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.

Language of DIY Justice: Communication practices and processes

This project (2019-2023) explored communicative, procedural and legal barriers court users experience in small claims ...

Enhancing Urban Resilience and Sustainability through UK-India Collaboration

Birmingham City University has launched an exciting new international collaboration  aimed at tackling some of the mo...

Exploring exercise behaviours in Phenylketonuria patients

This research will aim to explore physical activity and exercise behaviours in patients with the rare inherited metabo...

Listen Imagine Compose Primary: Researching the teaching and learning of composition

The aims of this project were to work with teachers and composers to develop meaningful and relevant composing activit...

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...

Using Corpus Linguistics to Protect Children and Save Lives

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

Thinking Machines: Constructing Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1840-1860

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

The Sleepless Theatre Exhibition

In this exhibition,  The Sleepless Theatre , the notion of the ‘theatre’ has three tiers of meaning. First, it ref...

Spirit Matters: Contemporary Art from China

To our artists, what matters is not only the visual language and material, but also methodological approaches of their...

Empowering Practitioners’ Professional Learning Through Unseen Observation

The innovative “unseen observation” project with Walsall College, led by  Professor Matt O’Leary  in the Centre for the...

Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation

Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation  (ELTQCO) was an 18-month project, funded by...

Supporting flexible pathways and effective student transitions in college-based higher education

Using a case-study approach, the project will explore several areas of focus related to the overarching theme of suppo...

NIHR’s economic return at the regional and national level

We are developing an UK economy-wide multi-region multi-sector Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate ...

Birmingham School Surveys Music Research

The Birmingham School Surveys Music Research Project is a three-year project focused on developing our understanding o...

Social Prescribing and Health Inequalities

Health inequalities remain a growing public health challenge in the UK and globally. Social prescribing, introduced in...