Advice for SOAS graduates: “Don’t become contented, become determined" This year's SOAS Honorary Graduands share their life and career advice for graduates navigating the next chapter.
‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem Professor Michael Jennings argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty.
Languages are disappearing. SOAS alum Ross Perlin is part of the fight to preserve them Alum Dr Ross Perlin discusses his new book 'Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York' and how his MA at SOAS shaped his career.
How a study break helped my career in the public sector Shireesh Mohan Khare shares his experience of taking a career break to study MSc in Public Policy and Management and how it helped him in his role.
Feeling anxious about your results? Here’s how to cope Daisy shares her strategies for managing anxiety and stress while awaiting results and the importance of self-care, connecting with loved ones and seeing the bigger picture.
Precarity on two wheels: Keep in motion to maintain the balance The rise of ride-hailing apps in Indonesia has absorbed informal labour into the gig economy. Kafi Prasetya explores the labour conditions within this sector to assess their impact on the social welfare of the workers.
Will AI help us out of the productivity slump? Economics PhD student Thabo Huntgeburth explores how AI may worsen the productivity slump, instead exacerbating wage inequality and economic stagnation.
My internship at the SOAS Library: Curating a digital exhibition with a critical and decolonial lens BA History student Sahaana recounts their co-creator internship, where they curated a digital exhibition for SOAS Library Special Collections.
When one thing leads to nothing: Cultivating industrial ecosystems in an era of GVCs Postgraduate student Shiran Illanperuma reflects on the challenges of industrialization in an era of Global Value Chains. Using China and Sri Lanka as contrasting examples, he argues for the need for activist industrial policies to incentivize domestic value addition and the participation of local firms in the Global South.