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Looking back at The Reluctant Internationalists project, after four years of collaboration with exceptional researchers from across the world.
Nearly 800 students will celebrate completing their studies with friends and family during three days of graduation ceremonies at Birkbeck.
The commission will work to tackle inequality and ensure services meet local needs, and will benefit from Professor Watt’s academic research into social inequalities, social housing, communities and urban regeneration.
Research from Birkbeck's Professor Daniel Monk and Dr Jan Macvarish examined why siblings lose contact in adoption or care proceedings, often against their wishes, and despite the professional recognition of the importance of sibling relationships.
The College’s arts and humanities courses rank in the top 100 globally, fifth in London and 18th in the UK
Writer and novelist Mohsin Hamid joined Anna Hartnell, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, in conversation about his writing, including the novels Exit West (2017) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) – both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
The CBI/UUK project was set up earlier this year with the aim of addressing the decline in part-time learning and increasing flexible study options for potential students.
Charles Shaw and Daniel Pycock from Birkbeck’s Department of Economics, Maths and Statistics have received the Highly Commended Prize in a competition to find a policy proposal that could solve the UK housing crisis.
The Athena SWAN Awards are bestowed by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) to recognise and reward commitment to gender equality in higher education.
Professor Carolyn Moores will co-lead the project, which will use cryo-electron microscopy to investigate the molecular machinery inside our cells. This is funded by a highly competitive ERC Synergy Grant.