Latest Campaigns
Social housing:
The mental and physical toll
Social housing can impact residents’ health. Damp, overcrowded and poorly insulated homes contribute to respiratory issues and stress. The lack of stability and safety increases anxiety and depression, especially among vulnerable groups. Urgent improvements are needed to protect community wellbeing.
Maternal health: Unseen threat, unequal care
Despite maternity care being in crisis, the Department of Health has announced £93m in cuts to service development funding. We explore the real life consequences poor maternity care is having on women’s wellbeing, looking at factors from preeclampsia awareness to ethnic and socioeconomic disparities.
Cardiac crisis: The hidden threat to young people
As thefts of life-saving defibrillators are on the increase and heart screenings are difficult to access, UK charities are fighting to protect communities from cardiac deaths. But, as experts and health campaigners tell us, real change won’t come without national attention and vital support.
The spectrum of sex work: from stigma to glamour
As conversations shift from criminalisation to reform of the sex work industry, we explore the line between destigmatising sex work and glamorising the profession.
We examine the complex legal and financial issues faced by sex workers, alongside the problems they encounter accessing essential health care.
Under the influence: The grip of alcohol on Queer lives
‘Shame and stigma’ leads some people in the LGBTQ+ community to use alcohol as a coping mechanism, says researcher Elena Dimova. Through this campaign we aim to understand the social, historical, and psychological factors which lead to risks of alcoholism within the community through experts’ lens and lived experiences.
Previous Campaigns
Drink Spiking: A Normalised Crime?
The overwhelming majority of spiking incidents in the UK remain unreported, and the ones that do rarely lead to a charge or conviction for the perpetrator. Should police, hospitals, and venues be doing more to combat these crimes and give victims the confidence to speak out?
Sidelined by
Sexism
Autism Diagnosis: An Uneven Playing Field?
With waiting times for autism at an all time high, we investigate how autism diagnosis is affected by inequality, including regional, socioeconomic, and gender differences, as well as how social attitudes either encourage or discourage people to get a diagnosis.
The International Student Crisis
As the Home Office ramps up restrictions on student and graduate visas, international student applications have nosedived, and universities are on the brink of financial collapse. We take you inside a crisis that threatens to ruin lives, destroy national reputations, and bankrupt cities.
Breaking the Sound Barrier
As part of National Deaf Awareness Week, Sheffield Wire has spoken to young people with hearing impairments and to professionals about the support and accessibility they have experienced as well as the changes that need to be made to improve services.
A Duty of Care
With an estimated 100 students dying by suicide each year, Parliament will soon debate a proposed statutory ‘duty of care’ for those struggling with mental health issues at UK universities. What could it look like, who could it help, and why is it urgently needed?
Disability versus Accessibility
Disabled people in Sheffield claim the city acts as a barrier for them to safely get around. We investigate the problems that they face across the city.
A Game of Two Halves
While investment and coverage of the WSL is growing, young aspiring female footballers are being left behind. We look at the troublesome situation the women’s game faces outside the sheen of its top layer.
Strokes in Young People
Young stroke survivors from across the UK have been speaking out about misdiagnosis with migraines, uncommon symptoms and delayed treatment. Now they are calling for a change in the way strokes are diagnosed and for greater awareness of symptoms in young people.