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Rob Kemp Acting Principal, Professor Rob Kemp

Rob Kemp is the Acting Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London. He joined the Geography Department at Royal Holloway in 1989, was promoted to Professor of Physical Geography in 1999 and was Head of the 5* RAE- rated department from 2001-2004. He became Vice-Principal (Academic Affairs) on 1st August 2006 and Acting Principal on 1st August 2009.

Active in research, Professor Kemp has been concerned with a range of soil-related issues spanning agriculture, sports pitch management and Quaternary Science. Recent Leverhulme and NERC funded projects have focussed on the role of soils in providing information on landscape development, climatic change and pre-Hispanic human activity in South America.

Professor Kemp has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington and is closely involved with the Centre for Quaternary Research at RHUL. He currently serves on the Radiocarbon Steering Committee of the Natural Environment Research Council.

 

Geoff WardVice-Principal, Professor Geoff Ward

 
Geoff Ward has been Vice-Principal (Planning and Resources) since June 2008, having come to Royal Holloway first as Dean of Arts in 2007.
 
He is Professor of English, and has published numerous books and articles on American literature, modern poetry and the legacy of the Romantic movement. His books include Statutes of Liberty (1993; rev ed 2000), the first study of the New York School of Poets, and The Writing of America (2002). He has been a Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust, and has lectured in many countries, working in Japan for a year in 1994-5, and in Washington DC in 2000. A member of the Editorial Board of The Cambridge Quarterly, he has also published several collections of his own poetry, and written and presented programmes on American writers for BBC Radio 3.
 
As Vice-Principal, Professor Ward is responsible for strategic planning, resource allocation, the College estates, and Human Resources issues.
 

 

Adam Tickell Vice-Principal, Professor Adam Tickell

Adam Tickell has been Vice-Principal (Research, Enterprise and Communications) since October 2008, having come to Royal Holloway first as Dean of History and Social Sciences in 2007 from the University of Bristol, where he was Research Director for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law.

He is Professor of Geography and has published extensively on the geography of finance, the making of the neoliberal common sense, regional development and urban politics.  He has been an ESRC Research Fellow and was Honorary Editor of Transactions, Institute of British Geographers.  An Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, Adam is currently Vice Chair of the ESRC’s Research Grants Board and a member of their International Advisory Committee.

As Vice-Principal, Professor Tickell is responsible for research, enterprise and communications.

 

Professor Stephen Hill stepped down as Principal with effect from 31st July 2009 to pursue personal research interests whilst on sabbatical leave until his retirement in 2011.

 

 

 


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