Holly Pittaway (BA History) learns about the activists ‘who helped mould Birmingham into what it is today’.
(Re)Creation? – Adapting Honoré de Balzac
The works of Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist and playwright, have been adapted into media from operas to graphic novels. This summer, it was up to UG researcher Rhys Morgan to find and catalogue them all.
The World Awheel: Americans in the Global Bicycle Age
Find out how Jethro (BA History) became an ‘efficient machine’ working with Dr Nathan Cardon to identify and catalogue information from nearly 30 volumes of cycling journals!
‘French Verse in Renaissance Britain’: A Joint Honours Dream
‘Women were responsible for producing some of the most important and popular texts translated in Renaissance Britain’ – Lucy Painter shares some of her findings from 5 weeks studying a range of translated books from Renaissance Britain.
Camera Time: Personal Photography and Everyday Modernity in Late Colonial Egypt
Personal photographs can be indispensable for research, writes Kristýna Picková, who worked with Dr Lucie Ryzova to catalogue and preserve nearly 15 years’ worth of material.
A Journey Through the Ages: One Page at a Time
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’.
Stepping into my Discomfort Zone: Is radicalisation and extremism represented in experimental Francophone Culture, and what even is Neuroaesthetics?
In July 2018, Maria Allon joined forces with Dr Stephen Forcer, head of the Modern Languages department, for the research project ‘Understanding Extremes: Neuroaesthetics, Radicalism, and Experimental Francophone Culture’. This post reflects on Maria’s time on the scholarship, and what she has learnt about how Islamic terrorism is reported in the Francophone world, and whether works of experimental film on the topic can be used in neuroscientific study.
Wilkie Collins to the RSC: A Tale of Two Scholarships
Mary describes how the UG Research Scholarship provided her with her first taste of academic research, starting her on a journey that took her from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to Connecticut USA, before returning to UoB having secured a prestigious RSC/UoB PhD studentship.
‘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.
From Lost Property to Postgraduate Study
Rik Sowden, who undertook a UG Research Scholarship in 2016, reflects on his experiences and how they helped him prepare not only for his undergraduate dissertation but also for postgraduate research, as well as fostering his love of history.