Creative writing research
Creative Writing was submitted with English to the Research Excellence Framework submission 2021, which was judged as first in London and second nationally for its 100% four star research environment and impact.
Creative Writing at Birkbeck is internationally renowned for its practice-led research, impact and innovation, with faculty publishing across all genres and forms, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, memoir and writing for radio, stage, television and film.
We are home to the digital Creative Writing Hub, MIROnline and our affiliated research centres include the Centre for Contemporary Literature, the Centre for Contemporary Poetics, Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre and Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities, which programme a dynamic range of events open to students and the public.
We support a large postgraduate community, with a portfolio of specialist MA degrees and an MPhil/PhD programme. Postgraduate study is energised by innovative doctoral training events, courses and internship opportunities.
Research centres and institutes
OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS
STAFF RESEARCH PROJECTS AND BOOKS
Recent staff research projects include: Dorothy Richardson Project; Experimenting in the Galleries; Stories in Transit; The Book Unbound; Animate Assembly; Conceiving Histories; A Violent World of Difference.
The newest books from our staff include: Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval Britain; Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books; Radical Attention; Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing; Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again.
OUR CULTURAL PARTNERS AND NETWORKS
We have formed a number of key collaborations and partnerships to support our research.
Key partners that we have worked with recently are the ICA, National Gallery, Wellcome Collection and Camden People's Theatre.
We have also networked with CHASE, Bloomsbury Colleges Group, Open Society University Network and The University of London/School of Advanced Study.