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Centre for Contemporary Legend
![Banner with the text 'The Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University' in the middle. The banner is in greyscale with a woman screaming on the left and a human skull on the right](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/research/ccms/centre-for-contemporary-legend/centre-for-contemporary-legend-header.jpg?iar=0&hash=FF257132150538860991A8152ADA6AA8)
![A crowd gathered at a Centre for Contemporary Legend event on cooper's hill](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/research/ccms/centre-for-contemporary-legend/centre-for-contemporary-legend-image-3.jpg?iar=0&hash=A933F1C7C557ACE52A36485BB013DCFC)
![A group of adults and children dressed up as clowns walking down a gravel path with a building on the left and a green forest area on the right](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/research/ccms/centre-for-contemporary-legend/centre-for-contemporary-legend-image-1.jpg?iar=0&hash=F0ACB8FFD9ACB9E02058FA97561F7E5B)
![A 'mob' of people outside a building in the dark holding fire torches](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/research/ccms/centre-for-contemporary-legend/centre-for-contemporary-legend-image-4.jpg?iar=0&hash=B632E08DED1CC5DDC4B0F35D8E52D9C8)
![Member of the Centre for Contemporary Legend from left to right: Andrew Robinson, David Clarke, Diane A. Rodgers and Sophie Parkes-Nield. They are each holding a book titled 'Folklore on Screen'](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/research/ccms/centre-for-contemporary-legend/centre-for-contemporary-legend-image-5.jpg?iar=0&hash=228705745241024AAB6F70E89B62BE67)
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Research team
![David Clarke](https://www.shu.ac.uk/-/media/home/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/d/david-clarke.jpg?iar=0&hash=7EF11A3EB987422C8E80400C2137A60D)
Professor David Clarke
Cultural Heritage research group co-lead, Associate Professor
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