Projects

Museums in the Pandemic is a collaboration between three of Birkbeck’s schools.

UnLocke is an innovative maths and science learning activity informed by neuroscience.

A review of policy and procedure to examine how social media evidence has been used in the investigation and prosecution of serious sexual and violent offences.

Our work bridges creative writing, cultural history, literary studies and theatre studies.

We focus on interdisciplinary topics and transnational phenomena, covering French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking cultures from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

Our department has an international reputation for its research in medieval, Renaissance and modern art.

We place particular emphasis on practice-based research, in which ideas and issues are investigated through activities such as creative film-making and digital design.

We have three groups that form the focus of our research: algorithms, software and verification; experimental data science; and knowledge representation and data management.

Our research can be categorised in four key areas: econometrics and statistical sciences; macroeconomics; microeconomics; and mathematics.

We focus on issues such as corporate governance, business ethics, entrepreneurship and innovation, consumer research, and sustainability.

We are the longest standing specialised department of Organizational Psychology in the UK and we are committed to our tradition of critical, crossdisciplinary and innovative research.

Our department is internationally renowned for its critical and interdisciplinary research on criminological theory, policy and practice.

We have strengths in research on law and technologies, environmental law, critical commercial studies (consumer law and banking), law and political economy, law and postcolonialism, and criminal justice and intersectionality (race, gender and sexuality).

Our multi-disciplinary and international environment supports world-leading research in the study of structural, cell and chemical biology.

Our research is built on a curiosity-driven interdisciplinary approach to make fundamental advances in our understanding of Earth and planetary systems.

We produce internationally impactful research that influences policy, understanding, culture and practice in health, education, corporate settings and beyond.

Our research relates to multilingualism and multiculturalism, language teaching and learning, language policy, identity, migration and diaspora, linguistic landscapes and the neurological and psychological basis of language and thought.

We are particularly committed to addressing issues of social justice and environmental sustainability.

Our research ranges across geographical and chronological boundaries, in archaeology, prehistory, ancient history, medieval history, early modern history, modern history, contemporary history and world history.

Our research is centred around: history of philosophy; ethics and political philosophy; language, epistemology, metaphysics and mind; and philosophy of art and aesthetics.

We engage with major contemporary challenges to do with the state of democracy, environmental issues, migration and other sources of international tensions.

We investigate issues of social, political and personal concern such as violence and conflict, racism and diasporic experience, and care and welfare.