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Royal Holloway academics to lead responsible AI projects to boost the creative and environmental sectors

04 Feb 2025

Academics from Royal Holloway will lead a new research project as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Bridging Responsibilities AI Divides (BRAID) programme.

Royal Holloway receives major funding to strengthen its investment in arts and humanities

31 Jan 2025

Royal Holloway has become one of only 50 higher education institutions to receive the Doctoral Landscape studentship funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Dr Paris Chronakis wins National Jewish Book Award

31 Jan 2025

Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis has won a prestigious award for his book, ‘The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule.’

Professor selected as lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

24 Jan 2025

Professor David Simon from the Department of Geography has been selected as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR7 Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

UK’s first national Research & Development facility for creative industries to open flagship Lab at Pinewood Studios in January 2026

23 Jan 2025

The CoSTAR National Lab will be located at the prestigious Pinewood Studios right at the centre of the UK’s film production community.

New report shows social media giants obstruct independent research for political online safety

22 Jan 2025

A new report by academics has highlighted the scale of obstruction major social media platforms are creating for researchers looking into political online safety.

Study finds pipeline blasts released record-shattering amount of methane into the Nord Stream

15 Jan 2025

The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane; new study finds.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience) appointed

14 Jan 2025

Professor Emma Mayhew has been appointed as Royal Holloway’s new Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience), starting in position from 7 April 2025.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) appointed

18 Dec 2024

Professor Ruth Livesey has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) following a successful internal recruitment process and will be starting in position from 1 February 2025.

Royal Holloway academic wins award at the Women in Film and TV Awards 2024

09 Dec 2024

Professor Victoria Mapplebeck has won a prestigious Women in Film & Television Award for her much-celebrated feature film, Motherboard.

Calls for urgent action to policy makers as research reveals real extent of human trafficking

04 Dec 2024

New research has revealed a more accurate estimate of those trafficked across the world, from 49.6million to 65.3million, with urgent action needed to prevent this criminal exploitation and coercion.

Research reveals image-based sexual abuse removal tools are vulnerable to Generative AI attacks

03 Dec 2024

New research led by Royal Holloway academics has revealed privacy vulnerabilities in “perceptual hashing,” a technology widely used to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate images.