Social, Cultural and Historical Geography Group (SCHG)
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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.
Over twenty years, SCHG staff have undertaken influential research projects on a wide range of topics including place, landscape and mobility, creative and collaborative geographies, transnational material cultures, visual cultures of exploration, print culture and travel, sacred spaces, multi-culturalism and urban modernities.
Key themes for current and future research include:
- Creative and experimental geographies
- Heritage, museums and collections
- Urban cultures and communities
- Geographical imaginations
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, multi-culturalism, urban modernities and oral histories of the environmental movement.
SCHG is home to a large and intellectually vibrant postgraduate community. Members supervise at any one time around 40 PhD students, many funded by national and international scholarships.
The Group runs the successful MRes Cultural Geography and the MSc Global Futures: Culture and Creativity. It also welcomes visiting students from overseas. Many of its 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 Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Maritime Museum, Museum of London, British Library, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Royal Geographical Society.
SCHG has pioneered collaborations with creative practitioners, as artists in residence, postgraduate researchers, research fellows and participants in AHRC-funded research projects.
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Egham Hill
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
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