SHU academics investigate Contemporary Legend in the REVENANT

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Revenant Website Header Image © Revenant Journal  This week sees the release of a special edition of the peer reviewed online journal REVENANT, edited and curated by members of SHU’s Centre for Contemporary Legend Research Group, Dr. David Clarke, Dr Sophie Parkes-Nield, Andrew Robinson and Dr Diane Rodgers.    REVENANT is a highly regarded peer reviewed, online journal committed to […]

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“Greenland: What next?” By Professor Lise Autogena

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  Professor Lise Autogena’s talk has been posted on The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow website: Greenland – What next? Reflections from a research station in South Greenland, February 11, 2026.   The talk positions the small town of Narsaq in South Greenland as a global epicentre, a frontline where the world’s most urgent challenges (climate collapse, geopolitical power struggles, […]

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No Bounds Festival: 10-12 October 2025

Sheffield Hallam partners with Treatment Studio for this year’s No Bounds Festival. No Bounds festival returns to venues across Sheffield and Rotherham from the 10-12 October 2025, featuring new installations from artist-researchers at Sheffield Hallam University and Treatment Studio, London.   This programme of commissions is entitled switch room.  switch room explores dimensional timelines spanning locality and communities, environmental activism, topographical […]

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Waterlands, the new film by Peter Spence to screen at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research conference, University of East Anglia

Waterlands which combines archive footage with contemporary interviews to consider the lived experience of climate change in fenland East Anglia has been invited to show at the Tyndall Centre Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, University of East Anglia in September. The UEA is world leading in climate change research and the conference marks the 25th anniversary of the […]

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Professor Virginia Heath wins UK Global Screen Fund Award for research film project

The UK Global Screen Fund announced awards on 26th June for 11 international Co-productions which include ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. A minority UK co-production with Ireland. The UK producer is Scotland-based Faction North (Grant Keir) who will co-produce with Irish EZ Films (David Clarke and David Power). The character-led documentary feature film will be directed by Virginia Heath, telling the story of a unique Irish […]

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Rose Butler to present at the Sustainable Photography Conference: 3- 4 July 2025

Rose Butler be presenting a paper and exhibiting film work made in collaboration with Rob Gawthrop at the Sustainable Photography? conference 3rd and 4th July at Falmouth University: https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/events/sustainable-photography-conference This new work was commissioned for the group exhibition faethm, Kelham Island Museum (2025) curated by Amy Carter Gordon as part of the River Don Project in partnership with SHU.   The film works were made […]

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Virginia Heath’s Impact Campaign for ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’

Professor Virginia Heath has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’.  Rendered purely through image and music (by Afterlands), the film is a cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance.  Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture […]

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On the Radar: “Ground Truths and Situated Arts Practice” with Dr Rose Butler – Tuesday 13 May 2025

ON THE RADAR research seminars promote the sharing of knowledge across the entire Sheffield Hallam University community – all are welcome, free to attend. Our next talk is by Rose Butler (Senior Lecturer Fine Art) with Ground Truths and Situated Arts Practice. Outline:   Arts research has the potential to extend what is visible, whilst working in response to specific […]

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