Open Day guide
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Student life and support talks
Welcome from Royal Holloway Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Julie Sanders
Join Professor Julie Sanders for a warm welcome to our Open Day, and discover what makes Royal Holloway a distinctive place to study.
10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm
Windsor Building, auditorium
Supporting you: Health and wellbeing at university and student finance
As a friendly and caring community, we’re here to help you be the best you possible. Whatever support you need, in whatever aspect of your life, we’re here for you.
10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm
Windsor Building, room 1-04
Get future ready
Study abroad, placements, volunteering, Careers Service and more. Find out how you can build your skills through placements, study abroad, enterprise, jobs and global opportunities.
11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm
Windsor Building, room 1-04
What's it REALLY like to be a Royal Holloway student?
Hear an honest view of university life directly from our students. Come and ask all your questions!
12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03
Accommodation at Royal Holloway
Want to find out more about where you could be living? Come to learn all about our accommodation options and what it's like living in halls.
12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm
Windsor Building, auditorium
Find out about the Foundation Year
If you’d like to join a top-tier university and want some extra support to make the transition, then one of our Integrated Foundation Year courses could be for you.
12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm
Windsor Building, room 1-04
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Subject sessions
Biological Sciences
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Why Biological Sciences? Why Royal Holloway?
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 1 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session: Ozempic: wonder drug or passing fad?
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 2 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Taster session: How animals respond to human-induced environmental change
Bourne Building, lecture theatre 2 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Tours: Take a tour of our microscopy and biochemical analytical facilities
Bourne Building, foyer 11am | 11.45am | 2pm | 2.45pm -
Lab bazaar drop-in: Practical activities and specimen demonstrations
Bourne Building, teaching labs 11am-1.15pm | 2-4pm -
Chat with us
Bourne Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Business and Management (including Accounting and Finance)
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Introduction to studying in the Business School
Moore Building, auditorium 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster sessions: From AI user to AI builder: How an AI-integrated degree prepares students for the world of work OR Bringing the real world of finance into the classroom: The Bloomberg Terminal at work
Meet in Moore Building, foyer (guests will then be escorted to sessions either in Moore Annexe, auditorium or McCrea Building, room 201) 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Discover our Year in Business
Moore Building, auditorium 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Find out more about our specialist pathways
BSc Business and Management - Moore auditorium | BSc Accounting and Finance - Digital Innovation Lab | BSc Marketing - Moore Annexe auditorium | BSc Business and Management (Accelerated degree) - Moore Building, room 0-06 12-12.45pm | 3-3.45pm -
Chat with us
Moore Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Classics
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Welcome to Classics at Royal Holloway
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Taster session: Debt, protest and politics in ancient Rome
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Taster session: Did the Romans really eat dormice?
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 12.45-1.15pm | 3.45-4.15pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, upstairs foyer 10am-4pm
Computer Science
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Study Computer Science at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, auditorium 10.15-10.45am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session: Playing games, cutting cakes and sharing pizzas
Shilling Building, auditorium 11-11.30am | 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 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: How to write The Great Gatsby in four easy steps
Windsor Building, room 1-05 11.45am-12.15pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Taster session: 'I, too, sing America': Poetry and the Harlem Renaissance
Boilerhouse, auditorium 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
International Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Criminology
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Why study Criminology at Royal Holloway?
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session: Criminology in context
Windsor Building, room 0-02/03 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, room 0-05 10am-4pm
Digital Media Arts
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Introduction to Digital Media Arts at Royal Holloway (BA Digital Media Culture & Technology and BA Video Game Art & Design)
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 1 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster session: Video game art and design sample talk and intro to Futures Studio
Futures Studio 12.15-1pm | 3.15-4pm -
Facilities tour
Williams Building, foyer 10am-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Williams Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Drama and Theatre
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Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway
Caryl Churchill Theatre (we suggest you cross the A30 by using either the footbridge near the main entrance of the University, or the road level pedestrian crossing opposite George Eliot Hall) 10.15-10.45am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Practice-based workshop
Caryl Churchill Theatre 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Text-based workshop
Caryl Churchill Theatre 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Tours
Caryl Churchill Theatre 10am-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Caryl Churchill Theatre, foyer 10am-4pm
Earth Sciences
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Introduction to Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway
Queen's Building, room 240 10-10.30am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Sub-surface explorers - visualising 4D seismic data with 3D glasses
Queen’s Building, room 240 10.45-11.15am | 2-2.30pm -
Demonstration of seismic sledgehammer to image the ground beneath our campus
Queen’s Building, room 240 11.30am-12pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Earth Studies tour
Queen’s Building, first floor foyer 12.15-12.45pm | 3.30-4pm -
Lab tours
Queen’s Building, first floor foyer 10am-4pm -
Chat with us
Queen's Building, first floor foyer 10am-4pm
Economics
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Economics at Royal Holloway
Davison Building, room 1-04 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Arbitrage in financial economics
Davison Building, room 1-04 11.30am-12pm -
Taster session: Economic models: How people respond to incentives and when do policies fail?
Davison Building, room 1-04 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Electronic Engineering
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Electronic Engineering at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, creative thinking room, room 2-04 11-11.30am | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: Creativity-led engineering (includes tour of labs and facilities)
Shilling Building, creative thinking room, room 2-04 11.45am | 3.15pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
English
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Introduction to English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway
Boilerhouse, auditorium 11-11.30am | 2-2.30pm -
Taster session: Medieval dreams and dreamers
Boilerhouse, auditorium 11.45am-12.15pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: 'I, too, sing America': Poetry and the Harlem Renaissance
Boilerhouse, auditorium 12.30-1pm | 3.30-4pm -
Chat with us
International Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Film, Television and Screen
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Introduction to Film, Television and Screen at Royal Holloway (BA Film, Television & Digital Production and BA Film Studies)
Arts Building, lecture theatre 1 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster session: The drama of documentary
Arts Building, lecture theatre 1 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Changing faces lighting workshop
Media Arts Studio 1 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Facilities tour
Williams Building, foyer 10am-3.30pm -
Chat with us
Williams Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Geography
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Introducing Geography at Royal Holloway
Queen's Building, lecture theatre 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session (Human Geography): Smartphone geographies - do people still call them smartphones?
Queen’s building, lecture theatre 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Taster session (Physical Geography): Why is the UK burning? Climate, landscape and wildfires in a changing world
Queen’s Building, lecture theatre 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Tour of department and labs
Queen’s Building, foyer 12.45-1.15pm | 3.45-4.15pm -
Chat with us
Queen's 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: Emperor Justinian (527-565) and the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Young Rebels: Youth subcultures and identities in Britain after the Second World War
Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 1 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
International Building, History Department 10am-4pm
Law
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Introduction to Law
Windsor Building, auditorium 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Law in context
Windsor Building, auditorium 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, room 0-05 10am-4pm
Mathematics
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Introduction to Mathematics at Royal Holloway
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: The shape of space
Shilling Building, lecture theatre 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Modern Languages, Comparative Literature and Culture, Liberal Arts
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Introduction to our Modern Languages, Comparative Literature and Culture, and Liberal Arts degrees
Windsor Building, room 1-02/1-03 10.30-11am | 1.30-2pm -
Taster session: Art as work or play? Reworking and replaying old fables
Horton Building, lecture theatre 1 11.15-11.45am | 2.15-2.45pm -
Taster session: Travelling texts and cultures in translation: the Carmen myth
Horton Building, lecture theatre 1 12-12.30pm | 3-3.30pm -
Chat with us
International Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Music
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Music at Royal Holloway
Founder's Building, lecture theatre 10-10.30am | 1.15-1.45pm -
Taster session: The blank page: Finding inspiration and structuring our thoughts (Music composition)
Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 10.45-11.15am -
Taster session: Music performance with Prof Mary Dullea
Founder’s Building, lecture theatre 2-2.30pm -
Concert
Founder's Building, Chapel 12.30-1pm -
Facilities tour
Leaves from drop-in desk, Arts Building, foyer 11.30am-12pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Chat with us
Arts Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Philosophy
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Introduction to Philosophy
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: The conflict between science and subjectivity
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Physics and Astronomy
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Studying Physics and Astronomy at Royal Holloway
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 10-10.30am | 1-1.30pm -
Taster session: The highest energy collider and biggest detector in the world! Searching for exotic new particles
Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Tours of the teaching labs, London low-temperature labs and astrodome
Leave from talk in Horton Building, lecture theatre 2 11.15am | 2.15pm -
Chat with us
Tolansky Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Politics and International Relations
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Introduction to Politics and International Relations
Founder's Building, lecture theatre 11.30am-12pm | 2.45-3.15pm -
Taster session: Is there a ‘Middle East’?
Founder's Building, lecture theatre 12.15-12.45pm | 3.30-4pm -
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 talk 1 (15 mins): Sitting in a smoky room - Bystander behaviour in emergency situations
Shilling Building, auditorium 12.30-12.45pm | 3.30-3.45pm -
Taster talk 2 (15 mins): Behind the screen - The real psychology of your online self
Shilling Building, auditorium 12.45-1pm | 2.45-3pm -
Lab equipment bazaar: drop-in activities
Wolfson Building, room 128 10am-4pm -
Chat with us
Shilling Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Social Science
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Introduction to Social Science: Why students love Social Science and what they do next
Windsor Building, room 0-04 10.45-11.15am | 1.45-2.15pm -
Taster session: Researching social issues: What do Love Island, 'predatory leaders', religion and surveillance have in common?
Windsor Building, room 0-04 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Chat with us
Windsor Building, foyer 10am-4pm
Sociology
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Sociology at Royal Holloway
Queen’s Building, room 168 11.30am-12pm | 2.30-3pm -
Taster session: Thinking sociologically about the self
Queen’s Building, room 168 12.15-12.45pm | 3.15-3.45pm -
Department tour
Queen’s Building, foyer 12.45-1.15pm | 3.45-4.15pm -
Chat with us
Queen's Building, foyer 10am-4pm
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Tours
Campus
9.30am - 3.30pm
Founder's Square
Accommodation
10am-3.30pm
Meet in Founder’s Square for rooms in Founder’s Building or meet at The Hub for halls on the south of campus. Cross the footbridge by the main entrance and follow signs to see George Eliot Halls.
Library
11am, 1pm and 3pm
Meet at Davison Building foyer
Sport
11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm
Leave from sports stand in Davison Building Advice Zone
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Registration and Advice Zone
Registration
Once you arrive on campus, head straight for our registration points in the Picture Gallery or Students' Union so our friendly Student Ambassadors can check you in and give you all the information you need for your visit with us, including your goodie bag!
Advice Zone
Come to the Davison Building to find out about student support at Royal Holloway. Meet teams including admissions, health and wellbeing, the Careers Service, student finance, Study Abroad, Integrated Foundation Year and the Students’ Union.
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Where to eat
There are plenty of places to grab a bite to eat on campus.
Don't forget to also grab a free hot drink at the Student Lounge in the Windsor Building and Founder’s North Quad. Available between 9am-3pm.
Opening hours
Social Bite: 8.30am-4.30pm
Crosslands: 10am-3pm
The Hub: 10.30am-2.30pm
Founder's Kitchen: 9am-3pm
Union Shop: 8am-11pm
Boilerhouse Café: 9.30am-4.30pm
The Packhorse: From 11am
Tikka Nation: 11am-4pm
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Other things to see
Information point
Ask questions or access First Aid at the information point in the Davison Building foyer.
Wi-Fi on campus
Free Wi-Fi is available all day. Use CampusNet, register as a visitor and follow the instructions provided.
Sports and student communities
Head to the Davison Building to find out more about our gym, fitness facilities and how we support students to have an active lifestyle. To find out about clubs, societies and student communities, visit the Students’ Union stand in the Davison Building.
Find out more about our clubs and societiesInsanity Radio
Drop by Founder’s Square to hear our very own radio station, run by Royal Holloway students, broadcasting live.
Chill-out zone
If you need a breather, pop in to our Student Lounge (Windsor Building). Or relax and capture some memories of your day in our photobooth (Davison Building foyer)!
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