20 June 2016 Insider's Guide to the Year Abroad Second year students that have opted to take a Year Abroad are setting off to towns and cities across the world. This year's cohort are the first to fully benefit from the new "Insider's Guide to the Year Abroad".
19 May 2016 Professor Jeannette Littlemore awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Professor Jeannette Littlemore (PI), Dr Paula Perez-Sobrino (Post-doctoral Fellow) and Dr David Houghton (Co-I) have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, for the project 'Exploring Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising' (EMMA).
08 March 2016 The European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) is available online We are very pleased to announce that the first part of the European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) can be searched by registered users via the internet.
18 November 2015 Corpora, Constructions, Collaboration: Providing new insights into the use and acquisition of verb patterns in English Video recording of the 10th annual Sinclair Lecture delivered by Professor Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA).
24 June 2015 The student perspective Jennifer Giles talks about her reasons for choosing the University of Birmingham and her experience of studying the BA English Language degree programme.
16 February 2015 Messaging in the Midlands Dr Caroline Tagg and Dr Esther Asprey have received seed corn funding from the University's Institute of Superdiversity Research (IRiS) for a data collection trial.
25 March 2014 Michael Longley - Creative Minds at Birmingham Full video recording of Michael Longley's poetry reading in the Bramall Music Building.
10 May 2013 Primed for Violence? A corpus analysis of jihadist discourse Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) delivered the annual John Sinclair Lecture [streaming video].
11 May 2012 Chavs - the demonization of the working class Video recording of recent event introduced by Joe Bennett.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.