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.
Ecological Transition in Brazil: A Multisectoral Modelling Tool
The research is commissioned under the GEMMES programme of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), as part of its...
Researching initial teacher education students’ sense of belonging and community on campus: an exploration of BCU City South learning and teaching spaces
This project explores the City South general campus space and how learning and teaching spaces impact BCU primary ITE ...
Exploring the impact of immersive placements in healthcare education
Flourish in collaboration with Birmingham City University, Public Health and community organisations around the city, h...
Does the non-specific activation of immune cells compromise the diagnostic capabilities of TB blood test?
TB remains a disease of global and regional significance, with infection rates in the West Midlands exceeding the natio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...