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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.

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Why we think a better body will be a better self

Modern Languages

Secret police files and the memories of two Germanies

Philosophy

Free broadband - a human right

History

265 stories of Haitian children abandoned by UN fathers

Creative Writing

Dismantling Stories

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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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

09/01/2020

ELAL project awarded AHRC-DFG grant

17/09/2019

Grant secured for research into urban terrorism in Europe

17/09/2019

New AHRC Leadership Fellowship for research into a Digital Sociology of Music

21/08/2019

Marie Curie Fellowship awarded to explore language in Persian translation

Arts and Law research events

Picturing History in a Fractured Space: Visual Culture and the Past in Post-Trianon Hungary (1920-1939)

20Jan

Reciprocal Dialogues: Researching Digital Culture and Science Fiction

22Jan

Postgraduate study in Shakespeare: an open day in Stratford-upon-Avon

23Jan