{"id":197,"date":"2018-07-02T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:30:22","slug":"calling-all-current-and-future-parents-at-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Calling all current and future parents at Kent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of our commitment to improving and developing services and initiatives for current and future parents who work and study at the University of Kent, the Athena SWAN team are running a series of focus groups to explore what support and networks parents would like to see established and how to improve communication and information about maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies to all staff and students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>We are looking for current parents and staff who are planning on becoming parents to share their experiences, thoughts, and ideas about how things can change and improve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/files\/2018\/07\/worklife_balance_popup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-198\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/files\/2018\/07\/worklife_balance_popup-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/files\/2018\/07\/worklife_balance_popup-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/files\/2018\/07\/worklife_balance_popup-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/files\/2018\/07\/worklife_balance_popup.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are hosting four 1h workshops on the 10th, 11th and 12th of July. Places are limited!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dates are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canterbury <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10<sup>th<\/sup> July \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.30 -11.30<\/p>\n<p>11<sup>th <\/sup>July \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.30 -11.30<\/p>\n<p>12th July\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9.30 -10.30<\/p>\n<p>Register via: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/calling-all-current-and-future-parents-at-kent-tickets-47508549350\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/calling-all-current-and-future-parents-at-kent-tickets-47508549350<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Medway <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12<sup>th<\/sup> July\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.00 -4.00<\/p>\n<p>Register via: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/calling-all-current-and-future-parents-at-kent-medway-campus-tickets-47548446684\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/calling-all-current-and-future-parents-at-kent-medway-campus-tickets-47548446684<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do spread the word!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197&amp;t=Calling all current and future parents at Kent!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Calling all current and future parents at Kent!%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197&amp;title=Calling all current and future parents at Kent!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197&amp;title=Calling all current and future parents at Kent!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our commitment to improving and developing services and initiatives for current and future parents who work and study at the University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=197\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51029,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112439,112,114292],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}