Our research impact

Our researchers are making life-changing discoveries, developing new innovations and technologies and solving the world’s complex challenges. Working collaboratively with partners locally and globally, we are working at the frontiers of knowledge on research with real impact.

Making saving eyesight simple

Sheffield’s innovative research, integrating tissue culture techniques with ocular surgery, has led to a new treatment for blindness, caused by ocular burns, called Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplant (SLET).

Creating accessible treatments

Innovative technology for safe and cost-efficient radioactive waste management

Groundbreaking research from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has brought about significant changes in how the UK's radioactive waste materials are stored safely and extensively influenced national policy decisions around radioactive waste treatment and disposal.

Changing radioactive waste policy