Postgraduate study We encourage creative thinking at Masters and Doctoral levels, via different modes of study.
04 October 2022 University loans ‘Othello’s inspiration’ to major US art exhibition An historic painting with a Shakespeare connection is set to star in a major new US exhibition.
03 October 2022 British Association of Victorian Studies conference in the Midlands The annual British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference was held at the University of Birmingham last month, 1-3 September.
26 August 2022 The Centre for Modernist Cultures recognises Stuart N. Clarke for decades of work on Virginia Woolf The Centre for Modernist Cultures is a hub for world-leading research on literary and artistic modernism and welcomes an exceptional scholar as Honorary Fellow.
22 August 2022 FTV Students and Alumni join the Commonwealth Games production teams MA Film & Television students received training from Sunset + Vine’s Host Broadcast Training Initiative, and worked on the hockey and athletics events.
01 August 2022 British Council Master's Award Special Commendation - Alex Wright Alex Wright, an MA TESOL student studying on our Distance Learning Programme, has achieve a Special Commendation by the British Council for his dissertation.
29 July 2022 Eighteenth-Century Research in the Midlands The annual Midlands Eighteenth-Century Research Network meeting was held at the University of Birmingham in May 2022
25 July 2022 Everything to Everybody: Your Shakespeare, Your Culture Exhibition opens at Birmingham Library A new exhibition, 'Everything to Everybody: Your Shakespeare, Your Culture' has launched at the Library of Birmingham and will be open until November 2022.
22 July 2022 Professor Valerie Rumbold elected to the British Academy University of Birmingham Professor Emeritus Valerie Rumbold has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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.
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.