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Your course starts in January. Please check your teaching timetable for details.
Your course team will schedule activities for you to find out more about your course, meet your lecturers and other students and find your way around campus, which will be available on your timetable.
You will be able to see your timetable on iCity or the iBCU App as soon as it is available. You will receive an email when timetables are released.
In addition, all students should attend campus for the Students’ Union Welcome Week, which takes place between Monday 27 January and Friday 31 January 2025. (More details on your timetable).
You can also download the University Assistant app and sign up with your course details for updates on Welcome Week.
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Make sure you visit our Moodle site for an overview of Welcome Week arrangements and any activities you need to complete before arriving.
You will be able to see your timetable for the whole semester, including your course induction, on iCity or the iBCU App as soon as it is available. You will receive an email when timetables are released.
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Andrew Kulman
Welcome to the Master's degree programme in Visual Communication.
It’s a really exciting time to be studying at Master's level as there are so many ways that we can help you develop your professionalism, creativity and employability to another level.
The team and I are looking forward to helping you develop and explore your creativity and curiosity at the Master's level.
Myself and the team appreciate that making the transition to postgraduate education can be both an exciting and a daunting prospect, but don’t worry. You have a dedicated team of industry experienced professionals and academics to guide you through the journey.
It will be a journey that we will take together.
Before you arrive on campus, please take a look at your course Moodle page where you will find lots of useful information to prepare you for Welcome Week, including your required pre-arrival activity.
Teaching on your course begins from Monday 20 January 2025. Please check your timetable for details.
Barry Batson
Welcome to the MA Fashion Management programme. You are joining an international community committed to excellence in navigating the vibrant world of fashion. This programme blends academic rigour with industry practice, preparing you to become innovative leaders in this dynamic sector.
Embrace the challenges, engage with diverse ideas, and seize the opportunities to learn and network. Your journey here will be transformative, empowering you to impact the fashion industry significantly.
I am excited to support your academic and professional growth throughout this journey.
Warm regards,
Barry Batson, Programme Director, MA Fashion Management
Teaching on your course begins from Tuesday 28 January 2025. Please check your timetable for details.
Sandra Costa
We would like to welcome you as you join one of the most successful and vibrant Schools in Europe for learning Landscape Architecture.
We strive to create a stimulating environment for you to explore your creative, artistic, technical and intellectual abilities through a range of design projects that explore contemporary issues related to our landscapes and the built environment. We hope you are feeling enthusiastic about embarking on this journey with us that is our distinctive and highly-regarded MA in Landscape Architecture.
We are looking forward to meeting you and wishing you every success in the year ahead!
Teaching on your course begins from Thursday 23 January 2025. Please check your timetable for details.
We strive to create a stimulating environment for you to explore your creative, artistic, technical and intellectual abilities through a range of design projects that explore contemporary issues related to our landscapes and the built environment. We hope you are feeling enthusiastic about embarking on this journey with us that is our distinctive and highly-regarded MLA in Landscape Architecture.
Nuno Lourinho
Welcome to the Master's in Design Management!
By joining this innovative and well-established course, you have made a significant personal investment and will be working with a great team of professionals. We look forward to meeting you and have put together a lot of information about the course and how to prepare for your studies which is going to be sent to your email.
We’re looking forward to meeting you for Welcome Week, and hope you are excited to join us! During the week there will be a range of activities and opportunities to meet your new peers and tutors, as well as hearing more about your course, the University and Birmingham.
Your course will be taught across two locations:
Alexander Stadium, Perry Barr and Seacole Building, City South Campus.
Your course will mainly be taught across the following facilities:
Your course will mainly be taught in:
Curzon Building, City Centre Campus (Room numbers start with C)
Millennium Point, City Centre Campus (Room numbers start with MP)
Moreton Street in the Jewellery Quarter, within the Assay Office Birmingham building
Your course will be taught by our partners, the National Institute of Conductive Education. You will be based at the Conductive College in Moseley.
Parkside Building, City Centre Campus (Room numbers start with P)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, City Centre Campus (Room numbers start with RBC)
Ruskin Hall, Bournville (Room numbers start with SRU)
School of Art (Room numbers start with MAR)
School of Jewellery (Room numbers start with CSJ)
Seacole Building, City South Campus (Room numbers start with SCT)
STEAMhouse, City Centre Campus (Room numbers start with CST)
Your first semester will be taught at the Seacole Building, City South Campus (Room numbers start with SCT).
From January 2025, your course will mainly be taught at the City Centre Campus.
Unit 3B Heneage Street
Birmingham Metropolitan College at its James Watt Campus
South and City College Birmingham's Digbeth Campus
Matthew Boulton Campus, Birmingham Metropolitan College
Your course is part of the Faculty of Art, Design and Media.
Your Faculty Student Centre is your first point of enquiry during your time with us. You can find them at:
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media: Parkside PS304-306
Your course is part of the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences.
Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences: Curzon C335
Your course is part of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and The Built Environment.
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment: STEAMhouse CST318
Your course is part of the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences.
Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences: Seacole SCT002
As a student on the FdSc Sports Coaching and Development degree course with the Aston Villa Foundation, your course is part of the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences within City South Campus.
Your first point of enquiry during your time with us will be your course teaching team who are situated at Aston Villa Football Club, Villa Park. If you have any queries or need support then please contact your Course Leader Dr. Anthony Weldon.
We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham City University!
You must have your ID card visible at all times when on campus, so if you have received yours before your first day, ensure you bring this with you. If you enrolled late you will need to collect one on campus during your first few days. Please remember that your ID card is for your use only. You must never let anyone else use it.
To complete your enrolment, you will need the following:
What else? The rest is up to you! You will find a shop, café, pub, computer access and water fountains on campus, but we do recommend you bring the following on the first day:
And remember, the weather in Birmingham can be changeable!
Your Faculty Student Centre (FSC) is your one-stop-shop for all student support and guidance. Your FSC team will have extensive knowledge of student life, ready to help with anything related to your student journey; from starting out, all the way through to assessments and beyond.
FSCs are open 8am-6pm Monday-Friday, excluding bank holidays.
ADM.FSC@bcu.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 331 5719
Parkside Building, Level 3, P306
BLSS.FSC@bcu.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 331 6488
Curzon Building, Level 3, C335
CEBE.FSC@bcu.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 300 4007
STEAMHouse, Level 3, CST318
HELS.FSC@bcu.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 331 7105
Seacole Building, Level 0, SCT002
The Student Success Advisors are BCU graduates here to advise and support you on your journey through university. They will be in contact to ensure you are settling in your course, point you in the right direction for any type of help you may need and push your success further from an academic and employability perspective.
To achieve all that, they run a series of projects, events, campaigns, and talks customised to each Faculty's need.
You can see what your Student Success Advisors are doing to help you, and connect with the team on Moodle or Instagram or contact admssa.team@bcu.ac.uk.
You can see what your Student Success Advisors are doing to help you and find out more about them on iCity. You can also connect with them on Twitter or contact them on BLSSSSATEAM@bcu.ac.uk.
You can see what your Student Success Advisors are doing to help you on the team’s iCity page which has your welcome guide, more info, array of activities, news and contact, or get in touch with them on cebesuccess@bcu.ac.uk. You can also follow the team on TikTok @cebe_ssa.
You can see what your Student Success Advisors are doing to help you and find out more about them on iCity. You can also contact HELSSuccess@bcu.ac.uk or connect with them on Moodle, Twitter or Instagram.
During Welcome Week, you’ll get to meet our Student Ambassadors as soon as you walk onto campus. They’ll be there to support you with finding your Faculty Student Centre, collecting your ID card and guiding you in the right direction, and for a friendly hello!
We expect all international students to engage with their studies for Semester 1 or in person from Welcome Week (w/c 27 January 2025).
The final deadline to arrive in the UK to complete enrolment will be week 4 (w/c 17 February 2025).
Please check the guidelines on entering the UK from your country or territory before planning your journey.
Welcome Week takes place between Monday 27 January and Friday 31 January 2025.
The Doctoral Research College (DRC) Team will contact you with further information regarding the induction information for your course. Once your programme has commenced, we expect you to engage with your studies in person, as required.
Your research degree programme will be supported by a number of people and departments across the University.
As a postgraduate research degree student at Birmingham City University, you will be a student of the Faculty in which your research study is focused, and your supervisory team is the primary point of contact for all academic issues. Academic and progression processes will be overseen and authorised by the Faculty Research Degrees and Environment Committee (FRDEC).
Welcome to Birmingham City University and the start of your life as a postgraduate research student, a valued member of our vibrant research community. We recognise fully the commitment that you have made by choosing to study with us for a research degree, and we understand the support that you will need from our academic staff in faculties, our wider research community and our professional services teams to enable your success.
At BCU, we are committed to distinctive, original and rigorous research which discovers new knowledge and which delivers real-world benefits to society. Through your research and advanced practice you will discover new insights and know-how. By sharing your research outcomes effectively through publication, conference attendance and public and business engagement, your research has the potential to deliver meaningful societal, cultural and economic benefits on a local, national or even global scale. Increasingly, our research findings are being applied by others to address national and global challenges, through interdisciplinary research teams and international collaborations.
In the last UK-wide exercise to measure research quality, REF2021, 93% of our research was recognised internationally for originality, significance and rigour, of which 19% was judged world-leading. Our submission to REF2021 demonstrated how our research has been growing in volume and quality, and included 310 staff submitted to 14 subject areas. This is more than double the number of staff assessed by REF2014, as more of our academic staff engage in impactful research of internationally recognised quality.
We are continuing our journey to further improve the quality and impact of our research; to grow our research community and enhance our research culture. We look forward to the valuable contributions that you will make.
We hope that you will enjoy being a part of our diverse and expanding research community and find your research degree programme to be a rewarding and challenging experience. In addition to gaining a much deeper understanding of your chosen subject area and discovering new knowledge, you will also develop a wide range of transferable skills that will set you up for your professional life beyond your PhD.
Please take the time to read the information in these Welcome pages, and the links therein, as it will help you settle into the University.
We wish you the very best of luck with your studies.
Dr Jenny HardingDirector, Doctoral Research College
As you will be aware from your application and offer letter, all new research degree students are expected to attend and complete the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice during their first year of the PhD, DHealth or DBA programme (or during the second year of your EdD programme).
This course lasts one semester and aims to support you in developing the skills and competences required to successfully complete higher degree research. It is intended to complement the guidance and support you will receive from your research degree supervisory team, who will be the key part of your development as a researcher.
The course aims to:
The course serves to develop the wider research student community at Birmingham City University and enable participants to share any concerns that they may have and mutually support one another. It is important that you attend the programme both to gain the knowledge required to carry out your research degree, but also to make contacts with researchers in other faculties.
Successful completion of this programme is required in order to progress on the degree and attendance is compulsory for all new research students.
The Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice is delivered via faculty and subject specific sessions as well as common sessions (involving the wider research student community).
More details on the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice will be provided at your induction.
The final deadline to arrive in the UK to complete enrolment for your research degree will be week 4 (w/c 17 February 2025).
Your course will be taught by our partners, the Centre for Research in Early Childhood. You will be based at the St Thomas Children’s Centre near Birmingham city centre.
Your course will be taught across several locations.
In the first semester, you will be taught at the Seacole Building, City South Campus, and the Doug Ellis Sports Centre and the Alexander Stadium, both in Perry Barr.
From January 2025, your course will be taught at the City Centre Campus, the Doug Ellis Sports Centre and the Alexander Stadium, Perry Barr.
Your course will be taught across two locations. In the first semester, you will be taught at the Seacole Building, City South Campus with practical sessions at the Doug Ellis Sports Centre in Perry Barr. From January 2025, your course will be taught at the City Centre Campus and the Doug Ellis Sports Centre in Perry Barr.
Heading to university in September? We've put together some handy information to help you get ready for student life.
Your life as a BCU student starts now, so it's time to plan ahead and get the essential stuff sorted before you arrive at university.
Once you get here, we’ve got a host of activities planned to get you stuck in to life at BCU, which kicks off with Welcome Week.
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