Visiting research students

To be eligible to apply, you must be invited by a Royal Holloway academic who has agreed to supervise you and agreed the length of your stay with their head of department.  If you have not yet been invited, please look at the research sections of our departmental webpages to consider whether an application would be appropriate.  If so, please contact the relevant academic directly in the first instance.

Once your period of research has been approved by the academic department, you will then receive an invite with a unique link to our application form for Guest Research students. This is separate from our Postgraduate Research application form, so please wait until you have received the link so that you apply using the correct form. Your student record and access to student support services are enabled after application is processed. If you have any questions about applying or the status of your application, please get in touch with our Admissions team.

The fee for Research students for 2017-18 is £340 per month.  In some cases, academic departments will agree to waive these fees and they will notify you directly if this is the case.  All other Visiting Research Students will be billed accordingly.

Campus accommodation is not normally available to Visiting Research Students, but our Accommodation team will be happy to advise you on how to use the House Search portal to find suitable accommodation locally.  Please contact them directly at StudentAccommodation@rhul.ac.uk .