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
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Henry Bell has been awarded The Stephen Joseph Award by the Society of Theatre Research. The award will support Henry in undertaking research and interviews for his new book, Theatre in the Round. Henry has been speaking to us about his success: What does being awarded The Stephen Joseph Award mean to you? A huge amount! Stephen Joseph is widely regarded as […]
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Professor Virginia Heath’s documentary film, Dreaming Without Sleeping – The Making of From Scotland With Love screened on the BBC on Saturday 09 May 2020, and is available to view on BBC iPlayer until May 2021. The film tells “the fascinating story of how director Virginia Heath and composer and musician King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) collaborated to create the much […]
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WORK — ONLINE PREMIERE Friday 01 May from 10AM Live Q&A from 7PM On 01 May, International Workers’ Day, there will be the online premiere of WORK — an artist film project that explores ideas and realities of what work means for the way we live today, engaging directly with the experiences of contemporary working lives. Included in the screening […]
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A new online space where people with dementia, family members and supporters can come together and explore ways of living well with dementia at home is launched today. Lab4Living’s Dr Claire Craig and Helen Fisher have been working with Alzheimer Scotland to develop the materials at www.dementiatogether.online. The resource is launched today at 9am with new material being released every Tuesday […]
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After successful pilots in Scotland with Alzheimer Scotland, Fife Health & Social Care Partnership and NHS Grampian, Journeying Through Dementia now takes to Llanelli, Wales. The Older Adult Mental Health Service at Prince Philip Hospital are piloting the Lab4Living intervention. Our ability to engage in and participate in activities we find meaningful is central to wellbeing. Finding ways to continue […]
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Dr David Clarke has been quoted in a BBC Online article discussing one of the most famous UFO sightings in the UK, Rendlesham Forest. As the new documentary Codename Rendlesham is released, he says that researchers are at an ‘impasse’ and the longer this goes on ‘the more it becomes a legend’. Read the article on the BBC here and […]
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Professor Virginia Heath’s BAFTA-nominated film, From Scotland With Love, is screening with live performance of the score by King Creosote at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Thursday 12th March 2020. For more information, please read here. Also screening at The Barbican Saturday 14th March 2020, almost 5 years after it was performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh International Festival […]
Read moreLab4Living are pleased to welcome Dr. Barbara Piskur to share her research as part of the 100-year Life project’s international visiting scholar programme. Barbara is a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Autonomy and Participation and a senior lecturer at the Master of Innovation in Complex Care at Zuyd University in the Netherlands. She brings with her a breadth […]
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Penny McCarthy was recently featured in a Corridor8 article titled ‘A City That Welcomes Art: Three Sheffield artists reflect on winning major prizes’. The article endorses Sheffield’s creative landscape as going from strength to strength and describes 2019 as being a ‘bumper crop’ with three Sheffield artists securing major national prizes, of which Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam […]
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La Forme naturelle, Sharon Kivland Opening: Saturday 14 March 2020, 12.00PM – 5.00PM and 21 and 28 March, 4 and 11 April 2020 every Saturday from 12.00PM to 5.00PM or by appointment The exhibition is generously supported by the Casimir Eigensatz Foundation galleria Edizioni Periferia · Unterlachenstrasse 12 · 6005 Luzern · www.periferia.ch There will be diligent squirrels who read […]
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