Research projects

Desecuritising Higher Education

The project seeks to investigate the Prevent Duty within UK Higher Education (UKHE) and establish how it has been enac...

Perceptions of Safety and Risk Amongst Grindr Users

Exploring the perception of risk and safety in online dating spaces for the LGBTQ community.

Visualising Suspicion: Art, Community and Counter-Terrorism

Bringing academia, art and community together to explore themes of racism, hate and suspicion, in an attempt to create...

Social inclusion and exclusion of the greenification of urban space

Analysing the experiences of communities to ask the question, ' Does urban greening benefit everyone?' 

Iraq Body Count: data collection and analysis on security

The Iraq Body Count (IBC)  project collects data from a variety of reliable sources to create an accurate picture of ...

Every Casualty: creation of an online knowledge base

Dr Lily Hamourtziadou  worked with the Every Casualty project - an  organisation, exclusively focused on advancing cas...

European Asylum Support Office: Iraq report

Building off their influential work on the Iraq Body Count Project, researchers from BCU compiled a supplementary repo...

The Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project

Over an 18 month period, the Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project is conducting one of the largest e...

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...