March 2023 – CCRI PhD candidate Kuang-Yi Ku holding two ‘Bat Brunch Lab’ events

CCRI PhD candidate Kuang-Yi Ku is holding two ‘Bat Brunch Lab’ events this month. ‘Bat Banquet’ is a collaboration between Kuang-Yi Ku and Robert Johnson exploring biotechnology, speculative futures, food racism and environmental protection. All welcome at Bat Brunch Lab, at which you’ll see how bio-engineered bats can become a superfood for humans, protect this endangered species and prevent future […]

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PhD Student Emma Bolland’s ‘Instructions from Light’ published

Instructions from Light - Emma Bolland (Joan Publishing copyright)

Part of alumni Culture and Creativity Research Institute (CCRI)/Art, Design and Media (ADMRC) PhD student Emma Bolland’s doctoral work is now available in published form. The book, Instructions from Light formed the practice submission of Emma Bolland’s SHU PhD, titled Scripting Silence: The Expanded Screenplay as Present-traumatic Language (completed 2022). The PhD was in the area of fine art, art writing and artists translation, […]

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‘a sukkah for our times’: City centre installation by PhD researcher Max Munday and local Jewish community

2022-10 'a sukkah for our times' Drawing - Image credit Max Munday

a sukkah for our times Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 October 2022 Sheffield Winter Garden You can hear audio of this text being read out here: a sukkah for our times audio. a sukkah for our times is an art installation and event-space created for the festival of Sukkot by PhD researcher Max Munday and members of the local Jewish community, including Ken […]

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Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Sheffield, edited by Emma Bolland

Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Sheffield (book cover, cropped)

Description Sheffield is the latest in Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s series of ‘Cities’ anthologies, alongside Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, and more. This anthology, edited by writer, artist and C3RI PhD candidate, Emma Bolland. The collection moves between fiction, poem and essay form: an experimental coming together of writing and the city. The book was launched at the Off The Shelf festival in […]

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Researcher Blog by PhD candidate Sophie Parkes-Nield: Folklore on Screen 2019

Centre for Contemporary Legend - The Team

About the author Sophie Parkes-Nield is a doctoral researcher in C3RI’s Centre for Contemporary Legend where she has recently embarked on a practice-based PhD.  Sophie brings together creative writing and folklore in her doctoral research which will focus on British calendar customs. Sophie will travel throughout Britain to witness traditional customs and to interview local people about why they take part […]

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Wednesday 1st May 2019 – C3RI METHOD Postgraduate Research Conference

C3RI’s METHOD 2019 conference will take place on Wednesday 1st May 2019. This year we move our focus away from ‘data collection’ and invite research students to explore their methods of data analysis. The audience for the conference is Sheffield Hallam University postgraduate research students and staff. The conference programme can now be viewed here: METHOD 2019 conference programme. Across the […]

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Rose Butler’s ‘Line of Resistance’ screening at the Filmwinter Stuttgart Festival for Expanded Media this month

Still from Rose Butler's 'Lines of Resistance' and Stuttgarter Filmwinter logo

Rose Butler‘s Lines of Resistance will be screened at the 32 Filmwinter Stuttgarter Festival for Expanded Media on Saturday 19 January 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. Lines of Resistance will form part of the screening curated by A BROKEN LINK, a survey of contemporary practice in artist film and video. The themes explored include ideas of temporal and geographical displacement, of how digital technologies bring […]

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Researcher Blog by PhD Candidate Alison Mayne: The Spiritual and Social Benefits of Knitting

About the author Alison Mayne is a doctoral candidate in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) and a Scotland-based amateur maker in knitting and crochet. Alison’s research focuses on women’s crafting experiences and perceptions of well-being shared through social media and is diverted by what may be learnt through remaking historical dress. Alison works as an Associate Lecturer in Fashion Theory […]

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Doctoral student Amelia Knowlson and Design Futures’ Nick Dulake featured in Education Technology and EdQuarter

Composite image of logos of EDQuarter and Education Technology

3D PRINTING: How 3D printing is helping in education 3D printing is helping to develop creative processes of every level of education, features in Education Technology and EdQuarter suggests. In the article, Amelia Knowlson, a doctoral student in Hallam’s Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC), discusses her use of the technology to make 3D copies of the Grice Ivories collection, […]

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