{"id":1712,"date":"2018-12-19T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:21:37","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-kate-hamilton-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2018\/12\/19\/congratulations-to-dr-kate-hamilton-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr Kate Hamilton-West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/staff\/research\/hamilton-west.html\">Dr Kate Hamilton-West, CHSS\u00a0Reader in Health Psychology,\u00a0<\/a>has been appointed Faculty Director of Medical Social Sciences. This is a new role within the Kent and Medway Medical School, a joint venture between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.<\/p>\n<p>Kate will work across the Faculty to develop a strong medical social sciences curriculum for KMMS and bring together colleagues to develop research and innovation. She will take up the new part-time post at the beginning of January, whilst continuing in her current CHSS role.<\/p>\n<p>Kate has wide experience of working with the NHS in different roles and considerable medical education experience &#8211; read her recent blog in Times Higher<em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/blog\/behavioural-and-social-sciences-should-be-part-medical-education\">https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/blog\/behavioural-and-social-sciences-should-be-part-medical-education<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>She said: \u2018The <em>new Medical School is a really important development for the region. I am very much looking forward to this new role, building on my background as an academic and practitioner health psychologist with a passion for translating research evidence into practice via health professional training and healthcare innovation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018As Kent Academic Lead for the NIHR Research Design Service South East, I am aware of the need to develop clinicians with an appetite for improving healthcare through research. My vision for the role is to develop teaching, research and innovation. I have already been contacted by many people interested in contributing to this. It is really encouraging to see such high enthusiasm for medical social sciences\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that\u00a0Dr Kate Hamilton-West, CHSS\u00a0Reader in Health Psychology,\u00a0has been appointed Faculty Director of Medical Social Sciences. This is a new role within the Kent and Medway Medical School, a joint venture between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University. Kate will work across the Faculty to develop a strong &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2018\/12\/19\/congratulations-to-dr-kate-hamilton-west\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35851,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[10478,107,19014,1489,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}