From Monday 11 – Monday 15 January 2018, the 1st floor toilets in the Registry Extension will be closed in order to carry out a refurbishment of the toilets and the installation of a new kitchen area.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If there are any queries, please contact the Estates Helpdesk on ext 3209.
Neil Hornsey
Senior Building Surveyor
The staff and student Travel Plan Survey 2017 closes on Friday 8 December 2017.
Don’t miss the chance to have your say and potentially win £100 cash card to use at the catering outlets on campus, or one of 100 hot drinks vouchers. Just enter your University of Kent email address at the end of the survey to enter the prize draw.
Let us know how we can improve travel to, from and around our campuses. The data from the survey helps shape various reports including the University Travel Plans and the Movement and Transport Strategy which feeds into the Canterbury campus 50-year Masterplan.
This is your opportunity to let the Estates Department know how we can improve travel to, from and around our campuses. Have your say on buses, cycling, parking, the Campus Shuttle and more.
The survey takes between 5-10 minutes to complete. There is also a “finish later” option if you need to return to complete the survey.
The staff and student Travel Plan Survey 2017 closes on Friday 8 December 2017.
Don’t miss the chance to have your say and potentially win £100 cash card to use at the catering outlets on campus, or one of 100 hot drinks vouchers. Just enter your University of Kent email address at the end of the survey to enter the prize draw.
Let us know how we can improve travel to, from and around our campuses. The data from the survey helps shape various reports including the University Travel Plans and the Movement and Transport Strategy which feeds into the Canterbury campus 50-year Masterplan.
This is your opportunity to let the Estates Department know how we can improve travel to, from and around our campuses. Have your say on buses, cycling, parking, the Campus Shuttle and more.
The survey takes between 5-10 minutes to complete. There is also a “finish later” option if you need to return to complete the survey.
This week the University hosted its very first App Challenge. Facilitated by Kent Innovation and Enterprise and the School of Engineering and Digital Art (EDA), the challenge saw teams of Kent students from across the different faculties spend six weeks developing their idea for a new mobile app concept.
Launched at the beginning October, the students worked in teams and as individuals to develop their concepts, all of which needed to solve an existing problem or issue. On 6 December seven teams arrived at Jennison Building, where EDA is based, to pitch their ideas to the judging panel. The panel was made up of Carole Barron, Director of Innovation and Enterprise, Dr Christos Efstratiou, Lecturer in in Ubiquitous Computing from EDA, Gary Robinson, Senior Commercialisation Manager for KIE, and Alice Heggie, Communications and Events Coordinator for KIE.
The seven teams presented a variety of different ideas, tackling a wide range of problems from finding the perfect gift to getting your ideal volunteer opportunity. The overall winner of the challenge was Kriss Bailey, who is currently studying with EDA and Biosciences, with his idea “Local Eye”. Local Eye takes the idea of Neighbourhood Watch and makes it digital, encouraging the community to look out for one another’s vehicles to prevent theft and help quickly reunite owners with their car or motorcycle should they be stolen. The idea has scope to ultimately be developed to cover more crimes such as bicycle theft, burglary, vandalism or assault.
The winner was presented with a trophy and a cash prize of £200. Additional teams will be shortlisted and given the opportunity to pitch their app concepts to current EDA Masters students to potentially prototype the app with a view to commercialising their idea.
Two PhD students for the Department of Religious Studies have just been published in the journal Biblical Interpretation, Volume 25, Issues 4-5 (2017).
Biblical Interpretation publishes articles on various aspects of critical biblical scholarship in a complex global context.
Taylor Weaver, whose PhD project is titled ‘St Paul and Money: A Philosophical / Theological Paulinist Critique of Economy’, under the supervision Dr Ward Blanton, contributed the article ‘Paul and Political Critique: Liberalism, Ontology and the Pauline Community’. This considers how St. Paul’s communal activity and writing allows for thinking through contemporary political philosophical problems inherent in the concept of community, a problem that forms partially around notions of individuality and how communitarian or collectivistic sensibilities arrange the individual. To access the article, please see the page here.
Jenny Matheny, whose PhD project is titled ‘Judges 19-21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability’, under the supervision of Professor Yvonne Sherwood, contributed the article ‘Mute and Mutilated: Understanding Judges 19-21 as a Mashal of Dialogue’. With the assistance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s work with dialogism, this study uncovers theological and political nuances in close readings of the Judges 19-21. Access the article here.
The special double issue has been edited by Yvonne Sherwood, who contributed an article entitled ‘Grammars of Sacrifice: Futures, Subjunctives, and What Would Have/Could Have Happened on Mount Moriah?’, which may be accessed here.
To access the full double issue, please see the page here.
Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has published a new book titled Sartre in Cuba-Cuba in Sartre (Palgrave, 2017).
In early 1960, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to visit Cuba and to report on the revolution. They arrived during the carnival in a land bursting with revolutionary activity. They visited Che Guevara, head of the National Bank. They toured the island with Fidel Castro. They met ministers, journalists, students, writers, artists, dockers and agricultural workers. Sartre spoke at the University of Havana. Sartre later published his Cuba reports in France-Soir.
This book explores Sartre’s engagement with the Cuban Revolution. Sartre endorsed the Cuban Revolution, but his accounts became denounced as ‘unabashed propaganda.’ The book explores such accusations. Were Sartre’s Cuba texts propaganda? Were they blind praise? Was he naïve? Was Castro deceiving him? Had he deceived his readers? Was he obligated to Castro or to the Revolution?
He later buried the reports, and abandoned a separate Cuba book. His relationship with Castro later turned sour. What is the impact of Cuba on Sartre and of Sartre on Cuba?
Find out more information about this book.
The Chaplaincy are looking for volunteers again to help assist their Carol Service on Monday 11 December 2017 . Volunteers will allocate guests to their seats, assemble candles and collect donations.As volunteers are helping they have a guaranteed ticket to the event!
Volunteers will have to attend one of the following pre-training sessions at Eliot Chapel. Please fill out which one you will attend:
Thursday 7 December 17.15 – 18.00 or Friday 8 December 17.15 – 18.00
Volunteers will also have to attend another training session on Monday 11 December at Canterbury Cathedral at 14.00 – 15.30
Volunteers will then have to be at Canterbury Cathedral on Monday 11 December from 18.30 – 21.15 for the service.
To be a volunteer you have to sign up by Thursday 7 December.
There’s a box in Woolf Reception for you to donate food items.
Please make that food is in date, unopened and non-perishable – either stuff from your cupboards that you won’t use over Christmas or bits that you can pick up as part of your weekly shop – we recommend tins, pasta, biscuits and sweets!
This has been organised by the Kent Graduate Student Association.
Image credit: by KGSA
There are two Christmas trees in Woolf Reception, with Christmas cards on the branches.
These cards have kids’ names and ages on them who won’t necessarily get gifts this Christmas.
If you would like to take a card or two and buy an appropriate gift for that child, that would be great!
When you have bought a gift, please write a message in the card inside the envelope and stick it to the gift. Don’t wrap it – the KGSA elves will do that, and return it to the box by the trees by Friday 15 December at the latest!
This charity activity is organised by the Kent Graduate Student Association.
Image credit: by KGSA
Woolf College Reception is now very Christmassy with two trees and lots of tinsel!
You too can get involved by decorating the windows in your kitchen for the holiday period.
The Kent Graduate Student Association KGSA will choose the winners on December 13 -14 from across Tyler, Keynes Woolf and Darwin.
Make sure whatever you put in the windows (lights, tinsel, fake snow etc.), is safe and can be easily cleaned off after Christmas ends!
To register your kitchen contact Tom or Rowena through the University Postgraduate 2017 Facebook group.
Each kitchen will cost £1 to enter, with the winning kitchen getting £100 hamper full of Christmas treats!
Image credit: by KGSA