Major international research project announced
'A New Order of Things': Social and Cultural Transition in the Epistolary and Journalistic Networks of Heinrich von Kleist' will start in February 2026.
- Published: 1 December 2025
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Ability capitalism and welfare cuts: how disability operates as a technology of market governance
Dr Clare Williams examines challenges posed by disability in the context of welfare cuts and market governance.
- Published: 28 November 2025
From stage to screen and back again
Old Joe talks to This Morning host and Birmingham alumnus Ben Shephard (BA Dance, Drama and Theatre Arts, 1997) about his career.
- Published: 26 November 2025
‘The game’s afoot’ – A summer of Shakespeare and video games
Liberty O'Dell on how working with Dr Sullivan on researching the intersection between Shakespeare and Video Games was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
- Published: 26 November 2025
New research challenges 65-year-old framework for understanding language
Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ no longer reflect major findings in linguistics, cognitive science, and biology.
- Published: 26 November 2025
A failure of imagination: Why knowing isn’t enough to stop the climate crisis
Professor John Holmes explains why COP and the climate inaction it leads to have had a failure of imagination.
- Published: 26 November 2025
How the study of language impacts us everyday
Dr Adam Schembri, Professor of Linguistics, explains the importance of studying the science of language to mark World Linguistics Day.
- Published: 26 November 2025
Ukrainian Policy Network launched after new University of Birmingham survey of displaced Ukrainians
Led by Professor Sara Jones, the national network will work closely with Ukrainian Voice UK, which also launched in Westminster today.
- Published: 17 November 2025
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