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
David Clarke featured on a recent HistoryExtra podcast to discuss the history of UFOs. In the podcast, David explored how recent interest in UFOs fits into the longer history of our fascination with visitors from above, and what society’s shifting view of aliens tells us about the cultural and political currents of the 20th and 21st centuries. For more information […]
Read moreSheffield Hallam University’s Impact VR team collected the prestigious 2023 Games for Change award for Luna’s Light in New York, USA. Luna’s Light is an enchanting adventure designed for upper limb rehabilitation. With an immersive fantasy world and an enchanted bow, it offers an engaging way to carry out therapy at home. The game was co-designed with physiotherapists and patients […]
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‘Folklore and The Nation In Britain and Ireland’ (edited by Matthew Cheeseman & Carina Hart) has just been published in a new paperback edition by Routledge and is currently available with 20% off until 02/08/23 at £31.19 (after 02/08/23, paperback edition available at £38.99). The book explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and […]
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Penny has received a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award from Arts Council England to develop research towards her new project Ocean exploring art historical representations of Venice in relation to understandings of environmental catastrophe across time. Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Penny is an artist and academic with a particular interest in […]
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Penny’s visual article ‘Catworld’ has been published by the Textual Practice Journal (Taylor & Francis Routledge), and are available to view on the journal website here: Catworld The introduction of the full special issue ‘Animality, Performance, and Voice: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat’ in Textual Practice Volume 37, Issue 7 (2023)‘ discusses Penny’s work in relation to the whole practice-based research […]
Read moreDarcy White (Senior Lecturer in Film and Photography, Sheffield Hallam University) has recently had a number of articles published in The Conversation: ‘Sasha Huber’s You Name It: Swiss-Haitian artist renegotiates colonial history in activist exhibition‘, published March 2023 ‘Yevonde: an introduction to the woman who pioneered colour photography’ , published April 2023 ‘Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition reopens the National […]
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16 July 2023 – Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead: Life as Movement As part of the Pari Centre for New Learning’s summer ‘Beyond Bohm’ programme, Hester Reeve joined a panel Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead: Life As Movement alongside Àlex Gómez-Marin and Lee Nichol. Full details are available on the Pari Centre website. 20 July 2023 – Hiding Out online […]
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Written by Dr Diane A Rodgers During 26-30 June 2023, this prestigious event was held at Sheffield Hallam University, hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Legend (CCL) in the Dorothy Fleming lecture theatre, Charles Street. Dr David Clarke, Andrew Robinson and myself, Dr Diane Rodgers, co-founders of the CCL, were privileged to welcome ISCLR to Sheffield where the very first […]
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Today sees the launch of Professor Esther Johnson‘s new photo book ‘The Beacons of Hull‘. The Beacons of Hull is the story of the K8 telephone kiosk and its unique-to-Hull Honeysuckle Cream variant, as told and photographed by Professor Esther Johnson. In February 2023 nine rare K8 phone kiosks in and around Hull were listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice […]
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DUST & METAL (CÁT BỤI & KIM LOẠI), the first UK-Viet Nam cine-concert co-production, will premiere in Viet Nam as part of the British Council’s UK/Viet Nam Season 2023 in October Dust & Metal, a creative documentary feature film, will be presented with a live music score. The music will be composed by San Francisco-based Vietnamese electronic artist Xo Xinh, […]
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