The SOAS China Institute welcomes President of the World Bank Academic and corporate members of the SOAS China Institute met with David Malpass for conversations under the Chatham House rule.
SOAS and Wits University embrace equal partnership to deliver pioneering degree New three-year joint PhD in Applied Development Economics will be delivered by the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Economics & Finance, South Africa in partnership with the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London.
SOAS 2nd in the world for Development Studies in QS World University Rankings QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 ranks 11 of SOAS's subjects in the top 100 globally
Conditions ‘unsafe’ for South Sudanese refugees to return, report finds Researchers led by SOAS spoke to refugees and returnees to assess what has driven people to return, their experience of returning, and to discover how programmes can adapt to support their aspirations and needs amid the ongoing hunger crisis.
SOAS awarded £1.25m to boost impact of migration and marginalisation research A share of a £40 million investment has been secured to mobilise SOAS research on the precursors and effects of migration and displacement, minorities and marginalisation.
Dr Jieyu Liu wins Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize Dr Jieyu Liu, Deputy Director of the SOAS China Institute, is one of two academics to win the Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize. This is a new prize starting with Volume 70 in 2022.
Call for Submissions: CCLPS Postgraduate Student Conference (5 May 2023), 'Trans*- Multiplicities of the Prefix' Topic: Trans*-: Multiplicities of the Prefix. Possibilities of the prefix ‘trans’-, translation, transnationality, transcendence, and whether the term can be viewed in itself as a queer politics of resistance and the embodied forms it might take up. Limitations and possibilities of the trans*- framework, working through and beyond the boundaries that bind us.
New book explores the tension between innovation and profiteering in UK Big Pharma SOAS’s Antonio Andreoni, publishes a new book with Oner Tulum and William Lazonick about UK big pharma. In this book they discuss the tension in this industry between innovation and financialisation. A book launch and discussion will be held online on Monday 6 March 2023.