The fire alarm system at the Canterbury campus is now fully operational and the communication links between the affected buildings and Campus Security have been restored.
Thank you for your patience during this time.
Update at 10.07 on 31 August 2016.
Due to access control problems caused by a lightning strike, Postal Services staff have been unable to enter the Estates Post Room or their vehicles. Post deliveries and collections will be affected and it will not be possible to maintain normal schedules throughout the day.
All buildings should still receive at least one delivery/ collection during the day and outgoing mail should still be processed if it is received within reasonable time.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you have any queries please phone extn 3267’.
Gulbenkian are preparing for the annual bOing! International Family Festival which takes place on Saturday/Sunday (27-28 August).
As part of the festival, there is a stage being erected on the grass between Marlowe and the Senate building which will be used as a music stage by young people associated with ART31, a Kent-wide network funded by Gulbenkian, KCC and Arts Council England.
On Friday (26 August), this stage will be home to the annual Rock School who will be using it for rehearsals and performances. The rehearsals will take place during the day with the final performance planned for 14.00. The team will be monitoring the noise volume but there is likely to be some impact to those in the surrounding space.
Please do let any of the Gulbenkian team (in person or ext 3298) know if this activity proves to be disruptive.
To acknowledge your support, we are pleased to offer you and your families tickets to see Jasmin Vardimon Company’s Pinocchio on Sunday 28 August (either show) at 50% making a ticket £3. This is a brand new adaptation premiering at bOing! Festival and is suitable for ages 7+.
You can book these tickets by ringing box office on 01227 769075 OR at the counter (not via the website). There is no cap on the number of tickets you can buy, but tickets are subject to availability.
On 3 September 2016, Professor Núria Triana Toribio, Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, will be presenting at the forthcoming British Film Institute (BFI) study day,’The Almodóvar Connection: Spanish Cinema, History and Memory’.
Pedro Almodóvar is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer, who achieved international recognition for such films as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999) and Volver (2006). The BFI event is a study day that aims to use Almodóvar’s work as a starting point to unravel ideas about Spanish cinema, cinephilia, history, and memory. It forms part of retrospective season, ‘Almodóvar at BFI Southbank’, in anticipation of the release of his new film Julieta (2016).
Núria will be giving a presentation entitled ‘Pedro Almodóvar and the Legend of the Movida’. She will explore the singularity of Almodóvar’s cinema by tracing its roots to a Spanish Punk scene whose ferment generated photographers, artists, and musicians especially, but only one filmmaker who survived. It will consider how those films and their legacy shape contemporary memories of that unique moment in Spanish history. The talk will focus on Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Average Girls (1980) and Labyrinth of Passions (1982), those sunny chronicles of the Spanish Punk moment, in contrast with the darker visions of Arrebato (1980), the film from that period chosen by Almodóvar himself for the BFI.
The BFI is a London-based charitable organisation, established by Royal Charter to promote and preserve film and television. The event will be held at the BFI Southbank, a four-screen venue in London.
Sent in by: Kate Buchan
Exploring academics experiences and perceived role in working with students with mental health problems
We are conducting a research study exploring academics experiences and perceived role in working with students with mental health problems, and would like to invite academics to participate in an online survey. In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of mental health problems amongst university students, however, there is little research into academics perspectives of mental health issues amongst their students.
The survey will be anonymous and will take 15-20 minutes to complete.
If you have any questions or concerns about the study, please don’t hesitate to contact Dr Sara Spear & Dr Yvette Morey, Faculty of Business & Law, University of the West of England via telephone (0117 3287658) or email.
Sent in by: Sara Spear
This year, we are extending the Aurora programme to include special sessions open to ALL staff at the University. The first event will be on Friday 9 September 2016, 9.30 – 12.30.
The event will be hosted by our new Aurora Champion for this year Yvonne Sherwood, Professor of Religious Studies, and we are delighted to have Michelle Ryan, Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Exeter, UK and a (part-time) Professor of Diversity at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, delivering a talk on women’s leadership. Research into the glass cliff was named by the New York Times as one of the top 100 ideas that shaped 2008.
Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women’s leadership roles in times of crisis examines what happens when women begin to take on leadership roles in increasing numbers. Extending the metaphor of the glass ceiling, ‘the glass cliff’ describes a leadership phenomenon whereby women are more likely to be found in leadership positions that are associated with a greater risk of failure and criticism.
This talk will describe a decade’s worth of research which has uncovered the phenomenon of the glass cliff looking at archival research into company performance, experimental laboratory studies, and interviews with female leaders. We will also examine some of the underlying psychological processes: stereotypes, support networks, and organisational strategy. Implications for gender equality initiatives and for women who are aiming for leadership roles will be discussed.
To register your interest in attending the event, please could you email the Learning and Development team ldev@kent.ac.uk by Wednesday 31 August 2016.
Artist Shona Illingworth, Fine Art Reader and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music and Fine Art, currently has work in the exhibition States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness at the Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London. Running until 16 October, the exhibition features a series of installations that include Shona Illingworth’s Time Present, which considers the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory.
Recently shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 Jarman Award, the widely exhibited Illingworth works across sound, film, video, photography, drawing and painting. Her work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with emerging neuropsychological models of memory and critical approaches to memory studies) with publicly engaged practice.
Illingworth recently chaired and presented a seminar with Jill Bennett at ICOM (International Conference on Memory) in Budapest. Perspectives on Amnesia was an interdisciplinary investigation of memory loss, combining perspectives from arts and cognitive neuropsychology and the value of creative approaches in understanding the day-to-day experience of memory loss.
Sent in by: Jane Seaman
Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.
Have a great 2016-17 at Kent!
Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.
Have a great 2016-17 at Kent!
The University of Kent featured in the BBC R4 series, Our Man in Greeneland.
Episode 4 of the series, broadcast on Monday 22 August, featured the BBC’s man in Havana, Will Grant, following in the footsteps of Graham Greene’s novel and screenplay, Our Man in Havana. Will mentioned that he grew up in Canterbury and was introduced to classic films by his father, Michael Grant, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Kent until his retirement.
You can listen to the broadcast on the BBC webpages.