Research projects

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

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...

This research introduces the work and activism of Birmingham-based women in the mid-1980s. The project includes an exhi...

The Global Reggae Research Project brings together researchers to explore the development of reggae across the world. ...

Helping improve monitoring and evaluation for new projects and ongoing research.

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

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...

Dr Simon Barber has helped shine a light on the craft and methodology behind songwriting, while also establishing it a...

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

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

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

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

With live music facing significant challenges, this project investigates live music activity in Birmingham and the imp...

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

Through a series of seminars, musical performances, and workshops, the project examined different claims about jazz’s ...