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
Standout films and TV from 2023 Dr Ruth Deller, reader in media and communication, spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield around the standout moments of film and TV in 2023. Listen back from 2:35:08.
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SHU academics entertained a large public audience with their analysis of the folklore, legend, and popular culture surrounding the X-Files, as part of the recent Off-The-Shelf Festival. The talk, entitled ‘The Art of the X-Files,’ had to be postponed due to extreme rain and flooding on the original date (was this perhaps the work of the Men In Black?), nevertheless, […]
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Please join us on Wednesday 13 December, when we are pleased to host Lucia Di Girolamo of University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, introduced by Dr Rinella Cere for a research seminar exploring new forms of identity and being, unveiled by Ecocinema approaches in: Ecocinema and Cultural Heritage, New Perspective on the Past. In the 20th century, the Anthropocene brought about […]
Read morePackaging educator, designer & communicator Peter Macqueen (Principal Lecturer) has been interviewed by Packaging Gateway about ESG transitions in packaging: a COP28 perspective.
Read moreDr Jack Black (Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport) has co-authored a piece for RTE looking at how fans reconcile the misdeeds of their owners with their identity as Manchester City supporters, after reports of sportswashing. Read the piece here.
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Re-embroidering Blackwork is the culmination of a 5 year Ph.D research project by artist and embroiderer Toni Buckby. Working with the collection of 16th century blackwork embroideries held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Toni has been exploring questions of decay, loss, fragility, and reconstruction within and beyond the museum archive. Re-embroidering Blackwork will present selected pieces from Toni’s studio research practice […]
Read moreSenior Lecturer in Visual Communication Joanna Rucklidge‘s thought provoking exhibition Enough on our Plates is running at the Food Works social enterprise in Sheffield – showcasing prints and drawings inspired by the pressing issue of food waste. Joanna has been working as an artist in residence at Food Works, engaging with their staff, volunteers, warehouse, cafés, farm and the food itself! The […]
Read moreDr Ruth Deller features in an article in The Guardian, commenting on the popularity of celebrity Bobby Brazier.
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Rose Butler will be presenting now completed doctoral research at the VIII Art of Research 2023 conference at Aalto University, Finland next week. The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and […]
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On Wednesday 15 November Professor John Goodby was one of two experts on Irish poetry and poetry translation, together with Dr Francis Jones of Newcastle University, invited to speak at a research seminar in the series run by the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) at UEA; this event centred on the launch of Helen Gibson’s book on translations by […]
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