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This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Birmingham and its predecessors, Mason Science College and Queen's College, Birmingham. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Birmingham University is that they were awarded an honorary degree .
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) [9] [10] is a public research university in Birmingham, England.It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick ...
Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) is a division of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, England.The centre provides teaching and research into issues of African development, culture, anthropology, sociology, politics, history, and the legacies of the African diaspora, particularly in the UK, the Caribbean, and North America.
He broadcast a programme on the BBC from the mid-1990s focusing on Birmingham's history. In 1990, he was contracted to lecture [2] at the University of Birmingham, where he subsequently became a full professor in 2002. During this year he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his "services to local history and to ...
After completing his PhD, Davies was appointed to a post as assistant lecturer at the Institute of Soviet Studies at the University of Glasgow, where he would remain until his return to the University of Birmingham in 1956. [1] At Birmingham Davies held a succession of academic titles, including Research Fellow, Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer. [1]
Joseph Chamberlain in the Chancellor's robes. The University of Birmingham has had seven chancellors since gaining its royal charter in 1900. [1] Joseph Chamberlain, the first chancellor, was largely responsible for the university gaining its royal charter in 1900 and for the development of the Edgbaston campus.
Roy Michael Harrison was born on 14 October 1948 to Wilfred and Rosa Harrison (née Cotton). [3]He was educated at Henley Grammar School and the University of Birmingham, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1969, followed by a PhD in organic chemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of Science degree in environmental chemistry in 1989.
Alec Gordon, "The Genesis of Radical Cultural Studies: Contribution to a Reconstruction of Cultural Studies as Counter-Intellectual Critique" [The Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, England, 1963–1975]. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, June 1988.