With striking similarities to how Japanese Americans were treated in WWII, how will future generations view contemporary perceptions of citizenship in the US and UK?
“What, if anything, has changed in the realm of social policy in response of the overwhelming economic and societal blow of COVID-19?”
As COVID-19 restrictions ease around the UK, the pandemic’s effects on social care are now being seen clearer than ever.
If COVID-19 has transformed the world, can it transform our policies as well?
Our student digital ambassadors share their reflections from the past year and their hopes for 2022.
As term winds down for the winter holidays, take time to explore all the city has to offer.
The management of COVID-19 has revealed the racist underbelly of Western society with communities of colour bearing a disproportionate burden of the disease and travel bans imposed on African nations.
A talk on COP26 through the lens of SOAS research and regional engagement.
Why South Asian countries should prioritise the localisation of SDGs and improved governance at the grassroots level.
New research on post-pandemic futures and climate resilience in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
The past eighteen months have changed so much about the way that we study, learn and share knowledge. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust seemingly insurmountable
Global responses to climate change are focused on mitigation: much less attention is given to climate change adaptation. Is now the time for change?
After over a year of Covid-19 dominating our lives, the vaccination programme across the world is finally underway, with more and more people being protected
Social distancing in research is visible in the relationship that develops between the researcher and the researched – but how can it be beneficial?
Resource-poor countries are facing an “extinction-level threat” for journalism. Could public subsidy be a solution to supporting global media?
Clubhouse is a new social-media audio-only app – which you can only join through an invite. But how is it making waves in the Middle East?
Professor Muhammed Abdel Haleem discusses Ramadan, the Qur’an, and Covid-19.
As we look to understand and respond to the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, feminist perspectives will be key in shaping a better world.
More than a century since the first International Women’s Day, we are still talking about women – and still tackling gender inequality.
The public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly translated into an economic and social crisis, both locally and globally.
How are some countries using the Covid-19 vaccine to increase their power and global status? Is the vaccine now the ultimate negotiation tool?
The pandemic has been especially difficult for PhD students – yet they have received little guidance or support from the UK government.
What is vaccine nationalism – and how does it impact global (in)equality? Discover what ‘vaccine apartheid’ really is.
How has the way we talk about climate change, changed? And how is it discussed by various media outlets? Maxine Betteridge-Moes explores.
The recent ‘Future of Cities Summit’ explored what cities may look like after Covid – and whether they will change forever.
Lizzie Frost speaks to freshers about their time at SOAS so far, discussing online learning, making friends and SOAS societies.
Patriarchal history has named and categorised women in various ways. One such categorisation is ‘Asati’, which means one who is not a ‘Sati’. According to
Since the signing of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, the nearly 1,800-kilometre border between Nepal and India has served as an open
Post-Covid-19 world and its implications in achieving inclusive and sustainable development and industrialisation to meet the 2030 SDGs.
At no other time in contemporary history has a critical understanding of communication and the structures and regulation of complex media systems been more important
An assessment of the significant negative impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the social care sector in the UK.
How have the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and associated financial crisis?
Protect yourself, your university and the wider community – remember ‘Hands. Face. Space’.
Two current SOAS students talk about studying in lockdown, making friends online, and what advice they have for new students this September.
Against the backdrop of Covid-19 and Trump, are relations between America and China at an all-time low? We ask Professor Steve Tsang.
Do you feel strongly about social justice? Are you passionate about a cause? An inter-disciplinary studies approach could be the answer.
Gain an insight into approaches and policies used by South Asia’s women leaders, how they manage disasters and gender equality amidst Covid.
Why are women in Nigeria more negatively affected by Covid-19?
Minna graduated from SOAS’s Centre for Gender Studies and is now classed as one of the leading black feminist activists in the UK.
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a new factor that will have lasting policy consequences over the regulation of international trade and foreign direct investment
… by 2030 global trade may have been revolutionised to comprise something closer to a global matrix of artificial-intelligence-driven, digital-currency-supported, and SME-sales dominated trade.
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We
We interrogate the past in order to illuminate the present, and the study of modern Chinese history should help us to understand the present condition
On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd, 46, was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. George Floyd is just the latest in a long list of
Post-Brexit relations with Africa: why the UK needs to act.
The demand for national leadership to unite a clearly passionate and divided United States could not be higher, but President Donald Trump is instead adopting
Covid-19 will cause serious issues for Latin American companies.
Amidst the Covid-19 crisis, SOAS students’ SCRAP Weapons group call for freeze on weapons supply.
The current crisis should be used as a basis to rebuild and strengthen solidarity between people and nations.
The rapid rise in Brazil’s Covid-19 cases is a direct result of the president’s actions.
