Impact and Public Engagement

We have a strong tradition of achieving research impact and constantly aim to share the benefits of our research beyond campus and beyond the academy. Colleagues have re-imagined their work on German history and culture to underpin projects that deliver demonstrable change in today's society and the wider world. Dr James Hodkinson's decade-long partnership with collaborators in the arts sector in the UK West-Midlands has produced a series of interconnecting projects that have enriched the Islamic arts and continue to benefit the cultural and political lives of Muslim communities regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Our research also informs a wider portfolio of public engagement activities, by which we seek to share knowledge with and learn from different publics. These range from regular film screenings celebrating and exploring the legacy of early Weimar Cinema since its centenary year, through to our collaborative pedagogical exchange network DeutschZusammen/ GermanTogether, which explores synergetic learning and best-practice sharing between secondary and tertiary teachers of German. Individually, colleagues in German Studies also give public talks, curate exhibitions, take part in panel discussions and broadcasts and contribute to public debate on difficult topics such as the legacy of wartime sexual violence against women and historical and contemporary forms of Antisemitism.