Richard Merkaj
Services Manager
Email me at: castle.servicesmanager@durham.ac.uk
Hi i’m Richard! I’m a second-year Theology student and your Services Manager for 2026/7. As services manager I organise the colleges formal dinners and manage JCR facilities, including the physical common room, the erg room and gym. I also liaise with college office over the laundry facilities and irons/hovers in accomodation.
Im living out, but you’ll find me haunting the Castle and Palace green lecture halls carrying half the Billy B in my bag.
I also update and run this website - so if you spot any mistakes, let me know!
Favourite Castle Memory: Walking back from a bailey bar crawl at the end of Michaelmas. I was surrounded by so many incredible people and had experienced so many new things, and I realised that it was just the beginning!