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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

‘She Sings Of Murder and Love’: Professor Virginia Heath’s new documentary feature research project selected for International DOK.fest Munich Masters Pitch

Professor Virginia Heath has been selected for the prestigious International DOK.fest Munich Masters Pitch on 6th May with her new documentary feature research project, ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. She is also presenting the project with Composer David McAulay in the competitive Composer’s Pitch on 7th May. The research project has been developed with funding from Screen Scotland; the […]

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Dr Diane Rodgers (Senior Lecturer) interviewed by ‘Digital Folklore’ podcast

Dr Diane Rodgers was recently interviewed for an episode of the popular US podcast ‘Digital Folklore’. The episode is called ‘Why is Old Tech Creepy? (Analog Horror, The Gothic & Hauntology)’, and the hosts interviewed Diane about her research relating to the communication of folklore and contemporary legend in the media, and the nostalgia and hauntological nature of physical media. […]

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Ecstatic Rot: Michelle Atherton begins residency at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Image: Ecstatic Rot: Probes with Soils Michelle Atherton 2022

Michelle Atherton has begun her new practice-based research residency Ecstatic Rot at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, East London, investigating our relationships with transience, decomposition and recomposition as more-than-human activities. She is interested in finding experimental ways to explore ephemera: the loss and flows of materialities, including cycles of transformation across species and substances at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. As part […]

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Fear 2000: Horror Uncaged – July 2023

Fear 2000

Fear 2000 is a conference series dedicated to twenty-first century horror media convened by Craig Ian Mann, Oli Hicks, Mars Nicoli and Kirstie Rutter at Sheffield Hallam University, hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Society and the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. The 2023 edition of Fear 2000, Horror Uncaged will be hosted both online […]

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Professor Harriet Tarlo Inaugural Lecture – Ecopoetic experiments with place, people and form: Can poetry help us engage with our changing world?

Wednesday 19th April 2023, 18:00-20:00 In this interactive lecture, Professor Harriet Tarlo will explore the ways in which it is possible to engage creatively with landscape, environment and the more‐than‐human world. In essence, the theme is collaboration with people and place. Working with people such as other artists, environmental groups, students, and the wider public is an important part of […]

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JUSTHEAT Summer Research Internship

JUSTHEAT’s UK team are recruiting for a paid internship at Sheffield Hallam University to support JUSTHEAT. The project (6 week full-time or 12 week part-time) will deliver a visual analysis of post-war media campaigns that promoted heating systems / transition. Justheat: Looking backwards to move forwards is a three-year interdisciplinary, pan-European project to explore how major changes to home heating […]

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Evening Talk: Heavy Water Collective in Conversation

A screenshot of HWC website feating an image, 'In Paradise' by Maud Haya-Baviera

The Heavy Water Collective is to launch its website and a printed publication at an event at Graves Gallery next week. Researcher and photography lecturer Maud Haya-Baviera is one of the three artists who form the collective, and has contributed to the publication. At the event, Maud will be in-conversation with the other collective members, Joanna Whittle and Victoria Lucas, […]

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‘Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business’ – Professor Daniela Petrelli talks at conference at Università Iuav di Venezia

Università Iuav di Venezia – Dipartimento di Culture del progetto Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business Conference, taking place 18 April 2023, Cotonificio aula Gradoni, 1430. Marco Zamarato, Google Research Center Hugo Gamboa, NOVA University of Lisbon Benjamin van Buren, The New School University of New York Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University Oliver Siy, Google Research […]

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Cathy Soreny blog post: The Stories Beyond Words project

Redefining Stammering website banner

PhD student Cathy Soreny was recently invited to write a blog post ‘The Stories Beyond Words project: creatively reworking and reclaiming time’ for Redefining Stammering (a website run by activist and clinicians in the field of stammering and dysfluency pride). Cathy’s doctoral research project ‘Stories Beyond Words’ brings together people with communication impairments to explore voice and radical self-representation, co-creating […]

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