UN Chinese Language Day 2024 To celebrate the UN Chinese Language Day 2024, Zhaoxia Pang, Lecturer in Chinese, would like to share the successful story of SOAS undergraduate student Yumi Yong.
Vaccine inequity on discussion at British Academy event at SOAS Scientists, medical practitioners, social scientists and public health experts from around the world will come together at SOAS University of London to discuss how to meet the global challenges posed by COVID-19 and future pandemics.
The Korean art collecting activities of British diplomats, businessmen and missionaries, 1880-1930 – A provenance research project based on UK collections This 12-month provenance research project was funded by the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation (a South Korean government-funded institute overseen by Cultural Administration Heritage and the Ministry of Culture).
Development Studies named 3rd globally in latest QS rankings SOAS in the global top three universities for Development Studies, and in top 20 for Politics and Anthropology, in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
The year of the big vote: Do we have the world leaders we need? More than 2 billion people in 50 countries will be invited to vote in 2024. Saleeta Akbar reports on what was discussed during latest Director’s Lecture Series on the year of the big vote.
A day at The Japanese School: "I left feeling closer to the culture" BA East Asian Studies student Masami shares her recent university trip to the unique Japanese School in London.
'Youth in crisis'? The effects of post-independence violent conflict and displacement on Murle socio-political institutions in Pibor, South Sudan Diana’s British Academy-funded research project (2020-2025) examines visual, musical and performative culture as the lens through which to better understand changes in Murle social institutions.
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award: Mapping Sumatra’s manuscript cultures This project’s interdisciplinary team investigates manuscript libraries from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the first landing point, geographically and historically, of Islam in South East Asia, to better understand the intellectual and writing traditions of the region.
SOAS academic awarded British Academy fellowship for FCDO policy research Dr Avinash Paliwal, SOAS Reader in International Relations, will conduct research for the government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) after being awarded the British Academy’s Innovation Fellowship.