News
Dr Friederike Lüpke awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award, receiving almost £1 million in funding
Dr Friederike Lüpke, a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, received Leverhulme Trust funding of £999,631 for her project ‘Crossroads - investigating the unexplored side of multilingualism’.
9th November 2012
SOAS scores well in world university rankings
SOAS qualities have been recognised this week by the new QS World University Rankings and the Which? university comparison website.
18th September 2012
Tibetan Studies triumphs again at the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Dr Ulrich Pagel and Dr Nathan W. Hill win £542,000 research grant to build annotated digital corpus of Tibetan.
9th January 2012
Dr Iwasaki Appointed President of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe
Dr Noriko Iwasaki of the Linguistics Department has been appointed the President of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE) for a three year term.
19th December 2011
Remembering Dr Richard Keith Sprigg: 1922-2011
Dr Sprigg, a Reader in Phonetics at SOAS until his retirement in 1979, passed away on 8 September. He was 89.
27th October 2011
Autumn News
The School has improved its student satisfaction as measured by the 2011 National Student Survey
22nd September 2011
Director's Teaching Prize 2010-11
Dr Lindiwe Dovey has won this year's SOAS Director's Teaching Prize.
1st August 2011
SOAS Wins Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education
SOAS has been awarded a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. The award honours the Faculty of Languages and Cultures for the excellence, breadth and depth of its teaching in the languages of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.19th November 2009
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
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
