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September 3, 2020 • 25 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In a new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be delving into the world of enterprise and chatting ...
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September 3, 2020 • 37 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In a new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be delving into the world of enterprise and chatting ...
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August 19, 2020 • 22 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In our new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be talking to students and alumni about their exper...
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August 17, 2020 • 22 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In our new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be talking to students and alumni about their exper...
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July 27, 2020 • 23 mins
My guest is Haidee Elise Mulgrew recent graduate from the innovative Birkbeck & Central St Martins MBA and Founder of the Professional Dyslexic Talent Network. Haidee shares how her creativity and passion for design has influenced her career trajectory to date and champions how important it is that employers fully realise the potential of dyslexic talent.
Birkbeck Future’s Ability Programme is a dedicated course for students a...
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July 8, 2020 • 28 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series we will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.
For this episode, we welcome Adam Tobias Co-Founder of Inventum Group and Neurodiversity Advocate. Adam shares his passion for disability incl...
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June 29, 2020 • 23 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.
For this episode, we welcome Michelle Pilkington who is an Organisational Psychologist, Birkbeck student and Ability Programme Alumna. Michelle ...
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June 24, 2020 • 31 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.
For this episode, we welcome Paul Hubble who is an Associate Director with Barclays. Paul shared his career experience with the bank, some tips ...
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June 24, 2020 • 28 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.
For this episode, we welcome Vaibhav Adlakha who is an Associate Solicitor with global law firm Reed Smith. Vaibhav shared his career journey an...
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June 12, 2020 • 35 mins
What did books mean to women in the medieval to Enlightenment period – and how did they use them? Matt Clancy tells us about the fourteenth-century aristocrat Katherine Neville and her Book of Hours; Eva Lauenstein uses Mildred Cooke’s reading to examine the Reformation uses of books to influence not just religion but politics, and Lou Horton brings to light the extraordinary story of how Mary’s White’s reading shaped her famous br...
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June 12, 2020 • 5 mins
Listen, and to see the image fully here: http://www.blakearchive.org/images/but442.1.1.wc.300.jpg.
Some of William Blake’s best- known images are of Satan, and he uses the Bible to think with throughout his art. Here, one of Britain’s foremost Blake scholars introduces you to his little-known image of ‘Pestilence’ and his thinking on the book of Exodus.
To cite this podcast: Luisa Calè, Pestilence, Birkbeck Arts Weeks online 2020...
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June 1, 2020 • 56 mins
Flann O'Brien (also known as Myles na gCopaleen), brought his uproarious adaptations of Goethe's Faust and the Čapek brothers' Insect Play, along with his own inimitable sketch Thirst, to the Dublin stage in 1942-43. Join Birkbeck’s Joseph Brooker and Tobias Harris and reader extraordinaire Hugh Wilde to explore these rarely heard plays.
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May 26, 2020 • 4 mins
‘The Smoke’, as I’ve called this presentation, comes out of my work on nineteenth-century Manchester, a book-length version of which I hope to have finished by the end of this year. Often known as the ‘first industrial city’ or ‘shock city’, Manchester’s architectural, urban and visual forms have been surprisingly little discussed. I’m interested in whether we can use them to make a similar kind of claim to the one Walter Benjamin ...
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May 26, 2020 • 13 mins
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent is Katherine Angel's third book, and is coming out in February 2021, published by Verso. Her first book, Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell was published by Penguin, and her second, Daddy Issues: An Essay on Fathers and Feminism, by Peninsula Press. Katherine is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck and runs the MA in Creative and Critica...
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May 26, 2020 • 5 mins
Listen to John Henderson on what an extraordinary image evoking what it was like to live through plague in Renaissance Florence, the subject of his new book Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019), and Yale have made a chapter available here https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2020/04/24/surviving-plague-an-extract-from-florence-under-siege/
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Luigi Baccio del Bianco, The Plague in Florence in 1630 (...
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May 22, 2020 • 1 min
Mark Blacklock reads from his latest novel, Hinton (Granta, April 2020) which explores the strange worlds of pioneer of the fourth dimension, Howard Hinton.
Mark Blacklock is a novelist and cultural historian and teaches on Birkbeck's MA Creative and Critical Writing. He is the author of I'm Jack (London: Granta, 2015) and The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Hinton is his second novel. Ma...
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May 14, 2020 • 32 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In a new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be delving into the world of enterprise and chatting...
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May 5, 2020 • 38 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In a new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be delving into the world of enterprise and chatting...
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April 22, 2020 • 23 mins
Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.
In a new series, the #FuturesPodcast will be delving into the world of enterprise and chatting ...
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October 24, 2019 • 3 mins
Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities.
The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study he...
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