Student Affairs

Undergraduate Language & Writing Support Centre
2025-03-21 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-03-25 12:30 - 15:30, 2025-03-27 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-03-28 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-04-01 12:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-03 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-04-04 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-04-08 12:30 - 15:30 UTC and 2 more dates

Friday Careers Cafe
2025-03-21 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-28 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-04 12:00 - 12:30

Maths Advice Centre
2025-03-24 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-27 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-31 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-03 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-07 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-10 14:00 - 17:00

Emily Evans Guest Lecture
2025-03-26 10:00 - 11:00
Guest Lecture – Emily Evans
POSTPONED Wednesday 26th March, 10 am
Emily Evans is a freelance collage artist and illustrator with a passion for storytelling and narrative. She frequently collaborates with others to explore how visual storytelling can influence perception and thought. Her work incorporates a diverse range of mixed materials and mediums, often drawing inspiration from dystopian and mystical themes. In 2017, Emily was shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Awards, and in 2018, she received the Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Award.
Emily’s talk will focus on the creative process of crafting beautiful and inspiring narratives highlighting the different methods and techniques for making.
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Biodiversity Talk presented by Nelson Milburn
2025-03-27 12:30 - 13:30

Brighton Spring Day Trip
2025-03-29

A Talk with Sadie Clayton: Creative Boundaries between Art, Fashion & Technology
2025-04-03 11:20 - 12:20
Sadie Clayton TALK!

Please join online for this fascinating talk…

Sadie Clayton trained in fashion design and has explored the creative boundaries between art, fashion and technology throughout her career. She has also produced a number of sculptures for and with humanoid AI robots!

Sadie has presented collections at the Royal Academy of the Arts and has worked with various high-profile clients during her career, such as Tate Modern and Tate Britain, The Ivy, Sipsmith Gin, M&C Saatchi, Art Fund, Chanel 4 and Bonhams.

Embraced by the art world as a creator and innovator, Sadie has been involved with projects for London Craft Week, Singapore Design Week, Art Basel Miami, Design is Great NYC, delivering workshops/talks/panels to inspire and educate the audiences around the world. Sadie is Course Director of Fashion at the London College of Contemporary Arts.

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Talking about the Spy We Love: James Bond Beyond the Cold War
2025-04-03 17:00 - 19:00
Talking About The Spy We Love: James Bond Beyond The Cold War
Thursday 3 April at 5.00PM
Twickenham Exchange: The Conservatory

In this conversation and launch event, Martin Brown and Muriel Blaive discuss their new book about James Bond and Cold War culture. They talk about the fiction and films that brought Ian Fleming’s iconic character to audiences around the world. They explain how new thinking in The Bondian Cold War explores fact and fiction in the Bond canon, goes in search of a global Bond, and deals with issues of gender and sexuality across the ‘Bondiverse’. Mark Donnelly from St Mary’s University hosts the conversation.

The event is ticketed, but tickets are free. It’s part of St Mary’s University’s Scala Festival of Creativity

Tickets can be accessed via this link

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/stmarysuni/scala-festival-of-creativity-james-bond-cultural-icon-a-discussion-and-book-launch/e-gyoeok

Honours Night
2025-04-03 17:30 - 21:00
Our annual scholarship evening, Honours Night, is by invitation only.
We will be celebrating academic achievement and community engagement at the Clayton Hotel this year.

Damian Cuke presents on CIM Qualifications
2025-04-04 11:45 - 12:15
Damian Cuke from The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) will join the MA Luxury Brand Management class on Friday 4th April. He will outline the benefits of a CIM qualification and also explain how RAUL students can gain it.
RAUL is accredited by CIM for two of our undergraduate and three of our masters degrees:
· BA Fashion Management & Marketing
· BA Digital Marketing
· Master of Business Administration (MBA)
· MA Luxury Brand Management
· MSc Digital Marketing & Data Analytics

Students on these degree courses will be exempt from taking some assessments as part of their CIM qualification, saving them time and money!

Please join us online to find out more!

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Football Tournament RIASA X Richmond
2025-04-04 13:00 - 15:00
Football Tournament RIASA X Richmond
Friday 4 April 2025, 1-3pm
Rocks Lane Chiswick, 60 Chiswick Common Road, London, W4 1RZ
Richmond students and RIASA football academy players are teaming up for a friendly, fast-paced football tournament. It’s all about the game, the fun, and the chance to meet new people. Expect a day full of great goals, good vibes, and some serious team spirit. Come along to support your team and enjoy the game!

The Challenges of Sustaining Peace: Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
2025-04-08 14:00 - 15:20
The Challenges of Sustaining Peace: Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Classroom F01, 2-3:20pm

Dr Recep Onursal, University of Kent

This lecture offers a critical examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, one of the world’s most enduring political conflicts. Situating the conflict within its broader historical and socio-political contexts, the lecture interrogates the reasons behind its persistence and the barriers that have kept it unresolved for decades. Drawing on core theories of conflict resolution and transformation, we will dissect the interplay of state policies, hegemonic struggles, and identity-based grievances that have shaped this protracted struggle. Participants will gain insights into how previous peace initiatives have failed—ranging from challenges in negotiation processes to the broader regional dynamics—and explore potential pathways toward its resolution and transformation.
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Decolonisation and Museums: Creating the ‘Endeavour’ Galleries
2025-04-09 12:30 - 13:30
Decolonisation and Museums: Creating the ‘Endeavour’ Galleries
Wednesday 9th April, 12:30pm, Classroom 1
Dr Claire Warrior, Senior Curator, Royal Museums Greenwich
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, founded in 1936, attracts over a million visitors a year and has the most important holdings in the world on the history of Britain and the sea. In 2018, four new galleries opened at the Museum as part of a major refurbishment, the ‘Endeavour’ project.
The galleries marked a sea-change for the Museum, emphasising increased access, relevance and representation, augmenting the available permanent gallery space by 40%, and telling maritime histories anew. Their development was underpinned by an extensive programme of community engagement, consultation and collaboration, which is visible in the galleries themselves.
In this talk, Dr Claire Warrior will discuss some of the challenges and considerations involved in creating the new galleries. How can a museum so deeply embedded in histories of colonialism and imperialism represent their complexities? What are the opportunities and limitations of collections? And what kind of legacy does a project like this create?
This guest talk is presented by The Centre for International Visual Arts and Cultures (IVAC).

Guest Lecture with Meg McConville
2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:00
Meg McConville
Guest Lecture
Thursday 10th April, 4pm
Film and Photography Studio & Online

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We are excited to welcome back Richmond graduate Meg McConville for a guest lecture on Thursday.

Meg graduated in 2018 from our Communication department and has since gone on to build a highly successful career as a commercial photographer specialising in fashion and beauty.

Meg works between New York and Paris but is making a trip to London especially to speak to our students!

Meg’s talk will focus on her experiences as a recent Richmond graduate and the steps she has taken to make her mark and forge her career in commercial and editorial photography.

Not to be missed!

Check out examples of Megs work on her WEBSITE
