❤️📻An absolute (if occasionally nerve wracking) privilege to have been part of the programme over the years.
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❤️📻An absolute (if occasionally nerve wracking) privilege to have been part of the programme over the years.
Beautiful! Can’t wait to have this in my paws 🐾 xxxx
Sending love Richard 🐾❤️
Sending so many hugs xx
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This was a beautiful programme, “deeply kind” in its own right. Thank you as always @horatioclare.bsky.social #Choughs
“Hand on my stupid heart”
Marina Tabassum’s summer pavilion at the Serpentine with its references to Bangladeshi wedding pavilions and a welcome pause to drink coffee and chat about space and congregation with my partner. #Saturday
Work that pulls you in and yet remains so utterly and defiantly outside of your cultural vocabulary. The remarkable Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at a Tate Modern late in London last night. #EmuDreamings
Jersey tiger in the garden
Congratulations to Professor Julie Brown, Professor Emerita of Music at Royal Holloway, who has been awarded Fellowship by @britishacademy.bsky.social! The Fellowship recognises her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. More: ow.ly/OJMz50WrSbl
Now recognised as one of the UK's best green spaces 🌲 We're delighted that our Egham campus has received a prestigious Green Flag Award, which is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces. Read more: ow.ly/qkLc50Wqslp
Terrific open day at Wilding Cider in Somerset yesterday. Thanks for the warm welcome and the chance to have a glorious picnic in the shade as well as see the amazing orchards. A wonderful time out from the world for a few hours. 🍎🍐🍾❤️
Sometimes all you need is a moon rising to lift the spirits at the end of a long hot tiring day!
We're pleased to share another year of improvement in the National Student Survey (NSS)! The results, based on student feedback, reflect another positive step in our ongoing mission to deliver exceptional education and student experience. 👏 #NSS2025
The CAPRICORN ♑️ FULL MOON JULY 10- is a moon of reckoning. Not in fear, but in remembering who you are without the noise. #sunset #sky #astrology #mindfulness #nature #moon #inspiration #zodiac #healing #energy #mountains
Superstar passed by the window on campus today … 🐻❄️ #Colossus
Would have loved to hear that …
Couldn’t think of anyone better for the role, Rachel. ❤️
It was good to welcome you here today, Chris. Thanks for taking the time to visit.
And so after an amazing final day at London’s Stratford Olympic Park site yesterday full of community, dance, procession and wonder @theherds.bsky.social move on … wish I was going with. 🐘🐺📦🚚
❤️ It was lovely to catch up last week
Magical moments in St James Park last night as part of the Caught in the Light performance by @theherds.bsky.social ..
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Kudus in Camden - another remarkable feat by puppeteers in the @theherds.bsky.social company. And a sighting of a pangolin in the wild too. #TheHerds #PublicArt #ClimateEmergency 🌎
Has been the most amazing day following @theherds.bsky.social through London. Astonishing teamwork, creativity and camaraderie demonstrated by the puppeteers and a message about climate change and extinction that grew in potency through the day. 🦓🦍🦒
New Post: ResearchPlus: a manifesto for a new collaborative of universities www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/26/r...
We're proud to be part of a new collaborative led by 10 of the UK's leading research-focused universities. ResearchPlus is committed to making a significant and distinctive contribution to UK research and innovation. Read more: ow.ly/VHcI50WgzmO #ResearchPlus
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Amazing street art in Leicester last week #RichardIII
Well at least it kept me company waiting for a bit of Friday summer night train chaos to pass in Leicester … 🚂☀️💜
Couldn’t be prouder of a huge team of colleagues, students and partners who made this possible @royalholloway.bsky.social Couldn’t be more committed to the work to come. #UniversityOfSocialPurpose #WorldRefugeeDay
Open day is buzzing on our @royalholloway.bsky.social Egham campus today. Thanks to all the colleagues and student ambassadors doing such a great job engaging with visitors. Been to some brilliant talks and had some lovely chats around the edges too #RHTogether #ForWhatMatters 🐻❄️🧡
Congratulations to Sarah Jane Chimbwandira, Father John Dickson SDB, Nicholas Perryman and Kehinde Ojo, who were recognised as new Honorary Fellows at a ceremony held on campus yesterday. Read more: ow.ly/21fc50W8oHb #RoyalHolloway
Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social team for a really great conference. Serious focus on student journey - before, during & after. Special thanks to UUK’s Vivienne Stern for managing with some verve (& seriousness) to commence the day in the “Hundred Aker Wood” … #StillALittleBitTigger
UUK CEO Vivienne Stern says being a vice-chancellor today is like the opening of Winnie the Pooh - bumping your head repeatedly going down the stairs #HEPIAC25
The world will go on believe me but I am so glad to have this song in my life. Thank you for the music, Brian Wilson.
Can I join you?
Lovely event tonight @royalholloway.bsky.social co-presenting the first ever Royal Holloway Students’ Union Student Impact awards as the prelude to our student summer ball. Am definitely leaving them all to the ferris wheel and silent disco now though. 💃🏽🎉
We're playing our part in tackling climate change and talking about our planet 👊 We're a partner of the upcoming Thrive Festival by Talking Tree, hosting community events which champion our research and creativity on topics of biodiversity. More: ow.ly/2J3L50VWYSj
June is Pride Month and we're celebrating with a colourful Progress flag light-up of our iconic Founder’s building throughout. We're a @stonewalluk.bsky.social Diversity Champion, and are working on our next Proud Employers Accreditation. #RoyalHolloway #University
Beautiful time of year in our university woodlands #Foxgloves #LivingCampus @royalholloway.bsky.social
Fun to watch a beautiful egret having huge success on the Thames today catching small silver fish for their brunch 🐟🐟🐟
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“it is a sharp time” Engrossing and necessarily unsettling production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at The Globe this evening. Occupying that amazing space, defeating the insistent helicopters, and resonating in oh so many ways. ⭕️
Fabulous - looking forward to grabbing a copy!
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Such a wonderful radio series presented by @MatthewBannister & such a wonderful showcase of awesome research by @royalholloway.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social colleagues … #SongDetectorists 🎶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Birthday weekender at Tate Modern in the sunshine was a very nice thing … the Turbine Hall has been a magic space over those years and I am so grateful for their underpinning premise of Art For All #Tate25 🎨
It's #SurreyDay, and we're so proud to be part of such a thriving and historic county. Through local volunteering, driving collaboration in line with our Civic Agreement, or providing on-campus opportunities to be inspired, our community are committed to giving something back.
Ashamed to say am very late to getting round to reading work by Colum McCann but no less blown away by his writing & range as a result. A recent break with lots of train travel meant I devoured 3 of his novels. Each of them about balance & counter balance in their own remarkable way.
Wishing all our @royalholloway.bsky.social community celebrating today a joyous Eid-al-Fitr.
The Salt Cosmologies exhibition at Somerset House is well worth catching. The courtyard installation is both beautiful and heart-stopping in the story it tells.
Thank you Sally, lovely to hear from you.
Massive thanks to everyone who has contributed to all the work and discussions to bring us to today’s announcement - and to everyone already working hard to deliver on our action plan.
Sending love and thoughts, Helen. take care xxx
Congratulations to Professor John Saunders from our Department of Physics who has won the 2025 Fritz London Memorial Prize. This recognises his significant and outstanding contributions to Low Temperature Physics. Learn more about his research and success: ow.ly/fHhL50VlyvF
Dashing back to the train station after another packed set of board meeting discussions at Shakespeare’s Globe but never cease to get a thrill from this walk and these views.
New article by @beckythomas.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com on role of toad patrol volunteers in helping the amphibians to reach the ponds during the spring migration theconversation.com/toad-patrol-...
The Noah Davis retrospective at the Barbican is a stunner of an exhibition. I left feeling there was so much more to learn from this talented painter.
Would have been amazing to still be in India today for the celebrations but have my own little memory of Holi with me thanks to a wonderful colleague. Happy Holi to all our friends, students and partners celebrating today.
Love this one - hadn’t seen this before 🦉
Goodbye Mumbai.
Bengaluru/Bangalore has been amazing. Excited for the next bit of our trip but will be sorry to leave this vibrant community behind so soon …
What a start to our India visit. Thank you to our amazing hosts and partners at Shoolini for the warmest of welcomes.
And I am really proud that Royal Holloway heads up the National Lab too. CoSTAR is a coming together of so many talents and such positive energy across Higher Education and industry. A model of its kind for the future I hope.
Late to this particular party after a long day of meetings but on #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻❄️ just celebrating our very own Royal Holloway University mascot Colossus. #TopClaws
Today’s #1000postcards is the blossom gazer, because we could all do with something gentle to start the day, and what could be better than the first blossom
#LightComingBack #WalkToWork
Finally managed to see “All We Imagine As Light” last night and it is wondrous, full of light and love despite the sadness and the challenge of women’s lives that it grapples with.
Quite an evening at our Central London teaching space hearing Lord Simon Woolley speak with passion & integrity about his activist history with Operation Black Vote, inspiring us all to (re)focus on what matters at this time. Followed by brilliant q & a led by our own graduate Dr Renee Landell.
Spring light and snowdrops this morning on the walk to work #LightComesBack
Valentines’ treat of an evening visit to the Conservatory of the Barbican Centre. 🌴❤️🥂
our local supermarket was awash with red roses and cut out hearts today and it all seemed a bit dissonant at the end of a very long day but promising myself to be a bit more giving come tomorrow …
That’s great news, Tracey, congratulations.
Such fantastic lectures upcoming at our Royal Holloway Egham and London sites. Lord Woolley, Emeritus Professor Nick Hardwick (former Chief Inspector of Prisons) and our very own Professor Anica Zeyen’s inaugural. #ForWhatMatters indeed. Join us if you can.
Feeling foxy? We love the woodland sculptures on our campus. Watch this space for the others…@royalholloway.bsky.social
Didn’t want this series to end. Glorious, sad, funny and smart. And just the best opening credits … #FourSisters
Still can’t resist a sunset 🌅
Definitely one of those mornings at Royal Holloway … #EverydayEpiphanies
“shouldn’t we be learning things like how the wind blows, which way is up and how to tie our shoelaces and what is love?” An incoming year of the snake 🐍 felt like the perfect time to reacquaint myself with Lanmo and A L Kennedy’s gorgeous modern fable. 📖❤️🐍
Just the loveliest London day - amazing theatre from Plexus Polaire adapting Moby Dick 🐋into powerful visuals, puppetry and performance 🎭 at the Barbican and then a light show at Battersea to chase the winter dark away followed by a year of the snake 🐍 supper. Heavenly.
Recent study by @beckythomas.bsky.social, @sarahpapworth.bsky.social and Mark Fellowes showed that walking dogs off the lead greatly increases habitat disturbance in UK lowland heathlands #OA paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... www.britishecologicalsociety.org/dogs-walked-...
30 years later and you get to jump off the train from Budapest and spend a night in Vienna with them all over again and best of all perhaps to do it with the same person you first watched with all that time ago. #BeforeSunrise ❤️
Friday night is chance to reflect on another packed week … privilege to have fantastic meetings this week at the House of Lords & with HEPI team. Visits from lovely colleagues from uni of Exeter. Persian dinner out with good friends & colleagues. & a full moon on our Egham campus. 🌕 #MoreThanEnough
I loved Pure but it was actually a reference to this novel by Samantha Harvey that led me back to his writing again. The later chapters have truly taken my breath away. Look forward to hearing your response in due course.
Some books creep up on you oh so quietly but leave you with your emotions blown wide open by the the end. The brutal winter of 1962-1963 captured in intimate details in some remarkable writing by Andrew Miller ❄️❄️❄️
Moonlight on campus
Sad demise but hope it didn’t do any damage in the process!
He also wrote the funniest (and rather too close to the bone) accounts of university meetings … #CampusNovels
Remembering David Lodge today. His short columns on fiction in The Independent on Sunday were an absolute joy for me as someone discovering that all she wanted in the world was to study English Literature at university (forever).
He also wrote the funniest (& rather too close to the bone) accounts of university meetings ever … #CampusNovels
The advancing deep cold bringing a special clarity of light to the London skyline this evening. #SouthBank #Winter
Boxing Day Mistletoe
The sheer heart stopping beauty of Notre Dame on the Winter Solstice as the light falls …
When you can only be in Savile Row #LondonChristmas 🎄✂️👖
And so the winter graduations have begun at Royal Holloway … lovely ceremonies for Performing and Digital Arts and Humanities subjects today. Thanks to all the colleagues helping and processing and special thanks to two fantastic student orators today.
Bach will keep me afloat … amazing, thank you for sharing.
Has been a very busy day but there are definitely worse places to be attending meetings with amazing people …#London
How moving to hear my dear friend Issam Kourbaj and his sister speaking across the miles and the years just now on BBCRadio4. We can only hope for Syria now.