Geography, Culture and Identity
Geography is a discipline of unusual breadth and contemporary relevance. It spans the physical world of landforms, climate, and ecosystems and the human world of culture, economy, and political life, asking how these dimensions interact and shape one another across scales from the local to the global. Geography, culture, and identity as a specialism within this broad discipline places particular emphasis on the ways in which places are experienced, contested, and constructed through culture, politics, and human meaning-making, bringing together human geography's critical questions with broader debates in the humanities and social sciences.
At Royal Holloway, University of London, you will join a leading centre for geographical research and teaching where staff are actively advancing understanding of the challenges facing contemporary culture, economy, and environment. This three-year programme develops your skills in geographical analysis across both physical and human dimensions, with particular depth in the cultural and identity-focused aspects of the discipline. The programme includes a sandwich placement year and a year abroad, alongside embedded work placement opportunities, giving you extended professional experience and international exposure that complement your academic study significantly.
Geography graduates are highly employable, partly because the discipline's combination of analytical, fieldwork, quantitative, and communication skills is broadly applicable. Careers span environmental consultancy, urban and regional planning, international development, teaching, research, public policy, NGOs, the civil service, journalism, business intelligence, and data analysis. Many graduates go on to postgraduate study in geography, environmental management, urban studies, or related social science fields.
The cultural and identity focus of this particular programme is especially relevant to careers in cultural organisations, policy work, and international development contexts.