Research centres and institutes

We provide a forum for innovative interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange in gender and sexuality studies.

BIDA provides the focus and a platform for research that combines data from computing and pervasive technologies, and a wide range of academic disciplines.

We engage with important public issues through debates, lectures, seminars and conferences, to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

We were established in response to the growing interest in film and the moving image across the College.

We are the focal point for social research at Birkbeck, and a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.

We are a centre of innovative research and teaching and contribute to discussion and public policy formation on antisemitism and intolerance.

We focus on collaborative archaeologies with social and ecological values at their core.

Our aim is to improve criminal justice policy and to contribute to academic knowledge and public debate about crime and criminal justice.

We seek to provide a scientific environment conducive to world-class research in the field of protein science.

By connecting researchers with practitioners, the AFRC looks to advance research impact in the area of accounting and finance.

Set up with the aim to consolidate and publicise research in macroeconomics and monetary economics, we organise regular seminars and annual workshops, host visiting researchers and publish a working papers series.

Based in Birkbeck’s School of Arts, we provide a focus for the research activities taking place within Birkbeck and beyond in the area of architectural, design, and landscape history, contemporary architectural humanities and archaeology.

Our work is characterised by the use of converging methods and by our theory-driven programmes of empirical research on visual, cognitive, and language development in human infants, children and adults.

We offer a space in which theatre makers, critics and audiences gather to share knowledge, ideas and practices relating to contemporary theatre and performance.

We host conferences and symposia, readings and seminars on a range of contemporary writers – in prose fiction but also potentially in other forms and media.

Our centre is a forum for the study and performance of contemporary poetries, and research into their historical, political and theoretical contexts.

Our research spans the breadth of modelling techniques and frameworks employed in the study of human behaviour.

We combine the expertise of researchers in child development, neuroscience, and education at three world-leading universities, Birkbeck, UCL Institute of Education, and University College London.

The centre showcases the work at Birkbeck researching and teaching on themes relating to environment and sustainability. It also serves as a hub for research and knowledge exchange.

CFFCS is a national and international hub for academic researchers as well as artists, writers and poets, philosophers and other cultural figures outside of academia.

We aim to facilitate, exchange and showcase existing and new interdisciplinary research on the history and theory of photography at Birkbeck and in the wider photographic and academic community.

We offer a unique environment in which to undertake collaborative, cross-disciplinary and comparative research on visual subjects in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Our research encompasses the role of innovation systems, intellectual property rights, markets, social capital, entrepreneurship, globalisation, and more.

Our work aims to enable a better understanding of the experiences, treatment and prevention of mental distress; the social, political and philosophical debates surrounding it; and its representations in literature and culture.

We provide a unique space for reflective critical inquiry, where researchers from different disciplines can gather and participate in a sustained intellectual conversation in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We draw on multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies from across the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts to investigate how digital technologies and digital information are transforming our learning, working and cultural lives.

We examine law and aesthetics; law and literature; law and psychoanalysis; critical legal theory; legal history; law and film; and law, space and architecture.

The London Geochemistry and Isotope Centre (LOGIC) combines research teams and facilities in geochemistry at UCL and Birkbeck. We carry out investigations of natural materials using a variety of approaches.

We explore the emergent fields of medical humanities and intercultural medicine to explore and develop the lived experience of clinicians in the everyday complexities of real-life clinical settings.

The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Worlds creates a rich research community committed to the study of medieval and early modern cultures.

We are a hub for intellectual exchange and debate relating to all aspects of museology, curation, and heritage.

Birkbeck is renowned for its research into the long nineteenth century (c. 1789-1914) and we foster this through innovative research, conferences, seminars and exhibitions.

We provide state-of-the-art magnetic imaging facilities for Birkbeck and UCL staff, and promote inter-institutional collaboration and innovation.

We showcase the creative, interdisciplinary and experimental research produced by academic staff and postgraduates in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies is an interdepartmental research centre that promotes interdisciplinary research in areas including law, economics, finance and public policy.

The centre acts as a hub for discussion and engagement on research in the field of psychosocial studies.

We explore the fundamental questions of existence, knowledge, ethics, and human thought.

We are one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for planetary and exoplanetary science. It houses expertise in understanding planets from their deep interiors, through their surfaces and atmospheres, to their space environment.

We are actively involved in sports industry research with a particular focus on governance and regulation.

We research, discuss and debate British politics and host academic and public events.

London-based, we are devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.

We aim to develop a deeper understanding of economic, political and socio-economic influences on the development of governance frameworks, at the global, national and sectoral levels.

Based in the School of Psychological Sciences, this research centre aims to improve cognitive and emotional health in women with breast cancer.

Based in the Faculty of Science, we undertake research to support ethical practice focused on the priorities of neurominority employees.

We examine and make sense of internationalism in its various guises, past and present, and provide an intellectual home for researchers at all stages in their careers.

We identify shared research interests and provide an intellectual home for multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners.

We are broadly concerned with social change and transformation in higher education.