UNFILTERED LIVES When refuge isn't safe Findings from SEREDA call for changes to the Home Office’s asylum policy after uncovering the failures of the UK asylum system faced by refugee victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
10 November 2021 Polish-Belarusian border crisis: Let's not lose sight of the people trapped in the middle IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona, discusses how the Belerus border crisis with Poland loses sight of the people trapped in the middle in The Conversation.
10 November 2021 University of Birmingham launches scholarships to boost skills and secure jobs in technology The University of Birmingham is to offer hundreds of scholarships to under-represented groups in the Midlands to help them improve their skills and secure jobs in the technology sector.
09 November 2021 Responsible Capitalism and Climate Change: Does Business Ownership Matter? Blog by Professor Andy Mullineux on COP26, private equity and utilities.
08 November 2021 How are power imbalances threatening sustainable livelihoods for millions of people? Whilst restoration of nature is firmly on the agenda at COP26, Fiona Nunan and Brock Bersaglio argue that power imbalances undermine sustainable development.
04 November 2021 COP26 and the Green Economy; Opportunities and Challenges at the National and Regional Level Courtney Stephenson explores the plans for green economic transformation in the West Midlands and considers how a new, green economy is an opportunity to place workers at the heart of the industrial revolution.
03 November 2021 New project on social work with older people is launched This research will examine the contribution social workers make to older people's lives
01 November 2021 MBA Clinical Leadership The Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) and Birmingham Business School have collaborated to design and deliver a new online MBA Clinical Leadership
28 October 2021 Leading diabetes social media influencers revealed New research reveals that Dr Abd Tahrani is featured as being in the top five most active social media users who participate in the UK's online diabetes debate and who has published the most diabetes related posts.
26 October 2021 Covid-19 Recovery Planning, Partnership Working and the Role of Universities in City-Regions Dr Abigail Taylor summarises findings from a recent WMREDI research project examining partnership working during the pandemic.
22 October 2021 POLSIS seminar examines the German Elections In a special seminar, two experts on European politics, Dr Isabelle Hertner and Dr Ed Turner, examined the recent elections in Germany.
21 October 2021 Carbon accounting madness makes a mockery of the UK's Net Zero plans, says environmental accounting expert Government targets to make the UK carbon neutral by 2050 could be worthless if current carbon accounting systems aren't radically reformed, warns a leading academic.
12 October 2021 Older adults across the globe are more willing to help others, but mostly those in the same country Older adults around the world are more willing to donate to charity than younger people, but will prioritise charitable organisations operating within their own country, new research finds.
Looking back to Look Forward: Celebrating 10 years of research on migration, forced displacement and superdiversity 14Sep