Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
Revenant Website Header Image © Revenant Journal This week sees the release of a special edition of the peer reviewed online journal REVENANT, edited and curated by members of SHU’s Centre for Contemporary Legend Research Group, Dr. David Clarke, Dr Sophie Parkes-Nield, Andrew Robinson and Dr Diane Rodgers. REVENANT is a highly regarded peer reviewed, online journal committed to […]
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Professor Lise Autogena’s talk has been posted on The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow website: Greenland – What next? Reflections from a research station in South Greenland, February 11, 2026. The talk positions the small town of Narsaq in South Greenland as a global epicentre, a frontline where the world’s most urgent challenges (climate collapse, geopolitical power struggles, […]
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Waterlands which combines archive footage with contemporary interviews to consider the lived experience of climate change in fenland East Anglia has been invited to show at the Tyndall Centre Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, University of East Anglia in September. The UEA is world leading in climate change research and the conference marks the 25th anniversary of the […]
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The UK Global Screen Fund announced awards on 26th June for 11 international Co-productions which include ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. A minority UK co-production with Ireland. The UK producer is Scotland-based Faction North (Grant Keir) who will co-produce with Irish EZ Films (David Clarke and David Power). The character-led documentary feature film will be directed by Virginia Heath, telling the story of a unique Irish […]
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Professor Virginia Heath has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’. Rendered purely through image and music (by Afterlands), the film is a cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance. Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture […]
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‘You sold it – now recycle it’: the protesters mailing worn-out clothes to the shops they bought them from Wendy Ward, PhD student in Art & Design, has featured in an article in The Guardian. The article discusses Wendy’s #TakeItBack campaign and includes photos taken at the St Luke’s donation centre. You can read the article here. Read […]
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‘The river is always communicating’ Amy Carter Gordon in collaboration with Alban Krashi & Jonny Douglas: The River Dôn Project I live and work in close proximity to the River Sheaf, a tributary of the Dôn. Within this biotic community, I hear the 5am calls of a Tawny Owl and witness the underside of a heron’s wingspan as it […]
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“Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling” Dr Harriet Earle, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, has written a piece for The Conversation’s Reimagining Classics series. Harriet’s piece suggests reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling.
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fæthm: explorations in co-curation with the River Dôn Upper Gallery at Kelham Island Museum and The River Dôn Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th March 2025 Free entry Opening times Thurs: 10-4 Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-4 Sun: 11-4 Our entanglement with the more-than-human deepens as we iteratively explore co-curation with the River Dôn. In a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and […]
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Ana María Sánchez-Arce, reader in English, has been featured in a New York Times piece discussing the history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking.
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