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Social & Cultural Geography (SCG) is one of four main research groupings within the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway. The Group is well established as an international research centre, with a distinctive reputation for fundamental geographical research in the arts and humanities as well as the social sciences.

SCG includes twelve full-time academic members of staff, plus eight postdoctoral research fellows, research assistants and research associates. The Group runs the successful MA in Cultural Geography (Research) and currently supervises 33 PhD students.

Many leading journals in the field are edited by group staff, including Cultural Geographies, the Journal of Historical Geography, Geoforum, and History Workshop Journal.

Social and Cultural Geography emphasises the cultural politics of place, space and landscape. The Group's research stresses theoretically informed and informative work; values equally contemporary and historical scholarship; and engages diverse geographical locations both within and beyond the UK. The Group collaborates with a range of cultural institutions beyond the academy; recent partners include the British Library, the British Museum, the Museum of London, the Royal Geographical Society, the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. SCG also has a tradition of including creative practitioners within its activities, whether as artists in residence (Perdita Phillips), as research fellows (Kathy Prendergast was an AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts within the Group) or as research associates (Helen Scalway).