21 October 2022
Academics are investigating how people respond to controversial government policies communicated through social media.
18 October 2022
Dr Caroline Radcliffe takes a look back at a production staged 120 years ago, starring an earlier Pantomime Dame, Dan Leno.
17 October 2022
The Shakespeare Institute, in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), is launching its latest short course, Fall in with Shakespeare this month.
06 October 2022
‘Found in Translation: Understanding Shakespeare through Intercultural Dialogue’ conference was co-organised with Waseda University.
04 October 2022
An historic painting with a Shakespeare connection is set to star in a major new US exhibition.
03 October 2022
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 is a hub for world-leading research on literary and artistic modernism and welcomes an exceptional scholar as Honorary Fellow.
22 August 2022
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
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
The annual Midlands Eighteenth-Century Research Network meeting was held at the University of Birmingham in May 2022
25 July 2022
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
University of Birmingham Professor Emeritus Valerie Rumbold has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
15 June 2022
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
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
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
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
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
Adult learners with Birmingham Adult Education Service attended a series of events hosted by Birmingham Stories to celebrate National Shakespeare Day.
04 May 2022
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
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
PhD Shakespeare Studies student Isaac Chong provides five reasons why studying at the Shakespeare Institute could be your perfect next step.
14 April 2022
Dr Rose Whyman and Professor Graham Saunders presented at SERIOUS ABOUT COMEDY
11 April 2022
Christi, a final year BA English and Creative Writing student, shares her work experience throughout university.
08 April 2022
MA Shakespeare and Creativity student Paige Calvert tells us more about the recent Directing Workshop and what she gained from the session.
08 April 2022
MA TESOL student Dimitrios Tsampallas provides five reasons why studying for a Masters in English Language and Linguistics could be your perfect next step.