The University of Birmingham is an academic community of staff and students; a place for open, critical thinking, and the creation, sharing and dissemination of knowledge. We are a university that teaches, researches, and applies knowledge in a comprehensive range of subjects. In this environment, academic freedom, and freedom of speech, are fundamental: the ability of all our members freely to challenge prevailing orthodoxies, query the positions and views of others, and to put forward ideas that may sometimes be radical or dissenting in their formulation.
We are committed to securing freedom of speech within the law for all our members, staff, students and visiting speakers. We are also committed to ensuring academic freedom for all academic staff and any visiting academics invited by the University, its staff, or students.
Universities in England have a range of legislative and regulatory duties in relation to free speech. A full list of these can be found in the Code of Practice.
Ref: Code of Practice sections 2.1 and 3.3