The Royal Holloway Postcolonial Research Group welcomes postgraduate students and actively fosters their research and academic development through seminars, discussion groups, collaborative activities and individual supervision and mentoring. Many of our staff members are recognised internationally as leaders in their respective fields and can offer expert advice on a range of topics in colonial and postcolonial studies. Collectively, our expertise covers the following broad fields:

• Caribbean history, culture and ethnomusicology
• colonial and postcolonial geographies
• commodity cultures and consumption
• critical geopolitics and Antarctica
• cross-cultural, postcolonial and multicultural theatre
• development theory, development and the environment
• exploration and geographical knowledges
• gender, race and critical whiteness studies
• genocide and holocaust studies
• globalisation, cosmopolitanism, international relations
• imperial and post-imperial London
• indigenous performance in Australasia, Canada, USA and the Arctic
• Islam and modernity; Islamic minorities
• nationalism, violence, terrorism
• nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism
• postcolonial literatures: Indian, African, Caribbean
• race and ethnic relations in Britain
• Roman imperialism, history of the Roman Empire
• South Asian cultures, Indian sub-continental history
• slavery, diasporas, migration, refugees
• Southeast Asian cultures
• trans-imperial webs and networkstravel writing: colonial and postcolonial
• urbanism, imperial cities

Dissertation projects on colonial and postcolonial topics at Royal Holloway can be undertaken as part of masters and doctoral programmes of study, which are offered through the various departments:

• A taught MA degree (1 year full-time or equivalent) generally requires completion of a 10–15,000 word dissertation plus a number of coursework options.
• A PhD (3-4 years full-time or equivalent) requires completion of a dissertation of up to 100,000 words, plus research training seminars as appropriate.

If you are interested in finding out more about postgraduate study with a dissertation focusing on a colonial or postcolonial topic, contact the relevant department or a staff member who works in your proposed field of research.

Financial assistance is available, on a competitive basis, for British, EU and international students for research degrees. Further information for prospective students is available at the Royal Holloway Graduate School.

For a list of current Postgraduate members of the Group and their theses projects, please see the Members page.