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Welcoming Dr Cathy Smith to the Department

01 May 2020

We are delighted to welcome Dr Cathy Smith to the Department this week.

Cities are at centre of coronavirus pandemic

23 Apr 2020

Cities are at centre of coronavirus pandemic - understanding this can help build a sustainable, equal future

Dr David Hilling MBE

15 Apr 2020

The Department is saddened to report the death of Dr David Hilling, MBE, on 27th March, aged 85.

Academics call on world policy makers to rethink wildfire policies

07 Feb 2020

A policy brief led by academics at Royal Holloway is calling for governments across the world to rethink their wildfire policies, following the increase in severe wildfires over the last decade

Mobile Museum research webpage goes live online

12 Dec 2019

An overview of the three year Mobile Museum research project is now live. The project, which is a collaboration between Royal Holloway and Kew Gardens explored the movement of objects in and out of Economic Botany Collection at Kew museum since its creation over 150 years ago.

Royal Holloway academic awarded prestigious five-year grant from European Research Council

11 Dec 2019

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced today that Professor Harriet Hawkins, Co-Director of the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway has been awarded a prestigious five-year Consolidator Grant, worth 1.95m Euros to help researchers understand underground environments and the opportunities they provide for us in the future.

Drinking water for up to 1.9 billion people globally is at threat from climate change

10 Dec 2019

Glaciologist from Royal Holloway on research team that has found water resource systems derived from mountain glaciers are under threat

Policy Brief

05 Dec 2019

Informing fire policy and biodiversity conservation

Leverhulme centre for wildfire research launched

26 Nov 2019

Royal Holloway has a lead role in world's first centre to address wildfire challenges from a global perspective.

Cities don’t have to copy hipster trends to prosper – they can embrace what makes them unique

31 Oct 2019

Many cities are looking to change their fortunes, through urban regeneration programmes.

Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK

15 Oct 2019

Dr Anna Jackman contributes as Specialist Adviser to House of Commons Inquiry on ‘Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK’.

Enough: The architecture of degrowth

13 Sept 2019

Dr Cecile Sachs Olsen is one of the chief curators of Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Nordic region’s biggest architecture festival. The Triennale opens on September 26th .
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