16 April 2024
Salinity Solutions was formed as a spinout in 2021, and has developed a groundbreaking technology to reduce the environmental impact of water treatment
16 April 2024
A new way of understanding how ‘urban sprawl’ happens could improve people’s lives through better urban planning.
15 April 2024
Serial home tests would reduce unnecessary colonoscopy testing
15 April 2024
Elite coaches are migrating to Western countries as a result of an Olympic 'arms race'
15 April 2024
Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili writes for the Birmingham Law School Research Blog
15 April 2024
Outsourcing energy-intensive industrial processes to Global South is creating problems for our planet
15 April 2024
The Birmingham Law School Professor has been unanimously elected as an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.
15 April 2024
As people are living longer, experts from the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing cover seven evidence-based recommendations to tackle 'inflammageing'.
13 April 2024
Patients with Atrial Fibrillation deemed high risk following analysis had five times as many cardiovascular events as low-risk cluster
12 April 2024
In a recent article for Local Government Chronical, doctoral researcher Phil Swann explores the lessons from the history of local government finance.
11 April 2024
Birmingham Business School proudly announces its re-accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
11 April 2024
Cloud ‘engineering’ could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.
11 April 2024
A University of Birmingham researcher is one of 255 outstanding researchers across Europe to be awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
11 April 2024
The inaugural International Business Week was held for students studying the MSc International Business in Singapore between 25-28th March.
11 April 2024
The award recognises his significant contribution and service to the management scholarly community worldwide.
10 April 2024
In this post for the BLS blog, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili addresses the latest debate on State participation in international armed conflicts.
10 April 2024
The University of Birmingham's renewed partnership with Fraunhofer UMSICHT will create a UK-Germany partnership that can boost global sustainability
10 April 2024
The Barber Institute, Lapworth Museum and Research and Cultural Collections has received funding from Research England of just over £2 million over five years.
10 April 2024
Past and present Presidents of the Society for Mathematical Biology have pooled decades of expertise to help early career researchers get ahead in the field.
10 April 2024
Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections surrounding their mouths to modify the mouth’s shape while they collected food.
09 April 2024
The University of Birmingham will host techUK’s West Midlands mayoral hustings on Wednesday 10th April.
09 April 2024
Targeting RAS family proteins in FLT3-ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia shuts off a common route to drug resistance.
08 April 2024
On April 8, 2024, a remarkable natural phenomenon will captivate the world – a total solar eclipse.
08 April 2024
After more than a decade in the Department of Theology and Religion, Dr Catherine Smith has moved to Advanced Research Computing.
05 April 2024
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, including scientists from the University of Birmingham, has detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal.
05 April 2024
The University of Birmingham and Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University are working together to improve healthcare in China and beyond.
04 April 2024
Procedure used to treat children born with heart conditions may provide a new treatment opportunity
04 April 2024
Professor Candida Moss discusses her new book, God's Ghostwriters, which examines the role enslaved people had in co-authoring the Bible.
04 April 2024
In-depth interviews reveal little training for healthcare professionals or additional resources to support families
02 April 2024
For Autism Acceptance Week Professor Laura Crane, Director of the Autism Centre for Education & Research, explores the need for more SEND provision in schools.
28 March 2024
Researchers in Law and Public Health at the University of Birmingham are calling for more action to reduce the impact of harmful gambling on public health.
28 March 2024
This mini-series aims at providing food for thought on increased awareness of history’s significance in shaping our thinking, in our research and teaching.
27 March 2024
Plastic, once hailed as a miracle material, is now increasingly recognised for its potential to pose a significant threat to our environment and public health.
27 March 2024
Professor Orakhelashvili has made a presentation outlining the contrast between the approaches taken by the Court of Appeal and the International Court in Seoul
27 March 2024
The Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences will be the Editor-in-Chief of Public Humanities, which is set to launch in late 2024.
27 March 2024
Global Co-lead for Accenture’s Black Founder’s Development Program and Business School Advisory board member Dujon Smith joins Decolonial Dialogues.
27 March 2024
Episode 12 of the People, Power, Politics podcast features a discussion of Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker’s recent OUP book Party People
27 March 2024
As part of our collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, our students recently took part in an exciting workshop with RSC practitioners.
27 March 2024
Birmingham University Singers were pleased to perform a new commission as part of the 2024 CrossCurrents festival in their recent concert.
27 March 2024
Argentine democracy is again at a crossroads. But this time feels different as Argentina’s new maverick President Javier Milei seeks to assert his authority.
27 March 2024
The University of Birmingham is to lead a new £58.8 million project to develop new instruments to explore fundamental questions about the nature of matter.
26 March 2024
UK - Germany partnership looks to broaden collaboration in delivering green energy and renewable resources.
26 March 2024
A drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis could also prevent the disease in individuals deemed to be at risk.
25 March 2024
An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever recorded, measured by an international team of scientists.
25 March 2024
The University of Birmingham is the top choice for the UK's major employers searching for graduate recruits.
22 March 2024
Academics are proposing a new and improved way to help researchers discover when consciousness emerges in human infancy.
22 March 2024
The Dragon’s Den-style contest is a partnership between Aston University, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Warwick
22 March 2024
Trial in rare disease enables researchers to control for other factors and find underlying action for cardiovascular disease risk
22 March 2024
University of Birmingham scientists awarded £350,000 to develop research to create a potentially flavoured ‘lollipop’ which could help mouth cancer diagnosis.
22 March 2024
The biocompatible hydrogel concentrates and labels proteins in a single step, so is suittable for detecting low abundance proteins from small sample sizes.
21 March 2024
Highlighting the potential of movement atypicalities for identifying autism - by Dr Connor Keating and Professor Jennifer Cook
21 March 2024
Professor Gary Middleton, Professor of Oncology, will be at the forefront of pioneering cancer research as ECMC Network Lead.
21 March 2024
A challenge to space scientists to better understand our hazardous near-Earth space environment has been set in a new study led by the University of Birmingham.
21 March 2024
Global healthcare is a major contributor to planet-warming carbon dioxide, but green surgery may hold the key to unlocking the conundrum of care versus carbon.
20 March 2024
On the 11 and 12 March 2024, Professor Martin Trybus delivered lectures and led a case study discussion on the European Legal Framework for Defence Procurement
20 March 2024
Professor Jenny Phillimore explains the UK's Independent Commission on Refugee Integration's latest recommendations on rethinking refugee integration policy.
20 March 2024
Scientists have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with sensors that can detect pressure in a patient’s guts and detect points of failure.
20 March 2024
Team led by Dr Katja Gehmlich wins half a million pound grant to further understanding of condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
19 March 2024
Researchers, policy makers and stakeholders came together last week to celebrate significant strides in global health research at the University of Birmingham.
19 March 2024
97% of patients who were deemed low risk and took part were assessed as not having allergy
18 March 2024
The University English Book Prize, which recognises an "outstanding first monograph" of literary criticism by a UK-based academic
18 March 2024
Creating a successful circular economy for plastics will help the economy as well as the environment, and the UK Government has a pivotal role to play.
18 March 2024
The latest People, Power, Politics episode features a conversation between Prof Marlies Glasius and CEDAR’s Licia Cianetti about authoritarian practices
18 March 2024
Leading academics and experts from the University of Birmingham’s College of Arts and Law have been announced as part of this year’s Hay Festival lineup.
18 March 2024
The investment, from one of the world’s leading producers of battery-grade lithium chemicals, will fund the next stage of the company's growth.
15 March 2024
One fifth of the UK public associates terrorism with the use of explosives and more than 70% thinks that explosions are a harbinger of a terrorist attack.
15 March 2024
Professor Sabine Lee has been backed by European royalty and met with US Congress and Senate Committees while championing the rights of children born of war.
15 March 2024
Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili addresses UK’s submissions made before the International Court of Justice in advisory proceedings concerning Palestine.
15 March 2024
Professors Melanie Calvert and Richard Riley have been recognised with a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Award.
14 March 2024
Researchers from across Colleges came together to share their research projects with the public during Brain Injury Awareness Month and Brain Awareness Week.
14 March 2024
Visiting experts and University of Birmingham scholars discuss what may be the most important election in recent American history.
13 March 2024
Associate Professor Dr Melanie Griffiths has been awarded a prestigious British Academy mid-career fellowship.
13 March 2024
Entrepreneurs and researchers will visit campus for a day hosted in collaboration with Innovate UK and the Department for Science Innovation and Technology.
13 March 2024
Many people living in extreme poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have conditions that lead to heart disease
13 March 2024
Editorial published in Lancet calls for UK to screen newborn babies using pulse oximetry which could spot congenital heart defects
13 March 2024
The technologies overcome forced oscillations and grid frequency events, which can cause widespread disruption over entire power grids.
12 March 2024
University of Birmingham will lead UK-wide training to address critical skills demand in life sciences
12 March 2024
The Centre will equip graduates with the skills to manufacture the next generation of formulated products at net zero.
12 March 2024
Birmingham’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) online course has been ranked 9th in the global top 10 of online MBA courses by the Financial Times.
12 March 2024
New research shows why problems replacing the ‘batteries’ inside the cells at the back of the eye can lead to complications with vision in people with diabetes.
11 March 2024
Call for abstracts for a day workshop on the theme “Health and Care Law: Addressing Health and
Care Inequalities.”
11 March 2024
A symposium organised by Winterbourne House and Garden in partnership with the International Centre for Heritage, University of Birmingham.
11 March 2024
A blood test that can accurately detect when someone has not slept for 24 hours has been developed at the University of Birmingham and Monash University.
11 March 2024
Sarah Montano, Inci Toral Manson, & Kamilya Suleymenova examine the use of Generative AI in marketing, in light of the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience.
11 March 2024
University of Birmingham researchers have designed groundbreaking interventions to prevent deaths by post-partum haemorrhage and at caesarean sections.
11 March 2024
Birmingham experts will lead a major research programme involving hundreds of people across the UK to transform the way concussion is identified and managed.
08 March 2024
Experts have devised a blueprint for efficient evacuation that could be used in similar flood-threatened cities around the globe
08 March 2024
We celebrate International Women’s Day by highlighting a selection of famous female geologists and their substantial scientific contributions.
08 March 2024
Prof Hill was nominated for two CURA-H awards, honouring achievements of women in healthcare
08 March 2024
Karen Elliott, Chair and Professor of Practice in Finance and Fintech, explores whether women are truly included in fintech and finance decision-making.
07 March 2024
University of Birmingham mathematician Professor Tyler Kelly leads the way in best practice.
07 March 2024
Abortion is still a crime in most countries. A new legal paradigm would change the lives of millions of women
07 March 2024
Sara Jones (University of Birmingham) and Maija Spurina (Latvian Academy of Culture) explore the contradictions of International Women’s Day around the world.
07 March 2024
Dr Huw Macartney, Associate Professor in Political Economy, explores the politics of the Spring Budget.
06 March 2024
Dr Anandadeep Mandal explains some of the key takeaways from today's budget for National Insurance, travel and energy and ISAs.
06 March 2024
Professor Karen Yeung and Milla Vidina discuss the capacity of AI systems to produce discriminatory outputs.
06 March 2024
Athletes’ mental health could get a boost if coaches change their leadership style
06 March 2024
Professor John Bryson comments on the 2024 Spring Budget being announced today.
05 March 2024
Dr Alessandro Prete has been selected for the 2024 European Journal of Endocrinology Rising Star Cohort.
05 March 2024
Dr Sophie King-Hill comments on Labour's proposal to target Andrew Tate-style misogyny in schools with more positive social media influencers.