Modern Languages and Linguistics ranked 10th overall for research excellence

Modern Languages and Linguistics ranked 10th overall in the UK out of 47 HEIs nationally, rising 20 places during the REF cycle and outranking other leading London institutions.

17th May 2022

SOAS hosts series of Arabic literature online events in collaboration with Sheikh Zayed Book Award

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS, University of London.

25th April 2022

SOAS-led research project underway on the Kitaveta language

A Kenyan-UK team of linguists, led by Professor Lutz Marten, are working on a community-based language description project to document the Kenyan community language Kitaveta, spoken in Taita-Taveta district close to the Tanzanian border.

22nd April 2022

SOAS academics publish new book on rebuilding Nepal after earthquakes and natural disasters in the country

Michael Hutt, Emeritus Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies and Stefanie Lotter, Research Fellow in Anthropology, have published a new book titled, Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes. 

19th November 2021

SOAS researchers awarded Leverhulme Trust funding for project ‘Grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity’

Professor Lutz Marten and Tom Jelpke to collaborate on four year project with researchers from University of Essex, Kenyatta University and the University of Dar es Salaam.

15th October 2021

SOAS languages and cultures experts to investigate Covid-19 risks among London’s migrant communities

SOAS University of London languages and cultures scholars have been awarded UKRI/AHRC funding worth £489,826 for a research project examining Covid-19 public health information among linguistically diverse communities in London.

11th January 2021

The Politics of Language Online on SOAS Radio, Global Digital Futures

We are excited to announce the release of the latest Global Digital Futures podcast, featuring Marie Thaut, a SOAS University of London MA student, Researcher and Project Manager of the Sylheti Project at SOAS.

3rd September 2020

SOAS partners with social enterprise Chatterbox to provide online language coaching for SOAS students

7th May 2020

Languages for Lockdown

Have you always wanted to try to learn a language but never had the time? Well the new ‘SOAS Languages for Lockdown’ project invites everyone on a journey with the languages of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

5th May 2020

British Academy and Academia Europea honours for SOAS linguistics scholar

Professor Irina Nikolaeva, Professor of Linguistics at SOAS University of London, has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Professor Nikolaeva has also been elected a Member of Academia Europea.

19th July 2019

ERC funding for Dr. Alena Rettová's research on African philosophy

29th January 2019

SLCL announces a number of PhD scholarships for academic year 2019/20

We are happy to announce that a number of PhD scholarships are available for the academic year 2019/20 for research on SLCL core fields.

7th November 2018

SOAS Scholar awarded BA/Leverhulme grant for research on discourse and syntax in Taqbaylit Berber

Dr Aicha Belkadi, Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme grant for a research project investigating alternations in word orders inside Taqbaylit core clauses, a Berber language indigenous to Algeria

18th September 2018

SOAS secures £5 million for strategically important and vulnerable languages

SOAS University of London has been awarded major funding from HEFCE’s Catalyst fund for a project to safeguard UK provision in strategically important and vulnerable languages (SIL) of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

28th September 2017

SOAS enhances place among London’s elite universities in 2018 Guardian Guide

SOAS University of London has risen 5 places to 25th in the latest Guardian University Guide and is also rated in the UK’s top 15 for students’ satisfaction with teaching.

16th May 2017