Social, Cultural and Historical Geography at Royal Holloway (SCHG) has played a major role in the development of the subject internationally over the last twenty years. The Group has a distinctive record of research in the arts and humanities as well as the social sciences.
SCHG organizes a lively programme of events, including seminars, workshops and field visits. The Group runs a well-established postgraduate workshop series Landscape Surgery at Royal Holloway’s centre in Bloomsbury.
SCHG has supported influential research projects on place, landscape and mobility, creative and collaborative geographies, transnational material cultures, visual cultures of exploration, print culture and travel, sacred spaces, urban modernities and oral histories of the environmental movement.
SCHG is home to a large and intellectually vibrant postgraduate community. We supervise at any one time around 40 PhD students, many funded by national and international scholarships (a list of current PhD theses can be found here).
The Group runs the MRes Cultural Geography and the MSc Global Futures: Culture and Creativity. We also welcome visiting students from overseas. Many of our former students are now established academics in Universities all over the world.
SCHG has developed collaborations with a variety of leading institutions in the UK culture and heritage sector, including the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Royal Geographical Society, British Library, Museum of London, Science Museum, V&A Museum, National Maritime Museum, British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
SCHG has pioneered collaborations with creative practitioners, as artists in residence, postgraduate researchers, research fellows and participants in AHRC-funded research projects.
Click here for details of our research staff, their research and their publications.
SCHG includes Honorary Research Associates, Fellows and Visiting Professors from a number of academic and non-HEA institutions. For a complete list of our affiliated staff, click here
SCHG supports the Centre for GeoHumanities, an interdisciplinary research centre at Royal Holloway.
