Your chance to share your student experience or hear from other students.
Saturday 4 July
Sheffield Pride is back for 2015!
This year the festival is moving and it will take place at Sheffield Students’ Union at the University of Sheffield. Pride is taking over the entire site (and it’s a BIG site!) to bring a whole day and night of fun, activities, music, and loads more.
For more information, visit the Sheffield Pride website.
Deadline to enter Friday 26 June 2015
Share your experience of going global to inspire others and you could win an iPad mini.
The SHU GoGlobal blog competition is to create an online blog about your experience of internationalising while being a student at Sheffield Hallam University. Internationalising is the process of gaining an understanding of other cultures and developing a global outlook.
The brief is to create an online blog which records the best stories from your time at Sheffield Hallam or your study/work experience abroad and the impact the experience has had on you and your future.
You can read the competition rules at www.shu.ac.uk/global
A Sheffield Hallam research team are looking for International students to participate in focus group discussions which will be about an hour in length.
This research aims to understand the experiences of International students coming to study at Sheffield Hallam University. The researchers want to understand the challenges these students face and the positive experiences they have.
The groups will be held in the Owen Building on
Tuesday 26 May
Group 1: 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Group 2: 3pm – 4pm
Wednesday 27 May
Group 3: 2.30pm-3.30pm.
You will receive a certificate for attending. If you would like to participate please email Emma at e.e.kirkby-geddes@shu.ac.uk
The study has received ethical approval from SHU Research Ethics Committee. The research team are:
Dr Emma Kirkby-Geddes, Senior Researcher,
Professor Ann Macaskill a.macaskill@shu.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Reidy l.reidy@shu.ac.uk
Dr John Reidy jg.reidy @shu.ac.uk
We are interested in how you cope with masters level study and in examining the personal characteristics that help you cope.
The knowledge generated will assist us to improve the student experience.
You are being asked to complete an anonymous online questionnaire which will take 15-20 minutes. Further details are given in the questionnaire. If you would like to take part, please access the link below:
https://shusls.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0ICQ9N6ntOs1BPL
If you know someone else on a UK Masters who is willing to take part too, please forward the link to them.
The study was approved by Sheffield Hallam University Research Ethics Committee and if you have any questions you can contact the following academics:
Dr Emma Kirkby-Geddes e.e.kirkby-geddes@shu.ac.uk
Professor Ann Macaskill a.macaskill@shu.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Reidy l.reidy@shu.ac.uk
Now–Friday 26 June 2015
Share your experience of going global to inspire others and you could win an iPad mini.
The SHU GoGlobal blog competition is to create an online blog about your experience of internationalising while being a student at Sheffield Hallam University. Internationalising is the process of gaining an understanding of other cultures and developing a global outlook.
The brief is to create an online blog which records the best stories from your time at Sheffield Hallam or your study/work experience abroad and the impact the experience has had on you and your future.
You can read the competition rules at www.shu.ac.uk/global
International Student Well-being Research Project
Can you help?
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University are conducting a study about the challenges and positive experiences of being an international student at Sheffield Hallam University.
Participants are needed to take part in Focus Groups to be held at the Owen Building in the afternoon of Tuesday 26th May (Focus Group 1: 1.30pm – 2.30pm, Focus Group 2: 3pm – 4pm) and Wednesday 27th May 2015 (Focus Group 3 – 2.30-3.30). You will only need to attend one Focus Group.
The Focus Group will be small (only 4-6 students) and will be relaxed and informal. They will take only one hour.
This research is important to improving the experience of international students.
Dr Emma Kirkby-Geddes would like to hear from you if you would like to take part. Please email Emma directly e.e.kirkby-geddes@shu.ac.uk.
A message from the society:
‘Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union (SHSU) Indians Society also known as Desi Indians began in April, 2015 with the guidance and support from SHSU. It was created with a basic aim to bring together all students at SHU together and promote the rich Indian cultural facet, to explore the variety and variance in India, where language and food undergo change for every step taken. This society will promote Indian festivals, food, culture, sports, music and traditions amongst all students in Sheffield Hallam University giving them an opportunity to learn and accustom them to know more about eastern culture.
SHSU Indians also aims for students to get to know and explore Sheffield, by arranging trips around the city, as Sheffield is filled with places for tourist attractions, sporting events, and food festivals.
SHSU Indians also is dominantly present on social networking websites like Facebook and Instagram. The Facebook page named SHSU Indians is a very good online platform to connect with all students and spread the message of any event conducted by the society.
The first event which the society initiated was the online photography competition, where in all the members of the group where asked to upload photos and the theme being “Your most amazing photo” and the photo which gets the maximum likes would be declared as the winner. The society received a decent response to start with, the winner of the competition being Tam Do with 29 likes for her photo captioned as “Catch me of you can”.
The Facebook page would also be shared with the admission authorities in India, so that they can provide it to all Indian students arriving in Sheffield for the first time. SHSU Indians society will aim to help, resolve and guide any issues and concerns posted by new joiners on the page regarding accommodation, travel or university issue. The society will direct them to the correct channel to help them setup their life in Sheffield with minimum hassles and maximum support.
Establishing the society is only part of the journey, however support and guidance from the university and students will act as a major factor for the success to achieve the objectives. The society aims to get maximum registration from all the students. Please do register on the Hallam Students Union website under the cultural tab, Indian. The steps to register have been posted on the Facebook page. In case of any issue please post your queries on SHSU Indian group on Facebook or you can email on shsuindians@gmail.com.’
Now–Friday 26 June 2015
Share your experience of going global to inspire others and you could win an iPad mini.
The SHU GoGlobal blog competition is to create an online blog about your experience of internationalising while being a student at Sheffield Hallam University. Internationalising is the process of gaining an understanding of other cultures and developing a global outlook.
The brief is to create an online blog which records the best stories from your time at Sheffield Hallam or your study/work experience abroad and the impact the experience has had on you and your future.
You can read the competition rules at www.shu.ac.uk/global
If you are a final year undergraduate student, this is your chance to have your say!
The National Student Survey is a national, independent survey which evaluates your whole student experience. The purpose of the survey is to provide publicly available information for future students about what you think of the University’s services and courses. It’s your opportunity to provide honest feedback about your whole student experience.
Plus, for every survey completed the University will donate £2 to your RAG charities, so that’s even more reason to give your feedback. Last year we raised over £10,000 and we’re hoping to beat that in 2015.
So don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard – the deadline for completing the survey is 30 April 2015.
Find out more here.
Have you experienced taking a verbal or numerical psychometric test in the UK? Have you wondered what your score would have been if the test had been in Mandarin? Would you like to compare your results across both languages?
The Careers and Employment Service are taking part in a research project to try to answer such questions and would like to ask for your participation. In return you will not only get the chance to practise some of these tests but you will also receive a report that we hope you will find useful.
To learn more about this opportunity please attend a briefing session on Tuesday 28 April at 1pm at the Careers and Employability Centre. The briefing will last just under an hour and you will have chance to view some of the test reports . The tests that are available for you to take are
To find out more please book in using this link.
If you are unable to attend this session but would like to find out more please contact Karen Allan, Employment Adviser on K.Allan@shu.ac.uk
