91��Ƭ

We offer excellent research opportunities in an array of areas at the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities.

Facilities

The University Library subscribes to the major databases and peer-reviewed journals, and there is a regular free minibus to the British Library’s depository at Boston Spa. We also have strong links with Sheffield’s museums and theatres, contacts which we use in our research and teaching.

As an Academic Visitor, you will have full access to the University Library, computing services and other University facilities. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide office space specifically for Academic Visitors, however quiet workspaces are available in the Information Commons, the Diamond and Western Bank Library.

Accommodation

Finding accommodation is the responsibility of the individual Academic Visitor and it is recommended you view the University’s Accommodation Services webpages for further guidance. Please note that, whilst at the University, you would be classed as Visiting Staff and would need to pay the Council Tax for private housing.

Recent visitors

With Digital Humanities

Niccolò Galliano

Affiliation: University of Milan

Position: Visiting Doctoral Student

Duration: January - June 2024

Niccolò is researching the substantial business correspondence of the Casa Ricordi music publisher, held at the Archivio Storico Ricordi, Braidense National Library of Milan. His project will reconstruct and examine Casa Ricordi’s business network across the Fascist Years (1919–1940).

Dr Ghazala Kausar

Affiliation: National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad

Position: Assistant Professor and Visiting Academic

Duration: February - October 2023

Ghazala's project involves an analysis of the language of legal texts in Pakistan to understand how they impact women in the work place. Ghazala is using her visit to help inform her understanding of data analysis and language analytics methodologies.

With Philosophy

Dr. Júlia Martín Badia

Visiting May 2022 - November 2022

My academic background in philosophy and applied ethics led me to develop a PhD on defining a community-based accompaniment model to foster autonomy (self-care capabilities) in adolescent patients. Following this thesis, and as a member of the from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, I started a postdoctoral research project entitled “Using AI and robotic technologies to empower adolescents in the healthcare field”. 

Within this project, I came as an academic visitor at both the University of Sheffield and the NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Cooperative. Once here, Professor Christopher Bennett helped me to develop a sound theoretical framework and Nathaniel Mills and Dr. Gemma Wheeler () helped me to ground my ideas through gaining practical experience by visiting some labs from Sheffield Robotics. 

After my visit to Sheffield, I narrowed my initial research project into “Using social robots to foster autonomy in adolescents with ASD”. You will see the results of my research, including interviews with multidisciplinary experts from Sheffield and Spain, in a poster that will be displayed next 8^th and 9^th November in the .

Prof. Yuxin Luo

Visiting November 2017 - November 2018

Majoring in English Linguistics, I spent most of my teaching days in the research of Cognitive Linguistics and have already been keen on English Language Philosophy based on the theories of Lakoff. G and Langacker. I believe that Linguistics and Philosophy correlated with each other by way of human behaviors and psychological evolution, and philosophy could throw more light on the research of linguistics and ignite lifelong learning.

During my stay in the Philosophy Department, my research interests turn primarily to the philosophy of mind and psychology. And with the help of Prof. Stephen Laurence, who is knowledgeable and ingenious, I quickly found myself indulged in a much more enjoyable academic atmosphere. The on-class discussion and the time with the members of each reading group not only sparkle wisdom and thoughts, but also predict the mutual beneficial communication between eastern and western culture.

Dr. Zhao Kai

Visiting November 2017 - November 2018

I have come to the Philosophy Department of the University of Sheffield to further the research of Language Philosophy, especially Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s linguistic phenomenology under the supervision of Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, who is specialized in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The Philosophy Department is famous for its world-leading staff, rigorous academic atmosphere, diversified research areas and interdisciplinary programs.

During my first several months at the Philosophy Department, I am deeply impressed by Dr. Komarine’s wide-range and solid-founded knowledge and her dedication to the academic research. What’s more, the seminars organized by the department give me a lot of inspiration and spark my enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research. I believe that the one-year visiting experience must be productive and fruitful.