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Off The Shelf, Festival of Words.
Sheffield, UK.
Sheffield, UK.
38 Episodes
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This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.
Episode 3 – The Human Problem: Dr Harriet Baird, Professor Joanna Gavins – pro-environmental change.
This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.
Episode 2 – Systems Solutions: Professor Rachael Rothman – use and reuse.
This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.
Episode 1 – Plastic Planet: Professor Tony Ryan, Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons – the history of plastics and pollution.
Looking at Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, this podcast demonstrates how literary criticism can help a better appreciation of contemporary pop culture.
Join Dr Amber Regis, Dr Jonathan Ellis, and Dr Katherine Ebury to take a literary tour of some of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits, building on their recent Post45 journal, Tis the Damn Deason: Taylor Swift’s Evermore.
Dr Clare Fisher investigates how contemporary queer authors explore the body in their work and issues of embodiment, representation, identity and language in relation to queer gender and sexuality.
Join Dr Thomas McAuley to discover the universal appeal of Waka poetry, the most important form of Japanese verse from the 8th -14th centuries. With readings of Japanese and English translation accompanied by calming soundscapes.
Lisa Bradley and Dr Emma Heywood discuss high profile news stories in the public interest including the Lucy Letby trial, Grenfell Tower, Manchester terrorist attacks and the PTSD journalists suffer as a result.
In this Ideas Alive episode, PHD student Shriya Uday takes an in depth look at how we perceive birds, their colour and attractiveness and the global implications for the wildlife trade.
Dr Chris Blackmore, from the Mental Health Research Unit of the University of Sheffield explores the language of mental health set against the history of Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, 1872-1996. With contributions from Patrick Murphy, Ian McMillan, Professor Brendan Stone and Professor Amanda Crawley-Jackson.
Dr Hannah Fairbrother from the Health Sciences School discusses young people's potential as advocates and changemakers, in tackling health inequalities.
Professor Beth Perry, director of the Urban Institute examines the different ways in which academics can engage with their city regions to bring about positive, more just, urban transformations.
Recorded and produced by Kitty Turner
Dr Madeleine Callaghan from the school of English explores the Romantic Poets and their obsession with death and the afterlife.
Recorded and produced by Kitty Turner
Professor Jonathan Rayner from the School of English presents a comprehensive study of Australian horror cinema from the 1970s up to the present. Jonathan addresses the way these films have been labelled ‘gothic’ and traces images and ideas of familiarity, monstrosity, hybridity and sublimity on screen.
Recorded & produced by Kitty Turner
The final edition of a quartet of podcasts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the building of the Crucible Theatre. Ashley Barnes and Tedd George speak with Robert Hastie about the the highs and lows of the past five years and the standout moments of the theatre’s 50th anniversary season including the ambitious staging of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Recorded & produced by Tedd George
Dr Camilla Allen & Dr Jan Woudstra
A panel of Sheffield based practitioners, politicians, activists and academics discuss the health and environmental benefits, history and context of Sheffield’s street trees and the recent crisis.
Recorded & produced by Kitty Turner
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 condition.
Part of Ideas Alive – Talks by Academics at the University of Sheffield.
Recorded & produced by Kitty Turner
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 Ferraby and Rodney Ford, along with a restored interview with Tanya by the Crucible’s first Artistic Director, Colin George. Tedd George is co-author of ‘Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider’s Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre’ (Wordville, 2021)
You can access the full Crucible@50 Podcast series here: https://tinyurl.com/2hd2s29d
Recorded and produced by Tedd George.
Dr Sabine Little & Toby Little
School of Education: Faculty of Social Sciences
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 includes Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Steel and The Sheffield Mysteries.
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