Amber Osborne (BA English) shares her experience of undertaking research to help develop a brand new final year English Literature module, ‘Histories of the Book’.
Category: English Language and Literature
‘Writers and Their Libraries’ and My Research Journey
‘One of my proudest achievements’ – Ellie Rowe, who’s now studying a Masters in Literature and Culture, shares what she learnt from her UG Research Scholarship experience in 2016.
Art for English
To help enhance the study of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, Mary McGowan spent five weeks researching and cataloguing its amazing cultural collections and their links with Undergraduate modules, creating an innovative website for all UoB students of English Literature.
Sewers, Sermons & Shakespeare: Birmingham’s Civic Revolution
‘The people of Birmingham are surrounded by a richer past than we know’, writes Henry Jones, who worked on a project researching and celebrating the heritage of George Dawson and his Shakespeare Memorial Library in Birmingham.
An account of student writing in literature and linguistics – a tale of two disciplines
During the summer of 2017, Daisy Collins conducted research on the differences in academic writing from English Literature and English Language undergraduates. Dry as it may sound, this was one of the best experiences of her time at university, and here’s why!
There is No Such Thing as ‘Enough Research’
Brooklyn Halladay blogs about her experiences working on the College of Arts and Law UG Research Scholarship project in the Department of English over the summer of 2017.