Research projects

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

Working with innovative Norwegian festival Punkt to create new artistic outputs and forge exciting interdisciplinary c...

Examining the transitional relationship between British and Dutch pornography to contribute to debates around the hist...

Examining the relationship between conflict, memory and displacement surrounding global conflicts in the UK and Ital...

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

BCU took part in the collaborative Voices of War and Peace project, specifically investigating the contribution of blac...

BCU research project, 40 years on: Gender Equality , introduces the work and activism of Birmingham-based women in ...

Dr Karen Patel has highlighted the extent of racism and microaggressions in UK professional craft and is working with o...

Investigating the challenges faced by a generation of musicians in today's society as they negotiate life with music. ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Seeking to explore data visualisation as a methodology for supporting cultural organisations who seek to address inequ...

Investigating the television recording and broadcast of jazz, to establish the connection between jazz and media as ...

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

The Slanguages research and exhibition explores the creative use of language in a variety of performance mediums, info...

CHIME explored the uses and re-uses of different types of heritage through the study of jazz and improvised music fest...

Research from Dr Dima Saber and Dr Jerome Turner has informed projects which have equipped over 7,000 activists with t...

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

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

The DSMN aims to explore the exciting developments taking place in Black British and British Asian Cinema and TV broug...

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

Research projects

Gaming Global

Riffs - Experimental Writing on Popular Music

Punkt Birmingham 2020

The Transnational Trade in Hardcore Pornography

Conflict, Memory and Displacement

smARTplaces

Voices of War and Peace

BCU research project investigates the role of arts and culture in local politics

Craft Expertise

Everyday Jazz Life

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together

Pebble Mill oral history project

Harkive

Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics

Live Music Research

Media, community and the creative citizen

Cultural Landscapes

Jazz on BBC TV: 1960-1969

Global Reggae Research Project

Slanguages

CHIME

Developing a digital literacy and verification network in the Global South

Exploring and researching the art of songwriting

Monitoring and Evaluation Lab

Diaspora Screen Media Network

Exploring and researching the art of songwriting