Postgraduate Experience Award Event – 1-5pm, 9th March 2016, MA Space, SMFA, Medway.

Is Music in your bones?  Is Painting in your blood?  Sign up to this innovative 4-week series ‘hack’ your DNA and convert your amino acid sequences into art!

For more details and to sign up to the limited spaces visit the webpage https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biohacking-create-art-and-music-with-your-dna-tickets-20619762264​

What will you create with your DNA?

Come and talk to specialist academics and admissions staff about postgraduate study at our campuses in the UK and specialist centres in Tonbridge and across Europe.

• Find out more about Kent’s £9m postgraduate scholarship fund.
• Get all the latest information about the new £10,000 loans for Master’s students.
• Get answers to your questions about postgraduate taught and research opportunities at Kent
• Meet current postgraduate students.
• Speak to staff for expert advice about the application process, funding, accommodation and future career options.
• Talk to the Graduate School about how they support all Kent’s postgraduate students with additional training, study facilities and social events.

To book your place visit the web page here

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:

• Deadline: Friday 25^th March 2016
• Eligibility: Applications for funding are invited from postgraduates (both taught and research) and postdoctoral researchers (up to 2 years). Further details on the selection criteria are available on the application form.
• Apply: Download an application form by visiting https://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/news/pgexperience.html
• For further information please contact Deborah Molloy    graduateschool@kent.ac.uk

On Monday 7th December 2015, six postgraduate students gave a short presentation about their culture as part of the Global Skills Award programme. Thank you to the following students who presented and made the evening a great success:

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.