Category: Events

Events and seminars run by CCRI

Tuesday 01 March 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU)

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Title: Alone Together – The Social Life of Benches Speakers: Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU) Esther Johnson will present work created as Co-Investigator of an AHRC Connected Communities innovation project, The Un-Sociable Bench, and other urban micro-territories of encounter and intimidation. This research project aimed to look at the in/exclusiveness of everyday urban realm design with a focus on benches […]

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Tuesday 23 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Chris Roast (Computing, SHU)

A diagram of visualising mathematical functions with hexagons as integers, circles as functions and rectangles as outputs

Title: Visualising maths…Getting stuck with spreadsheets Speaker: Dr Chris Roast (Computing, SHU) This talk will cover various aspects of the EQUS project – which looks at enhancing the quality and usability of spreadsheet. The EQUS innovation aims to make the relationship between spreadsheet functionality and its visual representation easier to understand, addressing the difficulties of comprehending the textual form. The […]

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Wednesday 17 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU) and Debbie Ballin (Film & Media, SHU)

An image of a pair of hands holding a badge that reads: It's our future - kids against pit closures

Title: Echoes of Protest Speakers: Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU) and Debbie Ballin (Film & Media, SHU) Esther Johnson (Reader Media Arts) and Debbie Ballin (Senior Lecturer Film and Media) will present work from their on-going collaborative research project Echoes of Protest. This project aims to understand the role protest can play in the politicisation of children and the long-term […]

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Wednesday 10 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Keith Cheverst (Computing & Communications, Lancaster University)

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Title: Exploring the role of Locative Media relating to local history in a rural village community Speaker: Dr Keith Cheverst (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University) Hosted by: Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Communication, SHU) Dr Keith Cheverst is a Reader in Human-Computer Interactions at Lancaster University where he obtained his PhD in 1999. Keith has also held the position of […]

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Wednesday 03 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Chloë Brown (Fine Art, SHU) and Joanne Lee (Visual Communication, SHU)

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Title: Returns Speakers: Chloë Brown (Fine Art, SHU) and Joanne Lee (Visual Communication, SHU) Chloë Brown and Joanne Lee will talk about the Returns project, whose current work forms In Return, an exhibition in SIA Gallery from 02-21 February. In Return presents the latest work of Returns, a group of artist researchers from Sheffield Hallam University and Nottingham Trent University […]

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Tuesday 26 January 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Fatima Isiaka (PhD Computer Science, SHU)

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Title: Physiological correlates to online behaviour Speaker: Fatima Isiaka (C3RI PhD Student, Computer Science) Hosted by: Dr Kassim Mwitondi The user experience of web application and browsing is mostly studied via tangible measures such as task completion time, surveys and comprehensive test, which are based on subjective approach. The main purpose of Fatima’s study is to use physiological measures such […]

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Wednesday 20 January 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU)

An image of a taxidermied fox on a plinth at an exhibition

Title: The Natural Forms Part II: The Readers, The Foxes, The Tracts, Some Coquetteries. Speaker: Dr Sharon Kivland (Reader in Fine Art SHU) Dr Sharon Kivland will talk about The Natural Forms Part II: The Readers, The Foxes, The Tracts, Some Coquetteries, her current exhibition at the Kunstverein Tiergarten. Berlin. There are women in négligées and in bed-jackets (liseuses), copied […]

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Wednesday 16 December 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Paul Atkinson (Design & Design History, SHU)

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Title: The Electric Guitar – A Design History Speaker: Professor Paul Atkinson (Design & Design History, SHU) The electric guitar is a unique thing: at once ubiquitous and quotidian, and yet extraordinary and distinctive. Its sound is heard every day by millions of people in many different forms of music, consumed unconsciously by many, very consciously by some. Electric guitars […]

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Tuesday 08 December 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Jacob Habgood (Software & Games Development, SHU)

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Title: Blending chocolate, broccoli and skeletons: Harnessing intrinsic motivation in game-based learning Speaker: Dr Jacob Habgood (Software & Games Development, SHU) Despite decades of research in the field of game-based learning, commercial approaches to educational game design in 2015 are often no more progressive than those used on consumer audiences in the 1980s. This is characterised by a superficial, “chocolate-covered […]

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Wednesday 25 November 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Ruth Deller (Communication, SHU)

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Title: Soap opera anniversaries as media events Speaker: Dr Ruth Deller 2015 has seen three soap operas celebrate major anniversaries: EastEnders’ 30th, Neighbours’ 30th and Hollyoaks’ 20th. Recent years have also seen milestone anniversaries for Coronation Street and Emmerdale, whilst soap-like drama Casualty is currently gearing up for its 30th anniversary in 2016. In this presentation, I analyse the way […]

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