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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Can’t stop the small boats? Then stop the students

The President and Vice Chancellor of Richmond American University London, Professor Phil Deans, has had a blog published by The Chiswick Calendar, a community interest company which celebrates life [...]

Richmond American University London announces a comprehensive approach to wellbeing, focusing on enhancing staff and student mental health support, in collaboration with University Mental Health Charter.

Developing A ‘Whole-University Approach’ to Wellbeing for Richmond

Richmond American University London is launching its work to attain the Student Minds’ Mental Health Charter, an accreditation that recognises universities who champion positive wellbeing amongst [...]

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Where leadership and diversity meet

Dr Theano Lianidou, Associate Professor of Management at Richmond, has just had an article published in the International Journal of Management Reviews, a British Academy of Management journal. The [...]

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To boldly go…

Dr Ivan Cohen, Emeritus Professor in Finance at Richmond, has just had an article published in the British Journal of Healthcare Management, volume 28, no. 10 (October 2022).

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My first blog! Bella

Hi! My name is Bella Hoffman and I am currently on a study abroad for the Fall semester at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. Murdoch is a very diverse university, much like Richmond, with [...]

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The Queen’s Two Bodies

Dr Kandida Purnell, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Richmond American University London, has written a blog post on a highly topical subject and one of her research specialisms– [...]

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Mike Pence is wrong about vice presidents testifying before Congress

Dr Laura Smith, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Richmond, has recently had an article published in The Washington Post which challenges Mike Pence's response about whether he would testify before the [...]

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Richmond student produces innovative research as part of internship

In the most comprehensive research carried out to date, Swedish student Filippa Dahlgren, currently in the final year of her BA in Finance and Investment degree at Richmond, and now doing an [...]

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Press enquiries

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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