We all understand the relationships between physical activity and wellbeing. As Sheffield Hallam’s Steve Haake, Director of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, puts it, it comes down to a simple proposition about more people moving more, more often. But physical wellbeing is also intimately connected with mental wellbeing. Thursday 2 March is University Mental Health Day…
I’ve worked in Sheffield for just over a year now – I’m still a newcomer – and perhaps I will be for a very long time! I came to Sheffield to lead what is one of the UK’s largest universities. Sheffield Hallam teaches more than 31,000 students at any one time. It educates young people…
There are almost endless numbers of books and business school courses on strategy, but, really, strategy comes down to two very simple questions – what do you want to do, and how are you going to make sure you do it? Last week, Hallam’s Board of Governors signed off the University’s reshaped strategy – setting…
Desiderius Erasmus was born in the late 1460s, probably in Rotterdam. When he died in 1536, he was one of the most feted humanist scholars of his age. He had studied and taught at Paris, Turin, London, Cambridge, Leuven and Basel, moving easily across Europe which – in the course of his lifetime – was…