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A round-up of recent stories by our staff and students

Q&A – Big versus Small Organisations

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • August 6, 2019
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In today’s post, Tayba Ahmed, a present a VCD student sat with a former VCD alumnus to discuss their experiences working in the humanitarian sector. Naturally, the discussion turned into a Q&A, centred on some of the developmental perks and challenges of working for both bigger organisations and

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 5

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 30, 2019
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  In the fifth episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Ellen Goodwin about her PhD research exploring the potentials of promoting local, inter-religious cooperation to build resilience in fragile contexts. Ellen is currently researching at SOAS, in conjunction with World Vision UK. We

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 4

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 23, 2019
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  In the fourth episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Dr. Claudia Seymour about her book: ‘The Myth of International Protection, War and Survival in the Congo’. Dr. Seymour’s book presents a highly engaging, and very readable, amalgamation of her own experiences working

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 3

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 16, 2019
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In the third episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with SOAS’s Professor Steve Hopgood about his latest article: ‘When the Music Stops, Humanitarianism in a Post Liberal World Order’. Amidst a shifting away from a liberal world order, most notably exemplified by the rise

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Ellen Goodwin: Engaging with Local Religious Actors in Humanitarian Contexts

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • July 10, 2019
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In this video Ellen Goodwin discusses elements of her PhD research at SOAS, where she explores  the role of inter-religious action in humanitarian interventions. She highlights the historical role that religious actors have played in humanitarian interventions and more broadly the developmental sector by addressing two fundamental questions:

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 2

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 9, 2019
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The second episode of the Humanitarian Hub Podcast, is now live! In this episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Amy Joce, a 3rd year undergraduate student at SOAS. Amy, who was studying Development Studies, has just completed a dissertation exploring sexual exploitation within

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 1

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 2, 2019
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  The first episode of the Humanitarian Hub Podcast, is now live! In this podcast, Jake Tacchi speaks with Dr. Suda Perera about her recent article: ‘To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States’, alongside her work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The SOAS Development Studies Seminar Series

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • July 1, 2019
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Outside the confines of classrooms, the SOAS Development Department has a lot of activity happening throughout the academic year. The most well-received and well-attended lecture series is the Development Studies Seminar Series organised by Feyzi Ismail and Alfredo Saad-Filho. The seminar takes place weekly across both terms with

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‘New’ Humanitarianism? Turkey, Europe and the Case of Syrian Refugees.

  • Jake Tacchi
  • June 26, 2019
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In this short, but highly informative, article Talita Cetinoglu discusses the intervention strategies of both Turkey and Europe in response to the movement of Syrian refugees. By focusing on Turkey’s state-led humanitarianism, the article looks to unpack conceptions of ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ humanitarianisms, and to explore whether such

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Dr Suda Perera on Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Environments

  • Jake Tacchi
  • June 25, 2019
  • News & Research
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In this video, Dr Suda Perera, Senior Teaching Fellow in Conflict and Migration at SOAS, discusses her recent article: ‘To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States’. Dr Perera’s article covers the growth of remote technologies as a tool for data gathering in conflict

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