Our expertise
Sheffield Hallam University has a wide breadth of research and innovation expertise relevant to a Green Future, some examples are given below:
- Sustainable energy sources, technologies, and strategies
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the built environment
- Sustainable construction materials/processes, and sustainable and equitable architectural practices
- Design and recycling
- Sustainable and healthy food production, engineering & consumption, and food poverty
- Water, wastewater treatment and land remediation
- Active travel and physical activity
- Sustainable tourism industry and policies
- Behaviour change, including behavioural economics, consumer behaviour, choice, and attitudes
- Issues of inequality and social justice, energy poverty, energy citizenship
- Economics, ethics, and infrastructure
- Evaluation and policy design
Examples of projects carried out across Sheffield Hallam University to date:
- Using less energy in product manufacture -waste heat capture, lower firing temperatures using additives
- Making production processes more efficient -longer lasting tooling, new tooling materials, using new sensors for better control
- Making products last longer in service – reduce wear, reduce corrosion, eliminate fatigue, higher temperature capability
- Making products that are more efficient in use – Lighter-weight materials, better strength to weight ratios,
- Reducing use of virgin resources –use of wastes, not mined materials
- New products to meet new challenges –catalysts for H2 production, battery materials
- Preparing for future challenges – Hydrogen economy? New materials -> insulation, pipes, storage, safety.
- Increasing awareness of raw materials sources –e.g. Ni, Cr, Mo, Ta, Nb, Li, Au, for electric vehicles, battery materials, etc.
- The impacts of driverless cars on towns and cities and liveability, health & wellbeing in cities
- Understanding the efficacy of the Welsh Government’s programme to promote Modern Methods of Construction and other innovative approaches in house building.
- Understanding how people adapt to life in a low energy home and the technical and practical challenges they face.
- Characterising the hardest to reach energy users across the world and developing and piloting engagement strategies that work
- Cross sector review of affordability support for vulnerable customers. Recommendations to the water sector drawn from the energy and other sectors
- The impacts of steel decarbonisation on work and communities.
- Regional hydrogen economies in Northern Europe: prospects and challenges for a just transition.
- Understanding supply chain, employment and skills implications of low carbon energy investments.
- Walking with Energy: overcoming energy invisibility through research participation
- Understanding and engaging with high consuming households: energy, transport, food