External Speakers

What are External Speaker Events?

Inviting external speakers to your event can provide great opportunities to learn from professionals and those with unique experiences. They also provide great opportunities to your members that they may otherwise not have the chance to experience.

‘External speakers’ refer to anyone who does not currently work or study at the University of East London. This includes Alumni. 

Approval process

If you are inviting anyone to speak at your event, whether they be physically that your event or through digital channels (e.g. skype), you need to submit information about your speaker at the time of processing your room booking form.

If you are holding an external speaker event at an off-campus location, you can provide us with the information about your speaker through submitting the form below.

The Union will risk assess the speaker and topic they will be discussing to ensure the event can go ahead without causing unnecessary safety risks to those attending the event. If the event is deemed medium or high risk, there may be additional safety precautions put in place to lower the risk of an incident occurring. If safety measures are imposed, this will be feed back to the requester prior to the event booking being confirmed.

Timeframe

Please allow 15 days for your speaker request to be approved. If the panel reviewing your speaker request requires additional safety measures to be implemented at the event, we will need time to do to put this in place. Hence, the extended timeframe for external speaker events compared to other room bookings.

The Law

It is important you do inform us of all external speakers at your event both on and off campus, as the Union and University have a duty to ensure the event will be safe for our students and is a requirement by law that we do so.

Request Form

You can find a copy of our External Speaker Request Form below:

External Speaker Request Form