About Humanities Research Centre
Humanities Research Centre conducts research in English, History, and Stage and Screen
Research themes
Humanities Research Centre has expertise in the fields of history, English and screenwriting
Dr Katherine Johnson
Katherine’s multidisciplinary education at the University of Sydney is reflected in her current research, which traverses and interconnects Performance, History, Anthropology and Philosophy. Her diverse research is unified by a focus on embodiment and performativity – in and as epistemology, pedagogy, historiography, heritage and community.
Room with a VDU
The research for this journal article explores the design history of a relatively short-lived phenomenon— the glass-walled secure rooms in which mainframe computers were housed within corporate workplaces in the 1960s and 1970s.
Revealed: How South Yorkshire migrants joined the gold rush to Australia
Uncovering the history of how South Yorkshire workers followed the gold rush to Australia is the focus of a new project between Sheffield Hallam University and La Trobe University.
Making Visible the Invisible: Germany's Black diaspora, 1880s -1945
Today, nearly a million Black people live in Germany. But the longer history of a Black community stretches back to the 1880s – and, until now, this story has remained largely untold.
Heritage research at Sheffield Hallam University
Heritage research at Sheffield Hallam is located mainly in the Humanities Research Centre, which houses English and history, and in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute.
Dr Nicola Verdon: Life on the land, the British countryside since 1800
Nicola Verdon's work on the social and economic history of the British countryside in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focuses on rural work patterns, family life and gender relations
Professor Malcolm Cowburn
I worked at Sheffield Hallam University from September 2008 until March 2013 as a Principal Lecturer in Criminology
The Challenges for Graphic Design in Establishing an Academic Research Culture - Lessons from the Research Excellence Framework
This research addresses the claim made about graphic and communication design research in the Research Excellence Framework 2015 Panel overview report (UoA34: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory p.85)