Research Projects
Our research is connected to outcomes that feedback into industry, culture and the environment. Find out more about our researchers and their projects below.
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
This project maps, for the first time, the European networks of production, circulation and consumption of gay erotica...
Language of DIY Justice: Communication practices and processes
This project (2019-2023) explored communicative, procedural and legal barriers court users experience in small claims ...
Enhancing Urban Resilience and Sustainability through UK-India Collaboration
Birmingham City University has launched an exciting new international collaboration aimed at tackling some of the mo...
Exploring exercise behaviours in Phenylketonuria patients
This research will aim to explore physical activity and exercise behaviours in patients with the rare inherited metabo...
Listen Imagine Compose Primary: Researching the teaching and learning of composition
The aims of this project were to work with teachers and composers to develop meaningful and relevant composing activit...
Using Corpus Linguistics to Protect Children and Save Lives
This knowledge transfer partnership seeks to enhance Senso.cloud’s keyword violation detection by drawing upon BCU’s w...
Exploring the language of modern fatherhood: A linguistic study of a paternal support group
Fathers play a vital role in family life, but evidence suggests that new fathers face a range of difficulties adjustin...
Thinking Machines: Constructing Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1840-1860
This project investigates the way periodicals were used between deliberately by publishers and editors to try to influ...
The Sleepless Theatre Exhibition
In this exhibition, The Sleepless Theatre , the notion of the ‘theatre’ has three tiers of meaning. First, it ref...
Spirit Matters: Contemporary Art from China
To our artists, what matters is not only the visual language and material, but also methodological approaches of their...
Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation
Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation (ELTQCO) was an 18-month project, funded by...
Empowering Practitioners’ Professional Learning Through Unseen Observation
The innovative “unseen observation” project with Walsall College, led by Professor Matt O’Leary in the Centre for the...
Supporting flexible pathways and effective student transitions in college-based higher education
Using a case-study approach, the project will explore several areas of focus related to the overarching theme of suppo...
NIHR’s economic return at the regional and national level
We are developing an UK economy-wide multi-region multi-sector Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate ...
Birmingham School Surveys Music Research
The Birmingham School Surveys Music Research Project is a three-year project focused on developing our understanding o...