Academic Schools and departments (by School), and research centres

Birkbeck consists of five schools that comprise a total of 19 different academic departments.

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School of Arts

• School of Arts website
• Academic departments
• English and Humanities
• European Cultures and Languages
• History of Art and Screen Media
• Media and Cultural Studies
• Iberian and Latin American Studies

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

• School of Business, Economics and Informatics website
• Academic departments
• Computer Science and Information Systems
• Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
• Management
• Organizational Psychology

School of Law

• School of Law website

School of Science

• School of Science website
• Academic departments
• Biological Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Psychological Sciences

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

• School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy website
• Academic departments
• Applied Linguistics and Communication
• Geography, Environment and Development Studies
• History, Classics and Archaeology
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Psychosocial Studies
• Social Policy and Education

Research centres at Birkbeck

• Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research
• Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
• Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
• Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community
• Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre
• Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
• Centre for European Protected Areas Research
• Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS)
• Centre for Law and the Humanities
• Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice
• Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research
• Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
• Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck
• Centre for Scientific Analysis for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
• Commodities Finance Centre
• Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
• Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR)
• Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues
• Institute of Structural Molecular Biology (ISMB)
• International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC)
• London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics
• London Knowledge Lab
• Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
• Sports Business Centre
• The Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life
• Vasari Research Centre