{"id":4742,"date":"2022-05-30T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:23:50","slug":"may-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/05\/30\/may-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We&#8217;ve had a lot to celebrate this month, from world leading research to outstanding teaching as well as raising a toast to the next generation of future leaders. All here in our May RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2>ConGRADulations!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We finally got to celebrate the achievements of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/05\/30\/congradulations\/\">Class of 2021<\/a> when they returned to Canterbury for their formal graduations this month<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/05\/30\/congradulations\/\">. <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjzS7hC\"><strong>View the full photo flickr here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Top marks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Our research environment in the School of Politics and International Relations was rated as 100% world leading or internationally excellent in this latest assessment, reflecting the quality of our research and its impact on society. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4703\/top-marks-for-our-world-leading-research-environment-in-ref2021\">Read the full summary of our REF2021 results<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It really is an honour to receive a student nomination at the Kent Union Above and Beyond awards! Thank you for everyone who voted for us! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4738\/going-above-and-beyond\">Find out who received nominations here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Diplomacy Deep Dive!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kent Alumnus and Ambassador Hugo Llorens returned to deliver a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4696\/visiting-alumnus-ambassador-hugo-llorens\"> talk<\/a>\u00a0\u2018Ruminations on a Diplomatic Career: A Life and a Profession\u2019 for our students, public, and faculty. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/05\/30\/ruminations-on-a-diplomatic-career-kent-polir-meets-former-us-ambassador-hugo-llorens\/\"><strong>PhD candidate Giulia Grillo was there.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">What Traits Make Scientists Trustworthy?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attitudes to vaccination are closely shaped by whether people trust scientists, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2274\/seyd-ben\">Dr Ben Seyd<\/a>, Will Jennings (University of Southampton) and Joseph Hamm (Michigan State University). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4727\/what-traits-make-scientists-trustworthy\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Northern Ireland Assembly election<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sinn F\u00e9in became the largest party at Stormont for the first time in Northern Ireland\u2019s 101-year history. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4700\/northern-ireland-assembly-election-two-big-messages-and-a-familiar-outcome\">Emeritus Professor Feargal Cochrane commented<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Politics and International Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lot to celebrate this month, from world leading research to outstanding teaching as well as raising a toast to the next generation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/05\/30\/may-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742"}],"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\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}