These themes are not only central to the continent’s politics, but to understanding how the world works and how political ideas are shaped more broadly. From negotiations over the structure of the ...

SOAS has been a leading institution for the study of the Middle East for decades, and the Department of Politics and International Studies is world-renowned for its scholars’ combination of regional ...

MA Cultural Studies and Intensive LanguageThis project’s interdisciplinary team investigates manuscript libraries from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the first landing point, geographically and ...

Step into the world of Han Suyin like never before with Dr. Florence Kuek’s An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyin’s Autobiography – Braving Irrationality.

Explore the history of Visva-Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore’s pioneering 1921 university that reimagined education by uniting rural reconstruction, arts, and global dialogue.

Dr Marie Rodet's principal research interests lie in Modern African history, gender history, history of slavery, public history, gamification, and digital humanities.

We have a wide range of scholarships and awards to support students on our degree programmes (this excludes any distance learning programmes) Each award page details the residency and person ...

The College of Law, Anthropology brings together a range of subjects to amplify interdisciplinary connections and foster cross-disciplinary debates within the social sciences.

International arbitration (commercial and investment); OHADA law; Commercial contracts; International sale of goods; International carriage of goods; Nigerian customary laws.

Steve is the Director of the SOAS China Institute. Before taking on his current position in 2016, he was the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Africa; Horn of Africa; refugees and forced migration; post-conflict social integration; violence and conflict analysis; humanitarianism and humanitarian assistance; globalisation, transnationalism, ...

Semesters 2025/26 As part of our work to enhance the student experience at SOAS, we are replacing the current three-term calendar with a two-semester calendar from September 2025. The change ...