We conduct research that aids understanding of children and families.

Our aim is to improve criminal justice policy and to contribute to academic knowledge and public debate about crime and criminal justice.

BIDA provides the focus and a platform for research that combines data from computing and pervasive technologies, and a wide range of academic disciplines.

This joint research institute brings together world-class research expertise and facilities at Birkbeck and at UCL.

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

We engage with important public issues of our time through a series of open debates, lectures, seminars and conferences, and
foster and promote a climate of interdisciplinary research and collaboration among academics and researchers

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 are the focal point for social research at Birkbeck, and a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.

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

Our centre exists in order to explore the potential of artistic representation to interrogate – and reconfigure – our cultures’ various conceptualisations of relating and belonging.

We collaborate with other research centres in the UK and abroad that are undertaking research - fundamental and applied - in algorithms and complexity, verification and software.

Set up with the aim to consolidate and publicise research in macroeconomics and monetary economics, we organise regular seminars and annual workshops, host visiting researchers and publish a working papers series.

Based in Birkbeck’s School of Arts, 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.

Our research spans disciplines such as protein structure prediction and classification, genomic and transcriptomic data analysis, statistical genetics and systems biology.

We draw on multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies from across the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts to investigate how digital technologies and digital information are transforming our learning, working and cultural lives.

Our work is characterised by the use of converging methods and by our theory-driven programmes of empirical research on visual, cognitive, and language development in human infants, children and adults.

We engage with key issues in British politics and public life through public debates, conferences, lectures, seminars and seminar series, and workshops.

Based in the Department of Psychological Sciences, this research centre aims to improve cognitive and emotional health in women with breast cancer.

Our research spans the breadth of modelling techniques and frameworks employed in the study of human behaviour.

We provide a forum for academics and practitioners working in the field of commodities modelling.

We host conferences and symposia, readings and seminars on a range of contemporary writers – in prose fiction but also potentially in other forms and media.

Our centre is a forum for the study and performance of contemporary poetries, and research into their historical, political and theoretical contexts.

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 aim to develop a deeper understanding of economic, political and socio-economic influences on the development of governance frameworks, at the global, national and sectoral levels.

We aim to encourage the evolution of a body of European law, founded in the structured application of critical legal methodologies to the law of the European Union, as well as to the broader law applying within the European area.

Established in 1980 by graduates of Birkbeck, this society encourages interest in conservation, based on sound ecological principles, by arranging lecture courses, field-visits and meetings.

Composed of academics and PhD researchers in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, we explore how mathematical models and statistics can help us understand economic phenomena.

We combine the expertise of researchers in child development, neuroscience, and education at three world-leading universities, Birkbeck, UCL Institute of Education, and University College London.

An interdisciplinary group, we are looking across Europe in the eighteenth century, and across a wide variety of media.

We use real-world data and observations captured from full-scale information systems to ground testable theory and conduct experiments.

We aim to advance understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying health and disease. through the development and application of computational tools and quantitative methods and models.

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.

Our research encompasses the role of innovation systems, intellectual property rights, markets, social capital, entrepreneurship, globalisation, and more.

We examine and make sense of internationalism in its various guises, past and present, and provide an intellectual home for researchers at all stages in their careers.

We collaborate with researchers in the UK and abroad on research into data management and integration, semantic web technologies, logic and knowledge representation and reasoning.

We examine law and aesthetics; law and literature; law and psychoanalysis; critical legal theory; legal history; law and film; and law, space and architecture.

The London Geochemistry and Isotope Centre (LOGIC) combines research teams and facilities in geochemistry at UCL and Birkbeck colleges. We carry out investigations of natural materials using a variety of approaches.

This joint Birkbeck-UCL research centre uses geochronology and thermochronometry to understand how continents deform and how surface topography develops over different spatial and temporal scales.

We bring together academics and PhD researchers in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics who are interested in all branches of macroeconomic theory, practice and research.

Our bi-annual scholarly journal, Studies in the Maternal, publishes critical work about motherhood and the maternal that moves across disciplinary boundaries.

We bring together current research at Birkbeck on material texts, including the potential of digitisation to open up archives and replace the real with the virtual.

We host renowned speakers from Birkbeck and other universities, publish papers and bring together researchers at conferences, seminars and other events.

We aim to facilitate and advance innovative thinking, incubate new ideas and create connections between creative practitioners and academics.

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 explore the emergent fields of medical humanities and intercultural medicine to explore and develop the lived experience of clinicians in the everyday complexities of real-life clinical settings.

Our research focus is microeconomic theory and applications to finance, regulation and behavioural economics.

We bring together and promote the best of Birkbeck's, as well as the University of London's, research across the spectrum of multilingualism and multiculturalism.

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

We provide state-of-the-art magnetic imaging facilities for Birkbeck and UCL staff, and promote inter-institutional collaboration and innovation.

Birkbeck is renowned for its research into the long nineteenth century (c. 1789-1914) and we foster this through innovative research, conferences, seminars and exhibitions.

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

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 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.

The Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies is an interdepartmental research centre that promotes interdisciplinary research in areas including law, economics, finance and public policy.

Through conferences and publications, we aim to develop and promote research into the long-term genesis of Christianity and the conundrums of political theology.

We examine global connections between population, environment and resource dynamics and their links to politics.

Birkbeck is one of the founding members of the Association for Psychosocial Studies, which was formed in 2013 to explore the interrelationships between social, cultural and psychological meaning and experience.

We bring together research at Birkbeck and elsewhere on the conceptual and practical interplay between race and the law and the development of a critical, race-conscious analysis of the law.

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

London-based, we are devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.

We offer definitive information on the life and history of Robert Boyle.

We are broadly concerned with social change and transformation in higher education.

We are actively involved in sports industry research with a particular focus on governance and regulation.

We are focused on the sustainability of working life through the development of healthy and resilient working people, as well as healthy, safe and resilient organisations and communities.

Our members come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from those working on media theory in relation to changing publication practices through to software developers creating new technologies of publishing.

We play an increasingly pivotal role in integrating digital research and providing specialist support.