{"id":3009,"date":"2016-09-23T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:17:41","slug":"autumn-pubtalk-series-starts-6-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/09\/23\/autumn-pubtalk-series-starts-6-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn pubTALK series starts 6 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Q-Step team is\u00a0pleased to announce its\u00a0autumn series of pubTALK nights.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018pubTALK\u2019 is a series of informal talks about real-world issues, held on the first Thursday of every month (19.00 to 21.00) at The Jolly Sailor, 75 Northgate, Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>Each month, we have an expert giving a talk on a social issue and then the floor is open up to discussions all whilst enjoying a drink or two! The talk is for staff, students, the general public -anyone who is interested is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Our first talk on Thursday 6 October is by Dr Amir-Homayoun Javadi on \u2018the pursuit of the super you\u2019,\u00a0who will be discussing whether we should (or should not) use electrical brain stimulation to make a super-you.<\/p>\n<p>This will be followed on Thursday 3 November by a discussion on \u2018the importance of the social sciences in vaccine uptake\u2019\u00a0by our guest speakers, Richard Clark and Rose Wilson from the London School of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine on Thursday 3 November.<\/p>\n<p>The last talk in this term\u2019s series will be given on Thursday 1 December by Dr Tina Haux on the subject of \u2018lone parents and welfare reform\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the evenings are free to attend (although you do need to pay for your own drinks!) and all are welcome to stay behind to continue the discussions afterwards. You can get up-to-date information via our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/qstep\">website<\/a> or by joining our mailing list: <a href=\"mailto:qstep-events@kent.ac.uk\">qstep-events@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n<p>Keli Jenner\/ Joe Warriner<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:qstepinfo@kent.ac.uk\">qstepinfo@kent.ac.uk <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Q-Step team is\u00a0pleased to announce its\u00a0autumn series of pubTALK nights. \u2018pubTALK\u2019 is a series of informal talks about real-world issues, held on the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/09\/23\/autumn-pubtalk-series-starts-6-october\/\">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":[139963],"tags":[210815,124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"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=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}