Research Projects
Our research is connected to outcomes that feedback into industry, culture and the environment. Find out more about our researchers and their projects below.
XTranscript and the CASE XML Conversion Tool
The Research Development Unit for English Studies have developed a number of tools to assist quantitative language rese...
The Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project
Over an 18 month period, the Birmingham City University Online Islamophobia Project is conducting one of the largest e...
WebCorp: harnessing the web as linguistic resource in research, teaching and beyond
The WebCorp suite of tools is comprised of three versions of the software that build on one another to provide linguis...
eMargin: collaborative text annotation tool
eMargin is an online collaborative annotation tool that lets you highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags t...
OurSurveySays: online dashboard for the analysis of text-based survey responses
OurSurveySays is an online service for the analysis of open-text survey questions using Corpus Linguistic techniques. ...
Repulsion: The investigation of an organising force in text
Exploring the instances of language whereby pairs of words are discouraged from appearing together, or are 'repulsed' ...
Shakespeare in the Middle East
Islam's research as one of the AHRC and BBC New Thinkers aimed to continue building British national identity by celeb...
Games and the Teaching of Literature
Evaluating the effect of education games on the learning and teaching of English literature.
Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing
The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.
Milton in the Arab Muslim world
In the first full length study of John Milton's influence in the Arab world, Dr Islam Issa reveals the poet's influenc...
The most profitable words on eBay
BCU researchers have analysed over 68,000 eBay listings in order to find the most successful language used on the onli...
World War One football stories
Dr Islam Issa reviewed thousands of archives, letters and documents from the First World War, revealing how frequently...
The real voice of Elizabeth Siddall
Elizabeth Siddall was an important and influential artist and poet during the 19 th century, but did her published ...
Linguistic and socio-legal analysis of online forums for Litigants in Person
The project explored the online provision of information and advice directed at parents who turn to social media or on...
Terrorism and the Arts
Jonathan Harris and a team of international researchers have created an extensive new publication detailing the key def...