A poster for two Festival of Debate events. One is on 6 May and is titled "Kate Pickett: The Good Society" with a picture of Kate Pickett next to it. The other is on 21 May and is titled "Jessica den Outer: The Forest Fights Back, A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature", with a picture of the author next to it

Festival of Debate returns for 2026! 🥳

We might not be running a full festival programme this year, but fear not! We're instead hosting a series of special events throughout 2026 inviting some of the most exciting and innovative thinkers of our time to Sheffield⤵️

#Sheffield #FofD #FestivalofDebate

Connecting Limbs: In the race to restore Sheffield's hidden rivers, can natural and industrial heritage coexist? As a new project gets underway to transform Sheffield’s most “unnatural” river, we hear how the Sheaf can go from just-about-surviving to thriving.

“That is the river telling us that it's not having this constrained situation anymore, and it's going to try to create a more meandering course”

Connecting Limbs is an amibitious project to enhance 800m of the River Sheaf, using techniques that mimic those found in nature.

✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...

How can we re-forge communities of place, passion &purpose?

The River Dôn Project in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river

accidentalgods.life/be-like-wate...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @jonnydouglas.bsky.social of @weareopus.bsky.social

Dr Joanna Clare Dobson - “The River Don has a right to thrive in its own right, because it's alive and it's something we should deeply respect” As part of our Right to Thrive series on the future rights of nature, we speak to a Sheffield-based researcher who explores the relationship between trauma and the living world.

"I think we have a responsibility to witness the losses that are happening in the more-than-human world"

@sammgreg.bsky.social spoke with @joannacdobson.bsky.social, a #Sheffield writer and researcher whose work focuses on the role the living world plays in narratives around trauma🌱

#RightToThrive

Exploring Frontiers: A Rights of Nature Just Transition In partnership with The River Dôn ProjectHumans are part of nature, but often act as if we are separ…

🌱 13 May - Exploring Frontiers: A Rights of Nature Just Transition

Join @riverdonproject.bsky.social to explore the entangled nature of change-making, as we try to navigate the complex relationships between humans & nature that we all live in every day. ⬇️

2025 ShAFF Non-Film Events We're proud to bring you a whole host of things happening over ShAFF weekend that aren't part of the film programme. Click 'Get Tickets'

Join us today at 5pm in the Showroom Café, Sheffield for our #shAFF Talk - 'Exploring the Future Rights of Nature'

FREE to attend
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-shaff...

We had an absolute ball running our Water Quality Live Lab at @riverdonproject.bsky.social Faethm exhibition with @weareopus.bsky.social @hiveit.co.uk @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social.
Shout out to @amycartergordon.bsky.social, that girl knows how to throw a party

BBC Radio Sheffield - Paulette Edwards, 05/03/2025 Guests, great music, updates and your stories for your mid-morning with Paulette.

ICYMI: Amy Carter-Gordon spoke to Radio Sheffield about Fæthm, a new exhibition exploring the significance of the River Don 🌊

Amy was joined by Alban from @riverdonproject.bsky.social to talk about how can rethink our relationship with nature

Listen back from 2:13:00
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Late: The Nature of Science Get ready for an evening of crafty activities and scientific endeavours in this special after hours event at the Millennium Gallery.

Join us Thurs 6 March at the Millennium Gallery to kick off British Science Week!

Explore the science of colour—from fluorescent microscopy revealing nature’s beauty to chemical reactions shaping beer’s hue and taste 🍺

@sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social

Find out more ⬇

Exhibition flyer for fathom, featuring an image of a rowing boat flooding on the River Don at Kelham Island. The flyer says 'Faethm - The depths of the River Don'. Upper Gallery at Kelham Island Museum Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th March 2025, free entry.

Join us at Kelham Island Museum for fæthm, an exploration of the cultural and environmental significance of the River Don 🌊

The free exhibition will debut a public art installation at Kelham Island Weir and artworks from Hallam artist-researchers.

Find out more ⬇
www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-art...

What does the River Don mean to the people of Sheffield? Four people who live and work alongside the Don explore their relationship to the river and how it could be better cared for, as well as the positive and negative impacts it has on their lives.

"There's something about water, isn't there. People go where the energy flows"

New research by @sheffielduni.bsky.social student Oliver Eales explores how people who live and work alongside the Don relate to #Sheffield's biggest river. @sammgreg.bsky.social reports ⬇️

@riverdonproject.bsky.social

Person sat on small jetty, in front of lake. Holding a phone in their left hand with the River Stewardship App on screen. Details of the event and logos are overlaid on the image.

What does it mean to build an agreement for collective responsibility and stewardship?

Join @darkmatterlabs.bsky.social for 'A walk along the River Don'

🗓️ Sat Dec 14, 9:45-11:30am
🎟️ Booking and details actionnetwork.org/events/agree...

#RiverDonProject

Person sat on small jetty, in front of lake. Holding a phone in their left hand with the River Stewardship App on screen. Details of the event and logos are overlaid on the image.

How do we care for the ecosystem and nurture the conditions for us to all thrive?

Join @darkmatterlabs.bsky.social for Agreement-making with the Ecosystem: 'A walk along the River Don'

🗓️ Sat Dec 14, 9:45-11:30am
🎟️ Booking and details actionnetwork.org/events/agree...

#RiverDonProject

Connect with some of the collaborative partnership exploring the furture rights of nature.
go.bsky.app/KyrUVqR

A picture of students attending a technology exhibition. The picture displays two law students, one wearing a yellow hoodie and another wearing a grey hoodie talking to members of staff from Hive IT at their exhibition table. On the table is laptops, post-it notes and pens.

The image is a picture of Effy our user researcher wearing a green Hive IT hoodie, in deep conversation with a student from the university. Next to her is Alban wearing a black top, also in deep conversation with another student. There is also a pink advertisement sign next to Alban which says, 'Hive IT' and on the white wall behind them there is a projected image of a mobile app.

This image shows a room full of students and technology exhibitors, deep in conversation during the tech play date.

We were thrilled to be invited to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Law’s first-ever ‘Tech Play Day’ with @weareopus.bsky.social last week! Engaging with students about technology in an interactive way was a fantastic experience.
#UniversityOfSheffield #InteractiveTech

Very proud to be part of @riverdonproject.bsky.social
🏞🐟🦫

Over the summer we wrote this article on the Rights of Nature, the role of universities and interdisciplinarities. Had a lovely time writing it with Alban and the team @amycartergordon.bsky.social

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