Research projects

Our Stakeholder report to Mali’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendations to th...

Our Stakeholder report to Botswana’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr Alice Storey, makes specific recommendations...

CHECKIT-HE aims to enhance the higher education (HE) sector's response to hate and extremism on HE campuses by building...

Improving youth voice and youth-led approaches across Music Education Hubs in the West Midlands to increase engagement ...

Dr Amna Nazir provided her consultancy services to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Righ...

These activities funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are jointly-delivered by the Centre for Huma...

Professor Jon Yorke collaborated to provide information for a death penalty case to the United Nations, with Professor ...

Investigating how young children watch, understand and engage with digital content on YouTube and YouTube kids. ...

A small-scale international project focus ing on children’s experiences at home during the C...

Our Stakeholder report to Zambia’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommend...

In partnership with AIDER and led by Dr Amna Nazir, our Stakeholder report to Ghana’s Universal Periodic Review...

Our Stakeholder report to Gabon’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommenda...

Our Stakeholder report to Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir , makes specific re...

Our Stakeholder report to Japan’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Alice Storey , makes specific reco...

Our Stakeholder report to Benin’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommenda...

Malthouse Engineering Co. Ltd. was formed in 1947, and has grown, historically, through a series of acquisitions. It i...

Our Stakeholder report to Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendations...

The CHR provided its consultancy service to non-governmental organisation, the Centre for Women’s Justice, contributing...

Our Stakeholder report to Philippines’ Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendation...

Our Stakeholder report to South Africa’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Professor Jon Yorke, makes specific recomme...

Consider yourself a super sleuth? Constantly invested in true crime shows and podcasts? If so, you may want to find ou...

Consider yourself a super sleuth? Constantly invested in true crime shows and podcasts? If so, you may want to find ou...

Following the auction of Boulton's Baskerville bible, Dr Caroline Archer-Parre led a consortium of city heritage organ...

In collaboration with the Library of Birmingham, British Library and Find My Past, this project aims to digitise Birmi...

Working with Billesley Primary School, the academic team will evaluate the Arts Council England Creativity Collaborati...

The Institute for the Future of Work’s Good Work Monitor builds a detailed sub-regional map of access to good work acr...

The project aims to evaluate and advise the Women's Health Network in Bradford, a collective of women who strive to imp...

Exploring the experiences of student nurses who are assigned clinical placements in prison settings in order to suppor...

Rufopoly is a participatory-learning board game, which enables players to undertake a journey through a fictitious rur...

This research re-discovered the rural urban fringe within more positive, inclusive and proactive agendas for management...

This work focuses specifically on integrating the principles and thinking behind the ecosystem approach and ecosystem s...

Professor Jon Yorke acted as the lead legal advisor and drafter of the amicus curiae briefs submitted by the Governme...

Submission of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Zane Floyd in support of a rehearing due to the adjudicative defici...

Professor Jon Yorke worked with Hannah Gorman on an amicus curiae brief on comparative perspectives on capital punishme...

Exploring the factors behind falling rates of STI home test kit returns in Birmingham and Solihull.

This ESRC funded project explores areas of need for Muslim communities during the impact of coronavirus, and developin...

This ESRC funded project aims to identify the drivers behind t he current climate of conspiracy theories and racist '...

BCU has pioneered an innovative ‘close to practice’ professional doctorate programme in Education, the EdD, and the UK...

Researchers from the Bioresource and Bioeconomy research group have been woring with the community of Wupperthal in So...

Developing and testing systems which break down food waste in preperation for conversion into sustainable biogas. The t...

Identifying the potential in waste seaweed crops for the generation of sustainable biogas, this project aimed to equip...

The Bioresource and Bioeconomy Research Group at BCU is supporting the development of sustainable, circular bioeconomi...

After receiving a grant from Facebook, researchers at BCU are now investigating the opportunities around AR/VR to supp...

Monitoring children’s emotional and behavioural patterns via the use of wearable and external sensors tracking physiol...

Researchers are working with teenagers in Birmingham to design a climate action board game, in order to engage young p...

With Covid-19 continuing to affect social care, how has the pandemic impacted - both professionally and personally - t...

Identifying the different healthcare settings and specialities supporting the trainee nursing associate role.

Our Stakeholder report to the Syrian Arab Republic’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Professor Jon Yorke, makes spec...

Our Stakeholder report to South Sudan’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendatio...

The need for blockchain-based applications to interact with external services and applications is increasingly evident...

The project will use the case of autonomous pods manufactured by Westfield Technology Group (WTG), a leading manufactu...

The Co-MAP project responds to the urgent need to understand the impacts of Covid-19 in relation to the most vulnerabl...

The New Urban Landscape Alliance, is a working group to raise awareness of the capacity of urban landscapes to address...

Academics at BCU and the University of Hertfordshire have been working with officials in South Africa to provide an ana...

Working with international partners to investigate what music teachers think is important in assessments.

Researchers in BMERG have been investigating the decline of young people choosing music as an A Level subject, and whe...

Exploring how schools interpret music education policy to assess the state of music education in primary schools.

This project will explore the interaction between STEAM subjects and their inherent creativity to better understand th...

Silvia Gullino, Associate Professor in City Making has created a six series podcast called 'Drivers of Change' to highl...

Our stakeholder report to Thailand’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Professor Jon Yorke, makes specific recommendat...

Our stakeholder report to Papua New Guinea’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Professor Jon Yorke , makes specific...

March is Endometriosis (endo) Awareness Month . Dr Annalise Weckesser , Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City Uni...

Birmingham City University have developed a Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) tool to estimate life cycle cost and CO2...

The research investigates how Chinese contemporary art has increasingly become a popular method to help rejuvenate Chi...

Comparing cultural differences and sharing best practice around the teaching of music composition in the UK and Germany...

Responding the recorded lack of diversity in classical music education, this study aims to investigate the lived exper...

As a London-based music organisation expands its outreach, BCU has partnered with them to ensure their work - promotin...

Investigating the experiences of postgraduate researchers and the effects of those experiences on their mental healt...

Exploring the experiences and motivations of students partipating in taught Master's courses to understand the benefit...

The aim of the project is to propose cost effective scalable construction solutions and strategies that take account o...

This project is designed to explore the links between three topical issues within the fields of education and public h...

The aim was to explore the power of digital film to communicate the meaningful and honest experiences of those affecte...

Producing a powerful, contemporary remake of a famous early 1900s Suffrage play, working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ com...

Improving music activites to e ngage young people with special educational needs, and / or disabilities and enhanci...

The consortium has designed an efficient production line for DfMA houses under factory conditions (Figure 1). The aim ...

Developing a dashboard to track hitherto underexplored online conversations surrounding COVID-19, to provide valuable ...

The Research Development Unit for English Studies have developed a number of tools to assist quantitative language rese...

Over an 18 month period, the Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project is conducting one of the largest e...

Utilising a multimodal approach, including conversation analytics and eye-tracking technology, this project aims to an...

The WebCorp suite of tools is comprised of three versions of the software that build on one another to provide linguis...

eMargin is an online collaborative annotation tool that lets you highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags t...

OurSurveySays is an online service for the analysis of open-text survey questions using Corpus Linguistic techniques. ...

Exploring the instances of language whereby pairs of words are discouraged from appearing together, or are 'repulsed' ...

Islam's research as one of the AHRC and BBC New Thinkers aimed to continue building British national identity by celeb...

Evaluating the effect of education games on the learning and teaching of English literature.

The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.

Understanding the impact of whole school curriculum models on music subject leader practices.

In the first full length study of John Milton's influence in the Arab world, Dr Islam Issa reveals the poet's influenc...

BCU researchers have analysed over 68,000 eBay listings in order to find the most successful language used on the onli...

Dr Islam Issa reviewed thousands of archives, letters and documents from the First World War, revealing how frequently...

Elizabeth Siddall was an important and influential artist and poet during the 19 th century, but did her published ...

The project explored the online provision of information and advice directed at parents who turn to social media or on...

Jonathan Harris and a team of international researchers have created an extensive new publication detailing the key def...

Construction practice has hardly evolved in 40 years, and nor has productivity. Houses as a product have been criticis...

Examining the role of arts and humanities in developing inclusive forms of education for children with disabilities. ...

The Kipper and the Corpse saw Stuart Whipps pay homage to the iconic Longbridge Motor Factory by restoring a classic 1...

Utilising new 3D technologies and dance choreography to create unique representations of the human body in movement....

‘Unveiling the Gorge’, started out as a photographic study of the landscape of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Sit...

Analysing the emergence of lockdown performances in the entertainment industry and evaluating reactions to the challen...

Analysing the influential Baskerville Punches to gain a deeper understanding of John Baskerville's techniques and 18th...

Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future was an AHRC-funded Research Network that explored the survival of historic...

Speculative Natures, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, explores the role of contemporary art in imagining environmental ...

Evaluating the influence that fostering support programme, FosterTalk, has on foster carer retention and developing re...

Seeking to investigate, research and use unseen parts of archives as catalysts for the creation of new artworks.

The research will explore which strategies and resources are being used and how useful these are to student outcomes. ...

BCU researcher Andrew Wilson has worked with NHS trusts to develop a virtual reality app which allows medical students ...

The research investigated the legislation and related constitutional arguments used by certain state legislatures betw...

This research aims to fill the gap in current understanding of the work of these grand juries and its place in governm...

This project explores how period poverty initiatives have been mitigating the negative effects of coronavirus in order...

Analysing the scope of compassionate release in the US in an attempt to define state structures and approaches to the ...

Analysing the weight of forensic language used in court, in order to ensure the most accurate use of fornesic evidence...

Researchers within the Digital Media Technology centre have produced a state-of-the art music transcription system that...

Simplifying complex music production processes and making them more accessible, bridging the gap between musicians and...

PhD researcher Tom Brown is investigating why, despite its immense popularity, so few British South Asian cricketers m...

Investigating bone mineral density in athletes and understanding which genetic variants may be associated with this ph...

This funded project seeks to make coding more accessible for developers with physical impairments.

This research project, in collaboration with West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), aims to develop smarter traffic ...

This knowledge transfer partnership aims to help long-standing company Murray Uniforms to expand their design capabili...

BCU researcher, Sarah Lloyd is investigating the effects of Covid-19 on the justice system, specifically how to mainta...

This project explores the effectiveness of police community messaging systems, which provide users with local crime up...

This research explores police use of Tasers and of force more generally, in order to to ensure that Tasers are used...

Exploring the impacts of Covid-19 on domestic violence perpetration and victimisation are explored, while examining th...

This knowledge transfer partnership sees BCU experts partner with GlaxoSmithKline to create innovative augmented reali...

Working in partnership to create immersive, real-time visualisation systems for motor vehicles.

The time to peak blood bicarbonate, pH and strong ion difference in elite adolescent swimmers following sodium bicarbo...

Utilising the use of ergogenic aids to help adolescent swimmers maximise their performance.

Enhancing the understanding, and place a greater emphasis on, the nutritional needs of young swimmers to maximise thei...

Building off their influential work on the Iraq Body Count Project, researchers from BCU compiled a supplementary repo...

Dr Lily Hamourtziadou worked with the Every Casualty project - an organisation, exclusively focused on advancing cas...

Exploring the lived experiences of the LGBTQ community in Birmingham's Gay Village, specifically looking at the inclus...

The Irag Body Count (IBC) project collects data from a variety of reliable sources to create an accurate picture of ...

Analysing the experiences of communities to ask the question, ' Does urban greening benefit everyone?'

Bringing academia, art and community together to explore themes of racism, hate and suspicsion, in an attempt to creat...

Exploring the perception of risk and safety in online dating spaces for the LGBTQ community.

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a huge impact on us all, and has forced us to adapt how we live and work, and this is no...

This study aims to build on previous research about home schooling / home education more generally to explore and reco...

The project aims to explore how gathered materials can be combined and presented to create something new, making not a...

Investigating whether sodium bicarbonate can help aid an athlete's performance and recovery, particularly in the world...

Helping athletes maximise their performances with personalised supplements of sodium bicarbonate, a hitherto inconsist...

Thinking of Place iii brings artists together to reflect on geographical culture, exchange stories and reflect on them...

Determining the recovery response to muscle-damaging exercise when in a state of low energy availability.

Professor Joanne Brooke and Dr Maria Clark are researching the effects of social isolation on the elderly.

To detect and monitor terrorist activity, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) increasingly rely on social media intelligenc...

Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT) has a simple, clear but highly beneficial mission – to make available, and improve ac...

The Big Data Corridor (BDC) started as a way to link businesses with emerging technologies and help them utilise their ...

Innovate Dignity is a trans-national network that aims to deliver a shared, world-leading research and training progra...

This exhibition exlpored the meaning of shadow in different cultural contexts and determine, through contemporary art,...

Taking part in the Guangzhou Triennial, one of the largest art events in China, the BCU team's curation of the theme 'U...

This exhibition was centred around the concept of harmony, specifically in response to the notion of Chinese Harmony a...

This exhibition aimed to cross international boundaries by introducing a Chinese audience to five British artists, who...

This exhibition explored the ideologies behind President Xi Jinping's notion of the Chinese Dream.

Professor Jiang Jiehong of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts curated the biannual Thailand Biennale (2018)

This project aims to examine the applications of property level flood risk adaption in homes and businesses in the UK,...

Understanding the decline in traditional Chinese arts and culture amid the country’s rapid economic growth.

This project explored the artistic representation of dreams in different cultures, their socio-political meanings and ...

This project aim ed to explore the impacts of waiting on patients undergoing clinical treatment, as well as ways to...

With a worldwide shortage of nurses and a large proportion of dementia sufferers based in nursing homes, this project e...

With newly-qualified nurses often succumbing to stress and questioning their choice of career, this research project ai...

Identifying training strategies and determining how registered health and social care practitioners change their pract...

This research explored family carers’ and professional carers’ experiences of pre-clinical dementia in the people they...

Austerity is a prevalent theme of current socio-political and economical culture but the impact on public health, thou...

This qualitative study explores the experiences and perspectives of nurses who provide support to South Asian carers of...

This project aims to assess and critically inform the public's perception of health inequalities in the UK, thus infor...

Critically analysing the dementia care provision in the UK prison service.

Increasing our understanding of the spiritual and cultural beliefs around dementia to develop a nursing curriculum tha...

This study aims to provide contemporary evidence to support the development of policy, HV education and service pro...

This knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) with Birmingham-based company C Brandauer & Co Ltd investigates tool wear,...

Funded by the National Science Centre, this project looks to understand the complex relationships of the formation of ...

Putting in place a cross-sectoral and cross-technological initiative at European level to increase integration between...

This project has helped to establish long-term UK-Indonesia collaboration on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) wh...

Development of the platform for three-dimensional simulation and modelling of the additive manufacturing processes suc...

CATiD BCU has endorsed the document and contributed with drawings and images to demonstrate the importance of spatial ...

Creating a more sustainable and effective way of connecting cities and the landscape within them.

Revolutionising the Tame Valley Wetlands area of the West Midlands into an accessible area teeming with wildlife and b...

With the youngest, fastest-growing, most diverse population in the UK, the imminent arrival of HS2, the hosting of Cit...

Do the majority of the public recognise abusive controlling and coercive behaviours?

Analysing the weighted language and media response to increased refugee activity in the UK.

Analysing the characteristics of the perpetrators of spree killings to guide public policy and inform investigative pr...

This research will develop understandings of how to use repertoire as a stimulus that opens the composing horizons for...

Working with young people to create new music around the theme of auto-immune disease.

Imagine Compose explored how groups of beginner instrumentalists up to Grade 3, can compose within a “Wider Opportunit...

The Eczema Mindlines project provides a range of videos, conferences, workshops and more to provide sufferers with the...

Health professionals involved in academia are essential, but understaffed. This project aims to unravel why such a vit...

This research theme aims to utilise data intelligence and security to improve the cyber-physical systems of smart wa...

The number of pregnant women classed as obese continues to rise across the globe. Using a range of innovative techniqu...

Ensuring the sustainability, security and resilience of water supplies in the face of climate change is a global chall...

This project seeks to address sensor and sensor network deployment and communication in smart water distribution syste...

To identify how, when and in what context patient-practitioners-researcher boundaries have been crossed in knowledge m...

In response to the introduction of nationwide Menstrual Health Education (MHE) in the UK, BCU researchers are investig...

Birmingham City University researchers are embarking on a project to increase inclusivity in femtech apps by analysing...

This project assessed the feasibility of introducing new procedures in routine caesarean sections, which may reduce th...

This project aims to combat period poverty my researching and producing resources that advance knowledge in the mens...

Managing epilepsy while pregnant can be distressing and potentially harmful, which is why many opt to use anti-epile...

Endometriosis is a painful condition and many sufferers require surgery to remove areas of endometriosis in order to...

Endometriosis is a painful condition affecting 1.6 million women in the UK and this study explores the perspectives ...

Exploring researchers’ viewpoints and learning of a toolkit designed to increase Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME...

Analysing holding techniques (which involve keeping patients still during invasive treatment or examination) within th...

Working to boost the achievements of black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) students within the University's School o...

This project investigates which game mechanics are best suited to increasing engagement, using several participants fr...

The Making Mothers project concerns the analysis and development of novel antenatal care strategies to improve the hea...

MRI scans can be used to predict neurodevelopmental impairments in preterm infants. Birmingham City University conduct...

Analysing the expectations and realities of postnatal care in England, in order to identify areas for attention and im...

Exploring the experiences of mothers and families with twins or triplets to assess their care needs.

Fetal growth restriction is a serious complication responsible for 30% of stillbirths. The EVERREST programme aims to ...

Reducing heat-stress and increasing heat dissapation in is a key challenge in industries and processes, from micro/n...

The research sought to explain the nature and extent of destruction and the processes and products of replanning and r...

The Philippines has the potential to generate power from offshore wind but a thorough wind resource assessment (WRA) m...

The project aims to explore the link between violent media exposure, aggression and executive functioning in greater...

The aim of the research is to expand our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underpinning how young children lea...

The project seeks to investigate the Prevent Duty within UK Higher Education (UKHE) and establish how it has been enac...

FSEPS is a programme designed to combat social inclusion in mothers who live with their children in refuges or other...

This project hopes to increase the general understanding of the underlying perceptions of exploitation in order to det...

The research addresses the root causes of vulnerability to DA in military settings, focusing attention on emerging ris...

The central premise of this project is the question as to whether current manslaughter laws are sufficient when we con...

Embrace HE - Enabling mental health benefits: resilience, achievement, competencies and engagement in improved higher ...

Evidence suggests that police receptivity to research is low, which can potentially lead to knowledge gaps in core pol...

Knife crime interventions are an important initiative that aims to increase awareness of the dangers of knife crime. C...

This project aims to identify the reason for the rise in youth perpetrated knife crime based on a number of factors. ...

Traditional foods used for livestock rearing, such as maize and soybeans, are suffering from increasing environmental p...

Road vehicles are one of the main contributors to increasing CO2 emissions. In order to reduce the reliance on the c...

CHR Consultancy members provide advice, reports and educative training for the Alliance for International Development,...

This project will review the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and identify project from which the CHR can...

The Clinic provided legal advice to the Sudanese Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) in the petitions for Meriam Ibrahim, h...

Our s takeholder report to Eswatini's Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr Alice Storey , makes specific recommend...

Contributing to the work of Amicus ALJ, which trains the UK legal profession to undertake aspects of capital defence wi...

This project will form staff and student collaborations to identify key human rights issues in Brazil.

This stakeholder report submitted to Sudan’s third cycle UPR is led by Dr Amna Nazir and builds upon our 2016 work wit...

Advising the United States of America on the subjects of capital punishment, climate change, and compassionate release...

The Centre for Human Rights provides recommendations for Myanmar to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on...

The UPR Project at BCU was established by the Centre for Human Rights in 2018. It was created to generate public awa...

In July 2022, the UPR Project at BCU submitted two submissions to Pakistan’s UPR, both led by Dr Amna Nazir. The firs...

The Centre for Human Rights Consultancy works closely with the Sudanese Human Rights Initiative for the promotion of a...

In March 2022, the UPR Project at BCU submitted two joint submissions to the UK’s UPR. The first was submitted in conj...

Our Stakeholder report to Namibia's Universal Periodic Review makes specific recommendations to the government on eradi...

Professor Jon Yorke of Birmingham City University's Centre for Human Rights was part of the working group which devised...

This research project aims to explore how further education leaders who have a self-professed history of commitment to...

The research aimed to explore the challenges of putting together and delivering successful apprenticeship programmes. ...

The research aims to discuss this issue and provide a conceptual real estate framework to manage these risk events.

Looking behind the figures, this exploratory research can show the key value drivers of MLI properties.

This four year project combines the expertise and resources of 19 partners over 7 countries in order to address sustain...

Doosan Enpure's patented Sonix technology aims to increase the yield of biogas production but the technology required ...

The water industry of the future will need to be smart and resource-efficient, and the current water industry is chara...

Estimating the potential economic benefits of making people physically more active

Funded by Innovate UK, Birmingham City University researchers have partnered with Wilmat Limited to investigate and de...

BMF reached out to Birmingham City University (BCU) to develop a model that would forecast the economic condition of t...

How can we prepare for the spread of anti-microbial resistance and what are the potential impacts on our lives and eco...

The evaluative report undertaken by Birmingham City University detailed a variety of perspectives on the Teach Through...

Birmingham City University is undergoing research to critically evaluate the impact of the Professional Exchange Net...

Researchers are providing an array of approaches to investigating research supervision.

Can getting young people involved in musical activities help those at risk of low attainment or exclusion?

How successful is Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)?

The pilot project set out to capture the rhythmic fluctuations and orientations of BCU’s campuses.

Highlighting key themes in music education for young people

The research is in its early stages and has already identified exemplars of creative modes of research dissemination. ...

Working in partnership with Sound and Music to understand more regarding musical learning through composing

Creating a common assessment tool that could be used by all professionals in a way that empowers parents and children.

The primary aim of this project was to create a sustainable and collaborative model of observations.

Investigating a unified, integrated approach to educating children with disabilities

Examining the impact the Singing School model has on the educational outcomes of children and young people

The researchers in this project are actively and proactively exploring creative modes of research dissemination.

What is the relationship between leadership and improving teaching and learning?

The Human Spaces research project is a small scale evaluative case study.

Sound Connections, a leading music charity based in London, approached BCU to act as the data analysis partner in an e...

To examine how drama in schools can be used to explore different subjects to create democratic spaces.

Exploring children's right to make choices and engage in playful activities in restricted environments through music a...

Evaluating music education in projects with specialised instruments for those with upper-limb disabilities.

What does classical music mean to today's generation?

Exploring how making a space in the curriculum for students to share aspects of their cultural background and identity ...

Investigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.

Raising awareness of the Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools

Exploring the performance of music education hubs across the country

Focusing on colleges not just as a producers of human capital but rather, as important community resources.

Identifying regional contrasts in A-level music provision, and to understand the contexts within which the downturn in ...

How do we asses music proficiency across the world?

Reducing disparities in learning outcomes for children from refugee, asylum seeker, and newly arrived migration context...

The project harnesses the child’s voice to help resolve their specific experiences of school bullying.

This study draws on Hill’s ‘cabaret’ research dissemination to develop a template to use for the range of exemplars.

Compassionate care is experiential and hard to teach, but VR could help prepare health students for their first engage...

This project aims to understand how the very youngest children (0 - 3 year olds) are using touchscreen technology in h...

Working with Birmingham Music Education Partnership to assess the music education pupils in primary and secondary scho...

An exploration of the impact and implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework

The project seeks to address weaknesses in current secondary school music provision.

Birmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.

Early intervention services have the capacity to make big improvements to childrens' outcomes, but how might these ser...

This project aims to unpack the benefits of Conductive Education (CE) by working with a CE centre in Birmingham.

Free school meals can be a vital lifeline for economically disadvantaged families but during the school holidays child...

Exploring the early care and education experiences of children born prematurely through reports from parents.

This project aims to improve the lives of children with complex disabilities by trailing early intervention methods ...

Sex and Relationship Education in schools will always be a contentious topic but to what extent do a teacher’s own vie...

Research Projects

The UPR Project at BCU: UAE

The UPR Project at BCU: Mali

The UPR Project at BCU: Botswana

The Jewellery Quarter Industry Cluster - halting terminal decline and providing practical support to Birmingham’s original creative industry

CHECKIT HE – Countering Hate and Extremism on Campus

Music Makers of the Future

NHRI Training on UN Freedom of Expression and Religion

Universal Periodic Review 2022 – UK Civil Society Engagement

Alan Eugene Miller

Resisting hyperreality?: talking to young children about YouTube and YouTube Kids

Using rhythmanalysis to explore the synchronicities and disruptions in children’s everyday lives in England and Greece during the 2020 lockdown

The UPR Project at BCU: Zambia

The UPR Project at BCU: Ghana

The UPR Project at BCU: Gabon

The UPR Project at BCU: Sri Lanka

The UPR Project at BCU: Japan

The UPR Project at BCU: Benin

Malthouse Engineering: Data Analytics and Environmentally Sustainable Firm Growth

The UPR Project at BCU: Indonesia

Ending the Criminalisation of Domestic Abuse Victims

The UPR Project at BCU: Philippines

The UPR Project at BCU: South Africa

Best crime scene shows on TV right now

Best crime scene shows on TV right now

Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville Bible

Digitising Aris’s Birmingham Gazette

Creativity Collaboratives Billesley Primary School

The Good Work Monitor

An Evaluation of the Women’s Health Network in Bradford

PrisNurS: Student nurse’s lived experience of a clinical placement in a prison setting

Maximising the Impact of Games as Effective Participative Tools: The Rufopoly Resource Kit

Managing Environmental Change at the Fringe: Reconnecting Science and Policy with the Rural-Urban Fringe

Tools: Applications, Benefits and Limitations for Ecosystems (TABLES)

Linda Anita Carty

Zane Floyd

Shonda Walter

Barriers to Return of Home Sampling Kits for Sexually Transmitted Infections Requested Online: A Qualitative Study

Interventions around the impact of Coronavirus on Muslims in Birmingham in post-Covid Britain

Covid-19: What are the Drivers of the Islamophobic Infodemic Communications on social media

Digi-Doc: Digital Doctorate Training Hub

Developing Community Centric Sustainable Solutions for Rural Communities in Western Cape, South Africa

Optimising Biogas Production from Food Waste

MacroBio – Sustainable Utilisation of Macroalgae (Seaweed) in Indonesia

Converting organic waste into sustainable bioenergy and products

Inclusive AR/VR Experiences

Wearable Systems for Emotional Behavioural Disorders

The Built Climate Action Game

The impact of Covid-19 on care home staff

The experiences and expectations of trainee nursing associates

The UPR Project at BCU: Syrian Arab Republic

The UPR Project at BCU: South Sudan

Reputable

Digital Innovations for Niche Sector Industry Supply Chain Optimisation

Co-MAP: Investigating Covid-19's impact on vulnerable young people

The New Urban Landscape Alliance

Determinants of corporate cash holdings in South Africa

Music teacher attitudes to assessment

A Level music decline and disadvantage attainment gaps

Music Teaching Provision in Primary Schools

Re-thinking curricula: STEAM education from early years through to higher education

Drivers of Change Podcast

The UPR Project At BCU: Thailand

The UPR Project At BCU: Papua New Guinea

From Meghan Markle to Endometriosis… We don’t believe women

DfMA house knowledge-based engineering (KBE) tool for Life Cycle Cost and CO2 emissions

Art Diplomacy and Nation Branding: The Visual Politics of Re-inventing China

Comparing composition teaching and learning in secondary school education in the UK and Germany

Investigating how socio-economic background influences music students’ aspirations, sense of identity and belonging within UK conservatoires.

Musical Beacons

Postgraduate Researchers Mental Health and Well-Being

What value does a Master’s in Education have for diverse student groups?

Building a Diverse Practitioner Learning Environment

Overheating mitigation and Indoor air quality improvement in new build residential developments in the UK

Exploring the multi-dimensional relationships between social class inequalities, wellbeing and play in children aged 0-5

Life:Moving: Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability: Towards an Ethical Film Praxis

Tomorrow's Great Pageant

MEHEM UpRising!

DfMA House Panel Production

TRAC:COVID – Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus Online Visual Dashboard