From 23-27 March, the Kent Bunny will be hiding 50 golden eggs across the University’s campuses.
If you find a golden egg you will be entered into a prize draw to win one of 50 prizes up for grabs. Prizes include an iPad mini, Amazon vouchers, sports massages at Kent Sport, mini Kent bunnies, University of Kent monopoly boards, lots of chocolate eggs and much more!
Visit the 50th anniversary webpages next week for the clues.
Have fun!
The Staff Induction and Information will be taking place on Monday 23 March 2015 in the Darwin Conference Suites.
We warmly welcome all staff, regardless of length of service, to come along and visit the Information Fair, to browse the many stalls on offer showcasing University services and benefits for staff.
Please feel free to drop by the Darwin Conference Suites between 1.15pm and 1.30pm.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Kent Hospitality are looking for members of staff to act as mystery diners. We’re giving you the chance to eat for free in seven different catering outlets before 10 April. In return we’ll ask you to give us feedback on each of your visits.
If you are based in Canterbury and would like to get involved (and haven’t done so before) drop us an email to catering@kent.ac.uk by 16:00 today (Friday 20 March), telling us why you’d be a good Mystery Diner. Please indicate in your email that you are a member of staff.
For Comic Relief this year, Nikki Ellis has been holding lunchtime crochet lessons in the School of Maths, Statistics and Actuarial Science.
Six staff have signed up for lessons as complete beginners and over three days will be making an owl mug cosy.
Nikki says: ‘It’s been a lot of fun teaching and learning a new skill. We’ve raised £90 for Comic Relief and we hope that every little bit helps. Hopefully, we will be able to do something like this again later in the year.’
The Centre for Professional Practice will be hosting an Open Lecture by Dr Mike Nicholls on the topic of Work is the Curriculum.
‘Work based learning’ has been described as ‘a mode of learning and field of study allied to the Social Sciences’ (Portwood, 2000), while Boud and Solomon (2001) maintain that ‘work is the curriculum’, and that it is the workplace and not an academic discipline which frames work based learning.
The presentation will chart the professional journey of a traditionally trained natural scientist seeking to harmonise these polarised views of work based learning in generic Professional Studies university programmes. Seats are limited so please email cppmedway@kent.ac.uk to reserve a seat by Friday 22nd May 2015.
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This new app is brought to you by the University of Kent’s Student Support and Wellbeing team, Kent Sport and Kent Union.
Students and staff will require the organisation code ‘KENT1‘ to sign up.
Kent’s SpaceSoc is organising events associated with the eclipse on Friday March 20.
Between 8:15 and 10:45am, there will be viewing apparatus (eclipse viewers), information and guided commentary provided by amateur and professional astronomers. The event will take place at the site of the University Observatories located just behind Parkwood at Hothe Court (park at Woodys, follow signs or guides).
In the evening, Stargazing Live will take place at the same site from 6:30pm. Assuming clear skies, the main objects in the sky including Venus, Jupiter, Orion, Cassiopae and Polaris will be pointed out, and the moons of Jupiter and the galaxy Andromeda seen through the SpaceSoc telescope. The site of the University¹s exciting new Beacon Observatory can also be inspected.
All are welcome to both events, no charge. Note that the maximum eclipse of 86% will occur in Canterbury at 9:31am. Fingers crossed for clear skies!
Full details are available at: http://astro.kent.ac.uk/mds/eclipse.html
LOCATION: The Observatories are opposite Hothe Court:
Park Wood
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 9DU
(go to end of Parkwood and turn left down the Crab & Winckle).
Funding for All delivers the annual Kent and Medway Funding Fair. This year’s Funding Fair is being held on Tuesday 21st April in Chatham at the University of Kent’s Medway Campus.
The Funding Fair is delivered for the benefit of community/voluntary groups, charities and social enterprises. It gives groups the opportunity to meet a variety of funders face-to-face, attend their and other funding related seminars, book into one-to-one sessions with funding advisors and meet with support organisations including Councils For Voluntary Services and other specialist organisations who can advise on opportunities for other income, thereby reducing the reliance on grants.
The Funding Fair also boasts an impressive Market Place with a variety of funders, support organisations and local community projects.
Your ticket includes a delegate pack, lunch, teas and coffees and attendance at 4 seminars of your choice. We are also pleased to announce we have some free funded places with travel expenses for groups working with the unemployed who have barriers to employment.
To find out more and to book your places, go to the Funding For All website.
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, has just published its new season programme. And, as the University is a corporate member, staff can benefit from early booking, discounted tickets, special corporate member post-show receptions and money off refreshments.
Highlights of the new season include a revival of Barnum starring Brian Conley, new production of the classic musical Oklahoma!, return of Glyndebourne On Tour, Northern Ballet’s Wuthering Heights, orchestral concerts from Philharmonia Orchestra and debut visit of The Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Full details of these and other shows are available in the new brochure on the Marlowe Theatre Website.
Further information on the Marlowe offers can be found as follows:
Tickets can be booked through the Marlowe Box Office – you will need to state you are a member of the University of Kent Staff – from Monday 23 March. Public booking opens on 7 April.
Dr William Rowlandson from the Department of Hispanic Studies was interviewed on Tuesday 17 March on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland.
He commented on the investigation into the remains of the popular Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, following the discovery of a coffin in a convent in Madrid with the author’s initials engraved on the lid.
Miguel de Cervantes was one of the most influential novelists of his time and his pioneering novel, Don Quixote, is regarded as one of the best works of fiction ever written.
William discussed the significance of the discovery of one of Spain’s national treasures and how Cervantes’ own account of his wounds, inflicted during the Battle of Lepanto, would have helped to identify the remains. The interview can be heard on the BBC’s iPlayer and occurs 01:17:44 minutes into the programme.