08 December 2023
Interim report on the activities and civic engagement taking place as part of the Culture Forward project.
08 December 2023
Alumna Funmi Olutoye, Features Producer for Good Morning Britain and Lorraine at ITV, has been announced as one of the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort.
05 December 2023
Students on the MA Shakespeare and Creativity programme had the opportunity to engage in an interactive Ensemble workshop with an RSC actor and practitioner.
05 December 2023
The Shakespeare Institute will be further developing the University of Birmingham's partnership with Waseda University, Tokyo through a two-day symposium.
14 November 2023
Alumnus Gareth Neame OBE joins the University of Birmingham, as we expand our creative industries focus.
02 November 2023
Paterson Joseph performed 'Sancho and me', based on his novel documenting the life of the first man of African Heritage to vote in Britain.
26 October 2023
The new series, Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, is the centrepiece of the BBC’s Shakespeare season celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
18 October 2023
University of Birmingham Assistant Professor Piasecki has won the first performance poetry award in one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry competitions.
09 October 2023
The first Culture Forward Birmingham Qur'an working group meeting took place in September 2023
09 October 2023
An ESRC-funded project will explore how stories told by social media influencers can impact young people as they gain awareness of challenges in mental health.
28 September 2023
The theme of the 2024 symposium will be “Dickens, Context and Co-occurrence”.
22 September 2023
The University of Birmingham hosted the European Second Language Association conference (EuroSLA32) from 30th August to the 2nd of September.
22 September 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio’s tour as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project culminates in a day of Shakespearean celebration at Bullring & Grand Central.
14 September 2023
Andy Street met with the latest students of the Drama and Scripted TV Bootcamp on a visit to University of Birmingham’s Selly Oak campus this week.
11 September 2023
The renowned fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien died fifty years ago on 2 September 1973. Tolkien described Worcestershire as ‘in an indefinable way “home" to me.'
17 August 2023
Stratford Literary Festival are delighted to announce that the University will become the Festival’s Education Partner from September.
16 August 2023
On 4 July, Sasha Piperski and Natalie Finlayson represented the RC21 team at the Twelfth International Corpus Linguistics Conference at Lancaster University
03 August 2023
Soul City Arts and the University of Birmingham’s Culture Forward initiative is thrilled to announce the unveiling of an arts installation entitled 'NOMAD.'
25 July 2023
Students Mary (BA English with Shakespeare Studies) and Vanessa (BA Drama and English) share their experiences of the Stratford Residential study trip.
24 July 2023
Dr Catherine Lester comments on the film adaptation of Watership Down being reclassified from U to PG by the BBFC after 45 years.
24 July 2023
University of Birmingham Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
20 July 2023
Signing Shakespeare project providing support to deliver compulsory teaching on the Bard in accessible way for deaf young people
19 July 2023
The English Language and Linguistics postgraduate summer school took place earlier this month and featured a packed schedule of insightful sessions
10 July 2023
A project commissioned to coincide with the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
05 July 2023
On 28th June, B-Film (the Birmingham Centre for Film and Television Studies) hosted its inaugural Creative Practice Colloquium.