Student mental health and wellbeing service A confidential service to students needing support for a range of difficulties related to wellbeing and mental health.
Fantasy and reality in Edo Japan’s red-light district: Keisai Eisen’s Ukiyo-e woodblock prints A closer look at three of Keisai Eisen's (1790-1848) mass-produced woodblock prints that aimed to show the glamour of Edo Japan’s red-light district and set fashion trends of the time.
Complex Concrete: The twists and turns of the Philips Building This year marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the iconic Philips Building, designed by Denys Lasdun & Partners.
Collective Village Repertoires: The Challenge of a Collective Digitisation in Guinea In a reflection on the notion of a collective village repertoire and its digitisation, authors Elara Bertho and Aguibou Sow outline the research-action programme carried out with the Malian association Donkosira, which since 2017 has aimed to digitally conserve local knowledge in rural communities.
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award PhD studentship: The Social Life of Law in Authoritarian Contexts
A history of Christmas pudding Charting the dramatic history of the Christmas Pudding, from a medieval meat porridge starter to a Christmas revival from the Victorians and a tool and symbol of the British Empire.
“The world needs you.” Advice to the class of 2025 Our SOAS Honorary Graduands share life and career advice for 2025 graduates navigating their next chapter.
Saffronizing Bollywood: How India’s Hindu right is controlling its prolific Hindi film industry The Bollywood industry is commercially driven, so how has it been influenced by Hindu nationalist politics? For his MA dissertation at SOAS, Kaashif Hajee conducted fieldwork and interviewed prominent Bollywood figures to find out.
Agrarian Change and Development Cluster Focusing on the role of agriculture in development processes; capitalist development and agrarian transitions; rural labour markets and poverty; globalisation and agrarian change; land dispossession; movements of agrarian resistance; dynamics of agrarian accumulation in the neoliberal order; rural migration among other questions.