Research projects

Learn more about our research projects across our nine clusters or view our archives for our completed or past projects.

Gaming Global

Funded by the British Council, the Game Cultures research cluster worked with game makers, artists and policy makers t...

BCU took part in the collaborative Voices of War and Peace project, specifically investigating the contribution of blac...

Researchers in the Media and Place research cluster critically evaluated the smARTplaces project, which enabled cultur...

Examining the relationship between conflict, memory and displacement surrounding global conflicts in the UK and Ital...

Examining the transitional relationship between British and Dutch pornography to contribute to debates around the hist...

Working with innovative Norwegian festival Punkt to create new artistic outputs and forge exciting interdisciplinary c...

Riffs: Experimental Writing On Popular Music is a journal producing popular music research through a variety of medium...

Aiming to preserve a piece of important media history, Dr Vanessa Jackson conducted a series of interviews with staff ...

BCU researchers supported the USE-IT project, an initiative aimed at improving urban development and solving social an...

Dr Karen Patel has highlighted the extent of racism and microaggressions in UK professional craft and is working with o...

Investigating the challenges faced by a generation of musicians in today's society as they negotiate life with music. ...

As the way people consume music continues to change, the Harkive project investigates how people's experiences are evo...

BCU research project, 40 years on: Gender Equality , introduces the work and activism of Birmingham-based women in ...

Exploring the use of digital media by individuals and communities, and how these technologies are being utilised to en...

Seeking to explore data visualisation as a methodology for supporting cultural organisations who seek to address inequ...