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Study finds pipeline blasts released record-shattering amount of methane into the Nord Stream

15 Jan 2025

The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane; new study finds.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience) appointed

14 Jan 2025

Professor Emma Mayhew has been appointed as Royal Holloway’s new Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience), starting in position from 7 April 2025.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) appointed

18 Dec 2024

Professor Ruth Livesey has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) following a successful internal recruitment process and will be starting in position from 1 February 2025.

Royal Holloway academic wins award at the Women in Film and TV Awards 2024

09 Dec 2024

Professor Victoria Mapplebeck has won a prestigious Women in Film & Television Award for her much-celebrated feature film, Motherboard.

Calls for urgent action to policy makers as research reveals real extent of human trafficking

04 Dec 2024

New research has revealed a more accurate estimate of those trafficked across the world, from 49.6million to 65.3million, with urgent action needed to prevent this criminal exploitation and coercion.

Research reveals image-based sexual abuse removal tools are vulnerable to Generative AI attacks

03 Dec 2024

New research led by Royal Holloway academics has revealed privacy vulnerabilities in “perceptual hashing,” a technology widely used to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate images.

Academic wins ‘Oscar of higher education’ for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year

29 Nov 2024

Professor Felix Driver, from the Department of Geography, has won a Times Higher Education Award (THE) in the category of Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year.

Unique virtual production and sound studio opens to support creative technology businesses

22 Nov 2024

A new virtual production facility, Futures Studio, has opened offering creative technology businesses a space to innovate, showcase their work and collaborate with industry experts.

New funding boost for future bioscience and environmental science PhDs

19 Nov 2024

Royal Holloway has been given an amazing boost for bioscience and environmental science PhD students through Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA).

National Portrait Gallery exhibition to display stunning photography captured by a Royal Holloway academic

14 Nov 2024

Photography by Dr James Clifford Kent, from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, will be featured in a National Portrait Gallery exhibition.

Academic shortlisted for prestigious Portrait of Britain award

14 Nov 2024

A Royal Holloway academic has been shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain award.

Teaching methods must change to address globally poor reading skills, experts say

08 Nov 2024

New research published in Nature Human Behavior, states that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.