On 6 September 2022, Liz Truss became the third women in history to occupy the UK's highest political office and the UK’s ninth ‘takeover' Prime Minister since the Second World War. Truss inherits a Parliamentary Conservative Party which remains scarred by Brexit and divided over how to handle the cost-of-living crisis and worsening outlook for eco…

Westminster Watch is a podcast in which members of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London discuss current issues in British politics. In Episode 62, Professor Dermot Hodson and Dr Ben Worthy discuss the Conservative leadership election. For more information about research on politics at Birkbeck, the range of events run by the…

Westminster Watch is a podcast in which members of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London discuss current issues in British politics. In Episode 61, Professor Dermot Hodson and Dr Ben Worthy discuss Boris Johnson’s resignation as leader of the Conservative Party and his legacy as Prime Minister. For more information about rese…

‘Studying Politics at Birkbeck prepared me for this campaign'. Listen to current Birkbeck Politics student Ben Wood talking about his experience of running for Parliament in the recent North Shropshire by-election. For more information about Birkbeck’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Politics, please visit www.bbk.ac.uk/politics…

Westminster Watch is a podcast in which members of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London discuss current issues in British politics. In episode 60, Professor Dermot Hodson and Dr Ben Worthy discuss Boris Johnson’s troubled premiership and Dominic Raab’s review of the Human Rights Act. For more information about research on po…

Westminster Watch is a podcast in which members of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London discuss current issues in British politics. In episode 59, Professor Dermot Hodson and Dr Ben Worthy discuss political sleaze and the government’s on-off approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol. For more information about research on po…

Politics and the Arts is a new undergraduate module at Birkbeck that explores the representation of politics in literature, film and other branches of the arts. It asks how artists think about politics and what political scientists can learn from the arts. To mark the launch of this module. Professor Dermot Hodson and Dr Ben Worthy from Birkbeck’s …

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In a new ser…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In a new ser…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In our new s…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In our new s…

My guest is Haidee Elise Mulgrew recent graduate from the innovative Birkbeck & Central St Martins MBA and Founder of the Professional Dyslexic Talent Network. Haidee shares how her creativity and passion for design has influenced her career trajectory to date and champions how important it is that employers fully realise the potential of dyslexic …

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series we will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.For this episode, we welcome Adam Tobias Co-Founder of Inve…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.For this episode, we welcome Michelle Pilkington who is an Org…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.For this episode, we welcome Paul Hubble who is an Associate D…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.For this episode, we welcome Vaibhav Adlakha who is an Associa…

What did books mean to women in the medieval to Enlightenment period – and how did they use them? Matt Clancy tells us about the fourteenth-century aristocrat Katherine Neville and her Book of Hours; Eva Lauenstein uses Mildred Cooke’s reading to examine the Reformation uses of books to influence not just religion but politics, and Lou Horton bring…

Listen, and to see the image fully here: http://www.blakearchive.org/images/but442.1.1.wc.300.jpg.Some of William Blake’s best- known images are of Satan, and he uses the Bible to think with throughout his art. Here, one of Britain’s foremost Blake scholars introduces you to his little-known image of ‘Pestilence’ and his thinking on the book of Exo…

Flann O'Brien (also known as Myles na gCopaleen), brought his uproarious adaptations of Goethe's Faust and the Čapek brothers' Insect Play, along with his own inimitable sketch Thirst, to the Dublin stage in 1942-43. Join Birkbeck’s Joseph Brooker and Tobias Harris and reader extraordinaire Hugh Wilde to explore these rarely heard plays.…

‘The Smoke’, as I’ve called this presentation, comes out of my work on nineteenth-century Manchester, a book-length version of which I hope to have finished by the end of this year. Often known as the ‘first industrial city’ or ‘shock city’, Manchester’s architectural, urban and visual forms have been surprisingly little discussed. I’m interested i…

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent is Katherine Angel's third book, and is coming out in February 2021, published by Verso. Her first book, Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell was published by Penguin, and her second, Daddy Issues: An Essay on Fathers and Feminism, by Peninsula Press. Katherine …

Listen to John Henderson on what an extraordinary image evoking what it was like to live through plague in Renaissance Florence, the subject of his new book Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019), and Yale have made a chapter available here https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2020/04/24/surviving-plague-an-extract-from-florence-…

Mark Blacklock reads from his latest novel, Hinton (Granta, April 2020) which explores the strange worlds of pioneer of the fourth dimension, Howard Hinton.Mark Blacklock is a novelist and cultural historian and teaches on Birkbeck's MA Creative and Critical Writing. He is the author of I'm Jack (London: Granta, 2015) and The Emergence of the Fourt…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources. In a new se…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources. In a new se…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In a new ser…

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities.The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement t…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.On this epis…

Episode 6: Adjusting to University Life by Birkbeck, University of LondonAf Birkbeck, University of London

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.For this epi…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources. In this epi…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.For this epi…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.On this epis…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In this epis…

Episode 5: Managing academic and social culture shock by Birkbeck, University of LondonAf Birkbeck, University of London

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources. In this epi…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.For this epi…

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources. In our firs…

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities.The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement t…

As part of Arts Week 2019, Dr Sasha Dovzhyk held a screening and discussion of Askold Kurov’s documentary 'The Trial,' which investigates the truth about the arrest and imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov by Russian FSB.Af Birkbeck, University of London

Welcome to Arts Week 2019 and the Monday Medley. Professor Sue Wiseman interviews guests, academics and artists about the events taking place over the course of the week. Birkbeck Arts Week runs from 20-24 May 2019. Find out more and book onto events: www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/about-us/events/arts-weekAf Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck MFA theatre students discuss their upcoming #BBKArtsWeek event 'Testimony: a theatrical exploration' at the Birkbeck School of Arts on 23 May 2019.What can and can't we say in public in the modern world? Join us for a new interactive performance exploring truth, secrets and confidences, inspired by the facsinating testimony of three 17th c…

As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Jinmin Wang from the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at University of Nottingham presents his talk: How Government Venture Capital Guiding Funds Work in Financing High-Tech Start-Ups in China: A ‘Strategic Exchange’ PerspectiveMore information:www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014…

As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Stephanie Macht from Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University presents her talk: The Benefits of Online Crowdfunding for Fund-Seeking Business Ventures.More information:www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014/02/14/financing-innovation-workshopThe Birkbeck Centre for Innovation …

‘Self-Education and Mentoring in the Domestic Medical Texts of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell’ - Dr Alexis Wolf (Birkbeck, University of London)Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the perio…

‘Women Advisers to the Foundling Hospital Governors’Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 - Janette Bright (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including…

‘Seniority, Experience, and On-the-job Training at British Naval Hospitals 1775-1815’ - Dr Erin Spinney (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowl…

Knowledge, negotiation and nervous disorder in the diary and letters of Sara Coleridge, 1832-43 - Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), keynote speakerFriday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge d…

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities.The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement t…

Episode 4 - Resilience and the job market: managing competition and perfectionism by Birkbeck, University of LondonAf Birkbeck, University of London