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Internship programme

Thanks to a funding grant from the Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS), the Birkbeck Institutes have provided year-long professional training for some of Birkbeck’s postgraduate students through an internship programme.

The programme, which ran from 2013 to 2019, offered up to four students the opportunity to work closely with the BIH and BISR Directors and Manager to gain experience of working within a professional environment with a variety of academic and professional staff.

A key part of the internship was the organisation of the annual Birkbeck Institute Graduate Conference. With support from the Manager, the interns took the lead on all elements of the conference, from developing the concept and call for papers, selecting and liaising with keynote speakers, booking venues, organising catering, and all other logistics, including monitoring the event budget.

BIRKBECK INSTITUTE INTERNS

  • Ama Josephine Budge (2018-19)
  • Lise Villemoes Grønvold (2018-19)
  • Azzam Al-Kassir (2017-18)
  • Haroon Forde (2017-18)
  • Devin Frank (2017-18)
  • Pauline Suwanban (2017-18)

BIRKBECK INSTITUTE GRADUATE CONFERENCES

THE ART OF NOT DOING (2019)

  • Organised by Ama Josephine Budge and Lise Villemoes Grønvold.
  • Supported by the Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
  • Keynote speakers: Professor Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University), Dr Gail Lewis (Birkbeck, University of London), Professor Felicity Callard (Birkbeck, University of London).
  • View details of The Art of Not Doing event.

ARE WE LIVING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION? (2018)

  • Organised by Azzam Al-Kassir, Haroon Forde, Devin Frank, and Pauline Suwanban.
  • Supported by the Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
  • Keynote Speakers: Prof Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford) and Dr Sophie Jones (Birkbeck, University of London)
  • View details of Are We Living in an Age of Distraction? event.

CROSSING BORDERS: NEGOTIATION, PROVOCATION, AND TRANSGRESSION (2017)

SPACE, IDENTITIES AND MEMORY (2016)

  • Keynote speakers: Andy Merrifield and Heather White.

REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL CHANGE: METAMORPHOSIS OR TRANSFORMATION? (2015)

  • Organised by Eleonora Bottini, Luca Lapolla and Ceylan Begüm Yildiz.
  • Keynote speakers: Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Liz Kelly and Illan rua Wall.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE/IN-BETWEEN: PERSPECTIVES ON SPACE, POWER AND SUBJECTIVITIES (2014)

  • Organised by Nelly Ali, Mayur Suresh and Ceren Yalcin.
  • Keynote speakers: Veena Das and Sasha Roseneil.