Postgraduate study We encourage creative thinking at Masters and Doctoral levels, via different modes of study.
15 June 2022 Dr Emma West shares her research into the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre on BBC Radio 3 EDACS academic Dr West was invited to share her research on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking in an episode on Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922.
10 June 2022 ‘Plays Inside Out’: Theatre, Marketing and Ballads Watch the Shakespeare Institute's Professor Tiffany Stern present her inaugural lecture, recorded 9 May 2022 at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
10 June 2022 Student Film wins Learning on Screen Award We are delighted to announce that an audio-visual dissertation by an MA Film and Television: Research and Production student has won a Learning on Screen Award.
18 May 2022 What possibilities might gaming and VR technologies open up for classic literature and drama? Over a quarter of the world's population plays videogames, and the gaming industry is larger than the film and music industries combined.
11 May 2022 Revolutionary Red Tape at the ‘Hopeful Modernisms’ Conference Dr Emma West will give a paper based on her postdoctoral research at this year’s British Association for Modernist Studies Conference, to be held in June.
09 May 2022 Birmingham Stories celebrate National Shakespeare Day Adult learners with Birmingham Adult Education Service attended a series of events hosted by Birmingham Stories to celebrate National Shakespeare Day.
04 May 2022 How Shakespeare used weather to set the stage in his poems and plays Professor Tiffany Stern talked to Fox TV about how the weather helped illustrate the good, the evil and inner turmoil of Shakespeare’s characters.
25 April 2022 Reconnecting Birmingham to Ruskin Land Researchers from the University of Birmingham will be working with artists and schools to co-create artworks on the themes of nature and environmental justice.
22 April 2022 Five reasons to study at the Shakespeare Institute PhD Shakespeare Studies student Isaac Chong provides five reasons why studying at the Shakespeare Institute could be your perfect next step.
14 April 2022 Serious about comedy Dr Rose Whyman and Professor Graham Saunders presented at SERIOUS ABOUT COMEDY
11 April 2022 Work Experience at the University of Birmingham Christi, a final year BA English and Creative Writing student, shares her work experience throughout university.
08 April 2022 Directing workshop with the Royal Shakespeare Company MA Shakespeare and Creativity student Paige Calvert tells us more about the recent Directing Workshop and what she gained from the session.
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.