Professor Richard Widdess Historical, analytical, ethnographic and cognitive approaches to music of South Asia; music, cognition and language.
Professor Richard Fardon Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.
My childhood inspired me to study migration and diaspora studies - and a scholarship made that possible Felix Scholarship recipient, Apala Mandal, shares her experience studying for an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS University of London.
New joint environmental justice degree with NLU Delhi starting at SOAS this September SOAS University of London and National Law University Delhi (NLUD) in India have joined forces to offer a joint LLM/MA in Environmental Justice in South Asia, and will be welcoming its first cohort of students this September.
Careers: Removing plastic waste from our oceans Pia Ocampo has been awarded a 2023 Intake Impact Scholarship and joins SOAS to study an MA in Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability. Here she discusses her plans for the future.