Introduction to Mental Health Literacy – Dragonfly Mental Health

Hybrid (online and on campus)

There are many misconceptions about psychiatric disease, what causes it, who is at risk, and how it manifests. Increasingly we are understanding how immense a problem this is within academia. Objective mental health knowledge of the audience is assessed before and after the seminar and additional open ended questions are used to facilitate discussion and provide community … Continue reading Introduction to Mental Health Literacy – Dragonfly Mental Health

Spillways: Sheffield launch of new poetry collection on Sheffield Lakeland 

Performance Lab, City Campus

Harriet Tarlo and Kym Martindale, with Jon Bridge and Abi Goodman Poets, Harriet Tarlo and Kym Martindale will read from their new open form collection of poetry from fieldwork around the rivers, becks and reservoirs North of Sheffield.  Followed by a Q and A with geographer, Jon Bridge to discuss how the book emerged from … Continue reading Spillways: Sheffield launch of new poetry collection on Sheffield Lakeland 

Tom Jenks: Rhubarb and zimZalla 

Performance Lab, City Campus

Tom Jenks will perform work from his new volume, Rhubarb (Beir Bua Press), his sixteenth published book. Working in a diversity of innovative forms, he has been featured in the Penguin Book of Oulipo (2019). Tom also edits the experimental small press zimZalla, specialising in literary objects and creative forms https://zimzalla.co.uk/ and will exhibit some … Continue reading Tom Jenks: Rhubarb and zimZalla 

LRST: Finding and Managing Information

On campus

Session run by the Library Research Support Team This Introductory session covers using databases and other search tools. Open to all staff and Post Graduate Research Students (PGRs); Book via UniHub RDF sub-domain:  A1 – Knowledge Base; C2 - Research Management

Creative Writing Masterclass | Nicola Chester – In Conversation with Joanna Dobson

Performance Lab, City Campus

Nicola Chester learned to love nature early, but soon discovered that it could be taken from her.  On Gallows Down:  Place, Protest and Belonging is a lyrical, powerful memoir charting her fight to save the wild places she calls home.  She advocates passionately for the force of writing as resistance and for the importance of … Continue reading Creative Writing Masterclass | Nicola Chester – In Conversation with Joanna Dobson