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
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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After 16 years as editor of The Design Journal, Professor Rachel Cooper has handed the baton over to Professor Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design and Design History at the Art and Design Research Centre. Rachel has edited the Journal since its inception in 1997, nurturing it into an internationally respected depository of design knowledge and debate. Professor Paul Atkinson, previously […]
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Professor Paul Atkinson has been invited to give an evening lecture to the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna as part of their series of Network Creative Exchange Events. The talk will discuss the future impact of 3D printing and its potential effect on business. The target audience is entrepreneurs, founders and freelancers of Creative Innovation, and will be streamed live […]
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As Chair of the European Academy of Design, Professor Paul Atkinson is playing a leading role in the organization of the next EAD conference to be held in Paris in 2015. The event is being convened by Professor Brigitte Borja de Mozota in association with the Paris College of Art and Paris Descartes University of Psychology. Paul visited Paris at […]
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On 18 December 2013 Lab4Living hosted a session chaired by Professor Sue Mawson (Director of CLAHRC SY) for special guest Simon Denegri. Simon is Chair of INVOLVE and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research. The session gave Lab4Living a platform to showcase some of the novel ways in which design research […]
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