Thursday 23 March 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Lily Canter (Journalism, SHU)

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Speaker: Dr Lily Canter (Journalism, SHU) Title:  Understanding “what is news?” on digital born platforms Dr Lily Canter is a hybrid academic-practitioner who teaches on the BA and MA Journalism courses at SHU. Her research interests include digital journalism, social media, journalism education and local media. Lily is also Subject Group Leader for Journalism and a freelance family and consumer […]

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Wednesday 8 March 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat (Media & Communications, SHU)

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Speaker: Dr Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat (Media & Communications, SHU) Title: Tramlines and the governance of communicative spaces Dr Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat researches on Governance of communicative times and spaces and teaches History of the Media and Media Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University. The relational space of interaction composed by the communication flows during urban cultural events is unevenly established. The […]

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Monday 6 March 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Lucy Melville-Richards (Bangor University)

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Speaker: Dr Lucy Melville-Richards (Bangor University) Title: Exploring the Science & Craft of Co-production: People, Objects & Implementation Dr Lucy Melville-Richards splits her time between practising as a mental health nurse and working as a practice educator. She recently completed her PhD, a case study exploring ‘boundary objects’, shared things and ideas around which stakeholders collaborate to translate evidence into practice through […]

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Tuesday 21 February 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Frances Slack (Computing, SHU)

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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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Wednesday 15 February 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Alaster Yoxall (Design Futures, SHU)

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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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Wednesday 08 February 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Kalpana Wilson (Birkbeck, University of London)

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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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Wednesday 25 January 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds)

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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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Wednesday 18 January 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Prof Paul Atkinson (Design, SHU)

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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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