WOW! We'd like to wish a huge congratulations to Birkbeck student Giedrė Rakauskaitė on winning #Paralympic gold in the mixed coxed four in Paris! 🥇 🚣‍♀️ Read more about Giedrė's fascinating story and her choice to commit to both sport and study: ow.ly/Xcvu50T9u9a

Can Ed Davey name as many of his 72 MPs as possible while on a roller coaster with Matt Chorley? 🎢 Check this ride out 👍 Listen to Matt Chorley weekdays 2-4 on BBC Sounds 🎙️

At The Labour Party Party Conference #LPC24, implementation of Labour's missions should be top of mind. If we continue to focus on the £20bn "black hole" & this leads to austerity, it could derail the mission-oriented agenda & create an even bigger hole.

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

It’s the first day of a new academic year! 💫 Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sally Wheeler, welcomes new and returning students to campus today 🙌 Have a great autumn term everyone!

Learn the key skills which will help you excel your business growth in our Help to Grow: Management Course starting in November. This 90% government-funded course delivered at Birkbeck will assist you in taking steps towards greater success🌟 bbk.ac.uk/school/busines…

I've got so many medical professionals as friends or family, which comes from growing up in circles that highly value both compassion and science. Talking to them is so hard now. Last week I had a conversation with a friend who's a consultant.

Join our upcoming event on, "What we learned on institutions and entrepreneurship from 25 years of GEM-based research" with Tomasz Mickiewicz and Julia Korosteleva 📆Tuesday 22 October 2024 ⌚13:00 to 14:00 💻 Online Book Now: tinyurl.com/yc3wp2jw

🚀 Students, we’re hiring for a Business Development & Sales Micro-Placement with Magna People Change Consulting! Gain valuable skills and boost your CV. Apply now👉 bbk.joinhandshake.co.uk/jobs/148192/sh… 👈! 💼✨ #MicroPlacement #CareerOpportunities

Exciting news! The Birkbeck Research Centre for Environment and Sustainability launched this month, creating a hub for interdisciplinary #sustainability & #environment research and knowledge exchange! 🌍 Read more: ow.ly/CIRo50TSvgu Image: Sophie Killingley

Wondering what do to on 5 November? Join us Birkbeck, University of London for a sparkling exploration of politics & aesthetics! Free & all welcome but tickets are going fast so book your place now 🎆

If you’re interested in #environment and #sustainability, there’s still time to sign up for this exciting online event on Thursday 👇

🤬 Do you want to see some spectacular industrial level lying from the UK Government? Here. This. In their weekly flu and covid report, they describe both flu and covid being at 'low levels'. Let's head over to the intensive care units and high dependency units for some data...

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one. Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

And that’s a wrap on tonight’s postgraduate #openevening 💫 Thank you so much to everyone who joined us, we hope we helped you decide whether BBK is for you! Download a digital prospectus to find out more about Birkbeck, our courses & how to apply: ow.ly/juSS50TfSl8

Our ninth cohort of the Help to Grow: Management Course is starting next Thursday! We still have some spaces left, make sure you register for the opportunity to grow your business and lead change, supported by Birkbeck's SME experts: bbk.ac.uk/school/busines…

Applications for the BBK Environmental Student Research Project Support Fund close this Sunday 📣 Open to all taught master's students exploring environmental issues as part of their dissertation/independent research project, on any programme! More info: ow.ly/xE6n50U4UcP

Join our upcoming event on, "Concerned but not paying: Attitudes to the green transition and willingness to pay" When: 3 December 2024, 13:00 — 14:00 Venue: Online Book now: bbk.ac.uk/events/event/4…

It was great to have Year 12 with us today for campus tours and taster lectures! Thanks for coming to see us! 👏

From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs. I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages, and fully respect international humanitarian law!