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Does social media matter when it comes to understanding our own health? What stories and what science do we find and share online when we are striving to connect with other “patients” or “carers” like us? In this podcast, Stefania takes the case of a hereditary cancer syndrome (BRCA) to explore the way social media can shape everyday coping with the diagnosis of a rare or little known health condi...

Writer and curator Akeem Balogun talks to projectionist Zaron about their collaboration on the multi-sensory literary installation ' Words, Vision & Sound' . Music - 'Unfalling' by Wodwo Recorded & produced by Kitty Turner

The third edition of a quartet of podcasts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the building of the Crucible Theatre. Following the renaming of the Studio as the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Tedd George explores the career of this remarkable designer of the Crucible’s iconic thrust stage. Interviews with those who knew and worked with Tanya include Ian McKellen, James Smith, Nick Thompson, Clare F...

This talk focuses on parents and children in multilingual families working together to understand each other better. 

In the second of a series of podcasts celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Crucible Theatre, Ashley Barnes, Deputy Head of the Dept of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University, speaks to playwright Chris Bush about the challenges of writing for the different Crucible stages and the rewards of writing about her home city.  Chris is an award winning playwright, whose work for Sheffield Theatres...

The first of a series of podcasts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the building of The Crucible Theatre.  Ashley Barnes, Deputy Head of the Department of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University, speaks to Tedd George about his new book,  Stirring Up Sheffield ;  The Battle to Build the Crucible .  

What behaviours leaders of the health and care system in Sheffield will need to develop to make integrated planning and delivery of healthcare a success?

What is the story of the nation we want to tell ourselves and the world?  Can we “retain and explain” national heroes and symbols or is it time to embrace a thorough rewriting of history?

A talk on how we need to rethink economics and policy for sustainable, inclusive growth in the light of recent crises - financial, inequality, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

A talk about how the language of graphic novels captures growing public awareness about climate change, its consequences in the form of floods and possible responses to it.

The results of unique survey research with hundreds of local and national politicians looking at who occupies elected office and why they choose to do so. 

A talk on executioners’ memoirs from the end of public execution in 1868 and the abolition of the UK death penalty in 1965.  With reflections from James Berry, John Ellis, Albert Pierrepoint.

The collection and use of digital data is changing people’s lives. Should we be concerned about uses of data and our privacy and security?

The talk explores the drivers of entrepreneurial motivation and addresses the key questions: are entrepreneurs born or made and what sustains them over time?

Instagram and related apps are growing in popularity. This talk looks at visual social media and everyday life and the use of apps during the COVID-19 crisis.

Could we feed the world while respecting animals? Veganism offers one option, but perhaps "cellular agriculture" and "alternative proteins" could provide a more desirable future.  

What is it is like inside police custody?  A look at how detention causes different experiences including lack of control, being cut off from friends and family and insecurity.

A podcast performance of work by local young people written during workshops with HIVE South Yorkshire.  The poems speak of everything that can happen in young lives from joy and sadness to hopes and dreams.  They will be joined by emerging young writers from the HIVE network.   The Youth Word Up!, created by Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrates its 9th year in 2020. Off The Shelf