24 February 2021 Anna Persig awarded PhD Anna Persig, an M4C scholarship holder, has been awarded a doctorate for her thesis on "The Vulgate text of the Catholic Epistles: Its Language, Origin and Relationship with the Vetus Latina."
17 February 2021 Philosophy PhD focus: Lucy Prior on anxiety Lucy Prior discusses the distinction between anxiety as a universally experienced normal emotion and as a clinical problem, arguing that medicalising anxiety could impact on the agency of young people.
11 February 2021 PhD student wins prestigious award for early career research PhD student in the Department of Theology and Religion, Joseph Scales has won the Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award 2021 for an exceptional research paper.
11 February 2021 Philosophy PhD focus: Rosa Ritunnano on the meaning of delusions Rosa discusses her cross-disciplinary research into the meaning of delusions, informed by her day-to-day clinical practice as a consultant psychiatrist and by her phenomenological background.
10 February 2021 Science and social stereotypes To mark the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Carissa Sharp and Stephen H. Jones explore the reasons why initiatives in this area are needed and consider their current limitations.
04 February 2021 Birmingham philosophers explore big questions with US TV's Closer To Truth Philosophy experts at the University of Birmingham are set to work with long-running US TV series Closer To Truth - exploring the big religious questions facing philosophers today.
04 February 2021 Philosophy PhD focus: Jane Kisbey on should psychopaths be blamed for disregarding others? Should psychopaths be blamed for disregarding others? Can they feel empathy and genuine concern? Jane Kisbey argues that psychopaths find it hard to consider the future consequences of their actions.
03 February 2021 Jaspers Award: PhD student success Joseph Houlders, supervised by Lisa Bortolotti and Matthew Broome, received an Honourable Mention for the prestigious Jaspers Award issued by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
03 February 2021 Archive of Neville Birdsall now available Twenty-one unpublished academic papers by Professor J. Neville Birdsall have now been released in the University of Birmingham ePapers repository.
26 January 2021 #Everydaylookism campaign launches a new series of Facebook Live panel events The #EverydayLookism Facebook Live series is three live panel discussions taking place in February and March 2021
15 January 2021 What do world religions teach us about COVID-19 and the possibility of miracles? Yujin Nagasawa writing on World Religion Day
15 January 2021 Lisa Bortolotti on conspiracy theories Recent work by Birmingham Professor of Philosophy, Lisa Bortolotti.
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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.