{"id":319,"date":"2015-05-14T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:58:25","slug":"polir-success-at-kent-student-awards-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/14\/polir-success-at-kent-student-awards-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"POLIR success at Kent Student Awards 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLIR is proud to announce the success of three of its students in this year&#8217;s Kent Student Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Second year students <strong>Andreas Payne<\/strong> and <strong>Fiona Pedeboy<\/strong> were nominated in the categories of Outstanding Contribution to College Life and Outstanding Environmental Champion; while MA by Research Student <strong>Sebastian Bromelow<\/strong> was nominated in the<br \/>\nOutstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity category.<\/p>\n<p>Students were nominated across 13 categories, with the entire shortlist being congratulated for going above and beyond in a number of activities and initiatives that benefit others.<\/p>\n<p>The University celebrated this outstanding extracurricular student achievement at the 2015 Kent Student Awards Gala Dinner which took place on Friday 8 May.<\/p>\n<p>While Andreas, nominated for being a dedicated College Committee President and volunteer, improving the experience of Eliot College students, narrowly missed out to KBS student Miruna Beldiman; both Fiona and Sebastian were the overall winners in their categories.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian also received a special commendation for Student of the Year for single-handedly transforming LGBT History Month at the University of Kent and making it the largest in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the students involved in the awards, further information can be found here: http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/kentawards\/winners\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLIR is proud to announce the success of three of its students in this year&#8217;s Kent Student Awards. Second year students Andreas Payne and Fiona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/14\/polir-success-at-kent-student-awards-2015\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}