Would you like to try something new or return to an old hobby?

A weekly drop in session whether you are a beginner or an advanced knitter/ crocheter.

All materials will be provided. You can either work on something you have started or you can be taught how to knit/ crochet. Materials can be provided.

For further information please contact either:
Catherine Reanet on ext 4631, Vanessa Law on ext. 3598 or Eva Dann on ext. 4017.

Don't forget to follow staff health and wellbeing on twitter @ Wellbeing_RHUL for the latest information on staff heath and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

Subject to the weather, our Wednesday Wellness walk sets off from the Gold Postbox in Founders Square at 12.30 pm. The walk lasts approximately 30 minutes and will follow one of the walks around our beatiful campus.

A good walk can do wonders for your mental and physical wellbeing. It can improve your fitness, aid weight loss, improve your modd and sleep quality.

There is no need to book. Just turn up at 12.30 pm.

Don't forget to follow staff health and wellbeing on twitter @ Wellbeing_RHUL for the latest information on staff heath and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

Aimed primarily at those with an interest in Global Challenges Research funding (GCRF), this one-day workshop is suitable for academics of all levels from all disciplines, including post-docs, wanting to develop their existing practice of conducting ‘community-engaged’, mutually-beneficial research. The workshop will be delivered by Kim Aumann and Penny Vincent of the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). Senior colleagues have described previous NCCPE training on campus as the best they’ve ever undertaken.

While the workshop’s content won’t focus on the development context specifically, participants will be able to draw and reflect on their experience of this context, in order to develop their knowledge and practice of community-engaged research that's fundamental to GCRF and other 'impactful' research.

Participants are welcome and encouraged to invite any local GCRF partners that are able to attend.

PhD students are welcome to attend if spaces allow.

If you are a PhD student, and are interested in attending, please email Olivia Swift to check availability. Please also email Olivia with any other questions.

Fortnightly Complementary Therapist session at Huntersdale.

The treaments include:
- Indian Head Massage
- Hand and Arm Massage
- Foot and Leg Massage

The treatments are reasonably priced at £10 for 25 minutes.

Slots available between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm.

For bookings and information, contact Mary directly on 07922 696403 or email:info@marawellbeing.co.uk

Location will be provided at time of booking.

Don't forget to follow staff health and wellbeing on twitter @ Wellbeing_RHUL for the latest information on staff health and wellbeing events across Campus.

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

Ideas generator: Centres and large grants 

If you are interested in leading an application for an externally funded Research Centre or in being a partner in an application, this session will help you kick start early preparations.

It will be an opportunity to “pitch” an idea for a centre to our VP Research, Katie Normington and other senior academic colleagues, and to discuss your ideas with colleagues.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

A half hour weekly guided meditation session held in the Chapel on Main Campus commencing at 12.30 pm.

The session is open to everyone regardless of beliefs or experience.

For further details please contact Sofia Mason at sofia.mason@rhul.ac.uk.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellevents happening across Campus.

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

What is knowledge exchange?

The term “knowledge exchange” is increasingly used in academia in relation to our interactions with external organisations. But what exactly does it mean? And how can you succeed at it?

This session will give you an overview of key principles behind high quality knowledge exchange, and how it relates to terms like “impact”, “technology transfer” and “public engagement”.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

Innovate UK: Opportunities for researchers

Dr Emma Burke heads up Innovate UK’s Innovation to commercialisation of University Research Programme (ICURe). Emma will give an overview of Innovate UK’s work with universities; the interventions that exist for academic researchers in the areas of innovation and commercialisation. Specifically, Emma will detail the opportunities for market validation, knowledge transfer and leadership training that are offered by Innovate UK in their ICURe, KTP and FLF programmes.

Dr Sara Bernardini is a PI on three Innovate UK funded projects, addressing in extreme environments, nuclear and offshore renewable energy. Sara will share her tips on developing successful industry innovation collaborations.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

The Rainbow Lunches are informal BYO lunches happening every first Tuesday of the month in the Senior Common Room (SCR) in Founder's, from 12.30-2pm. This activity is organised by the LGBT Staff Network and is open to all LGBT+ staff and PhD students, but all are welcome to join. No need to book, just bring your lunch and come find us in the SCR (look for the rainbow flag!). 

Would you like to try something new or return to an old hobby?

A weekly drop in session whether a beginner or an advanced knitter/ crocheter.

You can either work on something you have started or you can be taught how to knit/ crochet. All materials can be provided.

For further information, please contact either:
Catherine Reaney on ext. 4631
Vanessa Law on ext. 3598
or Evan Dann on ext. 4017.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

Improving engagement with stakeholders

Meet your Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise team who will guide you through the stakeholder engagement journey. We will provide useful tips, and discuss areas where you’d like to build relationships, and how best to take this forward.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

Educational Development are very pleased to invite you to an additional event being held on Wednesday 5 June, from 11am–12.30pm in Queens Building, Room 170.

Dr Rebecca Jinks (Department of History) and Dr Elizabeth Gloyn (Department of Classics) will lead this ‘Teaching emotionally challenging subjects’ workshop.

They will begin by sharing their experience, which focuses on preparing students and developing effective teaching methods and techniques. 

This will be followed by group discussion.

Please register your attendance via moodle.

Subject to the weather our Wednesday Wellness Walk sets off from the Gold Postbox in Founders Sqaure at 12.30 pm.

The walk lasts approximately 30 minutes and will follow one of our walks around our beautiful campus.

A good walk can do wonders for your mental and physical wellbeing, It can improve your fitness, aid weight loss, improve your mood and sleep quality.

There is no need to book. Just turn up at 12.30 pm.

Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellevents happening across Campus.

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

Unexpected funding opportunities

An introduction to the wide variety of research funding opportunities available to researchers across disciplines. Whilst focus will be on funders who are sometimes overlooked, the workshop will also explore how researchers can get involved with interdisciplinary funding calls by re-considering the ways in which their expertise may be applied.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

In this workshop we will highlight and discuss some of the current main themes in HE course design e.g. inclusion, employability, constructive alignment, co-creation of the curriculum.

Session aims:

• To raise awareness of the main curriculum design themes in higher education
• To discuss how these themes influence curriculum design/development
• To consider how you might approach (re-) designing your curricula
• To review the College’s approaches to ensuring the academic quality of its curricula
• To highlight the support available to you when designing curricula.

Please note: CAPITAL participants attend a similar session on Curriculum Development so are likely to decide not to attend this Curriculum Design workshop.

Please book on to the event here.

For any enquiries, please contact Lynne Francis

On Monday 3, Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 June, Research and Enterprise will be hosting a range of workshops on current topics in research development and knowledge exchange. On these dates, there will also be helpdesks and 1:1’s with research support professionals available in the Windsor Building foyer.

Risk: Managing research and commercial risks 

We will discuss risks that could affect your research project and tools that can help mitigate these risks and protect your project. This will cover:
- What risks should PIs consider when leading a research project?
- How can a research contract protect your project?
- What should you do with data collected as part of a project?
- Risks related to a collaborative work and how to mitigate them.

Please register your attendance on Eventbrite. 

Did you know that Wikipedia is the largest and most influential source of knowledge in the world? The encyclopaedia has five million articles in English, and 800 articles are added every day. Yet only one in six of its 1.5 million biographies feature women, and only 15% of Wikipedia editors are women.

Would you like to know more about Wikipedia’s problematic gender bias? Would you like to be part of the solution? Then please do join us for an afternoon workshop with the aim of increasing the representation of the lives of women staff and graduates of Royal Holloway and Bedford College on Wikipedia. Working with a team of wiki-trainers from Wikimedia UK, the workshop will introduce participants to the skills required to create Wikipedia entries as well as exploring best practice for representing women’s lives online.

No previous knowledge of Wikipedia or editing is required!

This workshop warmly welcomes people of all genders and is for all interested students and staff.

Places on the workshop are limited so please contact Bedford Centre co-ordinator Adam McKie if you would like to join us: adam.mckie.2016@live.rhul.ac.uk

Organised by Dr Liz Gloyn (Classics), Professor Jane Hamlett (History), and Dr Victoria Leonard (History)

This is a free of charge traditional 60 minute mixed ability classical yoga class suitable for all ages and physical abilities (adaptations can be made as required).

Please bring: a yoga/ exercise mat and blanket.

Please wear: any loose, comfortable clothing and warm socks for relaxation.

Please email Moya at moya.watson@rhul.ac.uk to express an interest in attending the class so that we can get an idea of numbers.

Please note this is a joint staff and student event.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

Fortnightly Complementary Therapist session on Main Campus.

The treatments include:
- Indian Head Massage
- Hand and Arm Massage
- Foot and Leg Massage

Treatments are reasonably priced at £10 for 25 minutes.

Slots available between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm.

Location will be provided at time of booking.

For bookings and information, please contact Mary directly on 07922 696403 or email:info@marawellbeing.co.uk.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

On Pentecost Sunday, at the end of the academic year we will come together to give thanks for the founders and benefactors of our College, and for the life and worship of our Chapel community and choirs.

We are delighted to welcome as our preacher:
Rt Rev Dr Jo Bailey Wells, Bishop of Dorking

A half hour weekly guided meditation session held in the Chapel on Main Campus commencing at 12.30 pm.

The session is open to everyone regardless of beliefs or experience.

For further details please contact Sofia Mason at sofia.mason@rhul.ac.uk.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellevents happening across Campus.

This interactive session will explore how digital learning resources, when crafted to meet accessibility standards, can enhance teaching practice and improve learning gain for a diverse student population.

Colleagues will be invited to discuss their own experiences of teaching to student diversity, they will work in teams to critique sample digital resources in the aim of improving their accessibility, and they will also have the opportunity to get to grips with the guidelines that govern what is deemed accessible and think about how we can begin to implement these ideas within our academic courses.

Please be aware that parts of this session will be recorded, if you have any concerns about this please contact Rebecca Lewis in advance of the session.

You can book your place here.

We look forward to seeing you there.

In this session we will look at how Moodle can be designed with learning in mind and explore some current web tools/platforms that are used in curriculum design in higher education. We will also look at formative and summative assessment and draw on case studies from Royal Holloway.

Please note: CAPITAL participants can attend a similar session as an elective so are likely to decide not to attend this workshop.

Please book on to the event here.

For any enquiries, please contact Lynne Francis

Would you like to try something new or return to an old hobby?

A weekly drop in session whether a beginner or an advanced knitter/ crocheter.

You can either work on something you have started or you can be taught how to knit/ crochet. All materials can be provided.

For further information, please contact either:
Catherine Reaney on ext. 4631
Vanessa Law on ext. 3598
or Evan Dann on ext. 4017.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

Subject to the weather our Wednesday Wellness Walk sets off from the Gold Postbox in Founders Sqaure at 12.30 pm.

The walk lasts approximately 30 minutes and will follow one of our walks around our beautiful campus.

A good walk can do wonders for your mental and physical wellbeing, It can improve your fitness, aid weight loss, improve your mood and sleep quality.

There is no need to book. Just turn up at 12.30 pm.

Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellevents happening across Campus.

On Wednesday 12 June, from 3-4pm, in the Windsor Building Auditorium, Principal Paul Layzell will host our summer term Staff Open Meeting, providing you with an opportunity to find out about our current performance and the changes planned across the College.

The meeting will then be followed by a summer BBQ in Founder's North Quad, from 4-5pm. For catering purposes, please register your attendance to the BBQ via Eventbrite. 

Colleagues are invited to pre-submit a question ahead of the Open Meeting, as well as having the opportunity to ask questions in the room.

If you are unable to attend the Open Meeting in person, you will be able to live stream the event via Moodle. Simply log-in using this link with your College username and password, just before 3pm on the day. You will also be able to ask questions via the live stream.

If you have any questions about the event, please get in touch.

A Sound Bath is a relaxing, meditative immersion in healing sound. The sound produces a range of vibrations which you absorb, creating the conditions for your body and mind to heal themselves.

Sound Baths provide an ideal environment for you to truly relax - the ultimate healing rest!

Please bring a blanket and a cushion with you if you wish and make sure you have a bottle of water.

£5 payable on the door.

To reserve a space, or if you have any questions, please email Shirley - yogawithshirley@gmail.com


Don't forget to follow staff health and wellbeing on twitter @ Wellbeing_RHUL for the latest information on staff health and wellbeing events across Campus.

The last Choral Evensong of the academic year is always significant as we wish farewell to the final year students who have been part of the life of Chapel. This year we are also saying goodbye to Rev. Cate Irvine, who has been Chaplain at Royal Holloway for eight years and is leaving to become Rector of The Ouzel Valley Team Ministry and Vicar of All Saint’s Leighton Buzzard.
Everyone is welcome to join us, Rev. Cate will preach and the service will be sung by the Chapel Choir.

This is a free of charge traditional 60 minute mixed ability classical yoga class suitable for all ages and physical abilities (adaptations can be made as required).

Please bring: a yoga/ exercise mat and blanket.

Please wear: any loose, comfortable clothing and warm socks for relaxation.

Please email Moya at moya.watson@rhul.ac.uk to express an interest in attending the class so that we can get an idea of numbers.

Please note this is a joint staff and student event.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.

Fortnightly Complementary Therapist session at Huntersdale.

The treatments include:
- Indian Head Massage
- Hand and Arm Massage
- Foot and Leg Massage

Treatments are reasonably priced at £10 for 25 minutes.

Slots available between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm.

Location will be provided at time of booking.

For bookings and information, please contact Mary directly on 07922 696403 or email:info@marawellbeing.co.uk.


Don't forget to follow Staff Health and Wellbeing on Twitter @Wellbeing_RH for the latest news on staff health and wellbeing events happening across Campus.