Research projects

Exploring the language of modern fatherhood: A linguistic study of a paternal support group

Fathers play a vital role in family life, but evidence suggests that new fathers face a range of difficulties adjustin...

This knowledge transfer partnership seeks to enhance Senso.cloud’s keyword violation detection by drawing upon BCU’s w...

This project investigates the way periodicals were used between deliberately by publishers and editors to try to influ...

The Research Development Unit for English Studies have developed a number of tools to assist quantitative language rese...

Developing a dashboard to track hitherto under-explored online conversations surrounding COVID-19, to provide valuable...

eMargin is an online collaborative annotation tool that lets you highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags t...

OurSurveySays is an online service for the analysis of open-text survey questions using Corpus Linguistic techniques. ...

The WebCorp suite of tools is comprised of three versions of the software that build on one another to provide linguis...

Exploring the instances of language whereby pairs of words are discouraged from appearing together, or are 'repulsed' ...

Islam's research as one of the AHRC and BBC New Thinkers aimed to continue building British national identity by celeb...

Working with multiple partners to revive Birmingham's Shakespeare Memorial Library, the world's first great Shakespeare...

The first survey and analysis of the cultural and literary impacts of blindness in the Arab world.

Evaluating the effect of education games on the learning and teaching of English literature.

Dr Islam Issa reviewed thousands of archives, letters and documents from the First World War, revealing how frequently...

In the first full length study of John Milton's influence in the Arab world, Dr Islam Issa reveals the poet's influenc...