Research projects

Learn more about our research projects across our nine clusters or view our archives for our completed or past projects.

Gaming Global

Funded by the British Council, the Game Cultures research cluster worked with game makers, artists and policy makers t...

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...