Hallam climbs global impact table

City campus with fountains in foreground

The global THE Impact league table shows that Hallam has moved in to the 100-200 band (out of 1,400) this year with an overall score of 16.4 out of 100. The University has climbed further up the rankings having placed in the 200-300 band (out of 1,100) in 2021.

The global performance tables assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with comparisons drawn across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach, and teaching.

The league table ranks Universities by the impact that they are having on their communities and more widely against the UN’s SDGs. Universities choose which of the 17 tables to opt into and then submit evidence of policies and projects related to each goal.

Hallam submitted to 10 SDGs and found to be in the top 100 institutions in eight of those. The submissions were based on work from a range of areas within the University, including our research portfolio, employability and enterprise approach, and Civic University Agreement.

Professor Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam, said: “Sheffield Hallam is a university that makes a difference. We aim to achieve outstanding outcomes for our students and for society, and I am delighted that the impact we are having is being recognised.”

The University performed particularly strongly for tackling poverty (SDG 1), ranked 14th out of 769, and for gender equality (SDG 5), ranked 15th out of 938 (see graph below). The other top 100 rankings were received in the SDGs for quality education, good health and wellbeing, decent work and economic growth, climate action and peace, justice and strong institutions.

Individual metrics are averaged out to create the final score for each SDG. Hallam scored the top score of 100 on seven of these metrics including working with government, collaborations with health services and lifelong learning measures.