Diversity Drop: What’s Happening in Young Adult Fiction Now?
There has been a steep drop in diversity in children’s literature, bucking the trend of years of steady increase.
How is Young Adult literature responding to the politicisation of diversity?
Dr Aneesh Barai, Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor, author and columnist Dr Darren Chetty and award-winning author Sita Brahmachari, discuss their creative and critical writing about diverse youths in literature.
31 Oct 2025
The Morecambe Winter Gardens: Contested Histories
The Morecambe Winter Gardens is a Grade 2* Listed Theatre. For five years Professor Vanessa Toulmin has been the Chair of the Preservation Trust responsible for raising over £4.4 Million pounds of funding to stabilise the building and restore its important features.
Vanessa discusses the contested history of the venue, placing it in the wider context of 20th century performance studies and examining previously unknown histories that reveal a different narrative to the standard seaside variety hall that it has been placed within.
29 Oct 2025
Sheffield Music City
Musician Neil McSweeney and colleagues from the Department of Music, examine music's deep roots in Sheffield's story while envisioning the creative potential of our musicians and music organisations to help define the city's future.
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