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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 '...
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...
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...
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...
Optimising Biogas Production from Food Waste
Developing and testing systems which break down food waste in preparation for conversion into sustainable biogas. The t...
Converting organic waste into sustainable bioenergy and products
The Bioresource and Bioeconomy Research Group at BCU is supporting the development of sustainable, circular bioeconomi...