Nicholas Jones

My RAU experience

I chose to study the MSc Conservation and Management of Historic Buildings because the course contents aligned perfectly with what I wished to study, and offered me an ideal blend of theoretical knowledge and learning alongside practical skills.

2024-25 on-campus accommodation fees

We are delighted to announce a price freeze on campus accommodation prices for 2025 entry undergraduate applicants who make us their firm university choice by 5 June 2025!

Please log your accommodation preferences via our Online Applicants Portal.

Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship

We are committed to resolving the future challenges facing global food production and distribution, whilst facing the environmental and cultural pressures of increased demand. 

These challenges cannot be solved by one country; they require common purpose from experts around the world. This Scholarship will help enable students to develop their skills at RAU and become part of the future network of global champions.

The Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship is open to new MSc, PGDip and MBA Postgraduate students starting courses in September 2025.

New research aims to support a sustainable revolution in British hop farming

30 October 2024

Asahi UK and the Worshipful Company of Brewers have teamed up with the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and the University of Warwick to fund two PhD research projects looking at how to develop sustainable approaches to British hop production in a bid to stop the further demise of the UK’s hop growing industry.

Hops are a lesser-known UK crop, which is often not talked about, but they are a vital ingredient in our much-loved British beers, providing the bitterness and more complex fruity and floral flavours.

The precarity of community land rights both in England and Tanzania.

Samwel Nangiria Taresero, a Maasai community leader, and the Curator of the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) recently visited the RAU to exchange ideas about the precarity of community land rights both in England and Tanzania.

Samwel and Atenchong chatting in a field

Reversing the Gaze Conference in Basel, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2024

 

First Virtual Meeting with Community Land Activists

virtual meeting with community land activists

Figure 5 Screenshot of programme during virtual meeting with community land activists

Scoping Field Visits to Community Trusts and Community Led Organisations in Scotland

Atenchong Talleh Nkobou (PI) and Andrew Ainslie (Co-I) had the opportunity to visit some community-led organisations in Scotland from the 22 July – 3 August 2024. The visit was a scoping exercise aimed at identifying and building relationships with community trusts and activists who are engaged with various initiatives around community land rights and community led development in Scotland. There are lots of active community groups, activists and organisations at the meso-level (e.g.

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