Social Scientists from across the South East Doctoral Training Centre will be coming to Kent tomorrow for their 4th annual conference.

The programme includes Keynote Academic Talks, a Journal Editors Panel, Interdisciplinary student-led sessions, posters and student pecha kucha presentations. The Conference will also provide an excellent networking opportunity for students and academics involved in the SEDTC. Click here to view the full programme.

The Graduate School looks forward to seeing all those who registered for this event.

The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) at the University of Kent is offering two hours of free English classes in Keynes College for non-native speakers of English every weekday from Monday 29th June to Thursday 9th July 2015 from 13.45 to 15.55.

Employability points can be obtained for attending the classes.

To confirm your place at the classes, please email cewlcelta@kent.ac.uk.

Our fifth Postgraduate Research Festival is nearly upon us!  Students and staff are welcome to come along to the day-long event on Monday 22nd June, in the Grimond building.  The varied programme will include academic talks, postgraduate poster presentations, three minute research presentations and student discussion panels.  Refreshments will be provided throughout the day so do come along and find out what everyone is doing.

Calling all social scientists!

Registration for the 4^th Annual South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) Conference, happening here (Grimond Building, University of Kent) on Thursday 02 July 2015 (10.00 – 17.30), is now open!

The programme of events includes Keynote Academic Talks, a Journal Editors Panel, Interdisciplinary student-led sessions, posters and student pecha kucha presentations.

The Conference will also provide an excellent networking opportunity for students and academics involved in the SEDTC.

Full details of the day and the registration form are available here.

We will be running the inaugural Postgraduate Research Café on the Medway campus, on Friday 15^th May in the Medway building, M0-02, at 1.00pm – 3.00pm

You are all invited and welcome to attend.  The Postgraduate Research Cafe is a great way to support your fellow PGRs and offer questions and feedback.

We will supply tea, coffee and biscuits, please feel free to bring your own lunch.   A further programme of Research Cafés in Medway will be published soon.

NoRMMA (Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences) invites you to attend an interdisciplinary conference on non-traditional approaches to star studies research.

The one-day event will be held at the University of Kent on May 29th, 2015. The event will focus on ways to explore film studies research through non-traditional approaches. Examples include: performance, video essays, creative fiction/non-fiction, and various multimedia projects. Through this symposium, we would like to explore the connections between scholarship and fandom, research and creativity, the benefits and disadvantages of exploring an (audio)visual art through (audio)visual means, and the development of the innovative and ever-emerging field of practice as research.

Confirmed keynotes: Dr Catherine Grant, University of Sussex and Dr Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Coventry University

Preliminary schedule can be found here: http://www.normmanetwork.com/?p=153

If interested, you are welcome to register for free by Saturday, 9th of May by emailing normma.network@gmail.com   Supported by CISFMI and KIASH

The Centre for Health Services Studies will be hosting a health policy debate prior to the 2015 General Election in May.

All the main local parties have been invited to send a Kent Parliamentary candidate to sit on a panel to take public questions and inform the audience what their policy plans could mean for the future of our health and social care.

This event is free and open to all – no booking necessary.

For further information, please contact Helen Wooldridge, h.l.wooldridge@kent.ac.uk

The latest GradPost spring edition is available for download here!

The GradPost is a quarterly newsletter created by postgraduates for postgraduates.  If you would like to contribute/be part of the editorial team, please contact gradpost@kent.ac.uk

Tomorrow morning is your last chance to submit your business plans for consideration in our Bright Idea? competition.  If you have an idea for a commercial business or social enterprise, you could have the chance to win £1,000 but you need to submit by 9am.  Application forms are available on the Graduate School website http://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/skills/brightideas.html