A statement on SOAS student Samaria Ayanle We urge members of the SOAS community who have been affected by this news to reach out if you need support.
Avestan Ritual in India Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and will seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured as systematically organised activity, and to reconstruct its genesis and historical trajectory.
Enhancing digital research culture for early career researchers This project is designed to train early career researchers (ECR) to create and manage digital data in agreement with the FAIR principle (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Towards a scientific annotation service by subscription This project proposes to lay the foundation for commercialising an annotation tool developed in Hintze’s MUYA-IIIF Proof of Concept project, using the vehicle of a new digital repository for previously unpublished sources held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London.
British Academy Writing Workshop ‘De-centering knowledge and training opportunities: Supporting the development of the next generation of researchers in African linguistics’ As part of this project we will run two writing workshops in Kenya for Early Career Researchers in linguistics to work with experienced editors, improve writing skills and strengthen scholarly networks.
Variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity Variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity investigates different ways in which Swahili is spoken, how its varieties are influenced by other languages, and what this means for speakers and their identities.
Inclusive strategies essential to address human mobility challenges in Horn of Africa An 8-year research project on migration and displacement in the Horn of Africa sheds light on the complexities and calls for more inclusive strategies to address human mobility challenges.
Stroke by Stroke: Calligraphic imagination in contemporary Chinese art and emergent media This AHRC-funded research explores a distinct pattern of imagination: Chinese calligraphy in the transmedia context.
Yaerin Yoon Agricultural development, Climate change risk and impact, Environmental economics, Ecological economics, Sustainable development.