Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
The debut novel by Media and Communications PhD student, Sophie Parkes-Nield, was published on 26 January. Out of Human Sight is set in Saddleworth in 1832 and follows Millie Barkwell in the aftermath of the notorious murders of her grandfather and uncle, inspired by the real-life Bills o’Jack’s murders. You can order the novel from wherever you buy your books, and […]
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Please join us for the private view of From Valley to Fishtail on Tuesday 24 January 1800-2000, at Soft Ground, Sheffield City Centre. This exhibition responds to a SHU Go Global trip to Nepal which took place in September 2022. Students and staff from a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses worked individually and in small teams to gather and create […]
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Chloe Brown’s 2019 film ‘A Soft Rebellion in Paradise’ is now being exhibited at Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries. This is the first showing in an exhibition of the film, which was made with an all-female production team, cast and crew and had its world premiere at DocFest in 2019. The exhibition is open until 12th March 2023. In 1851, the Sheffield […]
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Professor Esther Johnson has been invited to be a panel member for the ‘Incoporating Archive Film‘ session at the London Short Film Festival on 23rd January 2023 at Richmix, London, where she will discuss her film research and use of archive material especially in her feature films ‘Dust & Metal‘ and ‘Asunder‘. Esther has also been invited to discuss […]
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SHU researcher Ivan Phelan whose pioneering virtual reality technology in healthcare has helped amputees, burns victims and children with limb injuries to rehabilitate has been recognised internationally. Ivan Phelan, principal research fellow and director of Impact VR, has been named by The Games Awards in its Future Class 2022 list of 50 inspiring individuals who represent the ‘bright, bold and […]
Read moreDr Ana María Sánchez-Arce’s monograph, The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, has just come out on paperback. As Professor Dolores Tierney says, “The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar successfully manages the difficult task of finding new things to say about an auteur who has been widely written about and studied. For more information please click here. If you want to hear a […]
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image by art.earth A new piece of writing by Michelle Atherton has been published in Matt Osmond & Richard (Eds.) Borrowed Time: Death, Dying and Change art.earth, Kingsbridge, Devon, England 2022. The book’s overall premise is that: ‘we’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its […]
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Professor Esther Johnson‘s film Alone Together: the Social Life of Benches submitted to REF2021 will be screening within the ANDAR BAAHAR programme at Serendipity Arts Festival that takes place in Panjim, Goa, India from the 15-20 December 2022. Further information on the film can be found here. And a shorter version of the film can be viewed here. Through a series […]
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Research Lead for the Department of Art & Design Dr David Swann has been invited to attend the first in a series of ‘Plans for Growth: Industry and Skills’ Roundtable discussions hosted by Policy Connect. The first event scheduled for 22 November at the House of Lords, will be a larger roundtable meeting with Labour’s Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Business […]
Read moreOn 2 February the Government published its levelling up policy paper Levelling Up the United Kingdom which sets out how the Government are proposing to spread opportunity more equally across the UK. In response to the Levelling Up paper, SHU launched an internal competition for teams of researchers to submit their proposals for innovative, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral projects that address at least one of the 12 Levelling […]
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