{"id":485,"date":"2017-06-05T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschoolnews\/?p=485"},"modified":"2017-06-05T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:22:55","slug":"congratulations-to-the-participants-of-the-graduate-school-public-engagement-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/2017\/06\/05\/congratulations-to-the-participants-of-the-graduate-school-public-engagement-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Participants of the Graduate School Public Engagement Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Ruth Augur, the winner of the first Graduate School Prize for Public Engagement.\u00a0 After a hotly-contested public vote, Ruth was awarded the \u00a3400 prize to carry out her project, which will\u00a0involve working\u00a0closely with the Canterbury-based charity, Catching Lives<\/em>, to create and restore a garden plot for the homeless to nurture, develop, and enjoy.<\/p>\n

Laura Thomas-Walters was joined by Prof Paul Allain, Dean of the Graduate School, in welcoming the public to the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Paul Allain hosted the event on Thursday evening, which gave three University of Kent PhD students the opportunity to showcase their work.\u00a0 They each identified a topical social issue and gave their proposed solution to the problem.\u00a0 Forty members of the public attended to discuss the potential merits and difficulties of each solution with the students over coffee, tea and cake in the beautiful La Trappiste in central Canterbury.\u00a0 They then had the opportunity to vote on which proposal they thought had the greatest potential to make an impact.<\/p>\n

Hannah Newman (an interdisciplinary PhD in the Schools\u00a0of\u00a0Arts\u00a0and\u00a0Psychology)presented on autism and discussed how drama can be a powerful and positive tool in the growth and development of autistic children. \u00a0Surej Mouli (a PhD in the School of Computing) spoke about the uses of medical robotics. Ruth Augur (a PhD in the School of Anthropology and Conservation) discussed homelessness in Canterbury.\u00a0 They all spoke very well about their research, but there could be only one winner.<\/p>\n

One of the aims of the competition was to introduce the University of Kent to local residents, by demonstrating the real world impact of academic research and to empower the public to feel that they can influence the future of research.\u00a0 The entire event was the brainchild of Kent PhD student Laura Thomas-Walters, who submitted her original idea to the Postgraduate Experience Award panel, and went on to plan the whole\u00a0thing\u00a0 – well done Laura!<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Laura Thomas-Walters (event organiser), Hannah Newman (presenter), Ruth Auger (presenter\/winner), Surej Mouli (presenter), and Prof Paul Allain (Dean of the Graduate School).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Winner of the Public Engagement Competition, Ruth Auger, pictured with Laura Thomas-Walters and Prof Paul Allain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Ruth Augur, the winner of the first Graduate School Prize for Public Engagement.\u00a0 After a hotly-contested public vote, Ruth was awarded the \u00a3400 prize to carry out her project, which will\u00a0involve working\u00a0closely with the Canterbury-based charity, Catching Lives, to create and restore a garden plot for the homeless to nurture, develop, and enjoy. … Continue reading Congratulations to the Participants of the Graduate School Public Engagement Competition<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50482,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}