The CCRI Impact Blog

Dear Aliens, We Are Ready – 09 April 2021 – 20 June 2021 Professor David Cotterrell‘s work, Mazar, Texas will be shown at the Galeria de la Ciudad, Tecate, Mexico. […]

This April we are pleased to host Dr Hanja Dämon (King’s College London) in a talk as part of the BAFTSS New Connections 2021 Programme: A Failed Film Project in […]

Professor Esther Johnson‘s feature film ASUNDER has screenings this weekend along with an upcoming workshop. Screenings of ASUNDER On Sunday 28 March ASUNDER will screen in Hanoi, Vietnam, followed by a […]

Working with local project partners, researchers from Sheffield Hallam University have designed and installed the first of its kind energy harnessing playground that stimulates crop growth as children play and […]

This week, researchers from Lab4Living and the Culture & Creativity Research Institute are sharing their innovative children and young people’s health related research at Child Health Technology 2021 (CHT2021). The […]

Today Lab4Living launches a new book, aimed at people recently diagnosed with dementia, which is more akin to visual poetry than the usual way that information about the condition is […]

Towards Memorial – Artist talk and Q&A Thursday 18 February 2021, 5PM – 6.30PM Hosted online by the Department of Art & Design at Sheffield Hallam University Free to all […]

Professor Paul Atkinson‘s new book Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar traces the history of the design and development of the electric guitar as it became a mass-produced […]

Update The great news that Dust & Metal has been awarded the Digital Collaboration Fund has been covered by international film industry news resource Screen Daily. Click here to find out […]

Lab4Living Associate Professor Kaisu Koski has received two awards for her documentary film Rehearsals for Empathy. She was announced as winner of the Best Short Documentary at the Luleå International Film Festival, Sweden and received […]

Smizz will give a talk this afternoon as part of the Transmission Fine Art Lecture series. Lab4Living researcher and PhD student Smizz, a graduate of both Fine Art and Radiotherapy […]

The Lab4Living team was sad to learn of the passing of Dilys Price OBE, dancer, educator and the world’s oldest female parachute jumper. A much loved speaker and frequent participant […]

The UK Packaging Awards 15th edition has been announced and we are pleased to share the exciting news that our very own Design Futures Packaging have been nominated in three […]

The events of 2020 have irrevocably changed our perception of life at home, work, and in recreation. Despite the current restrictions on how we now live, Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam […]

Lab4Living is now advertising for three new PhD Studentships, to join its existing cohort of eight students. The studentships will support art and design led research projects that explore a […]

We are pleased to report that the Life-Saving Lullabies project has been announced as the Best in Class for Social Impact as part of the Good Design Awards 2020! The […]

In a special online event this Saturday hosted by the Macrobert Arts Centre at the University of Stirling, BAFTA-nominated film From Scotland With Love will screen with a live Zoom Q&A […]

Ubumuntu 2020 Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020 Free registration online here. Empathy & Risk will be contributing to the 6th Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity through the creation of […]

In this Researcher Blog, Professor of Film and Media Arts Esther Johnson discusses SHIPS in the SKY, and the charity initiative and film she has made during lockdown, featuring Reece […]

In the Shadow of the Beast by Esther Johnson “1970. I got elected, and six o’clock the day after I went [back] to work down the pit. I didn’t have […]