{"id":6266,"date":"2023-08-07T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:36:31","slug":"summer-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/08\/07\/summer-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our home-grown success stories&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8230;This just in: School alumni Bill Bowkett has gone from student news to national newspaper editor in a matter of years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6215\/after-kent-bill-bowkett\">Read all about it..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Or better yet, why wait until graduation? From student frustration to local representation. MA student Harry McKenzie has become a local Labour counsellor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6206\/research-and-representation-ma-student-turned-city-councillor\">Sound interesting?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;We announce our new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/08\/07\/a-good-head-for-learning\/\">Head of School<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>What happens when you want to go to school &amp; break the rules&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8230;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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6112\/when-is-it-time-to-break-the-rules-2\">Order!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But what happens when debate breaks down and the young become restless? Theophile Bernard blogs about the recent French riots. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6290\/race-and-riots-in-france\">What&#8217;s going on?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>With great power comes great amounts of thinking&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8230;So how better to suplement your thought than our workshop on public opinion and social policy. PhD student or staff? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6180\/workshop-on-psychology-and-political-behaviour\">Follow this path&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.bisa.ac.uk\/about-conference\">BISA Conference,<\/a> ponder where these rights have brought us and how much further we need to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6234\/conferences-are-key-polir-at-bisa-glasgow-2023\">Travel with them&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;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? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/6277\/bisa-2023-disaster-simulation-zone\">Take part&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In one of many ways of making your mark. 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