Terence Heng

After a 2 year hiatus, I'm back with the National Centre for Research Methods to run my workshop on #Creative #Ethnographies - incorporating #photography and #creativewriting into ethnographic narratives. Runs 24-25 November online! #visualmethods www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Dear friends, in about 2 weeks I will be launching the finale of my project "The Spirited North" with an exhibition at the Victoria Gallery &Museum in Liverpool. You are all very welcome to attend! Friday 24 October, 4pm - 6pm. - www.eventbrite.com/e/the-spirit...

Photograph of Jain Samaj Manchester

If you missed Serendipitous Sacrality in #Sheffield, you can now see the exhibition catalogue, with a DOI number to boot (Liverpool University library is awesome for helping us catalogue non-traditional research outputs). Download the catalogue here - www.academia.edu/142958034/Se...

Thank you #Sheffield and Bloc Projects for being wonderful hosts. #Serendipitous #Sacrality closes today, 14 June at 6pm. There’s still time to see it, and one last free tour at 1230. Just pop by!

image of altar in a chinese supermarket with information about roundtable event at serendipitous sacrality

As part of the opening of my #exhibition #serendipitous #sacrality in #Sheffield, we are having a roundtable session "Exploring the Intersections of Artistic Practice, Social Science and Public Engagement". Admission's Free and there will be drinks! Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/serendipit...

I used to make websites for a living, but that was so many years ago. So it was really nice to re-learn some code to implement 360 images as part of my exhibition - here's one of the Goddess Temple in #sheffield.

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It's finally happening! Announcing my first solo #photography / #visualsociology exhibition at Bloc Projects in Sheffield. 10-14 June 2025, 12-6pm. Admission Free - Tickets for opening/artist talks at spiritednorth.uk/sacrality

Pleased to see my research note published in @isa-sociology.org RC57's (Visual Sociology) latest newsletter. Here, I talk about my current visual sociological project on photographing overlooked spiritual spaces in England's north. www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

#spiritednorth Locals celebrating the opening of a public peace garden at Wat Phra Singh in Runcorn, June 2024

#spiritednorth photographed Lud’s Church today, a place of spiritual refuge in the 1400s, and allegedly still haunted by the ghost of Alice de Lud-Auk.

#spiritednorth a trip to photograph Janet’s Foss in #Malham to meet with the queen of the local fairies.

#spiritednorth a quick trip to Healey Dell fairy chapel yielded some very serendipitous encounters with enchanted spaces

#spiritednorth one of the most inspiring locations I've photographed has to be St Anne's Orthodox Chapel in #York. Nestled in a row of terrace houses, the chapel is a converted double garage, but you wouldn't know just by being inside it.

In staging 2 upcoming photo exhibitions this year, I’ve decided to make my own photo frames from English cedar, as an homage to the makeshiftedness of spiritual spaces I’ve photo’d. Unfortunately due to a lack of table space I’ve first had to make a table. Beginning to regret my artistic choices…

Commentary: Chinese New Year is exhausting, but here’s why we keep celebrating it Festivals like Chinese New Year are ways for people to come together and interact, but individuals are also celebrating them differently than from the past. Sociologist Terence Heng explains how and w...

Happy new year! What’s the sociology behind Ang Pow’s and the lunar new year? My new commentary with Channel News Asia on the vagaries of the gift economy and the changing face of family celebrations.

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#spiritednorth - like the new beginnings of spring welcomed through wassailing, my first post on Bluesky from my ongoing Brit Academy project The Spirited North. Awake and grow new fruit