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Welcome to the web site of the Department of Chemistry. We are one of the largest departments in the University of Sheffield, with an outstanding record in both teaching and research.
We take around 150 students per year into our wide portfolio of B.Sc. and M. Chem. degree programmes. In addition to our popular pure Chemistry degree programmes, we also offer courses that allow students to spend a year in industry, or at a partner university overseas, or combining chemistry with other subjects such as Maths, Physics or Chemical Engineering. The very positive feedback provided by the 2007 National Student Survey attests to the high quality of the teaching and learning experience in the department.
Facilities are excellent: the Richard Roberts building (named after a Nobel-prize winning alumnus) was recently refurbished at a cost of £11M to provide state of the art new research laboratories for synthetic chemistry and lecture rooms for teaching. The undergraduate teaching laboratories have also been refurbished at a cost of £2.3M to provide an ideal environment for students to learn practical skills.
Find out more about our undergraduate degree programmes
The research interests of the academic staff span a wide range of subjects from biological chemistry to materials science. The staff members include numerous research leaders who have won learned society prizes and international recognition for their research. The department has a thriving research school of about 120 Ph.D. students and 50 post-doctoral visitors from all over the world, with a wide portfolio of funding from industry, charities and research councils.
In the recent (2008) research assessment exercise, the department was assessed as having 100% of its research output being internationally recognised, and 70% being internationally excellent or world-leading: an excellent result which puts the department 11th in both the Guardian and Times rankings of UK chemistry departments.
Find out more about our research activities
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