Vice-Chancellor and Principal
Julie Sanders joined Royal Holloway, University of London as Vice-Chancellor and Principal in October 2022. She was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Newcastle University (2018-2022) and prior to that was Newcastle's Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Humanities and Social Sciences (2015-2018).
Before joining Newcastle, she had held leadership positions at the University of Nottingham including Head of the School of English (2010-2013) and then Vice-Provost for Teaching and Learning at the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus in China (2013-2015). She started her academic career at Keele University in 1995 having studied English as an undergraduate at Girton College, University of Cambridge and completed an MA and a PhD at the University of Warwick.
Julie is currently a proud trustee of Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside (for whom she chairs their Performance and Education Committee) and The Conversation UK. She is also on the HEPI (Higher Education Policy Institute) Advisory Board. She has served on steering groups for, among others, Universities UK, Research England, and the Australian Research Council, including the UUK Sustainability and Climate Action Steering Group. She has undertaken research review exercises in Ireland and Sweden and previously held grants from the AHRC, ESRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust.
Julie's own research and education interests are in early modern drama and adaptation studies. She co-edits a series on Early Modern Literary Geographies for Oxford University Press and is currently co-editing Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 for Cambridge University Press. Most recently she has published articles on Shakespeare and Space and on the literary geography of the early modern playhouse.
