{"id":2316,"date":"2017-07-19T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2017-07-19T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:24:37","slug":"congratulations-to-all-our-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/07\/19\/congratulations-to-all-our-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to all our graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 13th July saw the graduation ceremony of the School of Anthropology and Conservation in the morning, followed by a champagne and strawberry reception in the afternoon in the school. Head of School, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-biology\/academic-staff\/groombridge_jim.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Groombridge<\/a>, took to the stage to congratulate the graduates, which was echoed by all staff and alumni. <strong>Photos from the celebration can be viewed and downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88044142@N02\/sets\/72157683968729421\/with\/35980912296\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event also gave the school the opportunity to commend a number of students who received prizes for their academic achievements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darwin Prize for Biological Anthropology &#8211; <strong>Lucy Atha<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Anthropology Best Dissertation Prize &#8211; <strong>Elise Ilott<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Paul Stirling Prize for Social Anthropology &#8211; <strong>Katy Sharpe<\/strong> (honourable mentions for Ben Charman and Hannah Fitchett)<\/li>\n<li>Social Anthropology Best Dissertation Prize &#8211; <strong>Alexis Potter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gerald Durrell Prize for Wildlife Conservation &#8211; <strong>Mark Spicer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Social Sciences Faculty Prize in recognition of an outstanding performance within their degree programme &#8211; <strong>Mark Spicer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the second year running that a student from the School of Anthropology and Conservation has won the faculty prize, highlighting the successful interdisciplinary achievement in the school, with Christopher de Coulon-Berthoud awarded it in 2016 for his performance on the BA Social Anthropology programme.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that our new graduates will stay in touch as the school is very proud of the breadth\u00a0of its alumni network: it&#8217;s always exciting to hear about graduate achievements and careers following study within our walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 13th July saw the graduation ceremony of the School of Anthropology and Conservation in the morning, followed by a champagne and strawberry reception in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/07\/19\/congratulations-to-all-our-graduates\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}