{"id":4212,"date":"2022-08-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:08:16","slug":"july-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/08\/01\/july-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"July News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We&#8217;re reflecting on another great academic year here; fantastic results in the National Students Survey, a Research Excellent Framework result to be very proud of and a return to our spirited graduation celebrations in Canterbury Cathedral! <\/p>\n<h2>Celebrating an Amazing Academic Year!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wednesday 13 July, the Class of 2022 graduated in Canterbury Cathedral and celebrated with a reception in Westgate Hall. We were able to catch up with them informally and raise a toast to their achievements. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4199\/celebrating-the-class-of-2022\">View the photos.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its not always easy balancing work with studying. After another productive year, these apprentices have really shone. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4218\/our-economics-degree-apprentices-celebrate-the-end-of-their-academic-year\">View this year&#8217;s winners<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Our faculty Education Day were finally able to meet in person to celebrate our brilliant NSS results and reflect on how we go forward, inspiring our students in a post-pandemic landscape. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4182\/economics-education-day\">More here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"none\">Our World Leading Research Activity<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/451\/le%C3%B3n-ledesma-miguel\">Professor Miguel Le\u00f3n-Ledesma<\/a>\u00a0has collaborated with Laura Puzzello\u00a0and Adina Ardelean, in this<a href=\"https:\/\/voxeu.org\/\">\u00a0VoxEU<\/a> column on the complex interaction between sectoral shocks, sectoral specialisation, and geographic diversification in trade and volatility. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4204\/trade-and-volatility-analysing-the-role-of-specialisation-and-diversification\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2264\/tchuente-guy\">Dr Guy Tchuente\u2018s<\/a>\u00a0research is included in a forthcoming OUP book published this September, The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4187\/early-human-capital-accumulation-and-decentralization\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If child marriage in India is often seen as a solution by communities not a problem, how can we begin to tackle it? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2278\/wahhaj-zaki\">Dr Zaki Wahhaj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/432\/amirapu-amrit\">Dr Amrit Amirapu<\/a> have been working on research evidencing that legislation is not the fix it may appear. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4241\/what-india-must-learn-from-bangladeshs-attempts-to-curb-child-marriage\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What we&#8217;re looking forward to&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re hosting the 53rd Annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmf.ac.uk\/conference\/2022-conference\/\">MMF Conference<\/a> on the 5-7th September. Former Governor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/\">Bank of England<\/a>, Mervyn King, former Deputy Governor Paul Tucker and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/437\/chadha-jagjit\">Professor Jagjit Chadha, <\/a>currently at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niesr.ac.uk\/about-us\">NIESR<\/a> are all keynote speakers. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmf.ac.uk\/conference\/2022-conference\/\">Are you coming?<\/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>We&#8217;re reflecting on another great academic year here; fantastic results in the National Students Survey, a Research Excellent Framework result to be very proud of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/08\/01\/july-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212"}],"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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}