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New pain research centre opens
12 Nov 2018Royal Holloway will be exploring chronic pain in its new pain research centre, one of the first of its kind in the UK.
Film award won by university academic
09 Nov 2018Victoria Mapplebeck has won a prestigious national film award for her short film ‘Missed Call’.
Youthquake 2017 – why age not class will define how people vote
08 Nov 2018Age is the best predictor of voting intentions and cosmopolitan views have a growing influence on Millennials, according to a new book which investigates the youthquake of the 2017 election.
Royal Holloway psychologist awarded Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize
31 Oct 2018Dr Catherine Sebastian, from the Department of Psychology, has been named as one of the Emerging Leaders in her field by the Medical Research Foundation, for her research into mental health.
Royal Holloway’s Geography department recognised for gender equality
31 Oct 2018The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded the Athena Silver SWAN Award from the Equality Challenge Unit, for commitment to gender equality.
Physics department win award for equality
26 Oct 2018The department of physics has once again been awarded the Athena Silver SWAN Award from the Equality Challenge Unit, recognising exceptional commitment and excellence in the advancement of gender equa
Bringing ancient history into the 21st century
26 Oct 2018A professor at Royal Holloway has develop a brand new website dedicated to bringing ancient history into the 21st century for students and teachers alike.
Plants find ways to survive no matter the terrain
25 Oct 2018Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Osnabrück in Germany, have discovered that a fascinating plant employs two mechanisms to survive.
Lifting the Fog of War
18 Oct 2018A new paper written by academics at Royal Holloway and George Washington University, predicts reliable patterns in violent events occurring within wars and terrorism.
Improving the control of epilepsy by combining a diet and a drug
16 Oct 2018Research carried out by a team from the Centre for Biomedical Sciences may have identified a new way to help patients with epilepsy by combining a high-fat diet with low doses of an epilepsy drug.
New report finds modern slavery, which is part of construction boom in Cambodia, is linked to climate change.
16 Oct 2018The 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.
One third of fish found in two fresh water estuaries have ingested plastics, new research reveals
09 Oct 2018New research into the extent of plastic pollution in the UK, has found that one third of fish living in two fresh water estuaries have ingested microplastics.