SOAS Impact Acceleration Account SOAS has successfully secured a 5-year £1.25 million Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) from 2023-2028, to develop impact in the areas of migration, displacement, minorities and marginalisation.
Examination Culture: Meritocracy and aspiration in a Thai monastic school This talk will explore the lives of adolescent novice monks studying at a Buddhist monastic school in northern Thailand. In particular, it will focus on examinations as a meritocratic mode of assessment aimed at shaping young novice's capacity to aspire.
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.
Africa neglects women's property rights at its own economic peril - but it's not the only culprit Women in Africa own less than 10% of the land. Transformation can only be achieved through legal awareness raising and bottom-up legal change strategies to facilitate economic empowerment.
Pancake Day in London: the best places to try pancakes from all over the world Your guide to trying pancakes of every kind - savoury to sweet, breakfast to dinner - all available in a city as global as London.
My travel photos: SOAS language learners abroad Learning a language comes to life when immersed in a country where it is spoken. SOAS Language Centre students share their photos from their time abroad.
Book Launch: 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific' Professor Niki Alsford and Dr Ti-Han Chang share the new edited volume, 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific.'