{"id":1203,"date":"2016-12-12T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2017-03-31T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:20:32","slug":"ken-loach-honorary-doctorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/ken-loach-honorary-doctorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Director and film-maker, Ken Loach awarded Honorary Doctorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/virginia-heath\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Heath<\/a>, Professor of Film in the Art &amp; Design Research Centre, officiated at the Sheffield Hallam University 2016 graduation ceremony at Sheffield City Hall to confer the honorary doctorate on Ken Loach.\u00a0Ken was nominated for his Honorary Doctorate by SHU academic staff for his contribution to film-making and the arts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTUjAPOYRVc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Virginia, who\u00a0had talks with Ken throughout the day about the current landscape of film-making in the UK and internationally said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I was honoured and thrilled to give the oration for the awarding of Ken Loach&#8217;s Honorary Doctorate at Sheffield Hallam University. It was such an amazing pleasure and inspiration to spend a day with a film director so committed to the best in humanity, progress and fighting for justice, with a great sense of humour, in these uncertain times.\u00a0 Ken gave such an inspiring speech to the students, ending with two counterposed quotes:\u00a0 one from Alan Sugar about how greed can be good for business, and one from John Donne&#8217;s poem &#8216;No Man is an Island&#8217;<\/em>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">No man is an island,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Entire of itself,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Every man is a piece of the continent,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> A part of the main.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> If a clod be washed away by the sea,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Europe is the less.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> As well as if a promontory were.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> As well as if a manor of thy friend&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Or of thine own were:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Any man&#8217;s death diminishes me,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Because I am involved in mankind,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> It tolls for thee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Heath, Professor of Film in the Art &amp; Design Research Centre, officiated at the Sheffield Hallam University 2016 graduation ceremony at Sheffield City Hall to confer the honorary doctorate on Ken Loach.\u00a0Ken was nominated for his Honorary Doctorate by SHU academic staff for his contribution to film-making and the arts. &nbsp; Virginia, who\u00a0had talks with Ken throughout the day [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,124,261,260,259],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-film-research","tag-honorary-doctorate","tag-ken-loach","tag-virginia-heath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/HEATH-2016-11-Ken-Loach-hon-docCROP.gif?fit=880%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-jp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4832,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/virginia-heath-creative-histories-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1203,"position":0},"title":"Professor Virginia Heath writes &#8216;Storying the past&#8217; blog post outlining creative research process for &#8216;From Scotland with Love&#8217;","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"15\/05\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Virginia Heath\u00a0was this month featured on the Creative Histories Storying the Past blog. 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