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Dr Bethan Davies discusses significant Polar warming for BBC podcast
23 Mar 2022The podcast for the BBC's daily Newscast examines the alarming significance of heatwave temperatures recorded at both the North and South pole.
Falklands Forty Schools competition
10 Mar 2022A once in a lifetime opportunity for eight UK students to visit the Falkland Islands
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society and Royal Holloway Scholarship
25 Feb 2022Project title: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge
New discovery of Ice Age fossils in Devon
03 Feb 2022Fossils of extinct species, including mammoth, rhinoceros and wolf, have been discovered in a cave by a team of archaeologists, including an academic from Royal Holloway.
New degree in Environment and Social Change launches in 2022
03 Nov 2021The new BSc Environment and Social Change degree provides students with the knowledge and skills to address the global challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, food/water security, sustainable urbanisation, and health inequality.
New discovery of the earliest known hippo fossil in the UK
04 Oct 2021A fossil of an extinct species of hippo that is over one million years old has been discovered in Somerset by our researchers
Interview with David Simon reflecting on ‘Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, green and fair’
07 Sept 2021Urban areas can lead or lag in sustainability transitions but ultimately sustainable towns and cities exist only as components of more or less sustainable societies.
Outstanding student satisfaction confirmed in National Student Survey 2021
23 Jul 2021The National Student Survey (NSS) 2021 results confirm once again the outstanding level of satisfaction with teaching and overall experience among students in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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.