Welcome to Geography

Royal Holloway's Department of Geography is well-established as a leading UK centre in its discipline, with a national and international reputation for research of the highest quality. The 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) again placed the Department in the top tier of Geography departments. Our research environment was singled out as overwhelmingly ‘world class’ and ‘internationally excellent’ and reflects our commitment to facilitate research of the highest quality.

Our undergraduate BSc and BA degrees are ranked in first and fourth place respectively within the 2008 National Student Satisfaction Survey, a unique achievement reflecting the high standard of courses in both human and physical geography.

The Department offers a number of well-established undergraduate degree courses, including a variety of overseas fieldcourses. We have one of the UK's largest graduate schools in geography, currently with about 130 postgraduates, of which about 80 are PhD students. And there are many opportunities for funded research at  doctoral and post-doctoral levels.

I hope you find this website useful. Please do explore the site to find out further information about our teaching, research and other  activities.

Professor David Simon
Head of Department

 

Academic Staff

Professor David Simon (Head of Department, Professor of Development Geography)
Dr Simon Armitage ( Lecturer)
Dr Luiza Bialasiewicz (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Simon Blockley (Lecturer)
Dr Ian Candy (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Phil Crang (Professor of Cultural Geography)
Professor Tim Cresswell (Professor of Human Geography)
Dr Mary Dengler (Lecturer)
Dr Vandana Desai (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Mustafa Dikeç (Lecturer, Director of MA in Cultural Geography)
Professor Klaus Dodds (Professor of Geopolitics; Director of PERG)
Dr Mike Dolton (Departmental Educational Support Officer)
Professor Felix Driver (Professor of Human Geography)
Professor Scott Elias (Professor of Quaternary Science)
Dr Peter French (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Clive Gamble (Professor of Geography)
Professor David Gilbert (Professor of Urban and Historical Geography & Director of SCG)
Dr Innes Keighren (Lecturer)
Professor Rob Kemp (Professor of Physical Geography)
Dr Dorothea Kleine (Lecturer)
Dr David Lambert (Reader in Historical Geography)
Dr Alex Loftus (Academic Fellow)
Professor John Lowe (Professor of Geography & Quaternary Science; Director of CQR)
Dr Ian Matthews (Lecturer)
Dr Duncan McGregor (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Xingmin Meng (GDB & GIS Manager)
Professor Claudio Minca (Professor of Geography)
Dr Jay Mistry (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Jim Rose (Professor of Geography)
Dr Danielle Schreve (Reader)
Dr Thomas Stevens (Lecturer)
Mr Don Thompson (Departmental Skills, Training & IT Officer)
Dr Varyl Thorndycraft (Lecturer)
Professor Tim Unwin (Professor of Geography, and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D)
Dr Katie Willis (Reader in Development Geography, Director of CEDAR)

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