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SOAS' £20k compensation student calls for university to issue formal apology.

SOAS’ £20,000 PhD compensation student, Dr Vishal Vora, has began an online petition calling for SOAS management to issue a formal apology for supervision failures. Dr Vora, a former SOAS PhD student, was compensated £20,000 by the university after a six-year long legal battle, following the university’s

All Things Weird and Wonderful - Dispatches from Dissertation Land

All Things Weird and Wonderful - Dispatches from Dissertation Land

Jon Galton, MA Social Anthropology Recently I met a girl who was in the middle of a PhD on the melodic ornamentation of seventeenth century English barrel organs. During the very same week I talked to another studying interracial relationships as depicted in contemporary Bollywood films. “Ah, academia…” I thought,