Over more than a decade of engagement, the University of Birmingham and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have established 141 faculty-to-faculty links in dozens of academic disciplines.
Multiple collaborative projects are supported each year by the BRIDGE Seed Fund, BRIDGE Fellowship, and external funding.
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2025/26
English, Rare Manuscripts
Emblems, Ornaments, and the Early Modern Reading Experience
2025/26
Engineering
Train the Trainer: Building Sustainable Food Systems and Promoting Microbiome-Friendly Practices in Healthcare
2025/26
Psychology, Neuroscience
The BRIDGE Brain Network
2025/26
Gender Studies, History
Women’s Bodies, the State and Resistance: A Transnational History
2025/26
Public Health
A collaborative network to leap the hurdles of continuity of care in Brazil, England, and the United States
2025/26
Linguistics
Computational Sociolinguistics and the Impacts of Language Models
2025/26
Climate
AI Predictability of Extremes on Both Sides of the Atlantic (PEBSA)
2025/26
Engineering
Re4Rail2.0: AI and digital twin-based automated technology to real-time repair, reuse, recycle, and repurpose railway infrastructure
2025/26
Political Science
Decline and Threat Credibility
2025/26
Social Work, Health
A Stakeholder-Informed Approach to Develop a Global Maternal Mental Health Conceptual Framework
2025/26
Engineering
Surfactant Transport in Wave Breaking: Implications for Jet Droplet Ejection and Air-Sea Exchange
2025/26
Health
Development of Renewable Biocompatible Wearable Pressure Sensors for Healthcare Applications
2025/26
Biology, Environmental Sciences
Evolution of Environmental Science Engagement
2025/26
Engineering
Seeding Innovation in Responsive Biologically Inspired Multiphase Surfaces: A Foundation for Future Center Research
Academic Year 2024/25
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2024/25
Social Work
Bridging Development and Diplomacy in the Global South
2024/25
Sustainable Technology
Beyond the microbead: assessing emerging contaminants (microplastics and PFAS) in leave-on personal care products
2024/25
Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
A Comparative Study of Online Education Students‚ Becoming and Belonging at UIUC and UoB
2024/25
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Development of a 3D bioprinted, vascularized organ-on-chip for brain cancer modeling
2024/25
Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
Minoritized Staff’s Career Trajectories and Leadership Aspirations
2024/25
Slavic Languages & Literature
Russophone Literary Diversity and Peripheries
2024/25
Journalism
Investigating Local Solutions to Period Poverty in Sierra Leone
2024/25
Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering
Guided self-directed and collaborative learning in an international sustainability competition for undergraduates
2024/25
Law
Establishing and Inaugurating Transitional Justice and Human Rights Network
2024/25
Theatre
The Universal Stage II: Extended experiments in hybrid performance for the 21st Century Theatre
2024/25
Aerospace Engineering
Workshop Series on Autonomous and Resilient Transportation Systems
2024/25
Religion
New Directions in Interfaith Education and the Study of Jainism
Academic Year 2022/23
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2022/23
Languages, Cultures, Art History, and Music
Participatory and Collaborative Methods in Music Research
2022/23
Law
Achieving environmental health and justice through Precision Toxicology
2022/23
Business School
De-globalization and geopolitics – the impact of economic nationalism and economic security on business diplomacy, and corporate political activity
2022/23
Social Policy
From Shame to Celebration: A Reframing of the Global Culture of Menstruation
2022/23
Education
Educating Responsible Believers: Epistemic Norms and Controversial Beliefs in the Classroom
2022/23
Mechanical Engineering
Excellence in graduate education and research
2022/23
Chemistry
Greener synthesis of mesopolymers for organic electronics applications
2022/23
Mathematics
Methods in Extremal Graph Theory
2022/23
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Exploring good practice and student experience opportunities in research-led sustainability education
2022/23
Psychology
Are genetic variants associated with social connectedness in UK Biobank participants orthologous to genetic variations associated with social and motor function in honeybees?
2022/23
Metabolism and Systems Research
Exploring Perinatal and Mental Health Disparities in Global Context
2022/23
Inflammation and Aging
Combining blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal variability and salivary microRNA biomarkers to enhance the diagnosis of concussion in professional RFU players
Academic Year 2021/22
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2021/22
Physics and Astronomy
CSI Gravity: Investigating fundamental physics with hairy black holes and gravitational waves
2021/22
English Literature
Language Learning and the Pedagogy of Play
2021/22
History
Bridging the Lacuna of Local Jewish Histories: Jewish Lives in Small/er Communities
2021/22
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Making invisible plastics visible: Joined-up forces to tackle microplastics from car tyre, road marking and brake wear and tear
2021/22
Shakespeare
The Universal Stage: Experiments in hybrid performance for the 21st Century Theatre
2021/22
Economics
Housing market policies and house price expectations
2021/22
Physics and Astronomy
New frontiers of synthetic quantum matter
2021/22
Chemical Engineering
BiRmingham / Urbana-Champaign Net-zero Transition
2021/22
Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Structure Function Analyses of the Ancient Disease Associated Translation Factor DRG1
2021/22
Education
Exploring the Collection and Use of 360-degree Classroom Videos for Teacher Education
2021/22
Modern Languages
How do scientific views change? An adversarial collaboration on language learning
2021/22
Modern Languages
Race, Migration and Memory
2021/22
Physics and Astronomy
BRIDGING Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling to the next level
Academic Year 2019/20
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2019/20
English
Unpublished America
2019/20
English, Drama and Creative Studies and English Literature
Language Learning and the Pedagogy of Play
2019/20
Physics and Astronomy
Strain Engineering of 2D Magnetism
2019/20
Computer Science
Multimodal image-to-image translation for drug discovery
2019/20
Engineering
Mechanochemical Properties of Flexible Metal-organic Frameworks
2019/20
Psychology
A joint investigation of task-based effects on prediction during reading
2019/20
Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
A collaborative investigation of licit and illicit approaches to performance enhancement in sport.
2019/20
Biosciences
Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on crop productivity and forest diversity
2019/20
Ornithology and Biosciences
The Urban Oasis? Comparative Tracking of Turdus thrushes in Green Cities in the UK and the USA
2019/20
Inflammation and Ageing
Developing computational models of age-related inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases: Progression of synovial joint inflammation in patients with osteoarthritis.
Academic Year 2018/19
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2018/19
Law
Clinical and curriculum-based approaches to environmental law
2018/19
English, Drama and Creative Studies
Modernism and Controversy
2018/19
Law
Religious Freedom and Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Can the Law Enforce Mere Civility?
2018/19
Business and Economics
Education and wellbeing of children in Sub-Saharan Africa and their employment as young adults
2018/19
Business
International Workshop On Branding Heritage And Heritage Brands
2018/19
Business and Economics
The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
2018/19
Mathematics
Hypergraph Turán problems and Ramsey problems
2018/19
Chemistry
Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Patchy Colloids into Photonic Crystals
2018/19
Electronic Electrical and Systems Engineering
Learning Activities appropriate for Industry 4.0: a Birmingham-Illinois partnership in Sensing and Control Across the Ocean
2018/19
Chemical Engineering
Flow boiling heat transfer behavior of micro-encapsulated phase change materials slurry and its application to battery pack thermal management
2018/19
BiFoR
Declining nutritional quality of pollen under elevated CO2 impacts on pollinator health
2018/19
Psychology
Brain oscillations supporting working memory: an interdisciplinary network approach
2018/19
Psychology
A joint investigation of language change and decline in healthy ageing
2018/19
Nursing
Intersectionality and integration in child welfare and protection:
Academic Year 2017/18
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2017/18
History and Cultures
Comparative Approaches to Black and Jewish Studies in Britain and the U.S.
2017/18
Health Services Management
Health policy and civil unrest – an analysis of the global archive of news reports.
2017/18
Economics
Modelling Stochastic Decision Processes in Individual and Interactive Behaviour
2017/18
Social Policy
Building collaborations to strengthen third sector/non-profit and volunteering research, teaching and training
2017/18
Education
Understanding the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families with children with autism: implications for professional development.
2017/18
Engineering
Downburst dynamics
2017/18
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Unlocking New Geochemical Toolboxes for Deecting Climate Change
2017/18
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Variability in the Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter (PM) across continents
2017/18
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment
2017/18
Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
A collaborative pilot optical imaging study to establish measures of cerebral arterial elasticity in young and aged adults in response to acute intake of flavanols
2017/18
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
UK regions and digital Interdependencies
2017/18
Human Reproductive Science
Do sperm feel their way: Mechanotransduction in mammalian sperm
2017/18
Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Impact of ethnical background on breast cancer incidence and outcomes in women from USA, UK and India
Academic Year 2016/17
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2016/17
Linguistics
Writing Development in Global Higher Education
2016/17
Regionalism
Brazilian Regionalism in a Global Context
2016/17
Religious Feminism
With a Head Scarf: The Art of Religious Women’s Feminism
2016/17
Political Science
Innovations in Legislative Organisation: A study of Legislative Committees and their Impact on Public Policy
2016/17
Inclusion and Disability
Building Bridges: Addressing Inclusion in Disability Research and Teaching in the UK and US
2016/17
African Studies
Moulding the Authoritarian Citizen: Tax, State and Society in the Horn of Africa
2016/17
Mathematics
Interactive Theorem Provers Assessments: Bridging Research and Instruction Practices in Mathematics Formalisation
2016/17
Chemistry and Engineering
Sensors for Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences
2016/17
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Collaborative Research on Forest Carbon Cycling under Elevated CO2
2016/17
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The UoB-UoI Water Assembly
2016/17
Carceral Spaces
Conceptualising Carcerality
2016/17
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Leading the way to a new global consensus on carbon dioxide impacts on crops and forests
2016/17
Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Identifying the human protein turnover signature associated with exercise and inactivity by the use of dynamic proteomics
2016/17
Psychology
Role of oscillations in attention and memory
2016/17
Nursing
Application of work from The National Center for Professional & Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to the UK healthcare environment via the three research streams at the University of Birmingham School of Nursing and to the interprofessional/bioethical educational work of the UNESCO Bioethics centre and the University of Oxford
Academic Year 2015/16
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2015/16
History
Cross-cultural Histories of the Book in the Global Middle Ages
2015/16
Behavioral Economics
Incentives, Performance and Pro-social Behaviour
2015/16
Social Policy
Comparitibe Illegalities: Undocumented Migrants in the US and Europe
2015/16
Nuclear Physics
Education, Training, and Research Collaboration in Nuclear Science and Engineering
2015/16
Rail
Dynamic scratch resistance of micro- and nano-engineered concrete for sustainable and environmental-friendly applications in railway and other civil construction
2015/16
Nuclear Physics
Doing cold smarter: clean cold for rural communities. From report to field trials
2015/16
Chemical Engineering
Towards a Global Network for Dop-in Biofuels
2015/16
Biosciences
The biology of suspended animation
2015/16
Psychology
An electrodermal investigation of the effects of the subjective experience of control on emotion-cognition interactions
2015/16
Neurobiology
Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury
2015/16
Cardiovascular
Preparation for an application to the Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network of Excellence Program to investigate the role of platelet activation in thromboinflammation
Academic Year 2014/15
Academic Year
Discipline or Research Area
Project Title
2014/15
Cultural Heritage
Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site: Meanings, Values, Practices, Policy and Economics of the UNESCO Designation
2014/15
Education and Social Justice
Exploring International Perspectives on Educational Pathways: How Does Policy Affect Equity in relation to Opportunities for Progression and Social Mobility?
2014/15
Mathematics
Building bridges in Mathematics
2014/15
Chemical Engineering
Valorisation and Upgrading of Bio Oil: A Renewable Transport Fuel
2014/15
Civil Engineering
Improving damping and dynamic resistance in concrete through micro- and nano-engineering for sustainable and environmental-friendly applications in railway and other civil construction
2014/15
Physics and Astronomy
Education, Training, and Research Collaboration in Nuclear Science and Engineering
2014/15
Chemical Engineering
Controlling Spatial Organization of Microvascular Networks for Enhanced Bone Tissue Regeneration
2014/15
Behavioral Science
Cerebral markers of future disease risk in exaggerated responders to psychological stress
2014/15
Psychology and Neuroscience
Collaboration for the Implementation of Multi-Modal Imaging Investigation of Human Brain Function
2014/15
Biosciences
Bridging the Divide: advancing structural interpreation of flexible protein-DNA complexes using xMD-FF
2014/15
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Persistent Groundwater Pollution Legacies & The Groundwater-Energy Nexus
2014/15
Neurobiology
Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury
2014/15
History
New Directions in Modern British Studies
2014/15
Law
The Law and Norms of Musical Borrowing
2014/15
English
Literature and Science: A Transatlantic Exchange
2014/15
Education
Who is the ‘heritage’ native speaker? Contrasting perspectives from applied linguistics
2014/15
Chemistry
New Catalysts for Fuel Cells
2014/15
Mechanical Engineering
Micro & Nanotechnology for medical diagnostics
2014/15
Chemistry
Leading Cutting-Edge Research in Energy Materials through Innovation, Cooperation and Diversity
2014/15
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development and Delivery of an International Masters programme and CPD provision in Railway Systems and Risk Management
2014/15
Electrical Engineering
High and Low Technological opportunities in cultural heritage
2014/15
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Workshop on International Approaches to Capacity and Safety of Shared Freight and Passenger Rail Lines
2014/15
Biological Physcology
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in people with multiple sclerosis
2014/15
Psychology
The impact of ApoE4 polymorphism on the brain and cognitive health response to exercise
2014/15
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Impacts of nitrogen oxide emissions from military aviation on atmospheric composition and associated climate forcings
2014/15
Environmental Genomics
Regulatory constraints of developmental gene modules
2014/15
Psychology
The impact of cross-modal borrowing on English literacy in deaf signers of ASL and BSL
