Working here
About Birkbeck
- The history of Birkbeck
- Finding Birkbeck
- Mission statement
- Schools and departments
- Statistics book (restricted access): find out more about Birkbeck's staff, students, research and finance
- Term dates and holiday closing
Agency, contractors, consultants and honorary staff
- Agency workers
- Honorary research fellows, associate research fellows, honorary teaching fellows: please contact Elaine Pankhurst for details
- Visiting staff: appointment procedures
Benefits
- Annual leave
- Book discounts
- Career breaks (for Research, Professional and Support, and Teaching and Scholarship staff)
- Childcare vouchers
- Contribution-related pay
- Contribution-related pay (for Academic staff)
- Contribution-related pay (for Research staff)
- Contribution-related pay (for P&S staff)
- Contribution related pay (for T&S staff)
- Counselling service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye tests
- Family leave
- Flexible working
- Health and well-being campaign
- Homeworkers
- Leave for academic purposes
- Pension information
- Relocation
- Season ticket loan
- Student Central (gym) membership
- Study Assistance Scheme
- Study leave
Buildings / rooms / security / external venues
- Building projects team
- Cinema
- Class venues
- Classroom facilities
- Maintenance requests
- Room bookings
- Security
- Stratford room bookings
- UCL
Careers and personal development
- Academic progression
- Birkbeck Astrea professional networking group
- Mentoring
- Mentoring (Athena SWAN initiative)
- Management and leadership development
- Progress and development review
- Research progression
Computers / IT services / email
- Computer accounts
- Username and password
- Accessing Outlook via the web (for Exchange 2010 mailboxes - i.e. staff who have had their mailboxes migrated – currently ITS, Finance and External Relations)
- Accessing Outlook via the web (for Exchange 2003 mailboxes)
- Hardware / software
- ITS factsheets and tutorials
- Report a fault
- Training
- Workstation availability
Consultancy: advice for staff who offer consultancy services
- Consultancy advice (download Word doc)
- Consultancy code of practice on academic staff engaged in private-led consultancy work
Employment, terms and conditions
- Code of conduct for managing conflicts of interest
- Disciplinary and dismissal procedure
- Fixed-term contracts policy
- Grievance procedures
- Hours of work, overtime and TOIL
- Leaving procedures
- Performance management
- Public interest disclosure ('whistleblowing')
- Sickness absence
- Smoking policy
- Variation in hours (for T&S staff)
Equality and diversity
- Disability matters
- Dignity at Work and Study
- Equality and diversity at Birkbeck
- Equal opportunities policy statement
Feedback
Governance
Health and safety / emergencies
ID cards for staff
Induction and probation
- Corporate induction - an introduction to Birkbeck
- Induction checklist for new staff
- Probation (for Academic staff)
- Probation (for Research, P&S and T&S staff)
Jobs / recruitment
- Honorary research fellows, associate research fellows, honorary teaching fellows: please contact Elaine Pankhurst for details
- Jobs at Birkbeck
- Recruiting staff
- Booking a job ad
- Job templates, guidance on preparing
- Staffing Committee bid form - see forms page on HR web site
- Relocation procedures
- Visiting staff: appointment procedures
Pay
- Acting-up and higher level duties
- Increments
- Market pay supplements
- Overtime payments
- Payroll information
- Salary scale
Postal and stationery services
Sustainability
Teaching and scholarship staff
- General information for teaching and scholarship staff
- Applying to be a Teaching & Scholarship member of staff
- Our Guide for current Teaching & Scholarship staff
- Training and Professional Development for Teaching & Scholarship staff
Teaching resources
- Centre for Transformative Practice in Learning and Teaching
- Disability resources for teaching staff
- E-learning resources
- Learning and teaching strategy
- Library