Birkbeck Voices

This year’s Birkbeck Arts Week, held at the School of Arts from 18 to 23 May, was a huge success, with members of the public flocking to see, and take part in, a packed programme of lectures, workshops, performances and screenings. Following up on...

Birkbeck’s Arts Week returns this month with a vibrant and packed programme of free-to-attend public events. Running in and around the School of Arts in the heart of Bloomsbury from May 18 to 23, Arts Week 2015 comprises a cultural smorgasbord of ...

Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Assistant Dean for Strategy (Equalities) in Birkbeck’s School of Science talks to us about her aspirations for gender diversity within Birkbeck, and why it is so important for the College and the country to address the curre...

Professor Mike Oaksford, Head of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences, talks about how our academics’ research is making an impact in society, following the REF 2014 results in which all of the department’s research was awarded the top...

Bryony Merritt talks to Professor Stephen Frosh about Birkbeck's performance in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). For more information about our REF results - www.bbk.ac.uk/news/ref-results and research at Birkbeck - www.bbk.ac.uk/research

This month's podcast was recorded from an event held on 11 November to unveil a portrait of Professor Eric Hobsbawm at Birkbeck. The event also gave supporters of the Hobsbawm Scholarship Fund the opportunity to meet the first students to receive suppo...

Professor Mike Oaksford, Head of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences, talks about how our academics’ research is making an impact in society, following the REF 2014 results in which all of the department’s research was awarded the top...

Undergraduate and postgraduate students at Birkbeck are benefiting from generous funding thanks to support from ArcelorMittal – the world’s leading steel and mining company. In this podcast, Ian Louden, Head of Brand Worldwide, at ArcelorMittal, ex...

Professor Hilary Fraser, Executive Dean of the School of Arts at Birkbeck and Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies, explores some of the areas covered in her new book: Women writing art history in the nineteenth century. Looking like ...

University research leads to scientific and medical advances and a better understanding of society. Today the impact of such work is increasingly being analysed, in part because of the requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – an audi...

Birkbeck is offering £2,500 fee reductions for its innovative MA in Film Curating, which starts this October and responds to the changing relationship between film and art. The course will address the changes created by the expansion of digital techno...

The future of history was centre stage at a major two-day conference called History after Hobsbawm, organised by Birkbeck and the journal Past & Present. Speakers discussed the arguably unprecedented influence of Professor Eric Hobsbawm upon the study ...

London was transformed by the Great War. The capital was bombarded from the air for the first time and 668 people lost their lives in raids by Zeppelins and German aeroplanes. But death and destruction were also accompanied by an unprecedented economic...

Getting the most out of your studies is important, whatever your age or background. In this podcast, Professor Pat Tissington shares his latest research about what helps, and what hinders, progress at university. His findings are based on a nationwide ...

Inspiring talks and workshops about happiness, work, local history and more are taking place at Birkbeck’s pop-up university in Willesden Green until 31 May. In this podcast, Annette McCone, Birkbeck’s Widening Access Manager, explains why this hub...

Birkbeck’s Female Voices To mark International Women’s Day 2014, in this podcast we hear from an all-female line-up of Birkbeck academics and the College’s President, Baroness Joan Bakewell. Baroness Bakewell discusses her experiences as a ...

Professor Philip Dewe, Vice-Master of Birkbeck, describes the state-of-the-art campus opening in Stratford this autumn, and Birkbeck’s commitment to providing higher education in east London. University Square Stratford is a unique collaboration betw...

Steve Biko – leader of the Black Consciousness Movement – was one of the key figures in the liberation struggle in South Africa. The radical student leader, who arguably rivalled the importance of Nelson Mandela during the 1960s and 1970s, is the s...

On 23 January 2014 a team at the world-leading ‘Babylab’ at Birkbeck launched a new Europe-wide study of the early emergence of autism and ADHD. With over £2.5 million in funding, the team are now embarking upon the Studying Autism and ADHD Risk i...

Recent international climate change talks and the heightened risk of climate change-related flooding in the UK are discussed in this podcast. Dr Diane Horn (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geds/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/horn), of Birkbeck’s Department ...

Demographic research rarely dominates the headlines, but the comparison of the last two censuses has proved to be an exception. In this interview, Professor Eric Kaufmann, of Birkbeck’s Department of Politics, describes his analysis of the figures, w...

Gloria Miqueles – a Chilean activist and Birkbeck alumna – shares her extraordinary and inspirational account of surviving prison and torture during Augusto Pinochet’s brutal regime. She explains her memories of the coup in 1973, and her involvem...

Professor David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck, shares his interest in genetics, findings from his research, and describes the courses on offer through Clearing this August in this 12-minute podcast.

Two prominent politicians from both sides of the House of Commons share their thoughts in a podcast focusing on the role of universities in research, and studying politics at Birkbeck.

Professor Glaucius Oliva, head of the Science without Borders initiative, speaks about his time as a PhD student in the crystallography department at Birkbeck in the 1980s and his future plans for the ambitious Science without Borders programme. Scienc...

Baroness Joan Bakewell, Birkbeck’s new President, talks about the importance of part-time study and her excitement about joining Birkbeck in this 12-minute podcast.

The health of migrants, and the impact of imperialism and racism, are both discussed by the authors of new books in this podcast.

Match-fixing in the beautiful game and Be Birkbeck – a new membership scheme to promote public debate – are both discussed by academics in this podcast.

The history of pain from the 18th century to the modern day and reflections on Barack Obama’s presidency of the US are shared by researchers in this podcast.

Interviewees discuss how the Department of Politics celebrated its 40th anniversary, and how a new project is investigating the links between Down’s syndrome and dementia.

New research about the advantages of part-time study is shared in this episode, which also features a discussion about the films of J.M. Barrie – the author of Peter Pan.

Birkbeck alum Rob Williams re-lives the excitement of winning silver at London 2012, and academics talk about sport and business, and intensive law courses in this latest episode.

Last summer’s riots, good and bad capitalism, and the life-changing opportunities created by Birkbeck all feature in Birkbeck Voices – the first in a new series of monthly podcasts.