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Award-winning journalist and copywriter Becky Wells, who has written for BBC Top Gear, What Car?, Auto Express, PistonHeads and the Aston Martin F1 Team, urged students to take initiative rather than waiting for the right role to pursue their interests.

Running until 11 March, 'Melanie Smith: Tixinda, a Snail’s Purple' is open to the general public.

The new ranking scores higher education institutions from around the globe on academic capacity and performance, innovation and global reach.

February 2026 update from Uni Connect.

A new £75,000 gift from the Cyril Taylor Charitable Foundation is guaranteeing scholarship funding for five postgraduate students pursuing advanced digital and AI subject areas at Birkbeck.

Birkbeck will host the second edition of its Intelligent Impact webinar series on 24 February, bringing together leading academics to explore some of the most pressing issues shaping today’s world.

Balancing full-time work, parenting and part-time study, Laura Dean began her MSc Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck in 2004 through distance learning. In this first-person reflection, she looks back on how her studies helped set her on the path to senior leadership in psychology.

As a London schoolboy in the early 1960s, Reg Eyre used to walk past Birkbeck College, never imagining that one day he would emerge from its doors “blinking into the daylight as Doctor Reg”.

This marks the first time a Birkbeck academic has received the Experimental Psychology Society’s Frith Prize Lecturer award.

Funding from the Open Society Foundations will support BISA’s research, policy, and public engagement work.