Robert Harry Harpham is a British Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough since the May 2015 general election.Harpham was a coal miner at Clipstone Colliery and took part in the miners' strike of 1984–85 as a NUM member. He moved to Sheffield in 1985 and studied at the University of Sheffield as a mature student.