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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.

Shakespeare Institute

Everything to Everybody

Reviving the legacy of the people’s Shakespeare Library

21st-Century Bodies

New year, new you?

History

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

History

265 stories of Haitian children abandoned by UN fathers

Culture as Testimony

Auschwitz 75 years on

Research projects and centres

Changing attitudes to sexual violence through education and awareness-raising in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Tackling stigma and self-stigmatisation of survivors of conflict related sexual violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina. An extension of the Comparative Study of Resilience in Survivors.
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.
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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Publications

Catalogue of recent and forthcoming monographs, chapters and articles by our academics
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

17/02/2020

Six new AHRC grant wins secure more than £1m funding

13/02/2020

More than £1m funding to reconnect Birmingham with its Shakespeare heritage

29/01/2020

Grant secured for collaborative project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools'

28/01/2020

New funding for research to support reading in a foreign language

Arts and Law research events

Polish Jews in Wartime Ethnic Democracy.

3Feb

LANS Distinguished Lecture with Tom McLeish (University of York)

19Feb

Towards a Four Nations Art History? The GF Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905 – 06

20Feb