. There’s also a nice walk from Endcliffe Park, through the woods and up to the “for bonfire night this year, we Forge Dam cafe. walked up to a park in the student area of crookes with stunning views of Sheffield. many students were already 62% of gathered there and the Sheffield iS atmosphere was fantastic. Sheffield has many hidden Green Space gems like that, just waiting to be discovered.” Georgina Quinton Smith, LLB Law The Peak District 16 17 The University’s climbing Sport wall, the Matrix

Some of us are natural competitors, Sport Sheffield whilst some of us prefer to watch from The University’s gym, Sport Sheffield, the stands. Whichever camp you fall boasts four squash courts; five into, Sheffield is a big, passionate synthetic pitches; a fitness centre; sporting city with plenty to keep you outdoor netball and tennis courts; a occupied. There are two famous pool with sauna and steam rooms; and football clubs, and our rugby, 45 acres of playing fields. Luckily for basketball and ice hockey teams you, students get discounted compete at international level. You can membership rates. also join the many sports clubs in the Students’ Union. Running and Athletics Joggers’ paradise, Endcliffe Park, is Bouldering right next to The Endcliffe Village. Keep Sheffield’s home to the Climbing running and you’ll end up in the Peak Works, the world’s biggest indoor District, where members of Sheffield climbing wall, whilst the Peak District University’s Orienteering and Fell offers some of the best, and most Running Club can be found powering picturesque outdoor climbing in the up hill and down dale. Both Don Valley world. The University gym has its own Stadium and the English Institute of bouldering wall, the Matrix, so keen Sport (EIS) host athletics clubs where climbers can practise between you can live out your dreams of lectures. becoming the next Jessica Ennis. Every year there’s the Sheffield half marathon World Snooker Championships and this is also home to the Great This takes place every year in the Yorkshire Run. Crucible theatre. Hang around the city centre long enough and you’re likely to Ponds Forge spot one of the stars. Snooker legend Ponds Forge has a gym, fitness classes, Ronnie O’Sullivan is rumoured to have a diving pool, an Olympic sized once eaten dinner out of his trophy in a swimming pool, and a plethora of Sheffield curry house. sports clubs and lessons. Great for keeping fit, or for when you just want to play in the rapids. “as a keen athlete it was good to know there are excellent Winter Sports sports facilities in the city, Try ice hockey and curling lessons, or with ponds forge, don valley go to the student skating sessions on Stadium, eiS and the peak the rinks at iceSheffield. You’ll find elite district all within running ice hockey team the Sheffield Steelers distance of my halls.” churning up the ice just around the Rob Nichol, MPhys Physics corner at the Motorpoint Arena.

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Our student accommodation is rated your rent the best in the UK (ULiving CUBO includeS GaS, Awards 2012). You pick the kind of deal electric and that suits you and we find you a room. Water billS, Wherever you live, you’ll be part of a Wifi and room supportive community where there’s contentS always something happening. inSurance From Guinness world record-breaking pancake flipping to chilling out playing 94% of pool, you won’t be short of something firSt yearS to do. You’ll have a security team to choSe keep you safe and welfare support univerSity through your Residential Mentors. accommodation They’re here to help you settle in and are always around throughout the year laSt year, to offer advice or support if you need it. there Were 323 Social If you want to beef up your CV there eventS in are plenty of volunteering or paid jobs Student in and around the residences too. accommodation There are three locations to choose from: The Endcliffe Village, The Ranmoor Village, and City and Central Campus.

The Endcliffe Village Catered and self-catering – 3,335 rooms – 2,471 en-suite rooms City and Central Campus – 82 deluxe rooms Self-catering – 767 rooms with shared bathroom – 884 en-suite rooms facilities – 134 deluxe rooms – 42-week contracts Winner – 252 rooms with shared bathroom ulivinG facilities cubo The Ranmoor Village – 42-week contracts Self-catering aWardS 2012 – 1,095 en-suite rooms – 72 studios – 42-week contracts

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The biggest of the two Student Villages “i love that there are so many is home to about 3,500 students, living people so close to you – it together in modern apartment blocks, makes it nearly impossible for flats and houses. you to not find a close group of friends.” You can go catered or self-catering. Tom Fraser There are en-suite rooms and rooms The Endcliffe Village with shared bathroom facilities.

At the heart of the village is The Edge, where things happen in the evenings – quizzes, socials, DJ nights. The dining room is here too. You can hang out and meet friends in the cafe or the bar. You’ll have 24 hour customer service on reception and 24 hour security.

22 23 Ranmoor is only a couple of minutes the ranmoor villaGe walk from The Endcliffe Village, so you’ll be close neighbours. You’ll be with 1,000 students in en-suite self- catering apartments. There are also studios for individuals or couples, and family apartments too.

At the heart of The Ranmoor Village is The Ridge. There’s a bar serving good value bar meals and a launderette. There are places to meet your friends and activities and events throughout the year. You’ll have 24 hour customer service on reception and 24 hour on-site security.

“it feels like i've known my flatmates for years. at first it was a little awkward but cooking, cleaning, eating and going out together meant we all got friendly very quickly. We've already decided to live together again next year.” Jenni Grindley The Ranmoor Village

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If you want to be that bit more independent, our friendly, green city is the place to do it. All city accommodation is self-catering. It’s in the area between the city centre and the campus so you can walk to either in WeSt Street, diviSion minutes. There are en-suite rooms and Street and the heart rooms with shared bathroom facilities. of the city centre, riGht on your doorStep.

26 27 Our guarantee Mature students When you apply, tell us rentS 2012 As a new first year, you’re If you’re over 21 and you’d where you want to live, what guaranteed a room in our rather be with students your type of room you’d prefer These rents are for 2012. They’re just to give you an idea of what to expect. The 2013 rents accommodation. Take a look own age, we can help with and whether you want to go will be published on our website in March 2013, see: at our website for the terms that. We can also offer you a catered or self-catering. www.sheffield.ac.uk/accommodation of our guarantee. longer contract if you need We’ll ask you for a back up The Endcliffe Village it. Just let us know when you choice in case your first Self-catering and catered Food apply. choice is oversubscribed. Wherever you are on buildings room type contract length rent campus and in the Student Students with special Codes of practice Self-catering Villages there’s a choice of requirements All University-owned single- Birchen, Burbage, Cratcliffe, Curbar, Derwent, Froggatt, Howden, En-suite 42 weeks £4,715.76 eatwithUS cafes nearby. Whatever your needs are, let student accommodation Lawrencefield, Millstone, Rivelin, Stanage and Yarncliffe They serve fresh coffee as us know when you apply and complies with the Apartments well as hot or cold snacks we’ll take it from there. We Universities UK Code of Burbage, Cratcliffe, Howden and Rivelin Apartments Deluxe 42 weeks £5,095.02 and hearty meals. have rooms adapted for Practice for the Crescent Flats and Endcliffe Vale Flats Shared bathroom 42 weeks £3,924.90 students with special Management of Student eatwithUS Reward Card requirements – for instance Housing. That means we Crewe Flats* Shared bathroom 42 weeks £4,263.00 If you choose catered if you have a hearing have very clear policies and Houses* (Oakholme Road, Endcliffe Avenue) Shared bathroom 42 weeks £3,369.24 accommodation, you’ll get impairment you might need procedures relating to catered an eatwithUS Reward Card. special equipment to let you health and safety, Rooms with a £1,345.40 (£43.40 per week) eatwithUS catering contribution included in the rent You’ll get an amount loaded know when there’s a fire drill. maintenance, student Carrysbrook Court and Jonas Court* En-suite 42 weeks £5,943.20 onto it weekly during term welfare and other issues. Stephenson* Shared bathroom 42 weeks £5,462.52 time. Currently this is Families and couples £43.40 per week, but this When we were planning Some of our City and The Ranmoor Village will increase for 2013. This accommodation just for you, Central Campus Self-catering covers the cost of your we thought about things like accommodation is managed breakfast and one other being close to shops and in partnership with private property room type contract length rent meal each day – not all good local schools. landlords. This is subject to Self-catering meals and snacks. It also Contracts are for 12 months the ANUK Code, a similar Kinder, Ramshaw, Wimberry and Windgather Apartments En-suite 42 weeks £4,715.76 works like a Tesco clubcard, and you can usually renew code for large landlords. Ravenstones Apartments En-suite 51 weeks £5,726.28 every time you use your so you won’t have to keep Kinder, Windgather and Wimberry Studios Studio for 42 weeks £5,462.52 card you collect reward moving each year. University individuals points. accommodation not for Laddow Studios Studio for 51 weeks £7,090.02 What next? you? individuals and If you choose self-catering, If you make Sheffield your propertywithUS is a couples you can still have an firm or insurance choice, University-run service eatwithUS Reward Card and we’ll send you details of how offering advice and City and Central Campus use it to collect points. to apply for a room. You can information about student Self-catering There are loads of places in apply from March 2013. It’s housing in Sheffield. You can the Villages and on campus quick and easy, you can do it view a list of properties to property room type contract length rent to use your card. You can online. rent here: Self-catering even load money onto your www.sheffield.ac.uk/accom Broad Lane Court Flats Shared bathroom 42 weeks £3,924.90 card for the days you don’t modation/privatehousing Opal 2 Apartments En-suite 42 weeks £4,715.76 want to cook. Opal 2 Apartments Deluxe 42 weeks £5,095.02 More St George's Flats En-suite 42 weeks £4,583.46 For more information, videos and answers to your questions, see our website: Rents shown include all utility bills and WiFi. Where a catering allowance is included, this is mandatory with a 31 week allowance. Properties are subject www.sheffield.ac.uk/accommodation to availability. Rents are shown for 2012-13 and will increase for 2013-14. The increase will be no more that the Retail Price Index (RPI). £150 deposit payable upon accepting the contract. If you’d rather talk to someone, give us a call: 0114 222 4488 *Rents will vary slightly based on room size. Price shown is for majority of rooms. Or email us: accommodationoffice@sheffield.ac.uk 28 29 It’s easy to get around. Everything’s within walking distance and buses GettinG around run every 8-10 minutes between the Student Villages and the main campus or city centre throughout the day. 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Don’t just take our word for it, talk to our current students and see what they have to say about our city and the University.

We asked one of our students, video blogger Laurbubble to explore the University and record what a typical day for an undergraduate is like. Join her on her tour and you'll get to decide what to see on a journey that takes in our campus, University accommodation, the Students' Union, the city, sport and societies, some of our academic departments and a night out. www.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate/studentlife/videos

www.sheffield.ac.uk/contact/social-media

Living and learning in Sheffield www.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate

Accommodation www.sheffield.ac.uk/accommodation

Students’ Union www.sheffield.ac.uk/union

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