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

SOAS Centenary Visiting Fellow - Professor Shintaro Arakawa

Professor Shintaro Arakawa will be joining the SOAS South East Asia Institute to further their research and studies in the Tagut language.

31st January 2017

The ESRC competition for scholarships is now open for 2017-18

We are pleased to inform you that the ESRC competition for scholarships is now open for 2017-18. Potential applicants should follow the instructions as stated on the website.

25th November 2016

New special issue journal published as outcome of SOAS’s ‘Tibetan in Digital Communication’ research project

A special issue of the journal, Himalayan Linguistics has been published as an outcome of SOAS University of London’s ‘Tibetan in Digital Communication’ project .

11th August 2016

SOAS Director raises awareness of global refugee crisis on International Women’s Day

Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of SOAS University of London, marked International Women’s Day, by taking part in a campaign to raise awareness of women refugees. 

8th March 2016

Award-winning SOAS films on music in Mali and multilingualism in Senegal to be screened

Two award-winning films by SOAS University of London scholars exploring music in Mali and multilingualism in Southern Senegal will be screened at the School on 8 March. This will be followed by a panel discussion with the films' producers.

2nd March 2016

SOAS to host UNESCO event to discuss revision of language index

UNESCO in cooperation with SOAS World Languages Institute, supported by the London Middle East Institute in UK, is organising a two-day consultative expert meeting on the revision of UNESCO’s Language Vitality Index which will be used for the development of UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages.

17th November 2015

SOAS films win two categories at AHRC Research In Film Awards

Two films produced by SOAS, University of London scholars have won their individual categories at last night’s Arts & Humanities Research Council the Research In Film Awards Ceremony, held at the British Film Institute.

13th November 2015

Francesca Orsini awarded €2.5 million grant to study world literature

Professor Francesca Orsini, Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS), has been awarded an ERC advanced grant of €2.5 million to study world literature from the perspective of multilingual societies.

28th October 2015

Scholars secure recognition of ‘exceptional value’ of two endangered languages

Priceless cultural heritage is lost when language communities are displaced by civil war and urban migration. However, research by SOAS linguists on two endangered languages in Senegal has brought international recognition of their value, together with work to preserve them.

23rd October 2015