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🖼️ ✨ Opening next week! Stop by our Emerging Talent Exhibition that will celebrate our 2025 graduates.
We will be showcasing the work of recent graduates from across arts, design and media courses.
Experience their work from 12 - 27 November at Parkside Gallery on our City Centre campus.
BCU is using a speed-dating style networking format to break down barriers and build career pathways for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) from Global Majority backgrounds - connecting them directly with employers from across the West Midlands.
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Tech entrepreneur and BCU alumnus Cal Henderson donates further $2.75 million to BCU 🎓
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
🎓 2024 graduates!
Finished your studies between May–Aug 2024?
Check your inbox (and spam) for an invite from bcu@graduateoutcomes.ac.uk or a text from IFF Research
We’d love to hear about your next steps - your career insights help us improve and inspire future graduates 💬✨
Luke Matthew-Iveson studied a BMus in Composition and a Master's in Music Theory and Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Here's their advice for current BCU students!
Watch their Alumni Podcast episode now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
BCUSU are hosting a roundtable panel, 'Rooted in Greatness: The Power to Lead, The Pride to Rise' on Thursday 30th October, 4-7PM, in the Curzon Building on our City Centre Campus.
Book now: www.bcusu.com/ents/event/7...
#BHM25
BCU is using a speed-dating style networking format to break down barriers and build career pathways for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) from Global Majority backgrounds - connecting them directly with employers from across the West Midlands.
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Graduating from BCU in January? 🎓
The deadline to register for your graduation ceremony is tomorrow by 4PM. Please check your inbox for your graduation ceremony invitation!
#IAMBCU
Celebrating Black History Month ✨🖤
We’re shining a spotlight on our incredible postgraduate researchers!
Meet Alexah, who is studying at our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and exploring how dance improvisation can reimagine Blackness.
Read more about her research: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/blo...
🎉 Join us for the SLTea Party: Celebrating 80 Years of #SpeechAndLanguageTherapy
📅 Friday 14 Nov
🕐 1–3:30pm
📍 City South Campus
🔗 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
#SLTeaParty #RCSLT80
Birmingham City University (BCU) is supporting the city’s digital industry and highlighting its own ground-breaking research at Birmingham Tech Week (BTW).
BCU is one of this year’s sponsors for BTW which runs from 20-24 October 2025.
Find out more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Luke Matthew-Iveson studied a BMus in Composition and a Master's in Music Theory and Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
In 2024, they won the tenth series of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Watch their Alumni Podcast episode now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
Kyle set aside his dream of studying interior design to work at the age of 17, but later reignited his passion and pursued university study. Kyle has gone on to star in in BBC’s Interior Design Masters and running his own design studio.
Read more: www.bcu.ac.uk/student-info...
BCU and Indian universities team up to design greener, smarter cities 🏙️
A bold new international partnership is reimagining the cities of the future - making them smarter, more sustainable, and built for a greener tomorrow.
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Balancing work and study 📚
This week, BCU researchers will be running an online career seminar series for postgraduate researchers focusing on self-care whilst balancing studying and working.
🗓️ Thursday 16 October
⏱️ 1-2PM
📍 Online
Find out more and sign up here: shorturl.at/KG3lx
Luke Matthew-Iveson studied a BMus in Composition and a Master's in Music Theory and Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
In 2024, they won the tenth series of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Watch their Alumni Podcast episode now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
BCU has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nishkam Civic Association (NCA), marking the beginning of a formal partnership focused on values-led leadership, widening participation in higher education, and community development.
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Getting ready for Halloween? 🎃
Join us for a special film festival this October run by Professor Xavier Mendick, Professor of Cult Cinema Studies.
The theme of 2025’s Cine-Excess is: Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects
Buy tickets below 👇
www.cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-...
Luke Matthew-Iveson studied a BMus in Composition and a Master's in Music Theory and Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
In 2024, they won the tenth series of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Watch their Alumni Podcast episode now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
Deepali felt underrepresented in the audio industry and wasn’t sure that a career in music or sound was actually realistic long-term. Since leaving BCU, she has been able to travel the world working at huge events.
Read more: www.bcu.ac.uk/student-info...
ICYMI 💡 Our report on 'cold spots' in UK higher education was talked about on BBC Radio 4 Front Row last night by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social , with @benlukeart.bsky.social and Islam Issa, Professor of Public Humanities at @@mybcu.bsky.social
Tune in at 30:00 🔊 https://bbc.in/46F96uF
The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (LHC) is on the hunt for its next Director following the decision of Professor Diane Kemp to step down after five years in post.
Read more 👉 www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
"And if you'd never come for me, I might've drowned in the melancholy." ❤️🔥
Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Serena Trowbridge, writes about the muse behind Taylor Swift's new single, The Fate of Ophelia, from her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Read more 👉 shorturl.at/o7f7M
Luke Matthew-Iveson studied a BMus in Composition and a Master's in Music Theory and Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
In 2024, they won the tenth series of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Watch their Alumni Podcast episode now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
Rory Dulku, who graduated from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2019, currently stars as Prince Kavi in Rifco Theatre Company's Surinderella. 🥳
Get tickets here 👉 www.rifcotheatre.com/live-shows/s...
🎙️ New episode of the BCU Alumni Podcast! 🎙️
Luke-Matthew Iveson graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a BMus in Composition in 2012, followed by a Masters in Music Theory and Composition in 2014.
Watch now 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1l...
🎭 Our monthly alumni round-up is here! 🎶
Find out what our talented @royalbirmcons.bsky.social graduates have been up to this month! 👇
www.bcu.ac.uk/alumni/commu...
Johnathan Williams graduated with a BA (Hons) in Media and Communication in 2019. Since then, he has excelled in his career as a freelance photographer, videographer and content creator. 📸
Here's his advice for BCU students 👇
Watch the full ep:
youtu.be/m6Xh96GvW3o
Brothers Olly and BMus (Hons) Jazz alumnus Elliot Sansom launched Spotlight on Birmingham recently, offering Birmingham's emerging artists the opportunity to apply for free workshops and interviews recorded at Sansom Studios. 🔦
🔗 Read more:
www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
Johnathan Williams graduated with a BA (Hons) in Media and Communication in 2019. Since then, he has excelled in his career as a freelance photographer, videographer and content creator. 📸
Watch Johnathan's episode 👇
youtu.be/m6Xh96GvW3o
