{"id":2826,"date":"2021-05-01T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:20:37","slug":"april-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/05\/01\/april-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"April News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">April: the spring term ended, the exam season started, the sun shone, the snow fell, we could get a haircut again or sit outside freezing in a pub garden, safe to say, it has been a busy one! Here is a summary of what has been happening in the School of Economics\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Our students were winners!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet Mercy: Economics undergraduate and winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-matters\/2020\/06\/25\/the-business-start-up-journey-2020-21\/\">Business Start-Up Journey<\/a>, Mercy Adeniji! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2838\/introducing-mercy-the-business-start-up-journey-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the interview here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>There was a global surge in the Google search term \u201cIndia\u201d&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Third-year students Tanya Sengupta and Tapasya Bhandari shared their perspective on their home country\u2019s current battle to raise awareness and identify charities and NGOs for anyone wanting to donate. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2862\/whats-killing-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Dr Anirban Mitra was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leverhulme.ac.uk\/listings?field_grant_scheme_target_id=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leverhulme International Fellowship<\/a> with a value of \u00a349,850 over 24 months to\u00a0 conduct research on \u201cThe (Local) Political Economy of a Global Pandemic: Lessons from India.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2833\/understanding-how-political-dynasties-and-religious-conflict-in-india-impacts-the-spread-of-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We were mindful&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tapasya Bhandari explained how she managed to improve her overthinking and anxiety using the tools she discovered through our 8-week mindfulness course.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2770\/mindful-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Read more about her discovery<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Workshops were planned&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An MMF workshop on Macroeconomic Consequences of Technological Change will take place at the School of Economics, between 10-11 June 2021. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2855\/school-of-economics-hosts-workshop-macroeconomic-consequences-of-technological-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thinking about postgraduate life?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThere are certain roles you can\u2019t apply for without a Master\u2019s.\u201d Watch two of our current MSc students in conversation with Dr Zaki Wahhaj. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2789\/thinking-of-doing-a-masters-in-economics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full video can be found here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PhD candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2876\/pena-werner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Werner Pena<\/a> has had a paper entitled \u2018The Distributional Consequences of Social Distancing on Poverty and Labour Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean\u2019 accepted for publication in the Journal of Population Economics. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2848\/have-social-distancing-measures-led-to-an-increase-in-inequality-in-latin-america-and-the-carribean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">A 4-year PhD Scholarship Opportunity is available on this <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/ceas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for European Agri-Environmental Studies<\/a>\u00a0research initiative. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2800\/4-year-phd-scholarship-opportunity-on-this-ceas-research-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We planned for a productive exam season&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kick off the revision season with our non-compulsory sessions to help re-familiarise yourself with content, reduce anxiety and get some exam tips! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2781\/revision-week-sessions-to-help-you-revise-for-exams-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look at the sessions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We were open to new initiatives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aliye Osman saw the need for a new society and started it. \u201cThe society for the representation of SWANA goes above and beyond other culture-based societies in providing students with a platform for personal and social growth.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/2776\/introducing-swana-a-new-society-initiated-by-economics-student-aliye-osman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She tells us all about it here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\"><strong>Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April: the spring term ended, the exam season started, the sun shone, the snow fell, we could get a haircut again or sit outside freezing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/05\/01\/april-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":2872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,94122],"tags":[224723,165065,19014,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}