Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Events and seminars run by CCRI
Speaker: Dr Claire Craig (Lab4Living, Design, SHU) Title: Further than the eye can see? What insights can film and photography offer of the lived experience of dementia? John Berger (1992) said that the ‘thrill found in a photograph comes from the onrush of memory’. This can be very true and for this reason photographs have been used extensively with people […]
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Andrew Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Film & Photography, introduces an afternoon of talks by both SHU staff and visiting speakers focusing on the book and self publishing as a vehicle for creative production along with its role within education and the potential it offers for marketing and career development. Title: The Photobook as a teaching tool – concept, design, making […]
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Speaker: Dr Fran Slack (Computing, SHU) Title: Women in rural Bangladesh: empowered by access to mobile phones. A senior lecturer in Information Systems at Sheffield Hall University in the north of England since 2000, Dr Slack has been involved in human-centred, public access based research in information and communications technologies for some 25 years. Her focus is on the HCI […]
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Speaker: Dr Alaster Yoxall (Principle Research Fellow in Human Centred Engineering, Design Futures) Title: “The Good The Bad and the Ugly”: Understanding the role of single portion packaging and nutrition in a hospital environment Alaster has been involved in the ‘Inclusive Design’ of packaging for a little over 10 years and has presented work in Australia, Thailand, Germany, The Netherlands […]
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Speaker: Dr Kalpana Wilson (Birkbeck, University of London) Title: Mediating ‘Diaspora Girls’ in Development: Race/Gender and ‘the Core of Smart Power’ Dr Kalpana Wilson teaches in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores questions of race/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and movements for social justice and transformation, particularly in the context of South Asia. She is the author […]
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Speaker: Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) Title: Governance of heritage and heritage practices in governance: Co-production and futures Helen Graham is Associate Professor in In/tangible Heritage and Director for the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at the University of Leeds. Helen’s research and teaching interests directly flow from working in learning and access teams in […]
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Speaker: Professor Paul Atkinson (Professor of Design and Design History) Title: The Electric Guitar: A Design History Pauls’ academic research covers a wide variety of subjects, all concerned in one way or another with the relationship between society and technology. The relationship between people and technological artefacts is explored through his writings on the design history of computers. The impact […]
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Reader in Fashion, Dr Alison Gwilt, invites SHU staff and students to a free one-day fashion workshop on 19 January 2017 that aims to inspire through the positive power of fashion. The event is organised by Redress, a Hong Kong based environment NGO working in the fashion industry, in collaboration with hosts, ADRC and Sheffield Institute of Arts. As the only […]
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Speaker: Professor Antonella De Angeli (University of Lincoln, School of Computer Science & University of Trento (Italy), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science) Title: Public Design in interAction Spaces – A Case Study on Dyslexia Awareness Antonella De Angeli is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Lincoln and Associate Professor at the University of Trento (Italy). Antonella […]
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This seminar will explore how computational intelligence can be applied to address challenges faced by developing nations. Computational intelligence (CI) can be viewed as an inter-disciplinary or across platform field of study for developing and applying computer systems that can exhibit human-like intelligence in solving varieties of problems. This seminar will assemble technologists, social scientists, engineers, policymakers, industrialists and other […]
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