Our Enrolment Management Services Team will be taking photos of the Medway campus on Wednesday 21 September 2016. If you would prefer not to be featured in the photos please let the photographer know if you see them near you.

A series of paintings of EU citizens by British artists comes to the Drill Hall Library on the Medway Campus.

A Portrait of Europe: Euro Stars

The exhibition A Portrait of Europe: Euro Stars is being held by the Kent-based IMOS Foundation under its founder and creative director, Briony Kapoor, in conjunction with the University of Kent and hosted by the SMFA.

It opens from 10am to 4pm daily until Friday 7 October and is free to view.

The artists’ brief was to identify one individual from each of the 28 EU member states who would become the subject of a painting – the challenge for visitors is to identify the different nationalities of the subjects of the paintings.

The University Teaching Prizes 2016 awards ceremony takes places on Wednesday 5 October 2016 from 12.30-14.00 in the Darwin Conference Suite. Prizes will be awarded by the Vice-Chancellor.

All colleagues and friends are welcome to join in this annual celebration of excellent teaching at Kent.

Please notify cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk if you wish to attend. A buffet lunch will be provided, so please let us know of any special dietary requirements.

For details of this year’s winners, please see the UELT webpages.

You will notice a few changes in today’s KENT Staff online!

We are piloting a new look for Kent’s newsletters – including better branding for easier recognition, bolder colours and introducing images – all designed to help you get more out of the content.

This new newsletter layout is also being used for our monthly student newsletter and may be used, in due course, as a template for other University-wide newsletters.

We’d love to hear what you think of the changes. Please let us know by emailing communications@kent.ac.uk.

Wendy Raeside and Etienne Donzelot

The Pride (‘Personal responsibility in delivering excellence’) Award recognises members of Kent Hospitality staff who go out of their way to deliver excellent customer service.

Any Kent Hospitality staff (permanent or casual) may be nominated from Canterbury and Medway campuses. The award is given in April, October and December and with each winner receiving £100 of shopping vouchers.

Nominations can be made by any member of University staff, students or visitors.  Red nomination boxes are located in all Kent Hospitality’s catering outlets in Canterbury and Medway, as well College reception areas. Alternatively, you can download the form and email it to Diba Artingstoll.

Please make your nominations detailed and provide as much information as possible. The panel looks for staff who achieve more than what is expected in their role.

The deadline for the next award is 13.00, Thursday 28 September 2016.

For further information, contact/see: Diba Artingstoll at Tanglewood (email d.artingstoll@kent.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1227 823007).

We are working with Arriva Bus company to improve the bus services to Medway campus.

As a trial for 2016/17, the 191 service will now operate to and from Liberty Quays – Campus- Chatham- Isle of Grain. This includes stopping on Pembroke campus and at Western Avenue and Dock Road for access to the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

This will help students and staff getting to campus, particularly students travelling between Liberty Quays and the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

The 191 trial will come into effect from 18 September 2016 and will be monitored over the academic year. Please provide feedback to the Transport Team – transport@kent.ac.uk.

Don’t forget to check out the discounted tickets, routes and timetables online. The annual student and staff tickets allow travel on any Arriva bus all over Medway, Kent and East Sussex. The student annual ticket is £140 which works out as only 39p per day!

Look out for the Transport Team, Estates, over Arrivals Weekend and the coming weeks where you can ask any questions and pick up timetables, leaflets and freebies.

For more information follow @unikent_travel on Twitter or visit our transport news webpages.

Transport Team

01227 82 3609   transport@kent.ac.uk   @unikent_travel   www.kent.ac.uk/transport

Have you ever wanted to take to the stage?  Now is your chance! Choreographer Gary Clarke is looking for four women, aged 30-plus and preferably with links to the mining industry, to join him, his seven dancers and a live brass quintet on stage as COAL comes to Gulbenkian, Canterbury, on Friday 28 October.

Hailed by critics as “urgent and heroic” and “emotional dynamite”, Gary Clarke Company’s COAL is a riveting dance theatre show that takes a nostalgic but honest look at the hard hitting realities of life at the coal face. The back-breaking physical graft and the impact it makes on body and soul, both underground and on the surface.

The four women will feature in a small section of the show and play members of the women’s union ‘Women Against Pit Closures’ established in 1984.

The selected women – who will receive a food and travel allowance to cover rehearsals as well as two complimentary tickets to the show – will perform alongside and be supported by acclaimed dance artist TC Howard. No stage or dance experience is necessary, although the role will involve some physical work. Gary Clarke and TC Howard will work with everyone’s individual needs and abilities.

Anybody interested in finding out more about the production and the involvement needed, should apply to attend an open workshop at Gulbenkian on Tuesday 4 October from 18.30-20.30. The workshop is an opportunity to meet Gary Clarke & TC Howard, find out more about the production, ask questions and try out some ideas for the show.

For any inquiries or to register interest in the workshop e-mail Laura Barber at engagementcoal@gmail.com or call 07391 621966. For more information, please visit: http://coaltour.co.uk/engagement/call-out-for-women/

The Campus Shuttle booking system is now open. Book a seat.

Registration is now open for a conference entitled ‘Sensory Theory, Methodology & Experience: Contemporary & Classical Perspectives’ organised by Dr Kelli Rudolph and Dr Patty Baker from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies, together with Dr Carolina Vasilikou from the Kent School of Architecture. The conference will take place on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November 2016, in the Digital Crit Space at the University of Kent.

This international workshop explores approaches to sensory studies across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together experts from classics, philosophy, sociology, archaeology, history, literature, architecture and the arts, it will examine the usefulness of existing sensory theories for developing innovative approaches to the multi-disciplinary study of historical periods like Graeco-Roman antiquity, where the evidence ‘both material and literary’ is fragmentary and disparate.

Speakers include Monica Degen (Brunel University London), Astrid Swenson (Brunel University London), Ben Jacks (Miami University, Ohio), Martin Welton (Queen Mary University), Annette Kern-Stahler (University of Bern) and Louise Richardson (University of York).

The deadline for registration is Monday 24 October 2016.

Full details and how to register are available at: blogs.kent.ac.uk/senses