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.
Tomorrow's Great Pageant
Producing a powerful, contemporary remake of a famous early 1900s Suffrage play, working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ com...
DfMA House Panel Production
The consortium has designed an efficient production line for DfMA houses under factory conditions (Figure 1). The aim ...
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...
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...
SITCO 3: Investigating multimodal interaction in storytelling
Utilising a multimodal approach, including conversation analytics and eye-tracking technology, this project aims to an...
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...
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. ...
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' ...
Shakespeare in the Middle East
Islam's research as one of the AHRC and BBC New Thinkers aimed to continue building British national identity by celeb...
Games and the Teaching of Literature
Evaluating the effect of education games on the learning and teaching of English literature.
Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing
The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.
Milton in the Arab Muslim world
In the first full length study of John Milton's influence in the Arab world, Dr Islam Issa reveals the poet's influenc...
The most profitable words on eBay
BCU researchers have analysed over 68,000 eBay listings in order to find the most successful language used on the onli...