This seminar is organised jointly by the Humanities Research Centre and Sheffield Institute of Education. Studies of two-year-olds are comparatively rare. Yet the third year of life is a period of momentous change: for example learning verbal language, becoming confidently mobile, discovering how to participate in social and cultural worlds. Research that does investigate this age-group tends to focus on learning that is recognised as important in later life: speech, awareness of rules and conventions, creative play, sharing, etc.

Find out about our centre's research into cultural, social and media practices, and how you can work with us

Client: Heritage Lottery Fund | Staff: Will Eadson, Chris Days, Nadia Bashir, Elizabeth Sanderson, Nicola Verdon, Alison Twells (Humanities Research Centre, SHU) and Ellen Bennett.

The Humanities Research Centre brings together the work of English, Stage and Screen and History and is based at City Campus. The research centre supports the research funding, strategy and development of the three humanities areas

Heritage research at Sheffield Hallam is located mainly in the Humanities Research Centre, which houses English and history, and in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute.

I was educated at the Universities of Bristol and Sussex, and spent a year as an exchange student at the Humboldt University in Berlin. My first full-time lecturing post was at the University of Wales, Bangor, and I also worked for four and a half years at Liverpool Hope University before joining Sheffield Hallam in 2003. I became a Reader in 2007 and a Professor in 2010. I am a specialist in twentieth-century German and European history, and am currently secretary of the German History Society

This network project is to support interdisciplinary exploration of the potential for identification of shared research agendas within the contexts of visual art, music and medicine.

My main research interests are in early modern literature and culture - Shakespeare, the literature of the 'long 1590s' and the relationship between the theatre and royal iconography.

Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University's Humanities Research Centre

The Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection is a collection of 1000 early editions of popular fiction that provides a scholarly and community forum for research and personal development