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A collection of our top research content from 2025.

2025 Research Highlights

Fostering Gender Equality in Classrooms across Latin America

Explore reimagined images from an extraordinary archive of photographic slides

The Peak District Imaginarium

Biologically-inspired design for optoelectronics and solar energy generation

Molecular Photonic Breadboards

Empowering the next generation of leaders in genetics

The Menstrual Movement in the Media: Reducing Stigma and Tackling Social Inequalities

Psychology of Counter-Strike

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Soil

Connecting Bees to Bluetooth

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Seeds

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Water

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: We Are What We Eat

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Resilience

Seeking Sanctuary in Higher Education: Access

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Social Justice

Seeking Sanctuary in Higher Education: Welcome

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Food Sovereignty

Seeking Sanctuary in Higher Education: Protection

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Communities of Learning

Global health, politics, and the business of medicine.

Big Pharma

Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Visions for the Future

Hear from the team of volunteers running, maintaining and helping to restore Morecambe's iconic Winter Gardens.

The People's Palace: Who keeps the lights on?

Learn about the rich history and architecture of the Morecambe Winter Gardens building.

The People's Palace: Brick by brick

Hear from some of the contemporary artists and performers who've trodden the Winter Garden's hallowed boards in recent years, and hear what the building means to them.

The People's Palace: The great and the good

Hear personal stories and recollections of the Morecambe Winter Gardens, some told for the first time, and find out what the future holds for this treasured building.

The People's Palace: Memories and new beginnings

Discover when and why humans first drank alcohol.

Episode 1 - Joining Up and Settling Down

Discover how wine shaped Greek and Roman life.

Episode 2 - Wine and the Rise of Mediterranean World

Discover how hops transformed beer, brewing and drinking in medieval Europe.

Episode 3 - Hops and the Origins of Western Capitalism

Discover how alcohol shaped European history and global encounters.

Episode 4 - Spirits and Global Encounters

Discover how alcohol shaped industry, politics &amp; society.

Episode 5 - Big Business and Bio-States

Discover how alcohol has shaped society over the last 60 years.

Episode 6 - Half a Moment?

Power and the Pope

Explore the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on sex and gender.

For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers

Discover how helpful bacteria on plant roots work and how DNA might make them even better at feeding plants.

Better Bacteria for Better Crops

Your brain doesn’t just hear sound – it talks back to your ears. Find out how this works and why it matters for hearing loss.

How the Brain "Talks Back" to the Ears

Exploring the impact of obesity stigma on health &amp; wellbeing

A Weighty Issue

Explore building safety after Grenfell, trans rights, city life, AI protest and more.

Housing Safety, Trans Rights and The City

Engineers in Sheffield built a smart system to spot sewer blockages and help stop river pollution in Yorkshire.

Applying AI to Reduce Sewer Spills

This special feature explores how brain tech is changing urban infrastructures and human-technology relations in the city.

Cyborg Rights and The City?

Discover how Public Voices in AI centres community views in artificial intelligence policy, ethics, and development in the UK.

Public Voices in AI

Why do leaders keep choosing austerity even when people don’t like it? This podcast explores where it came from and why it keeps coming back.

Austerity

Professor Michael Gamer shares his expertise on, and experience of editing, Radcliffe's&nbsp;The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents.

Editing The Italian

Are solar systems like ours rare? Dr Richard Parker uses stars and simulations to find out. Discover how planets form and what it means for life in space.

The Search for Life

Why is housing so expensive and hard to fix? This podcast looks at how homes became a way to make money and asks what we can do to change things.

Housing Crisis

Prices keep rising but wages do not. Is this a crisis or how the system works? Hear how inflation affects us all and what the future might hold.

Cost of Living

Is democracy in trouble? Hear how capitalism and politics shape today’s world and why the Left struggles to respond.

Populism

Rushing AI can cost lives and justice. Experts warn we must slow down and work together.

The human cost of AI - profit over protection

Discover how music and technology meet in this episode. From drum machines to AI tools, explore what counts as music today.

How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting

Can AI help with legal advice or cause more problems?

AI lawyers are here – can you trust artificial intelligence for legal help?

Discover Radcliffe's first novel with Dr Deborah Russell as she shares its secrets, her editing journey, and why you should read The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne.

Editing 'The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne'

Arts and humanities use AI to explore our past present and future. Learn how these fields do more with less.

Doing More with Less: AI in the Arts & Humanities

Discover how digital tools are helping preserve the rare wooden drum towers of the Dong people in China.

Decoding Dong - Digitally Preserving their Architectural Heritage

Hear from researchers in the Centre for Machine Intelligence, as they describe how they are advancing the forefront of research into AI, its applications, and its impact on society.

AI Research at the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Professor Angela Wright examines Radcliffe's most famous novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Editing The Mysteries of Udolpho

Discover how our experts are helping students understand and shape the technology changing our world.

How Our Academics Are Shaping the Next Generation of Responsible AI Experts

Discover how Japanese women’s writing became a global success. Hear from translators and publishers shaping this growing world of stories.

Empowering Women’s Voice through Translating Japanese Fiction

Discover how Sheffield’s musical past shapes its future as local musicians explore the city’s creative potential.

Sheffield Music City

Explore how the Green Party’s rise shapes UK politics and what Gaza’s past reveals about aid and rebuilding.

Green Resurgence and Gaza Reconstruction

Discover how Professor Vanessa Toulmin is helping to restore Morecambe’s historic Winter Gardens and uncover its hidden stories.

The Morecambe Winter Gardens: Contested Histories

Discover how crime and justice are shown in books and films, and how these stories shape what we think about law and society.

Crime, Fiction and the Law

Our understanding of planetary systems is changing. Our Solar System is not the norm in how systems form. What evidence challenges this and what's the impact on the question: Is anyone out there?

Are all solar systems the same?

This video provides families with key information about coronial investigations after a death from mesothelioma. We aim to help families understand the process and share sources of support.

2025 Research Highlights

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