Doctoral School News

British Library Open Days

The event is designed to explain the practicalities of using the Library and its services, plus help new PhD students to navigate our physical and online collections. As well as hearing from our expert and friendly staff, students will have the opportunity to meet fellow PhD researchers from across the UK (and often overseas) studying across a wide range of academic disciplines.

17th October 2018

Thesis Whisperer Guest Lecture - Beyond Plan B: Planning a Post-PhD Career in an Age of Uncertainty

Over 60% of research degree graduates exit academia on completion of their degree. The majority of the graduates who stay may face a future of insecure work and time-limited contracts. What can you do now to prepare yourself for your future career? What options are available to you and how should you go about the job search? More importantly, how are you going to make a living out of your research skills now and into the future, while facing a changing sector?

15th October 2018

Critical realism and healthcare research

Free, open, basic introduction and refresher day course on critical realism (CR).

15th October 2018

CfP Re:locations

Re:locations: Journal of The Asia-Pacific World is inviting submissions for its second volume. Re:locations is seeking papers, reviews, poetry, translations, and visual artwork that examine the Asia-Pacific world from cultural, environmental, economic, political, and historical perspectives.

2nd October 2018

IMLR Research Training Seminars and Workshop 2018/19

The schedule for the IMLR training sessions is now available.

11th September 2018

CfP The London Postgraduate Conference for the Ancient Near East

This is an opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers to showcase their research. The primary aim of this event is to create a forum of discussion for emerging scholars and to foster exchanges between the diverse disciplines working on the Ancient Near East, including Archaeology, Assyriology, Anthropology, Historiography, Conservation and Museum Studies.

17th August 2018

Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice across Cultures

18th July 2018

Funded Postgraduate Conference Places – Reimagining Records by the National Archives

Reimagining records is a two-day event that explores new interpretations of medieval crown, court and clergy records. The first day of this event brings together speakers from both UK and international universities for an academic conference. On the second day, postgraduate students and early career researchers are invited to attend a series of hands-on workshops on reconsidering the use of medieval records.

6th June 2018

Peacebuilding Conference at University of Antwerp

Call for papers for international workshop

On 5-7 December 2018 UCSIA organizes an international academic workshop on Peacebuilding at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
Deadline for submission: 3 June 2018

9th April 2018

Make it accessible: File conversion using SensusAccess

2nd January 2018

Volume 9 of the SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research

The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research Team and RSA are pleased to welcome you to Volume 9 of the SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research.

9th June 2017

IMLR Research Skills workshop: History and Memory

10th March 2017

The Brilliant Club

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that recruits, trains and pays doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of university-style teaching to small tutorial groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities.

10th October 2016

SOAS secures 3 years more funding for student scholarships, travel grants and enterprise activities

Funding for scholarships, travel grants for students and researchers, as well as a range of student enterprise activities and internships has been secured for at least another three years as SOAS, University of London formally renewed its partnership agreement with Santander.

19th June 2015

SOAS PhD student acts as Judge at 35th Nikon Photo Contest

Marine Cabos, a PhD student in the School’s Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, has recently returned to the UK from Shanghai where she acted as a judge at the Nikon Photo Contest 2014-2015.

14th May 2015