This project concerns the development of an iconic tactile language for use in the production of tactile maps. Though Braille is assumed to be the main way blind people read and write, in Britain (for example) out of the reported 2 million cohort of visually impaired individuals, it is estimated that only 15-20,000 people use Braille and its use has declined since the increase of blind children into mainstream schools.

This project analyses how biographical narratives are employed within the heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialogues in this representation, particularly in the presentation of a historical person in a museum context.

Archives have an index and usually collections have an inventory. These unambiguous taxonomical devices are grounded in the idea that what they present is fact. Just as the dictionary and encyclopedia are structures to which we refer in order to be informed, so are the index and the archive.

The publication Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is based on six buildings from the period of Brutalist architecture commissioned for Sheffield in the 1960s. Park Hill Flats, Castle Markets, Moor Street Substation, Holy Cross Church Gleadless Valley, Norton Water Tower and the now demolished Psalter Lane Art School.

The work responds to a photograph of an artist painting in his studio by John Thomson (1837–1921) during his travels to China, found in the Wellcome Collection Archive.

This work was developed after visiting ‘A’, a woman ill with dementia, every day for ten weeks. During that time Shaw tried to encourage her to make work but to no avail.

This research output is an international conference paper and e-book for the 1st Global conference on Space and Place organised by interdisciplinary.net.

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HATTIE NAYLOR is an award-winning scriptwriter. Credits include the opera PICCARD IN SPACE composer Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) Southbank 2012, IVAN AND THE DOGS (Olivier Award nominee, and winner of the Tinniswood Award 2010), THE NIGHT WATCH (Manchester Royal Exchange 2016), THE DIARIES OF SAMUEL PEPYS (nominated Best Radio Drama 2012) GOING DARK with Sound&Fury, Young Vic 2014 and BLUEBEARD Bristol Old Vic and Soho Theatre 2014.

I have taught Photography at Sheffield Hallam since 2008