16 December 2020 Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, has been named as the 2020 winner of Romania's prestigious Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize.
15 December 2020 Stars and scholars worldwide line up to congratulate Shakespeare Institute graduands At an online ceremony from the hall of the Shakespeare Institute on 10 December 10, a selection of the Institute's distinguished honorary fellows paid tribute to the extraordinary resilience of our students
23 November 2020 Comparing notes about the state of Shakespearean scholarship and performance in Russia and in the UK before and during the current pandemic An online conference in collaboration with the Russian Shakespeare Centre.
12 November 2020 AHRC-Funded Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research AHRC-funded studentships are now available for 2021 entry through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
22 October 2020 Digital teaching in higher education The Royal Shakespeare Company are working with students at the University of Birmingham on an online project, to help them continue their studies through the pandemic.
01 October 2020 Shakespeare in parts with Tiffany Stern Professor Tiffany Stern talk about her groundbreaking work on 'Shakespeare in Parts' on the That Shakespeare Life podcast.
09 July 2020 The theatre business c.1600 - who got rich (and who didn't) at the Globe 'Was the professional London theatre industry at the turn of the seventeenth century successful in maintaining the living of its participants?' asks doctoral researcher Meryl Faiers.
02 July 2020 How can the works of Shakespeare help to improve the lives of disadvantaged social groups? Shakespeare Institute PhD student Rowan Mackenzie discusses her work in applied Shakespeare, particularly her own organisation Shakespeare Unbard.
25 June 2020 Beyonce and Shakespeare - you can't go wrong Charlie Bannocks (MA Shakespeare and Creativity) shares her love of A Midsummer Night's Dream - from her own experience of directing productions in Russia to puppets.
19 June 2020 Bringing Shakespeare to life online This year the Shakespeare Institute has moved its annual Play Reading Marathon online. Dr Martin Wiggins discusses the benefits of going global.
19 June 2020 Keeping Shakespeare alive through puppets As part of her dissertation, MA Shakespeare and Creativity student, Charlotte Bannocks, has been working hard to make Shakespeare accessible to family audiences by creating three short films, using puppets.
17 June 2020 Quarantine Quartos IX: Visual stagecraft in Shakespeare's Hamlet Is Hamlet a play that is as precise, sophisticated and challenging in its visual stagecraft as in its verbal design, requiring playgoers' eyes to be as engaged and critically reflective as their ears?
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.
Everything to Everybody A collaboration with Birmingham City Council will revive the fortunes of the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library