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.

Work-Related Pressures for Delivery Drivers in the Digital Age of the “Gig Economy"

The central premise of this project is the question as to whether current manslaughter laws are sufficient when we con...

Youth perceptions and experiences of knife crime

 This project aims to identify the reason for the rise in youth perpetrated knife crime based on a number of factors. ...

Designing a Microalgae Cultivation System for the production of animal feed supplements

Traditional foods used for livestock rearing, such as maize and soybeans, are suffering from increasing environmental p...

Engine heat waste recovery for greener vehicles

Road vehicles are one of the main contributors to  increasing CO2 emissions. In order to reduce the reliance on the c...

Alliance for International Development, Education and Research (AIDER)

CHR Consultancy members provide advice, reports and educative training for the Alliance for International Development,...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals Project

This project  will review the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and identify project from which the CHR can...

The Meriam Ibrahim Litigation in Sudan

The Clinic provided legal advice to the Sudanese Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) in the petitions for Meriam Ibrahim, h...

Safeguarding Human Rights in Sudan

The Centre for Human Rights Consultancy works closely with the Sudanese Human Rights Initiative for the promotion of a...

The European Union and Abolition of the Death Penalty

Professor Jon Yorke of Birmingham City University's Centre for Human Rights was part of the working group which devised...

Amicus ALJ

Contributing to the work of Amicus ALJ, which trains the UK legal profession to undertake aspects of capital defence wi...

Modelling the Drivers of the UK Multi-let Industrial Property Market

Looking behind the figures, this exploratory research can show the key value drivers of MLI properties. 

Advancing real estate decision making

The research aims to discuss this issue and provide a conceptual real estate framework to manage these risk events.

Testing and optimising techniques for biogas conversion

Doosan Enpure's patented Sonix technology aims to increase the yield of biogas production but the technology required ...

EnAlgae: Bioenergy for North West Europe

This four year project combines the expertise and resources of 19 partners over 7 countries in order to address sustain...

IoT4Win: Connected water management

The water industry of the future will need to be smart and resource-efficient, and the current water industry is chara...