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
The Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab is a collaboration between AUT’s School Art and Design and the Auckland District Health Board. The lab has been initiated with the vision of developing an intentional relationship between design process and the area of health and wellbeing. The lab is structured on a project by project basis and is underpinned by interdisciplinary collaboration and […]
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Packaging expert Dr Alaster Yoxall joins Gloria Hunniford and a trio of British bodybuilders including the current Mr Universe to examine packaging accessibility on Rip Off Britain. One of the problem products the team examine is the much-loved crumpet, with packaging which proves too tricky for two out of three bodybuilders. Dr Alaster Yoxall is Principal Research Fellow in Human […]
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Virginia Heath has been awarded the title Professor of Film. The award is very well deserved and in recognition of Virginia’s significant contribution to her disciplinary specialism. Virginia Heath is a writer and director working in the fields of both fiction and documentary film. Her research practice is focused on creating a body of distinctive and internationally recognised films and […]
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Paul Atkinson was the keynote speaker at an international Exchange Event on 3D printers held in Vienna on 05 March 2014 by the Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (Austrian Economic Chamber). Paul’s keynote speech was on the subject of whether 3D printers are the new universal tool of the future. A summary of the event can be found here, and you can watch […]
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Professor Paul Atkinson is to be featured in the April edition of ICON magazine, in a six-page spread featuring examples of vapourware from Paul’s book Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware. See below for an extract: Vapourware is a term for computer products that a company announces, but doesn’t put into production. This might seem a straightforward concept, but […]
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Babak Akhgar, Professor of Informatics and member of the Communication and Computing Research Centre (CCRC), spoke to the BBC about monitoring and preventing cross-border gun crime by using international, multi-agency databases. One such tool is Odyssey, developed here in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Institute to help track ballistics data across Europe. BBC News Online [18 March 2014]
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Joe Langley, Principal Research Fellow with Lab4Living, has recently been awarded a Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The fellowship will be co-hosted by Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University and the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Yorkshire and Humber (CLAHRC YH). In this project, Joe aim’s to understand how […]
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Dr Sheldon Hall, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and researcher at the Communication & Computing Research Centre (CCRC) celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest box office hits of all time, Zulu, with a number of articles appearing recently in national and international media: – a 4,500-word article in this month’s UK and US editions of Cinema Retro […]
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Esther Johnson‘s film The View From My Window Tells Me I’m Home will be screened on 01 March 2014 as part of the Reel Islington Film Festival. 01 March 2014, 1100 – 1200 Reel Islington Film Festival Resource for London 356 Holloway Road London N7 6PA An observation, investigation and social record of the lives and thoughts of ten residents […]
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Chalk Trace is a short film by Sheffield Hallam University’s Esther Johnson (Reader in Media Arts and Principal Lecturer in Film & Media Production). It is a short Random Act film for Film London and Channel 4. As a child in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his home in Chadderton. Chalk […]
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