Professor Lucy Durán Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.
Major grant awarded for new mental health research centre in London SOAS University of London anthropologists have secured a Research England grant worth nearly £8 million to help reshape mental healthcare in London and globally.
New book explores the tension between innovation and profiteering in UK Big Pharma SOAS’s Antonio Andreoni, publishes a new book with Oner Tulum and William Lazonick about UK big pharma. In this book they discuss the tension in this industry between innovation and financialisation. A book launch and discussion will be held online on Monday 6 March 2023.
What does the success of semiconductors mean for investment, markets, and industrial policy? Few technologies are as crucial in today’s world as semiconductors. Semiconductors are likely to play a central role in public policies that aim to stimulate research, the competitiveness of national firms, and successful international trade in the years to come.