Rianna joined us to talk about the re-publication of The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour with Samara Linton.
​ Links: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/samara-linton/the-colour-of-madness/9781529088496

​Join Rianna for this exclusive post-publication talk about The Colour of Madness – the revised edition of the 2018 publication about race and mental health in the UK. Expect readings of excerpts, a talk about the impact of systems of harm on marginalised people’s health, as well as a lively discussion and Q&A about how we can protect our mental health in academia. 

  Jason Arday, Winston Morgan, Dave Thomas & Rianna Walcott. Chair: Deborah Husbands ​

Join us for February’s UCL Writing Lab event with Rianna Walcott, Jade Bentil, Jessica Brough and Dr Xine Yao, where this roundtable will discuss what it means to be a ‘scholar-activist’: from discussions around the tension inherent to the label, how they maintain a radical politic within the British academy, and the ways in which we can all contribute to building a better world.

​Join us for February’s UCL Writing Lab event with Scholar-in-Residence Rianna Walcott, Jade Bentil, Dr Jessica Brough and Dr Xine Yao, where this roundtable will discuss what it means to be a ‘scholar-activist’: from discussions around the tension inherent to the label, how they maintain a radical politic within the British academy, and the ways in which we can all contribute to building a better world.

Rianna Walcott, co-editor of upcoming anthology The Colour of Madness, says being black made it harder to get mental health support. She explains why some in her family are wary of medication. In the last episode of Mentally Interesting for now, our presenters are thinking about hope and revealing their "most absurd secret habits." With Mark Brown and Seaneen Molloy. The producer is Emma Tracey and the studio manager is Dave O'Neill

Join scholar, singer and writer Rianna Walcott for a tour of the 'Joy' exhibition. You’ll hear her personal views and insights into the exhibitions and have the opportunity to ask questions.  

​Join our 2021-22 Scholar-in-Residence Rianna Walcott for a talk focused on her PhD research, where she will discuss the mechanics and ethics of researching social media communities. Here she will discuss the ethical and citational requirements for social media research, the need for self-reflexivity when researching your own community, and how to write about and analyse social media spaces as a text.

Thesis abstract: In Black British digital networks an ever-changing, hybridised way of speaking has emerged that synthesises aspects of Black dialects from across the diaspora. This language is used both as part of a performance of self and to signal belonging to a Black group identity, as linguistic choices are a way that online actors are able to curate their narratives of self-representation. Through observation of different digital social spaces, this study will investigate how language is disseminated between geographically and culturally disparate people who self-identify as Black, and how Black British social media users perform linguistic acts that contribute to an articulation of a group ‘Black British identity’ online.

​Join Scholar-in-Residence Rianna Walcott and Dr Francesca Sobande for an in-conversation event about the act of writing, guided by Francesca’s maxim, that became Rianna’s mantra, ‘Everything is Writing’. Here they will discuss the multiple modes that academic writing can take, from the traditional essay, to blogging, to Twitter threads, to in-conversation podcasting, the radical potential that different kinds of knowledge transmission has for transforming the academy, and understanding your own rhythm for writing and processing information.