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CreaTech Frontiers - Birmingham Music Experience
Creative SME's in the West Midlands are being offered grants of up to £10,000 to bring innovative ideas to life, as par...
Growing together - BCU and BBG Partnership
Birmingham City University is a Strategic Learning Partner of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (BBG) and our Vice-Cha...
From BCU to a business in sustainable design
Molly Ratcliffe, a BCU alumna, won the Female Founders Pitching Competition last year for her business WasteProjekt and...
Birmingham Based Business Supporting Graduate Talent
Brew, a Birmingham-based company, have regularly recruited graduates from BCU. In this blog we spoke with the company t...
From Idea to Impact: Sharedish’s Journey since winning University competition
Since winning the University’s STEAM Hatchery competition in 2024, Sharedish has continued its success over the last si...
Leaders by Nature
Jude Jennison charts her amazing journey from IBM to leadership with horses
Arup office in Birmingham - ideas for sustainable design
To help promote ideas about workplace and sustainable office design, Business Services visited the new Arup office in B...
From an international student to a PR professional: Mastering the three types of luck
A blog looking at Feron Jayawardene's journey from being an English and Journalism international student to PR professi...
Seeing the wood from the trees - why we cannot have it both ways
As we dispose of our Christmas trees and embark on a new year, we should reflect on the environmental impact of our dep...
2025 - a year of innovation, entrepreneurship and change-making
This year 2025 will once again see innovation at the centre of business trends culminating in the Innovation Fest f...
Reforming the planning system is essential for SME housebuilders
In light of the government's announcement to build 1.5m new homes, we asked Michael Parinchy, a manager at Probuild360,...
Transforming Britain’s housing to meet the 2050 Net Zero Target
As COP28 continues, we look at how a Future Homes Standard could help meet the UK's 2050 Net Zero Target.
From Student to Surveyor
Business Services asked Alya Akhtar, BCU alumna and now a Surveyor at Avison Young, to chart her postgraduate journey i...
How your business can benefit from sport
With the Invictus games heading to Birmingham in 2027 and the Olympics underway, we investigate the economic impact spo...
Birmingham Royal Ballet embraces tech to reach new audiences
In this blog we highlight the Birmingham Royal Ballet's journey to investing in new technologies, and the lessons your ...
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