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
Virginia Heath’s ‘From Scotland With Love’ had a special online screening at the OnFife Spring Festival on Sunday 21st March. Heath’s ‘From Scotland With Love’, made entirely from Scottish archive footage, also fittingly features the Fife-based musician, King Creoscote. A short introduction to the screening about the film and filmmaking in Fife was later followed by an exclusive Q&A with […]
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Dr David Clarke, who teaches media law, regulation and ethics at the University and who has been a consultant for the National Archives UFO project, has had his comments featured on Talk Radio. These comments were used in a discussion about school children in 1977 who drew images of UFO’s they thought they saw. These images would then go on to […]
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Professor Laura Murphy, an expert in human rights and contemporary slavery, who has lived in Xinjiang, spoke to the BBC about how forced labour in the region is a deliberate attempt to undo Uighur culture and diminish its population. Her interview was used by BBC 5 Live, on Radio New Zealand and BBC World Service.
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Carmel O’Toole, senior lecturer in media and public relations, has appeared on The Elephant In The Room podcast. In the episode she talks to host Sudha Singh about diversity in higher education; social mobility; skills for the future; the impact of austerity on public sector communications and local communities and inclusive communications. Access the podcast here.
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After the 2020 plans for a national tour of Professor Esther Johnson’s feature film Asunder were put on hold due to the pandemic, the film team turned their attention to supporting online screenings of this award-winning archive documentary. Now, thanks to a new collaboration with YourScreen, the film is now set to reach a much wider audience throughout March and April 2021. Developed in response […]
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Senior Lecturer in Communication and Public Relations, Dr. Russell Jackson, has written an article for The Byline Times about the surprisingly radical traditions of the British press and the 200 hundred-year-old battle cry ‘information is power’. The article opens with, With the rise of online and print publications, I believe we are experiencing something of a renaissance akin to the radical […]
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Working with local project partners, researchers from Sheffield Hallam University have designed and installed the first of its kind energy harnessing playground that stimulates crop growth as children play and learn. Press release: 4 March 2021 Sheffield Hallam University News Website: Playponics.in
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Reader in Fine Art, Hester Reeve will be presenting her work on Bohm Dialogue as a Research Methodology – Failure & Wonky Wonder at the Spring meeting of the SIoE Creative and innovative research methods group which will be taking place online on Thursday 4 March, 3 – 5pm. You can register for a place on today’s (04/03/2021) free event […]
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This week, researchers from Lab4Living and the Culture & Creativity Research Institute are sharing their innovative children and young people’s health related research at Child Health Technology 2021 (CHT2021). The conference is organised by CYP MedTech, a co-operative set up by the National Institute for Health Research to which focuses on the development and adoption of technology for child health […]
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Paul Chamberlain will be presenting the work of the Lab4Living team on the NESTORE project alongside the 16 European project partners at an online event on the 27th February to mark the end of the project. Designers, developers, users, public authorities and businesses will come together at the final event to explore the lessons learnt in more than three years of […]
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