Dec 10
The new CHSS newsletter is now available to read or download on our website. We hope you will enjoy reading about the latest CHSS news and events, including this year’s Annual Lecture given by Professor Chris Whitty, and our ‘thank you’ tea for the CHSS’ public Opening Doors to Research group. The CHSS/Kent Business School MSc in …
Nov 25
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT 7PM at THE MICHAEL BERRY LECTURE THEATRE, CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY, (campus map) Old Sessions House, OS.0.01, Longport, Canterbury, CT1 1NX In advance of election-day a health policy debate involving local candidates will take place at the Sessions House, Christchurch Canterbury University on Thursday 28 November. …
Nov 01
CHSS will be hosting a health policy debate on the evening of Thursday 28 November in advance of the December 2019 General Election. Please note the venue for the debate has changed from Grimond Lecture Theatre at the University of Kent TO: THE MICHAEL BERRY LECTURE THEATRE, CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY, (campus map) Old Sessions House, …
Oct 14
There was a great turnout on Friday evening, 11 October for the CHSS Annual Open Lecture at the University’s Colyer Fergusson Music Hall, Canterbury. University Vice Chancellor Professor Karen Cox gave an opening address and CHSS Director Stephen Peckham introduced Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Dept. of Health …
Jul 12
Professor Stephen Peckham will be the first Director of the £9m Applied Research Consortium for Kent Surrey and Sussex. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the ARC aims to improve health and social care research. The five-year funding will be boosted by an additional £5m investment from local NHS trusts, local authorities …
Mar 29
CHSS visiting Darzi Fellow Dr James Hadlow (pictured) and CHSS Clinical Professor Chris Farmer have written a timely article on Digital Healthcare, newly published in the New Statesman Tech. The fascinating piece raises ethical and moral questions about a ‘digital future’ which is already with us, highlighting the vital importance of meaningful patient engagement in this area. Work …
Sep 21
Two new videos are now available to watch here from the EXCEPT Project (Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: cumulative disadvantage, coping strategies, effective policies and transfer) The first (below) was filmed on 25 April at the Parliamentary Reception at the House of Commons where findings from the EXCEPT project were presented to invited …
Jun 08
CHSS Open Lecture 2018: General Practice forward view and a vision for the future of primary care – Dr Arvind Madan On Wed 18 April, Dr Arvind Madan gave this year’s CHSS Open Lecture in the Grimond Theatre, Canterbury Campus, as part of the University’s Distinguished Visitor series. Since 2015 Dr. Madan has been Director …
Apr 10
Patrick Cantellow, an 18-year-old social entrepreneur from Sittingbourne, Kent is the Youth Ambassador for the UK EXCEPT project team. Aged 15 he founded Swale Young People, an organisation that takes an innovative digital approach to youth empowerment. Patrick is also an Ambassador for a number of organisations across London and the South East, notably the NSPCC, …
Mar 26
CHSS Director and Professor of Health Policy Stephen Peckham has won a prestigious two year grant from the British Academy in partnership with Dr Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University of Goias in Brazil. The BA Newton Advanced Fellowship award will fund a new study around primary …
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