Academic Schools, Departments, Institutes, Centres
The School is structured academically into five schools, ten departments and five centres.
This area of the site gives an overview of each school, department and centre, as well as the 300+ academic staff and their research interests.
Schools, Departments and Sections
Research and teaching by discipline or regions of the world.
- Anthropology and Sociology
- Arts
- Development Studies
- East Asian Languages & Cultures
- Economics
- Finance and Management
Foundation and Language Courses
Institutes and Regional Centres
Concentrations of research expertise drawn from across Schools and Departments, focusing on specific countries or regions of the world. Eight of the regional centres and institutes are administered by the Centres and Institutes Office
Research Centres
Situated within Schools and Departments with a particular research focus
- Asian Legal Studies
- Buddhist Studies
- Colonialism, Empire and International Law
- Comparative Political Thought
- Conflict, Rights and Justice
- Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies
- Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies
- Development Policy and Research
- Development, Environment and Policy
- English Studies
Collaborative External Centres
Centres that are established jointly with an external institution
- Chouettefilms (external site)
- Document - The SOAS multimedia journal of research. (external site)
- European Association of Israel Studies
- Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics (external site)
- Index Islamicus (external site)
- Japanese Art (Sainsbury Institute)
- Jewish Music Institute (external site)
- London Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Science
- London Confucius Institute (LCI)
- London International Development Centre (LIDC)
- Ritsumeikan UK Office
- Royal Africa Society (external site)
- TUFS London Office (external site)
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