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 with inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders across the UK st...
Sep 03, 2020•26 min
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 with inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders across the UK st...
Sep 03, 2020•38 min
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 experiences of studying at Birkbeck and the support they have accessed ...
Aug 19, 2020•22 min
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 experiences of studying at Birkbeck and the support they have accessed ...
Aug 17, 2020•23 min
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 and recent graduates with a disability, neurodiverse or long term h...
Jul 27, 2020•23 min
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 inclusion and his thoughts on what is needed to make positive changes ...
Jul 08, 2020•28 min
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 on wellbeing and his thoughts on being open about a disability when...
Jun 24, 2020•31 min
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 and how he navigated the recruitment process as someone with a disabi...
Jun 24, 2020•29 min
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 brother Gilbert’s Natural History of Selbourne. Matt Clancy (PhD Bi...
Jun 12, 2020•35 min
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 /June 8. William Blake, ‘Pestilence: The Death of the First-Born’,...
Jun 12, 2020•6 min
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.
Jun 01, 2020•56 min
‘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 made of Paris as the ‘capital of the nineteenth century’. The eng...
May 26, 2020•5 min
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 Critical Writing. Read an extract of the chapter: https://www.versobooks...
May 26, 2020•13 min
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/ IMAGE CREDIT Luigi Baccio del Bianco, The Plague in Florence in 1630 (pre-1657), Venerabile Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firen...
May 26, 2020•5 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. Mark is currently working on a new edition of the non-fiction of the...
May 22, 2020•2 min
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 with inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders across the UK st...
May 14, 2020•33 min
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 with inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders across the UK st...
May 05, 2020•39 min
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 with inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders across the UK st...
Apr 22, 2020•23 min
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 here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast, Sophie Swai...
Oct 24, 2019•4 min
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. On this episode, we welcome Selina Yankson, Digital Marketing Manager, career coach and Birkbeck Alumna. We talk through all things marketing and we look at the ...
Sep 27, 2019•42 min
Episode 6: Adjusting to University Life by Birkbeck, University of London
Sep 23, 2019•16 min
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. For this episode, we are joined by Alina Ghost, SEO expert & podcast host. Alina’s worked across the likes of Tesco, Debenhams & Carpet Right and now at ...
Sep 13, 2019•23 min
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 this episode we are joined by Kate Temple-Brown, Early Careers expert. Kate studied Drama & English at University and then fell into the city working at a...
Aug 30, 2019•35 min
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. For this episode, we welcome Birkbeck Alumnus, Imran Arain, Cyber Security Consultant at KPMG. Imran spent 9 years working in the army in Pakistan before moving ...
Aug 16, 2019•41 min
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. On this episode, Emma Lacy, Business Operations Leader at Oracle & Early Tech Careers founder, joins us to share her experience of working in tech. Emma has ...
Aug 02, 2019•24 min
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 this episode, we meet with life coach, Edwina Lawson from the digital team at EE. Edwina started her career in the NHS before moving onto a digital graduate s...
Jul 19, 2019•33 min
Episode 5: Managing academic and social culture shock by Birkbeck, University of London
Jul 12, 2019•12 min
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 this episode, Hishem Azzouz joins us, to discuss all things personal brand and its impact on growing your career. Hishem discusses what a personal brand is, h...
Jul 05, 2019•32 min
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. For this episode, we welcome Daniel McCoy, Birkbeck Alumnus & Head of Business Development at Photocert, a growing start-up, which has recently been selected...
Jun 21, 2019•36 min
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 first episode, we meet with Mo Jamei, Birkbeck Alumnus and Manager at PWC working in the Fiscal Policy team. Mo started his career in the Civil Service as...
Jun 07, 2019•27 min
