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: Chloë Brown (Fine Art) Title: The Soft Rebellion Since August 2015 researcher and senior lecturer Chloë Brown has been visiting and working in the US city of Detroit to conduct her on-going practice-based research into what she terms ‘soft rebellions’. Detroit is renowned for being in many ways the epitome of a city in post-industrial crisis. It is also […]
Read moreSpeaker: Liz Bridgen (Public Relations, SHU) Title: PR as dirty work My research explores the lived experience of people working in public relations and the impact that technology has on their lives, with a particular focus on gender and diversity. My work has been published in Journal of Media Practice and PRism and I have delivered refereed papers at conferences […]
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Speaker: Jeremy Davenport PhD, The Creative Exchange (Lancaster University) Title: Exploring how to improve the presentation of blood test results for renal patients (patients as partners in the design of health care) Jeremy Davenports’s research interests are focused upon inter disciplinary and cross sector collaboration across professional cultures and boundaries. Specifically, exploring the impact of emergent digital technologies on the […]
Read moreSpeaker: Professor Yvonne Dittrich (IT University Copenhagen) Title: Software Product Eco-Systems – what it is and how it effects Use-Centered Design. Software is increasingly developed, adopted and deployed in the form of customizable and configurable products. This has repercussions for the design, development and implementation of a configured or customized piece of software in the end-user organization. The design decisions […]
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Title: Absence-Presence: Kos Speaker: Dr David Swann, Subject Group Leader Product & Furniture Design, SHU The Summer of 2015 witnessed the mass migration of people seeking refuge, safety and security in Europe. Over 1 million people made the perilous sea crossing to the Greek islands of Lesvos, Chios, Leros, Samos and Kos. At its peak, the small island of Kos […]
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Title: From ‘Grooming Gangs’ to Racist Murder: Racialisation and Criminalisation of Muslims in Neoliberal Britain Speaker: Dr Waqas Tufail (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University) Dr Tufail’s research covers the areas of Policing, racism, Islamaphobia and criminalisation. His recent publications include ‘Rotherham, Rochdale and the racialized threat of the ‘Muslim grooming gang’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social […]
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Title: Secure Cloud Access and Storage by Design Speaker: Marcos Rodrigues (Professor of Computer Science, SHU) Edward Snowden’s revelations were a political fiasco and an economic threat to US based tech companies. The extent of NSA’s data collection drove away overseas customers in large numbers over security and privacy concerns creating, at the same time, an opportunity for non-US tech […]
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Testing, Testing SIA Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University Emma Bolland, Rose Butler, Michael Day, Susannah Gent, Debbie Michaels, Emma O’Connor, Bernadette O’Toole, Jo Ray, Rachel Smith, Rachel Emily Taylor Artists speak about ‘making’ all the time, but what making looks like, feels like, where it takes place and how it occurs can differ greatly from one artist to the next. Whether […]
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Title: Co-creation and curators – developing 3D printed museum objects with museum professionals at Museums Sheffield Speaker: Amelia Knowlson (C3RI PhD student) Amelia Knowlson is a PhD researcher and Sheffield Hallam and freelance curator, specialising in 3D print and capture technology. Using user centred methods she works with museums across the UK to examine how and why 3D printing effects […]
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Speaker: Dr Alexander Kalashnikov (Engineering & Mathematics, SHU) Title: Internet-of-Things (IoT) – how to get involved? Alexander N. Kalashnikov graduated from Odessa State Polytechnic University (OSPU, Odessa, USSR). He received his PhD degree from the Odessa State Telecommunications Academy, and DSc degree from the OSPU. He is a senior member of IEEE since 2008. Alexander worked at OSPU as engineer, […]
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