Author: CRI Team

I’m Josh Freedman, a second-year English BA student who worked as a Collaborative Research Intern on Dr Ella Hawkins’ project titled “Design, Contemporaneity, and Relevance on the Shakespearean Stage.“ I applied for the Collaborative Research Internship pretty much as soon as the form was released. Dr Ella Hawkins had told me about her project, ‘Design, … Continue reading “The Modern-Day Relevance of Shakespeare and Costume – by Josh Freedman”

My name is Aminah. As a second-year history student I was interested in how professional research for serious projects is conducted and working as a Collaborative Research Intern on the Movements and Mobility: an online forum project has proven that yes, even serious research starts with just googling random words. My supervisors on the project … Continue reading “Movement and Mobility – by Aminah Elahi”

I’m Jamie Gorrod, a BA English student going into my second year, and, over a six-week period this summer, I undertook a Collaborative Research Internship within the College of Arts and Law. The project I was part of was ‘Design, Contemporaneity, and Relevance on the Shakespearean Stage’. I was drawn to it not only as … Continue reading “Making Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar relevant for the late 2010s – by Jamie Gorrod”

My name is Jess and I have just finished my first year studying BA English with Shakespeare Studies. As a collaborative research intern, I have been keen to explore how recent productions of Shakespeare plays have made the texts relevant and interesting to modern audiences, working on a project called ‘design, contemporaneity and relevance on … Continue reading “Shakespeare for the 21st Century: Relevance, Accessibility and Female Empowerment – by Jessica Towers”

Firstly a bit about myself. My name is Jessica and I am studying the BMus with honours music course. I am absolutely loving it! Over the 6-week Collaborative Research Internship programme, myself and two other interns had the pleasure of assisting Professor Chen Zhu with his Music Copyright investigations in the Project “Transposing Music Copyright … Continue reading “What is Sonic Pi? and How does it work? – by Jessica Duckworth”

My name is Grace, and I am currently in my third year studying English Literature and I was one of three interns in the Collaborative Research Internship on the Project “From Mosaics to Pixels: Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands” led by Dr Dorothy Butchard. When I began working as an intern on the research project … Continue reading ““From Mosaics to Pixels: Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands” – by Grace Bailey”

My name is Itai Riftin- I’m a Philosophy student who worked as an intern in the Collaborative Research Internship on the Project “Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford”. I didn’t really know what to expect when I signed up for the project if I’m honest. I had never heard of Ford and definitely had no … Continue reading “Transcribing and Sorting Ford’s Collected Letters – by Itai Riftin”

My name is James. I worked as an intern in Dr Chris Nunn’s project “Untold Histories of “The Wicker Man”” as part of the Collaborative Research Internship. During my first semester of second year, in between talking about politics, film, and ghastly economic students, one of my lecturers detailed his project of a feature documentary … Continue reading “An appointment with The Wicker Man – by James Gordon”

I’m Rosie, I’m a first going-into-second year English Literature and History student. Despite my degree, I somehow ended up on the Collaborative Research Internship, “Untold Histories of The Wicker Man”. My first exposure to The Wicker Man was people joking about it. I went to a pretty alternative school, and when I was there, a … Continue reading “First exposure to The Wicker Man – by Rosie Jones”

  About me My name is Hope Aquilina and I’m currently a second-year English Language and Linguistics student at the University of Birmingham. In May 2023, I was offered the opportunity to work with the National Literacy Trust and Birmingham Stories as part of the CAL Collaborative Research Internship Scheme. My job was to attend, … Continue reading “Collaborative Research Internship Experience – National Literacy Trust & Birmingham Stories – by Hope Aquilina”