Research

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

We showcase the creative, interdisciplinary and experimental research produced by academic staff and postgraduates in the School of Arts at Birkbeck.

This study shows how the Secretary of State's decision to block the proposed merger between 21st Century Fox and Sky on plurality grounds was rooted in evidence produced by Schlosberg.

This study looks at the re-discovery of lost films by Robert Paul, Britain’s most important early film pioneer and an important part of the country’s national heritage.

Anthony Bale's research explores Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism.

Caroline Edwards and Martin Eve focus on the principle that outputs of publicly funded research should be widely and freely accessible.

Colin Teevan is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright with an ongoing research interest in how to portray the experience of war from the ground-up.

Professor Cook’s research focuses on the significance of locality in understanding LGBT+ identities and community formations.

The World Prison Research Programme gathers, analyses and publishes the best available data on prison populations.

Professor Hough's research has informed both the police Code of Ethics and College of Policing leadership review.