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Arts and Humanities Block Grant Partnership Studentships

The AHRC have introduced a new scheme for postgraduate studentships from 2009. Institutions apply to the AHRC under the Block Grant Partnership Scheme.

23rd April 2009

Dr Dmitry Bondarev, Ahmad Achtar, Professor Philip Jaggar & Dr Abba Tijani SOAS awarded funding for new humanities project

The School has been awarded £381,730 as part of a joint framework of agreement between the (German) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the AHRC to fund collaboration between German- and UK-based humanities researchers.

24th February 2009

HEFCE agrees continuation of exceptional funding to SOAS

SOAS has been successful in its bid to HEFCE for the continuation of the School’s exceptional funding for its distinctive specialist subjects.

19th February 2009

RAE results confirm SOAS is leader in Asian Studies

SOAS's Asian Studies submission to the RAE has been a spectacular success. In 2001, along with several other universities we received a 5 rating for Asian Studies, while both Oxford and Cambridge were awarded 5*. To put it simply: we have regained our national pre-eminence in this field of research, and by a significant margin. 

18th December 2008

Paul Robeson remembered at SOAS
Tony Benn and Sir Willard White were among those who gathered for the unveiling of a plaque at SOAS to honour one of the School's most famous alumni - Paul Robeson. Robeson studied phonetics and Swahili at the School (1934). It was part of a life-long...

19th September 2006

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