{"id":1545,"date":"2018-03-13T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:56:59","slug":"professor-kenneth-pickering-to-be-awarded-a-doctor-of-letters-by-uwl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/03\/13\/professor-kenneth-pickering-to-be-awarded-a-doctor-of-letters-by-uwl\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Kenneth Pickering to be awarded a Doctor of Letters by UWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kenneth Pickering, an Honorary Professor in the School of Arts&#8217; Drama Department is being awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of West London (London College of Music) later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The award is to celebrate Professor Pickering&#8217;s recognition as a role model for University&#8217;s students through his professional profile and experience.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1960s Professor Pickering gained the Associate Diploma in Speech (ALCM) when the London College of Music was a free-standing college. When it became part of the University of West London, Pickering supported the development of the degree in Musical Theatre and acted as External Examiner to a variety of their courses.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kenneth Pickering is still a proud member of the University of Kent as a Honorary Professor and regularly runs sessions here on campus in Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kenneth Pickering, an Honorary Professor in the School of Arts&#8217; Drama Department is being awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/03\/13\/professor-kenneth-pickering-to-be-awarded-a-doctor-of-letters-by-uwl\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}