Testing, listening, improving: building the new SOAS Online learning experience Mark Kerrigan explains how student feedback is helping SOAS to shape its new online learning programmes.
Top 5 things to do in London during summer as a student Staying in London over summer? Siddhant shares his top tips for staying cool in the capital when the mercury is rising.
What Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey teaches us about welcoming strangers Rachel Harrison explores Zeus’s Law and hospitality in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, revealing a timely lesson about reciprocity, human interconnectedness and welcoming strangers.
How the UK Home Office turns immigration enforcement into TikTok entertainment Why is the Home Office on TikTok? Dr Shreeta Lakhani explores how Secure Borders UK turns immigration into a viral spectacle, using rapid editing and recurring imagery of "dangerous migrant men" to normalise border enforcement and make it seem like protection rather than violence.
Selling 'Severance': What happens when Apple offers us a critique of capitalism? MA Global Media and Digital Cultures student, Claudio Antonio de Angelis, discusses the irony at the heart of the dystopian workplace thriller Severance, available on Apple TV.
(Re)thinking Central Eurasia: Reflecting on the CESS Regional Conference 2026 From 16 to 19 June 2026, Nazarbayev University welcomed scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the world for the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Regional Conference 2026, held under the theme: (Re)thinking Central Eurasia: Spaces, Societies, and Power.
Hands-on with history: Curating Vietnamese blue-and-white ceramics at SOAS Gallery SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma of Asian Art student, Yee Wai Than, puts theory into practice when she curates an exhibition of Vietnamese blue-and-white ceramics.
Scholarship impact: "Sometimes the right moment never arrives, so you have to take the leap" LLM student and scholarship recipient Nitika Pancholi shares how a life-changing decision brought her from legal practice in India to SOAS.
What confessing sex desires on media can do, depending on where you live Do sex confessions in media actually change gender norms? Dr. Yow-Jiun Wang, Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University and guest speaker at SOAS this July, argues it depends on where - and when - those confessions happen. From a 2000s Taiwanese tabloid to today's algorithm-driven social media, she traces how visibility alone doesn't guarantee power.