22 Apr 2026
Open Event, Postgraduate
Postgraduate event for students, alumni and professionals
4:00 pm - 7:00 am

Join us for an evening where you can learn more about master’s degrees. This is your chance to ask real questions, hear from the academics who’ll teach you, and get a feel for what it means to study your master’s at Richmond.

06 May 2026
Open Event, Postgraduate
Master degrees online webinar
May 6, 2026 @ 5:00 pm , more

Join us online to talk with Programme Directors, current students, professionals who will share their experience and insights on select programmes.

06 Jun 2026
Open Event, Undergraduate
Undergraduate Open Day
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Book now for our next Open Day at our campus in Chiswick Park, west London.

‘I am Richmond’ blog

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This blog was created to provide an insight into what life at Richmond, American University London is really like. It’s written by the people who know it best: our students.

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How business schools can address gender inequality in leadership

Dr Theano Lianidou, Associate Dean - Research and Professional Engagement, presented her paper at the 40th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium in Milan recently.

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The Business of Luxury Summer Programme

Two of our students, Christian and Patricia, on the MA Luxury Brand Management programme have had a unique educational experience in the south of France. 

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Richmond member of staff attends UK-Ukraine conference in Warsaw

Jelena Pivovarova, programme support manager and course leader for our Russian history and politics class, recently attended the second UK-Ukraine International Twinning Conference in Warsaw, Poland.

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What are The WURI Awards? 

Why are we talking about them? For the first time, it’s just been announced that Richmond American University London has won awards in three categories in The World University Rankings for [...]

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Why Do Governments Lose Elections? PART 3 

Part three of a three part series in which Dr. Mike F. Keating. Professor of International Political Economy and Head of Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychology discusses how and why [...]

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Why Do Governments Lose Elections? PART 2 

Part two of a three part series in which Dr. Mike F. Keating. Professor of International Political Economy and Head of Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychology discusses how and why [...]

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Why Do Governments Lose Elections? PART 1 

Part one of a three part series in which Dr. Mike F. Keating. Professor of International Political Economy and Head of Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychology discusses how and why [...]

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If you’re a journalist and you’d like to get in touch with any of our experts, or find out more, please get in touch with Rebecca Pearce in the PR and Communications team, [email protected].

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Find an expert

Richmond American University London, has a broad range of expertise across a number of areas, including the liberal arts, international relations, international history, business management, communications, arts and social sciences.

Dr Jane Norris
Areas of expertise – design theory, specifically luxury product future trends.

Professor George Zhang
Areas of expertise – Chinese language learning and teaching, intercultural communications and cross-cultural business management, language policy, language competence, language standards and assessment, teacher training and professional development.

Dr. Dina Awad 
Areas of expertise – Teaching Methodology, Second Language acquisition, Teacher Training

Dr Eunice Goes
Areas of expertise – British party politics and electoral competition, British political thought and Britain’s relationship with Europe and wider foreign policy; Portuguese party politics

Dr Michael F. Keating
Areas of expertise – tarriffs and trade, global best practices, Neo-liberalism, energy and infrastructure, financial sector reform, knowledge economies and innovation systems, tertiary education, politics in sub-Saharan Africa and East/South-East Asia.

Dr Kandida Purnell
Areas of expertise – War, Conflict, COVID-19 Pandemic, Commemoration, Body Politics, Gender and Global Politics/Security. Also research and professional enagement as Head of at Richmond.

Dr. Rafal Soborski 
Areas of expertise – Far-right politics; political ideologies; social movements; globalization.

Dr Martin D. Brown
Areas of expertise – international history, the Cold War, European diplomatic history, James Bond

Dr Sue Pell
Areas of expertise – activist archives, DIY archives, social housing activism, anti-gentrification campaigns, urban social movements, social movement communication, public sphere and democracy

Piola Massarotto
Areas of expertise – Art History, Visual Culture, Museum Studies.

James Peaty
Areas of expertise – Political communication, media and pop culture.

Dr. Alex Seago 
Areas of expertise – US politics and culture, Popular culture, Contemporary art & design

Carola Hieker 
Areas of expertise – Coaching, leadership

Isabelle Knight
Areas of expertise – PR & Publicity for creatives & businesses, Marketing and Brands, Self Publishing & Authors

Danny Graydon
Areas of Expertise – Superheroes, Film, Comics, Pop Culture, Animation, James Bond, Science Fiction

Dr. Ian Taylor
Areas of expertise – Media coverage of protests and social movements, Social movement engagement with New Media

Professor Dr. Carola Hieker
Areas of expertise – organizational behavior, leadership, coaching & mentoring, diversity

Associate Professor Inma Ramos
Areas of expertise – international investment banking and international corporate finance law, compliance and regulation, with a particular emphasis on Corporate Governance in Financial Markets

Professor Sabine Spangenberg
Areas of expertise – history of economic thought, welfare economics, public economics

Vanessa Carreras 
Areas of expertise – Finance in Education, System implementations and Change Management, Operations in Education

Sohil Majmudar
Areas of expertise – Data Analysis, Health Statistics, Mathematics

Birzo Ismael 
Areas of expertise – Web, Mobile and Game Applications, Software Engineering

Dr. Lucia Morawska
Areas of expertise – History of Football, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Art

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