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My experience at Birkbeck as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor and its impact...
This post was contributed by Professor Michel Rosenfeld, a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Birkbeck’s School of Law As my semester at Birkbeck is all too soon about to come to a close, I briefly pause...
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Are older people a burden? – Challenging the myths
This post was contributed by Dr Penny Vera-Sanso, a Senior Lecturer in Birkbeck’s Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies. It is taken from her contribution to Facing the Facts:...
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A holistic approach to beating the bullies
The post has been contributed by Dr Andreas Liefooghe, Department of Organizational Psychology, with Dan Vacassin, Birkbeck Alumnus and Director of Indigogold Of all the problems that find their way...
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How does academic research really benefit business?
This post has been contributed by Dr Federica Rossi, lecturer in Birkbeck’s Department of Management, and Aldo Geuna, professor of Economics at the University of Torino, Italy. Their new book The...
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The United Nations: Is Language Just Part of the Plumbing?
This post was contributed by Dr Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis, of Birkbeck’s Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication Since the first General Assembly Resolution 2 (I) in 1946, the United...
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UK elects most diverse parliament ever but it’s still not representative
This post was contributed by Dr Rosie Campbell, reader in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, and Dr Jennifer Hudson, senior lecturer in Political Behaviour at UCL. It was originally posted on...
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Facing psychological coercion and manipulation has become a daily part of...
This post was contributed by Lynne Friedli, researcher with Hubbub; Robert Stearn, PhD candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck; and Dr Felicity Callard, director of Hubbub and Reader at Durham...
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Opening the Open Library of Humanities
This post was co-written by Dr Martin Eve, senior lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing and Dr Caroline Edwards, lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck’s Department of...
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Research round-up: A snapshot around campus
This post was contributed by Andrew Youngson, media and publicity officer at Birkbeck, University of London This summer, to celebrate Birkbeck’s standing as a world-leading, research intensive...
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Discover Our Research: Meet the academics
As part of Birkbeck’s Discover our research activity, Dr Heike Bauer of the Department of English and Humanities writes about her current research activity. Dr Heike Bauer What is your current topic of...
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Structured Mayhem: Personal experiences of the Crown Court
This post was contributed by researchers Jessica Jacobson, Gillian Hunter and Amy Kirby from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), School of Law at Birkbeck discuss a recent collaboration...
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Adolescents and multitasking
This post was contributed by Dr Iroise Dumontheil of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences, and co-author of the newly published study “Multitasking during social interaction in adolescence...
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Improving attentional control to reduce anxiety
This post was contributed by Prof Nazanin Derakhshan of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences. Here, Prof Derakhshan describes her most recent study into how our cognitive flexibility can be...
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Discover our Research: Meet the academics
As part of Birkbeck’s Discover our research activity, Professor Anthony Bale of the Department of English and Humanities writes about his current research activity. Prof Anthony Bale What is your...
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Empire of Things
The following are two excerpts from Prof Frank Trentmann‘s new book, Empire of Things How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (UK: Allen Lane, 2016; USA:...
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Make fear your friend
This post was contributed by Professor Naz Derakhshan of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences “Fear is often thought of as a negative emotion, but a new idea in psychology suggests that...
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Why and how to study queer inheritance and will-writing?
This post was contributed by Antu Sorainen, research fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research “Inheritance is a social and legal practice of profound significance. For many people, having...
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Orlando Figes on being Historical Consultant to BBC’s War & Peace
This article first appeared in Russian Art and Culture on March 1 2016. Orlando Figes is a British historian and writer best known for his works on Russian history. He is Professor of History at...
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The proposed ‘right to disconnect’ after work hours is welcome, but not enough
This post was contributed by Professor Gillian Symon, member of the Digital Brain Switch project. Involving a multi-disciplinary team of UK researchers (including Birkbeck’s Dr Rebecca Whiting), the...
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Exploring sum-free sets
This post was contributed by Professor Sarah Hart of Birkbeck’s Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics and Head of the Pure Mathematics Research Group. Here, Professor Hart offers an...
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