Junior research programme empowers Black students to pursue careers in academia The Junior Summer Research Programme encourages Black students to think about postgraduate study and research-based careers, through exploring questions relevant their own lives, communities, and the world around us.
International Women’s Day 2023 at SOAS Celebrated annually on 8 March to bring attention to gender equality concerns, the United Nations observes International Women's Day with a specific theme and this year it is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality".
SOAS Linguists Predict Unknown Words Using Language Comparison A new linguistic experiment uses computer-assisted techniques for historical language comparison to show how scholars can predict pronunciations of undocumented words
AHRC grant awarded to Navtej Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin for VR Border Crossings project Navtej Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin have been awarded £40,322 by the AHRC for their research project, Border Crossings: Exploring Community and History through Virtual Reality at the 75th Anniversary of the Partition.
New exhibition spotlights places in Britain connected to transatlantic slavery A new Black History Month exhibition spotlighting 50 key sites in Britain and around the world that benefitted from the transatlantic slave economy will open in west London.
SOAS partners in multimillion-pound initiative to decarbonise Bloomsbury heating supply SOAS has joined a collaborative project with the University of London and UCL to decarbonise the Bloomsbury estate by 99%, partly funded through a £7.2m grant from the Green Heat Network Fund.