Using green social prescribing to prevent and tackle mental ill health
Researchers are investigating whether prescribing nature can help prevent and tackle mental ill health.
Sheffield Hallam University to support new £5m project to improve health and tackle inequalities in Wakefield
Sheffield Hallam University is a key research partner in a new £5m programme to gain more insight into why residents in Wakefield have poorer health than people living in other parts of the country.
Sheffield Children’s physiotherapy service launches at AWRC
Young physio patients are benefiting from a new service created by Sheffield Children’s and Sheffield Hallam University which brings together clinicians and researchers at the Advanced Wellbeing and Research Centre (AWRC).
Sheffield Hallam signs MoU to help make Jeju Island ‘healthiest place to live in Asia’
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with representatives from the South Korean island of Jeju to help make it the ‘healthiest place to live in Asia’.
Santander contributes £94,000 to bolster Sheffield Hallam’s Covid-19 student support
Students at Sheffield Hallam University who have been affected by the Covid-19 crisis are to receive £93,784 of further support and recognition courtesy of Santander Universities.
Hallam academics advise Australian government to help increase physical activity
Physical activity experts from Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) have advised the Australian government on how to increase physical activity levels in the country.
New research and innovation unit to support Covid-19 rehab set up at Sheffield Hallam
A new research and innovation unit to support people to recover and rehabilitate from Covid-19 is to be set up at Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.
The pandemic one year on
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the whole of society over the last year in many ways. One demographic hit especially hard has been university students – a million-strong community across the country.
Why new ideas and inventions are essential to ensure we can all enjoy healthier lives
A recent report by one of the UK’s leading health experts found that health inequalities caused a million early deaths in England in the last decade.
Toni Schwarz
I am the Dean for the College of Health Wellbeing and Life Sciences and responsible for the educational and practice provision for all for the UG and PG nurses and midwives who study within the College