Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Mr Bates vs The Post Office is perfect social realism: it speaks directly to the public Lewis Kellett, Doctoral Researcher in Cinema, has written a piece for The Conversation looking at the power of fictional storytelling, rooted in real life, to give voice to ordinary people who have been marginalised and ignored. Read the full piece here. Lewis was also a guest […]
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Rose Butler will be presenting now completed doctoral research at the VIII Art of Research 2023 conference at Aalto University, Finland next week. The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and […]
Read moreCCRI 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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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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The debut novel by Media and Communications PhD student, Sophie Parkes-Nield, was published on 26 January. Out of Human Sight is set in Saddleworth in 1832 and follows Millie Barkwell in the aftermath of the notorious murders of her grandfather and uncle, inspired by the real-life Bills o’Jack’s murders. You can order the novel from wherever you buy your books, and […]
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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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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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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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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 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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