The rise and fall of the parliamentary outreach team: Why cutting regional engagement is a mistake - by @aileenwalker.bsky.social and myself for the @hansardsociety.bsky.social: www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/parliam...

The rise and fall of the parliamentary outreach team: Why cutting regional engagement is a mistake

The House of Commons' proposal to abolish its regional parliamentary outreach service marks a significant retreat from two decades of leadership in public engagement. Replacing face-to-face community ...

hansardsociety.org.uk

📣 Help us keep the Helen Kanitkar Library open! The Helen Kanitkar Library is a unique and vibrant hub for all our students in the Anthropology and Sociology Department. We only need £2,500 to fund the student library and keep it open throughout the year. Donate here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Lovely to see our article about collaborative ethnography, written with an awesome group of ethnographers: Andrea Cornwall, Cristiane Bernardes and Telma Holyer, highlighted in a digest about methods: www.interpretivemethods.com/research-dig...

A short course, exclusively hosted by @soasanthro.bsky.social, reveals how to enrich writing + best-in-class storytelling methods drawn from sources incl Pixar, Elena Ferrante, & Jamaica Kincaid. 'Ethnographic Storytelling' by award-winning writer James Moran, June 8-12 tinyurl.com/bdz54dez

ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods. Book now: store.soas.ac.uk/product-cata...

James Moran is a phenomenal teacher, never heard anything but super positive feedback. For academics, practitioners and those of us who are both. Treat yourself 👇

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods. Book now: store.soas.ac.uk/product-cata...

An article about doing collective ethnography in Brazil with three amazing friends+colleagues (Andrea Cornwall, Cristiane Bernardes, and Telma Hoyler), was mentioned in an useful new Research Digest: www.interpretivemethods.com/research-dig...

Have you every wondered why Japanese toilets play a recording of flushing water? Read our own Fabio Gygi's piece on the Otohime device on the Object Impression series! pghrev.com/otohime/

Otohime - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Lately in the news, Otohime is a small device with one button, usually attached to walls of public toilet cubicles in Japan. Square and white, with a

pghrev.com

We just finished our annual Study of Parliament Group Annual Conference for scholars and parly officials - incredible speakers, topics ranging from Assisted Dying Bill to belonging/alienation in parliaments, & terrific conversations (studyofparliamentgroup.org/programme/).

Programme

Conference Menu SPG Annual Weekend HomepageHow to make the most of the conference virtually On this page you can find more information about our annual weekend, including a PDF version of the confe…

studyofparliamentgroup.org

Tomorrow marks the start of our annual weekend and we are very much looking forward to welcoming members to Exeter College, Oxford. For those members joining us remotely, the Zoom links are now in your inboxes. The programme is available on our website: studyofparliamentgroup.org/programme/

Programme

Conference Menu SPG Annual Weekend HomepageHow to make the most of the conference virtually On this page you can find more information about our annual weekend, including a PDF version of the confe…

studyofparliamentgroup.org

Part of a collaboration between the Mursi, South Omo Theatre Company, Addis Ababa University, and SOAS, University of London. Check out the Learning from South Omo exhibition in the SOAS Gallery, of the same project: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @emmacrewe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of State Politics & Policy Quarterly - Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/489WCvG - @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson #SPPQ25

Members of the CAMHRA team will share information about building a strong application during the ‘CAMHRA Doctoral Scholarships Webinar’ on Wednesday December 03rd 2025 at 2 pm GMT (London time). Registration is here: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CAMHRA PhD Scholarship Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CAMHRA PhD Scholarship Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

soas-ac-uk.zoom.us

📣 CAMHRA is offering 5 fully funded PhD #scholarships for researchers looking to conduct anthropological research in the broad field of #mentalhealth @SOAS. 📅 Apply by 5th January. Find out more here ▶️ bit.ly/camhra

Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home': "The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities." Read in full here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University): ‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’ 📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November 📍 Room R301 See the full line-up of talks below 👇

How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics? Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very special, small exhibition 👇 plus follow SOAS’s Dept of Anthropology and Sociology for events, new books, research funding…

SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology@soasanthro.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people. “Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London. Free entry. Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta 🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young

YouTube video by SOAS University of London

youtu.be

Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social

📌What does it mean to ‘return’? Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return. 📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS 📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar 🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW @naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social

📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live! This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA). Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood. Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... If interested in physics, time, space, threat of war, ethics…. then have a listen 👇

This is an amazing line up for our @soasanthro.bsky.social dept research seminar series, Wed 3-5pm, organised by Bhrigu Singh and Neil Armstrong.

Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social

Learning from South Omo: Exhibition at Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, July 2025

YouTube video by SOAS University of London

youtu.be

This is about how #Txlege departs from common perception. Bipartisan lawmaking thrives but is under threat. Prof Taylor-Robinson (a pol sci) and I (an anthropologist) offer a unique take. @scottbraddock.bsky.social won’t be surprised, cos his knowledge runs very deep, but others might be. Free👇

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11mo ago

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly - Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7 - @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson #FirstView

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly - Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7 - @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson #FirstView

Are we losing the capacity to collaborate in political world? Probably. But not so in academic world. See here for three new articles about research collaborations in Texas, Ethiopia and Brazil: www.emmacrewe.com

Lewis Goodall is doing here what journalists should, asking us (and esp politicians) to think about what’s coming down the track. This is now urgent: the regulation of AI podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Special Report: Will the AI revolution end politics as we know it?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 19/09/2025 · 1h

podcasts.apple.com

A huge thank you to Professor Sir John Curtice for delivering last night’s Michael Ryle Lecture on the theme of “Can Britain’s Two Party System Survive?” 👏