10 June 2019 New campaign to end the effects of lookism by collective social action Professor Heather Widdows, from the University of Birmingham, is calling for collective social action to acknowledge the effects of lookism* in our visual and virtual culture.
20 May 2019 Hair Product Marketing, Online Beauty Communities, and Curly Hair Doctoral researcher Kash Sunghuttee writes for the Beauty Demands network blog
15 May 2019 PhD Students' Publication Success! Recently, two project PERFECT outputs have been published featuring the work of our brilliant PhD students Eugenia Lancellotta and Magdalena Antrobus.
01 May 2019 New free online course - Perfect Me: Understanding Beauty Ideals Starting on Monday 8 July, this free two-week course will allow you to explore the changing nature of the beauty ideal and the need to address body image anxiety as a global epidemic.
29 April 2019 PERFECT talks: April to June 2019 Researchers from Project PERFECT will be giving a series of talks in April and May 2019.
11 April 2019 How positive is Body-Positivity? Professor Heather Widdows reflects on new Channel 4 series 'Naked Beach'.
25 February 2019 Metaphysics of Entanglement in Urbino On January 22 2019, Al Wilson was in Urbino, Italy to speak at a workshop on the metaphysics of entanglement – the 2021 case study for FraMEPhys.
20 February 2019 Katie Robertson at the Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar FraMEPhys postdoc Dr Katie Robertson gave a talk to the Oxford Philosophy of Physics seminar on Thursday 21 February.
18 February 2019 Mathematics, Metaphysics and Evolution Topics discussed on the last day of the FramePhys/Gothenburg conference on Metaphysical Explanation in Science, linking mathematics, science, biological evolution and metaphysics led Aaron Sloman
14 February 2019 On Love Doctoral researcher Valeria Motta writes a blogpost on her research into loneliness and solitude for Valentine's Day.
01 February 2019 The ugly side of beauty Professor Heather Widdows (Department of Philosophy) is interviewed for Guernica (a magazine of global art and politics) about appearance, the pressures to be perfect, and how beauty has become a measure for success.
31 January 2019 Yujin Nagasawa editor of Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion book series Professor Yujin Nagasawa is the editor of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion with Professor Erik Wielenberg (DePauw University).
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.