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
Dr Tom Payne, senior lecturer in performance studies, has launched a new programme of climate-focused research, performance and exhibition this month at the Crucible Theatre. Storm-Cloud will be a series of performances, creative works, and dialogue events combining climate research with art, inspired by John Ruskin. Tom was featured in BBC Online, the Yorkshire Post and BBC Radio Sheffield (listen back from […]
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Since broadcast television first emerged to challenge the cinema as a form of public entertainment, more people have seen films on TV than by any other means, including the cinema itself. Feature films created to be viewed on the big screen were initially withheld from TV by the film industry. But from the mid-1960s, thousands of films have been shown […]
Read moreResearch from Dr Bob Jeffery, which found that hospitality workers on zero-hours contracts were most likely to experience sexual harassment at work, was covered in Business Link.
Read moreHISTORY: Hallam academic featured on D-Day Countryfile special Nicola Verdon, professor of modern British history, was featured on BBC Countryfile’s D-Day 80th Anniversary special discussing agriculture during the Second World War. Watch back from 30:37.
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On Saturday 11th May 2024 SHU researchers Dr David Clarke (CMS) and Andrew Robinson (A&D) hosted an event at the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden to a sold-out audience of over 50 people where they introduced who their research into visual representations and public perceptions of UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). The research, titled ‘In The […]
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On behalf of the Dracula Returns to Derby (AHRC funded project) team, in advance of World Dracula Day (this Sunday 26 May), we are delighted to share with you the following call for papers. Dracula Returns: a conference and celebration Derby Museums 15–18 May 2025 In 1924, at the world premiere in Derby, Dracula stepped onto the stage. He […]
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On Friday 17 May, John Goodby spoke at Worcester College Oxford on Dylan Thomas. This was a joint academic and cultural event, with a lecture and a song-setting recital. More information can be found here. He also delivered a talk on Saturday 18 May on Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran. More information on […]
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Molly Aitken, English PhD student at SHU, would like to invite you to the launch of her novel, Bright I Burn on Wednesday 5th June 6.30 pm at Sheffield Central Library. Get free tickets here. About In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. When a young Alice Kyteler sees her mother wither under the constraints of family […]
Read moreProfessor Lise Autogena has been awarded a national Lifelong Honorary Award by the Statens Kunstfond, the Danish Art Foundation The Danish Art Foundation has a long tradition of giving national lifetime honour awards to artists who have made a unique contribution to art and culture in Denmark. Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at Hallam, was awarded the Lifelong Award for Visual Arts, in recognition […]
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Paul Whitfield (Creative Writing PhD student) has recently been working on a creative project (Tales from the Rails) with students from Newfield School. The results have inspired artistic responses from Artworks and an exhibition is about to take place at Sheffield Railway Station from the 28th May, running through June and July. Tales from the Rails celebrates stories from early rail history in […]
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