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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Joanne Lee invited to participate in multilingual writing project in Finland between 14 and 18 August 2017

Joanne Lee (Senior Lecturer of Graphic Design at Sheffield Hallam University) has been invited by Finnish artistic researcher Dr Lena Séraphin to participate in a multilingual writing project in Finland between 14 and 18 August 2017. This is supported by The Pro Artibus foundation, a non-profit organization situated in Ekenäs / Tammisaari (on the coast west of Helsinki) and will […]

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Joanne Lee invited to participate in communal art project ‘It Grows Like a Strange Flower’ on 24 June 2017

Image courtesy of Bloc Projects - of Ben Judd's 'It Grows Like a Strange Flower' featuring Joanne Lee

Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design Joanne Lee will be participating in a communal art project titled It Grows Like a Strange Flower between 24 and 25 June. The project has been commissioned by Sheffield-based gallery Bloc Projects and features artist Ben Judd. Ben Judd is an artist based in London and has been commissioned to produce an offsite project within […]

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Virtual Reality project reaches the finals of AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards 2017

vr prosthetics event

A project that uses Virtual Reality (VR) technology to improve the training for amputees in the use of electronic prosthetic limbs has reached the finals of the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards 2017.  The project is one of four finalist in the Digital Health category and is one of 32 finalists eligible for public votes in the People’s Award. The team of researchers, including C3RI’s Ivan […]

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United Nations Migration Agency and CENTRIC launch new global security app

Last week saw the launch of SCAAN (Security Communications and Analysis Network) a mobile phone app designed to enhance the safety and security of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) staff while deployed in some of the world’s most challenging environments. SCAAN was launched by IOM’s Global Head of Staff Security Willie Wairoa-Harrison, Community Engagement Programme Manager Amy Rhoades and […]

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Games Britannia 2017 – Videogames Education Festival – 6-8 June

GAMES BRITANNIA 2017 Playstation VR crop

The 2017 Games Britannia Videogames Education Festival takes place between 6th – 8th June in Cantor Building at Sheffield Hallam University. The Games Britannia Festival brings creativity and technology together, providing schools and colleges with workshops and activities led by games industry experts and academics. Started in 2011 by Brinsworth Comprehensive School, it is now run by the Computing Department at […]

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Prof Lise Autogena to give talk on Freetown Christiania at Learn to Act on 6 June 2017

Learn to Act

Professor Lise Autogena will present ‘Experiments in Learning from Freetown Christiania’ at Learn to Act, a one-day, international workshop on alternative education organised by University of Sheffield School of Architecture. The event will explore the growing movement of alternative education projects taking root across our communities, bringing together a group of practitioners and teachers from across Europe, to ask: How do you set […]

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Prof Paul Chamberlain to deliver 9th Keynote Lecture at London Doctoral Design Centre on 13 June 2017

Chamberlain Walker LDoc Keynote

The London Doctoral Design Centre (LDoc) has invited Prof Paul Chamberlain (Head of ADRC, Director of Lab4Living and Professor of Design) to deliver their ninth keynote lecture, along with Stuart Walker (Chair of Design for Sustainability and a Director of the ImaginationLancaster Research Centre at Lancaster University). The lecture will take place at 6.30pm on Tuesday 13th June 2017. The event […]

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The Yorkshire Post publicises ‘Everything Flows’ at Millennium Gallery, featuring work by SHU’s Rose Butler and Victoria Lucas

Still from dual-screen mockup of Come & Go by Rose Butler

Sheffield Millennium Gallery’s latest exhibition Everything Flows was featured in today’s The Yorkshire Post, including some words from Kirstie Hamilton, Head of Exhibitions & Display at Museums Sheffield. Find the full report here. Everything Flows brings together work by emerging and established Sheffield-based artists working with painting, sculpture, video, photography and sound. The works are each united, in different ways, […]

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Design Future’s John Kirkby features on ‘Rip Off Britain’ discussing food packaging

Composite image of John Kirkby on BBC's Rip Off Britain and Rip Off Britain logo - both property of BBC

John Kirkby, Creative Director of Sheffield Hallam University’s commercially focused product and packaging design consultancy group Design Futures was featured as a packaging expert on BBC One’s consumer rights programme Rip Off Britain earlier this week. John was asked to investigate a famous brand of pie tins, and he filmed a ‘video diary’ looking into the packaging, before taking part […]

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