Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

A great place for research

The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research is the hub for Sociology at Birkbeck, which has risen 15 places in the REF2014 rankings, and is now 13th in the UK

Social science hub

We are a focal point for the support, dissemination and discussion of critical and publicly engaged social science in London and beyond

Events

20 May 2019 - 18:00 Arts Week: Jews, money, myth
Explore the challenges of exhibiting difficult histories and shaping the stories objects.
27 May 2019 - 18:00 Taking the measure of higher education: extravagant claims, persistent inequalities and transformative possibilities
Public lecture
28 May 2019 - 18:00 Professor Fiona Candlin Inaugural Lecture
What is a Museum? (And how would we know?
29 May 2019 - 18:00 Urban government, the police and citizen participation in eighteenth-century Naples: a comparative perspective
Annual Social Sciences, History and Philosophy Lecture

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