{"id":5323,"date":"2020-09-17T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2020-09-21T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:38:18","slug":"welcome-week-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/09\/17\/welcome-week-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Week 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The adventure begins with Welcome Week &#8211; Monday 21st \u2013 Friday 25th September 2020<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Week is the exciting period just prior to the start of the academic term where the School of Anthropology and Conservation welcomes all of its new students to its facilities and academic activities alongside introducing key members of academic and support staff. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, this year the majority of welcome activities will take place online via Microsoft Teams (links to join the meetings are included below), but there is still plenty to enjoy amongst all of the important information to absorb.<\/p>\n<h3>Within the School<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, 21st September, there is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45383\/ug-induction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general introduction for all undergraduates<\/a><\/strong> followed by the all-important programme introductions. This will be a great way to meet the staff who will be teaching you, see who else is on your course and find out some essential information about how your course will be running whether you are studying on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45384\/introduction-to-the-social-anthropology-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BA Social Anthropology<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45385\/introduction-to-the-anthropology-and-biological-anthropology-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSc Anthropology or Biological Anthropology<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45400\/introduction-to-wildlife-conservation-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSc Wildlife Conservation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45401\/introduction-to-human-geography-environmental-social-science-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSc Human Geography or BA Environmental Social Sciences<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Straight after this will be a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45402\/meet-your-professional-services-team-q-a-session-ug-only\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">session with the experienced student support team<\/a><\/strong>, who will introduce themselves and offer an informal forum for you to ask any questions you may have.<\/p>\n<p>As the week progresses there will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45472\/mindfulness-ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mindfulness introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45408\/ug-library-and-it-induction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library and IT induction<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45473\/professional-placements-induction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introduction to a Year in Professional Practice<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45470\/meet-your-academic-advisor-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet your academic adviser session<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45410\/making-the-most-of-blended-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making the most of blended learning session<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45403\/sac-declaration-of-climate-and-ecological-emergency-sustainability-group-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School declaration of Climate and Ecological Emergency one-year anniversary event<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will also be student-led virtual tours and introductions from both the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45575\/anthropology-society-introduction-virtual-tour-ug-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthropology Society<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45574\/anthropology-society-introduction-virtual-tour-ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conservation Society<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45574\/anthropology-society-introduction-virtual-tour-ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">, <\/a>and an opportunity to read the campus landscape on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/45576\/human-geography-environmental-social-science-programme-field-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Geography\/Environmental Social Sciences programme field visit<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Welcome Fair<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kent Union&#8217;s Virtual Welcome Fair will give all new students the chance to meet all of Kent&#8217;s sports clubs, societies and community action groups that you can get involved with as a Kent Union member.<\/p>\n<p>There will be the opportunity to chat to the student committees, sign-up for the things you may be interested in and meet like-minded students! Each new student can express their interest in a group without needing to buy membership straight away, so there&#8217;s no immediate commitment!<\/p>\n<p>The Welcome Fair will be live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kentunion.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Union website<\/a> on <strong>Thursday 24th<\/strong> and <strong>Friday 25th September<\/strong>: attendance can be registered on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/296505408296574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Welcome Fair Facebook event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adventure begins with Welcome Week &#8211; Monday 21st \u2013 Friday 25th September 2020 Welcome Week is the exciting period just prior to the start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/09\/17\/welcome-week-2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159347,159353,6599,6598,159354,124,6600,159350,127013],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323"}],"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=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}