{"id":189,"date":"2016-11-15T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=189"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:33:27","slug":"culture-connections-the-psychology-of-us-and-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2016\/11\/15\/culture-connections-the-psychology-of-us-and-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Connections: The Psychology of Us and Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 8 November, the University of Kent welcomed 50\u00a0year 8 students from schools across Kent and Medway to the Cultural Connections Event. The event, funded by the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the Partnership Development Office and the Gulbenkian Theatre aimed to encourage students to explore current issues surrounding refugees. Students enjoyed using\u00a0storytelling and drama\u00a0methods to learn about\u00a0migrant experiences and had the opportunity to meet refugees who shared their own personal stories.\u00a0The positive feedback from this event suggests that students benefitted from the day and came to recognise and emphasise with the hardships that migrants face integrating into a new environment.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about this event, please contact <a href=\"mailto:outreach@kent.ac.uk?subject=Cultural Connections news story\">outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 8 November, the University of Kent welcomed 50\u00a0year 8 students from schools across Kent and Medway to the Cultural Connections Event. The event, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2016\/11\/15\/culture-connections-the-psychology-of-us-and-them\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}