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Contents
Chairman's Foreword 1
Vice-Chancellor’s Introduction 2
Financial Review 4
Investing in the Estate 6
The Dividend of Research 8
Teaching and Learning210
Preparing for Employment 13
Enterprise and Innovation 14
In Partnership with Industry and Commerce 17
Centenary Celebrations 18
Development and Alumni Relations 22
The International Dimension 24
Part of the Region 26
The Union of Students 28
Honours and Distinctions 30
Honorary Degrees 32
Staffing Matters 34
Student Numbers 36
Examination Performance 37
Officers and The Council 38
Facts and Figures 40
The University at a Glance 41
Front Cover: View of Sheffield from Crookes (1923), by the Sheffield-born artist Stanley Royle, showing the University’s red-brick buildings in the centre ground of the picture. The other red-brick buildings to their right housed the mail order business of J.G. Graves, a generous benefactor to the University. (Bridgeman Art Library)
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ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 1
Chairman’s Foreword
The distinctive flavour of the University committees. Mr Paul Firth, a member of Sheffield as a quality institution of of Council, was appointed a Pro- higher education has shone through the Chancellor and I look forward to Centenary celebrations and has served working with him and fellow Council as a reminder of the important role it members as the University enters its is playing at regional, national and second century. international levels. This year has seen the University’s The University Council is committed building programme continue apace, to supporting the Vice-Chancellor and including the new Information his excellent team in creating and Commons building (at £23m the sustaining an environment which enables largest capital project in the University’s scholarship to flourish, learning to be history), the continuing development of stimulated and research to prosper. the Jessop site, and final approval for
Following publication of the the construction of new and Committee of University Chairmen’s refurbished student residences on the Governance Code in December 2004, Endcliffe and Ranmoor sites. Council implemented a number of These and many other developments governance changes. One of these will ensure that the University of involved streamlining the membership Sheffield continues to meet the needs of Council, with the aim of improving of students, both today and in the decision-making and allowing members future. We intend to build on our to exercise their responsibilities in a excellent reputation for high-quality more proactive way. research and teaching, and for
In August 2005 I was delighted to producing distinctive graduates capable be invited to succeed Mr Peter Lee of making a major contribution in the as Chairman of Council and I thank global market-place. him for his outstanding personal contribution to the University over the past forty years. Dr Chris King, Rt Rev Jack Nicholls and Mr Vernon Smith also retired from Council and I am grateful for the support they have Kathryn Riddle given to the work of the University, Pro-Chancellor and both on Council and within its working Chairman of Council J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:24 am Page 2
2 VICE-CHANCELLOR’S INTRODUCTION ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Vice-Chancellor’s Introduction
When William Mitchinson Hicks, This year our research grant and the founding father of the University contract income rose by nearly 10%, and its first Vice-Chancellor, was a testimony to the academic talent introduced to King Edward VII at the we have in our institution. The formal opening of the Firth Court University’s considerable strength in building in July 1905, he could hardly the biosciences paved the way for the have imagined how this fledgling successful flotation of Biofusion plc institution of 114 full-time students on the Alternative Investment Market, would grow into one of the UK’s raising £8.23m in the process. The major seats of learning in the century Biofusion model has huge potential that followed. The University’s and it sits well with current government Centenary celebrations extended over and university thinking on fostering the whole of 2005, and our Centenary innovation from within the academic Office assembled a rich and varied community.We have taken our programme of activities aimed at a biosciences strategy a stage further by wide audience – staff, students, alumni opening the Sheffield Bioincubator, an and the local community. Among the important step in the region’s strategy highlights of the Centenary Year – and to commercialise biosciences research there were many – was the publication and develop a biosciences cluster in of Steel City Scholars, the Centenary South Yorkshire. history of the University, written by Dr Helen Mathers. Our excellent reputation in research is matched by that in teaching and There was much for us to celebrate learning, and Sheffield was one of a during the year apart from our limited number of universities chosen hundredth birthday.We opened two by the Higher Education Funding buildings – the Kroto Research Institute Council for England to host more and the Informatics Collaboratory of THE UNIVERSITY’S than one of its new Centres for “ the Social Sciences (ICOSS) – which CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS Excellence in Teaching and Learning. are dedicated to multidisciplinary The learning experience of our EXTENDED OVER THE work, allowing researchers not only to students will be considerably WHOLE OF 2005, AND collaborate with one another but to enhanced by the opening in 2007 OUR CENTENARY OFFICE work side by side in premises that are of our new £23m Information ASSEMBLED A RICH AND purpose-designed for their projects. Commons, which will provide users No fewer than twenty different VARIED PROGRAMME OF with access to printed and electronic disciplines are represented in the ACTIVITIES AIMED AT A information resources in a totally Kroto Institute, while the ICOSS integrated environment. WIDE AUDIENCE – STAFF, building has flexible space for 100 STUDENTS, ALUMNI AND researchers from academia, industry, In July 2005 the South Yorkshire THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.” public and voluntary sectors. Strategic Health Authority informed J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 3
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the University that it intended to split of Sheffield, and we place great the work of the University by Mr the contract for the provision of pre- emphasis on our links with the local Peter Lee, who retired as Chairman registration nursing and midwifery community.We are a committed of the Council after eight years in training between two providers in the partner in the Creative Sheffield that role, and almost 40 years as a region. The economic costs and initiative, which is seeking to deliver Council member. operational difficulties associated with higher levels of economic growth and Our advancement as a university this decision left the University with to enhance the competitiveness of the over the past 100 years has been no alternative but to discontinue pre- city. And we were proud to be part impressive, and I am confident that registration training, a move it made of the Sheffield team that won a gold our high-quality staff and students will with considerable regret. Over the medal in the prestigious Europe in ensure that we maintain our position past ten years, we have developed the Bloom competition this summer. among the leading group of UK School of Nursing and Midwifery to The University has achieved much universities in the years to come. a point where it has the equal highest in the past year, as this Annual Report research rating and the lowest drop-out makes clear, thanks largely to the rate in the country.We will, however, dedicated efforts of our staff and continue with our excellent research and postgraduate teaching activities in the students. I also wish to acknowledge new Graduate School of Nursing and the outstanding contribution made to Professor Bob Boucher, CBE Midwifery. In the meantime, we are working closely with our colleagues in Sheffield Hallam University to ensure Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Boucher and geography student Claire Glaviner at the start of the Sheffield Half Marathon in May 2005. A team of staff, student and alumni runners, wearing a smooth transfer of responsibilities numbered vests from 1905 to 2005, raised £15,000 for the Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. between the two institutions.
The international dimension of our work has given me the opportunity to represent the University at degree ceremonies and alumni reunions held during the year in Thessaloniki, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and China. These occasions provide a welcome opportunity to reconnect with our overseas alumni, and the Development and Alumni Relations Office is playing a pivotal role in this regard. Our international students make a wonderful contribution to life on the University campus, and meeting them in their home countries emphasises just how much they value their ‘Sheffield experience’. A great deal of this is down to our progressive Union of Students, which is constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of its customer base.
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4 FINANCIAL REVIEW ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Financial Review Treasurer’s Report
2004/05 has been another demanding (8.3%) to £77m, with increases in year, which has seen steady progress both the home and overseas student towards the achievement of the markets. However, in common with University’s strategy for growth, with other providers the University continuing investment in University experienced lower than expected staffing and the extensive capital growth in overseas recruitment. programme. The results for the year The healthy increase in research show a historical cost surplus of grant and contract income to £77.6m £3.7m, equivalent to 1.2% of turnover. (9.6%) is in line with targets. This Total income rose by nearly 6% over reflects the University’s strong perfor- the previous year to £301m, with mance in the Research Assessment expenditure rising by 8.9% to £307m, Exercise and includes £1.6m from contributing to an operating deficit of the Research Councils, awarded for £2.8m. The underlying operating transitional funding under the Full deficit has been worsened by a fixed Economic Costing initiative. asset impairment and the increase in Staff costs increased by £16m staff costs pertaining to the assimilation (9.9%) over the previous year to exercise under the review of pay and £183.6m. This includes an increase of reward structures. 4% in staff numbers during the year, During the year the Biofusion in line with the University’s investment business was successfully floated on strategy. Market pressures on salaries the Alternative Investment Market, continue and this, together with the reflecting the realisation of opportuni- revised pay structure for NHS clinical ties arising from the commercialisa- staff and the harmonisation of pay tion of the University’s intellectual and reward structures for University property portfolio. This resulted in a staff, means that pay costs are market capitalisation of £28.2m and accelerating faster than the HEFCE “DURING THE YEAR enabled the University to realise a gain baseline increase on core funding. on the deemed disposal of £4.1m, THE BIOFUSION BUSINESS The rating agency, Standard & which is recognised in full within the WAS SUCCESSFULLY Poor’s, again confirmed the income and expenditure account. FLOATED ON THE University’s long-term credit rating Funding Council grants increased as AA-/stable, despite continued ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT by £9.1m (9.7%) to £102.5m, of concerns surrounding the deficit on MARKET, REFLECTING which £8.4m was due to an increase the University of Sheffield Pension THE REALISATION OF in the HEFCE recurrent grant. This Scheme and the complex capital OPPORTUNITIES increase included additional funds programme. This is an extremely under the Rewarding and Developing pleasing outcome. As in previous ARISING FROM THE Staff initiative (£3.9m), increased years, these concerns are balanced by COMMERCIALISATION funding for research (£1.2m), and the University’s strong reputation in OF THE UNIVERSITY’S increased funding to support revised both teaching and research, the expec- clinical pay and NHS pension costs tation of continued robust demand for INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (£1.5m). Tuition fee and education its services, and the institution’s PORTFOLIO.” contract income increased by £5.9m ongoing financial resilience. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 5
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The University’s capital programme The University’s Student Residences and develop income streams without continues apace, with capital expendi- Strategy progressed steadily, following substantially increasing costs. ture in the year of £35.2m on buildings the appointment of Bovis Lend Lease Following the departure of Mr Euan and £8.3m on equipment. Two major as the University’s preferred partner McGregor in December 2004, I am projects were successfully completed for the redevelopment of the Endcliffe delighted to welcome Mr Bob Rabone during the year – the Informatics and Ranmoor sites. This is an exciting to the University as Director of Collabatory of the Social Sciences and ambitious development, which Finance. I look forward to working and the University Health Centre. In will further enhance the University’s with him and his team as we continue addition, the Sheffield Bioincubator attractiveness to students and also to implement and manage the project, which has a budget of £6.8m, benefit the wider city. important changes that we, and the progressed well and was completed in higher education sector as a whole, October 2005. 2005/06 will undoubtedly be a demanding year in terms of the are facing. Work also continued on other major University’s financial management. schemes, including the Information The ongoing pressures arising from Commons project (formerly the its investment policy, together with Learning Resource Centre) and projects funded by the HEFCE Science pressures within the sector, mean that Research Investment Fund (SRIF2). the University will have difficulty in The University was successful in the realizing its financial strategy targets Kim Staniforth, BA, FCA SRIF3 round of funding, receiving for the next one or two years. The University Treasurer an indicative allocation of £29m. University needs to achieve these The bid submissions are currently targets in order to fund future invest- being evaluated and include Phase 1 ment and to provide the financial (The full version of the Treasurer’s Report can of the redevelopment of the Jessop resilience implicit within the strategy. be found in the Financial Statements 2004/05.) Hospital site. Management is seeking to diversify
Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31 July 2005 Year Ended Year Ended 31 July 2005 31 July 2004 £000 % £000 % INCOME Funding Council Grants 102,472 34.0 93,393 32.8 Tuition Fees and Education Contracts 77,025 25.6 71,102 25.0 Research Grants and Contracts 77,623 25.7 70,855 24.9 Other Income 41,769 13.9 46,762 16.5 Endowment and Investment Income 2,452 0.8 2,311 0.8 Total Income 301,341 100.0 284,423 100.0
EXPENDITURE Staff Costs 183,631 59.8 167,112 59.3 Other Operating Costs 98,475 32.1 94,341 33.4 Depreciation 20,398 6.6 16,164 5.7 Interest Payable 4,687 1.5 4,399 1.6 Total Expenditure 307,191 100.0 282,016 100.0
Surplus/(Deficits) of Joint Ventures & Associates (35) 128 Taxation 4 (5) Minority Interests 50 64 Transfer to Accumulated Income Within Specific Endowments (466) (252) Profit on Disposal of Investments 4,043 – Profit/(Loss) on Disposals of Fixed Assets (498) 38 Surplus/(Deficit) on Continuing Operations (2,752) 2,380
Historical Cost Depreciation Adjustment 3,216 3,181 Realisation of Property Revaluation Gains of Previous Years 3,051 226 Gains on Investments 185 – Historical Cost Surplus/(Deficit) After Tax and Minority Interests 3,700 5,787 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 6
6 INVESTING IN THE ESTATE ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Investing in the Estate
MAJOR NEW BUILDING SCHEMES ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND STUDENT LEARNING WERE A DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF THE SESSION 2004/05. THE PRODUCTS OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF THE BIOSCIENCES CAN NOW BE FURTHER DEVELOPED IN THE SHEFFIELD BIOINCUBATOR.
Informatics Collaboratory of North Campus the Social Sciences Much of the research that takes place Opened in November 2004, the in the University is multidisciplinary Informatics Collaboratory of the Social in nature, but it is still largely carried Sciences (ICOSS) represents a radical out in buildings associated with new approach to social sciences specific academic departments. In research by creating a focus for January 2005, the Vice-Chancellor interdisciplinary studies aimed at announced the establishment of a advancing social policy at regional, major new multidisciplinary complex national and European levels.The five- – North Campus – on the site of the storey £5.7m building, funded by the former Health and Safety Laboratory Science Research Investment Fund (HSL) on Broad Lane. Providing over and the University, contains state-of- 18,000 square metres of research the-art ICT infra-structure and space, the North Campus represents resources, with specialist support and an investment by the University of The Sheffield Bioincubator on Broad Lane. innovative approaches for the collection, £20m, part-funded by the Science quantitative and qualitative analysis, Research Investment Fund. It will THE SHEFFIELD BIOINCUBATOR. The and exploration of large and complex house two prestigious research centres: first building to be constructed on the datasets. the Kroto Research Institute and the site of the former Jessop Hospital for Nanoscience and Technology Centre. Up to 100 researchers from academia, Women was handed over to the industry, public and voluntary sectors The Kroto Research Institute, based University in October 2005. The can be accommodated in the Collabora- in the former Robens Building of Sheffield Bioincubator will provide tory. Substantive research is ongoing HSL, is named after the Nobel modern laboratories and office space for or planned in the following areas: prizewinning chemist and Sheffield the commercialisation of biosciences health and social care, criminology, alumnus Professor Sir Harold Kroto. research emanating from the city's two urban and regional planning, social It is now occupied by scientists, universities. It will also enable other exclusion and spatial inequalities, and engineers and medics from twenty start-up companies and SMEs to locate computational data analysis. different disciplines, working in the close to the University of Sheffield, which is an international centre of excellence in the biosciences. NOBEL LAUREATES IN SHEFFIELD. Nobel laureate chemistry graduates Dr Richard Built at a cost of £6.8m, the five- Roberts (left) and Sir Harry Kroto visited the University in 2005 to name two buildings in storey Bioincubator received a grant their honour. Dr Roberts is pictured after unveiling a sculpture of the DNA double helix in of £2.3m from the European Regional the Richard Roberts Building, while Sir Harry is seen outside the Kroto Research Institute. Development Fund through the Objective One Funding Directorate. It is also supported by Yorkshire Forward, the region's development agency. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 7
North Campus, with the Kroto Research Institute on the right of the Informatics Collaboratory building at Portobello. photograph and the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Centre on the left.
fields of tissue engineering, future users with access to printed and the demolition of Earnshaw, Sorby generation materials, environmental electronic information sources in a and Ranmoor Halls of Residence and engineering, nano-characterisation and totally integrated environment. Over their replacement by high-quality nanomanipulation, soft nanotechnology 110,000 copies of the most in-demand residences that meet the needs of and virtual reality. books and periodicals will be available modern-day students. to students. The Nanoscience and Technology A total of 3,900 new-build and refurb- Centre will be located next to the The seven-storey building will ished rooms will be funded, built and Kroto Research Institute, in the former include over 400 PCs and full wireless operated by the University's private- 'Stage 1' building of HSL. It will access to the University network and sector partner, Catalyst Higher provide enhanced accommodation – the web. In the first phase, 1,070 study Education (Sheffield) plc – a company including two state-of-the-art clean spaces will be included, with a further jointly owned by Bovis Lend Lease rooms – for the EPSRC National 290 spaces coming on stream in phase and HSBC.
Centre for III-V Technologies and two. A 70-seat cafe is also planned, In addition, Catalyst will assume for associated researchers from the and the building will house the new ongoing maintenance responsibility Departments of Electronic and Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in for 250 rooms within the current Electrical Engineering, and Physics the Arts and Social Sciences. accommodation portfolio and build and Astronomy. two new central 'hub' buildings – one Student Residences Strategy on the Endcliffe site and one on the The Information Commons Sheffield City Council granted Ranmoor site. These will be operated Work began during the session on planning permission in May 2005 for by the University and will include a full the £23.2m Information Commons the redevelopment of accommodation range of catering, retail, recreational building on the corner of Upper on the Endcliffe and Ranmoor sites, and welfare facilities for students. Hanover Street and Brook Hill. Due as part of the Student Residences Building work will begin on site in for completion in 2007, it will provide Strategy.The development involves early 2006.
OTHER PROJECTS. The southeast wing of the 1960s Hicks Building has been reclad and the roof replaced in a £3m project designed to enhance the appearance and the operational efficiency of these landmark premises that are home to the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Two schemes intended to improve pedestrian movement in the St George's area of the campus were completed during the session: the closure of Portobello Street west of Mappin Street and the construction of a ramped entrance to the Sir Frederick Mappin Building. The appearance of the Firth Court crescent was transformed for the Centenary celebrations through hard and soft landscaping, which included the introduction of iron railings reminiscent of the original Edwardian scheme for this part of the campus. Hicks Building. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 8
8 THE DIVIDEND OF RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
The Dividend of Research
THE UNIVERSITY HAS A HIGH STANDING IN RESEARCH, AS EVIDENCED BY THE INCREASED LEVEL OF GRANT AND CONTRACT INCOME IN 2004/05 AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF ITS STAFF IN TWO SUB-PANELS FOR THE NEXT RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE.
Research Income UK’s leading providers of health services research and health In the session under review, research technology assessment, and it has grant and contract income stood at received funding of £4.1m from the £78m, an increase of 9.6% over last Department of Health to continue its year's figure. A selection of these new work in these strategically important grants, representing each of the seven areas. faculties, is given below. The Department of Civil and Within the Faculty of Pure Science, Structural Engineering has been Professor Graham Leggett (Chemistry) awarded a grant of £750,000 by the has secured funding of £3m, under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils’ Basic Technology Research Council for a multi- Programme, to lead a team of scientists CALL OF NATURE. Among the academic disciplinary study of the biodegrad- papers from Sheffield researchers to be from four universities in the development ation of pollutants in natural waters at accepted for publication in Nature of a new nanotechnology tool – called molecular and nano levels. Under the during 2004/05 were the following: a Snomipede – that could be used to Science Research Investment Fund make devices for studying the origin A study by Professor Mike Holcombe, initiative, the EPSRC National Centre of disease at the molecular level and Professor Francis Ratnieks and Duncan for III-V Technologies has received for manufacturing miniaturised plastic Jackson, published on 16 December £6.5m to develop two state-of-the-art electronic circuits. Professor Per 2004, showed that pharaoh ants use an clean rooms in the new Nanoscience Bullough (Molecular Biology and appreciation of geometry to find their and Technology Centre at the North Biotechnology) has received a grant of way home. It was previously thought Campus. £852,000 from the Biotechnology and that the pheromone trails alone Biological Sciences Research Council, Professor Alan Walker (Sociological determined the direction that the ants for his work on the 3D shapes of Studies) has been appointed Director followed, but the Sheffield team protein molecules that sit on the of the £15m New Dynamics of discovered it was the angle at which Ageing Research Programme that is they are laid that is important, and that boundary between cells and their the optimum angle is 60 degrees. external environment. Knowledge sponsored by four of the Research gained from this research will aid our Councils (ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, In the 5 May 2005 issue, a paper by understanding of antibiotic resistance MRC). The programme will be scientists at Warwick University, the and of conditions such as diabetes and investigating ways in which current European Synchrotron Radiation Facility cystic fibrosis. influences (biological, clinical, and the University of Sheffield (Professor technological, social and behavioural) Mike Gibbs) describes how they used Grants totalling £3.5m have been can be managed to produce maximum X-rays to look at the movement of atoms awarded to Professors Freddie Hamdy benefits for older people. with a resolution that was 100 times and Peter Croucher in the Faculty of better than had ever been achieved Medicine for their research and The UK building stock accounts for before. The technique has significant screening work on prostate and bone approximately 50% of the country’s potential in data storage, healthcare cancer. ScHARR (School of Health carbon emissions and is therefore a sensors and security systems. and Related Research) is one of the major contributor to global warming. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 9
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Ian Ward in the School of Architecture on-line directory of all the masonic RAE Sub-Panels is investigating energy consumption lodges established in England and Two University staff have been chosen and energy savings in a wide range of Wales up to 1894. Also in the Faculty to chair Sub-Panels for the Research buildings, as part of a £3m project of Arts, Professor Mark Greengrass Assessment Exercise 2008 – Professor funded by the EPSRC and the was awarded £309,000 by the Arts Geof Tomlinson (General Engineering Carbon Trust, and involving four and Humanities Research Council for and Mineral & Mining Engineering) and other universities. his project to produce the on-line Professor Tony Payne (Politics and In the Faculty of Law, Dr Natasha variorum edition of John Foxe’s Book International Studies). Sub-Panels are Semmens is working with computer of Martyrs. responsible for the core work in scientists at Teesside and Hull assessing submissions and making universities on a £167,000 EPSRC Northern Research Partnership recommendations to Main Panels on project on cyberprofiling techniques. Eight research intensive universities the quality profiles to award for each They are assessing whether the in the north of England (Durham, submission. psychological and geographical Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, procedures used to construct a profile Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Visit of the Director General of of an offender can be applied in the York) have formed the Northern Research Councils cyber world, as well as the associated Research Partnership to identify and Professor Sir Keith O'Nions, Director legal and ethical implications that may exploit major opportunities for General of Research Councils, visited be involved. technology-based economic growth in the University in October 2005. He The Centre for Research into the North. The Partnership, whose toured the Advanced Manufacturing Freemasonry has received funding of Chief Executive Dr David Secher is Research Centre with Boeing and £700,000 from the United Grand based in Sheffield, is linked to the visited the Faculty of Engineering, Lodge of England and the Supreme government’s Northern Way initiative, where he was briefed about Grand Chapter as continued support which is designed to reduce the £30bn developments at the North Campus for its research work, which has productivity gap between the North and saw the EPSRC National Centre included the establishment of an and the South. for III-V Technologies.
CHANGING FAMILIES, CHANGING FOOD. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a grant of
£1.2m to a multidisciplinary team led by GETTY IMAGES Professor Peter Jackson (Geography), for a programme of research which uses food as the lens through which to observe recent changes in family life, and how changes in family composition have affected patterns of food consumption (with fewer set meal times, more ‘snacking’ and an increased emphasis on convenience food). The findings from the research are expected to contribute to current debates about obesity and nutrition, media and consumption, and food choice and deprivation.
Family mealtimes round a table were once a common event. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 10
10 TEACHING AND LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Teaching and Learning
THE UNIVERSITY'S HIGH STANDARDS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING HAVE BEEN Learning, Teaching and RECOGNISED BY HEFCE AND THE QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCY. NEW STRATEGIES Assessment Strategy AND NETWORKS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO SUPPORT THE LEARNING PROCESS A new Learning, Teaching and AND WIDEN PARTICIPATION. Assessment Strategy has been developed by the University, in York) benefit from being encouraged Centres for Excellence in consultation with key stakeholders. to develop their entrepreneurial skills. Teaching and Learning It supercedes the existing Learning In a move to promote excellence across The work of the Centre is described in and Teaching Strategy which has all subjects and aspects of teaching and more detail on page 14. been broadened out to include learning, the Higher Education Funding assessment, in recognition of the Council for England (HEFCE) Health profession courses fact that it is a key component of announced a £315m programme of commended by QAA the student experience. national Centres for Excellence in The University’s programmes in The latest strategy is explicitly Teaching and Learning (CETLs) Clinical Psychology, Orthoptics, student-focused, incorporating ten in January 2005. Sheffield was one and Speech and Language Therapy characteristics of the ‘Sheffield of only 16 universities chosen by have been awarded the best possible graduate’ as its visionary starting HEFCE to host more than one of its outcome following a review visit by point. These characteristics will equip CETLs. The £9m allocation to the the Quality Assurance Agency graduates for successful entry into University will fund two centres. (QAA). The published report long-term employment and for further The first of these, the Centre for expressed ‘confidence in the academic lifelong learning. Implementation of Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and practitioner standards achieved the Strategy will be supported by six and Social Sciences (CILASS), will by the programmes’ and commended strands of activity: departmental enable the University to transform the quality of learning opportunities learning, teaching and assessment learning for the 10,000 students in all three categories – learning and strategies; networks and special studying arts, law and social science teaching; student progression; and interest groups; institution-wide subjects. It will initiate and support a learning resources and their effective support and developmental projects; wide range of approaches in teaching utilisation. The visit was conducted in quality assurance; promotion of and learning, rather than focusing partnership with the South Yorkshire professional standards; recognising solely on traditional lectures and and Trent Strategic Health Authorities. and rewarding excellence. seminars. Inquiry-based learning will be at the heart of the student experience, and this will be achieved by Orthoptics students investigating binocular vision on the BMedSci course, which was commended by the Quality Assurance Agency. interdisciplinary collaborative studies with other students, enhancement of students’ information literacy capabilities, and use of the latest information and communications technologies.
The second CETL, the White Rose Centre for Excellence in the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise, will ensure that all students in the three White Rose universities (Leeds, Sheffield and J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 11
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Widening participation the faculty-based Directors of Learning and Teaching Development A new Widening Participation Strategy, to encourage innovation at the covering the period 2005-10, has departmental level and to share good been introduced by the University practice with colleagues elsewhere in following broad consultation with the University; the web-based Learning internal and external stakeholders, and Teaching Exchange, which including schools, colleges, provides guidance and information on community leaders and the all aspects of learning and teaching parents/carers of school pupils from development, innovation and practice; under-represented groups within and a Learning and Teaching South Yorkshire.The new strategy will Awayday, aimed at encouraging build upon existing achievements and Landscape students discussing the Digital collaboration and innovation. Landscape Space package with their tutor. experience by ensuring that students from these groups have the capacity, Senate Awards INTERACTIVE LEARNING PACKAGES motivation and resources to benefit The Learning Development and Media from higher education, and to fulfil In a move to recognise and reward Unit produces a wide range of learning their potential, whether or not they excellent teachers and support staff, resources for academic departments. the University has introduced the choose to study at Sheffield. Two of its latest packages are being Senate Awards for Excellence in In December 2004, the Office used by students in the Faculty of Learning and Teaching.The Awards for Fair Access (OFFA) approved Architectural Studies. are designed to promote good practice an agreement which sets out the and innovation across the institution, Digital Landscape Space is a ‘mini CAD’ University’s plans for ensuring fair and in 2004/05 nine awards were package that enables level 1 students access to students from under- made. Winners of the Award receive in the Department of Landscape to represented groups through outreach the title ‘Senate Award Fellow’. experiment in the creation and work and bursaries over the period manipulation of landscape space using 3D fuzzy felt for modelling. 2006-11. Without the approval of Teaching Quality Information OFFA, which is an independent, The Drawing Workshop is a compre- HEFCE’s Teaching Quality Information non-departmental public body, the hensive package for the School of initiative was launched on a national University would be unable to charge Architecture, which uses video and website in September 2005. tuition fees for full-time students above interactive animation to provide Prospective students now have access the standard level from 2006-07. instruction in architectural projection to a large body of published material and drawing techniques. – both quantitative and qualitative – Networks for disseminating including the summaries of external excellence examiner reports and internal quality During 2004/05 the University reviews, and the much-publicised introduced a range of new initiatives National Student Survey of final-year designed to increase support for undergraduates. learning and teaching within the institution. These included a network of Learning and Teaching Advocates, based in each academic department, who will work in collaboration with The Drawing Workshop package. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 12
Edgar Allen building in springtime. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 13
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Preparing for Employment
THE CAREERS SERVICE CONTINUES TO DEVELOP NEW AND INNOVATIVE SCHEMES mature and disabled students, and those THAT HELP TO INCREASE THE EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL OF STUDENTS, BY entering from non-traditional routes. In DEVELOPING THEIR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS AND BY ENABLING THEM TO MAKE MORE September 2005, Impact received the INFORMED CAREER DECISIONS. inaugural national Excellence Award for Diversity at the Biennial Conference of Business in the Curriculum Impact Programme, which seeks to the Association of Graduate Careers enhance the skills and employability of Advisory Services. The Careers Service is piloting a students who entered higher education project in six departments aimed at through widening participation Student JobShop developing real-life work experiences strategies. Funded under the which meet the educational needs of The Careers Service, in association with government’s Aim Higher initiative – students and the commercial interests the Union of Students, has introduced a national scheme for raising the of employers. Business in the a new facility to help students look for aspirations of people from under- Curriculum provides students with part-time and vacation work, and represented groups – the Impact opportunities to understand how their to aid local employers who want to Programme enjoys the close support disciplined-based knowledge transfers recruit students. The Student JobShop of employers who are interested in into a real-work situation. For enables students to browse the diversity agendas. They take part in employers, the project can offer an noticeboards for the latest vacancies in workshops on employability skills and opportunity to use fresh and and around Sheffield, and search the liaise with the University’s Impact inquisitive minds to address real Careers Service’s vacancies database Officer in providing information and problems and to develop the skills for student jobs and vacation work. mentoring support to students that are required in potential future They can also use the Centre’s involved in the programme. employees. And for academic staff, information resources to help prepare there is the chance of strengthening Initially focused on UK black and applications for jobs, and access advice relationships with business and minority ethnic students, Impact and information about working whilst industry and of developing new has widened its coverage to embrace a student. learning materials and methods.
So far, a total of 100 employers are engaged in the project, and more than 500 students are registered on modules incorporating these new business- related activities. It is envisaged that the good practice developed within this project will be disseminated to other academic departments. The project is supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund.
Impact Programme The University is part of a consortium of six Yorkshire universities (Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leeds Metro- politan, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam) collaborating in the delivery of the Student JobShop in the Union of Students’ building. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 14
14 ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Enterprise and Innovation
2004/05 WAS AN ENTERPRISING YEAR, WITH THE SUCCESSFUL FLOTATION OF BIOFUSION CellTran raised £2.7m in a private ON THE ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MARKET, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE funding round led by a new investor, ROSE CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENTERPRISE. the YFM Group, and including existing investors Biofusion and the Biofusion floats on AIM Founded in 2001, Simcyp develops White Rose Seedcorn Fund, along software and databases specifically with another new investor – the Biofusion plc, an IP portfolio manage- designed to inform the process of Treasury agency, Partnerships UK. ment company set up by SUEL (the drug discovery and development, by The proceeds of the funding package University’s technology transfer simulating virtual patient populations will be used by CellTran to continue company) in conjunction with a in order to identify individuals at development of its innovative surface professional management team, was extreme risk. New licensing deals chemistry and tissue-engineering successfully floated on the Alternative worth £1.5m have been signed by technologies; to progress its lead Investment Market in February 2005. Simcyp for its predictive pharmaco- product MyskinTM through clinical The flotation raised £8.23m and gave kinetic software and consultancy trials, in which it is being evaluated as the company a market capitalisation of services. This commercial success is a potential treatment for diabetic foot approximately £28.2m. based on Simcyp’s continuing ability ulcers; and to expand the sales and Biofusion was established in 2002 to build the Simcyp Consortium, marketing of Myskin as a treatment to commercialise university-generated which includes major pharmaceutical for chronic wounds and burns. intellectual property, and in 2005 it and biotechnology companies (such as Alongside its funding success, signed an exclusive ten-year medical AstraZeneca and Pfizer), regulatory CellTran has had its clean-rooms life science agreement with the institutions and world-renowned accredited for clinical use by the University of Sheffield. The University universities. Department of Health. It has also currently has a 49% stake in Biofusion, Plasso’s core technology involves taken delivery of a scaled-up materials which has taken on a portfolio of eight advanced surface engineering, and it processing unit, which will allow a spin-out companies that have been provides tailored coatings to consum- 30-fold increase in the production of created by SUEL from University ables such as micro arrays, lab-on-a- wound-care materials. research. These cover areas such as chip, sensors and microtitre plates used stem cell technology, adjuvants for in life sciences research and diagnostics. White Rose CETL The unique properties of these coatings vaccines, drug interaction, and novel The White Rose Consortium (Leeds, provide a marked increase in sensitivity angiogenesis inhibitors. The capital Sheffield and York universities) was and specificity for assays within these that was raised from the flotation of successful in its bid for one of the markets. Plasso has successfully forged Biofusion will be used to finance the prestigious Centres for Excellence in a number of commercial partnerships development of these companies and Teaching and Learning that are being with equipment manufacturers in the to establish and grow new portfolio funded by the Higher Education life sciences, and is also developing its companies. Funding Council for England. The own product portfolio aimed at White Rose Centre for Excellence in bioinstrumentation, biosensors, arrays Funding success for spin-out the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise and emerging diagnostics sectors. Its companies is one of only three centres specialising funding of £1.5m – from a Boston- in enterprise, among the 74 CETLs Three of the companies in the Bio- based institutional investor – will that have been chosen by HEFCE. fusion portfolio – Simcyp Ltd, Plasso enable it to accelerate its research Technology Ltd and CellTran Ltd – programme and product development, The new Centre will build on secured funding totalling £5.7m in particularly the miniaturisation of existing good practice in the teaching 2004/05. assays. and learning of enterprise developed J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 15
MARK RODGERS Biofusion is successfully launched on the Alternative Investment Market. Looking on are, left to right, Doug Liversidge, chairman of Biofusion, Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Boucher and Pro-Chancellor Peter Lee.
over the past six years by the White businesses was opened by the Rt Hon From an initial entry of 280 proposed Rose Centre for Enterprise, based in David Blunkett MP in November business plans, Charlie Cornwallis and the University of Sheffield. It will 2004. The E-Lab is a joint initiative Paul Thomas from the Department of embed enterprise in the modules and between the White Rose Centre for Animal and Plant Sciences at Sheffield programmes that are offered by the Enterprise and the Department of won the first prize of £10,000. Their three universities and expand this Mechanical Engineering, which hosts company, Wild Expeditions Ltd, activity into the arts, humanities and the laboratory in its Ibberson Centre provides wildlife research training for social sciences. In collaboration with for Enterprise. It will provide the budding biologists in exotic locations national and international organisations, environment and the stimulation for around the world. The runner-up in the Centre will provide students with students to develop their ideas with the competition was William real and simulated interdisciplinary mentors and to use the computers and Christophers, also from the University business experience, and will encourage specialist software that are available in of Sheffield, who won £5,000 for them to consider new directions and the laboratory. External organisations his plans for the UK’s first healthy opportunities following their degree will participate in the work of the Japanese-style fast-food outlet, WillYaki. course. One of the ways in which this E-Lab by inviting students to become A second runner-up prize, worth will be achieved is through the involved in their enterprising activities. £2,500, went to Jonathan Chambers development of specific ‘enterprise and his co-director Mark Humphries zones’ in all three universities, which Business Plan Competition for their interactive web-based company, will act as a focal point for students and which specialises in the supply of University of Sheffield students took staff interested in starting their own information regarding the building three of the four prizes on offer at business or selling a business idea. service trade. Both students are based the 2005 Business Plan Competition, in the Department of Psychology at run by the White Rose Centre for Enterprise Lab Sheffield. Enterprise. The competition provides A new laboratory designed to a platform for students from the White encourage students to develop their Rose universities to launch the entrepreneurial skills and set up new business successes of the future. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 16 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 17
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In Partnership with Industry and Commerce
THE OFFICE OF CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS SUPPORTS ACADEMIC STAFF IN BUILDING capabilities and expertise, while RELATIONSHIPS WITH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS. EXAMPLES OF making new contacts with colleagues THIS KIND OF ACTIVITY ARE GIVEN BELOW. from a wide variety of organisations.
Office of Corporate Partnerships include care homes for the elderly and Yorkshire Water initiative the digitisation of ancient manuscripts. A notable initiative during the year The University is one of four academic was the establishment of the Corporate Another funding stream – the Proof institutions (along with Cranfield, Industrial Advisers Scheme, in which of Concept Fund – has provided staff Imperial College and Leeds) senior business executives are retained with financial support at a very early collaborating with Yorkshire Water in to assist the University with its know- stage of turning original research ideas a £2m initiative designed to support ledge transfer activities and corporate into a business proposition. More than the company’s research and engagement. They act as ambassadors 30 projects in science, engineering and development strategy over the next for the University within their own medicine have received funding from five years. Sheffield has been selected sector, seeking out opportunities for this scheme, which is sponsored by the for its expertise in the area of engagement and promoting the benefits Higher Education Innovation Fund. sewerage and distribution networks. of business-University collaborations. In the Department of Engineering The six corporate industrial advisers Materials, for example, a grant was Advanced Manfacturing Research are based in leading firms such as obtained to progress a prototype Centre IBM and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as lithium battery from novel solvent-free Under the leadership of Professor the UK water industry, the chemicals polymer electrolyte materials that have Keith Ridgway, the Advanced sector and the food industry. been developed in the University in Manufacturing Research Centre During 2004/05 the University recent years. (AMRC) is conducting research into secured 18 Knowledge Transfer advanced machining technologies for Partnerships, which enable companies Prestige dinner use by Boeing, its supply chain and to tap into the academic knowledge related companies, drawing on UK private and public sector leaders base to maximise their potential in the expertise within the University’s met in Firth Hall in October 2005 at market-place. At the heart of each Faculty of Engineering. Among the a special dinner jointly organised by Partnership is a relationship between latest companies to become partners the Managing Directors’ Club and the a company and an academic applying in AMRC are two Japanese firms – Public Sector Club. Over 180 high- their expertise to a project that is Mitutoyo, the world’s leading supplier profile figures heard a keynote speech central to the development of the of measuring equipment, and Mori by Sir Graham Hall, Chairman of the company partner. In addition, staff are Seiki, the world’s leading machine tool Northern Way Steering Group. able to enhance the business relevance manufacturer. Launched in 2004 by Deputy Prime of their teaching and research. Each The AMRC is the lead partner and Minister John Prescott, the Northern Partnership is worth in excess of co-ordinator of a £20m EU Framework 6 Way is dedicated to eradicating the £100,000 (funded by DTI and the project on difficult-to-handle £30bn output gap between the North company partner) and the scheme has components, which also involves Volvo of England and the rest of the country already attracted over £2m in research and Fiat, and is part of the Messier by 2025. income. The topics featured so far Dowty team developing landing gear The two Clubs provide a regular associated with the next-generation Firth Hall reflections in a grand piano lid, opportunity for representatives from Airbus wing. on the occasion of a joint meeting of the Managing Directors’ Club and the Public the private and public sectors to find Sector Club in October 2005. out about the University’s research J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 18
18 CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Centenary Celebrations
THE UNIVERSITY CELEBRATED ITS CENTENARY IN 2005 WITH AN AMBITIOUS in December 2005, which included PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES CO-ORDINATED BY THE CENTENARY OFFICE. THE the world première of George ACTIVITIES WERE DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO A WIDE AUDIENCE, WITH EVENTS FOR Nicholson’s Concerto for Orchestra, STUDENTS, STAFF, GRADUATES, FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE OF SHEFFIELD. which he conducted. No fewer than five regional choirs were on stage, The Centenary programme ran world première. The work was together with the Sheffield University throughout 2005 and featured a wide commissioned by Convocation. Orchestra, for a rousing performance range of activities: a series of prestige Another highlight was the of Belshazzar’s Feast, under the baton lectures delivered by distinguished performance of Baroque oratorio of Martin Hindmarsh.
speakers; a programme of concerts; in theatrical settings at the Cathedral, Forty-eight staff, students and and a number of special events, by staff and students from the alumni took up the Centenary Tall including a 100th birthday party, Departments of Music and Hispanic Ships Challenge in early April and heritage weekend, thanksgiving Studies, under the direction of the raised £30,000 for the clinical and service, Charter dinner, charity ball, internationally-acclaimed musician community outreach work provided quiz night, fireworks display, tall ships Andrew Lawrence-King. by the Department of Human challenge and an achievement awards The University was delighted to ceremony. And to commemorate the welcome students from Pennsylvania The Lindsays. occasion, a Centenary history of the State University, one of its partner University, Steel City Scholars,was institutions in the Worldwide published in May 2005. Universities Network, to help celebrate Of particular note in the music its centenary.They performed an programme was the Lindsays’ Farewell entertaining concert entitled Another University Concert in Firth Hall, when Hundred Years – A History of Musical a new work by Robin Ireland, the Theatre. Sheffield City Hall was the quartet’s viola player, was given its venue for the Centenary Gala Concert
THE CENTENARY HISTORY. To commemorate the University’s centenary, Sheffield history graduate Dr Helen Mathers was commissioned to write an account of its development from the three antecedent institutions – Firth College, the Technical School and the Sheffield School of Medicine – right up to the present day. Steel City Scholars is a fully referenced academic study that draws on the reminiscences of hundreds of present and former staff and students, whose insights bring colour to the narrative of great personalities and events. Attention is also focused on the contributions made by the citizens of Sheffield, particularly the major benefactors and other supporters of the University’s work. The 480-page book, containing 650 photographs, drawings and maps, was formally launched on 6 May 2005 by Professor Sir Colin Lucas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2004 and a former member of staff in the Department of History at Sheffield.
The Heritage Open Weekend, which followed the book launch, provided an opportunity for staff, students and members of the public to visit Firth Court and view the Centenary Exhibition and the University’s treasures, ranging from ceremonial silver to rare and precious books, and from fascinating ephemera to paintings and drawings.
Above left: University treasures exhibited at the Heritage Weekend. Left: Dr Helen Mathers with Professor Sir Colin Lucas. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:25 am Page 19
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The Centenary Drama Festival was a celebration of rich and diverse theatre work presented by staff and students from the Department of English Literature. A varied programme of classic texts, avant-garde and cabaret performances took place in the newly- renovated Theatre Workshop. The programme included the première of a play by Frances Gray about the actress Meggi Alabanesi.
In the Centenary Achievement Awards Ceremony, held in July, specially commissioned medals were presented to the region’s ‘unsung Clockwise from top left: Baroness Helena Kennedy, General Sir Mike Jackson, heroes’ – staff, students and citizens Professor Andrew Motion, Sir Paul Nurse. of South Yorkshire who have made Aerial artist Rose Morrison providing visual outstanding contributions in the fields CENTENARY LECTURES. The eleven effects during Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, staged in Sheffield Cathedral as part of the of community, culture, environment, Centenary Lectures proved especially Centenary oratorio programme. scholarship and sport. Also in July, popular and all of them were sell-out Dr Vanessa Toulmin, Director of events. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC set Communications Sciences for the National Fairground Archive, the tone in the first lecture of the series in Sheffield children with persistent hosted an evening of Victorian and January, when she spoke on Just Law: The speech difficulties. The group met in Edwardian films that form part of Changing Face of Justice. She was followed Palma, Majorca, and joined the Stavros the priceless Mitchell & Kenyon in February by Britain’s most senior army officer, Sheffield-born General Sir Mike Niarchos, a modern 60-metre square- Collection. Jackson, and in March by Alan Rushbridger, rigged brig, for a week’s hard but The autumn programme included a Editor of The Guardian, and Dr Richard exhilarating sailing around the Centenary Quiz Night at the Octagon Roberts, Nobel Laureate and University of Balearic Islands. Sheffield graduate. In the Spring, lectures Key dates in the University’s were delivered by the distinguished foundation year were marked by a architect Ted Cullinan and the Poet seriees of special events. The Charter Laureate Professor Andrew Motion. Day Service on 31 May in Sheffield Later in the year, the speakers were the Cathedral marked the sealing of the acclaimed author Joanne Harris, who spoke Charter by the Privy Council, when the on My Life as a Writer, Dr David Whitehouse University officially came into being. from the New York Corning Museum, and The Charter’s subsequent arrival in University of Sheffield graduate Dr Vanessa Sheffield on 3 June 1905, to great Lawrence, Director General and Chief rejoicing in the city, was celebrated by Executive of Ordnance Survey. The final the Charter Dinner in the Cutlers’ Hall, two speakers were the Nobel Laureate while the Party in the Park on 12 July Sir Paul Nurse and Professor John Wood, (page 20) commemorated the opening Chief Executive of the Council for the Central of the Firth Court building. Laboratories of the Research Councils.
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PARTY IN THE PARK. Weston Park was Edwardian characters mingling with the Centre in October, when a hundred alive with sound and colour on 12 July guests. Other events included a staff tug- teams of staff, students, alumni and 2005, when the University held a party for of-war and an entertaining ‘University friends of the University took part, staff and their families to celebrate the Challenge’, pitting staff against students. under the watchful eye of quiz-master 100th anniversary of the opening of the At the invitation of the University, local Professor Tony Ryan. Sheffield’s original building at Western Bank (now schoolchildren and their teachers were AfterDark Bonfire Night party at the Firth Court) by King Edward VII and Queen able to enjoy the attractions in Weston Don Valley Bowl was sponsored by the Alexandra. The ‘Party in the Park’ included Park over the ensuing two days, as part University and featured a spectacular a circus, a traditional carousel and many of the Sheffield Children’s Festival. More fireworks display set to music, together other fairground attractions, as well as a than 6,000 people visited the park during with stage acts performing in front of juggler, stilt-walker, balloon-modeller and the three days. 15,000 people. The Charity Ball was held on 17 December in the Octagon Centre, when guests enjoyed a lavish four-course dinner and dancing to the Stapleford Big Band.
The final event in the Centenary Calendar was an informal Christmas party for staff, held on the Concourse on 19 December, complete with brass band, fire-jugglers, surprise attractions and seasonal refreshments.
Top left: All the fun of the fair – Claire Taylor (Graduate Research Office) and daughter Laura. AfterDark fireworks display. Top right: The winning tug-of-war team representing Corporate Information and Opposite: The University team on board the Computing Services. Stavros Niarchos in the Centenary Tall Ships Challenge. Bottom: Careers Service staff enjoying a picnic. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 21 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 22
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Development and Alumni Relations
THE CENTENARY YEAR HAS PROVIDED THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE WITH A RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES AND ALUMNI REUNIONS, BUILDING ON THE TRADITION OF PHILANTHROPY STARTED BY THE UNIVERSITY’S ORIGINAL BENEFACTORS.
The Development and Alumni for a special reunion in the Octagon Relations Office was set up in 2002 and Centre in May. in the past three years over £6m has Sixteen alumni took part in the been raised through cash gifts and week-long Tall Ships Challenge confirmed legacy pledges. Funds have around the Balearic Islands, which also been raised for all seven faculties formed part of the Centenary through approaches to trusts, celebrations. Sheffield graduates also individual donors, direct mail and participated in the Sheffield Half telephone appeals, and via a legacy MEDICAL STUDENTS – YOUNG AND Marathon, some of them travelling programme. A series of quality OLD. Medical alumni have so far long distances to compete. These publications have been published – donated over £50,000 to the Alumni fundraising events jointly raised most notably the annual Your Fund Campaign for Medicine, and one £45,000 for the Department of University magazine and Donor News, of the ways in which these funds have Human Communication Sciences and which reports on fundraising made a real difference to current Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. successes. The past year has seen a medical students is through the significant increase in activity for both The University’s Alumni Fund establishment of three BMedSci alumni relations and fundraising. reached new levels of success: 1,500 scholarships. One of the recipients was alumni and staff have made a personal Sarah Rasool (above), whose project The impetus of the Centenary Year gift to the campaign; more than 50 focused on platelet function in patients has enabled the Office to reconnect hardship bursaries have now been with cardiovascular disease. with thousands of alumni, former staff awarded; capital projects such as the and friends of the University. More The University’s oldest medical than 30,000 questionnaires have now new Information Commons building graduate, Professor Frank Ellis, celebrated been returned by alumni and the are receiving support; and the Alumni his 100th birthday in August 2005. A information added to the alumni Foundation has continued its policy month earlier he had been the recipient database. A key communication of awarding small grants to support of an honorary doctorate from the development has been the creation of student sport, music, drama and University, for his distinguished work in Sheffield Reunited, an on-line directory cultural projects. radiotherapy and oncology. enabling alumni to make contact with Perhaps the most notable gift this old friends (www.shef.ac.uk/alumni). year was a donation of £1m from the A major programme of reunions and Wolfson Foundation towards the cost receptions took place during the year of a biorepository and equipment for in Sheffield, London and Edinburgh, research into bone and prostate disease. and, further afield, in the United Two legacies from Mr A Firth and States, the Caribbean and South East Dr E M Sefton – totalling £300,000 – Asia. Many hundreds of alumni visited were added to the Wolfson Foundation Sheffield, and the University also has a donation to complete the project. large repository of goodwill amongst Legacies are extremely important to its former staff, 300 of whom returned the University, which is an exempt J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 23
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‘OUR UNIVERSITY’. Local artist Joe Scarborough was commissioned by the Sheffield University Association of Former Students (SUA) to produce a commemorative painting of the University in its centenary year. ‘Our University’ was officially presented to Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Boucher at SUA’s Annual Dinner in April 2005. All profits from the sale of the limited edition of 500 prints of the painting are being used to provide student hardship bursaries. So far, over £17,000 has been raised, with nearly all the prints sold.
charity, and so all legacy gifts are therefore free of inheritance tax. This DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL year saw the number of enquiries for BIOGRAPHY. The University Library the legacy information brochure, took delivery of the new Oxford A Legacy to Sheffield, go through the Dictionary of National Biography in 1,000 mark, and 200 supporters have November 2004, with funding support now confirmed that the University is from the University’s Alumni Foundation remembered in their will. and a generous gift from a recently The Development and Alumni retired member of University staff. Relations Office is now embedded into Professor David Luscombe, seen here the fabric of the University and, with (right) with Miles Stevenson, Director of the support of staff, is creating a Development and Alumni Relations, conviction that fundraising can – and donated his entire leaving collection does – work at Sheffield. towards the purchase of the Dictionary, which includes 50,000 biographies in its 60 volumes. Many of the Dictionary’s contributors are from the University. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 24
24 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
The International Dimension
IN ADDITION TO WELCOMING LARGE NUMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO abroad. Successful completion of the ITS CAMPUS, THE UNIVERSITY MAINTAINS CONTACT WITH ITS OVERSEAS GRADUATES Consortium’s preparatory courses BY VISITING THEM IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. guarantees students a place at one of the founding institutions. About 40% of Northern Consortium students Northern Consortium entered the University by this route, compared with 32 in 2002/03. achieve first-class degree standard at Increasing numbers of international the end of their first year in Sheffield. students are joining the University of The Northern Consortium has educational centres in China, Japan, Sheffield via the Northern Consortium, White Rose East Asia Institute an educational organisation established Vietnam, Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, The Departments of East Asian in 1987 by twelve UK universities Ireland and the UK that prepare Studies at Sheffield and Leeds based in the north of England. In international students for under- universities have joined forces to 2004/05 66 international students graduate and postgraduate study create the White Rose East Asia Institute as a new focus for collaboration in this field. The Institute's mission is to become a global centre of excellence for research and training in Chinese and Japanese, using the latest internet technology and other media to deliver the best possible learning environment.
Korean Studies anniversary The year 2005 marked the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Korean Studies, and to mark the occasion the Centre hosted the prestigious Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe. The anniversary was also celebrated by a group of performers from the Korean National University of the Arts, whose show included music played on traditional Korean stringed instruments and drums, and national dancing.
International Cultural Evening Described by International Students' Officer Harpreet Bhal as a night of OVERSEAS CEREMONIES. During the session, degree ceremonies and alumni 'global fusion', the International reunions were held in Thessaloniki, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, Hong Kong, Cultural Evening in April 2005 lived Malaysia, Singapore and China, when University staff, led by the Vice-Chancellor, were able to reconnect with Sheffield alumni and honour distinguished local citizens.
The University’s international honorary graduates in 2004/05 included, clockwise from top right, His Exellency Dr Julian Hunte, St Lucia's representative at the United Nations; Professor Max Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago; and Hong Kong businessman Dr William Mong, pictured with the Vice-Chancellor. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 25
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up to its usual high standard, with an African tribal war dance, modern and traditional Indian dances, a Japanese version of Romeo and Juliet, and gravity-defying Capoiera martial arts from Brazil among the entertainment provided by the University's international students. The event also included professional flamenco and Arab dancers to add variety to the evening. At the interval guests were able to sample international cuisine, with the Omani and Indonesian societies doing brisk business. The evening ended with a disco featuring music from around the world.
A student dancer from China performing at the International Cultural Evening.
Top left: Professor Steve Banwart; top right: Illuminated medieval manuscript (Stonyhurst College). Above: Visiting students from Pennsylvania State University with their show Another Hundred Years.
WORLDWIDE UNIVERSITIES NETWORK. The sixteen partners in the Worldwide Universities Network – representing the USA, UK, China, Holland and Norway – share a common interest in responding to global research challenges and enhancing the scale and quality of graduate training. The University is actively involved in many of WUN's research themes, including the newly-formed Weathering Systems Science Consortium and the Medieval Studies Consortium.
Weathering and soil erosion is a serious environmental issue that needs to be better understood in order to tackle it effectively. Professor Steve Banwart of the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at Sheffield has been awarded a grant of £1.74m by the Natural Environment Research Council that establishes a WUN consortium on weathering research, in partnership with Bristol, Leeds and Pennsylvania State universities. By working collectively, the consortium will be able to move out of traditional science areas and create a truly interdisciplinary approach to this serious problem.
The Medieval Studies Consortium, jointly led by Professor Peter Ainsworth (Sheffield) and Professor Anne D Hedeman (Illinois at Urbana Champaign), is developing a portal so that it can share generic tools, databases and teaching materials on illuminated manuscripts across the WUN community.
Pennsylvania State University helped the University of Sheffield celebrate its centenary with a production of its revue show, Another Hundred Years – A History of Musical Theatre, in Firth Hall in March 2005. The cast were making a tour of WUN universities in the UK, led by University President Dr Graham Spanier. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 26
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Part of the Region
THE UNIVERSITY IS ENGAGED IN A WIDE RANGE OF PROJECTS WITH LOCAL AGENCIES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE THE REGION MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND TO BROADEN THE OUTLOOK OF ITS SCHOOLCHILDREN.
Horticultural success of crown imperials, hyacinths and miniature daffodils across the campus. The University was part of the City of Herbaceous plants were also included Sheffield team that won a gold medal in in the planting, and they contributed to September 2005 at the Entente Florale the improved appearance of the campus – a major European horticultural over the spring and summer months. competition – in the Towns and Cities category.The judges were particularly ECUS staff supervising repair and impressed by the striking entrance and Environmental progress restoration work in the General Cemetery. reception areas at Firth Court and the The University has made notable intelligent design and use of suitable contributions to the community and DOORSTEP GREEN PROJECT. plants and materials.The winning bid the environment during the session, ECUS, the University’s environmental team included various University teaming up with local organisations consultancy service, has joined forces departments, Sheffield City Council such as Sheffield City Council, with the Sheffield General Cemetery and a number of local firms, including Sheffield College and local police, to Trust to restore the appearance and Yorkshire Water and Yorkshire establish an eco-network for the city in pathways of the historic General Electricity. Between them they planted a bid to make it more environmentally Cemetery, under the Doorstep Green thousands of flowering plants, shrubs friendly. initiative. Doorstep Greens are green and hanging baskets. In addition, a Thus, over 80% of the University’s spaces that local people would like to distinctive water feature was installed electricity supply is now obtained from see improved, to encourage more on Brook Hill roundabout. renewable sources, saving over 14,000 people to visit and enjoy the spaces. In the autumn of 2004, staff and their tonnes of carbon dioxide from being Working in collaboration with English families planted more than 4,000 bulbs released into the atmosphere each year; Heritage, Sheffield City Council and the local community, ECUS managed the works on site and developed a planting design to complement the historic character of the cemetery. The project was funded by the Countryside Agency and Onyx.
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effective recycling and waste manage- ment schemes have led to a reduction in landfill material; water consumption has dropped by 40% over five years as a result of conservation measures; and the University’s commitment to sustainable travel means that over 70% of students travel to the campus by sustainable means.
External recognition of the University’s ‘green’ policies has resulted in it gaining the 2005 Green Gown Award for Water Efficiency, presented by the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Clockwise from top left: First International Lego League competition; performing a balancing project, and a commendation from act at the ’Einstein: Life, Science and Art’ event; a hovercraft workshop for girls at Eckington HEEPI for its commitment to public School (the challenge was to build, test and race a hovercraft in one day); school pupils transport. construct a miniature London Eye.
Unearthing local history THE NEXT GENERATION. The University is collaborating with local schools in a range of As Sheffield is redeveloped, many imaginative initiatives designed to enrich the learning process. The First International Lego opportunities arise for ARCUS, the League, a robot-building competition for pupils at secondary schools, was hosted by the University’s archaeological research Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, as the first stage of a global contest. and consultancy service, to carry out excavations aimed at improving our Engineering was also the subject of a competition organised by the Institution of Civil understanding of the history of the Engineers, when city pupils from four secondary schools – Meadowhead, Bradfield, Silverdale city.Thus, an archaeological dig at and King Ecgbert’s – came to the University to design and build a miniature version of the West Bar in the city centre has revealed London Eye Millennium Wheel, under the supervision of staff in the Department of Civil and details of mid-19th-century everyday Structural Engineering. objects of workers and their families Over 500 school pupils from across South Yorkshire visited the University for a ‘Chemistry At living in back-to-back tenements. Work’ event, aimed at developing their chemistry skills in interactive workshops. Sponsored by Extensive work has been carried out at the Royal Society of Chemistry, topics ranged from forensic science to time-travelling chemicals. the Inner Relief Road site (between Year 6 primary schoolchildren from Shirecliffe, Longley and Pye Bank visited the University at the Wicker and Penistone Road), with the invitation of staff in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, to discover the the discovery of a crucible furnace ‘secret of life, the universe and everything’.
alongside a rare cementation furnace The Law Department helped pupils at Bradfield School to become legal eagles, as they prepared at the old Franklin Works, established for the National Magistrates Court Mock Trial competition, giving the pupils an opportunity to around 1828. Over 100 archaeological discover how and why laws are made. In partnership with Brinsworth School and the Villiers projects have been conducted during Park Educational Trust, members of staff in the School of English have delivered a series of the year by ARCUS in Sheffield and lectures to sixth formers on subjects as varied as Shakespeare, editorial writing and war reporting.
the surrounding region. Science and art lessons were merged together at a special whole-day event, ‘Einstein: Life, Science and Art’, held at the Millennium Galleries and organised by the Department of Physics and Astronomy for children from Firth Park Community Arts College. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 28
28 THE UNION OF STUDENTS ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
The Union of Students
THE UNION OF STUDENTS CONTINUES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ITS MEMBERS, AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE RECORD TURNOVER IN 2004/05 AND THE SUCCESS OF ITS ENTERTAINMENTS, RECREATION AND FUNDRAISING PROGRAMMES.
The many achievements within the The Union was Regional Winner Union of Students continue to in the ‘Best Bar None’ scheme, a demonstrate the commitment of its police initiative which recognizes officers and staff to furthering the commitment to the promotion of a interests of its student members. safe environment in bars. In addition, In the University’s Annual Student the Union’s Advice Centre was Satisfaction Survey, students placed awarded the Community Legal Union Sabbatical Officer elections, March 2005. the Union of Students at the top of Service Quality Mark, following an audit visit by the Legal Services their list, after the choice of Sheffield showcase its work at the national Commission. as a university location. This outcome HEACF (Higher Education Active was reinforced by the various successes SheffieldVolunteering, the Union’s Community Fund) Student in the Union’s ever-widening range community interface, now co-ordinates Volunteering Awards ceremony for of services. For the first time turnover projects for academic departments, the second year running – making exceeded £10m, and in the peak which this year included Journalism Sheffield the only institution to be periods of the year 800 staff were Studies, Molecular Biology and honoured in this way. employed, 60% of whom were Biotechnology, the Medical School As part of the Union’s charitable students. and the School of English. The fundraising activities, a group of University’s Centenary was celebrated The Entertainments Department 120 students hitchhiked to Romania with a ‘Green Just Do It’ campaign, had a highly productive year, as and back within a week. As a result, which focused on environmental and evidenced by a 16% increase in more than £16,000 was raised for the conservation action in the local attendance figures, with 257,000 Romanian Relief Fund. Other fund- community. A wide range of projects tickets sold for 260 events. There raising efforts included the 24-hour was tackled, including dry-stone were also record numbers joining in production of Bugsy Malone, walling, and designing and planting an ‘Give It A Go’, with almost one in two masterminded by members of the inner-city fruit and vegetable garden. students taking part in the informal Sheffield University Theatre recreation programme, which offered The national standing of Sheffield- Company. Performing to a capacity everything from trampolining to Volunteering was confirmed during audience in the Octagon Centre, speed-dating. the session when it was invited to 140 students raised almost £5,000 for Cavendish Cancer Care and the Oxfam Sudan Appeal. Forty-nine student volunteers helped to run SheffieldVolunteering’s annual sports day at Goodwin. The Give-As-You-Rent initiative, in which University students are invited to donate a £2 levy on their term’s rent, has passed the £250,000 mark since its launch 14 years ago. This year, £40,000 was distributed to 15 local charities working with the homeless.
Opposite: A scene from Bugsy Malone. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:26 am Page 29
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30 HONOURS AND DISTINCTIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Honours and Distinctions
Professor Bob Boucher Professor Peter Fleming Dr Martin Lennard Vice-Chancellor Automatic Control and Systems Clinical Sciences South Elected Treasurer of the Council of Engineering Elected a Fellow of the British the Association of Commonwealth Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy Pharmaceutical Society, for his long- Universities. of Engineering, for his research on standing contributions to pharmacy. evolutionary multicriteria decision-making. Dr Janet Brown Professor Andrew Linn Genomic Medicine Professor Gillian Gehring English Language and Linguistics Awarded the ACP McElwain Prize by the Physics and Astronomy Elected a member of the Norwegian Association of Cancer Physicians, for her Awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Academy of Sciences and Letters. work on the late effects of treatment on Honours List, for her services to physics Emeritus Professor Keith Miller bone cancer. and to equal opportunities. Mechanical Engineering Mr Adam Burrell and Ms Krishnaa Dr Graham Healey Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Mahbubani East Asian Studies the University of Central Lancashire, and Final-year Masters students in Received a Japan Society Award 2004, for an honorary doctorate by the University Chemistry, and Chemical and Process his exceptional contribution to Anglo- of Sheffield. Engineering Japanese relations. Each received the prestigious Salters’ Professor Ian Peake Graduate Prize, made annually to Professor Philip Ingham Genomic Medicine graduates most likely to succeed in Biomedical Science Received a Distinguished Career Award industry. Awarded the Genetics Society Medal from the International Society on 2005, for his outstanding research Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Ms Denise Dunn contributions to developmental genetics. Nursing and Midwifery student Ms Nina Pell Awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, for Dr Helen Joesbury First-year Pure Mathematics student services to breast cancer. General Practice and Primary Care Won the first Times National Su Doku Awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Championship. Ms Jessica Ennis Honours List, for her services to health care. Second-year Psychology student Professor Roger Plank, Professor Ian Became the first Briton to win a gold Professor Sir Ian Kershaw Burgess and Dr Zhaohui Huang medal at the European Junior Heptathlon History Architecture Championships in July 2005, and was Awarded the Society of Authors’ Elizabeth Received the Raymond C Reese Award chosen to compete for England at the Longford Prize for Historical Biography, for from the American Society of Civil Engineers, Commonwealth Games 2006 in his book Making Friends with Hitler: Lord for their notable achievements in research Melbourne. Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War. related to structural engineering. ADRIAN SHERRATT J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 31 GETTY IMAGES MARK LUSCOMBE-WHYTE
Professor Malcolm Press Professor Neil Strickland CFD modelling of waste/biomass thermal Animal and Plant Sciences Pure Mathematics processes. Awarded the British Ecological Society’s Awarded the 2005 Whitehead Prize by Professor Mike Wells President’s Medal, for his work on plant the London Mathematical Society. Genomic Medicine ecology and ecophysiology. Professor Jeremy Till and Professor Made a Fellow of the Royal College of Professor Mark Rainforth Sarah Wigglesworth Obstetricians ad eundem, for his major Engineering Materials Architecture contributions to obstetrics and the Elected Vice-President of the Royal Received the Royal Institute of British well-being of women. Microscopical Society. Architects Sustainability Award, for their Professor Peter Willett ‘straw bale’ house in Holloway. Professor Keith Ridgway Information Studies Mechanical Engineering Professor James Underwood Won the American Chemical Society’s Awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Pathology Award for Computers in Chemical and Honours List, for his services to Awarded a knighthood in the New Year Pharmaceutical Research. manufacturing industry. Elected a Fellow Honours List, for his services to medicine. Emeritus Professor Tom Wilson of the Royal Academy of Engineering, for Also received the British Medical Information Studies his leadership in manufacturing research. Association’s 2005 Student Textbook Awarded an honorary doctorate by Award, for the 4th edition of General Ms Jenna Sloan Gothenburg University, in recognition of and Systematic Pathology, and the Final-year English and French student his contributions to library and information Cunningham Medal of the British Division Won the 2004 NUS/Daily Mirror National research in Swedish institutions. of the International Academy of Student Media Award for Diversity. Pathology. Dr Mark Winter Dr Carolyn Staton Chemistry Waste Incineration Centre Clinical Sciences South Chemical and Process Engineering Won the 2005 MERLOT Classics Award for Won the British Association for Cancer Won the American Society of Mechanical Chemistry, for the contribution made to Research Award for Translational Research, Engineers 2005 Pioneer Award, for its digital scholarship by his website for her discovery of alphastatin. WebElements.
Left to right: Ms Nina Pell, Professor Keith Ridgway, Professor Peter Fleming, Professor Gillian Gehring, Professor Sir James Underwood, Emeritus Professor Tom Wilson.
Above: Professor Jeremy Till and Professor Sarah Wigglesworth’s ‘House of Straw’ in north London; Jessica Ennis in competition. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 32
32 HONORARY DEGREES ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Honorary Degrees
HONORARY DEGREES Baroness Helena Kennedy (LLD) Mr Trevor Pinnock (DMus) Eminent criminal lawyer, journalist and Internationally-acclaimed harpsichordist Dr Ferit Boysan (DEng) broadcaster. and conductor of Baroque music. President of Fluent Inc, and a former Sir Robert Kerslake (LittD) Dame Julia Polak (DSc) postdoctoral research fellow at the Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council. Professor of Endocrine Pathology and University. Director of the Tissue Engineering and Dr Sue Kohler (LittD) Mr Goran Bregovic (DMus) Regenerative Medicine Centre at Imperial A leading figure in the restoration of Balkan composer and performer. College. Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Dame Anne Rafferty (LLD) Lord Dahrendorf (LittD) Mr Andrew Lawrence-King (DMus) A Justice of the High Court and law Social theorist and former Director of One of the world’s principal performers graduate of the University. the London School of Economics. of early music. Mr Laurence Rees (LittD) Emeritus Professor Frank Ellis (DSc) Mr Peter Lee (DEng) Creative Director of BBC TV History Distinguished radiotherapist and Pro-Chancellor of the University and programmes. oncologist, and a medical graduate of former Chairman and Managing Director the University. of Arthur Lee and Sons plc. Professor Max Richards (LittD) President of Trinidad and Tobago, and Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Dr Pamela Liversidge (DEng) Emeritus Professor of the University of the Fiennes (DSc) Managing Director of Quest Investments West Indies. Internationally-renowned explorer, author Ltd and a past President of the Institution and charity fundraiser. of Mechanical Engineers. Mr Joe Simpson (LittD) Renowned mountaineer and best-selling Mr William Forrester (DEng) Ms Hilary Mantel (LittD) author. Chairman of John Laing plc and formerly Best-selling author and law graduate of Chief Executive of the Sheffield Insulations the University. Lord Wolfson of Marylebone (DSc) Group. Chairman and founder trustee of the Lord May of Oxford (DSc) Wolfson Foundation. Dame Deirdre Hine (DSc) President of the Royal Society. Mr David Young (LittD) Former Chief Medical Officer for Wales Emeritus Professor Keith Miller (DEng) Chairman of the Board of the Higher and past President of the Royal Society Scientific explorer and former Professor of Education Funding Council for England. of Medicine. Mechanical Engineering at the University. Professor Xie Shengwu (DSc) Mr Hugh Howe (LittD) Dr William Man Wai Mong (DEng) President of Shanghai Jiao Tong Headteacher of Fir Vale School, Sheffield. Educational philanthropist, and Chairman University. and Senior Managing Director of the His Excellency Julian Hunte (LittD) Shun Hing Group in Hong Kong. St Lucia’s permanent representative at the United Nations and a former Minister for Professor Andrew Motion (LittD) External Affairs. Poet Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College. General Sir Michael Jackson (LLD) Chief of the General Staff, Britain’s most Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein- Volhard (DSc) Clockwise, from top right: Dr Sue Kohler, senior soldier. Director of the Department of Genetics in Emeritus Professor Keith Miller, Ms Hilary Mantel, Sir Robert Kerslake, Dame Anne Emeritus Professor David Jones (DSc) the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Rafferty, Mr Peter Lee with the Chancellor, First Dean of the School of Nursing and Biology, and joint Nobel Prizewinner in Lord Wolfson of Marylebone, Dame Julia Midwifery at the University. Physiology or Medicine in 1995. Polak, Mr Laurence Rees and family. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 33 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 34
34 STAFFING MATTERS ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Staffing Matters
APPOINTMENTS TO Dr M Goergen PROMOTIONS TO CHAIRS Management SENIOR POSTS Dr J C Beal Dr G S Griffiths English Language and Linguistics Pro-Chancellor Adult Dental Care Mr P N Firth Dr H de Berg Dr J L Harrison Germanic Studies Pro-Vice-Chancellor Journalism Studies Dr F K Birkin Professor M Beaulieu Mr R Hodges Management Management Deans of Faculties Dr P G Blackwell Professor C J Hookway Dr P D Johnson Probability and Statistics Arts Management Dr C D Clarke Professor R I Nicolson Dr E Lange Geography Pure Science Landscape Dr J W Cockburn Professor P Marsh Professor R J Langley Physics and Astronomy Social Sciences Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dr J W Davidson Professor J M Henneberry Mr J A Michaels Architectural Studies Clinical Sciences North Music Dr C W I Douglas Director of the Graduate School Dr R M Negrine Oral Pathology of Nursing and Midwifery Journalism Studies Professor R Watson Dr C N O’Sullivan Dr F G F Gibb Management Engineering Materials Director of Finance Mr R Rabone Dr A C Piette Dr J M Hobson English Literature Politics Director of the University Mr A Rawlinson Ms J A Horwath Health Service Adult Dental Care Sociological Studies Dr J A King Dr J Roberts Dr C J McCabe Chairs Economics School of Health and Related Research Professor S Adamson Professor S Sharples Dr S J Macdonald English Literature Architecture Sociological Studies Dr S Brown Professor Dr A G Sherratt Dr M Mahfouf Economics Archaeology Automatic Control and Systems Professor J M Brownjohn Professor T M Skerry Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Clinical Sciences South Dr D J Mowbray Mr P J Cropper Professor M H Thornhill Physics and Astronomy Music Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dr G Newton Professor J Cullen Dr G M Tozer Germanic Studies Management Clinical Sciences South Dr M G Parker Pearson Professor T N Dear Professor J Wainwright Archaeology Clinical Sciences North Geography Dr J R Roberts Professor J Derrick Professor N D White School of Health and Related Research Computer Science Law Dr J M Rodenberg Professor P W Fowler Professor G T Wood Electronic and Electrical Engineering Chemistry Management Dr J A S Spence Professor K W Glaister Genomic Medicine Management Dr W J Staszewski Mechanical Engineering J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 35
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Mr R P Olivant Physics and Astronomy Professor G J Rees Electronic and Electrical Engineering Mr D Rodgers Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Professor P R Tregenza Architecture Dr J W Tucker GIFTS OF SILVER: During its Centenary year the University received two splendid pieces of silver: Physics and Astronomy a silver bowl (left) from the Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate within the Town of Sheffield; and a centrepiece, which features engravings of the heraldic shields and buildings of Professor R C Usherwood both the University and the Cutlers’ Company, who donated it. Information Studies Dr C White Chemistry Dr D I Strutt RETIREMENTS FROM Mr R B Winstanley Biomedical Science SENIOR POSTS Adult Dental Care Dr R A Varley Human Communication Sciences Professor J N Adams OBITUARIES Law Dr S Vice Dr R F T Bullivant Professor R J Atkin English Literature Music Applied Mathematics Dr L Wenar Dr A H Connell Professor G J Bailey Philosophy Former Treasurer and Pro-Chancellor Applied Mathematics Dr D M Whittaker Professor D S Dugdale Professor T A Booth Physics and Astronomy Mechanical Engineering Sociological Studies Dr S J Winder Miss J Friedman Professor K Branigan Biomedical Science Information Studies Archaeology Dr P W Wright Dr O L Gilbert Professor P Calow Management Landscape Animal and Plant Sciences Professor B T Harrison Dr W B J Zimmerman Dr G G S Collins Education Chemical and Process Engineering Clinical Sciences South Professor P F James PROMOTIONS TO ACADEMIC Professor M Hattaway Engineering Materials English Literature RELATED GRADE 6 Mr C G Mount Professor B J Hooper Mrs T Baker Mechanical Engineering East Asian Studies USport Dr B R Howard Emeritus Professor H Nicholson Ms S A Green Field Laboratories Control Engineering Registrar and Secretary’s Office Professor P F James Emeritus Professor D G Northcott Ms J D Gresham Engineering Materials Pure Mathematics English Language Teaching Centre Dr G G Kent Dr P K Poppleton Mrs M Nolan Psychology Education Office of Corporate Partnerships Professor J A Lee Mrs F Sussenwein Mr D R Speake Animal and Plant Sciences Sociological Studies Corporate Information and Computing Professor D Lewis Dr G H Tattersall Services Law Building Science Mrs D Longley Professor B T Williams Law Public Health Medicine J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 36
36 STUDENT NUMBERS ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Student Numbers (at 1 December 2004)
FULL-TIME STUDENTS, 2004/05
Undergraduate Postgraduate Faculty/School Home/EC Overseas Total Home/EC Overseas Total TOTAL MFMFMFMFMFMF Arts 942 1,616 1 7 943 1,623 124 152 34 69 158 221 2,945 Pure Science 1,364 1,174 48 50 1,412 1,224 312 213 144 83 456 296 3,388 Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 509 934 34 51 543 985 61 141 61 51 122 192 1,842 Clinical Dentistry 131 195 5 6 136 201 11 9 6 8 17 17 371 Nursing & Midwifery 157 1,861 – – 157 1,861 17 74 – 1 17 75 2,110 Law 430 764 47 108 477 872 96 148 26 78 122 226 1,697 Engineering 926 155 483 119 1,409 274 194 58 353 123 547 181 2,411 Social Sciences 1,723 1,491 68 124 1,791 1,615 215 348 173 175 388 523 4,317 Architectural Studies 382 269 13 29 395 298 49 49 58 56 107 105 905 TOTALS 6,564 8,459 699 494 7,263 8,953 1,079 1,192 855 644 1,934 1,836 19,986 TOTALS (Male and Female) 15,023 1,193 16,216 2,271 1,499 3,770
Note: In addition there were 191 Modern Language students abroad, 68 Architecture students in office practice, 22 students on optional year-outs, and 509 Erasmus and Year Abroad students.
PART-TIME STUDENTS, 2004/05
Undergraduate Postgraduate Faculty/School Home/EC Overseas Total Home/EC Overseas Total TOTAL MFMFMFMFMFMF Arts 3 1 – – 3 1 77 104 1 5 78 109 191 Pure Science 14 5 3 1 17 6 58 67 8 5 66 72 161 Medicine & Biomedical Sciences – 3 – – – 3 124 157 12 13 136 170 309 Clinical Dentistry – – – – – – 18 9 – 2 18 11 29 Nursing & Midwifery 124 1,467 – – 124 1,467 304 1,323 – 2 304 1,325 3,220 Law 8111–9119611107 37 Engineering 12 2 9 – 21 2 86 9 17 3 103 12 138 Social Sciences 474 665 9 8 483 673 155 386 79 148 234 534 1,924 Architectural Studies 5 1 – – 5 1 7 5 1 – 8 5 19 TOTALS 640 2,155 22 9 662 2,164 838 2,066 119 179 957 2,245 6,028 TOTALS (Male and Female) 2,795 31 2,826 2,904 298 3,202
NEW FULL-TIME STUDENTS, 2004/05
Undergraduate Postgraduate Faculty/School Home/EC Overseas Total Home/EC Overseas Total TOTAL MFMFMFMFMFMF Arts 309 558 – 5 309 563 66 82 17 55 83 137 1,092 Pure Science 446 373 13 30 459 403 112 83 83 53 195 136 1,193 Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 105 220 8 11 113 231 26 67 30 30 56 97 497 Clinical Dentistry 35 30 – – 35 30 323567 78 Nursing & Midwifery 55 654 – – 55 654 2 20 – – 2 20 731 Law 162 266 29 42 191 308 77 132 20 67 97 199 795 Engineering 288 51 181 39 469 90 82 23 194 61 276 84 919 Social Sciences 678 528 27 55 705 583 172 278 122 139 294 417 1,999 Architectural Studies 112 84 5 12 117 96 36 32 29 25 65 57 335 TOTALS 2,190 2,764 263 194 2,453 2,958 576 719 498 435 1,074 1,154 7,639 TOTALS (Male and Female) 4,954 457 5,411 1,295 933 2,228 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 37
ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05 EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE 37
Examination Performance
TYPES OF DEGREES AWARDED IN 2004/05
FIRST DEGREES (4,628)
BA 2,098 BA(Law) 91 BA/Dip 69 BEng 226 BMus 30 BScTech 1 BSc 769 MBiolSci 28 BSc/Dip 9 MChem 44 MBChB 214 MComp 17 FIRST DEGREES AWARDED IN 2004/05 BMedSci 349 MMath 27 BDS 53 MPhys 16 LLB 308 MEng 252 Upper Second Class (54%)
Lower Second HIGHER DEGREES (2,355) Class (21.5%) PhD 298 MMedSci 101 MD 11 LLM 104 DClinPsy 23 MSc(Eng) 205 DDSc 1 MMet 12 EdD 11 MBA 187 MPhil 19 MEd 127 MA 702 MArch 37 Third Class MMus 2 MArchStuds 14 (3.5%) Unclassified First Class MMinTheol 1 MScRes 11 Pass (1%) (6.0%) (14%) MSc 489
EXAMINATION RESULTS 2004/05
First Degrees Higher Degrees
Faculty/School/Board Diplomas Certificates I II.1 II.2 III Pass Aegrotat Unclass- PhD Masters Other ified Doctorates
Arts 103 552 115 12 – – 3 41 167 – 6 – Pure Science 171 434 163 26 16 – – 100 203 23 10 – Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 16 56 22 4 7 – 214* 31 163 11 32 – Clinical Dentistry – – – – – – 53* 2 8 1 – – Nursing & Midwifery 68 113 59 15 3 – – 1 15 – 702 733 Law 15 271 128 17 2 – – 4 141 – 167 – Engineering 139 188 107 30 15 – – 68 241 – 4 – Social Sciences 84 614 255 26 2 – – 41 624 11 106 150† Architectural Studies 10 108 45 9 2 – – 9 94 – 6 108 Collegiate Studies 47 158 109 19 3 – – 1 355 – 197 38 TOTALS 653 2,494 1,003 158 50 – 270 298 2,011 46 1,230 1,029
*MBChB and BDS degrees are unclassified †PGCE J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 38
38 OFFICERS AND THE COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Officers and The Council
OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY Five members of the Senate elected by (Session 2004/05) (Session 2004/05) the Senate Dr S B M Beck The Chancellor Ex-officio members Mrs J Dagg Sir Peter Middleton The Chancellor Dr T M Searle The Pro-Chancellors The Pro-Chancellors Two vacancies The Treasurer Mr P W Lee (Chairman of the Council) The Vice-Chancellor Two Officers of the Union of Students Mr G H N Peel The Pro-Vice-Chancellors President: Mr J Bristow Mrs K E Riddle The Chairman of Convocation Welfare Officer: Ms M Lavin The Treasurer Mr P R Downey One person who is not a member of the Mr A M C Staniforth One person elected by Convocation academic or academic-related staff Mrs M Simkins The Vice-Chancellor Mr R B Wrigley Professor R F Boucher Thirteen persons appointed by the Council Secretary to the Council The Registrar and Secretary The Pro-Vice-Chancellors Mrs V J Bayliss Professor A D H Crook Mr J C A Biggin Professor P J Fleming Mr P Firth Professor P E White Mr H W Howe Mr C J Jewitt Professor G R Tomlinson Dr C F King The Deans of the Faculties Rt Rev J Nicholls Arts: Professor D H Walker Ms A Nimmo Pure Science: Professor J A Lee Mr V J Smith Medicine: Professor A H Brook Mr O G Stephenson Law: Dr M S M Llewelyn Mr R Tapp Engineering: Professor D H Owens Two vacancies Social Sciences: Professor W Carr Two Deans of the Faculties elected Architectural Studies: Professor B R Lawson annually by the Deans of Faculties The Registrar and Secretary Professor B R Lawson Dr D E Fletcher Professor J A Lee Opposite: Arts Tower. Below: International Cultural Evening. J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 39 J11737_Uni Annual Report 2005 15/3/06 9:27 am Page 40
40 FACTS AND FIGURES ANNUAL REPORT 2004/05
Facts and Figures
■ The University grew out of the ■ 19,986 full-time students were ■ 5,983 people were employed at the Sheffield Medical School (founded registered for degree and diploma courses University on 31 July 2005. This figure in 1828), Firth College (1879), and the in the session 2004/05. Of these, 16,216 comprised the following categories of Sheffield Technical School (1884). These were undergraduates (7,263 men, 8,953 staff: Academic (1,348 – of which 390 three institutions came together in 1897 women) and 3,770 were postgraduates were Professors, 438 Readers and Senior to form the University College of (1,934 men, 1,836 women). Lecturers, and 520 Lecturers); Sheffield, which in turn became the Academic-Related (965); Research University of Sheffield in 1905. ■ 6,028 part-time students were (1,007); Technical (610); Clerical registered for degree and diploma courses and Secretarial (1,169); Manual and ■ 76 Academic Departments and Sections in the session 2004/05. Ancillary (786); Other Staff (98). are grouped in the seven Faculties (Architectural Studies, Arts, Engineering, ■ 5,411 undergraduate and 2,228 ■ 252 First degree courses and Law, Medicine, Pure Science, Social postgraduate students were admitted 122 Masters degree courses were Sciences). to full-time degree and diploma courses available to students entering the in the session 2004/05. University in September 2005.
Union of Students’ water feature, with ■ Firth Court in the background. ■ 4,628 First degrees, 2,011 Masters 176 courses, the majority credit- degrees, 298 Doctor of Philosophy degrees, bearing, are organised each year by 46 other Doctors degrees, 1,230 Diplomas the Institute for Lifelong Learning. and 1,029 Certificates were awarded by the University in the session 2004/05. ■ 5,065 student places were available in University halls (2,833) and flats (2,232) ■ 36,030 applications were received in 2004/05. through UCAS for undergraduate entry in September 2005. ■ Over 1.4 million books, periodicals and other items are held in the University ■ The average A level entry score for Library. September 2005 was 25.3. ■ More than 70 concerts and plays are ■ 3,256 international students from organised each year by University 116 countries were registered on full-time students and staff. courses in 2004/05. In addition, there were 161 part-time and 337 distance ■ The University’s income for the learning international students taking financial year ended 31 July 2005 University of Sheffield courses. was £301 million.
MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the University is to maintain the highest standards of excellence as a research-led institution of international standing, whose staff work at the frontiers of academic enquiry and educate students in a research environment. J11737_Cover Spreads 15/3/06 9:23 am Page 4
The University at a Glance
IN THE SESSION 2004/05 THERE WERE 76 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS AND SECTIONS, GROUPED ACCORDING TO ALLIED INTERESTS INTO SEVEN FACULTIES. SOME DEPARTMENTS (MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK) APPEAR IN MORE THAN ONE FACULTY.
ARTS Clinical Sciences South Health Services Research Anaesthesia Information Resources Archaeology* Bone Biology Mental Health Biblical Studies Child Health Public Health English Language and Linguistics Clinical Pharmacology English Literature Medical Physics and Clinical LAW French Engineering Law Germanic Studies Ophthalmology and Orthoptics Hispanic Studies Palliative Medicine History* ENGINEERING Radiology Music Reproductive and Developmental Automatic Control and Systems Philosophy Medicine Engineering Russian and Slavonic Studies Sports Medicine Chemical and Process Engineering Surgical Oncology Civil and Structural Engineering PURE SCIENCE Urology Computer Science* Electronic and Electrical Engineering Animal and Plant Sciences Genomic Medicine Engineering Materials Applied Mathematics Functional Genomics Mechanical Engineering Archaeology* Genetics and Informatics Biomedical Science* Neurosciences Chemistry Oncology and Pathology SOCIAL SCIENCES
Computer Science* Departments East Asian Studies Geography* Human Communication Sciences* Economics Information Studies* Medical Education Education Molecular Biology and Biotechnology* Molecular Biology and Biotechnology* Geography* Physics and Astronomy Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing History* Probability and Statistics Human Communication Sciences* School of Clinical Dentistry Psychology* Information Studies* Adult Dental Care Pure Mathematics Journalism Studies Oral Health and Development Lifelong Learning Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery MEDICINE Management Oral Pathology Politics School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Midwifery Biomedical Sciences Psychology* Acute and Critical Care Nursing Divisions Sociological Studies Community, Ageing and Rehabilitation Biomedical Science* Mental Health and Learning Disability Clinical Sciences North ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES Midwifery and Children’s Nursing Cardiovascular Science Architecture Human Metabolism School of Health and Related Landscape Research Town and Regional Planning Sections General Practice and Primary Care Health Economics and Decision Science J11737_Cover Spreads 15/3/06 9:24 am Page 1
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