Learning and Organisational Development are running a Recruitment and Selection Training Session on Monday 23 October, 09.30 – 12.30
Find out more and book a place via the Activities Calendar.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
SMFA students stage live event in historic Rochester
Year 3 School of Music and Fine Art Event and Experience Design students present a live event from 11.00 – 16.00 on Tuesday 12 December. The multimedia installations and performances are an explorative response to the physical, historical and social contexts of one of Medway’s historic sites – Eastgate House, Rochester.
This innovative event, which is free* and open to the public produces an interpretive and immersive tour of the buildings.
Says Programmes Director, Peter Hatton: “It is a great privilege and pleasure to work again with the officers at Medway Council’s Sports, Leisure Tourism and Heritage Department and a wonderful opportunity for the students to work with a client in a real-world environment.”
* While the event is free, there is an admission charge to enter Eastgate House.
Meet Francesca Simon at first family-friendly In Conversation
Francesca Simon is universally known for the staggeringly popular Horrid Henry series and is at the Canterbury campus on Saturday 28 October for the first family-friendly In Conversation.
University Chancellor, Gavin Esler, will chat with Francesca Simon about her books, characters and favourite Horrid Henry moments, in an event suitable for young and old fans alike. Tickets for the talk cost £5 (£4 for staff/students/children).
Carry on the fun by joining us for a tea party. Following the conversation, there will be a Francesca Simon-themed tea party for all ages with an exclusive book signing and a chance to meet Francesca herself! Ticket prices are £3 per adult and £2 per child, inclusive of food and drink at the tea party.
Prize-winning poetry collection: A Scattering
Pilgrims Hospices, in collaboration with the School of English, will be hosting a reading with poet Christopher Reid as part of the Canterbury Festival. Lucinda Gane, Christopher Reid’s wife, died in October 2005. A Scattering is his tribute to her and consists of four poetic sequences, the first written during her final illness, and the other three at intervals after her death. Winner of the Costa Prize 2009 and Shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T S Eliot Prize.
Christopher Reid reads from his Prize-winning poetry collection: A Scattering
Date: Saturday 14 October
Location: 2nd Floor, Waterstones, Canterbury
Time: 18.30 for a 19.00 start
Cost: Tickets £3 available from Waterstones. All proceeds to Pilgrims Hospices
Praise for A Scattering
‘Immensely moving. Reid is a first-rate poet and this is his best book to date’ – Wendy Cope
‘A lucid, cogent panorama of grief and loss’ – The Guardian
‘A moving, unsentimental record of loss’ – Independent
Following the reading we will invite the audience to join us in a discussion with Christopher Reid and Theresa Rowlstone, an Associate Nurse Practitioner at Pilgrims Hospices, about the poems and the wider issues they raise in dealing with grief and the death of a loved one. All are welcome to attend, but places are limited so please pop into Waterstones to book onto the event or email education@pilgrimshospices.org if you have any questions.
Fire alarm testing
Essential fire alarm testing will be carried out by an in-house engineer during October.
Each test will last no longer than two minutes. All rooms will need to be accessed, as this testing is a legal requirement.
Mandela Building – Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 October
The Venue – Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 October
Marlowe Building – Monday 23 to Friday 27 October
We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any queries please contact the Estates Helpdesk on Extn 3209.
Academic Advisers: review and recommendations
Colleagues are invited to attend the Learning and Teaching Network session ‘Academic Advisers: review and recommendations’ taking place on Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13.15-14.30 in Cornwallis North West Seminar Room 6.
The session will be presented by Dr Alexander Hensby, Research Assistant, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research and Dr Louise Naylor, Director of Unit for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.
The Academic Adviser system at Kent was first implemented in 2012 to all first-year students and then rolled out to all undergraduates from 2014-15 academic year. The system has been evaluated as part of the Student Success Project and overall, the report endorses the retention of the Academic Adviser system for its contribution to the delivery of undergraduate tuition and support, in the context of expanding cohort size, rising tuition fees and the increasing diversification of the student body.
In this session, a summary of the review and recommendations for improving the implementation of the Academic Adviser system will be presented to ensure that all undergraduates can benefit from the one-to-one support, subject-specific guidance and personal representation provided by Academic Advisers. Read the full report
Please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk to book a place.
Try a new board game for researchers
Be among the first to play The Publishing Trap, a fun new board game, during Open Access Week at Kent.
There are sessions at Medway on Monday 16 October, and at Canterbury from Tuesday 17 – Friday 20 October.
While you’re trying out the game and meeting other researchers, staff from the Office of Scholarly Communication and the Information Services Research Support team will be there to answer any questions you have about research support at Kent – especially about open access and open data.
Postgraduate-level literature courses
An advanced-level programme of short courses is being held at the University’s Tonbridge Centre in November. The centre is only a few minutes walk from the railway station, which offers good connections to Canterbury West (approximately an hour), Kent and London.
Literature
African-American Writing after 1960: from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Wednesday mornings (1, 8, 15, 22 November).
This exciting course looks at core texts representing a significant moment of black writing in America:
James Baldwin, Another Country (1962)
Amiri Baraka, Poetry selections (1970s-1980s)
Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)
The tutor, Claire Hurley, is highly recommended by Dr Michael Collins, Senior Lecturer in American Literature. He said: “Claire’s knowledge and understanding of the literature and politics of the late 20th-century US is simply extraordinary. She is one of the most talented, original and passionate lecturers working in her field and student feedback confirms that.”
Please contact us with any queries.
Web: www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge/postgraduate
email: tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
Memorial Lecture for Alf Smyth
As many will recall, Alf Smyth was Professor of Medieval History and Master of Keynes College. Alf died last year, and on Friday 27 October the School of History and the Master of Keynes College are organising a lecture in his memory. Tim Tatton-Brown will be lecturing on ‘Canterbury and the Domesday Book’ at 18.00, in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, with drinks from 17.30
All are very welcome to attend.
Online rubrics and grading forms
Online rubrics and grading forms: Sharing practice across the University
This month’s E-Learning Forum (ELF), taking place on Thursday 26 October 12.00-13.30, UELT Seminar Room will be exploring how the additional feature of Turnitin Feedback Studio is being used by markers across the University.
Academic staff will be sharing their experiences of using both rubrics and grading forms to provide feedback to their students.
The event is an opportunity to find out how schools and centres are using these online tools and to get their tips on how best to employ them.
This is not a training session, but if you are interested in creating rubrics/grading forms, please contact your Faculty Learning Technologist before or after the event.
To confirm your attend at the ELF please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk