Summer Roundup

As debate and discontent has spread across our political world, it is our students that have taken the reigns.

Our home-grown success stories…

…This just in: School alumni Bill Bowkett has gone from student news to national newspaper editor in a matter of years. Read all about it..

…Or better yet, why wait until graduation? From student frustration to local representation. MA student Harry McKenzie has become a local Labour counsellor. Sound interesting? 

…We announce our new Head of School

What happens when you want to go to school & break the rules…

…The result will likely look like our Question Time-esque panel of academics discussing when it is appropriate to protest, in front of a crowd of A-Level students and members of the public. Order!

…But what happens when debate breaks down and the young become restless? Theophile Bernard blogs about the recent French riots. What’s going on? 

With great power comes great amounts of thinking…

…So how better to suplement your thought than our workshop on public opinion and social policy. PhD student or staff? Follow this path…

…Our juniour researchers are certainly taking the iniaitive to expand their understanding. They celebrated the 75th anniversary of the declaration of human rights by attending BISA Conference, ponder where these rights have brought us and how much further we need to go. Travel with them…

…And arrive at the simulation of the United Nations they took part in. How better to understand the extent of the issues the world is facing? Take part…

…In one of many ways of making your mark. Third year student Meg Payne got an internship at Kent Country Council’s division of Governance, Law and Democracy through the university’s Employability Points scheme. Open the door into the world of work…