Social & Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway (SCG) has been explicitly recognised for its leading international role in the past three UK Research Assessment Exercises. The Group has a distinctive reputation with a strong emphasis on research in the arts and humanities as well as the social sciences. 

Social and Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway has internationally recognised leadership in work on, among other things, the theorisation of place, landscape and mobility, trans-national material cuiltures, the history of geography, hospitality and multi-culturalism and urban modernities. The Group's research stresses theoretically informed and informative work; values equally contemporary and historical scholarship; and engages with diverse geographical locations within and beyond the UK.

SCG is home to a large and intellectually vibrant postgraduate community.  There are around 40-50 postgraduates in the Group at any time. The Group runs the successful MA in Cultural Geography (Research), and the regular Landscape Surgery is an important focus for our intellectual life.  Many of the past graduates of the MA and SCG PhDs are now established academics in their own right. 

We are now recruiting for the MA and PhD programmes for September 2012 entry. Applicants can apply for funding from the ESRC, AHRC and College.We are a key part of the South East ESRC Doctoral Training and Centre  and we are looking for high quality applications to bid for 1+3 and +3 funding. 
SCG is well-known

for its collaboration with a range of cultural institutions beyond the academy; recent partners include the Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Maritime Museum, British Library, British Museum, Museum of London and the Royal Geographical Society.  SCG also has a tradition of including creative practitioners within its activities, as artists in residence, as research fellows and through participation in major research projects. Many leading journals are edited by group staff, including cultural geographies, the Journal of Historical Geography, Geoforum, and History Workshop Journal.