Migration and Development Cluster Focusing on the broad and deep relationship between migration and development.
Conflict, Peace and Development Cluster Focusing on the interrelationships between conflict, peace and (dis)order, and processes of development.
Global Labour, Activism and Social Justice Cluster Focusing on the global political economy of production and work; on global activism and social justice; global labour standards and politics; and the interrelations of all these themes with intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class.
The importance of Black feminist connections, activism, and resistance across continents A group of Black feminists travelled to Colombia to celebrate Francia Márquez becoming the first Black Vice President of the country.
Muhammad Nabil Muhammad Nabil currently researches contemporary institutional praxis of British Muslim charities in a multicultural and cosmopolitan society (i.e., the UK), and the similitudes and innovativeness of charitable endeavours in contrast to canons and generations of Islamic traditions.
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.
Research at the Department of Development Studies World-leading research that engages with the most pressing political and social issues of our time.
SOAS team awarded grant of over £250,000 for Southeast Asian art restitution project The Getty Foundation has awarded Professor Ashley Thompson and Dr Stephen Murphy a grant of $315,000 (approximately £280,000) for the project, ‘Circumambulating Objects: Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art.’
The RAMP University Network The University Network for Strengthening Macro-financial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change.