Postgraduate study We encourage creative thinking at Masters and Doctoral levels, via different modes of study.
14 June 2021 Metaphor and the COVID-19 Pandemic Professor Jeanette Littlemore discusses how Jonathan Van Tam and others use metaphors when talking about the Covid-19 Pandemic, and why it works.
07 June 2021 Creating Fury: the artistic directors Madeleine Carter and Rebecca Feely (MA Shakespeare & Creativity) talk about their part in the series of monologues based on characters from Shakespeare, but translated into a modern context.
02 June 2021 Shakespeare enthusiasts can join global online gathering A three-day online event will celebrate the launch of the Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance bringing people together who work within the field of Shakespeare.
31 May 2021 Fury: MA in Shakespeare and Creativity Ensemble A series of monologues based on characters from Shakespeare developed by postgraduate students from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute.
17 May 2021 The Machinery shown at The Hive Gallery The Hive Gallery is pleased to exhibit for the first time in Birmingham, ' The Machinery', an audio-visual instillation capturing the earliest known machine dance.
13 May 2021 University of Birmingham's Ruth Gilligan wins prestigious literary prize. Ruth Gilligan of the Department of Creative Writing was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize for books that "best evoke the spirit of a place".
12 May 2021 Ancestors may have created 'iconic' sounds as bridge to first languages The 'missing link' that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us
10 May 2021 Five skills you will develop on a postgraduate research course in the College of Arts and Law Five skills you will develop on a postgraduate research course in the College of Arts and Law
10 May 2021 Five skills you will develop on a Masters course in the College of Arts and Law Five skills you will develop on a postgraduate research course in the College of Arts and Law
05 May 2021 Benjamin Zephaniah, Jess Philips, Mark Billingham and other famous faces support My Birmingham Story. To celebrate National Share a Story Month, the National Literacy Trust is launching My Birmingham Story, a campaign that invites people from Birmingham to share their experiences and memories of life in the city.
05 May 2021 John Kani, on his life, growing up in apartheid South Africa and his love of Shakespeare John Kani tells all in an in-depth interview with the Shakespeare Institute's Michael Dobson.
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.