Royal Holloway has awarded four Honorary Fellowships to those who have achieved distinction and made an outstanding contribution to the life and work of the University.
Royal Holloway awards four new Honorary Fellowships.
Sarah Jane Chimbwandira, Father John Dickson SDB, Nick Perryman and Kehinde Ojo were all recognised as new Honorary Fellows at this year’s ceremony, which was held at the University on Wednesday 11 June 2025.
The ceremony was hosted by The Rt Hon the Baroness Hodge of Barking, Chair of Council, and Professor Julie Sanders, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, with an audience of 120 people in attendance.
Sarah Jane Chimbwandira studied Zoology at Royal Holloway and is now CEO of the Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT).
At SWT, her focus has been on impactful partnerships and innovative projects, co-authoring the ‘Natural Capital Investment Plan for Surrey’ and more recently, chairing Nature South-East to support landscape scale recovery.
She leads SWT’s mission to create a connected landscape of hedgerows, rivers, and green spaces and is particularly interested in the intersection of nature, economy and technology, exemplified by the £1.5-million Space4Nature project, as well as in the emerging area of nature investment markets.
Father John Dickson was Catholic Chaplain at Royal Holloway until 2024. He is a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
Father John has taught in schools and universities since his ordination and came to Royal Holloway as Catholic Chaplain in 2012. He describes this time as ‘the best job I ever had’.
Working as part of an Ecumenical and Multi-faith Chaplaincy Team offered him the opportunity to reach out to students and staff, right across the campus and he especially loved Royal Holloway’s rich choral tradition and working with Insanity Radio, the student radio station.
Nick Perryman is a former Deputy Chair of Royal Holloway’s University Council, serving until 2024, and he now volunteers his time as Chair of Royal Holloway’s Development Board.
His connection to Royal Holloway began in 1994 as an undergraduate reading Psychology.
Following a successful career in investment and wealth management, Nick became the CEO of a global non-profit in 2020, but his passion for investing remained and he joined a growing global wealth management business as vice chairman at the start of 2025.
Kehinde Ojo was the first recipient of Royal Holloway’s Sanctuary Scholarship and graduated from the University in 2021. She is currently a Program Officer at the Freedom Fund, working within the Movement Building portfolio as part of the Survivor Leadership Fund and Corporate Accountability teams.
Kehinde is passionate about amplifying survivor voices and ensuring that lived experience is incorporated in the antislavery sector. She is a member of the Survivor Alliance advisory board where she actively contributes to ongoing research.
She is also a member of The UK BME Anti-Slavery Network and co-chaired the organisation’s conference aimed at raising awareness of negative experiences in government funded safe houses.
