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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.

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.

BA East Asian Studies student Masami shares her recent university trip to the unique Japanese School in London.

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.

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.

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.

When three brass Buddha statues turned up at the SOAS Gallery, the team had to find out where they came from. Lucy Kauser takes us on a journey of what happened next.

Development of a user manual on participatory biocultural documentation to facilitate local engagement in place-based climate efforts for application across the IUCN global network (1400 organisations across 160 countries).

A multi-year and interdisciplinary project that explores patterns of religious diversity in Sichuan from the 1800 to today, and relocates Sichuan from the periphery to the centre of the study of Chinese religions.