Exciting Prizes to be Won for Your Research!
The 6th annual Postgraduate Festival is an event open to all postgraduates, taught and research.
It’s a great opportunity for postgraduates to showcase their research to fellow students and staff through academic posters, models or displays and presentations.
For more information visit PG Festival
The next Medway research Café is on Friday 12th February, in room G3-05, 1.30 – 3.30pm.
Our presenter will be Louise Krska, who will be giving a talk on “The bladder microbiome in health and disease.”
Coffee/tea and biscuits provided.
Our next Canterbury Research Café is scheduled for Thursday 18th February, in the Graduate School training room, (Cornwallis East, 3rd Floor), 12.30 – 2.00pm.
Each café features one or two 20 minute talks from postgraduate researchers from different disciplines, with a chance to ask questions, debate and network. If you would like to contribute, or have and idea/theme in mind for an upcoming Research Café session, please contact Hannah Huxley at hh318@kent.ac.uk.
Apply for funding through the Postgraduate Experience Awards and it could turn into a reality!
Funding of up to £1,500 can be awarded for applications to run events or projects which have an interdisciplinary and/or external focus and will enhance the postgraduate experience at Kent.
How to apply:
The PGR Research Space in Templeman East is closed this Thursday, 10 December, so the furniture can be moved to its new location in Oaks Study Hub.
The new room will open in the former group study room in Oaks on Friday 11 December.
The PGR Research Space is a dedicated room for research postgraduates to work together across disciplines. The new room is:
· open 24/7 and will be open throughout the winter vacation
· secured with a card lock limiting access to the room to PGR students – but you are strongly recommended not to leaving personal belongings unattended in any study space on campus
· divided by a small corridor from the main, quiet study, PC room in Oaks, so it should be similarly quiet
· the closest building to the Library that could be identified that can offer a dedicated room for PGRs.
The building work to the Library means many adjustments have had to be made to the way we provide services to all Library users. The University takes the study needs of postgraduates very seriously, and the refurbished central core will include dedicated postgraduate facilities.
If you have a great idea for a postgraduate event, your dreams could be made into a reality!
Successful applications could receive funding of up to £1,500 to run their events or projects. These must encompass an interdisciplinary and/or external focus that will enhance the postgraduate experience at Kent.
Deadline for applications is 27th November 2015
Further information can be found here.
The Wellcome Trust has invited CHASE funded students to attend an open day event to give insight into its work. This will include sessions on The Hub, their creative new interdisciplinary research space and its residents. The event will also feature themes on Digital Humanities and the Wellcome Library, Public Engagement plus, afterwards, the opportunity to explore the fantastic range of exhibitions and resources in the Wellcome Collection and Wellcome Library.
The Wellcome Trust provides more than £700 million a year to support bright minds in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine.
Full programme here: http://www.chase.ac.uk/events/2015/10/22/wellcome-trust-open-day
If you would like to register to attend, please email enquiries@chase.ac.uk
New communal space for postgraduate students and staff.
Open from 8.00am – 6.oopm.
Located in Cornwallis East, Third Floor.
The Graduate School has taken up residence on the third floor of the new Cornwallis East building. We have a new training room which will host many of the Skills courses, so we look forward to welcoming you soon.
Over the summer the Library is open every day between 09:00 and 19:00. If you need to find a place to study outside those times the following facilities are available:
Exciting talks for the next Medway Postgraduate Research Café on Friday –
‘Biohacking and Open Source Technology: What could these really mean to modern day scientists?’
And Medway Makers will give a talk ‘If you thought nothing was happening in Medway!!!’
Do come along on Friday July 10th at lunchtime for coffee, tea, juice, biscuits and a catch up with your fellow researchers, in the Gillingham Building G2-04 (1.00pm – 2.00pm)
