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.
RAPID and Efficient Eczema Trials (RAPID programme)
To improve the lives of people living with eczema by partnering with citizen scientists to deliver multiple, efficient...
Do lifting cushions work in care homes? Implementation and impact of a lifting cushion for care home residents who have fallen
Care home residents are at significant risk of falling, often related to physical frailty, cognitive impairment and ce...
Radiography mindlines: An ethnographic study of professional knowledge sharing in a diagnostic radiography clinical learning environment.
The aim of this research is to explore how professional knowledge is shared, accessed, and created between undergradua...
Knowledge mobilisation using co-design to enhance midwives’ gestational weight gain mindlines in relation to South Asian women
The aim of this research is to co-design prototype strategies that will support midwives to have culturally sensitive ...
Knowledge mobilisation to enhance and amend eczema mindlines
To find effective ways in which to get eczema knowledge to research teams to patients, parents of children with the co...
How feminists are harnessing human rights to advance abortion access
Dr Rebecca Smyth , Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University (BCU), is researching how feminists use human rights...
South Asian Cinema and Video Online Distribution Research Network
This project centres on the intersection between video online distribution (VOD) and the representation of South Asian...
The experiences and needs of multiple birth fathers during the early years: an exploration with Twins Trust’s peer support service
In collaboration with Twin Trust’s Peer Support Service for fathers, we aim to explore multiple birth fathers’ experie...
Mapping multiple birth care during the first 1,001 critical days: a World Café method study
This research project aims to understand and map the experiences and reported needs of multiple birth families receivin...
The economic impacts of antimicrobial resistance in livestock (EcoAMR)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) persists as a significant global threat to public health, with an estimated 4.95 millio...
DIATOMIC: Digital Innovation Transformative Change
The DIATOMIC project aims to enhance innovation capability and capacity to nurture growth and prosperity in the West M...
Aural Histories Coventry, c.1451-1642
The aim of the project is to explore the changing experience of music in late-medieval and early-modern Coventry, thro...
No11: Know your place
Building on a recent Co.Lab pilot project at BCU this application brings West Midlands National Park lab research to ne...
Small Performances: Investigating the typographic punches of Baskerville
'Small performances' is an interdisciplinary project that will make a substantial contribution to the history of print...
Narrow Margins: the criminalisation of trespass, the politics of property, and life on the margins in England
The aim of this project is to explore the steady criminalisation of trespass and its impact upon marginalised communit...