Displaying 37 to 48 of 98
PhD studentships
01 Jul 2021Applications are invited for three fully-funded PhD studentships as part of the research project ‘Thinking Deep: Creative Approaches to the Underground’ (2020-25).
Professor Katie Willis wins Doctoral Supervisor of the Year Award
20 May 2021We are delighted to announce that the winner of Royal Holloway’s Doctoral Supervisor of the Year Award is Professor Katie Willis.
Oldest known human burial in Africa, dating back 78,000 years
10 May 2021New research has discovered the oldest human burial in Africa, dating back 78,000 years ago, at a cave site on the Kenyan coast
Award-winning film to help fight climate change
08 Apr 2021A new film has been created by Geography academics highlighting the importance of the diminishing state of the world’s glaciers to younger generation.
Child tooth of Neanderthal discovered alongside tools originally thought to be unique to Homo sapiens
26 Feb 2021New analysis of a fossilised child’s tooth and stone tools from Shukbah Cave, an archaeological site located in the Hebron Hills, north of Jerusalem, reveals special stone tool making technology
We are delighted to see the Handbook of Displacement published.
05 Jan 2021Edited by a team from the Department including Peter Adey, Janet Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, and Alasdair Pinkerton, the Handbook is a landmark text that traces the achievements and knowledge gaps in the inter-disciplinary study of displacement.
2020 Antarctic place-names are announced
04 Dec 20202020 Antarctic place-names are announced to mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica.
Academics win prestigious award for Blood Bricks research
27 Nov 2020Two of Royal Holloway’s Geography academics have won a prestigious award for their incredible research into modern slavery and climate change in Cambodia.
Landscapes Of Detectorists
02 Nov 2020Detectorists auction raises more than £1,000 for conservation charities.
DQ Bowen
13 Oct 2020The Department was saddened to hear that Professor David Quentin (DQ) Bowen passed away on October 5th 2020.
New book explores inequality in the age of translocality
29 Sept 2020In ‘Going Nowhere Fast; Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality’ Royal Holloway Geographers explore how rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges.