Paid roles – Hub for Innovation and Enterprise Ambassadors
Applications Start Date: 1st August 2018
Applications End Date: 3rd September 2018, 23:59
Interviews to be held: 11th/12th September 2018
For the role descriptions and details on how to apply, head to the Hub’s blog.
Placement Opportunity – Layers of London
Layers of London is a collaborative project led by the Institute of Historical Research to engage the people of London in developing a record of the city’s past, using layered historic maps to record hundreds of thousands of stories, recording fresh and neglected voices, perspectives, memories and histories.
The Layers of London team are offering a placement opportunity in the coming autumn months for students to get involved in the project’s research, and to present case studies of the historical information the project can present to the public.
The project are asking for volunteers to give between 4-5 hours per week between 8th October and 10th December. All travel expenses will be paid, and training and a dedicated working space in London will be provided.
If you have an interest in public engagement, online engagement, archives and museums, community engagement, social and local history, and geography, download the full role brief from the link below:
Volunteering Opportunities at the Royal Engineers Museum
The Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive at Chatham have a range of volunteering opportunities available. The museum is a short walk from the University’s Medway campus, and is a great organisation that presents the history of the Royal Engineering Corps in an accessible and engaging way.
If you are interested in learning more about management of archives and collections, how to organise and present exhibitions, or how to put together a heritage learning programme, and would like to volunteer your time please head to http://www.re-museum.co.uk/work-with-us/ and get in touch with the REMLA team.
Internship opportunities at Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral is advertising a pair of internship placements suitable for anyone interested in learning more about collections management, community engagement, and the wider museums and heritage sector.
These internships would fulfil all the criteria of a Year in Industry for the successful candidate, or be an excellent foot in the door for a recent graduate interested in the sector. For more details about the Year in Industry scheme, please contact Jon Beer. For more information and to apply for the internships, see the links below.
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‘Beyond the Barricade’ – volunteering opportunity to support the Age of Revolutions project
The School has an exciting opportunity to get involved in a national project showcasing the history of the Age of Revolutions.
As part of the national Age of Revolutions project, the University’s team are organising an exhibition at the Studio 3 Gallery on campus entitled ‘Beyond the Barricade’ (Sept-Nov 2018) that looks at the art of revolution. Part of this exhibition will document historic revolutionary activity in Canterbury and Kent, and Dr Ben Marsh, the project’s organiser, would like to invite anyone interested to contribute to this effort.
The team are looking for any volunteers to help contribute to a short section of the pamphlet that will accompany the exhibition, presenting the history of riots and protests in our local area. This will involve working with the Special Collections team in the Library and the Cathedral Archives and Library over the next six weeks. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in expanding their experience of archival research, and to contribute to a national historic project that is expanding the public’s knowledge of our revolutionary and rebellious past.
If you are interested in taking part in this project, please contact Dr Marsh (B.J.Marsh@kent.ac.uk).
Extras wanted for WWI film
On 1st-3rd June, 8000ft Media will be shooting a 30 minute historically accurate film about Geoffrey Malins, the cinematographer who helped film the Battle of the Somme, and they would like to invite anyone who is interested to appear as an extra to play a British frontline soldier.
The shoot is taking place at Elham in Kent. Meals and refreshments will be provided, parking is available, and there space for camping if you would like to take part for the entire full weekend.
If you would like to see an example of 8000ft’s work, watch Andy Robertshaw’s a tour of some of the trench’s features: https://youtu.be/lgRm7aU-GoI
If you are interested in taking part, email Ross Barnwell at ross@8000ftmedia.com.
Drop-in sessions with CES advisors
The Careers and Employability Service are running a range of events this week – to be repeated in Weeks 28 and 30 – as part of their Don’t Panic! Bootcamp. These sessions are intended to make sure you are confident in a range of employability skills as you look ahead to the summer, whether you are graduating or coming back to Kent in September.
In addition to these bootcamp sessions, Helen Johnson, the Humanities Employability Advisor in CES, has set aside some time for bookable drop-in sessions with History students. Whether you would like advice on how and where to look for summer jobs, how to make the most of your skill set on your CV, or if you are considering applying for a graduate scheme next year, these sessions with Helen will be extremely useful.
If you would look to book one of these slots, please click the link below.
- Stage 2 students – 1pm-3pm, Thursday 17th May
- Stage 3 and PGT students – 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 22nd May
- All stages – 10am-12noon, Friday 25th May
- Stage 1 students – 10am-12noon, Friday 1st June
If you would like some advice but can’t attend any of these times, or if they are all booked up, you can arrange a time to speak to a CES advisor by emailing careerhelp@kent.ac.uk.
Humanities Placement Year – Find out more!
12noon-1pm, Tuesday 15 May, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Thinking about taking a placement year? If you are thinking about applying to take a placement year between Stages 2 and 3 of your studies, come along to this talk to find out about the benefits and to hear what previous students have done.
For further information email humsplacements@kent.ac.uk. To book a place at the talk, head to Target Connect.
Oxfam – A Day in the Life of a Volunteer
Kent Gives Back – Volunteer to support Walk the Walk
The Kent Gives Back weekend is fast approaching and we’re looking for any alumni, students or staff who would be able to volunteer at the events to support a range of charitable activities.
The first event is The MoonWalk London on Saturday evening. The MoonWalk is organised by Walk the Walk, the UK’s largest grant-making breast cancer charity that is dedicated to not only raising money and awareness for vital breast cancer causes, but to also encourage women and men to become more aware of their own potential for fitness and wellbeing. The MoonWalk overnight power walking challenges have raised over £122m, which has been granted to research into breast cancer and to improve the lives of people living with cancer now.
If you would like to be there as a steward, head to the Facebook event for more information and details on how to sign up.
Volunteers wanted at PWRR & Queen’s Museum, Dover Castle
The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment and Queen’s Regiment Museum at Dover Castle (located within the keep walls at Dover Castle, but unaffiliated with English Heritage) are looking for volunteers who would like to get involved in collections care, research, public engagement, and website development and social media.
Catherine Holt, the Assistant Curator of the museum, has come to speak at the University on a number of occasions over the last few years, and is very interested in welcoming new volunteers to the museum and providing training in all the different aspects of curation and museum management. If you would like to get involved, please contact her via email at pwrrqueensmuseum@btconnect.com.
Volunteers needed for a new project exploring representations of the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918
THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID: CREATING A LEGEND
A free event at the University of Kent
Friday 11th May 2018
10am – 3pm
Gateways to the First World War is launching a new project to investigate the ways in which the famous Zeebrugge raid of 1918 was presented to the British people, using local and national newspapers and magazines as a source.
We would like to recruit a team of volunteers to work with Professor Mark Connelly in exploring the stories relating to the raid.
Join us at this event at the University of Kent to find about more about the project and how to get involved.
Voluntary summer placement – Layers of London
Layers of London is advertising three voluntary student placements to take place in June. Head to their website for more information.
Layers of London is a digital mapping platform where users can overlay historical maps over the contemporary map of London to see how the city has changed through time. Stories and memories on the website are crowd-sourced so we can get a diverse, representative and interesting range of histories about London pinned on the map to their exact locations today! These include oral histories, photographs, stories and memories and examples include; documenting the building developments and changes in Barking and Dagenham, documenting Conscientious Objectors in Haringey and recording prisoner of war stories in Newham and much more.
If you are interested in taking part, head to our website for more information and details on how to apply. The deadline to apply is 14th May.
The CES Don’t Panic! Bootcamp
The Careers and Employability Service has set up its Don’t Panic Bootcamp – a series of skills sessions and workshops intended for anyone who would like to refresh their understanding of some core employability skills and ensure they are prepared the world of work.
For more information and to sign up for any of these sessions during the summer term, head to https://careers.kent.ac.uk.
