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66-617: The collection currently contains over 550 deposits recorded in over 70 different countries, the majority of which are the results of Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP) documentation projects funded by the Arcadia Fund . The catalogue of archived materials can be freely searched via the Open Languages Archives Community. The endangered languages collections at ELAR can be accessed free of charge. ELAR also provides training in all aspects of

132-550: A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and many other notable leaders around the world. SOAS is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities . The School of Oriental Studies was founded in 1916 at 2 Finsbury Circus , London, the then premises of the London Institution . The school received its royal charter on 5 June 1916 and admitted its first students on 18 January 1917. The school was formally inaugurated

198-716: A $ 5 million grant to the Mvule Trust to provide bursaries to young women in Uganda so they can go to secondary school. The grant and trust gave 75% of scholarships to girls and by 2007 and the trust had supported the education of 1,868 children. Arcadia has provided a total of $ 6 million in 2005–2006 to the Human Rights Watch (US) to help their empirical research into persecution of women, and its fact gathering, press releases, advocacy and lobbying. The following table breaks down Arcadia's largest grants and provides

264-642: A $ 511,200 to the Smithsonian Campaign, 'The Field Book Project', to preserve field books, the original records of scientific expeditions. The grant aimed to support the digitising of 2600 field books, all which will be open access. Currently, the project has catalogued over 9,500 field books and digitised over 4,000. The fund in 2018 donated £23 million (US$ 31,441,100) to the Cambridge Conservative Initiative (CCI) for its Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP). Through

330-602: A Jewish way, and fear hate and retribution if they wear Jewish symbols or speak Hebrew on campus. In December 2020 The Guardian reported that SOAS refunded a student £15,000 in fees after he chose to abandon his studies as a result of the "toxic antisemitic environment" he felt had been allowed to develop on campus. The campus is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London, close to Russell Square . It includes College Buildings (the Philips Building and

396-648: A consultant to government departments and to companies such as Accenture and Deloitte – when they seek to gain specialist knowledge of the matters concerning Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The school has a student-staff ratio of 15:1, which in the Complete University Guide 2025 ranked 44th in the UK. The SOAS library is a library for Asian, African and Middle Eastern studies. It houses more than 1.2 million volumes and electronic resources for

462-459: A description of the purpose of the grant. SOAS, University of London The School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS University of London ; / ˈ s oʊ æ s / ) is a public research university in London , England , and a member institution of the federal University of London . Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London. SOAS is one of

528-662: A month later on 23 February 1917 by George V . Among those in attendance were Earl Curzon of Kedleston , formerly Viceroy of India , and other cabinet officials. The School of Oriental Studies was founded by the British state as an instrument to strengthen Britain's political, commercial, and military presence in Asia and Africa. It would do so by providing instruction to colonial administrators ( Colonial Service and Imperial Civil Service ), commercial managers, and military officers, as well as to missionaries, doctors, and teachers, in

594-606: A new visual identity for SOAS was launched to be used in print, digital media and around the campus. The SOAS tree symbol, first implemented in 1989, was redrawn and recoloured in gold, with the new symbol incorporating the leaves of ten trees, including the English Oak representing England; the Bodhi , Coral Bark Maple , Teak representing Asia; the Mountain Acacia , African Pear , Lasiodiscus representing Africa; and

660-693: A number of regional centres and other, non-regional institutes: SOAS is a centre for the study of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It trains government officials on secondment from around the world in Asian, African and Middle Eastern languages and area studies, particularly in Arabic & Islamic Studies – which combined with Hebrew formed the major bulk of classical Oriental Studies in Europe – and Mandarin Chinese . It also acts as

726-744: A number of scholarships for students, making the Department of Art & Archaeology a key institution at a global level in the study of Southeast Asia . The university is also a member of the Screen Studies Group, London . The SOAS Department of Linguistics was the first ever linguistics department in the United Kingdom, founded in 1932 as a centre for research and study in Oriental and African languages. J. R. Firth , known internationally for his work in phonology and semantics,

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792-440: A range of sports, including basketball, football, hockey, netball, rugby union and tennis. SOAS also participates in an annual North London Varsity tournament against London Metropolitan University . Some programs help students to work part-time on campus alongside their full-time study. SOAS operates two halls of residence in central London, both owned by Sanctuary Student Housing. The primary accommodation for undergraduates

858-525: A return to London was possible, the school returned to the city and was housed for some months in eleven rooms at Broadway Court, 8 Broadway, London SW1. In 1942, the War Office joined with the school to create a scheme for State Scholarships to be offered to select grammar and public-school boys with linguistic ability to train as military translators and interpreters in Chinese, Japanese, Persian , and Turkish. Lodged at Dulwich College in south London,

924-483: A significant amount of non-English law, starting in the first year of the LL.B. course, where "Legal Systems of Asia and Africa" is compulsory. Specialised modules in the laws and legal systems of particular countries and regions are also encouraged, and faculty experts conduct modules in these subjects every year. SOAS has a number of region-specific institutions, drawing on expertise across the various colleges: It also has

990-565: A vibrant, resilient, green future". Since 2002, the fund has provided more than $ 910 million in projects around the world. According to the OECD , the Arcadia Fund's financing for 2019 development increased by 6% to US$ 55 million. The foundation is controlled by its three trustees ( Lisbet Rausing , Peter Baldwin and Johannes Burger) and its team of nine members. The fund also has an advisory board of seven members. Since its inception,

1056-552: Is Dinwiddy House, which is located on Pentonville Road . This contains 510 single en-suite rooms arranged in small cluster flats of around six rooms each. The halls are located within minutes of King's Cross St Pancras tube station and the Vernon Square campus. A few minutes walk from Dinwiddy House and also on the Pentonville Road is Paul Robeson House, the second hall of residence. This was opened in 1998, and

1122-497: Is located just a short walk from the Russell Square campus. The library was used as a filming location for some scenes in the 2016 film Criminal . The 2022 QS World University Rankings placed SOAS 2nd in the world for Development Studies, 10th for Anthropology and 15th for Politics. For Arts & Humanities overall, it was placed 67th in the world by the same rankings. As an institution, it placed 508th overall in

1188-594: Is often considered the French equivalent of SOAS. In 2011, the Privy Council approved changes to the school's charter allowing it to award degrees in its own name, following the trend set by fellow colleges the London School of Economics , University College London and King's College London . All new students registered from September 2013 will qualify for a SOAS, University of London, award. In 2012,

1254-518: Is one of three partners of the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (CKLD), providing its expertise to researchers and community members across Europe. 51°31′21″N 0°07′45″W  /  51.5225°N 0.1292°W  / 51.5225; -0.1292 Arcadia Fund The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organization founded by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin . Established in 2001,

1320-537: Is ranked 4th by GPA in the UK for Anthropology (an improvement from 16th in the previous exercise in 2014) and 25th in the UK for Development Studies. A range of scholarships and awards support SOAS degree programmes, with an application process based either on academic merit or with a focus on supporting students from specific countries or connected with particular areas of study, as well as some bursaries addressing students' financial needs. SOAS publishes academic journals such as The China Quarterly , Bulletin of

1386-533: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions agenda and boycott Israel. In a motion for a "Jewish Equality Act" passed in 2017, the Student Union voted to remove a line stating, "Jewish students should be given the right to self-determination and be able to define what constitutes hatred against their group like all other minority groups." Jewish students at SOAS have reported feeling unable to express themselves in

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1452-832: The British Museum , where it is now on permanent display in Room 95. The SOAS Centenary Masterplan conceived the development of two new buildings and a substantial remodelling of existing space to realign and develop the entrance and two areas within the Old Building. The cost estimates for the Centenary Masterplan settle at around £73m for the total project. The full implementation of the School's Centenary Masterplan would deliver approximately 30% additional space, approximately 1,000 sq metres. Since its foundation,

1518-699: The Date Palm , Pomegranate and Ghaf representing the Middle East. Dating back to at least 2005, SOAS has faced a number of accusations of systemic anti-Zionism and anti-Israel rhetoric by its Student Union and members of its faculty. A report in the Jewish Tribune , a Jewish newspaper, titled SOAS as "the School Of Anti-Semitism." In 2015, the SOAS Student Union held a referendum in which its members voted to adopt

1584-456: The Hall of Graduate Studies , enabling the university to co-locate the dispersed humanities departments under one roof to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration. Baldwin and Rausing have asked that the building should be named after in tribute to the service of David Swensen (who built Yale's endowment from $ 1.3 billion to $ 23.9 billion) in tribute to his service. Arcadia gave £5 million to

1650-757: The Illuminated River Foundation in 2017 for a commissioned art installation of light to 15 of Central London's bridges along the River Thames. When the project is completed, it would be the longest piece of commissioned art in the world at 2.5 miles long. Before 2009 the Arcadia Find was involved in supporting human rights. It supported organisations that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's rights advocacy. In 2005, Arcadia provided

1716-637: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , the Royal Veterinary College , the School of Advanced Study , Senate House Library and University College London . SOAS has multiple smaller sports teams competing in a variety of local and national leagues, as well as occasional international tournaments. SOAS clubs compete in inter-university fixtures in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) competition in

1782-842: The National Theatre and the Institute of Education . In 2010/11 the library underwent a £12 million modernisation programme, known as "the Library Transformation Project". The work refurbished the ground floor of the library and created new reception and entrance areas, new music practice rooms, group study rooms and a gallery exhibition space. SOAS being a constituent college of the University of London, its students also have access to Senate House Library , shared by other colleges such as London School of Economics and University College London , which

1848-636: The ELP, the CCI and 9 other conservation organisations aimed to restore priority landscape across Europe in an attempt to support viable populations of native species, provide room for natural ecological processes, and improve resilience of ecosystems to short or long term changes. The fund in 2018 awarded Fauna & Flora International $ USD 27,000,000 for the Halcyon Land & Sea Fund. The partnership started in 1998 where Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing developed

1914-607: The London Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Science, the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, the Centre of Taiwan Studies and a number of department-specific centres. It offers courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, many with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. One of the largest individual departments, the SOAS School of Law is one of Britain's leading law schools and

1980-652: The Middle East with the aim to present and promote cultures from these regions. The Japanese-style roof garden on top of the Brunei Gallery was built during the Japan 2001 celebrations and was opened by the sponsor, Haruhisa Handa , an Honorary Fellow of the School, on 13 November 2001. The school hosted the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art , one of the foremost collections of Chinese ceramics in Europe. The collection has been loaned to

2046-724: The Old Building), Brunei Gallery building, 53 Gordon Square (which houses the Doctoral School) and, since 2016, the Paul Webley Wing (the North Block of Senate House). The SOAS library designed by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1973 is located in the Philips Building. The nearest Underground station is Russell Square . The school houses the Brunei Gallery, built from an endowment from the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam ,

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2112-507: The Oriental schools of Berlin , Petrograd , and Paris . The school immediately became integral to training British administrators, colonial officials, and spies for overseas postings across the British Empire . Africa was added to the school's name in 1938. For a period in the mid-1930s, prior to moving to its current location at Thornhaugh Street, Bloomsbury , the school was located at Vandon House, Vandon Street, London SW1, with

2178-542: The Philips Building, is the UK's national resource for materials relating to Asia and Africa and is the largest of its kind in the world. The school has grown considerably over the past 30 years, from fewer than 1,000 students in the 1970s to more than 6,000 students today, nearly half of them postgraduates. SOAS is partnered with the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris which

2244-493: The QS World University Rankings 2025, having fallen from a high of 252nd in 2017. SOAS ranked 33rd globally for International Students and 49th for International Faculty in the 2023 QS World University Rankings. SOAS's Department of Financial and Management Studies (DeFiMS) is ranked within the top-60 for Business Studies in the 2023 Complete University Guide 's League Table. The research strength of

2310-813: The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. It offers courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. A gift from the Alphawood Foundation in 2013 created the Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian art, the David Snellgrove Senior Lectureship in Tibetan and Buddhist art, and a Senior Lectureship in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, as well as

2376-441: The School of Oriental & African Studies , Journal of African Law , South East Asia Research and SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research . In 2022/23, there were 3,725 undergraduate students. In 2012, 41% of students were over 21 and 60% were female. According to the QS World University Rankings, SOAS hosts international students from 140 countries. SOAS is renowned for its political scene and radical socialist politics and

2442-754: The collections. ELAR was housed in and supported by the SOAS University of London library from 2015 until their move to the BBAW in 2021. David Nathan was director during the first decade of the archive's existence until 2014, when the role was taken over by Mandana Seyfeddinipur , who is also head of ELDP. From July, 2021, ELAR has been housed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( German : Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften ) in Berlin, Germany. ELAR

2508-408: The creation of digital collections to archiving collections. These entail metadata creation, data management, formats, curation as well as digitisation of analogue formats. The archive was originally funded in 2002 as part of a donation by the Arcadia Fund to support the documentation of endangered languages, to train students and scholars in language documentation and to digitally preserve and publish

2574-443: The department has been previously recognised by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) where 81 per cent was rated as world-leading and internationally excellent, placing it 41st in the country by GPA. The results of the 2021 REF took the form of profiles spread across four grade levels. Hence, there are different ways to present them and to rank the departments. According to published tables by Times Higher Education , SOAS

2640-523: The fund also supported causes such as human rights, philanthropy and education; however, the support for these causes have been discontinued since 2009. Before this support was discontinued, the fund supported organizations that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's right advocacy. The fund awards grants to organisations preserving endangered culture, preserving nature, and promoting open access. Arcadia's largest grant, totalling £20 million (US$ 33,851,813),

2706-652: The fund founded the Endangered Archives Program at the British Library with a $ 25 million grant supporting the digitisation of at risk collections around the world. By September 2018, the program has supported more than 350 documentation programs in 90 countries, preserving over 6.5 million images and 25,000 sound tracks. The material is available freely online as part of the Endangered Archives Programme . In 2018,

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2772-632: The fund gave an additional £9 million to fund the program for a further 7 years. In 2013 and 2015 provide $ 1 million to the Smithsonian Institution 's collaboration with the Natural History Museum 's 'Recovering Voices Initiative', a long-term project to digitise audio recordings, manuscripts and photographs. It aims to digitise the entire collection of ethnographic sound recordings, estimated at 3,000 hours, and 35,000 pages of manuscript materials. In 2015 it provided

2838-462: The fund has averaged yearly grant awards of $ 35,625,000. Its grants are divided into five categories: Cultural, Environmental, Open Access, Discretionary and Discontinued Themes. As seen by the Table 41% of grant funding is cultural, 37% Environmental, 6% Open Access, 8% Discretionary and 7% Legacy. Its supported causes have been-as mentioned earlier-the preservation of endangered culture and nature and

2904-592: The idea in conjunction with FFI to develop the Halcyon Fund in which secures highly threatened sites to protect them under local management. As of 2018, the Fund has supported 46 projects in 25 countries, protecting 55.8 million hectares of habitat. Since 2011, Arcadia has provided support in which has supported 34 initiatives across 18 countries. Currently, Arcadia's total funding to FFI is $ USD 51,550,000 million. In 2015, Arcadia ordered an independent expert review of

2970-703: The institution for 2022–23 was £103.0 million of which £7.3 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £89.7 million. SOAS is divided into three colleges: the College of Development, Economics and Finance; the College of Humanities; and the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics, which includes the SOAS School of Law . The university offers around 350 bachelor's degree combinations, more than 100 one-year master's degrees, and PhD programmes in nearly every department. The university has educated several heads of states , government ministers , diplomats , central bankers , Supreme Court judges ,

3036-399: The language of the part of Asia or Africa to which each was being posted, together with an authoritative introduction to the customs, religions, laws, and history of the people whom they were to govern or among whom they would be working. The school's founding mission was to advance British scholarship, science, and commerce in Africa and Asia, and to provide London University with a rival to

3102-471: The leader of a country whose human rights abuses are ongoing, and inaugurated by the Princess Royal , as Chancellor of the University of London, on 22 November 1995. Its facilities include exhibition space on three floors, a book shop, a lecture theatre, and conference and teaching facilities. The Brunei Gallery hosts a programme of changing contemporary and historical exhibitions from Asia, Africa and

3168-499: The library located at Clarence House . Its move to new premises in Bloomsbury was held up by delays in construction and the half-completed building took a hit during the Blitz in September 1940. With the onset of the Second World War , many University of London colleges were evacuated from London in 1939 and billeted on universities in the rest of the country. The School was, on the Government's advice, transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge . In 1940, when it became apparent that

3234-422: The organisation provides grants on a worldwide basis focusing on numerous projects outside the UK. The primary focus of the organisation is to preserve endangered culture and nature and to provide open access . The organisation believes that "once memories, knowledge, skills, variety, and intricacy disappear – once the old complexities are lost – they are hard to replicate or replace" and consequently want to "build

3300-436: The position of Master at University College, Oxford . In 2024, the position of director was renamed vice-chancellor. SOAS, University of London is divided into three colleges. These are further divided into academic departments. SOAS has many Centres and Institutes, each of which is affiliated to a particular faculty. The College of Humanities houses the School of Art, the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, and

3366-725: The provision of open access. The fund has a selected issues criterion which the organization uses to choose grants. The methodology of grant choices has not changed since 2002. However, supported causes have altered slightly. The organization aims to provide cultural grants to universities, archives or museums that preserve cultural heritage and digitize near-extinct cultural heritage. Additionally, it intends to supply environmental grants to organizations that preserve endangered habitats at risk land as well as trains staff and enable research and policy development. It also aims to provide open access grants to increase obtention of free material such online as research papers and publications. Previously,

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3432-429: The school has had ten directors. The inaugural director was the celebrated linguist Edward Denison Ross . Under the stewardship of Cyril Philips , the school saw considerable growth and modernisation. Under Colin Bundy in the 2000s, the school became one of the top ranked universities both domestically and internationally. In January 2021 Adam Habib became director of SOAS in place of Valerie Amos , who had taken up

3498-431: The school to divest from fossil fuels. The SU bar became an established live music venue by the 1970s and was where Nirvana played their first UK gig in 1989. The SOAS Marxist Society holds frequent events and encourages student voter registration. Located in the heart of Bloomsbury, many University of London schools and institutes are close by, including Birkbeck , the Institute of Education , London Business School ,

3564-528: The sole law school in the world focusing on the study of Asian, African and Middle Eastern legal systems. The School of Law has more than 400 students. It offers programmes at the LL.B. , LL.M. and MPhil / PhD levels. International students have been a majority at all levels for many years. The SOAS School of Law has an unrivaled concentration of expertise in the laws of Asian and African countries, human rights , transnational commercial law , environmental law , and comparative law . The SOAS School of Law

3630-419: The students became affectionately known as the Dulwich boys . One of these students was Charles Dunn , who became a prominent Japanologist on the faculty of the SOAS and a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun . Others included Sir Peter Parker and Ronald Dore . Subsequently, the School ran a series of courses in Japanese, both for translators and for interpreters. In recognition of SOAS's role during

3696-424: The study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and attracts scholars from all over the world. The library was designated by HEFCE in 2011 as one of the UK's five National Research Libraries. The library is housed in the Philips Building on the Russell Square campus and was built in 1973. It was designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun , who also designed some of Britain's most famous brutalist buildings such as

3762-464: The university in 2011 with an additional $ 11 million grant. In September 2015, the fund provided $ 450,000 over three years to Creative Commons to develop tools that complement current CC licence suite. In September 2017, Arcadia donated $ 5 million to the Wikimedia Foundation , the largest contribution to the foundation at the time. It gave another $ 3.5 million in 2019. The Arcadia Fund in 2015 provided $ 25 million to Yale University to renovate

3828-431: The university. In 2009 it awarded $ 5 million over a 5-year period. The grant will support the processing of 17th and 18th century collections in archives and underwrite conservation treatments to fragile or damaged 17th or 18th century collections. It will also help to catalogue and digitise documents on Harvard's history, and to run the Library Lab programme to improve digital services. The fund provided further support to

3894-417: The war, the 1946 Scarborough Commission (officially the "Commission of Enquiry into the Facilities for Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies") report recommended a major expansion in provision for the study of Asia and the school benefited greatly from the subsequent largesse. The SOAS School of Law was established in 1947 with Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald as its first head. Growth however

3960-628: The work it had funded through FFI. The review concluded that "The report clearly recognises the invaluable role that Arcadia has played in helping FFI evolve into the organisation it is today, by providing long-term and flexible funding for a considerable and effective body of work." Their first grant in 2011 helped develop the Halcyon Marine Programme, which operates across 72 sites in 17 countries, engaging 88 partners and 35 community-based institutions. It has resulted in threat reduction of biodiversity recovery at 10 sites. Arcadia has provided multiple grants to Harvard University to improve open access at

4026-400: The world's leading institutions for the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Its library is one of the five national research libraries in England. SOAS also houses the Brunei Gallery, which hosts a programme of changing contemporary and historical exhibitions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East with the aim of presenting and promoting cultures from these regions. The annual income of

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4092-438: Was a Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of General Linguistics at the school between 1938 and 1956. The College of Development, Economics and Finance houses the departments of Development Studies, Economics, and Finance and Management. The College of Law, Anthropology and Politics houses the School of Law, the departments of Anthropology and Politics and International Studies, and the centres for Gender Studies, Media Studies,

4158-467: Was curtailed by following years of economic austerity, and upon Sir Cyril Philips assuming the directorship in 1956, the school was in a vulnerable state. Over his 20-year stewardship, Phillips transformed the school, raising funds and broadening the school's remit. A college of the University of London, the School's fields include Law , Social Sciences , Humanities , and Languages with special reference to Asia and Africa. The SOAS Library, located in

4224-419: Was given in 2002 to the School of Oriental and African Studies to start the Endangered Language Documentation Program (ELDP) . The program enables scholars to undertake documentation of disappearing languages. By 2015, the program has documented over 350 languages. The grant also funds training scholars in modern language documentation techniques. The fund donated another US$ 11 million in April 2015. In 2004,

4290-420: Was ranked 15th out of all 98 British law schools by The Guardian League Table in 2016. Although many modules at SOAS embody a substantial element of English common law , all modules are taught (as much as possible) in a comparative or international manner with an emphasis on the way in which law functions in society. Thus, law studies at SOAS are broad and comparative in their orientation. All students study

4356-488: Was voted the most politically active university in the UK in the Which? University 2012. Recent campaigns include students for social change, women's liberty and justice for cleaners. The SOAS Student Union was established in 1927, and has a long history of activism: campaigning against the introduction of both student loans and later student fees; raising funds for the Algerian victims of the Algerian War of Independence against France in 1959; and successfully campaigning for

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