谢菲尔德考古学所进行的研究的特点和力量来自广泛的主题，这些主题反映了我们的研究范围及其跨学科的，嵌入的性质。我们通过资源集群来管理研究，以确保研究支持的适当分配，并能够监控研究收益和培训方面的回报。此外，我们认识到通过许多响应迅速的研究中心，在特定领域的研究计划可以长期融合。我们还提供研究硕士（MPhil）。这也包括一项独立的研究。MPhil可以兼职学习四年（每周15-20小时），也可以全职学习两年（每周35-40小时）。最后的工作通常在40,000个字左右。
Sheffield's interdisciplinary approach to landscape archaeology combines perspectives and methods from biological and environmental sciences, ethnography, geography, geomatics, heritage studies and history. The department conducts research in many parts of the world and with a large number of collaborators, including in the UK, Greece, Italy, France, Russia, Spain, South Africa and Turkey. The department's projects reflect the long timescales that landscape affords, ranging from early hominin caves in South Africa through to studies of contemporary environmental protest camps in the UK. Our research places an especially strong emphasis on the ways the past actively shapes contemporary communities and their landscapes. We offer world-leading masters courses in landscape, environmental archaeology and cultural heritage, and we have a vibrant doctoral research community.