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.

Ending the Criminalisation of Domestic Abuse Victims

The CHR provided its consultancy service to non-governmental organisation, the Centre for Women’s Justice, contributing...

The Good Work Monitor

The Institute for the Future of Work’s Good Work Monitor builds a detailed sub-regional map of access to good work acr...

An Evaluation of the Women’s Health Network in Bradford

The project aims to evaluate and advise the Women's Health Network in Bradford, a collective of women who strive to imp...

Breaking the taboo

Covering menstrual health, period poverty and pain, BCU’s research casts new light on hidden issues and inequality.

PrisNurS: Student nurse’s lived experience of a clinical placement in a prison setting

Exploring the experiences of student nurses who are assigned clinical placements in prison settings in order to suppor...

Maximising the Impact of Games as Effective Participative Tools: The Rufopoly Resource Kit

Rufopoly is a participatory-learning board game, which enables players to undertake a journey through a fictitious rur...

Managing Environmental Change at the Fringe: Reconnecting Science and Policy with the Rural-Urban Fringe

This research re-discovered the rural urban fringe within more positive, inclusive and proactive agendas for management...

Tools: Applications, Benefits and Limitations for Ecosystems (TABLES)

This work focuses specifically on integrating the principles and thinking behind the ecosystem approach and ecosystem s...

Barriers to Return of Home Sampling Kits for Sexually Transmitted Infections Requested Online: A Qualitative Study

Exploring the factors behind falling rates of STI home test kit returns in Birmingham and Solihull.

Interventions around the impact of Coronavirus on Muslims in Birmingham in post-Covid Britain

This ESRC funded project explores areas of need for Muslim communities during the impact of coronavirus, and developin...

Covid-19: What are the Drivers of the Islamophobic Infodemic Communications on social media

This ESRC funded project aims to identify the drivers behind t he current climate of conspiracy theories and racist '...

Digi-Doc: Digital Doctorate Training Hub

BCU has pioneered an innovative ‘close to practice’ professional doctorate programme in Education, the EdD, and the UK...

Developing Community Centric Sustainable Solutions for Rural Communities in Western Cape, South Africa

Researchers from the Bioresource and Bioeconomy research group have been working with the community of Wupperthal in S...

Optimising Biogas Production from Food Waste

Developing and testing systems which break down food waste in preparation for conversion into sustainable biogas. The t...

MacroBio – Sustainable Utilisation of Macroalgae (Seaweed) in Indonesia

Identifying the potential in waste seaweed crops for the generation of sustainable biogas, this project aimed to equip...