Monthly Archives: September 2015

Returning to Kent?

Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.

  • Timetables will be on the Student Guide before term starts on 28 September. Continue to go back and check your timetable regularly for updates including other events. Read our Timetabling FAQs.

 

  • You will need to register on SDS from Tuesday 22 September so we know you’re definitely coming back.

 

  • Term starts on Monday 28 September. Welcome Week is the week before (21-25 September). View term dates.

 

  • If you’ve got a new phone, tablet or laptop, get it Kent WiFi-ready before you come back to campus by running our WiFi setup tool.

 

  • Living off campus is very different from living in University accommodation. Read our community webpages for information on bills, bins, neighbours and much more!

Canterbury campus developments

  • Campus looks a bit different from when you last saw it. A big change is the new Templeman Library wing. There are over 500 new social, quiet and silent study spaces in Templeman West for you to use. Discover more about the changes in Templeman Library.

 

  • With the new space in the Templeman Library, the temporary study space in Senate will become staff offices for this academic year. Also, the Postgraduate Research Space will be in Oaks Study Hub from the start of term.

 

  • The new catering addition to the Canterbury campus, Hut8 at Turing College, opens in Welcome Week. Hut8 offers three eateries in one food-court style space – including pizza, fish and chips and flame-grilled BBQ items. You can eat in the restaurant seating area, or take advantage of the delivered takeaway service across the campus until late, seven days a week. Have a look at the Hut8 menus and online takeaway information.

Medway campus developments

  • Construction on your new Students’ Union building is moving along nicely. The new hording design will be in place for the start of term…you can’t miss it though, it’s bright purple!Listening events throughout the first term means you will have your say on the name of the new Student Hub. View a Q&A about the Student Hub, as well as all the latest photos.

 

 

 

Have a great 2015-16 at Kent!

Jeans for Genes Day at Medway

Friday 18 September 2015 is Jeans for Genes Day.

The University is taking part and in return for a donation of £2 (or more!) everyone can come to work in their jeans. If you normally wear jeans, you can still make a donation or do something a bit different (eg double denim).

1 in 25 children has a genetic disorder that makes their life very difficult. By wearing our jeans and donating, you will change the lives of these children.

There will be a donations bucket in the Medway Building Reception.

If you’d like to find out more about Jeans for Genes Day and how your support will help, please visit the website: www.jeansforgenesday.org

Linguistics graduate to edit history of Doctor Who

Emily Cook, a graduate from the MA in Linguistics and the BA (Hons) in English Language & Linguistics, has recently been appointed as editorial assistant for Doctor Who: The Complete History in association with Doctor Who Magazine, published by Panini.

Doctor Who: The Complete History is a part-work magazine series that will go behind the scenes of every single episode of the long-running sci-fi series, which started in 1963, covering the adventures of all twelve Doctors, from William Hartnell to Peter Capaldi. There will be 80 issues in total.

During her studies, Emily undertook the module Writing In The Media: A Practical Approach, which led her to a work experience placement with Doctor Who Magazine.

On her appointment, Emily said: ‘I am a big Doctor Who fan and have read Doctor Who Magazine avidly for years. When I picked up my first issue of DWM as a young teenager, I never ever dreamed I’d be working for them in years to come. So, it would be an understatement to say I’m extremely excited about this job! To be able to leave university and go into a job which will allow me to use the skills I learnt while studying linguistics at the University of Kent is very rewarding.’

Doctor Who: The Complete History is available from Wednesday 9 September. Full details can be found at: www.dwcompletehistory.com

KIE Macmillan Mini Fete and Coffee Morning

Have you been inspired by Bake Off? Are you a brilliant baker? If so, then please donate a cake or a raffle prize in support of KIE’s Macmillan Mini Fete and Coffee Morning.

As part of Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, Kent Innovation & Enterprise will be once again hosting a mini fete and coffee morning to help raise money for this very good cause. Last year we raised over £500, so please help us raise even more this year.

Cakes, sweet treats and drinks will be on sale with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support. Try your luck at the tombola and raffle too! The fete, which takes place on Friday 25 September, 11.00 to 14.30 on the Senate Lawn is a great opportunity to have fun at the Fresher’s Fayre and meet staff and students alike.

We couldn’t have raised so much money last year without kind donations from local businesses and University staff. We need your help once again to raise as much money as possible. Please help by:

  • Donating bottles (not empty, please!) for the tombola
  • Donating prizes for the raffle
  • Baking a cake and drop it off at our stall on the Senate Lawn at 10.00 on the day
  • Coming along and having fun.

There will be a prize for the best decorated cake so let’s see some showstoppers!

For more information, please email enterprise@kent.ac.uk.

Jeans for Genes Day – Friday 18 September

Friday 18 September 2015 is Jeans for Genes Day.

The University is taking part and in return for a donation of £2 (or more!) everyone can come to work in their jeans. If you normally wear jeans, you can still make a donation or do something a bit different (eg double denim).

You will find a collection box in:

  • Room 139a in the Registry, Canterbury
  • Medway Building Reception, Medway

Jeans for Genes Day raises money for Genetic Disorders UK, a charity that aims to transform the lives of children with genetic disorders. Funds raised will go to the vital care and support they urgently need.

If you’d like to find out more about Jeans for Genes Day and how our support will help, please visit their website.

Kent hosts BASR annual conference

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to be hosting the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) annual conference from the 7-9 September at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus.

The conference will explore the theme of ‘Religion in the Local and Global’ across a range of disciplinary perspectives, including religion, politics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy. The aim is to bring together a range of disciplinary perspectives on the study of religion to explore the local/global challenge to conventional assumptions about religion, both in empirical and theoretical perspectives. Each perspective seeks to set up a challenge to how different ways of thinking about religion are determined by interlocking global and local issues, concerns and social realities.

The conference will feature three keynote speakers: Professor Tulasi Srinivas (Emeron College, USA) on ‘The Cow in the Elevator: Wonder, Creativity and Ethical Life in a Capitalist World’, Professor Mia Lovheim (University of Uppsala, Sweden), on ‘Religion and Mediatized Publics’, and Professor Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) on ‘Religion and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Asia and the Rest’.

BASR aims to promote the academic study of religions through the international collaboration of all scholars whose research has a bearing on the subject.

Full details of the conference and the programme of events can be found at: blogs.kent.ac.uk/basr-conference