Student Ambassadors play a vital role in helping potential students to think about whether they would like to study in higher education (HE) generally, what subjects they might like to study and if they might like to become students at the University.

Student Ambassadors have been supporting the University’s outreach programme for over a decade ‘our outreach programme reaches over 10,000 local students a year and focuses upon study at HE’ including everything from large awareness raising events to small scale subject-specific experiences. The successful scheme has also been extended to support student recruitment activities across the University and this work concentrates particularly on applying to Kent.

The Student Ambassador Scheme offers a real opportunity for students to improve their employability skills by undertaking a range of different activities, as well as improving their subject knowledge, while representing the University. These events take place on campus or in local schools, further education colleges or community settings.

Academic schools or professional service departments are able to recruit their own Undergraduate and/or Postgraduate Student Ambassadors. Funding to support outreach work is offered through the outreach budget within each academic school and full training is provided to Ambassadors by the Training Team within the Partnership Development Office.

Two documents are available for academic schools that already recruit or wish to recruit Student Ambassadors:

• A Recruitment Policy and Procedures document outlining the correct process for recruiting Student Ambassadors as well as useful advice and best practice approach
• An Ambassador Scheme Development Briefing document outlining recent and upcoming changes and developments to the Ambassador Scheme including information about the rollout of the new HEAT database across the University

These documents can be found on the student ambassador scheme website, along with further information and useful contact information.

Wednesday 9 December, 11.15 – 18.00, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

Sponsored by the University and organised by Dr Andrew Conio, Programmes Director, Fine Art and Event and Experience Design, School of Music and Fine Art, Liquidity, a cross-disciplinary forum creates a provocative encounter between philosophy, geography, psychoanalysis, high finance, film, economics, art and activism. With papers from Professor Philip Goodchild, Professor John Russell, Oliver Ressler, Angus Cameron, Anastasios Gaitanidis, James Buckley, Georgious Papadopoulos and films from Ami Clarke and Hillary Koob-Sassen, the symposium takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Every society in history has created economic, social and political systems to channel flows into things, functional processes and systems. This symposium asks; to what extent do the Quadrillions of dollars channeled through markets every day determine the ontological horizons and conditions of possibility of life. How are the flows of money and life’s imminent flows consiliant or forced into disjunctive relation, how does the artist capture these flows?

The School of Music and Fine Art is proud to be an affiliate partner with the ICA,, London’s foremost multi-disciplinary arts centre. All new SMFA students are offered FREE memberships and the ICA has a series of rolling internships with the Creative Team, providing a fantastic opportunity to gain work experience in one of the UK’s flagship arts institutions.

For more on the symposium go to https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/symposium-liquidity

Dr Anna Jordanous, Lecturer in the School of Computing has completed a ‘wet, windy, rainy, and crazily muddy’ marathon to fundraise for a friend.

Anna completed the Thames Meander Marathon in aid of her friend and collaborator Alan Stanley who was recently paralysed in an accident.

‘I finished my marathon, running every step of the way and running a personal best of 4:38. I’m very happy indeed, as I had a target of 4:45 to beat and my previous best was 4:56.’

‘More than once on the day of the marathon, it helped me a lot to think about my friend Alan, for whom I am raising money. It makes fundraising very personal when you can see exactly where that money will go and what it will do for a person’s life.’
‘If anyone else would still like to sponsor me, then that would be great! You can donate online if you don’t mind donating in Canadian dollars and can find out more about the circumstances that have led up to Alan needing donations’