Open Day guide
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General talks
Talks run throughout the day, where you can find out more about studying and living at Royal Holloway. You’ll have the chance to hear from our Vice-Chancellor and Principal Julie Sanders, as well as talks about your accommodation options on campus and the fantastic range of support we provide.
Come back soon for full details on times and locations for all talks available at our next Open Day.
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Department talks
Please note that exact timings and details of our department talks will be confirmed closer to our next event.
Accounting and Finance
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Study Business and Management at Royal Holloway
Moore Building, auditorium 10-10.30am | 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Take a tour and discover our innovative teaching approach
Meet at Moore Building, outside room 0-02 10.45-11.15am | 12.30-1pm -
Chat with us
Moore Building, foyer, outside rooms 0-02 and 0-03 10am-4pm
Biological Sciences
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Why Biosciences? Why Royal Holloway?
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 1 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session: A journey through climate change, stress and biopharming (Prof Alessandra Devoto)
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 2 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Taster session: Developing therapies for motor neurone disease using fruit flies (Ella Dunn)
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 2 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Tours
Bourne Building, foyer Throughout the day -
Chat with us
Bourne Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Business & Management
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Study Business and Management at Royal Holloway
Moore Building, auditorium 10-10.30am | 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Take a tour and discover our innovative teaching approach
Meet at Moore Building, outside room 0-02 10.45-11.15am | 12.30-1pm -
Chat with us
Moore Building, foyer, outside rooms 0-02 and 0-03 10am-4pm
Classics (including Ancient History, Archaeology and Classical Studies)
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Introduction to Classics at Royal Holloway
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: Love, magic and curses: Greek ways of communicating with the divine (Prof Lene Rubinstein)
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: Myths about myths (Dr Nick Lowe)
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, upstairs foyer 10am-4pm
Computer Science
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Study Computer Science at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, auditorium 10.45-11.15am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session: Playing games, cutting cakes, and sharing pizzas
Moore Building, auditorium 12.30-1pm | 2-2.30pm -
Lab tours
Bedford Building 10am-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Bedford Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Creative Writing
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Introduction to English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway
Boilerhouse, auditorium 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: The recycled poem
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03 12.15-12.45pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
International Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Criminology and Social Science
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Introduction to Criminology at Royal Holloway
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Introduction to Social Science
Windsor Building, room 1-04 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Health and Social Care at Royal Holloway
Davison Building, room 1-04 10-10.30am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session (Criminology): Crime and the mind: What is forensic psychology?
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session (Social Science): Global Childhoods
Windsor Building, room 1-05 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session (Health and Social Care): Psychological and sociological views on human development in adolescence
Windsor Building, room 0-04 11-11.30am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, room 0-05 10am-4pm
Drama, Theatre and Dance
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Drama at Royal Holloway
Caryl Churchill Theatre 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Workshop session
Caryl Churchill Theatre 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Facilities tours of Katharine Worth Building
From Caryl Churchill Theatre 10am-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Katherine Worth Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Earth Sciences
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Why choose to study Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway?
Queen's Building, room 171 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: Campus fieldwork and ‘Bring a bottle’ water testing activity (Please bring your small bottle of water to Queen’s Building and we will carry out a chemical analysis and send you the results afterwards)
Queen's Building, room 171 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
Queen's Building, upstairs foyer 10am-4pm
Economics
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Economics at Royal Holloway
Davison Building, room 1-04 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: Introduction to financial economics
Windsor Building, room 0-04 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, room 0-05 10am-4pm
Electronic Engineering
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Electronic Engineering at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, creative thinking room 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session: Creativity-led engineering
Shilling Building, creative thinking room 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
English
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Introduction to English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway
Boilerhouse, auditorium 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: What metaphors mean
Boilerhouse, auditorium 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Chat with us
International Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Geography
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Introducing the Department of Geography
Queen's Building, lecture theatre 10.30-11am | 3-3.30pm -
Understanding our world: Visualising spaces, contested spaces
Queen's Building, lecture theatre 11.15am-12pm | 1.30-2.15pm | 3.30-4.15pm -
Chat with us
Queen's Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Health Studies
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Introduction to Health Studies
Windsor Building, room 1-05 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: Making a difference
Windsor Building, room 1-05 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
History
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Why studying History at Royal Holloway is a great idea
Boilerhouse, auditorium 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster session: The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Chat with us
International Building, History Department 10am-4pm
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (including Comparative Literature and Culture, and Liberal Arts)
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Introduction to the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster session: Identities and Borderlands: From North Africa and Spain to the Americas
Horton Building, lecture theatre 1 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: How interdisciplinary approaches from literature, art, languages and critical thinking can raise questions about who gets to write, speak, be seen and be heard
Horton Building, lecture theatre 1 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
International Building, first floor 10am-4pm
Law
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Introduction to Law at Royal Holloway
Windsor Building, auditorium 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session
Windsor Building, auditorium 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, room 0-05 10am-4pm
Mathematics
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Mathematics at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: Fun facts about Pi
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Media Arts
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Introduction to Media Arts at Royal Holloway
Arts Building, lecture theatre 1 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Changing faces: Different effects of lighting
Arts Building, lecture theatre 1 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: Walk this way: Learning to animate feet first
Williams Building, practice teaching space 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Facilities tour
Williams Building 10am-4pm -
Chat with us
Williams Building 10am-4pm
Music
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Introduction to Music at Royal Holloway
Founder's Building, lecture theatre 10.15-10.45am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session: What is musical beauty? (Prof Steve Downes)
Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 12.30-1pm -
Concert
Chapel 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: The sounds of silent cinema (Prof Julie Brown)
Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 3.30-4pm -
Facilities tour
Meet outside Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 1pm | 4pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, upstairs foyer 10am-4pm
Philosophy
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Introduction to Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway
Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: Motion is impossible
Davison Building, room 1-04 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Physics
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Introduction to Physics at Royal Holloway
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 10.15-10.45am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session: A tunnel to the beginning of time: ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Lab tours
Tolansky Building, foyer 11.30am | 2.30pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Politics and International Relations
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Introduction to Politics, International Relations and Philosophy
Founder's Building, lecture theatre 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: How much do politicians talk about the future?
Windsor Building, room 1-02/03 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Psychology
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Introduction to Psychology at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, auditorium 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: Gen Z, narcissism and the spread of fake news online
Shilling Building, auditorium 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
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Where to eat
We have a number of cafés, restaurants and shops and food stalls open throughout the day.
Café on the Square: 9am-4pm
Crosslands, Founder's Building: 10am-4pm
The Hub: 11.30am-2.30pm
Union Shop: 8am-11pm
Boilerhouse Café: 9am-4pm
The Packhorse: From 11am
Food stalls outside Students' Union: 8.30am-4pm
You can also pick up a complimentary drink at the orange van in Founder’s Square or outside the Picture Gallery.
Explore our food outletsLooking for somewhere to grab a drink or bite to eat? The Packhorse, our Students' Union pub, is offering a 25% discount to all Open Day ticket holders - simply state OpenDay25% at the till when you order.
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Tours
You’ll be able to tour our beautiful campus and see where you could be living and studying, as well as tours of facilities including sport and the library.
Come back soon for full details on tours available at our next Open Day.
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Information point and Advice zone
Information point
Need to know anything else about the day or need to access First Aid? Visit our information point outside the back entrance of the Emily Wilding Davison Building (next to the Arts Building).
Advice zone
Our Advice zone is in the Emily Wilding Davison Building, where you can find out more about our Integrated Foundation Year courses and meet all of our friendly support teams, including health and wellbeing, the Careers Service, student finance and the Students’ Union.
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Other things to see
Wifi on campus
Free Wifi is available all day. Use CampusNet, register as a visitor and follow the instructions provided.
Students' Union
Pop in to our Students’ Union and get a taste of some of the things you can get involved with outside your studies at Royal Holloway, including our societies and sports clubs.
Find out more about the SUInsanity Radio
Drop by Founder’s Square to see North Surrey’s local radio station, Insanity, broadcasting live! Run by Royal Holloway students, this is one of the many creative societies available at the university.
The local area
Got some extra time at the end of the day? Why not head out to some of our local towns to explore what's available for students in the local area.
Explore the local area