Legal & General and Birkbeck: driving sustainable change

Both Legal & General and Birkbeck share the goal to deliver progressive and long-lasting outcomes for students, our local communities, and the planet. Together, we have launched a partnership to combine Birkbeck’s renowned academic research with Legal & General’s financial and industry-relevant support.

Birkbeck aims to equip its students with the skills and knowledge to find innovative solutions to local and global challenges, and by offering evening study, it welcomes a diverse community who may not otherwise be able to access this education. Like Birkbeck, Legal & General recognises that building a more sustainable future is as much a people challenge as it is a scientific, technical, or economic one.

Through our co-developed projects, we hope to inspire the next generation of leaders to approach unprecedented challenges confidently and develop innovative solutions using a multisectoral approach:

• Mobilise students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to access Birkbeck education through Legal & General’s bursary scheme funding
• Support and expand undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in environment and sustainability, incorporating relevant business context to provide ‘real-world’ application
• Launch a first-of-its-kind accreditation programme that will help to embed benchmarking standards in environmental and sustainability higher education
• Share relevant knowledge to support academics and Birkbeck students, through a newly-established Legal & General mentorship programme and thought-leadership guest lecturing

Founded in 1823, Birkbeck, University of London is a world-class institution, a vibrant centre of academic excellence and London's only specialist provider of evening higher education.