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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. 

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, 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.

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.

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.

Prof Batzokas on SDGs and multilateral development banks

Conference Theme: Decolonising Language Policy. Proposed dates: Thursday 15 and Friday 16 June 2023. Plenary speakers: Professor Justyna Olko, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw (Poland) and Dr Hannah Gibson, University of Essex, UK, LanguagePolicySOAS, LanguagePolicySOAS2023, LPForumSOAS2023

The course will take place in Rome from 26-30th June 2023.