{"id":2261,"date":"2021-03-11T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2021-03-11T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:05:14","slug":"future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/03\/11\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Threats and Opportunities: competition for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has launched a quest to uncover visions of the future from the brightest student minds in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students currently based at UK academic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Entrants must answer the question: what do you believe to be the future threats or opportunities facing UK defence and security over the next 25 years?<\/p>\n<p>The 5 finalists will be invited to (virtually) present their essay to a panel of senior current and former government officials, before the final winner is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will receive a \u00a3250 prize and the top 5 will receive certificates of commendation.<\/p>\n<p>More detail here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 id=\"how-to-enter\">How to enter<\/h5>\n<p>Submit your essays to\u00a0<a class=\"govuk-link\">futuresessaycompetition@dstl.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The competition closes on 16 May 2021 and the virtual presentation and announcement of winners will take place in June.<\/p>\n<p>All entrants who place within the top 10 will be asked to submit a picture of their student ID for verification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students\">Read the Essay guidance before entering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has launched a quest to uncover visions of the future from the brightest student minds in the UK. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/03\/11\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,112,5343,205133,205130,205131,205132,178026],"tags":[19174,872,175901,57948,37,149978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}