Can the Big Society really tackle society big issues?
A crime expert from Birmingham City University says his first-hand experience of how local communities in America are struggling to cope with big issues such as drug abuse and gang warfare highlights...
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Let’s not make ‘Brummie History Week’ a superficial gimmick
Dr Liz Yardley – Lecturer in Sociology Suggestions for a ‘Brummie History Week’, welcome packs for new residents and ‘Brummie Ambassadors’ have all stemmed from the recent City Council inquiry looking...
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When the cure is acceptance, understanding and empathy
Sonia Hendy-Isaac By Sonia Hendy-Isaac – Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Design for Employer Engagement. As well as teaching and researching, Sonia is a published poet with a keen interest in contemporary...
View ArticleFor cinema goers, the future’s bright just not so Orange anymore!
Dr Kerry Gough, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Theory at Birmingham City University As the ubiquitous Orange Wednesdays offer rolls its end credits, the end of an era in cinema exhibition...
View ArticleCameron has been scarred by his experience of TV debates
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School It’s a bit rich of Cameron who in the period preceding the last election goaded the then prime minister, Labour leader Gordon Brown to engage in a TV...
View ArticleFrom the frontline of poverty
Father Oliver Coss is a Small Heath vicar who sees the effects of deprivation every day. He is speaking at a Birmingham City University debate on child poverty this Friday… My work leads me to some of...
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Boy Band Breakups: Let’s not be so cavalier to the “Directioners”
Professor Craig Jackson, Head of Psychology at Birmingham City University In February 1996 when Take That announced their split, press reports were feverish about the prospect of fans, distraught at...
View ArticleAs McDonald’s turns 75 – do you know how it all began?
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School The car manufacturer Henry Ford is the name most associated with having allowed the vision of scientific management come to life through his adoption of...
View ArticleFive years on from the Cumbrian mass shooting – what more do we know about...
Professor Craig Jackson reflects on the Cumbrian Shooting tragedy in 2010. He suggests that mass shootings committed by single perpetrators against strangers are still increasing in frequency, but...
View ArticleJordskott – Beyond ‘labs and slabs': What fuels our appetite for serialised...
Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Reader in Criminology at Birmingham City University Last night I watched the first episode of Jordskott on ITV Encore with interest. The 10 part series is the latest incarnation...
View ArticleSocial psychologist applauds John Lewis Christmas ad
(Image courtesy of John Lewis) Dr Elle Boag, senior lecturer in Social Psychology at Birmingham City University. So, this morning saw the release of the John Lewis Christmas advert and once again...
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In an age of constant social media communication, are sports stadiums losing...
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School For someone who grew up in Hall Green, Birmingham in the 1970s it is fascinating to look at the pictures taken of the area when it was being transformed...
View Article‘The Circus of Horrors’– A Criminologist’s thoughts on the “Killer Clown...
by Dr Adam Lynes, lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University The 2016 clown sightings, which have commonly been referred to by names such as “panic”, “uprising”, “epidemic”, and “invasion” ,...
View ArticleHow society has created groups that are vulnerable to serial murder
by Dr Adam Lynes, criminologist at Birmingham City University Stephen Port, forty-one and a chef from East London, is currently on trial for the murder of four men who were found dumped within 400...
View ArticleThe tip of an iceberg: Madeleine McCann and the shameful realities of missing...
by Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University Ten years ago, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in the...
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Can this beloved 80 year old ever be stopped from killing people?
Head of Psychology at Birmingham City University, Professor Craig Jackson, joins in the celebrations of the 80th Birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most iconic and symbolic engineering...
View ArticleSocial media homicide confessions – stories of killing in digital culture
Criminologist Professor Elizabeth Yardley discusses the relationship between violent crime and social media use, ahead of her new research being published later this month. On Easter Sunday earlier...
View ArticleHands off! The lucky Creme Egg hunt
by Kelly O’Hanlon, senior lecturer in PR at Birmingham City University’s School of Media Who knew that eggs would be causing so much concern in January? You’d almost think it was Easter. The launch of...
View ArticleMosallah’s YouTube “Prank” is No Laughing Matter
by Liam Brolan, Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University Have you heard of Arya Mosallah? No? Me neither. Well, at least not until today, when I discovered a news story which brought...
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