Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the college and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with.
Forthcoming events
18Jan
- Dates
- Monday 18 January 2021 (17:30-19:00)
- Description
- Speaker Tom Woodin will reconnect parts of the life of public educationist Brian Simon
21Jan
- Dates
- Thursday 21 January 2021 (12:00-13:30)
- Location
- Online - a link will be sent to you before the event
- Description
- Speaker: David Christie. This event is part of CHASM's Housing and Communities Research Group Seminar Series.
21Jan
- Dates
- Thursday 21 January 2021 (17:00-18:00)
- Location
- Online
- Description
- We invite you to this exclusive online event with Dr Cristina Sambrook (Executive MBA Director) and Victoria Malin (MBA Recruitment and Admissions Officer) where you can find out more about the Executive MBA programme.
28Jan
- Dates
- Thursday 28 January 2021 (09:30-10:30)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Dr Pushpa Wood (Massey University, New Zealand) will explore the challenges presented by the global crisis of COVID-19, especially in the New Zealand context, and how it has created new groups of vulnerable people.
28Jan
- Dates
- Thursday 28 January 2021 (12:00-14:00)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- The Institute for German and European Studies presents the second in its series of online events focusing on German authors in translation.

1Feb
- Dates
- Monday 1 February 2021 (16:00-17:30)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Our Train to Teach chat session will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to apply for training in secondary schools.

8Feb
- Dates
- Monday 8 February 2021 (16:00-17:00)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Our Train to Teachchat session will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to apply for training.

10Feb
- Dates
- Wednesday 10 February 2021 (13:00-14:30)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Join us at the launch of the Disability Under Siege Network Plus project
10Feb
- Dates
- Wednesday 10 February 2021 (17:00-18:30)
- Location
- Online event - Zoom
- Description
- Social work has aspired to demonstrate a strengths based approach in its practice since the publication in the early 1990's of the seminal text by Dennis Saleebey at the University of Kansas.

17Feb
- Dates
- Wednesday 17 February 2021 (16:00-17:00)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- This talk will illustrate the use of the 'Real Literacies" approach to teaching deaf young adults and show how it was adapted it to suit the students' multilingual and multimodal language practices.
25Feb
- Dates
- Thursday 25 February 2021 (10:00-12:00)
- Location
- Online event - Zoom
- Description
- In November 2019 a new partnership was launched to bridge the long-standing gap between the worlds of practice and research.

22Mar
- Dates
- Monday 22 March 2021 (16:00-17:30)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Our Train to Teach chat session will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to apply for training in STEM subjects

6May
- Dates
- Thursday 6 May 2021 (16:00-17:00)
- Location
- Zoom
- Description
- Our Train to Teach chat session will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to apply for training.
30Jun
- Dates
- Wednesday 30 June (08:00) - Friday 2 July 2021 (16:00)
- Location
- Online event - Zoom
- Description
- IGES Birmingham's DAAD-funded international research project (2019-21) explores Germany's responses to unprecedented, ongoing disruptions and redefinitions in global politics, culture and society.
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