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Kent Researchers’ Showcase 2022

The Researchers’ Showcase celebrated Kent’s postgraduate research community with a full programme of exciting events including; research talks, a wellbeing panel session, competitions, and an exclusive Postgraduate BBQ.

Gareth Hughes was invited as the event’s keynote speaker and shared his fascinating reflections on wellbeing with his talk entitled ‘Good Wellbeing and Good Research: Myths, Challenges, and Evidence.’

The day ended with an awards ceremony and drinks reception, which celebrated the winners of the Three Minute Thesis, Research Poster Competition, Research Photograph Competition, and the GRC Prizes.

Three Minute Thesis
Runner Up – Stephanie Schlichtner
Winner – Aruna Duraisingham

Research Poster
Runner Up – Bristol Rigby
Judges’ Winner – Priya Sarma
People’s Choice Winner – Rania Kologhassi

Research Photograph
Judges’ Winner – Marzia Bilwani
People’s Choice – Silvia Rasca

Graduate and Researcher College Prizes
Postgraduate Researcher – Dave S.P. Thomas
Postgraduate Researcher – Katie Sambrooks
Postgraduate Researcher – Sophus Zu-Ermgassen
Postgraduate Researcher – Duncan Mifsud
Research Degree Supervisor – Alexandra Covaci
Postgraduate Teacher – Matthew Boakes
Postgraduate Professional Service Champion – Nicola Huxtable

 

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GRC PhD Top-Up Fund

Examples of activities that might be supported include: specialised training, the presentation of papers at national or international conferences, fieldwork or data collection costs, or visits to archives. It is not designed to cover day to day costs or research consumables.

If you would like to apply, please complete the application form.

To be eligible to apply, you must have used up all other funding available, including divisional/school PGR allocation, any scholarship RTSG funding and/or additional Covid RTSG support (offered by divisions recently). Please complete the form in discussion with you supervisor before passing it onto the PGR divisional Professional Service team for confirmation that all available funding has been utilised. Once the PGR team has provided this confirmation, it will be passed directly onto the Dean of GRC for final review/approval.