Research networks, groups and societies

In this cluster, we focus on approaching law and criminology through critical theory.

This groups brings together academics, practitioners and researchers with an interest in diversity in the workplace.

This group uses cutting-edge mathematical methods to understand pressing contemporary economic issues.

We bring together specialisations in human rights, international law and European law.

We work together to use the humanities to understand the law, its institutions and practices.

This group brings together academics, researchers and experts in macroeconomics and monetary economics.

This research group looks at marketing and consumption phenomena from a range of perspectives.

This group showcases pioneering research in microeconomic theory and its real-world applications.

Our group explores social policy and practice.

A community of practice, whose members are academic staff and current PhD students using qualitative methods in their research.

We offer a public space for multidisciplinary discussions about 'race' and racism, class, multiculture and postcoloniality.

In this cluster, we explore the place of sex, gender and race in the law, especially inequalities and failures of justice.

Together, we focus on governance and regulation in finance, criminal justice, schools and the creative industries.

The Avant-Garde Study Group is a forum for discussing the (historical) avant-garde.

We provide a social forum, bringing together teachers of history in secondary schools.

This reading group facilitates dialogue and collaboration across the humanities and sciences.

We bring methodologists and applied users of methodology together - from across College, research students and staff.

Our research focuses on cities and processes of urbanisation in the Global South and North.

In this cluster, we focus on approaching law and criminology through critical theory.

Our postgraduate students run Dandelion, an arts journal and research network.

This research group brings together researchers from across Birkbeck who are researching various aspects of the eighteenth century.

Our work is at the forefront of research into bio-diversity loss, human/non-human relations, environmental processes and climate change.

This group aims to promote social science research into the production, distribution and consumption of food and drink.

This group is conducting a comparative study of the impact of equality policies in western democracies.

We use quantitative and computational methods to investigate social and natural phenomena, including urban dynamics, crime and coastal erosion.

This group fosters interdisciplinary discussion and understanding of the feeling of guilt.

We examine migration as a loss of homeland and the making of a new home and ask what makes people feel at home in exile.

Our research investigates the dynamics between social justice and international development.

This forum discusses and examines all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture.

The LSFRC brings researchers together to foster and encourage the research of science fiction at Birkbeck and beyond,

This working group is a hub for Birkbeck research into the constitutive role of media in democratic systems and cultures.

Our group explores social policy and practice.

This group examines global connections between population, environment, resources and politics.

This group bring together researchers across the College to explore psychoanalytic theory and practice in all its dimensions.

Together, we focus on governance and regulation in finance, criminal justice, schools and the creative industries.

We promote research into the life and work of the Elizabethan mathematician Thomas Harriot.

This working group provides a space where people can share ideas about the latest trends in television studies, and develop collaborative research partnerships.

This group investigates theoretical approaches to computational intractability, software verification and scheduling.

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.

This group develops innovative methods and systems for the computational analysis of data.

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

This research group developing and applying symbolic logic formalisms to represent, focused on analysing and querying data, knowledge and computations.

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.

The Centre hosts international research collaborations with scientists from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to study the Mount Paektu Volcano.

Research in the School is structured around four thematic clusters with teams and projects working across themes.