{"id":2883,"date":"2016-05-11T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:28","slug":"2016-postgraduate-festival-on-the-theme-understanding-and-influencing-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/05\/11\/2016-postgraduate-festival-on-the-theme-understanding-and-influencing-society\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Postgraduate Festival on the theme &#8216;Understanding and Influencing Society&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 6th Annual Postgraduate Festival on the theme &#8216;Understanding and Influencing Society&#8217;\u00a0 is an event open to all postgraduate students, Taught Masters and Research, as well as academic staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival is a great opportunity for postgraduates, including a number from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, to showcase their research to fellow students and staff through academic posters, models or displays and presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the 2016 festival include:-<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Academic question time with a panel including Dr Ellie Lee (Reader in Social Policy)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Keynote address by Ulrike Hotopp, Chief Economist Simetrica<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Kent 3MT\u00ae competition final<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Postgraduate research presentations including Clare Melvin on &#8216;Treatment Effectiveness for Offenders with Autism Spectrum Conditions: A Systematic Review&#8217;, Melina Malli on<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not being rude, I\u2019d want somebody normal\u201d: Adolescents\u2019 perception of their peers with Tourette\u2019s syndrome: an exploratory study&#8217; and Mark Brown \u201cI wish had learnt to keep myself safe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Postgraduate displays\u00a0and posters<\/p>\n<p>The festival is in the Wolff Building on Friday 20th May 2016 from 09.30 to 18.00.<\/p>\n<p>For more information email: graduate school@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>or see https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschool\/news\/pgfestival.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 6th Annual Postgraduate Festival on the theme &#8216;Understanding and Influencing Society&#8217;\u00a0 is an event open to all postgraduate students, Taught Masters and Research, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/05\/11\/2016-postgraduate-festival-on-the-theme-understanding-and-influencing-society\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"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\/41569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}