Last week, a number of Knowledge Quarter partners met with Sir Keir Starmer, Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras, over breakfast. The event was hosted in one of the galleries of the British Museum.
Camden Safety Net is Camden Council’s dedicated support service that offers help and advice for anyone who is suffering from domestic abuse. Throughout November they will be distributing a range of materials in the hope that the helpline number reaches all those who may be suffering in silence across Camden. They are very flexible and can work with KQ partners organisation to create their own package.
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, is calling all mid-level managers from a variety of industries to partake in their newly launched Design Thinking for Managers executive training course. These sessions have been designed specifically to encourage professionals to use Design Thinking techniques in order to unpack their own approach and focus on how they can support users, customers, staff and partners to create value within their own organisations.
Knowledge Quarter’s partner, Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in collaboration with Benjamin Franklin House present an evening with Nigel Newton. Nigel will talk about the key moments in the story of Bloomsbury Publishing providing an insiders-view to one of the world’s leading independent publishing houses.
Bringing to the table years of experience as scribes, graphic facilitators and creative problem solvers, the Scriberia team will introduce you to tips and techniques to empower you as a visual thinker and communicator with a discounted rate for KQ partners.
On 23 October 2016 the Knowledge Quarter presented the talk “Cultural Identities and Stereotype Threat ” as part of the Bloomsbury festival at the Conway Hall. The curatorial idea was to create a discussion in which specialists from different fields could exchange expertise, questioning what the relationship between cultural identity and stereotypization is. How and why do we construct stereotypes? How does a stereotype become a threat? Read the talk report.
Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA) is central London’s leading youth action charity that empowers children and young people to overcome the barriers they face, fulfil their potential and create positive change in their local community. The charity does this through offering children and young people a broad range of youth-led volunteering and employability support.
Next week is Global Entrepreneurship Week and the British Library’s Business & IP Centre is hosting a jam-packed week of activity to give you the tools you need to get your business idea off the ground.
CLOSER, in collaboration with London Walks, is pleased to offer this guided walking tour as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science. The walk will highlight the history and findings of the UK’s longitudinal studies, stories from the lives of the people involved, and how these remarkable studies have shaped and been shaped by modern British history.
Knowledge Quarter partners are invited to collaborate with TeenTech; an annual conference to inspire teenagers and their teachers about the contemporary world of Science, Engineering and Technology, providing them with an opportunity to try their hand at experiments and consider a wide range of STEM careers.