A new pilot phase of the government’s Settled Status scheme is now open to EU citizens at Kent.

What is the EU Settlement Scheme?

In advance of the UK’s exit from the EU on 29 March 2019, the UK government has committed to protect the rights of EU citizens and their family members currently living in the UK. To retain these rights after 31 December 2020, EU citizens must apply for UK immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Further detail on the Settlement Scheme can be found on GOV.UK.

What is the pilot?

The Home Office is testing the Scheme through a series of pilots ahead of the public launch. This second phase of the pilot runs until 21 December 2018 and covers employees in the higher education and health and social care sectors.

Participation in this pilot allows EU citizens to apply early and gives the Home Office an opportunity to test the application process. Successful applicants will not need to apply again for the same status once the scheme opens fully next year.

Making an application during this pilot phase is entirely voluntary and there will be no change to the current rights under EU law until the end of the planned implementation period on 31 December 2020. For those who choose not to apply during this phase, the scheme is fully open by 30 March 2019 and at any time up until 30 June 2021.

Irish citizens enjoy a right of residence in the UK that is not reliant on the UK’s membership of the EU. They will not be required to apply for status under the EU Settlement Scheme, but may do so if they wish.

Further information on the Scheme can be found on the HR EU Referendum webpages or enquires can be sent to staffEUqueries@kent.ac.uk

Colleagues are invited to the CSHE Seminar taking place on Thursday 22 November, from 13.00-14.00 in the UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury.

The seminar, on using multidimensional methods in higher education research: The case for critical discourse analysis, will be presented by Dr Karen Smith, School of Education, University of Hertfordshire.

In this seminar, Dr Karen Smith will share her experiences of using critical discourse analysis (CDA) in higher education research. She will discuss her initial work, which focused on the textual analysis of policy documents. She will then go on to talk through how she developed her work following a literature review exploring how CDA was being used more broadly in higher education research. Karen will use research, published in HERD, which combined textual analysis of a policy text with in-depth interviews with policy-makers and policy users as an example to talk through the methodological choices she made. Karen will finish by sharing her ongoing collaborative research that combines methods from corpus linguistics with focus groups and interviews, reflecting on the challenges Karen and her co-author have faced in the writing up of this kind of research.

Please see abstract.

To confirm your attendance please complete the online booking form.

The next meetings of The Kent Enterprise and Impact Network (KEIN) will take place on:

Wednesday, 21st November, 12:00 – 14:00, Keynes, KS14 – Canterbury Campus

AND

Wednesday 28th November, 12:30pm – 14:00pm, G2-03 – Medway Campus

To book please email please email entadmin@kent.ac.uk and specify any dietary or access requirements

KEIN, a network jointly created by Kent Innovation & Enterprise and Learning and Organisational Development, brings together staff interested in collaboration. Academics, researchers, technicians and other members of staff can explore innovation and enterprise activities, maximising the impact of their work, and alternative sources of funding, in an informal setting.

In these sessions we will we will hear from Dr Fernando Otero, School of Computing, sharing how a passion for data mining and knowledge discovery has led to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with a social networking start-up company. In Canterbury, we will hear from a KBS colleague, Dr Antonis Alexandridis, and his experience of delivering consultancy to banks across southern Europe. The talks will be followed with a Q+A on enterprise. The event will start with a networking lunch and all University staff are welcome to attend.

To reserve your place at the session, including a free light lunch, please email entadmin@kent.ac.uk and specify any dietary or access requirements. You are welcome to turn up on the day without booking and feel free to bring your lunch with you.