Join us for an evening at Jump Inc. trampolining park for a fun and active session!
Trampolining is a great way to get fit and get your heart racing, all while practicing and perfecting your backflip.
The session costs £5 and you need to pay at Hallam Active, level 1 in the Surrey building before attending. Please bring £4 for your return tram fare and £1.50 for the grip socks for trampolining. This session will be repeated on 12 July.
Join us for a trip to the beautiful city of Cambridge, home to the River Cam, punting and some of the most famous university buildings in the world!
Cambridge is a University city of old streets, ancient colleges and lovely bridges spanning the River Cam. There are historic and contemporary buildings to visit, world renowned museums, fantastic theatres and live music.
We’ll be going on Saturday 17 June from 8am – meet outside the main University entrance, City Campus. Tickets are non-refundable unless the trip is cancelled by the SHU GoGlobal Team. Buy your tickets from
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Sheffield Hallam University is proud to have endorsed Chinese graduate Yang Liu (Elena) in order to set up her own business in the UK after graduating.
Sheffield Hallam has a Tier 1 licence from the Home Office. The licence enables the University to endorse up to 10 international graduates per year to become self-employed after completing studies. Elena was one of the successful applicants to enter the University’s competitive application process, which is run by the Enterprise Team. After receiving the endorsement Elena successfully applied for a Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa with the help of the International Experience Team. The visa allows her to be self-employed in the UK.
Elena founded Yang For Young Limited in March 2017. Yang For Young offers good quality and easy-to-use products to help young people with sensory impairments to gain more life skills.
Elena so impressed the judges from the UK Steel Enterprise Accelerator Programme that she won a prize of £10,000 to develop her business. We are confident that Elena will have a great future ahead of her!
If you are interested in following in the footsteps of Elena, contact our Enterprise team to find out about the application process. The Enterprise Team welcomes international students who are graduating from degree courses and interested in becoming entrepreneurs in the UK. Students can access free support from the Enterprise team, including free workshops and advice from professional business advisers. You don’t need to have previous business experience, but you do need to have the enthusiasm and skills to learn how to run your own business.
Enterprise Team
Telephone 0114 225 3131
Email enterprise@shu.ac.uk
Sheffield is famous for climbing, so why not get involved in a four-week course, with instructors on hand to help you every step of the way?
We will be holding these sessions at the Foundry Climbing Centre, which is a top class training facility and a fun and friendly environment for people new to the sport of climbing.
These sessions are free of charge, and the first will be on Wednesday 14 June at 5.30–7pm, then repeated on Wednesday 19 July.
Book your place in advance at the Hallam Active reception, level 1, Surrey Building.
This summer, the Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union are helping to put on taster sports sessions, designed to get you active and experience Sheffield in new ways.
The first of these sessions is a social cycling event, giving you the opportunity to spend some time seeing the sights in the Peak District National Park – some of the most beautiful scenery you can find in the UK.
Collection of your bike and helmet is from the HUBS at 9.45am or 10am at Collegiate Campus and a coach will then take you to explore the Peaks. The sessions run on the following dates:
11 June and 25 June
Book your place in advance at the Hallam Active reception, level 1, Surrey building
Join us for a 30-minute walk to Weston Park Museum, for some fantastic exhibits that tell the story of Sheffield, from prehistory to the present day place that you know and love.
It’s an award-winning museum which lets you discover the real story of Sheffield, from its geological roots to the people, politics and music that have helped to shape the modern city.
There are a whole host of permanent and temporary exhibitions from a whole range of ages and times in history.
This trip will be on Wednesday 10 June and entry is free. Meet our student crew at the main University entrance at 10am, to return at approximately 2pm.
Congratulations to academic staff in our collaborative partners in Botswana, China and Malaysia who have won the Sheffield Hallam Inspirational Teaching Award 2017.
All universities exist, more than anything else, for their students. The hard work of a university is the consistent effort, day-in, day-out to secure student success through exceptional teaching and student support.
Students were asked through a University survey to nominate academic or student support staff who had inspired them or had a transformative impact on their student experience, inside or outside the curriculum. A total of 1897 nominations were received and 894 individual staff and teams, academics and student support staff were named.
This year has also seen the introduction of a new Inspirational Teaching Award to recognise the valuable contribution of teaching staff at some of our overseas partner institutions, and University staff who teach on overseas partner courses. A total of 349 nominations were received nominating 115 individual staff across six overseas partners (Botswana Accountancy College, INTI and TAR UC in Malaysia, SCOPE and SHAPE in Hong Kong and Sino-British College in China). These were considered by a University panel and nine Inspirational Teaching Awards were made.
Inspirational Teaching Award (Overseas Partner) Winners 2017
* Sheffield Hallam University staff who teach on overseas partner courses
Congratulations to all the winners!
From Monday 15 May, the International Experience Team hosted guests from all across Europe, including delegates from Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic for a week of Internationalising Student Support; they visited for a five day programme of seeing how the University supports students, as well as to learn about Sheffield itself.
There were talks from support services across the University, tours of the campuses and even some local Sheffield dialect! We had a fantastic time learning from each other and hearing how our cultures differed, leading to some lively debate on how best to support and communicate with our students while they are studying.
The week was a great success and we’d like to think that our Erasmus visitors got as much out of the exchange as we did; hopefully we’ll get to go across to the continent and see how things work in their countries in the near future!
We were very pleased to be able to announce the 2017 winners of the Inspirational Student Awards in last month’s newsletter. Here, we speak to one of the winners, Cheah Keat Hong from Malaysia, about their experience as a student inspiring others.
How do you feel about being nominated for an Inspirational Student Award?
Thanks for the students who voted me in this activity, I also very appreciated that I have the opportunity to join the activity and meet a lot friends in Sheffield Hallam University, it was my pleasure to help each other while we were having the summer programme in SHU.
What difference do you think graduating with a degree from Sheffield Hallam University will make to your career?
Graduating with a degree from Sheffield Hallam University will able to increase my opportunity to get a vacancy when job searching. Other than that, I provided more understanding about the construction industry of UK as compare to the students who have just a Malaysia University degree holder.
What advice would you give to someone choosing this course about your experience so far to help them decide?
The culture of learning with SHU was much more different as compare with the culture of study in Malaysia. It was a great opportunity to join the SHU programme, part of the course you will able to learn about the construction industry in UK, you will also learn the culture, and enjoy the environment of UK.
What is the best thing you have experienced about studying a Sheffield Hallam degree?
I able to learn about the construction industry, the rules and others in United Kingdom. Other than that, the culture, personality of the peoples, the environment in Sheffield and also UK. It was the unforgettable memories I will keep in my mind.
International students enrich our campus. The Transform Together scholarships support high achieving international students who demonstrate not only excellent academic achievement but also ambition, determination and dedication. In 2016-17, 22 postgraduate scholarships and four undergraduate scholarships were awarded to international and EU students in all four faculties.
‘Being a scholar is such an honour and one that I know will support me in my future career. When I read that I had been successful in my scholarship application, I could hardly believe my eyes. Sheffield Hallam is truly an international environment and it has been a wonderful experience to meet people from so many different countries and cultures.’
Thu Trang Le, Transform Together scholar from Vietnam, MSc International Business Management
Pictured – Sheffield Hallam scholars enjoy afternoon tea with Lord Mayor, Counsellor Denise Fox
