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.
Musical Beacons
As a London-based music organisation expands its outreach, BCU has partnered with them to ensure their work - promotin...
Postgraduate Researchers Mental Health and Well-Being
Investigating the experiences of postgraduate researchers and the effects of those experiences on their mental healt...
Building a Diverse Practitioner Learning Environment
This PAR project aims to build a new practitioner research team to generate meaningful research evidence on the barrier...
Overheating mitigation and Indoor air quality improvement in new build residential developments in the UK
The aim of the project is to propose cost effective scalable construction solutions and strategies that take account o...
Tomorrow's Great Pageant
Producing a powerful, contemporary remake of a famous early 1900s Suffrage play, working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ com...
Exploring the multi-dimensional relationships between social class inequalities, wellbeing and play in children aged 0-5
This project is designed to explore the links between three topical issues within the fields of education and public h...
Life:Moving: Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability: Towards an Ethical Film Praxis
The aim was to explore the power of digital film to communicate the meaningful and honest experiences of those affecte...
DfMA House Panel Production
The consortium has designed an efficient production line for DfMA houses under factory conditions (Figure 1). The aim ...
XTranscript and the CASE XML Conversion Tool
The Research Development Unit for English Studies have developed a number of tools to assist quantitative language rese...
The Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project
Over an 18 month period, the Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project is conducting one of the largest e...
TRAC:COVID – Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus Online Visual Dashboard
Developing a dashboard to track hitherto under-explored online conversations surrounding COVID-19, to provide valuable...
eMargin: collaborative text annotation tool
eMargin is an online collaborative annotation tool that lets you highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags t...
OurSurveySays: online dashboard for the analysis of text-based survey responses
OurSurveySays is an online service for the analysis of open-text survey questions using Corpus Linguistic techniques. ...
WebCorp: harnessing the web as linguistic resource in research, teaching and beyond
The WebCorp suite of tools is comprised of three versions of the software that build on one another to provide linguis...
Repulsion: The investigation of an organising force in text
Exploring the instances of language whereby pairs of words are discouraged from appearing together, or are 'repulsed' ...