'Canada in the Frame' book by Philip Hatfield (HRA)

20 Nov 2018

Available to download free: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press

Modern slavery, which is part of construction boom in Cambodia, linked to climate change

31 Oct 2018

The construction boom in Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, is shown to be built on modern slavery, according to a new report by the ‘Blood Bricks’ project based at Royal Holloway.

Athena SWAN Silver Award

30 Oct 2018

The Department of Geography has been awarded the Athena SWAN Silver Award from the Equality Challenge Unit, recognising exceptional commitment and excellence in the advancement of gender equality.

Landscape Surgery

22 Oct 2018

Social, Cultural and Historical Geography at Royal Holloway (SCHG) runs a well-established postgraduate workshop series Landscape Surgery.

keynote lecture

18 Sept 2018

Keynote lecture by Professor David Simon at the opening of the Swedish Development Research conference 2018

Veronica della Dora elected Fellow of the British Academy

30 Jul 2018

A prestigious award made in recognition of her work in Geography and in Byzantine Studies.

High satisfaction scores for Royal Holloway Geography in NSS 2018

30 Jul 2018

We are delighted that our graduating students have once again reported high satisfaction with their Geography degree from Royal Holloway.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) fellowship

10 Jul 2018

Ed Armston-Sheret, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) fellowship to carry out research at the Huntington Library in California.

Royal Holloway professor appointed Specialist Adviser for the Changing Arctic Inquiry

28 Jun 2018

Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, will work with the Environmental Audit Select Committee (EAC) on the UK's role in Arctic sustainability.

Two RHUL Quaternary Scientists Awarded Prizes by the Geologists' Association

08 May 2018

At the Annual General Meeting of the Geologists' Association, held at Burlington House on 4th May, MSc Quaternary Science student Jaz Walker and Emeritus Professor Jim Rose were both given prizes.

Geographers awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

18 Apr 2018

Two academics from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London have been awarded prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Prehistoric people resilient in the face of extreme climate events

27 Mar 2018

Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting tempe