Planning permission granted for new electric drone testing and training facility

01 Feb 2023

Planning permission for a new drone training and testing facility has been approved by Runnymede Borough Council and plans are progressing for the build.

New study will use a billion years’ worth of evidence to understand Earth’s carbon cycle

01 Feb 2023

An academic from Royal Holloway, University of London, is leading on new research to gain a better understanding of how the Earth’s carbon cycle has regulated global climate over the last billion years.

Health overtakes energy as the top issue for voters in the UK

25 Jan 2023

Royal Holloway and Survation have released an update on their quarterly issue importance tracker which found that health worries has now overtaken energy.

Royal Holloway and Royal College of Music Museum create new exhibition exploring the lives and legacies of musicians who fled Nazi Germany

16 Jan 2023

Royal Holloway has partnered with the Royal College of Music (RCM) Museum to create a new exhibition called Music, Migration & Mobility – The Story of Émigré Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain.

Royal Holloway academic becomes one of the first members of The UK Young Academy

16 Jan 2023

Dr Saloni Krishnan from the Department of Psychology has been selected as one of 67 members of the newly established UK Young Academy.

Building blocks of life found in meteorite which crashed landed in Gloucestershire

10 Jan 2023

New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which crashed landed onto a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire in 2021.

Lord Hogan-Howe awarded Honorary Doctorate for outstanding policing career

13 Dec 2022

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the School of Law and Social Sciences on 13 December 2022

New research will discover how Generation Alpha engages with politics to preserve the future of liberal democracies in Europe

07 Dec 2022

Royal Holloway, part of a new Marie Curie Doctoral Network, will focus on discovering how the brain development and socialisation of Generation Alpha shapes how they process political information.

It’s not just your Ps and Qs you need to watch, but your L and Rs! How certain sounds are unsuitable for swear words

05 Dec 2022

Researchers at Royal Holloway tested whether there is something special about the sound of swear words.

People’s trust of ‘fake faces’ could make them more susceptible to fake news and have dire consequences with trust

05 Dec 2022

Participants in new research conducted by Royal Holloway and the Warburg Institute found they are more likely to trust artificially generated faces.

Leverhulme International Professorship awarded to Royal Holloway

02 Dec 2022

Royal Holloway has been awarded an esteemed Leverhulme International Professorship worth £4.1m.

Gloucestershire meteorite reveals new insights into the origins of the Earth’s oceans

24 Nov 2022

A study has discovered that a meteorite which crashed onto a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire in 2021 contained extra-terrestrial water and organic compounds revealing new insights into the origins of the Earth’s oceans.