My name’s Theo, I’m a second year Classical Literature and Civilisation student, and I had the opportunity to intern in the ‘John Crowfoot and the Gerasa Archive’ CIR project under Dr. Daniel Reynolds, in collaboration with the Palestine Exploration Fund. My role, along with my co-intern, was to digitise the archaeological records of Crowfoot in … Continue reading “‘Expectations in Cataloguing and Digitising, and the Reality of John Crowfoot and the Gerasa Archives’ by Theo Halton (CRI 2025)”
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‘Empowering Learners: Identity, Creativity, and Motivation in the Age of Generative AI’ by Mathilde Williams (CRI 2025)
This summer, I had the chance to intern on a project that explored how generative AI is changing education. The focus was on how AI can help students be more creative, motivated, and confident in expressing their unique identities. The project, “Empowering Learners: Identity, Creativity, and Motivation in the Age of Generative AI,” opened my … Continue reading “‘Empowering Learners: Identity, Creativity, and Motivation in the Age of Generative AI’ by Mathilde Williams (CRI 2025)”
Tracing Tourism Trends: My Summer Internship Experience – by Isabelle Rose (CRI 2025)
This summer, I had the exciting opportunity to intern on a research project titled Tracing Tourism Trends, a study that investigates how the language of tourism promotion has evolved over time. This project takes a unique diachronic approach, comparing tourism discourse across different time periods, specifically 2012 and 2021, using texts from the Visit Britain … Continue reading “Tracing Tourism Trends: My Summer Internship Experience – by Isabelle Rose (CRI 2025)”
Shakespeare: The Video Game – by Veena Patel (CRI 2025)
From a young age, I’ve been fascinated by the world of Shakespeare—the plays, the drama, the language, the characters. So, the opportunity to combine that love with my passion for video games felt like a dream come true! Through this form of interactive storytelling, I was able to see Shakespeare’s works in a completely new … Continue reading “Shakespeare: The Video Game – by Veena Patel (CRI 2025)”
My Experience at the Birmingham Transformative Humanities Lab (BTHL) by Simcha Kerbel (CRI 2025)
As a student studying Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics, I don’t often get to use tech as much as I would like to. Being promised an opportunity to work with various tech, such as motion capture (on which I spent most of the internship), and seeing the EEGs, eye trackers, and so on in the lab … Continue reading “My Experience at the Birmingham Transformative Humanities Lab (BTHL) by Simcha Kerbel (CRI 2025)”
‘Crafting Charity Comms: GRACE’s Uganda Project’ by Lucy Panter (CRI 2025)
Hi, I’m Lucy, and I’m going into my second year of Philosophy at UoB. This summer, I have had the privilege of working with GRACE to assist in developing their communications strategy. I am particularly interested in pursuing a marketing or communications-related career after university, so this internship has been a great way to gain … Continue reading “‘Crafting Charity Comms: GRACE’s Uganda Project’ by Lucy Panter (CRI 2025)”
‘The Game’s Afoot’ – A Summer of Shakespeare and Video Games by Liberty O’Dell (CRI 2025)
This past summer, I had the chance to assist Dr. Erin Sullivan, as part of the University of Birmingham Collaborative Research Internship program. As a life-long gamer and Shakespeare nerd, the opportunity to work with Dr. Sullivan on researching the intersection between Shakespeare and Video Games was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Getting Started My internship began … Continue reading “‘The Game’s Afoot’ – A Summer of Shakespeare and Video Games by Liberty O’Dell (CRI 2025)”
Meeting Medieval Manuscripts in the Cadbury Research Library – by Lucy Snow (CRI 2025)
My name is Lucy Snow, and this year I will be completing my MA in English Literature, the culmination of four years of studying at the University of Birmingham. My project, in collaboration with Dr Emily Wingfield and Dr Liv Robinson, is interested in the redesign of the Meeting Medieval Manuscripts module offered as part … Continue reading “Meeting Medieval Manuscripts in the Cadbury Research Library – by Lucy Snow (CRI 2025)”
Metaphors in Advertising
by Olivia Haysman-Walker Metaphors are something that we come across every day, but nevertheless struggle to correctly identify most of the time. They are highly subjective, come in all modes and medium of communication and are essential to both our language and the way we understand the world. Having been taught the fundamentals of metaphor … Continue reading “Metaphors in Advertising”
At the Crossroads of Empire: the Longobard Church of Sant’Ambrogio by Jack Gunn
by Jack Gunn, BA History It didn’t take me long to realise that this research scholarship was going to be an experience to treasure. I had dubbed it “My Trip of Firsts” and it would certainly become that in regard to the first time flying on my own, taking part in academic research and field … Continue reading “At the Crossroads of Empire: the Longobard Church of Sant’Ambrogio by Jack Gunn”