Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Learn more about the history, the mission and the people that contribute to the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.

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Read about the 2021 BISR and Institute of Psychoanalysis summer school.

Read more about studying social research at Birkbeck.

Read about the ECR Working Group, which supports members at different stages of the ECR journey.

Read about the Age, Care and the Caring Crisis Working Group, which explores how people at all life stages engage in care ‘systems’.

Read about the Food Working Group's research into the production, distribution, and consumption of food and drink, and into the modern food system.

This former working group provided a platform to develop a new international research initiative: the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Project (GEPP).

This working group looks to foster debate around the concept of guilt across several domains.

Read about the Home and Exile Working Group, which tries to think about migration in a different way.

Read about the Plantations Working Group, which explores political ecologies of extraction and resistance.

This interdisciplinary research group looks at the global connections between population, environment and resource dynamics and their links to politics.

The Psychoanalysis Working Group acts as a hub for the exploration of psychoanalytic theory and practice.