Postgraduate study We encourage creative thinking at Masters and Doctoral levels, via different modes of study.
18 March 2021 University of Birmingham researcher named as a New Generation Thinker by AHRC and BBC Radio 3 Fariha Shaikh has been chosen as New Generation Thinker, which is a joint collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3.
10 March 2021 'Reading the Institutional Archive' – a talk at the UEA Modern and Contemporary Seminar Dr Emma West is giving a talk on Wednesday 17 March at the University of East Anglia's Modern and Contemporary Seminar.
24 February 2021 Professor Jeanette Littlemore awarded prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jeanette Littlemore, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
08 February 2021 Report on Queer New York Watch a recording of the workshop which explored the queerness, and queering, of New York, offering a range of ways of thinking about queer preservation as enacted through writing and art-making.
04 February 2021 King Charles II and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Recent PHd Student Dr José Pérez Díez will introduce this landmark book which features 34 plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
04 February 2021 World's Stage - a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare The Everything to Everybody project, led by Professor Ewan Fernie of The Shakespeare Institute, have launched "World's Stage" a series of seven new short films.
25 January 2021 Revisiting Groundhog Day To mark Groundhog Day on 2 February, Dr James Walters of the Department of Film and Creative Writing revisits the 1993 film, and explores it's resonance within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
21 January 2021 Beyond Outlander: An alternative history of Scottish romantic fiction Dr Amy Burge of the Department of English Literature argues for a reconsideration of Scottish author Annie S. Swan's legacy as a bestselling author of Scottish romance in the early twentieth century.
18 January 2021 Modern Institutions and the Civilizing Mission Dr Emma West's article on the Empire Marketing Board is now available online at Modernism/modernity.
12 January 2021 A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Centre for Modernist Cultures co-director Nathan Waddell published a new edition of George Orwell's least-familiar novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) in the Oxford World's Classics series.
18 December 2020 Why knowing languages matters Professor Dagmar Divjak comments on the British Academy joint statement warning that the pandemic should serve as a wakeup call on the decline of language learning across the English speaking world
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.