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Research in Arts and Law

We explore what it means to be human – in historical and cultural contexts, within ethical and legal norms and through languages and communication.

Out of Our Minds

Ground-breaking languages project moves to the College of Arts and Law

Modern Languages

Electoral fraud, popular protest, fighting for democratic rights: what can we learn from 1989 in 2019?

Baudelaire Song Project

Online database of musical works inspired by French poet Charles Baudelaire

Cultural Heritage

How can we untangle heritage and challenge people's preconceptions?

Shakespeare Institute

City communities connect with Shakespeare Heritage

Research projects and centres

CLiC Dickens

The CLiC Dickens project demonstrates through corpus stylistics how computer-assisted methods can be used to study literary texts and lead to new insights into how readers perceive fictional characters.
The Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion

The centre was established in 2014 to enhance the public understanding of religion regionally, nationally and internationally through distinctive, strategic and engaged interdisciplinary research
Centre for Corpus research

The Centre for Corpus Research supports the use of corpus analysis in research, teaching and learning. CCR provides access to a range of corpora and has a dedicated computer suite with specialist resources as well as an eye-tracking laboratory.
The Family House

DASA project looking property and inheritance in post-apartheid South Africa
Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing

ITSEE is founded on the premise that computer methods are now fundamental to every stage of the editorial process.
Midland Art Papers

A collaborative online journal, working between the University of Birmingham and 11 partner institutions to research and explore the world class works of art and design in public collections across the Midlands.
A Comparative Study of Resilience in Survivors of War Rape and Sexual Violence

CSRS is a project aimed at understanding the factors that enable and impede expressions of resilience in survivors of conflict-related rape and sexual violence.
Ezra's Legacy and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Law and Narratives of Exclusion

This project explores the evidence provided in two crucial sources on the history of Jewish law

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Our academic staff

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College of Arts and Law Graduate School

The College provides a supportive environment where research can flourish

Research awards

06/02/2019

Institute for German Studies - Research funding success

18/12/2018

"Testimony in Practice" and "In-Between Spaces"

18/12/2018

Cultural Discourses on Desire between Women: A Queer Comparative Analysis

Arts and Law research events

Re-defining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems

20May

Where's my story? A forum to discuss the effects of representation in theatre on young people's mental health

20May

Wounded Sentimentalism: The Literature of Uplift

20May