Unfortunately the Galvanising Café at the Historic Dockyard is closed on temporary basis. The closure is due to further work required by the contractor.
We hope this work won’t take long and the Galvanising Café will be open for business again soon.
In the meantime, please see the other food options and discounts available at the Historic Dockyard.
Do you care for or know someone with stroke? Have you had a stroke yourself?
Are you interested in learning about research into how stroke survivors manage medicines?
Come to the Medway School of Pharmacy’s open event in the Pilkington Building on the Medway campus on Friday 25 November 14.00 – 16.00 to learn about our research on this and more.
After a stroke, taking medicines reduces the risk of more strokes. But not all people take these medicines as often as they should and there is no long term support to help them with medicines.
Our research explores how pharmacists can help and should be of interest to stroke survivors, their carers and relatives, health professionals who care for stroke survivors and patient groups.
To find out more or to book a free place, contact: r.brown-549@kent.ac.uk
The latest issue of Medway Staff Briefing is now available online.
Features in the 28 October 2016 issue include:
The next issue of Medway Staff Briefing will be published on Friday 17 February 2017. Please submit copy to Denise Flockhart, PA to Vice-Chancellor (Medway), by Friday 3 February 2017.
A selection of productivity tools and assistive technology software is available to help access material in supporting preferred methods of working, enhance productivity and save time.
There are a wide range of options available including:
You can start using the above on the University’s productivity tools and assistive technology webpages.
Accessible teaching and learning guidance for staff
Guidance on how to make learning and teaching resources more accessible to everyone. These include practical tips on:
Read the guidance online.
Accessibility guidance in relation to Word and PowerPoint is now also linked to in the Good Moodle Guide (GMG).
We have also produced a guide to accessibility features in Moodle and advice on adjusting settings.
Sent in by: b.watson@kent.ac.uk
Members of the University are invited to come together to observe a minute’s silence for Remembrance Day on Friday 11 November, when third-year trumpeter and Music Scholarship student Alex Reid will play ‘The Last Post.’
The event will take place on the lawn outside the Registry Building on 11 November at 11am; all are invited, members of the public are also welcome to attend.
This will be followed at 1.10pm by a lunchtime concert focusing on poet and composer Ivor Gurney. Arranged by Dr Kate Kennedy, the event dramatises Gurney’s life as musician, soldier and eventually asylum patient, following his progress in his own words and music, with humour and poignancy. Admission free.
Why should we care about the effects of climate change in the Polar Regions? What is so special about polar geology, ecology, and the communities that live there?
Join The Historic Dockyard Chatham and The National Maritime Museum to hear voices from the worlds of science, art, history and beyond: Claire Warrior, Senior Curator of Exhibitions at The National Maritime Museum, Simon Boxall, Principal Teaching Fellow within Ocean and Earth Science at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton and Lucy Wood, director of Cape Farewell.
It is free of charge and open to all aged 16+.
When: 23 November 2016, starting at 13.30 (with a viewing of The Historic Dockyard Chatham’s temporary exhibition Pole of Cold), and finishing at 16.00
Where: The Historic Dockyard Chatham in No.1 Smithery
To reserve a ticket, or a number of tickets for a group, contact Vicky Price on 01634 823860 or vprice@chdt.org.uk.
The University has invested in the refurbishment of a room within the Medway Building in order to provide an on-site first aid/medical room (M0-04). It is envisaged that we will have a number of organisations use the room in order to provide a range of health services. We are pleased to be able to inform you that the first of the organisations to be located within the medical room is a Nurse Practitioner from the Sunlight Surgery.
The Sunlight Surgery clinic will be held on Thursdays during term time from 11.00 to 15.00 (finish time)
The clinics are aimed primarily at Sunlight patients but the Nurse Practitioner does have the ability to register patients at the point of contact.
The clinic is aimed at ailments that need an urgent appointment, for example, sudden onset of abdominal pain, productive cough, sore throats, urinary infections, morning after pill, the generally unwell etc. The clinic is nurse practitioner led with GP back up at Sunlight Surgery.
Dr Anna Strhan, Lecturer in Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, is to be interviewed about her book, Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (OUP, 2015) on the BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed at 16.00 on Wednesday 9 November 2016.
Thinking Allowed is a radio discussion programme focusing on the latest social science research. It is hosted by Laurie Taylor, who was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of York, and was first broadcast in 1998.
Anna’s book is a study of everyday religious lives in London, and examines what it means to hold on to a strong religious identity in a secular city, focusing on a conservative evangelical church, St John’s. The book describes how members of St John’s see themselves as increasingly countercultural, moving against the grain of wider culture in London and in British society, yet they also take pride in this, and see it as a central element of being Christian. Providing more nuanced understanding of conservative forms of religion than simplistic portraits of evangelical others, the book opens up new understanding of how evangelicals find ways of negotiating anxieties, sensitivities, vulnerabilities and human frailties that characterize social life more broadly. The book was in the final shortlist of six for this year’s BBC/BSA Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.
The programme will be available after it has been broadcast on the BBC’s iPlayer at: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05
The impact of austerity measures and UK housing laws on EU and non-EU citizens will be addressed in a guest lecture to be delivered by Richard Drabble QC at Kent on Thursday 17 November.
The lecture, open to all and hosted jointly by Kent Law School and the Canterbury Housing Advice Centre http://www.chac.co.uk/ (CHAC), will be the third annual lecture held to raise awareness of the important work CHAC undertakes supporting people in the local community at risk of facing homelessness.
CHAC, founded in 1991, is chaired by Law School Lecturer Nick Piska. The charity’s specialist caseworkers provide support to people in Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay who may be facing eviction or repossession or who may be seeking advice on mortgage arrears, tenancy rights and housing benefit.
Richard Drabble QC http://www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/richard_drabble, an advocate from Landmark Chambers, has a wide knowledge of housing related laws and problems. His main areas of interest involve the impact austerity measures have on local authorities and the way in which national laws treat EU and non-EU citizens. Recognised as a leader in the fields of administrative law, planning and local government law, Richard was called to the Bar in 1975 and took silk in 1995.
His lecture, ‘Rights Litigation in an Age of Austerity: Benefits Caps, Bedroom Taxes and Zambrano Carers’, will take place in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 (GLT2) on Kent’s Canterbury campus.
Welcome drinks will be served from 18.00 with the lecture beginning shortly afterwards. Attendance is free but there will be a collection on behalf of CHAC.
For more information about the free, confidential and independent help that CHAC provides, visit their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/canterburyCHAC or website http://www.chac.co.uk/.
The John Doe Trio, an exciting Kent based three piece blues-rock band, is the first band to release an album under the School of Music and Fine Art’s Foundry Studio recording contract. The album Stranger is now available on iTunes, Amazon, HMV, and Spotify.
Based in the Chatham Historic Dockyard, The Foundry provides flagship music industry-standard facilities for the degree programmes, containing a 5.1 Control Room with a collection of outboard gear, a Live Room and Vocal Booth, with the studio designed by DACS Audio, who have over 25 years of field experience in Studio Design, Audio Installation, and Acoustic Treatment.
Phil Marsh, the School’s Technical Manager said: ‘The foundry recording contract is a unique collaborative opportunity for artists to access the high end recording facilities and staff expertise that the school offers.’
Studio engineer Frank Walker added: ‘Being able to use the foundry gave us the flexibility to capture the authentic John Doe Trio sound. Recording a band of this calibre made full use of the studio and I was really pleased with the results.’
The band have been receiving glowing reports from the blues radio and online fraternity for their debut album. As well as traditional blues and blues-rock, the album combines influences of funk, bluegrass and jazz in the creation of a truly exciting sound. After an extremely successful launch night at one of Kent’s premier regular live music venues, the band intend to follow up the release of Stranger with a number of high profile live shows over the next twelve months.
For further information go to www.johndoeblues.co.uk , www.facebook.com/johndoeblues or twitter @johndoeblues.