Study of Religions News
Professor Gurharpal Singh Selected as Panellist for UN Human Rights Council
Professor Gurharpal Singh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Professor of Inter-religious Relations and Development at SOAS, will be an expert panellist at the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 29 June.
18th June 2012
Lucia Dolce on the BBC
Recently Dr Lucia Dolce participated in two radio programmes about Japan and religion aired on the BBC.
21st May 2012
Second AHRC grant for research into Syriac and Sogdian texts
Dr Erica Hunter, Department for the Study of Religions, has received a three-year £531,138 grant for research into texts from Turfan.
13th March 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
New Programme Launch: MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation
The SOAS Department of the Study of Religions has launched a new MA programme in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation13th December 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
Two SOAS Academics Honoured by American Oriental Society
Professor Andrew George and Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams have been elected honorary members of the American Oriental Society.
14th April 2011
£1 Million Donation Assures Future of Zoroastrian Studies At SOAS
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has received a £1 million donation from a charitable fund set up to advance research into and public understanding of Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest living religions.
21st February 2011
Professor Barratt Discusses Daoism with Melvin Bragg on In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests (including Professor Tim Barrett) discuss Daoism. An ancient Chinese tradition of philosophy and religious belief, Daoism first appeared more than two thousand years ago.
16th December 2010
New Scholarship for 2010-11
Four scholarships are available for overseas fee-paying students who are proposing to register for the full-time MA Religions or MA History: Asia/ Africa at SOAS for the academic session 2010/11.The scholarship, valued at £15,000, will be used to meet the cost of tuition fees at the overseas rate and the remaining sum may be used towards maintenance.
24th February 2010
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
