24 October 2019 Research Council Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research The Department of African Studies and Anthropology is inviting applications for studentships as part of the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities (M4C) and the ESRC-funded Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnerships
23 July 2019 Women's rights as international human rights: Justice Annie Jiagge of Ghana Dr Kate Skinner writes for the 'Archive of Activism: gender and public history in postcolonial Ghana' blog.
08 July 2019 Addis Ababa's street hustlers helped build the city – now they're being pushed out Marco Di Nunzio writes for The Conversation.
24 May 2019 Public discourse on the International Women's Year in Ghana Jovia Salifu writes for the 'Archive of Activism: gender and public history in postcolonial Ghana' blog.
25 March 2019 South African families set to benefit from clearer understanding of property law Families living in South Africa's former black townships are set to benefit from clearer understanding and fresh consideration of the laws on property and inheritance.
16 November 2018 Short Cuts Birmingham historian Dr Sadiah Qureshi writes for the London Review of Books about the Royal Historical Society report 'Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History'
01 November 2018 10 place rise in THE World University Rankings 2019 We are now ranked 70 in the subject ranking for arts and humanities, which covers art, performing arts, design, languages, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, theology, architecture and archaeology.
02 October 2018 Iraqi and Syrian refugee women in Jordan and gender activism in Ghana Grants totalling £549,585 awarded by the British Academy (BA) through its Sustainable Development Programme 2018.
21 September 2018 Doing Conferences Differently Ilya Afanasyev, Nicholas Evans and Nicholas Matheou on the possibility of another kind of academic conference in this latest Verso blog post
10 September 2018 ASA UK Conference - University of Birmingham 11-13 September 2018 The University of Birmingham is hosting the 27th biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK).
19 July 2018 An African games studio and a Nigerian fighting game based on African mythology Tessa Pijnaker talks to Akdogan Ali – Founder of game development studio Black Ring - for her third post on African superheroes for the Africa in Words blog.
12 June 2018 African superheroes in the 1970s and '80s: a historical perspective Second in Tessa Pijnaker's series of blogposts for Africa in Words.
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.