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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society and Royal Holloway Scholarship

25 Feb 2022

Project title: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge

New discovery of Ice Age fossils in Devon

03 Feb 2022

Fossils 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 2021

The 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 2021

A 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 Sep 2021

Urban 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 2021

The 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 2021

Applications 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 2021

We 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 2021

New 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 2021

A new film has been created by Geography academics highlighting the importance of the diminishing state of the world’s glaciers to younger generation.

Child tooth of Neanderthal discovered alongside tools originally thought to be unique to Homo sapiens

26 Feb 2021

New analysis of a fossilised child’s tooth and stone tools from Shukbah Cave, an archaeological site located in the Hebron Hills, north of Jerusalem, reveals special stone tool making technology
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