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Global top 100 university Birmingham climbs five places to strengthen its position in 2019 QS World Rankings
Unfiltered: What does it mean to be British? On the 70th anniversary of Windrush, our researchers discuss what lessons the arrival and scandal can teach us about British identity
If democratic processes are increasingly scrutinised by international observers How do regimes continue to rig elections and get away with it?
Search for German and British soldiers' stories for theatre research Dr John Goodyear is searching for individuals who served in Oldenburg between 1945 and 1958, as he writes a cultural history of the historic building
Channel 4 commissions second series of TV show featuring a University of Birmingham lecturer Dr Melrose Stewart will return to our TV screens in the new series of ‘Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds’.
June 18 The Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series: Jonathan Coe The multi-award-winning author and satirist discusses 'The Problem with Satire in a Post-Truth World'
July 20 Radical Mischief conference An unmissable opportunity to be involved in an urgent and open conversation about what thought and theatre can do in our time at the RSC’s centre for research and development
Birmingham Perspective Cold War History: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift "By Christmas 1948, a report to the US National Security Council stated that what had started out as a desperate measure had turned into the biggest propaganda victory possible" Join the conversation
Birmingham Doctoral Scholarship fund Awards of £18,000 over three years available for doctoral research
Professor Tim Softley elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Congratulations to our Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Knowledge Transfer, who joins distinguished rank of world's leading scientists
Cultural Internship Scheme 2018-19 Kick start a career in the arts with a paid internship at one of ten leading arts organisations in the Midlands. Applications now open.