Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Communication & Computing Research Centre
We are pleased to announce that Luigina Ciolfi was recently awarded a professorship and now holds the title of Professor of Human Centred Computing. “This represents a much-deserved accolade which has long been overdue” said Professor David Waddington (Head of CCRC and Co-Director of C3RI)
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Speaker: Raj Ramachandran (C3RI PhD student and Associate Lecturer, Computing) Title: ‘Exploring the Vedic concepts in determining requirements for a speech to text technology: The case of Tamil Brahmans’ Raj Ramachandran is in his final stages of PhD. His PhD research sets focus on the user acceptance of speech to text in Tamil. In this seminar, he aims to look into the relationship between […]
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This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgos’s multipronge feminist approach. Burgos’s works, especially her essays, are essential […]
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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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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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** This seminar has been cancelled. A rescheduled date will be announced in due course ** Speaker: Dr Anjana Raghavan Title: Intersections of Performance, Violence and Resistance: Trans- Solidarities in Southern India Anjana is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research is broadly in the areas of Decolonial Feminism, and Cultural Theory, […]
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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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Speaker: Dr Anja Louis Title: ‘Spanish police dramas: action, emotion and politics’ Anja is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Intercultural Studies. Her research is firmly grounded in Spanish Cultural Studies in its openness to interdisciplinarity and its celebration of popular culture. Previous projects have examined the representation of gender issues in popular culture through the prism of various law-and-culture debates. […]
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Title: Community Policing – A European Perspective: Strategies, Best Practices and Guidelines Editors: P. Saskia Bayerl, Rusa Karlovic, Babak Akhgar and Garik Markarian Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date: 12 Jun 2017 Number of pages: 271 ISBN-13: 978-3319533957 Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications This is the first edited collection from the Unity project. The book presents […]
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Dr Jacob Habgood, researcher and senior lecturer in software engineering, graphics and multimedia, was interviewed for The Conversation’s latest Anthill Podcast. The podcast is focused on the uses of computer games beyond entertainment, with Dr Habgood discussing the rise in game-based learning and how to make them as effective as possible.
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