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I’m Olivia, a third year English and Creative Writing student. Over summer, I took part in the Collaborative Research Internship “From Mosaics to Pixels: Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands” with project lead Dorothy Butchard, PHD student Niall Gallen, and two other interns, Grace, and Jen. As a team, our goal was to research and produce content … Continue reading “Mosaics to Pixels: Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands – by Olivia Brass”

My name is Keren Simpkins, and I am a 2nd year music student who took part in the Collaborative Research Internship project ‘Transposing Music Copyright with Sonic Pi: An Exploratory Analysis of Litigated Music Works Using a Programmatic Approach’ led by Dr Chen Zhu, Birmingham Law School. As a music student with an interest in … Continue reading “Investigating and analysing Ed Sheeran’s music with the coding software Sonic Pi by Keren Simpkins”

My name is Charlotte Grace, and I am about to start my third year studying Archaeology and Ancient History. During my summer, I spent time working as an intern in the Collaborative Research Internship on the Antisemitism in Post-Migrant Britain project headed by Dr Sara Jones, and Sarah Hall. My role involved creating classroom resources … Continue reading “Developing educational resources for students that provide insight into the experiences of violent antisemitism in Eastern Europe – by Charlotte Grace”

  My name is Emil. I am a BA History student. I participated in the Collaborative Research Internship in the Project “Untold Histories of “The Wicker Man,” which was directed by Dr Christopher Nunn, Assistant Professor of Film (Education Focused), Department of Film and Creative Writing. When I first watched Robin Hardy’s ‘The Wicker Man’, … Continue reading “The Wicker Man: Through a Modern Lens – by Emil Nagl”

To begin, it’s necessary to set the scene, context if you will. I worked with Dr Emanuelle Dos Santos on material that will be in the book she is planning to publish. Her topic? It is called ‘World Literature in Modern Languages: Production and Circulation of Peripheral Literatures in Portuguese’ and is about literature from … Continue reading “The Trying Times of Working from Home”

Our Undergraduate Research Scholar Louisa Day joined the project team in Summer 2019. The UGRS Scholarship enabled Louisa to undertake research on the theme ‘Beyond Song’. We have collated more than 1700 song settings of Baudelaire’s poetry but what other types of musical adaptations can be found? In this first blog post, Louisa examines a music video … Continue reading “Beyond Song”

by Benjamin Sibertz-Willett I applied to the Undergraduate Research Scheme about three hours before the applications closed, mostly as a ‘let’s see what the application process and interview are like’. I wasn’t really expecting anything to come of it. The project I applied for was ‘Audio Description in the West Midlands Arts and Culture Sector’ … Continue reading “Audio Description in the West Midlands Arts and Culture Sector”

by Michael Barnes How many romance languages could you name? French, Spanish, Italian… maybe you could guess Romanian from the name? How about Judeo-Spanish? If you’ve never heard of it, then you’re not alone – Judeo-Spanish is a romance language (that is, a language descended from Latin) originally from the Iberian Peninsula, but which in … Continue reading “Grammars under threat: recording the grammatical legacy of Judeo-Spanish”