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SOAS student Tridib created a short film about the anxiety provoking process of applying to university – here’s how he made it.
Student Andrei Lejonvarn chats with Maya Muller-Mizrahi, SOAS alumna and author of Myanmar’s first LGBT+ ‘Equality in the Workplace’ handbook.
What’s Trump’s future following the violence of the Capitol Building riots?
What’s it like to be a postgraduate economics student at SOAS – why is it a great place to study, and what sort of topics are taught?
The state of women’s rights in Korea is far from perfect – the Cho Doo-soon case demonstrates where the issues lie, and what needs to change.
What is our relationship to the living world, to the animals and plants on Earth? And what has influenced the way in which we see them?
Women journalists across the globe are having to deal with online abuse and trolling – a new frontline – according to a new UNESCO report.
Chill out for the New Year with SOAS alumna Ruth McNeil at an online yoga event.
This is not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination. There was a vague glimmer of hope that we could all celebrate Christmas
