{"id":5996,"date":"2025-03-20T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:18:55","slug":"beyond-the-lecture-hall-meet-dr-emma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2025\/03\/20\/beyond-the-lecture-hall-meet-dr-emma\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Lecture Hall: Meet Dr Emma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Join Dr Emma Travers-Hill as she shares her passion for teaching, love for the Clinical Psychology program, and the importance of embracing university life to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite part about teaching\/interacting with students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favourite part about teaching is when we do interactive elements in the lectures, and I get to hear all the wonderful ideas that our students have about the future of mental health and how things should work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your favourite thing about your course\/the course you teach?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love that in Clinical Psychology we are able to step back and think creatively, positively and critically together about the field of mental health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did my undergraduate degree here many years ago and fell in love with the campus, the sense of community we have and the surrounding area. It a beautiful place to study and work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your favourite thing about Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bunnies! I love it when I spot a bunny rabbit hopping around on my way to my office or a lecture! It grounds me in the awe of nature and always puts a smile on my face!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What tips can you give to freshers when they are first starting University?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I remember being told as a fresher that if someone asks you if you have tried something yet you should answer <em>not yet<\/em>, rather than <em>no<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think its great advice to get stuck in and give everything a go &#8211; there is so much at your fingertips to try out and that is not so easy when you graduate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give your past self when you were first starting University and would you do anything differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Play hard as well as work hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Dr Emma Travers-Hill as she shares her passion for teaching, love for the Clinical Psychology program, and the importance of embracing university life to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2025\/03\/20\/beyond-the-lecture-hall-meet-dr-emma\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84049,"featured_media":6031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}