{"id":5852,"date":"2021-10-15T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:46:33","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2021\/10\/15\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-socrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We caught up with the President of Socrates, Sarah Saeed, to learn more about the student society for SSPSSR students<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Socrates and who is it for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Socrates is an academic society for students studying modules or degree courses at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you on social media?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you\u2019ll find us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/socrates_sspssr\/\">@socrates_sspssr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s planned for the upcoming term?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far we&#8217;ve planned a Halloween movie night on Monday 25 October. We don\u2019t yet have any more events planned but more on this to come later on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So who\u2019s running Socrates?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far it is only me and Isabel, but we are getting more committee members as we speak so watch this space!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President:<\/strong> Sarah Saeed, Sociology and Social Policy with a Year in Data Analytics &#8211; <strong>Fun Fact: <\/strong>&#8220;In my spare time, I like to journal and write letters to my penpals. I currently have 16 penpals all over the world&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vice President<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Isabel Fern\u00e1ndez, Cultural Studies and Media and Journalism &#8211; <strong>Fun Fact<\/strong>: &#8220;Absolutely terrified of rocking chairs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Can you give us five good reasons to get involved with Socrates:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a completely FREE society to join<\/li>\n<li>You get to meet like-minded people who are on your course and studying the same (or similar) thing as you<\/li>\n<li>You get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employability-points\">Employability Points<\/a> &#8211; joining an academic society gives you Employability Points!<\/li>\n<li>We provide essay help<\/li>\n<li>We discuss really interesting topics that could then be used in your own classes. We hope to host a debate night at some point this term!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OK, I\u2019m in. Where do I sign?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/socrates_sspssr\/\">Instagram<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/kentunion.co.uk\/activities\/socratessspssr\">visit the Kent Union website<\/a> and select \u2018join\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/socrates.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5853\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/socrates.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught up with the President of Socrates, Sarah Saeed, to learn more about the student society for SSPSSR students What is Socrates and who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2021\/10\/15\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-socrates\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":5854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,28766],"tags":[221042],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852"}],"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\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}