Breaking down barriers: how Sheffield Hallam empowers students to challenge stereotypes

From mature students to women on tech courses, an inclusive culture at the university is helping everyone achieve their potentialShahina Hanif always wanted to be a physiotherapist, but for a long time it seemed her ambition would remain unfulfilled. Brought up in a conservative Muslim community in Sheffield, she wasn’t encouraged to go on to higher education.Instead, Hanif married young, started a family and became a fitness instructor. Even that involved overcoming barriers. “Musli