How can AI better serve people in the Global South? SOAS to launch Centre for AI Futures, a centre striving for a globally equitable and environmentally sustainable future.
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.
Why Studio Ghibli is so popular and how it exports Japanese culture Masami, a BA East Asian Studies student, delves into factors contributing to Studio Ghibli's international success and how the films may influence global perceptions of Japan.
Environmental change and health in West Africa In this blog, author Aline Desdevises explores a particular dimension of West African rural communities’ resilience facing environmental change regarding health risks and healthcare.
What books are SOAS academics reading this winter break? MA student Lilly asks academics what they plan to read this winter break, from diving into colleagues' latest research to exploring more works from a favourite author.
COVID-19 and the crises of capitalism: Intensifying inequalities COVID-19 exposed how global capitalism is fundamentally built on the exploitation of gendered and racialised global working classes.
What my typical week as a SOAS student looks like Ever wondered what it's like to study at SOAS? Final-year BA Chinese student Daisy shares her typical week balancing study, work, a social life, and planning for the future.
Uganda's anti-homosexuality law and the urgent need for radical feminist politics As Uganda enacts fiercely anti-LGBTQ legislation, Dr Awino Okech argues how these changes are transnational in nature and calls for an urgent need for radical feminist politics.
Drugs & (dis)order research featured in a Colombian constitutional court ruling on the national illicit crop substitution program Frances Thomson, CIVAD, reports on Colombia’s Constitutional Court's ruling in favour of farmers who signed up to participate in the country’s National Illicit Crop Substitution Program