Regent High School Community and Family Open Day - Call for Participants

Regent High School invites Knowledge Quarter partners to join the school’s Community and Family Open Day. Partners can now express their interest, suggesting activities and ideas on how they would like to represent their organisation.

Shortlists for the 2016 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS and the inaugural AMNESTY CILIP HONOUR

Knowledge Quarter partners are invited to the reception for the announcement of the shortlists for the 2016 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the most prestigious prizes in writing and illustrating for children. Following the announcement of CILIP and Amnesty International major new partnership, this year’s medals will receive the Amnesty CILIP Honour.

Euston Town: New Business Improvement District

The ballot for the new Euston business improvement district has been successful with 77 per cent voters in favour of establishing the new BID. Key partners including those in central government, the GLA and private sector stakeholders will work to introduce new innovative projects and create an environment profitable to do business in.

The Knowledge Quarter Community Engagement subgroup Show and Tell Event

The Knowledge Quarter Community Engagement Sub-Group, on behalf of the Knowledge Quarter and the Wellcome Trust is delighted to invite you to our Community Engagement Show and Tell event on Monday 14 March 2016.

Camden Council to trial new traffic system through the Bloomsbury area

Knowledge Quarter partner, Camden Council is introducing a trial that would temporarily change the traffic routes through the Bloomsbury area, as well as making some temporary improvements for people walking and cycling.

Collaborate to monitor and improve human rights in your supply chains by Laura Compton

LUPC is punching above its weight in sharing knowledge, information and innovation for changing the way organisations buy goods and service without causing harm to others. Read new guest blog by Laura Compton.

Steps I Take, Marks I Make - The Primary Careers Conference by Bavaani Nanthabalan

The Primary Careers Conference is in its third year and shares its vision with the borough of Camden: to ensure every child and young person has a chance to succeed and nobody gets left behind. A new original guest blog by Bavaani Nanthabalan from Netley Primary school introducing this year Primary Career Conference.

Camden Council and Knowledge Quarter launch KQ Apprenticeships

The Knowledge Quarter in partnership with Camden Council launched the new Knowledge Quarter Apprenticeship programme last Tuesday 16th of February at Wellcome Collection reading room. The scheme was formally announced by Councillor Georgia Gould, Cabinet Member for Young People and Economic Growth, at a successful reception marking the one-year anniversary of the Knowledge Quarter.

Knowledge Quarter: One Year On

Knowledge Quarter partners, supporters and staff met at Wellcome Collection to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Knowledge Quarter and to announce our KQ Apprenticeship scheme in partnership with Camden Council – a Life Sciences apprenticeship programme developed with world leading organisations such as The Francis Crick Institute, Health Services Laboratories and the London Bioscience Innovation Centre.

The anthropologist as an agent of change by Parvathi Raman

Anthropologists certainly can make a contribution to the debate on migration, or more precisely, on the issue of who has the right to move. They have a role to play in challenging the migration myths that circulate and gain traction in the popular imagination.