New Masters of Research (MRes) course launched in Computing

Image of students in a computer lab

A new Masters of Research (MRes) course entitled “Computing (Enterprise Systems, Transformation and Innovation)” is being offered by Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The MRes is taught by leading research-active academics and industrial practitioners, supported by the professional and vendor-neutral enterprise standards body LEADing Practice. The course, led by Dr Simon Polovina, is designed as study blocks so that […]

Read more

Wednesday 17 May 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Prof Stephen Brewster (University of Glasgow)

Professor Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow

Speaker: Professor Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow Title: Multimodal interaction: Making the most of human capabilities in HCI Stephen Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. He runs the internationally leading Multimodal Interaction Group. His research focuses on multimodal HCI, or using multiple sensory modalities and control mechanisms (particularly […]

Read more

Method 2017 – C3RI Postgraduate Research Conference – 03 May 2017

C3RI Method Conference 2017 banner image

Usually at conferences we are tasked to articulate our findings and how they contribute to our discipline. METHOD is an event that challenges these expectations and builds a dynamic context to explore the ingenuity and criticality embedded in doing research. Doctoral researchers from C3RI and across the wider SHU community present alongside each other,  finding visual and verbal languages to convey aspects of their process […]

Read more

Wednesday 03 May 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Rinella Cere (Media, SHU)

Image of a Union Jack hot air ballon and caption from Italian Press (Image credit: L'Unità newspaper, Italy)

Speaker: Dr Rinella Cere Title: ‘Little England beats Great Britain’: Italian Media Coverage of Brexit Rinella Cere is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She has researched and taught extensively in the Media and Cultural Studies field and her publications include books, chapters and articles on news media and popular culture in Italy and Britain. Her most recent […]

Read more

Researcher Blog by Prof Marcos Rodrigues: Leading Locally & Engaging Globally

About the author Professor Marcos Rodrigues is Head of the Geometric Modelling and Pattern Recognition Research Group (GMPR). His research focuses on pattern recognition and sensor design for a wide variety of applications from robotics and automation, to medical engineering, security, games and animation. In this post, Marcos explains how a new partnership between Sheffield Hallam and a major American […]

Read more

Justice Denied: Friends, Foes and the Miners’ Strike

Front cover of Justice Denied by Merlin Press, featuring police on horseback and protesters

TV portraits of the miners’ strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the impact of the strike on participants, and reflects on ongoing controversies and community pride. The book is organised into three parts. In the early chapters, participants look back: Peter Smith speaks of his honest determination […]

Read more

Application of Social Media in Crisis Management – Professors Babak Akhgar and David Waddington (Eds)

Front cover of book - Application of Social Media in Crisis Management - Akhgar, Staniforth and Waddington (Eds)

Title: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management Editors: Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, David Waddington Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date: 10 Apr 2017 Number of pages: 254 ISBN-13: 978-3319524184 Series Title: Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications One of the key outputs of the Athena project. The book explores how socio-technical […]

Read more

Journal Editorship: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications

Front cover IJSSA, IGI Publishing

Title: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications Publisher: IGI Global Editors:  Dr Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University Established 2013 Published: Semi-Annually ISSN: 2166-7292   CCRC’s Dr Simon Polovina and Professor Simon Andrews are joint editors-in-chief of the International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA).   The journal is now being indexed […]

Read more

Prof Simon Andrews invited to talk about Detecting Organised Crime on Social Media

Organised Crime on Social Media diagram

Professor Simon Andrews, the Technical Lead for CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research) was invited to speak at University of Sheffield Information School (iSchool) where he gave a talk entitled: Organised Crime and Social Media: detecting and corroborating weak signals of Human Trafficking online. The talk described an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime […]

Read more
1 11 12 13 14 15 19