Aurora event: Leadership and Management Styles in an Academic Context, Monday 5 December 2016, 10.00 to 12.00.

To support and coincide with the LFHE (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education) Aurora programme at the University of Kent, the programme will now include special discussions and events open to ALL members of staff.

These sessions are designed to:

• help the University enjoy the benefits of improved gender equality in all disciplines, as well as building an inclusive working environment – these events are not just for women!
• build networks, share experiences and good practice
• encourage a wider range of women to think of themselves as leaders
• incorporate all members of staff to help support a working environment where no one is disadvantaged/

The event will be hosted by our new Aurora Champion for this year Yvonne Sherwood, Professor of Religious Studies, and Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Head of School, will deliver a talk on leadership and management styles.

Georgina’s research is principally in the areas of leadership, diversity, and innovation. She is interested in how leaders manage the delicate line of representing their group whilst also pushing the boundaries and/or being different or unexpected in some way. Georgina’s research interests are broadly based around intra- and intergroup dynamics and social psychology in organisations.

Leadership and Management Styles in an Academic Context
Describing and outlining the landscape for leadership and management in the UK Higher Education Context, and the challenges these pose for all working in the sector.
The session will provide some perspectives on possible mechanisms to meet these challenges, and how these might also facilitate broader representation and increased diversity in management roles.

To register your interest in attending the event, please could you kindly email ldev@kent.ac.uk by Monday 21 November.

Gulbenkian want to know what you think about their Cafe, Theatre and Cinema. Complete this short survey (30 questions, about 10 minutes) and be entered into a prize draw.

Gulbenkian will also be holding a Staff Focus Group, to discuss the café and artistic programme in more detail, at 12.00 on Wednesday 23 November. To book your place on that please email d.yard@kent.ac.uk.

Dr Antonio Da Silva, Language Coordinator in Portuguese from the Department of Modern Languages, is co-editing with Mariana A C da Cunha from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, a collection provisionally titled ‘Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema’.

Can film play an active role in denouncing human rights abuse and exposing the struggle for visibility of different social movements? Each in their own way, Latin American societies have experienced different cycles in implementing and enforcing human rights policies, and more often than not these rights have been strongly violated. Social and activist movements have seen the increasing use of film, video and digital media as a means of campaigning for social justice and protection of vulnerable citizens. Questioning to what extent cinema can impact social transformation can open up new avenues to understanding the subjects of human rights films, be they the oppressed or the violators. This edited volume seeks original contributions that bring to light the themes of human rights, social movements and activism in the Latin American cinema of the new millennium.

Contributions may include the ways in which human rights have been violated by the State, and also how the State has responded to the rise of social movements and activism; the effectiveness of social movements and activism; how transnational issues have had an impact on human rights in the region, such as migration, globalisation, economic shifts; or how cinema’s technology and aesthetics have had an impact on the depiction of these issues (for example the use of mobile phones, especially in the case of documentaries).

Further information, deadlines and details for submissions are available on SECL’s webpages.

Kent students and staff can get 10% off tickets for the UK/Polar music event at the Historic Dockyard on 27 November at 17.00.

To claim the 10% discount you must buy your ticket from the admissions desk in person with your Kent ID card. If you buy in advance you will get a ticket for £5.40 or £7.20 on the night.

This special event marks the finale of the Historic Dockyard’s latest exhibition ‘Pole of Cold’. The exhibition takes visitors on the remarkable journey experienced by Kent’s own Polar explorer, Felicity Aston MBE.  Felicity travelled more than 35,000km in a Land Rover Defender from the UK, across Scandinavia to Siberia.

The line-up for the evening features:

• Traditional Swedish fiddle playing from Ben Paley (author of Swedish Fiddle Music: An Anthology)
• Beautiful, melodic folk, jazz and pop from Icelandic Osp
• Folk music from Yorkshire’s Kimber’s Men

Find out more at the Historic Dockyard website.

Upcoming EDI lectures taking place in Jennison Lecture Theatre include:

On 16 November, from 18.00 – 19.00, we have Dr Mark McBride-Wright, Co-Chair of InterEngineering, coming to talk about empowering LGBT engineers and addressing LGBT inclusion in the engineering sector in the UK. Free tickets can be obtained via Eventbrite.

On 23 November, from 13.00 – 14.00, we have Dr Nike Folayan from the Association For Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers coming to talk about encouraging young people to transition from education into engineering, particularly those from a BME/BAME background. Free tickets can be obtained via Eventbrite.

Study Plus courses (part of the Kent Extra range of extracurricular activities) are free and open to all registered Kent students.

You can still sign up for these courses:

KE004 Dirty History
KE111 Talking Cultures: Intercultural communication
KE112 Talking Cultures: Enhancing cultural awareness
KE073 Bleak House? Poor and rich in Victorian England
KE068 Excelling in the graduate recruitment cycle
KE107 Improving presentations with MS PowerPoint
KE106 Preparing essays with Word 2016
KE108 Beginners’ spreadsheets with MS Excel
KE109 Preparing dissertations or extended assignments with Word 2016

We will also be running the popular “How does it work?” science courses later this term.

They are a great way to gain new skills, earn Employability Points while you learn or just learn for pleasure.

You can sign up in the Student Data System via: My Study>Workshops>Study Plus

Visit the Study Plus website to view the full range of courses, and find out more.

Dr Bike is back at Medway campus on Thursday 10 November 2016!

Find Dr Bike outside the Rochester Building (on the grass to the left of the main entrance) and get a free check-up and any minor adjustments made to your bicycle.

Come along between 11:30 and 14:30 to get your bike checked over for free by trained bicycle mechanics.

Let us know if you would like Dr Bike to make a more regular appearance at Medway.

Transport Team

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

Estates Department, University of Kent, Park Wood Road, Canterbury, CT2 7NN

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Date: Wednesday 16 November 2016
Time: 13.15 – 14.30
Venue: Cornwallis North West Seminar Room 6, Canterbury campus

Presented by Dr Louise Naylor – Director of UELT, Judy Cohen – Curriculum Developer (Assessment) and Dr Alison Dean – Associate Dean Education (Social Sciences)

Louise Naylor will outline Kent’s recent performance in NSS 2016 and implications for enhancing assessment and feedback practice. In particular, highlighting key areas for improvement and ways to address student feedback. Judy Cohen and Alison Dean will discuss the implementation of the Assessment and Feedback Policy and how this can be used to enhance assessment and feedback practices.

There will be time for discussion.

This session will be of particular interest to staff responsible for developing assessment practices and for enhancing the student experience in Schools. All staff are welcome to attend.

To book, please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk

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Would you like to take better care of your wellbeing? Come and find out how at our Health and Wellbeing Fair on Tuesday 8 November, 11.00 to 14.00, in Pilkington Atrium.

If you are looking to take your first steps to improving your health and wellbeing, come along and get inspired with fun and interactive sessions.

There will be a host of experts from all areas of health and wellbeing and stands providing information on a number of health topics to include:

• Creative arts
• Meditation and mindfulness
• Make-up sessions
• Blood pressure
• Healthy eating
• Sensible drinking
• Managing pressure
• Smoking

Free goodies and lots more!

Further information:
T: 01634 202984
E:rs359@kent.ac.uk

For the 15th year running, the Chaplaincy has organised a day trip to the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium.

Bruges was one of the cradles of the Northern European Renaissance, and has many cultural as well as retail attractions.

Our visit is on Saturday 19 November, with an early departure from Canterbury campus. Travel is by coach and Channel Tunnel. Seats, available to students and staff, are £30, and you are free to spend the time in Bruges as you wish.

Please contact s.c.e.laird@kent.ac.uk or p.j.geldard@kent.ac.uk for tickets or further information.