Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
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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Professor Paul Atkinson has been invited to take part in an event celebrating computing at Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and others did the work in breaking German codes used in WWII. The week-long event, organised by Kellogg College, University of Oxford, will comprise a number of activities centred on cyber-security, computing and mathematics. Paul will be speaking at an afternoon event dedicated […]
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Ivan Phelan and a multi-disciplinary team learned recently that their application for a NIHR i4i grant some time ago has been successful. The grant for £445,000 is to develop and evaluate a Virtual Reality Prosthetics Training System following on from the pilot work which has since become the basis for the team’s public engagement (via a Wellcome Trust project). The […]
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Design for Health is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of design in the context of health and wellbeing. The Journal is published twice a year and provides a forum for design and health scholars, design professionals, health-care practitioners, educators and managers worldwide. Call for papers: Design for Health is now accepting submissions for forthcoming issues of the journal. In order […]
Read moreFollowing his recent wedding, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Fashion Design, David Morrish was invited to reflect on designing his own wedding suit. The article which also offers wedding preparation tips from a male perspective is featured in one of the world’s leading men’s style websites, menstylefashion.com. You can read the article here.
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At the closing evening of an exhibition of the works of celebrated Chinese painter and calligrapher Hu Leping at the Sheffield Institute of Arts, Hu will be giving an artist’s lecture. Born in Beijing in 1955, Hu studied under celebrated artist Mr Wangren. Working in the tradition of Chinese painting, Hu has gained critical acclaim throughout China – his work […]
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Professor Lise Autogena (Cross-Disciplinary Art, SHU) will speak on a panel at the Embassy of Denmark in London at an event entitled The Place & Importance of Artists & Cultural Organisations in a Changing Europe on Monday 12 June. The event, hosted by the Embassy and the British Council, will feature an introduction from Claus Grube (Ambassador of Denmark) and […]
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SHU’s Professor of Film Professor Virginia Heath has been selected for pitching at The Edinbugh Pitch for her short film We Are All Migrants. We Are All Migrants is a 20-minute experimental archive and music documentary film exploring the theme of European Migration building on the research approach of using ‘cinema as research tool’ to explore and reflect on 20th […]
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19 May 2017 – Prof Paul Chamberlain’s solo exhibition opens in Amsterdam today at the historical Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag Society Institute for Art, Science and Technology. The building originates from 1617 and was the site of the first public dissections. The building is space is rarely open to the public.
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Rose Butler‘s The Fair has been selected for showing at the Golden Age Cinema in Sydney on Sunday 28 May as part of A Broken Link, a survey of contemporary practice in both Australian and UK artist film and video. A Broken Link explores themes of temporal and geographical displacement, of how digital technologies bring people and ideas together but […]
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