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06 July 2023
On Thursday 22 June 2023, over one hundred of the University’s staff, students and community members joined Professor Nicola Gale for her inaugural lecture.
16 June 2023
Dr Petra Alderman reviews a new book by Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman
13 June 2023
With democracy in trouble, understanding the reason why could hardly be more important.
22 May 2023
Professor Stefan Wolff and his writing partner, Professor Tetyana Malyarenko, have won the 2022 Sir Paul Curran Award.
02 May 2023
The Rt Hon. Liam Byrne MP has joined the University of Birmingham’s College of Social Sciences as an Honorary Professor.
21 March 2023
Professor Joanne Murphy explores the institutional changes needed in the Met and how the PSNI was reframed following the Patten report.
15 March 2023
Professor Simon Collinson responds to the announcement that 12 investment zones will be created near universities in England, including in the West Midlands.
24 February 2023
The brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine has reminded the world that wars of imperial conquest are not relegated to centuries past.
18 January 2023
Christopher Pietroni is joined by Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, an award-winning philanthropist and international model.
06 December 2022
Professor Carolyn Wilkins, an experienced public sector leader, joins Christopher Pietroni to ask whether we have the right kind of leadership.
24 November 2022
The Birmingham Leadership Institute has officially launched its brand-new podcast, ‘Leadership Exchanged’.
23 November 2022
Join Paul Richardson for the first episode of Leadership Exchanged. Paul is a successful entrepreneur across sectors as varied as waste management and fashion.