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122-687: The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a combined acute and community NHS foundation trust in Sheffield , England . Founded in 2001 and awarded foundation status in 2004, the trust covers most of Sheffield's adult community services, two major adult hospitals, the Northern General Hospital and the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , as well as the specialised Charles Clifford Dental , Jessop Wing and Weston Park hospitals. The chief executive of

244-402: A cap on the proportion of their income that can come from non-NHS treatments. It did not only apply to income derived from individual patients, it covered income from all non-NHS sources. This could include joint ventures to develop medical technologies, employers paying for counselling services or income from treating UK military personnel overseas. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 abolished

366-610: A courtyard, dedicated café and Employability Hub. The Information School (iSchool) is a constituent school of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It was founded as Postgraduate School of Librarianship in 1963 and became the Department of Information Studies in 1981. In 2010, the Information School devoting to the study of the information field was established. The current head of school is Professor Peter Bath. The school

488-703: A library and computing centre opened in 2007, is also located at the Western Bank Campus on Leavygreave Road. In addition, throughout 2010 the Western Bank Library received a £3.3 million restoration and refurbishment, the University of Sheffield Union of Students underwent a £5 million rebuild, and work commenced on a multimillion-pound refurbishment of the Grade II* listed Arts Tower to extend its lifespan by 30 years. To

610-487: A link between the community and the board of directors. The size of the council of governors and its exact composition are determined by the constitution of the particular trust. Each trust adopts its own constitution subject to certain restrictions in legislation. These restrictions include that a majority of the council of governors must be elected governors and governors must be unpaid volunteers. Some trusts are more committed to co-operative principles and have even written

732-452: A new medical school. The Sheffield Medical Institution was formally opened a year later in 1829 on Surrey Street, with the Latin motto Ars longa vita brevis (Art is long, life is short), which refers to the difficulty to acquire and practice the art of Medicine. Knight laid the foundation stone and delivered the opening lecture. The University Extension Movement emerged in the 1870s with

854-840: A new organisation – the NHS Trust Development Authority – was established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to supervise trusts which have not reached foundation status, of which there were 99 in April 2013, 47 of which were never expected to reach foundation status. The Health and Social Care Bill 2011 , overseen by Lansley, proposed that all NHS trusts become foundation trusts or part of an existing foundation trust by April 2014. The early foundation trusts were generally financially buoyant, but during 2013 and 2014 more faced financial difficulties. A foundation trust finance facility, managed by an advisory committee to

976-530: A new pedestrian crossing was installed on the Upper Hanover Street, physically connecting the two campus. The university campus is composed of an eclectic range of buildings from Victorian style to modernism to contemporary . Sir Frederick Mappin Building and Central Block are two Victorian university buildings, now linked by a contemporary curved glass roof constructed in 2020. Opened as

1098-591: A shared services solution". By the end of 2013–14, foundation trusts collectively had built up cash reserves of £4.3 billion and it was suggested in the NHS Five Year Forward View that the government would "support" foundation trusts to spend this money "to help local service transformation". In response, the chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network, Chris Hopson, said: "The responsibility for these surpluses lies with

1220-678: A sheaf of eight silver arrows on either side (from the arms of the city), the Crown of Success and the White Rose of York . Below is a scroll carrying the motto Rerum cognoscere causas (To Discover the Causes of Things; from the Georgics by Latin poet Virgil ), which was also the motto of Firth College since 1879. In heraldic terminology, the official coat of arms is blazoned as follows: Azure, an open book proper, edged gold, inscribed with

1342-555: A single centre, since receiving its royal charter, the university has expanded from two academic foci about 1 km apart: Firth Court on Western Bank and Sir Frederick Mappin Building on St George's. The two foci started to fuse in the 1960s, as more buildings have been constructed or acquired by the university. The completion of the Information Commons and Jessop West buildings, in the late 2000s, bridges both west (Western Bank) and east (St George's) campus, and in 2017,

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1464-728: A university in the city. As a first stage of his ideal, Hicks was devoted to the union of the three higher education institutions in Sheffield and to transform Firth College into a university college . He also extended the college by creating new departments and adding new buildings. In 1897, Firth College merged with the Medical School and the Technical School to form the University College of Sheffield, and Hicks served as its first principal. Six years since

1586-773: A variety of tests, which have changed over time. In 2003 only trusts with three stars from the Commission for Health Improvement were eligible for foundation status. In that year Aintree Hospitals, Essex Rivers Healthcare, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals and Walsall Hospitals were all downgraded to two stars and so did not make the first wave of foundation trusts. Formerly referred to as foundation trust equivalent (FTe) instead of Equivalent Foundation Trusts , this designation applies only to trusts providing high secure psychiatric services, of which there are three: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust , West London Mental Health NHS Trust and Mersey Care NHS Trust . These trusts abide by

1708-436: Is a public research university in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII . Sheffield

1830-704: Is a Grade II-listed building in an area known as the St George's Complex. The building houses much of the Faculty of Engineering and St George's IT centre. Completed in 1885, the oldest part of the building, the former Sheffield Technical School, now the Central Wing, lies in the centre of the building. The extensive Mappin Street frontage includes the main entrance, the John Carr Library and Mappin Hall, and

1952-561: Is a purpose-built multi-disciplinary building that houses lecture theatres, laboratories, workrooms and other facilities for the teaching of engineering. Amongst the more recent additions to the university's estate located on this campus are the Soundhouse (2008; a music practice and studio facility) and the Jessop West building (2009; the first UK project by Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton ). The Sir Frederick Mappin Building

2074-432: Is a staff constituency, a patient constituency, and a "public member" constituency, consisting of members who are neither patients nor staff but live in a defined geographical area. In addition, there are governors appointed by bodies with whom the trust works in partnership. So, for example, appointments may be made by local councils, local medical schools, and local voluntary organisations. Governors are intended to act as

2196-829: Is also part of the Worldwide Universities Network , the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium . Sheffield has been ranked in between 66th and 104th best university in the world by QS for the last fifteen years. ARWU ranked Sheffield 9th overall in the UK and THE ranked the university 22nd in Europe for teaching excellence. According to

2318-604: Is connected to the Central Wing by a bridge. In early 2020, the Mappin Building and the Central Wing were refurbished. As a result of the refurbishments, the two buildings are joined by a quadruple-height atrium with curved glass roof. The atrium, called the Engineering Heartspace, houses laboratories, offices and social spaces. Given its name to the campus, St George's Church was the first of three commissioners' churches to be built in Sheffield under

2440-780: Is consistently ranked among the top 10 in Europe and the UK for "Architecture and the Built-Environment" and is one of the longest established architecture schools in the UK, opening in 1908. It was first located in the tower of Firth Court but soon moved to the Sunday School in Shearwood Road and is located on the top 6 floors of the Arts Tower since 1965. The school has courses accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and

2562-585: Is described in Schedule 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006 , with the formal corporate form being called a "public benefit corporation". Each foundation trust has a council of governors. This is made up of elected governors and appointed governors. Elected governors are chosen by a secret postal ballot of the membership, which is open to the general public. The elections are usually held in separate constituencies. Typically there

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2684-472: Is formed from 50 academic departments which are organised into five faculties and an international faculty. The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £880.2 million, of which £198.6 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £790.5 million. The university is one of the original red brick universities and a founding member of the Russell Group . It

2806-477: Is in green, half-lined with white fur, and edged with two inches of silk of the colour distinctive of the degree or the faculty. Masters wear a black Oxford MA [m1] gown with a hood of green silk which is lined throughout with the faculty colour. The PhD and the MPhil hoods are lined in green. Research doctors have a fine scarlet cloth gown with green silk facings, with bell-shaped sleeves [d2]; higher doctorates wear

2928-475: Is located. There is a cluster of buildings located to the north of Broad Lane, opposite St George's campus, collectively called the north campus. Kroto Research Institute, Kroto Innovation Centre , Nanoscience and Technology Building, Graduate Research Centre, George Porter Building and the International College are based on this campus area. To the south of the city on Warminster Road are where

3050-408: Is made up of eight schools and departments. It is also home to three institutes (Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, and Digital Humanities Institute) and 16 research centres. The Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism of the faculty was the first centre devoted to scholarly research into Freemasonry in a UK university. The centre

3172-506: Is made up of four schools, including the Medical School, Health Sciences School, School of Clinical Dentistry and School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). The Medical School is the oldest school of the university. It operated independently as the Sheffield School of Medicine until its mergers with Firth College and with Sheffield Technical School. The Medical School is located next to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , one of

3294-493: Is one of the biggest provider of specialised services in England. The trust is recognised internationally for its work in neurosciences, spinal injuries, renal, cancer, transplantation and orthopaedics. The trust manages five hospitals and community health services: Northern General Hospital, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Jessop Wing, Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Weston Park Cancer Centre The 170-bed Sir Robert Hadfield wing at

3416-655: Is ranked second in the world and first in Europe for Library and Information Studies in the QS World University Rankings 2020. The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (USP) was founded as the Department of Town and Regional Planning (TRP) in 1965 and is located in the Geography Building in the Western Bank Campus. It was ranked as the top RTPI accredited planning school in the UK by the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) and second for "Building and town and country planning" by

3538-424: Is responsible for the strategic development, legal and regulatory affairs, and performance of university business (finance and property). Council membership comprises a majority of non-executive lay members appointed under the statutes of the university. The chair and pro-chancellor of the council is currently Tony Pedder. The Senate manages the academic side of the university. It is the highest academic authority of

3660-399: Is the private finance initiative provider responsible for operating the building. They have also brought a claim against Veolia , which was the facilities management contractor. Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a separate organisation. The trust provides care for over 2 million patients annually, it also provides clinical education for students of healthcare professions from

3782-704: The Crookesmoor area, and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health around the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (although these subjects are taught in the city's extensive teaching hospitals under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , and throughout South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire ). It is in this area that the new £12 million Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 2010,

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3904-846: The Guardian University Rankings 2021. The university has an international faculty called CITY College in Thessaloniki , the second largest city of Greece, which is the only faculty operating outside the UK. The faculty was established in 1989 in order to bridge the UK with the Southeast and Eastern Europe. It is a private legal entity operating as CITY College according to the local law in Greece. The International Faculty consists of four departments, namely Business Administration and Economics, Psychology, Computer Science and English Studies. These departments are housed in

4026-620: The Rochdale Principles into their constitution; they aspire to work closely and in partnership with other mutual and local organisations. At first, foundation trusts were authorised and regulated by Monitor , a non-executive body under the Department of Health. Monitor was merged into NHS Improvement in 2016. The trade body for foundation trusts is NHS Providers , formerly known as the Foundation Trust Network, which has 95% of all acute, ambulance, community and mental health foundation trusts in its membership. A 2014 report by

4148-553: The Socialist Health Association said that on the whole after 10 years, "Foundation Trusts [had]... not deepened in terms of democratic practice and participation". The independence of Foundation Trust governors was challenged in 2021 when the governors of Queen Victoria Hospital , a small specialist trust, called for a pause to plans for it to merge with University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust . NHS Improvement were said to have effectively ordered

4270-546: The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University . The trust uses the Lorenzo patient record systems but will changeover to Oracle Cerner in 2024. The trust employs 18,000 staff and had a budget of £1.2 billion in 2019/2020. It has been rated as Good overall by the Care Quality Commission and is one of only a small number to have achieved a Good rating in every one of the five domains which

4392-452: The citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs cycle) in 1937, which earned him a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for 1953. In 1938, the university opened the Department of Biochemistry (renamed since the 1990s as the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) and Krebs became its first Head. Krebs Institute, a research centre for mechanistic biology, was founded in 1988 within

4514-577: The 1920s from two ends on Western Bank and on the St George's site. The number of full-time students was stabilized at about 750 between the two world wars. In 1943, the University Grants Committee announced that universities in the UK should look forward to expansion in the years after the Second World War . Sheffield predicted a 50% increase in student population but the university was unprepared for such growth. There

4636-621: The 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings (including the Main Library and the Arts Tower ) were built and older houses were brought into academic use. Student numbers increased to their present levels of just under 26,000. At the same time in the 1950s, the university was expanding at other sites, including the St Georges area. From the 1960s, many more buildings have been constructed or extended, including

4758-639: The Care Quality Commission use to rate a NHS organisation – Well Led, Caring. Responsive, Safe and Effective. The trust is lead provider for the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw NHS vaccination programme. NHS foundation trust Alan Milburn 's trip in 2001 to the Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón in Spain is thought to have been influential in developing ideas around foundation status. That hospital

4880-743: The Church Building Act 1818. It was built in the Perpendicular style. The church closed in 1981 and was acquired by the university. It was converted for use as a lecture theatre in 1994, while the upstairs has been converted for use as student accommodation. Further west lies Weston Park, the Weston Park Museum , the Harold Cantor Gallery , university's sports facilities Goodwin Sports Centre in

5002-852: The Court included all the members of Parliament (MPs) of Sheffield, the Bishops of Sheffield and Hallam, and the chief constable of South Yorkshire Police. It also included representatives of professional bodies such as the Arts Council , Royal Society and the General Medical Council . The Court met annually to receive reports from the council, the Senate and the Students' Union. It served many official functions including chancellor election. The university's annual income for 2019–20

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5124-410: The Department of Biochemistry. George Porter joined the university as Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1955 and he further developed his later Nobel Prize-winning work flash photolysis at Sheffield. Porter was appointed Firth Professor of Chemistry and became Head of the Department of Chemistry in 1963. In the 21st century, the university opened many more major buildings in the area immediately to

5246-564: The Department of Health definition of a foundation trust, but the Secretary of State for Health maintains a direct line of communication and accountability with them because he or she has the responsibility to provide healthcare to patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act , and have been judged to pose a grave and immediate danger to the public. Unlike full foundation trusts, governors have no statutory role, and

5368-410: The Department of Health was promoting "A new type of NHS hospital". In 2011, the 116 trusts then in the pipeline to make applications were required to sign a formal agreement, with a deadline for the application to be made. Board members at a number of trusts which missed the deadline were sacked. It was accepted by Andrew Lansley that a number of trusts would never reach foundation trust status, and

5490-484: The Department of Health, was established to process loans for capital developments, but during 2014 applications were made by trusts which had trouble paying utility bills or replacing medical equipment. Guidance issued under the tenure of Jeremy Hunt in October 2014 said that conditions could be set which could include: reductions in the use of temporary staff, "use of collaborative procurement routes" or "the adoption of

5612-627: The Engineering campus, St George's campus is centred on Mappin Street, the location of the Faculty of Engineering (partly housed in the Grade II-listed Mappin Building ) and the Department of Journalism Studies, Department of Economics and Department of Computer Science . The university also maintains the Turner Museum of Glass in this area. As part of the 2000s development plan, the university has converted

5734-461: The FTs; any attempt by the statutory bodies to make a grab for them will be furiously resisted". By 2016, the distinction between foundation trusts and other NHS trusts was widely regarded as eroded, and in that year the two regulators were combined into a new body, NHS Improvement . The notion that every trust should become a foundation trust was abandoned, and the widespread financial crisis undermined

5856-464: The Faculty of Social Sciences was pale green. The university mace is an ornament of governance of the University of Sheffield. It is silver-gilt and carries the coats of arms of both the university and the city of Sheffield, and the White Rose of York . A figure of Minerva holding a wreath and palm branch on a heraldic crown adorns the top of the mace. Used for the first time in 1909, the mace

5978-493: The Foundation Trust Network it was raised to 1.5%. These caps disappeared on 1 October 2012. Collective earnings from private patients increased 14%, from £346.1 million in 2012–13 to £395.9 million for 2014–15. Private earning is concentrated on specialist hospitals in London who see many patients from other countries. Most trusts have negligible private income. In order to achieve foundation trust status, NHS trusts have to pass

6100-641: The L. Sofou Building and the Strategakis Building, two buildings in close proximity in Thessaloniki city centre. The faculty also operates the South East European Research Centre (SEERC), a multidisciplinary research centre established in 2003. There are several bodies which govern the university, including the council, the Senate and the faculties. The council is the governing body of the university, which

6222-476: The NHS to reconsider "whether the model of foundation trusts is sensible", arguing "If one-third of the hospital system is permanently not demonstrating good viability and good governance, is that telling you something about actually how the system should run as opposed to how we thought it should run?". In January 2022 Sajid Javid , writing in The Times said he was planning a “revolution” that would allow “well-run hospitals more freedom”. Foundation trusts had

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6344-460: The Northern General Hospital NHS Trust were merged on 1 April 2001 to create the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, covering almost all major medical facilities (apart from paediatrics) in the city under a single trust. On 1 July 2004, the new trust was granted Foundation status, becoming the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The trust provides a full range of local hospital and community health services for people in Sheffield and

6466-478: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and has an active student society (SUAS). In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Sheffield School of Architecture ranked 4th in the UK. Established in 1986, the Management School is a triple-accredited (AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS) business school. In 2013 the school moved into newly refurbished facilities close to the University of Sheffield campus and Broomhill. It now has dedicated learning and teaching space,

6588-426: The Sheffield Health Authority was dissolved. Lodge Moor Hospital closed in 1994, with its infectious diseases isolation section moving to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and treatment of chest and spinal injuries transferring to the Northern General Hospital. That same year, the operation of Nether Edge Hospital was transferred to the newly created Community Health Sheffield NHS Trust . Charles Clifford Dental Hospital

6710-410: The Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, forming a new School of Nursing and Midwifery. The St George's Hospital was extended and a new building at the Northern General Hospital has been constructed, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty. Hans Adolf Krebs was appointed as lecturer in pharmacology in 1935. At Sheffield Krebs and his postgraduate student discovered

6832-481: The Sheffield area over from the Sheffield Health Authority to four separate NHS trusts with effect from 1 November 1991: the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust (covering the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the Jessop Hospital , Lodge Moor Hospital and Nether Edge Hospital ); the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust ; the Sheffield Children's NHS Trust ; and the Weston Park Hospital NHS Trust . The trusts came into full operation on 1 April 1992, at which point

6954-433: The Sheffield's teaching hospitals, and the school is associated with Sheffield Children's Hospital , Northern General Hospital , Weston Park Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital . It is one of 32 bodies entitled to award medical degrees in the United Kingdom by the General Medical Council (GMC), the body responsible for registering doctors to practise medicine as well as regulating medical education and training in

7076-530: The UK. Biology has been taught in Sheffield since 1884 in Firth College. Appointed the first Professor of Biology in 1888, Alfred Denny was the only biologist in the Department of Biology at the college who taught zoology and botany to science and medical students. In 1896, a second biologist, botanist Bertram H. Bentley, joined the college. Soon after the university was founded, in 1908, two separate departments were established: Zoology (head by Denny) and Botany (head by Bentley). The departments were not merged until

7198-410: The Union of Students and St George's Library. The campus master plan proposed in the 1940s was completed by the 1970s, and the university required a new development plan. The 1980s saw the opening of many new buildings and centres, such as the multi-purpose Octagon Centre and the Sir Henry Stephenson Building. The university's teaching hospital, Northern General Hospital , was also extended. In 1987

7320-469: The United Kingdom. The Faculty of Science comprises seven classical science departments: Animal and Plant Sciences, Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology. All of the university's six Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with this faculty. The Department of Animal and Plant Sciences is one of the largest departments dedicated for whole-organism biology studies in

7442-449: The University Executive Board, whose members are: president and vice-chancellor (or simply vice-chancellor), provost and deputy vice chancellor, chief financial officer, executive director of corporate services, executive director of academic services, five faculty vice-presidents, three cross-cutting vice-presidents (education, innovation and research), and university secretary. The board provides leadership and management, as well as advises

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7564-400: The Western Bank Building, Firth Court is a red brick Edwardian building in Perpendicular Revival style, and is connected to the 1971 modernist Alfred Denny Building . The nearby Arts Tower is also an example of postwar modernist building in the International Style . The Diamond, a contemporary architecture designed by Twelve Architects, is situated next to the Victorian Jessop Building on

7686-421: The aim of providing education in the city which lacked any tertiary institutions. During the period, the steel industry in Sheffield was prospering and the city's population was doubled to around 240,000 from the 1840s. In 1871, the university extension scheme arrived in Sheffield, and a group of lecturers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge travelled to the city giving lectures and educating people about

7808-407: The benefits of tertiary education. Steel manufacturer and former mayor of Sheffield Mark Firth and clergyman Samuel Earnshaw therefore organised courses in English literature and political economy. The courses became popular so Firth decided to donate £20,000 and purchase a site in the city centre (now Leopold Street and West Street) in 1877 to build a new institution for the classes. Firth College

7930-416: The board of directors have no statutory duty towards the governors. The governors cannot, without the board of directors' permission, have any control over the direction of the trust, and cannot appoint or remove trust auditors. The chair and directors are not appointed by their board of governors. University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS )

8052-413: The campus. In 2005, the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority announced that it would split the training between Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University – however, the university decided to pull out of providing preregistration nursing and midwifery training due to "costs and operational difficulties". On 28 September 2015, a new six-storey building, the Diamond , was opened. In February 2016,

8174-404: The citric acid cycle, the investigation of high-speed chemical reactions, the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA, the discovery of fullerene, and the development of molecular machines. Alumni also include several heads of state , Home Secretaries , Court of Appeal judges , Booker Prize winners, astronauts and Olympic gold medallists. The University of Sheffield was originally formed by

8296-435: The city. Because of the apprenticeship-type training, the medical education at that time was largely unstructured. Regarded as the father of Sheffield's medical education, surgeon apothecary Hall Overend began to train medical students in 1811. His school of anatomy and medicine was externally recognised in 1828, and he conducted and taught human dissection in an anatomy museum at his home in Church Street . Overend, however,

8418-451: The coat of arms, which remains the official heraldic symbol of the university. The university's fonts are TUOS Stephenson ( serif ) and TUOS Blake ( sans-serif ). Both TUOS Stephenson and TUOS Blake are modified versions of a typeface designed by Sheffield company Stephenson & Blake Co. The two fonts are the copyright property of the University of Sheffield and are restricted only to university users. The university brand (encompassing

8540-430: The council of governors to work towards a merger. A study undertaken in 2005 by the King's Fund of Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust found some governors disappointed and disillusioned. Another report in 2005, funded by the Nuffield Foundation , found that it was too easy to invite members to sit on sub-committees, where they quickly became bogged down in the minutiae of operational planning, whilst

8662-413: The department, which was met with international outcry. The precursor to the Faculty of Engineering is the Sheffield Technical School established in the 1880s, which offered part-time and evening class programme to adults working in the steel industry. During 1917, departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were founded in response to

8784-407: The early 20th century, the university taught non-degree courses that covered non-conventional, occupation-focused subjects such as cow-keeping, railway economics, mining and razor-grinding. The university has currently five faculties comprising 50 departments and 82 research centres and institutes, plus an international faculty. The current faculty structure is: The Faculty of Arts and Humanities

8906-575: The east and west of Upper Hanover Street , such as the Jessop Building, the Soundhouse, Jessop West and the Information Commons . The Arts Tower building, the Students' Union and University House buildings, the Sheffield Bioincubator and University Health Centre were also refurbished. A new campus, North Campus, was opened. In 2003, a development framework was produced by Turnberry Consulting, with proposals aimed to densify

9028-539: The east of the main campus lies St George's campus, named after St George's Church (now a lecture theatre and postgraduate residence). The campus is the historical location of the Sheffield Technical School. It is bounded by Upper Hanover Street to the west, Broad Lane to the north, Rockingham Street to the east, and West Street to the south, and is part of St George's Quarter , one of the seven official Sheffield city centre quarters. Also known as

9150-563: The establishment of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences in 1988, as part of a major rationalisation at the university. David H. Lewis, who was Head of Botany, was the first Head of Animal and Plant Sciences. The department was awarded a maximum score of 24 points in the QAA Teaching Quality Assessment in 1999, and top five for biological sciences research in the REF 2014. The Sheffield School of Architecture

9272-587: The faculty colour. The faculty and degree colours are: Arts and Humanities—crushed strawberry; Music (only for BMus, MMus, and DMus degrees)—cream brocade; Engineering—purple; Medicine and Surgery—red; Dental Surgery—pale rose pink; Health— cerise ; Science— apricot ; Social Sciences— lemon yellow ; International Faculty—Saxon blue; Board of Extra Faculty Provision—pale blue. Some schools at Sheffield had previously their own colours but are no longer used. They were: Metallurgy— steel grey ; Education— pearl ; Architecture— old gold ; Law— olive green . The old colour of

9394-519: The former site of Jessop's Edwardian wing. A total of 36 university estate are listed . Of these, the Arts Tower and Western Bank Library are Grade II* listed buildings. Firth Court, Mappin Building, St George's Church, Jessop Building and the Drama Studio are listed Grade II. The centre of the university's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre, where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to

9516-412: The foundation of the university college, on 18 May 1903, the resolution to apply for a royal charter was passed. The university college started to develop its estate soon after: Western House by Weston Park on Western Bank was bought and demolished in 1903 for building a new university property. A building with a traditional collegiate quadrangle (later known as Western Bank building and now Firth Court)

9638-496: The fourth member of the federal Victoria University . The new university was proposed to be named "Victoria University of Yorkshire" by Leeds but was rejected by the Privy Council. The Victoria University, however, began to split up as independent universities before this could happen, when Liverpool gained a charter of its own in 1903. Rather than joining a Yorkshire university with Leeds, the University College of Sheffield

9760-411: The latest Research Excellence Framework 2021, Sheffield is ranked 11th in the UK for research power calculated by multiplying the institution's GPA by the total number of full-time equivalent staff submitted. There are six Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield, as either the alumni or former long-term staff of the university. They are contributors to the development of penicillin, the discovery of

9882-534: The legislative basis was the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 . The first ten NHS hospitals to become foundation trusts were announced in 2004. Gordon Brown prevented plans by Alan Milburn that they should be financially autonomous in 2002. By 2012, the Monitor website listed 145 foundation trusts. Successive governments set target dates by which all NHS trusts were supposed to have reached foundation status. For example, by 2009

10004-581: The listed Victorian Jessop Hospital for Women into the new home of the Department of Music in 2009. The formerly Grade II-listed Edwardian wing of the Jessop Hospital was demolished after Sheffield City Council's planning committee voted for approval. The building was replaced by a new £81 million building for the Faculty of Engineering which opened in September 2015, named the Diamond . It

10126-524: The main decisions were taken at meetings that they only heard about after they took place. The public's perception of foundation trust status implying a high standard of clinical care was changed by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust scandal of the late 2000s ( Stafford Hospital Scandal ) and the ensuing Francis inquiry , published in 2013. At the outset, some critics claimed that foundation trusts went against

10248-475: The merger of three local institutions: the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College, and the Sheffield Technical School. With a history dating back to as early as the 1810s, the Sheffield School of Medicine is the university's oldest predecessor institution, which is also the oldest higher education establishment in Sheffield. In 1795, the General Infirmary was opened, becoming the first hospital in

10370-471: The needs of the First World War. The departments provided training courses for injured and incapacitated soldiers, and manufactured inspection gauges and munition shells. The Faculty of Engineering has now over 6,700 students and 1,000 staff. Over 90% of the research from the department was rated as 4* (world-leading) or 3* (internationally excellent). The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health

10492-463: The opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The Sheffield Technical School was created by collecting funds within Firth College because of local concern about the need for technical training, particularly steelmaking in Sheffield. Former mayor of Sheffield Sir Frederick Mappin started to fundraise for

10614-548: The original Henderson's factory . The University of Sheffield is not a campus university , though most of its 430 buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other. It is divided geographically by the Sheffield Inner Ring Road . The Upper Hanover Street section of the ring road splits university buildings into the Western Bank and the St George's campus areas. Instead of growing from

10736-582: The private patient income cap but FTs have to do the majority of their work for the NHS. This restriction was kept to reassure those concerned about future developments that FTs would continue to have NHS work as their central concern. Previously each FT had its own cap, set at the level of its private activity when the first FTs were established in 2003/4. About three-quarters of all FTs had a cap of 1.5% or less. Until 2010 all mental health trusts were completely barred from undertaking non-NHS work, but after lobbying from

10858-412: The public sector and less autonomous than was originally expected. By March 2013 there were 145 foundation trusts, of which 41 were mental health trusts and three were ambulance trusts. They included acute trusts, mental health, community and ambulance trusts. By March 2019, the number of foundation trusts had shown a small increase to 151. The basic governance structure and form of foundation trusts

10980-515: The robe with full sleeves that are lined scarlet silk and the lining held up at the elbow level with a scarlet cord and button [d1]. The hood is of the Cambridge shape [f1] and is made of red ottoman silk. In 1993, the postgraduate diplomate hood is entered in the Calendar of the University of Sheffield. It is a blend of Bachelors' and Masters' hoods, with a hood of green silk and a neckband of

11102-419: The school and £10,240 was raised. A grant was secured in 1883 to fund a professor of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering. Many of the steel-making firms in Sheffield contributed to funding the Technical School, and research from the school in turn helped develop new processes and products for the companies. The Technical School was originally founded as a new technical department in Firth College, and in 1886,

11224-521: The school moved to St George's Square (later renamed Charlotte Street and now Mappin Street) on the site of the old Grammar School . William Ripper was appointed as Head of Mechanical Engineering at Firth College from 1889, then Principal of Sheffield Technical School. Sheffield was at that time the only large city in England without a university. William Mitchinson Hicks , who was Principal of Firth College from 1892 to 1897, had an ambition to establish

11346-642: The southern area of the campus are the Sheffield Students' Union , the Octagon Centre , Graves Building and Hicks Building . A concourse under the A57 flyover connects Alfred Denny Building on the north side and Students' Union on the south. Until the completion of three pedestrian crossings on Western Bank in 2017, the concourse underpass was the only link that allowed students to easily move between buildings in this cluster. The Information Commons,

11468-620: The spirit of the principles laid out by Aneurin Bevan , the founder of the NHS. Others feared that it would lead to a two-tier system. Others doubted whether foundation trust members would succeed in having any effective influence over hospital management. In 2011, some argued in a report financed by the Nuffield Foundation that the success associated with foundation trusts had been due to other factors than governance. In June 2014, Bill Moyes, former Monitor executive chair, urged

11590-475: The sports pitches at Norton Sports Park located. The university also operates Advanced Manufacturing Research Centres (AMRCs) on the border of Sheffield, in Rotherham and Lancashire. The Conference Centre and Teaching Hall at Philadelphia Campus of St. Thomas' Church are used as exam venues by the university. The old Firth College building was built in 1879 at the corner of Leopold Street and West Street. It

11712-476: The supposed autonomy when almost all had to rely on money borrowed from the Department of Health, to which strings were attached. Foundation trusts have some managerial and financial freedom when compared to NHS trusts . The introduction of foundation trusts represented a change in the history of the National Health Service and the way in which hospital services are managed and provided. At

11834-531: The time had 71 members of staff. By then, the first Hall of Residence (Stephenson Hall) and library (Edgar Allen library) had been established. The number of students increased to a short-lived peak of 1,000 in 1919 when returning ex-servicemen were admitted to the university. During the First World War , some of the academic subjects and courses were replaced by teaching of munitions making and medical appliances production. The university has expanded since

11956-606: The time of introduction, they were described "as a sort of halfway house between the public and private sectors". This form of NHS trust is an important part of the United Kingdom government's programme to create a "patient-led" NHS with an internal market . The stated purpose is to devolve decision-making from a centralised NHS to local communities, in an effort to be more responsive to their needs and wishes. But after Gordon Brown prevented plans by Alan Milburn to make them financially autonomous they have been much more in

12078-646: The trust is Kirsten Major, the chief nurse is Chris Morley, the medical director for operations is Jennifer Hill, and the medical director for strategy and development is David Black. The origins of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust can be traced back to the legislation under Section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 , enacted by statutory order in October 1991, which transferred control of medical care in

12200-466: The trust's Northern General Hospital, opened in 2007, was closed after fire safety defects were discovered in December 2018 and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue issued the trust a “prohibition notice”. It was reopened in 2021. The trust sued the developers, Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships and Kajima Construction Europe, in 2022, claiming £15 million compensation. Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships

12322-745: The university began to collaborate with its once would-be partners of the Victoria University by co-founding the Northern Consortium ; a coalition for the education and recruitment of international students. The university continued to expand in the 1990s. New premises were opened for School of the Clinical Dentistry, the Division of Education, and the Management School. In 1995, the university took over

12444-652: The university started to work with Sheffield City Council to transform public spaces around the campus. The £8 million project includes building and improving pedestrianisation, crossings, cycle routes, as well as greening the campus. The university intended to expand the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and provision for apprenticeships; however, while the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership recommended that

12566-513: The university, and is also responsible for the regulation of research work and students' discipline. The Senate is chaired by the vice-chancellor, with its membership drawn mainly from the university's academic staff. The five faculties regulates departmental teaching, research, examination, and also admission. They are responsible for making recommendations to the Senate on the award of degrees, fellowships, and academic staff appointments and promotions. The university central committees also include

12688-453: The university. This main campus area is bounded by Upper Hanover Street to the east, Glossop Road to the south, Clarkson Street to the west, and Bolsover Street to the north. Western Bank ( A57 ) runs through the campus. The area to the north of Western Bank includes Firth Court , Alfred Denny Building , Western Bank Library and Arts Tower , Geography and Planning building, Bartolomé House , and Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings. Within

12810-491: The vice-chancellor on operational matters. the vice-chancellor is the chief executive and accountable officer of the university. The current vice-chancellor is Koen Lamberts , and the provost and deputy vice chancellor is Gill Valentine . The Court of the university is no longer a university committee. The Court was a large body which fosters relations between the university and the community, and included lay members, many of whom are university alumni. Ex-officio members of

12932-447: The visual identity) is led by its motto Rerum cognoscere causas and centred on the theme of "discovery". The theme has been applied across print, screen and other areas such as signage, vehicle livery and merchandising. As at most universities, Sheffield graduands wear academic dress appropriate to the degree they are to be received when graduating. Bachelors wear a black Oxford BA [b1] gown (see Groves classification system ). The hood

13054-428: The words Disce Doce between in fess two sheaves of eight arrows interlaced saltireways and banded argent, in chief an open crown or, and in base a rose also argent barbed and seeded proper. The current university's logo, consists of a redrawn version of the coat of arms and the name of the institution, is introduced in 2005, the centenary year of the university. However, the logo should not supersede and be confused with

13176-531: The £10 million funding bid should be approved, the university withdrew the bid in November 2018. The University Concourse was refurbished in 2019 to replace the 50-year-old paving and walls. Major development projects in the 2020s include constructions of a new Information School building (Northumberland Road Building), Social Sciences Building, Royce Discovery Centre, energy centre (the Transformer), Translational Energy Research Centre, and redevelopment of

13298-571: Was built by the Spanish National Health System , but its operational management is contracted out to a private company, and exempt from many of the rules normally imposed on state-owned hospitals, and in particular, that hospital was allowed to negotiate its own contracts with workers. The governance of that hospital includes local government, trade unions, health workers and community groups. Foundation trusts were announced by Health Secretary Alan Milburn in 2002, and

13420-440: Was closed in 2010, ten years after its establishment, due to its failure to capture substantial grants to support the centre's activities. In May 2021, archaeology staff at the university have been told their jobs could be at risk after a review. A petition to save the department has gathered more than 35,000 signatures but the university said no decisions had yet been taken, but later changed to announcing they intended to dissolve

13542-511: Was designed by Thomas James Flockton and Edward Robert Robson with the front facing West Street. Firth College moved out of the building following the establishment of the university. The building later housed the Sheffield Central Technical School and is currently home to Education Committee offices of Sheffield City Council. Situated on 7 Leopold Street opposite Firth College, the old Medical School building

13664-438: Was designed by John Dodsley Webster and completed in 1888. The school moved to Firth Court in 1905 and the building is now used as offices. The Manvers campus, at Wath-on-Dearne between Rotherham and Barnsley , was where the majority of nursing was taught. A three-storey building, Humphry Davy House (named after chemist Humphry Davy ), was built in 1998 on Golden Smithies Lane opposite to Dearne Valley College . The building

13786-410: Was driven by civic pride to pursue independent university status, to bring higher education, give support to industries and serve as a centre for disease study. Hicks also advocated the independent degree awarding power would attract talented staff. The University College of Sheffield's charter was sealed on 31 May 1905 and became the University of Sheffield. On 12 July 1905, Firth Court on Western Bank

13908-511: Was founded during Firth's late year in 1879 and developed out of the Extension Movement scheme to teach arts and pure science subjects. The college saved the medical school, which had an insecure early history, from collapse and took over the teaching of all background subjects to medical students. In 1888 the medical school was relocated, opposite Firth College, to a new building on Leopold Street. Firth College also helped to fund

14030-612: Was home to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, which was established in 1995 after the merger of the university with Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery. In 2004, the university disagreed with the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority's decision to take away part of its nursing and midwifery training contract, and declined the offer due to financial and operational constraints. The last intake of midwifery studies students

14152-657: Was in July 2006, and the campus was closed one year later. The building was sold in 2018 and to be converted for residential lettings. From 2022 to 2023, students protested against the university working with and accepting payment for various activities from companies including Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, and Boeing who are involved in the arms manufacturing industry. Sheffield had four faculties in 1905, which were Arts, Pure Science, Medicine and Applied Science. The Faculty of Applied Science later split into Engineering and Metallurgy in 1919. As well as educating full-time students, in

14274-842: Was integrated within the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust in 1995. On 1 April 1999, the Weston Park Hospital NHS Trust was merged into the Central Sheffield Universities NHS Trust, creating a major teaching hospital at the same time. In 2001, the Jessop Hospital for Women was closed and operations were transferred to the new Jessop Wing hospital adjacent to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust and

14396-523: Was not officially registered as a lecturer with the Society of Apothecaries , a recognised body for medical education. Physicians and surgeons of the General Infirmary suggested that a school associated with the hospital would be highly eligible for recognition by the society. As a result, in 1828, a public meeting was called by physician Sir Arnold Knight, and supported by Overend, to establish

14518-473: Was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra . St George's Square remained the centre of departments of Applied Science, and the departments of Arts, Medicine and Science moved to Western Bank. Sheffield is one of the six pre-World War One red brick universities , the civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England. In 1905, when the university first opened, there were 363 students and 114 of them were enrolled full-time. Sheffield at

14640-565: Was planned on the site. Sir Frederick Mappin later successfully sought financial support from the Sheffield City Council and appealed for public donations. In 1904, steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield donated over £50,000 via penny donations to help found the University of Sheffield. It was originally envisaged that the university college would join Manchester , Liverpool and Leeds as

14762-434: Was pressure on the university to expand since the student numbers had increased from around 1,000 to 3,000 by 1946. The university announced proposals for development in 1947, which emphasised the need for new departments, medical school, library, administration building, halls of residence, as well as the completion of the Western Bank quadrangle and the extension of the Students' Union. The university then grew slowly until

14884-543: Was £737.5 million, of which £171 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £609.2 million resulting in a surplus of £127.1 million. Its endowment was £45.5 million. The arms of the university was granted by the College of Arms on 28 June 1905. It is on an azure shield with a gold-edged book inscribed with the Latin Disce Doce (Learn and Teach) at its centre,

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