Wednesday 15 June 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Alexander Kalashnikov (Engineering & Mathematics, SHU)

A diagram of the Internet of Things, featuring electronic devices connected to the words 'Internet of Things'

Speaker: Dr Alexander Kalashnikov (Engineering & Mathematics, SHU) Title: Internet-of-Things (IoT) – how to get involved? Alexander N. Kalashnikov graduated from Odessa State Polytechnic University (OSPU, Odessa, USSR). He received his PhD degree from the Odessa State Telecommunications Academy, and DSc degree from the OSPU. He is a senior member of IEEE since 2008. Alexander worked at OSPU as engineer, […]

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Wednesday 08 June 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Anandi Ramamurthy (Media Arts & Communication, SHU)

An image of horses drawn over smoke rising from a city, by Belal Khaled

Title: Contesting the visualisation of Gaza Speaker: Dr Anandi Ramamurthy (Media Arts & Communication, SHU) Dr Anandi Ramamurthy is a Reader in Post/Colonial Cultures, Department of Media Arts and Communication. Her research explores racism and imperialism in representation and resistance to this. She is the author of Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asian in British advertising(2003) and Black Star: […]

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Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities – Professor Babak Akhgar and Ben Brewster (Eds)

Front cover of book - Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism - Babak Akhgar and Ben Brewster (Eds)

Title: Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities Editors: Babak Akhgar and Ben Brewster Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date:  27 May 2016 Number of pages: 323 ISBN: 978-3-319-38929-5 (Print) 978-3-319-38930-1 (Online) Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications   In response to the growing role cyberspace has across society, both in its ability facilitate new opportunities […]

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Tuesday 24 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU)

A black-and-white image of people outside of a theatre with a sign saying 'Lux Radio Theatre'

Title: Lux Presents Hollywood – films on the radio during the ‘golden age’ of broadcasting Speaker: Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU) Dr Suzanne Speidel is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests include adaptation studies and contemporary American television. Her publications include articles and chapters in The Journal of Adaptation on Film and […]

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Wednesday 11 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Hans-Jurgen Scheruhn (Business Informatics, Harz University of Applied Sciences Germany)

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Title: From conceptual models of understanding business to models of business IT application, through the lens of an SAP case study Speaker: Professor Hans-Jürgen Scheruhn (Professor of Business Informatics, Department of Automation and Computer Science, Harz University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, Germany) Hosted by: Dr Simon Polovina (Business Computing, SHU) Professor Scheruhn obtained his PhD in Engineering from Hanover University […]

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Tuesday 26 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School)

A poster of La Suerte Dormida (Ángeles González-Sinde, 2003)

Title: Female lawyers as epithets of powerful career women – From Saénz de Heredia to González Sinde Speaker: Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School) Representations of female lawyers are often seen as personifications of progress and indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crisis. They are also often perceived as epithets of powerful career women and hence their […]

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Wednesday 06 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Laura Kilby

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Title: Constructing Muslim fundamentals and contesting Islamic fundamentalism – Listening to peace talk Speaker: Laura Kilby (Psychology, SHU) Peace psychology draws together research that in turn makes a contribution to the inter-disciplinary field of peace studies. Notably however, peace psychology is almost exclusively concerned with the study of violent conflict. Vollhardt & Bilali (2008) suggest that the value attached to […]

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Thursday 14 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Martin Porcheron (Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham)

An image of two people sat at the same table in a pub, both on their mobile phones

Title: Using mobile phones in pub talk Speaker: Martin Porcheron (Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham) Hosted by: Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Communication, SHU) Martin Porcheron is a PhD student in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, funded through the RCUK Digital Economy programme. His work focuses on the use of mobile devices within collocated groups and includes […]

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Wednesday 09 March 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Andy Stratton (Computing, SHU)

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Title: Building on Blockly – experience with Google’s Visual Programming language Speaker: Andy Stratton (Computing, SHU) Blockly is a block based programming language that offers unique benefits for research in many different areas. Though Blockly appears to offer a Scratch like approach, Blockly does not include its own language, but can be used to generate executable code in many different […]

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Tuesday 23 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Chris Roast (Computing, SHU)

A diagram of visualising mathematical functions with hexagons as integers, circles as functions and rectangles as outputs

Title: Visualising maths…Getting stuck with spreadsheets Speaker: Dr Chris Roast (Computing, SHU) This talk will cover various aspects of the EQUS project – which looks at enhancing the quality and usability of spreadsheet. The EQUS innovation aims to make the relationship between spreadsheet functionality and its visual representation easier to understand, addressing the difficulties of comprehending the textual form. The […]

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