I can strongly recommend this as a great opportunity for anyone interested in geopolymers, cements, and/or nuclear waste! - this builds from a couple of projects I was involved with in the past, and Brant and the Sheffield/Hokkaido team are continuing to do very cool things.

Great news for Engineering at Sheffield. We are ranked in the Top 100 in the 2024 Times Higher World Subject Rankings 🎉👏sheffield.ac.uk/engineering/ne…

Join our teams! Helen Bryant bryantlab & I have a fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN DTP #PhD project: Targeting the DNA damage response to overcome cancer dormancy and chemotherapy-resistance. DM if interested Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

📢Funded PhD opportunity with bryantlab and Leni Green through the MRC's excellent DiMeN DTP Doctoral Training Partnership

This week I gave a presentation about flying and offsetting in academia for the Climate Action Research Institute Swansea University. Here's a short 🧵 of the main points...

Are international students taking over UK universities? No – in fact, they’re propping them up | Jonathan Portes | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was last there. Just a few years ago, #Paris was choking in car traffic much more. This is new. This is leadership. Cities are a result of choices. HT Fouad Khayat

BuildZero, the £6m project funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, will develop a detailed vision of more sustainable building practices, through a five year project led by The University of Sheffield in partnership with University of Bath, Manchester University, Cardiff University, Cambridge University and industrial collaborators.🎉

Delighted to lead The University of Sheffield's partnership in a new £25M Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council CDT in Nuclear Energy SATURN: Skills and Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear! SATURN will train 140 PhD researchers in science and engineering underpinning nuclear fission technology!

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via The Discourse study. This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Very pleased to be part of this awesome collaboration!!! We'll be developing new approaches for material upcycling to maximise resource efficiency and optimise material use in the UK built environment! SMASH (Sustainable Materials @ Sheffield) CBESheffield

We have a Tenure Track Associate Professor position open in our unit for the field of Sustainable construction materials. Details in: oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award and Yorkshire Cancer Research Pioneer Funding. sheffield.ac.uk/healthy-lifesp…

📢 PhD position! Interested in studying mechanisms of cancer dormancy and chemotherapy-resistance? We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated researcher to join our team as a PhD student! Learn more about the position in the link below 👇 findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

I had a great time last week visiting Institute of Cancer Therapeutics & Ethical Tissue! Thank you to Sherif El-Khamisy and Sneha for inviting me and to everyone for all the interesting discussions, especially the ECRs at the round table!

📣Have you heard about BuildZero?🎉 This new £6m project led by The University of Sheffield will explore the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK’s building needs using zero new material extractions, zero emissions and zero waste. Find out more: sheffield.ac.uk/news/study-exp…

£770m. That’s the economic benefit international students contributed to the city of Sheffield in the 2021-2 academic year. We’re calling on the government to recognise the economic, social and cultural value of international students and remove them from net migration figures.