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Senior Research Fellow, Dr Ruth Beecher, has been awarded a prestigious Career Development Award by the Wellcome Trust. The £1.4 million grant will fund an interdisciplinary research project entitled, Child Sexual Abuse and Recovery:…

New Birkbeck research has found that 45% of doctors have been sexually harassed by patients and recommended that hospitals should implement protective measures such as panic alarms for doctors working alone, those on night shifts and in…

Birkbeck is excited to announce the launch of a range of new undergraduate and postgraduate courses designed to meet the growing demand for expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), entrepreneurship, and environmental science. These …

A new brain imaging method, developed by researchers at Birkbeck and UCL in collaboration with UCL spin-out Gowerlabs, has recorded unexpected activity in brain regions that process emotion when infants are placed in social situations. …

Birkbeck’s Derek Jarman Lab has debuted its latest project, The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze, at Sheffield DocFest. The film is a collaborative effort between the Jarman Lab's manager and film director, Bartek Dziadosz, and Academy…

Eleanor Jennings, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences, and Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, have been awarded Birkbeck’s 2024 Ronald Tress Prize.   As well as highlighting…

Birkbeck was delighted to welcome its Vice-President, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, Lord Mayor of London on a visit earlier this week. The Lord Mayor in his honorary role as Vice-President spent time with academics from the…

Fourteen Birkbeck Alumni and Fellows from across the political spectrum have been elected to Parliament in the General Election. Birkbeck, which is located in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency, has long been a university of…

A new research project is set to be conducted at Birkbeck, exploring how the confidence we express in public influences our private feelings of uncertainty. The four-year project will be spearheaded by Dr Daniel Yon and his Uncertainty Lab …

60 Birkbeck students gathered for the first ever conference, held last month, for those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds; groups which have typically been underrepresented at the doctoral level and for whom the event…