23 May 2023
More than half of creatives who put on live/location-based immersive experiences are having to self-fund performances, a new report finds.
23 May 2023
University of Birmingham's Dr Caroline Radcliffe, Reader in Drama and Performance, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
17 May 2023
Students on the Spring into Shakespeare short course had the opportunity to take part in a series of Q&A sessions with Royal Shakespeare Company practitioners.
15 May 2023
An exhibition of photography by Alan Gignoux and creative writing by people seeking refuge living in Birmingham, London, and Manchester.
04 May 2023
Dr Anna Metcalfe, senior lecturer in Creative Writing, has been listed as one of the best young novelists in Britain by Granta magazine.
03 May 2023
Over Shakespeare's birthday weekend the Shakespeare Institute was proud to host Professor Nataliya Torkut and her colleague Professor Maya Harbuzyuk.
03 May 2023
University of Birmingham academics and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) launch a new project to make Shakespeare accessible for deaf children in schools.
26 April 2023
Students, staff and alumni gathered last night to celebrate the result of Film & Creative Writing’s first in-person One Minute Movie Competition since 2019.
21 April 2023
Two Ukrainian academics will feature in William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations in Stratford this weekend.
19 April 2023
To celebrate two major anniversaries and Shakespeare’s birthday the Shakespeare Institute, in collaboration with others, are holding several exciting events.
17 April 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio heads to Aston Hall on Shakespeare’s birthday, 23rd April, for its first outing of 2023.
28 March 2023
The Department of Drama and Theatre Arts is pleased to announce that four of its graduates have been shortlisted for prestigious theatre awards.
22 March 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio is set to continue its unprecedented tour of community spaces throughout 2023 as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project.
22 March 2023
The College of Arts & Law remains amongst the best performing research-intensive universities in the world, according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
14 March 2023
The 'laziness' of Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare's first folio and the children of ISIS will all be explored by University of Birmingham experts at Hay Festival 2023.
13 March 2023
Great apes' spinning behaviours could provide clues about the role of altered states for the origins of the human mind.
13 March 2023
While language cannot alter reality, it does contribute to how we perceive it - the real difference between 'migrant', 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker'?
10 March 2023
On 1st March BBC staff visited the University to talk to Film and Creative Writing students about why they want and need fresh, diverse voices.
06 March 2023
Dr Caroline Radcliffe writes the Birmingham Perspective.
06 March 2023
Jemma Saunders asks does the evolution of a fictional gangster family into a brand have certain implications for the popular culture it inspires?
06 March 2023
Professor Tiffany Stern featured in the Guardian article
01 March 2023
The Birmingham Civic Society and ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project unveiled Blue Plaques commemorating the work of George Dawson and Samuel Timmins.
01 March 2023
Publishers announcing updates to the language used in Roald Dahl books made national headlines. Dr Amy Burge comments on how we edit books for modern society.
23 February 2023
Professor Adam Schembri discusses Global Language Advocates Day (GLAD) along with his projects working with deaf communities in the U.K and Australia.
21 February 2023
Our 2023 B-Film Annual Lecture welcomed UoB graduate Elizabeth Henstridge, actor-director and star of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.