Research projects

Like a Rolling Stone

International jewellery makers responding to themes of relocation and identity around the North Berwick coast and the p...

Bringing the Staffordshire Hoard to life

Alongside local partners and museum trusts, BCU researchers have analysed the remnants of the Staffordshire Hoard to as...

The Adorned Afterlife Network

Bottomley brought together a network of international researchers from Design, Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology, His...

FERROcity

FERROcity was co-curated by Bottomley and Turrell and exhibited the praxis of twenty-two contemporary jewellery artist...

‘ Voyagers’ Alumni Exhibition 2020

An exhibition of ten alumni of the Birmingham School of Jewellery. Curated by Professor Stephen Bottomley and Visiting...

Space/Craft

Stephen Bottomley's 2019 solo exhibition, Space/Craft was a reflective look at his work that captured material fragmen...

Baskerville Punches

The Baskerville font was designed by John Baskerville an eighteenth-century Birmingham printer who considered all aspe...

SBS Insurance Ltd

The School of Jewellery has conducted a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) with SBS Insurance to investigate whether...

Small Performances: Investigating the typographic punches of Baskerville

'Small performances' is an interdisciplinary project that will make a substantial contribution to the history of print...