{"id":3192,"date":"2021-05-10T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2021-05-13T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:40:28","slug":"welcome-to-the-summer-term-from-dr-nadine-ansorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/05\/10\/welcome-to-the-summer-term-from-dr-nadine-ansorg\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Summer term! from Dr Nadine Ansorg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Head of School Nadine Ansorg gives you all the essential resources and events available to you for a winning week 25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">&#8220;I would like to welcome back all our students to the summer term which starts today. I am sure you will all be very busy preparing for your exams or working on your dissertations. While we still follow government guidelines and adhere to social distancing, I look forward to welcoming more and more of you on campus again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">For those of you who will sit exams in the summer term, please make sure to watch the online recordings of the revision sessions and access the revision materials on Moodle. You can find additional library resources for your exam session <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/18678\/exam-support-from-the-templeman-library\">here<\/a>: On Wednesday, 12 May, 2-3pm there will be an Exam Information Session. This event will cover information from Student Support on resilience and tips for mental health wellbeing and your Director of Studies Dr Jane O&#8217;Mahoney for PolIR will be able to talk you through exam questions. You can join this event here:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color: #252424\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_OGRjZWY0M2YtNzY5OC00MjczLTg3YjItYTcyNWNlZmRlMmVj%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2251a9fa56-3f32-449a-a721-3e3f49aa5e9a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ed6b8ea9-3b49-4d59-9f06-769e1873b1be%22%7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI Semibold',sans-serif;color: #6264a7\">Click here to join the meeting<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">If you are working on your MA dissertations, please do not hesitate to get in touch with your supervisors, and also access the Skills Hub for any additional questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">Besides the hard work, there are also some exciting events to look forward to tomorrow, 11 May at 6pm, <span class=\"xcss-901oao\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2271\/whitman-richard-g\">Prof Richard Whitman<\/a> will discuss with our very own Chancellor Gavin Esler the question &#8220;How Britain Ends?&#8221;, and the implications of the Scottish election results for the future of the UK. Sign up for the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/28591\/gavin-esler-to-discuss-the-implications-of-scottish-parliament-election-results-11-may\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span class=\"xcss-901oao\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">Tomorrow, 11 May at 2pm, the School&#8217;s Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) will also launch the book \u2018Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace\u2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/507\/cochrane-feargal\">Feargal Cochrane<\/a> May, Professor Emeritus at the CARC. Sign up for the event <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/carc\/2021\/04\/09\/virtual-launch-for-northern-ireland-the-fragile-peace-feargal-cochrane\/\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">I very much look forward to seeing you all again soon, and I wish all of you a very successful summer term!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">Best wishes,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/504\/ansorg-nadine\">Nadine.<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of School Nadine Ansorg gives you all the essential resources and events available to you for a winning week 25. \u00a0&#8220;I would like to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/05\/10\/welcome-to-the-summer-term-from-dr-nadine-ansorg\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192"}],"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\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}