Creatrium
'Creatrium' is a podcast series, presented and produced by Steve Johnson. It investigates varying individual interpretations of creativity and how these interpretations impact on our everyday lives. Steve has now retired from his career, as a senior lecturer in media, culture and journalism but his passion for creative conversations and a fascination with people remains...
Episodes
Delighted to chat about creativity and the importance of sound with award winning sound designer, Vijay Rathinam. Vijay studied at the University of Glamorgan about 20 years ago and has never looked back. He runs the Audioville studio in Chennai, India and works with his production team on a huge range of TV and film content for India, Hollywood and the rest of the world. It was a real joy to sit down and chat with him a...
Having left my university position, I'm now in the joyous situation of talking to whoever I want to, not just 'academics' at my former place of work. This is one of my favourite ever interviews and i've done loads, over the years! I'm not even a rugby fan but I loved chatting with Leigh about what he does and why he does it. He has an extraordinary tale to tell. It's been quite a journey, to say the least...
Here's a Creatrium Special, as we welcome back Thania Acaron, to talk about a forthcoming event.
Dr Thania Acarón, is a lecturer and researcher in Arts Health & Wellbeing at the University of South Wales. She is also founder and director of The Body Hotel CIC, which specialises in providing bespoke movement for wellbeing for NHS staff and for marginalised communities. Her practice is informed by dance movement p...
Here's an interesting and enjoyable interview, as we head for Christmas, 2023 with Dr Aylwin Yafele Associate Dean, South Wales Business School,· Faculty of Business and Creative Industries. We discuss his career so far, his self-confessed competitive spirit and his new role, at the University of South Wales.
‘Beth Jenkins is a Lecturer in Digital Forensics and former Forensic Quality Specialist. She has worked in an operational, policing laboratory and has dedicated her career to ensuring accreditation is an achievable ‘task’ within policing. Beth has spoken at prestigious conferences such as Europol’s Forensic Experts Forum, CityForum’s Digital Forensics Summit, Forensic F3 Forum, The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences an...
This is a wonderful conversation with rapper, poet, songwriter, chess champion and current PhD student, Adriano. We talk a lot here about sound, music, songwriting, A.I and CREATIVITY. It was a delight to chat with Adriano for the podcast.
Here's a really insightful conversation with Dr Dean Whitcombe, Immersive Learning Lead/ Hydra Manager at USW. Dean is a Simulation Designer, Researcher, Collaborator and NTFS nominee. He has played a leading role in developing the Hydra simulation suite for the University of South Wales. It is a groundbreaking facility with enormous potential for creative, educational endeavour but what is it?
Here's a lovely interview about psychology, creativity, community engagement and collaboration with Dr Dan Bowers, Head of Psychology at the University of South Wales. It took quite a while to set this one up but was well worth the wait!
This special edition of Creatrium features an interview with Ben Calvert, Vice Chancellor of the University of South Wales. In it, we discuss Ben's Punk roots, his love of collaborative creativity and the future, outward-facing, civic mission agenda for USW.
In the end it was a radio musical: 'Spacetouring'. Songs are by The Naked Citizens, script by Jenny Allan … and all performed by the BA Performi...
After years of taking The Body Hotel workshops across the world, founder Dr Thania Acarón took the step last November to incorporate The Body Hotel as a Wales-based and international social enterprise which provides training...
Dr Palash Kamruzzaman is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the South Wales Business School. He combines degrees in Sociology and Social Policy (PhD), and Anthropology (MA, BA (Hon.)). Before joining the USW, he taught international development, sociology and social policy at the University of Bath, University of Leicester, U...
Here is the link to the latest book, available on pre-order, published on May 10th, 2021:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Milltown-Boys-at-Sixt...
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