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FRIENDS LIKE THESE Our Lives Are More Intertwined with the Fly Than Any Other Creature Bbk Issue 21 Contents bbkThe Birkbeck magazine Issue 21, Spring 2007 FRIENDS LIKE THESE Our lives are more intertwined with the fly than any other creature bbk Issue 21 Contents TEACHING & RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS ALUMNI NEWS Top in London 1 Future perfect 13 Students rate Birkbeck top Adetoun Baruwa tells how University in London Birkbeck has improved her self-esteem Line of defence 2 Anti-immune system created Changing tone 15 to help aid drug development John McDonnell MP on his challenge for Labour leadership Welcome to issue 21 of BBK. Birkbeck takes centre stage 7 In ‘Changing Tone’, Birkbeck Unique course gives students Help for those who need it most 18 graduate John McDonnell MP a head start in the theatre Student Opportunity Fund talks about why he is standing launched to help talented students for the Labour leadership and MASTER’S REPORT his lasting impressions of Forward thinking 9 FEATURES Birkbeck. We have another Boris has views for Birkbeck 23 political intervention on page 23, COLLEGE NEWS Boris Johnson gives the key from Boris Johnson MP, who Built to last 10 speech at the Foundation dinner gave the speech at Birkbeck’s New facilities herald a better annual Foundation Dinner. Birkbeck Cover story: On the fly 24 Philosopher AC Grayling tells us The interweaving lives of why he co-wrote a play for the Renowned intellect 11 humans and flies Soho Theatre called On Religion, Inaugural Paul Hirst Memorial and about its message that the Lecture Mind the gap 28 basis of belief is misconceived. Do students on gap years abroad Also, in ‘Our doubt is our passion’, Birkbeck, Stratford 11 do more harm than good? former priest and Birkbeck Latest news on Birkbeck, research fellow Mark Vernon Stratford Our doubt is our passion 30 comments on the terrain of the The uncertainties of being human “committed, passionate agnostic”. Obituary 12 In our cover story, ‘On the Fly’, Ronald Tress, former Master LETTERBOX Steve Connor describes the of Birkbeck Your views on BBK20 32 interweaving lives of flies and humans and what this tells us about ourselves; while in ‘Mind the Gap’, Andrew Jones explores whether gap-year volunteering perpetuates neo-imperialist stereotypes about ‘poor’ Africans. Cover photograph: Finally, congratulations to Image courtesy of Brian Valentine (www.flickr.com/photos/lordv) BBK editor Catherine Stevens on the birth of her daughter Scarlett Ella on 27 December last year. I’m taking the reins while Birkbeck is a world-class research and teaching institution, a vibrant centre Catherine’s on maternity leave of academic excellence and London’s only specialist provider of part-time, and can be contacted at: evening higher education. Its academic reputation also attracts many [email protected] traditional, full-time postgraduate and research degree students. Top in London Students rate Birkbeck top in London and third nationally Birkbeck is the top university in “Studying part-time at Birkbeck is London, with the third highest affordable and you are not stuck score nationally, for overall with a large student loan, even satisfaction in the second annual before your first job. I have a good National Student Survey of final- University of London degree which year undergraduate students. will give me the means to progress. The Master of Birkbeck, Professor My employers have recognised my David Latchman, says: “Birkbeck enhanced market value and have staff work exceptionally hard to rewarded me accordingly.” support our students, who are Similarly, Paul Clements (48), a juggling busy lives with their part- Detective Sergeant in the police time, evening study. For two years force, says studying law at Birkbeck now we have been at the top of this meant he could “comfortably survey so we know for sure that continue with work during the day our students value what we do for and study in the evenings. Plus, them. We have recently launched Birkbeck has an excellent our best ever financial support reputation. It’s been some time packages. This will allow even since I studied, but the tutors gave more students than ever to access me all the support I needed. I’m the quality of education that our very proud – completing the LLB current students so clearly enjoy.” was an enormous achievement.” The survey of 157,000 Like Paul, Eugene Okonkwo (40) respondents from 129 institutions feels a huge sense of makes student views about higher accomplishment on graduating education available to the public, with a BSc Information Systems assisting prospective students to and Management. “Birkbeck was make informed decisions about intellectually demanding, but the what and where to study. It is run feeling of succeeding makes it for a medical degree.” by the Higher Education Funding worth it. I could combine a full-time Joanna Selcott (52) also aims to Council for England and endorsed job in the civil service and part-time use Birkbeck as a springboard to by the National Union of Students. study. Birkbeck has transformed my further study. She worked in the Bill Rammell MP, the Minister for analytical skills and increased my City before leaving employment to Further and Higher Education and confidence.” raise a family. Lifelong Learning, says: “I welcome Building confidence was also Now with a first-class BA another set of strong results from a key factor in the success of History of Art, she says: the National Student Survey. Ekaterina Shakour, from Russia. She “The quality of teaching was Choosing a higher education says: “I was worried that I wouldn’t exceptional and the skills I institution can be a daunting task, be able to cope as my English learned gave me the confidence to and it is vital that students can wasn't very good at that time. When apply for work.” Joanna is now an access the best possible information I applied for the BSc Molecular information assistant at Tate to inform their choices.” Biology I discussed this with the Modern, and is surrounded by Birkbeck’s bachelor degree staff, who were so supportive.” some of her favourite artists. “I graduates commonly cite flexibility Ekaterina has a young daughter do miss studying,” she says. “I’m and expertise in teaching as the and found that studying at already downloading the Birkbeck aspects of life they were most Birkbeck was the best way to postgraduate prospectus.” Above: Birkbeck pleased with at the College. juggle work, her family and her students voted the Susan Haslam (26), a lettings degree. “We did lots of work in the College first in For more information about studying London for student agency administrator who gained laboratory and I gained the at Birkbeck, visit satisfaction www.birkbeckmatters.com a BA Humanities in 2005, says: knowledge I needed to apply (JD Moore) Teaching & research 1 STRANGER THAN FICTION What stories do we tell ourselves about science? How do these fictions affect the use and position of science today? These questions and more were posed at the second free Birkbeck Lunchtime Lecture Series, ‘Science and its Fictions’, last autumn, featuring biophysics expert Julia Goodfellow, feminist theorist Rosi Braidotti, literary critic Roger Luckhurst and cultural historian Steve Connor. Look out for more free lectures at Birkbeck by visiting www.bbk.ac.uk/about/news Left: Artwork of the face of an extraterrestrial being (Science Photo Library) Line of defence Birkbeck researchers create virtual immune system to help aid drug development for cancer and HIV A virtual immune system called Our immune system is composed their own unique way of the ImmunoGrid is being created of a complex system of specialised overcoming our defences, mean by Birkbeck researchers and cells and organs (such as lymph that we cannot develop a single European partners to model the nodes, spleen, tonsils) which work simulator for the whole immune human immune system. The together to find and kill invaders. system. Instead we are developing computer simulation will help It is responsible for distinguishing separate simulators for different understand the host immune foreign proteins of invading pathological conditions. Currently, response to attacks by pathogenic pathogens from our own, and for the simulator works mainly at the bacteria and viruses. It will also protecting against alien substances cellular level but we are enable researchers to assist the and infections. It can reject developing it to simulate whole treatment of cancers of the transplanted organs but it is also organs,” says Professor Moss. immune system such as susceptible to attack itself, from “The ImmunoGrid will help us leukaemias and lymphomas. HIV in particular. understand the immune response Currently the simulator is being Professor David Moss, Senior to pathogenic viruses and used to test different regimes for Research Fellow at Birkbeck’s bacteria, and also how the vaccine administration in the School of Crystallography, and Dr immune system attacks our own treatment of mammary tumours in Adrian Shepherd, Lecturer in cells in autoimmune diseases, mice, and colleagues in Bologna Bioinformatics, lead Birkbeck’s such as rheumatoid arthritis and are testing these predictions on efforts in the ImmunoGrid celiac disease. It will also help us laboratory animals. It is also collaboration, which involves study leukaemia relapse.” being used to plot the seven other laboratories in France, For information about studying at concentrations of viral proteins Italy, Denmark and Australia. the School of Crystallography at and populations of white blood “The complexity of the immune undergraduate or postgraduate level, cells during the course of system, and the fact that the most email [email protected] or visit www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk HIV infection. successful pathogens each have 2 Teaching & research The café as an urban space Birkbeck joins the Royal College of Art for a fresh look at the history of café culture Café culture is very much part of contemporary urban living and an understanding of its special place as a cultural nexus in Vienna will add much to our understanding, not only of history, but also of ourselves.
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