Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck College
motto	In nocte consilium (advice comes in the night)
founding	Since 1920 - part of the University of London 1907 - Birkbeck College 1823 - London Mechanics' Institute
Sponsorship	state
place	London , UK
president	Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell
Students	19,020
Website	www.bbk.ac.uk

Birkbeck College in London

Birkbeck, University of London , also known as Birkbeck or BBK for short , is a college of the University of London . Birkbeck is one of the leading universities in the world.

Square in front of Birkbeck College with a view of the Senate House (also University of London)

history

The college is named after its founder, George Birkbeck (1776–1841). He founded the college in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute . In 1907 it was named Birkbeck College . In 2002 it officially dropped the word college to only use the name Birkbeck .

The university's original focus was on the natural sciences: in 1952, one of the first computers in Europe was developed here with the All Purpose Electronic X-Ray Computer . Mainly postgraduate courses in the fields of art, human and social sciences are now taking place there. In the mid-1990s, the London Consortium Graduate School was established as a merger of Birkbeck, the Architectural Association, the Institute of Contemporary Arts , the Science Museum and the Tate Gallery . The courses offered are supervised by professors from the university and the Architectural Association as well as curators from the participating museums. Lectures will be held on the university premises as well as the Tate Modern and Tate Britain Gallery. Permanent teachers include Anthony Julius, Tom McCarthy , Colin MacCabe, Laura Mulvey , Steven Connor , Marina Warner , Juliet Mitchell , Stuart Hall (†) , Roger Scruton, Salman Rushdie , Tilda Swinton and Slavoj Žižek .

The economics and natural sciences master’s and doctoral programs still have a long tradition. From 1961 to 1987 the chair for theoretical physics was headed by David Bohm , who made significant contributions in the field of quantum mechanics. Nobel Prize winners Aaron Klug and Derek HR Barton also worked at the university.

Since 1998, Birkbeck and University College London have been collaborating on structural biology and bioinformatics under the umbrella of the Bloomsbury Center .

classification

In 2010, Times Higher Education magazine ranked the college in 152nd place worldwide . This corresponds to position 56 in a pan-European comparison. In the context of the QS ranking, Birkbeck also achieved good placements in the faculties included in the ranking. A ranking within the top 100 was achieved in the Arts & Humanities area.

In the framework of the RAE 2001, Birkbeck College was ranked 13th nationally across the entire range of courses according to the Guardian Ranking. In the context of the study, the Times ranked the college 27th in a national comparison.

In the course of the Guardian RAE 2008, the college was ranked 31st out of 133 across all faculties. The Times ranked the university 33rd out of 133. Six individual university faculties were able to establish themselves in the national top 5 as a result of the rating, increasing the university's research budget .

In 2010/2011, the university was 23rd nationally in the THE ranking.

In June 2010, the University was awarded the highest possible rating (confidence) by the Central Quality Assurance Office QAA.

In September 2010 it was announced that Birkbeck College was nominated for the prestigious 2010 Times Higher Education Award of the "University of the Year".

In addition to research collaborations in the fields of art, architecture and life sciences, the London Graduate School in Mathematical Finance was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between leading London universities. The cooperation between Birkbeck, the London School of Economics , Imperial College and King's College London offers not only master's courses but also doctoral courses.

Alumni

The university's better-known alumni include:

• Denis MacShane (Labor Party, Member of Parliament (MP))
• Richard Sambrook (Board Member of the BBC)
• Dido (singer)
• Jah Wobble (British musician, record producer and owner of the record company 30 Hertz Records)
• Ramsay MacDonald (Former Prime Minister of England (Labor))
• Annie Besant (British freethinker, freemason, suffragette, journalist, writer and politician)
• Alan Davey (MP)
• Kitty Ussher (MP, Former Secretary of the UK Treasury)
• Álvaro Pombo (Spanish poet, novelist and political activist)
• Robert A. Shaw (British chemist)

Web links

Commons : Birkbeck, University of London  - collection of images

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/birkbeck-university-london
2. ↑ http://www.london.ac.uk/bbk.html
3. ↑ http://www.oncampus.global/uk/oncampus-london/birkbeck/about.htm
4. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/education/researchratings/table/0,11229,-4319756,00.html
7. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Journals/THE/THE/14_December_2001/attachments/RAE2001_TIMES_HIGHER_RESULTS.pdf
8. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2008/dec/18/rae-2008-results-uk-universities
9. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Journals/THE/THE/18_December_2008/attachments/RAE_2008_THE_RESULTS.pdf
10. ^ Website of the newspaper "The Independent", accessed on February 29, 2012: http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/birkbeck-university-of-london-458862. html
11. ↑ QAA website, accessed on February 29, 2012: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/InstitutionReports/Reports/Pages/inst-audit-Birkbeck-College-10.aspx  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=413567&c=1
13. ^ Imperial College website, accessed February 29, 2012: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mathfin/admissions/phd/londongraduateschool
14. ^ Website of The Independent newspaper, accessed February 29, 2012: http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/birkbeck-university-of-london-458862.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '18.2 "  N , 0 ° 7' 45.6"  W.