Blogs
Get the latest thinking from the Sheffield Institute of Arts community, with blogs by our staff and students. See works in progress, our latest projects, and thoughts and opinions on the current hot topics in art and design.
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Students feature in Mother & Baby
2 Jun 2018 | 12:33 pm BST
Journalism student Samantha Ball has had her first article published in Mother & Baby‘s online magazine. Samantha, proud mother of 15-month-old Leo, initially wrote an article about post-natal depression among men for her final year website, Student Mum Diaries – http://studentmumdiaries.com/ In it, she discovered that one in ten new dads suffer from PND,...
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SHU Journalism delegation to speak at leading academic conference
23 May 2018 | 3:18 pm BST
A contingent of six journalism lecturers and students from Sheffield Hallam University are making an unprecedented appearance at an annual academic conference this June. The group will be attending the Association for Journalism Education (AJE) summer conference to present three papers on a variety of topics. The event is at the forefront of pedagogical journalism...
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Carly lands a Star role
17 May 2018 | 7:11 pm BST
Journalism student Carly Beech handed in her final piece of university work two weeks ago – and promptly landed her dream job as showbiz & TV reporter for the Daily Star online. Carly, 21, took all three Feature Writing & Publishing modules, and gained work experience on a host of magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Red...
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Media freedom in Bulgaria
4 May 2018 | 2:50 pm BST
Journalism lecturer Dr. Lada Price has been interviewed by OBC Transeuropa, a think tank focused on South-East Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus which is based in Trento Italy. In the interview she talks about her research on Bulgaria’s deep-rooted problems in the area of media freedom. In January this year Bulgaria took up the EU presidency, 11 years after...
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Researcher Blog by PhD Candidate Ghayda Al Juwaiser: The Reward of Academic Networking – SHU @ Paris and Troyes
16 Apr 2018 | 11:45 am BST
About the author Ghayda Al Juwaiser is doctoral student in C3RI where she is in her 4th year researching the use of social media by Saudi women to represent and communicate their identity. Ghayda is supervised by Professor Luigina Ciolfi and Dr Geff Green. Ghayda has recently returned from two engagements at universities in France. In this post Ghayda describes her excitement at unexpected invitations [...]
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In Her Own Words: My new role as a Local Democracy Reporter
4 Apr 2018 | 2:48 pm BST
By Molly Williams “Investigate, scrutinise and report on our local government” – the job description advertised in The Sheffield Star sounded like the perfect role – the opportunity to doggedly report on issues affecting the public and hold the powerful to account, in the city that fast became home for me while studying journalism at...
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Wedding bells to ring for SHU journalism alumni after Whitby proposal
28 Mar 2018 | 10:45 am BST
A SHU journalism wedding is on the horizon after alumni Danny Hall and Natalie Wilson decided to tie the knot. The pair, both 27, have just got engaged in the romantic setting of Whitby – on Danny’s first visit to the Yorkshire seaside town. Natalie said: “I’m over the moon, it couldn’t have been a more...
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Ellie Active8s Radio Sheffield!
27 Mar 2018 | 1:59 pm BST
First-year student Ellie Colton has a regular slot on BBC Radio Sheffield, talking about what’s been in the news that week – anything from the latest White House tweets through Sheffield tree-felling to National Puppy Day. Here she describes how her love for journalism started. When I was in primary school, I wanted to be...
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Students attend London magazine awards ceremony
26 Mar 2018 | 2:08 pm BST
Students Samantha Ball and Natasha Jagger travelled to London to meet national magazine editors at an industry award night for young talent. The students were nominated for the Professional Publishers’ Association New Talent Awards for outstanding work on the BA Journalism course and beyond. The night was held at the Grade 1 listed LSO St....
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My first day in the newsroom
2 Mar 2018 | 7:08 pm GMT
By Adam Hagan I have dreamt for some time of one day working in a newsroom. Ever since I began bingeing the American hit show The Newsroom, a programme about fictional TV news network ACN, I have romanticised the idea of newsrooms being non-stop hubs of dramatic, stressful and chaotic work. The mission: trying to...
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Fancy starting a magazine?
28 Feb 2018 | 7:18 pm GMT
Second-year feature-writers learnt this week how to set up a magazine while still at university. Guest lecturer James Thornhill did just that. He set up The National Student – http://www.thenationalstudent.com/ – in 2002, while studying Journalism at the University of Lincoln. The first publication to target students right across the UK, it became part of...
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Researcher Blog by Jonathan Saunders and Helen Grantham of CENTRIC: Unpacked Refugee and Virtual Reality at UNICEF Headquarters in New York
23 Feb 2018 | 6:00 pm GMT
About the authors Jonathan Saunders is a researcher and developer based in C3RI’s Centre for Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC). Jonathan’s research focuses on the development of mobile, PC and serious games. He is currently working on the AUGGMED program as a serious games developer working with virtual and mixed reality solutions to remote, multi-agency [...]
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Researcher Blog by PhD Candidate Alison Mayne: The Diversions – Adventures in remaking 20th Century Dress & Wearing Your Research …
7 Feb 2018 | 6:22 pm GMT
About the author Alison Mayne is a doctoral candidate in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) and a Scotland-based amateur maker in knit 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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Researcher Blog by Professor Alison Adam: Crime, policing, technology and the development of forensic science – lessons for today
31 Jan 2018 | 12:00 pm GMT
About the author Alison Adam is Professor of Science, Technology & Society. She has published widely in the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), particularly around information systems (IS), gender issues and technology. More recently her research interests have shifted focus towards historical topics, particularly the history of forensic science. Alison’s latest book is a research monograph, A History of Forensic Science: British [...]
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Researcher Blog by TC McCormack: The Immense Ventriloquism
22 Jan 2018 | 4:35 pm GMT
About the author TC McCormack is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA) and in C3RI’s Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC). TC’s practice-led research takes a multi-disciplinary approach using video, photography, collage, text and curatorial practice. His research incorporates subjects as diverse as the contradictions of modernist heritage; aesthetics of cultural memory and the possibility of language [...]
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