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
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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On 29th January, Claire Craig and Helen Fisher presented ‘The Life Café: Thinking Through Things’ at Dying.Dialogues conference. Dying.2021 ‘offers an opportunity to creatively engage in conversation about fragility, death, dying, loss, grief through the lens of art and design.’ Hosted by Design TO, OCAD University and Taboo Health, it was the perfect forum to share this research and open a dialogue about […]
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Carmel O’Toole, senior lecturer in Media and Public Relations has been discussing the misinformation surrounding the Covid vaccine programme and the vast amount of complex detail the public has needed to assimilate since the pandemic began. The stories have been published in the Yorkshire Post and The Sheffield Star. “We’ve all become amateur scientists as Covid has gone on,” says […]
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Today Lab4Living launches a new book, aimed at people recently diagnosed with dementia, which is more akin to visual poetry than the usual way that information about the condition is provided. Discovering Dementia is the result of a collaboration between design researcher, Claire Craig, poet John Killick and artist Sophie Standing. Claire and John had for some time recognised that […]
Read moreConor O’Callaghan, Senior Lecturer and MA Writing / MA Creative Writing Course Leader was interviewed this week by The Irish Times about his new novel We Are Not in the World. In We Are Not in the World, O’Callaghan’s compelling and profoundly moving second novel, a middle-aged Irishman journeys in a borrowed HGV from the north of England to the […]
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Towards Memorial – Artist talk and Q&A Thursday 18 February 2021, 5PM – 6.30PM Hosted online by the Department of Art & Design at Sheffield Hallam University Free to all – make sure to register on Eventbrite here In recognition of LGBT+ History Month 2021, local artist and researcher Yuen Fong Ling will talk about their recent project, inspired by […]
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Professor Harriet Tarlo, from the Humanities Research Centre, recently joined Lisa Mullen along with other guests on BBC Radio 3 analyse links between literature and nature as an increasing number of university departments offer eco-criticism courses focusing on the way writers past and present have thought about the environment.
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