{"id":10793,"date":"2019-06-14T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2019-06-14T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:46:07","slug":"gordon-lynch-research-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/06\/14\/gordon-lynch-research-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lynch awarded University Research Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1660\/lynch-gordon\">Professor Gordon Lynch<\/a>, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded this year&#8217;s University Research Prize for Public Engagement with Research.<\/p>\n<p>The prize relates to work that Professor Lynch has undertaken on shaping public understanding and policy with regard to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/13\/gordon-lynch-british-child-migration\/\">history of UK child migration programmes<\/a> which sent around 100,000 children, unaccompanied by parents, to other parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth between 1869 and 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, Professor Lynch has been engaged in a range of underpinning research on the history of these child migration programmes which have included his monograph Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Bloomsbury, 2015) and other forthcoming articles on the post-war policy context for child migration programmes and systemic failures in post-war Catholic child migration schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded this year&#8217;s University Research Prize for Public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/06\/14\/gordon-lynch-research-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}