SOAS Centenary Timeline
The School of Oriental Studies was founded on 5 June 1916 when it received its Royal Charter as a college of the University of London.
The School of Oriental Studies was founded on 5 June 1916 when it received its Royal Charter as a college of the University of London.
The blog of the Humanitarian Hub in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. Visit the Humanitarian Hub blog
The Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS was established in 1995, and aims to promote scholarship and research in all areas of Islamic Studies, past and present. The Centre has an active research programme, and a number of doctorate and MPhil degree students. Students benefit from our staff’s wide-ranging expertise within the field of Islamic Studies, and…
I am a third-year PhD student in the Economics Department at SOAS, and this blog is about my PhD research on the palm oil industries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Philippines. I conducted fieldwork in those two countries from February to July 2017. Previous research on both countries’ palm oil industries is scarce…
The Centre for Global Media and Communication, sitting in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, welcomes you to engage you in critical debates about the contemporary moment, which is increasingly defined by crises, conflict, divisions, populism, confusion, panic, mistrust in political institutions and, importantly, a breakdown of communication in a digitally connected global world. In this…
A blog of flash ethnography, based on interview and participant-observation work around Worthing, a seaside town in West Sussex, England. Go to this blog
SOAS is unique. It is the only higher education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. Go to this blog