Enrolment Management Services will be holding an Applicant Day on 16 March 2016 at the Canterbury campus.  These are essential recruitment events for the University.

To assist with this event 178 parking bays will be closed in Giles Lane blue zone car park.

All car parks in the centre of campus may be full before 09.00, which could mean you need to use the car parks within the Park Wood area.  There are parking bays available next to the Park Wood accommodation as well. We recommend that you consider allowing for the additional time that may be required to travel to and from Park Wood.

Pedestrian signs within Park Wood Courts, will inform you of the average time required to walk to the main campus. Alternatively, you can use the Park and Ride bus ticket that was sent with your parking permit to travel to and from the main campus.

Please remember that parking enforcement will continue in accordance with the University Regulations for the Management of Traffic.

On Friday 4 March, as part of an ongoing collaborative project, a group of students from the School of Music & Fine Art spent the night in Rochester Guildhall museum. The stay forms part of 2nd year BA Fine Art modules Place and Site and Practice and its Publics. Students are working in response to the museum and the collection. The project has included working closely with curators and museum staff who have given students virtually unlimited access to objects in storage areas, as well as public displays. The project culminates in an exhibition of student responses and proposals in the museum entitled Show don’t Tell.

As part of the modules students will present their proposals to a panel of museum staff and professionals from the local creative and cultural community.  University of Kent School of Journalism students will be also be writing an article, interviewing students and making a film about this exciting venture.

The exhibition will open on Friday 1 April, with a Private View from 17.30 – 20.00, and the exhibition will be open until Thursday 7 April.

On Wednesday 16 March, 2016 at 18.00 in Rutherford Lecture Theatre One, David Powell will be giving a Rutherford Grass Roots lecture, organised in conjunction with the English Speaking Union, entitled ‘Kent in Europe: The Referendum and the University’.

With the referendum on the European Union now imminent, the stakes for higher education are particularly high. University leaders have judged that the framework provided by EU membership is good both for students and research. They have therefore expressed their strong support for continued membership. This lecture will explore the issues around Europe and higher education and will consider in particular what Brexit would mean for the University of Kent – the UK’s European university and the Kent and Medway region.

David Powell retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2010, following his last appointment as the British Ambassador to Norway. His career in the public service included postings in the Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office. He has also served in Brussels and Tokyo. He has been Policy Advisor at the University of Kent since 2014, where his responsibilities include providing advice on the implications of government policies for the University.

All welcome.

Postgraduate students from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies will be participating at the 12th Roman Archaeology Conference at Sapienza University of Rome, an international conference organised by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, to be held on 16-20 March 2016.

PhD students Catherine Hoggarth and Jeff Veitch will be giving papers in a session organised by the Open University, our AHRC-funded Consortium for the Humanities and Arts, South East England (CHASE) partner, called ‘Sensing Rome: Sensory Approaches to Movement and Space’. Catherine will be reporting on her findings in relation to the sensory experience of crossing the Tiber via its various bridges, and Jeff will be presenting his new methodology for the recreation of sound in the ancient city of Ostia.

For our MA students, it will give them an experience of an academic conference and is integrated into their programme based at the Kent centre in Rome. Over four days, they will attend papers by leading academics in the field. Then, on the final day of the conference, they will join a study trip to the site of Portus, near Fiumucino Airport. The conference is an integral part of this year’s research training programme for Masters’ students in Ancient History, and in Roman History and Archaeology.

Professor Ray Laurence, one of the founders of Kent’s centre in Rome, will also be attending and will present two papers: one on the role of children in Pompeii and another on community building in ancient Rome.

For the full details , please see the online programme (PDF) available here:
www.antichita.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/allegati/1/RAC_PROGRAMME_0.pdf

Banish those winter blues by joining the Worldfest fun from 15-27 March.

The festival, organised by staff and students, celebrates diversity and  multiculturalism at the University. Highlights include:

• World food market outside Essentials in Canterbury from 21-24 March
• Poetry slam workshop and battle on Tuesday 22 March
• Paint-throwing fun for Holi on Wednesday 23 March
• Student societies perform at the International Student Showcase on Thursday 24 March

View the full programme.

School of Music & Fine Art Lecturers Tim Meacham and Adam Chodzko are 2 of the artists featured in Uncommon Chemistry, which runs from 20 March to 17 April at The Observer Buildings, Hastings.

Curated by Dan Howard-Birt, the exhibition explores the parallel artistic leitmotifs of material agency and arcane spirituality, and how the conscious engagement with one or other of these territories provides valuable analogies for the broader understanding of art-making and art-viewing.

There is always something which lurks beyond the artists control, which brings a work to life and enables it to mutate and evolve through different contexts of time and place.

Visit the Facebook event for more information https://www.facebook.com/events/221838461501852/ or go to http://observerbuildinghastings.co.uk/whats-next/

The exhibition is FREE to attend.

Representatives from the University, University of Bayreuth (Germany), and University of Porto (Portugal) and University of Cantabria (Spain) met in Santander, Spain, to exchange best practice and share details of their university student entrepreneurship programs.

For two days, representatives, who specialize in innovation and entrepreneurship from the four universities, exchanged proposals and developed a strategic alliance to implement a European entrepreneurship program across all four Universities. This was also an important opportunity for the University representatives to meet with students and entrepreneurs who are currently participating in the University of Cantabria e2 entrepreneurship programme.

The e2 program aims to encourage entrepreneurship among students and singular structure. The programme organizes interdisciplinary working groups formed by a ‘student tutor’ who coordinates four other students of different qualifications and for an ‘entrepreneur-mentor’ that guides and supports them to generate a business idea. The programme manages to combine ideas, enthusiasm and talent of young people with the experience of veterans of the business world.

Following on from this initial meeting, the four Universities agreed to continue to work with each other in the joint development of a methodology to serve as good practice for any university to develop the program, framing activities in the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/enterprise/hive/news/articles/articles/e2_2016_trip_santander.html