{"id":2505,"date":"2015-03-26T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2021-04-10T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T11:27:39","slug":"new-pears-philanthropy-fellow-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/03\/26\/new-pears-philanthropy-fellow-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pears Philanthropy Fellow announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s first dedicated philanthropy university teaching post has been appointed at Kent following a \u00a3156,000 donation from the <a title=\"Pears Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsfoundation.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pears Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Triona Fitton will take up the appointment on 1 September. As the first Pears Philanthropy Fellow, she will lead the launch of the University\u2019s new MA in Philanthropic Studies, which is due to welcome its first students in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Based within the <a title=\"Centre for Philanthropy \" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/philanthropy\/index.html\">Centre for Philanthropy<\/a>, Dr Fitton will work on developing the new MA\u2019s teaching programme, which will be delivered by distance learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.kent.ac.uk\/media\/news\/2015\/03\/Dr-Triona-Fitton-e1427289967198.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4650\" src=\"https:\/\/static.kent.ac.uk\/media\/news\/2015\/03\/Dr-Triona-Fitton-e1427289967198.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Triona Fitton\" width=\"116\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>Dr Fitton, who was previously at the University of York, will bring four years\u2019 experience of philanthropy for the charity shop sector and community outreach to the new role.<\/p>\n<p>Although established in the US since the 1970s, philanthropic studies is a new field of academic study in the UK. Students may go on to work in charities, often as CEOs or fundraisers, or go into a related field, such as grant-making or philanthropy advising. Some philanthropists also choose to take these courses to better understand the role of philanthropy and improve the effectiveness of their giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s first dedicated philanthropy university teaching post has been appointed at Kent following a \u00a3156,000 donation from the Pears Foundation. Dr Triona Fitton will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/03\/26\/new-pears-philanthropy-fellow-announced\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,69],"tags":[124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}