Research projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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. ...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Exploring the social inclusion of adults living with the effects of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), with a...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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 ...

It is intended that RED-Alert will outperform state-of-the-art SOCMINTsolutions in terms of performance (number of lan...

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,...

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

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

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

Exploring the world of DIY justice and how those who represent themselves in court navigate the many communication pit...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There are currently 36,000 nurse vacancies in the UK. With retention rates continuing to drop, this project examines h...

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

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

Analysing previously reported incidents to examine how it can help to monitor and predict where staff safety may be at...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

This Stakeholder Report in Sudan’s UPR (2021) will be led by Dr Amna Nazir, and it builds upon our 2016 work with the ...

This submission is based upon a research collaboration between the Centre of Human Rights’ Dr. Alice Storey and Keele ...

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

Birmingham City University's Centre for Human Rights will be working with the Research Society of International Law ...

Our Stakeholder Submission in the UK’s review in the Fourth Cycle of the UPR will focus upon domestic violence, disabi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Highlighting key themes in music education for young people

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

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.

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

How successful is Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)?

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

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

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?

Exploring the performance of music education hubs across the country

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

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

What does classical music mean to today's generation?

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

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

Raising awareness of the Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools

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

How do we asses music proficiency across the world?

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

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

Investigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

Birmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.

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Research Projects

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

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

Musical Beacons

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

Postgraduate Researchers Mental Health and Well-Being

Building a Diverse Practitioner Learning Environment

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

Tomorrow's Great Pageant

Exploring the multi-dimensional relationships between social class, health and wellbeing and play in Birmingham Early Years settings

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

MEHEM UpRising!

DfMA House Panel Production

SITCO 3: Investigating multimodal interaction in storytelling

XTranscript and the CASE XML Conversion Tool

The Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project

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

eMargin: collaborative text annotation tool

OurSurveySays: online dashboard for the analysis of text-based survey responses

WebCorp: harnessing the web as linguistic resource in research, teaching and beyond

Repulsion: The investigation of an organising force in text

Shakespeare in the Middle East

Games and the Teaching of Literature

Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing

Curriculum models in school practices

World War One football stories

Milton in the Arab Muslim world

The most profitable words on eBay

The real voice of Elizabeth Siddall

Linguistic and socio-legal analysis of online forums for Litigants in Person

Terrorism and the Arts

Transforming house construction with DfMA

Disability Under Siege

Kipper and the Corpse

Surviving Lockdown: performance responses in a constrained pandemic landscape

Atomos

Unveiling the Gorge

Letterpress printing: past, present, future

The Baskerville Punches: revelations of craftsmanship

Speculative Natures

Independent Evaluation of FosterTalk Membership Services

Bummock

Using vignettes to explore how supervisors and students clarify expectations during doctoral studies

Virtual Reality Ophthalmology Training

Federalism and State Legislative Opposition to the Affordable Care Act

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in adulthood: An exploration of social inclusion and identity

Local Governance Participation and Monitoring in California: The Role of the Civil Grand Jury

Periods in a Pandemic: how UK period poverty initiatives are mitigating Covid-19 related challenges

Compassionate Release

Forensic Science and Jury Decision-making

Automated Drum Transcription

Intelligent Music Production and Automated Music Transformations

Genetics and Bone Mineral Density

Coding for disabled developers

WMCA Serrano: A Vision-based System for Road Traffic Monitoring

Improving uniform design processes

The impact of Covid-19 on the right to a fair trial

The Impact of Lockdown on Domestic Violence Perpetration and Victimisation

The Impacts of Police Messaging Services on Public Perceptions and Fear of Crime

Police Use of Tasers

Vehicle configurator augmented reality system

Developing augmented reality technologies

Athlete preparation for elite swimming

Ergogenic aids for adolescent swimmers

The difference in athletes post-sodium bicarbonate digestion

European Asylum Support Office: Iraq report

Iraq Body Count: data collection and analysis on security

Every Casualty: creation of an online knowledge base

The Role of Birmingham’s ‘Gay Village’ in the ‘Othering’ of Non-Homonormative Identities

Perceptions of Safety and Risk Amongst Grindr Users

Visualising Suspicion: Art, Community and Counter-Terrorism

How COVID-19 has affected radiotherapy treatments

Social inclusion and exclusion of the greenification of urban space

Exploring home schooling experiences for children with SEND and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Doing / thinking – About (facing away from the direction of travel)

Personalising sodium bicarbonate supplementation to maximise performance

Effects of sodium bicarbonate on exercise performance and recovery

Thinking of Place iii

Recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage