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Birkbeck biologist Professor Sanjib Bhakta is working with academic and research institutes across India to share expertise on developing new potential antibiotic leads.
A student on Birkbeck’s pioneering Compass Project, which helps refugees and asylum seeking communities access educational opportunities in the UK, has been awarded the prize for Best Essay on the CertHE Legal Method at the College’s School of Law Awards.
Birkbeck’s Hidden Persuaders research group has worked with students from three London schools to create films exploring influence and brainwashing – four of which will feature at the BFI’s Future Film Festival.
The Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck has collaborated with the Jewish Museum on a major new exhibition exploring the stereotypes that link Jews and money - how they have evolved in different political contexts and how they have been exploited for different ends.
The British made rover, due to roam the surface of Mars in 2021, has been named after scientist Rosalind Franklin who worked at Birkbeck in the 1950s.
The Department of Biological Sciences welcomed crystallography alumni back to the College in an evening of celebration that considered the past, present and future of science at Birkbeck.
Sir Richard J. Evans, Visiting Professor at Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, was joined by former students and colleagues of Eric Hobsbawm to discuss his new biography of the great historian.
New research from Birkbeck, the University of Lincoln, Imperial College London, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland shows an association between various health risks and screen time before bed.
New research from Birkbeck’s Department of Psychology shows an association between regular cigarette smoking in adolescence and paranoia, even after accounting for several other possible factors.
Birkbeck will develop a decision support tool which will enable users to compare the impact and outcome of interventions undertaken during this major project.
