Bio Chemistry PhD Postgraduate, Rosemarie Gough, has studied at Kent for over five years and is reaching the completion of her PhD.

Alongside this, Rosie is going out of her way to help others by raising money for the charity Crohn’s and Colitis UK after her boyfriend was taken ill by the disease and required multiple surgeries as a result.

Rosie will be taking part in the Kent half marathon this April as part of a fundraising campaign in aid of the charity via her JustGiving page and is looking for donations from other students to help smash her fundraising goals.

Crohn’s disease is a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (not the same as IBS) and is still fairly unheard of amongst many of the public. Lack of research and publicity means many people stay undiagnosed and suffer in silence and fear due to embarrassment of their symptoms. Crohn’s and Colitis UK is a national charity in the battle against Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, who are fighting to achieve a better quality of life for the 300,000 people in the UK suffering physically and emotionally from Crohn’s.

We are pleased to announce that five distinguished researchers from Kent have been selected for sub panel membership/chairmanship from over 4,000 nominations made by subject area organisations to HEFCE*.

University representatives are:

• Professor Gordon Lynch (SECL) – Chair of Sub Panel 31 Theology and Religious Studies
• Professor Alisoun Milne (SSPSSR) – Member of Social Work & Social Policy (Sub Panel 20)
• Professor Paul Allain (School of Arts and Graduate School) – Member of Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies (Sub Panel 33)
• Professor Iain Ramsay (Kent Law School) – Member of Law (Sub Panel 18)
• Professor Richard Whitman (School of Politics and International Relations) – Member of Politics and International Studies (Sub Panel 19)

Over the coming months, panel members will help to define the assessment framework and criteria for the next REF submission in 2021. They will then participate in the assessment itself during the year following submissions.

To find more about preparations for REF 2021 and a full listing of panel appointments to date, see the REF webpages.

(*Higher Education Funding Council for England)

Improve your English for FREE this summer with the Centre for English and World Languages.

We offer English language classes every weekday afternoon from Monday 18 June to Thursday 19 July 2018.

The classes are for anyone aged 16 or over whose first language is not English – you don’t have to be a Kent student. They are taught by students on our CELTA teacher training course.

The classes cover the four skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking, as well as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. You will have the chance to meet new people and practice speaking English.

To book your place, please email cewlcelta@kent.ac.uk

For more information, please visit our CEWL website.

A call for papers exploring the role of law in overcoming challenges posed by global sustainable development has been issued to postgraduate students across the social sciences and humanities faculties by Kent Law School’s Graduate Conference committee.

This year’s two-day interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, ‘Law and Millennium Goals: No-one left behind’ will be hosted at Kent Law School on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 June. The call for papers closes on Monday 16 April.

The conference seeks to engage early career scholars in an informal, critical discussion of the legal and theoretical framework underpinning diverse themes within the sustainable development agenda; themes can include (but are not limited to):

• Environmental issues
• Global policy-making and strong institutions
• Human rights
• Corporate responsibility
• Law and development
• Gender inequality
• Access to healthcare and medicine
• Economic and social change
• Transnational law
• International trade

Abstract submissions, no longer than 250 words, should be sent to lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk by Monday 16 April 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Monday 30 April 2018. Contributors who would like their paper to be considered for the best internal paper prize, the best external paper prize and/or the best poster prize are asked to submit full paper submissions no later than Wednesday 25 May 2018.

The conference also includes the annual Clive Schmitthoff Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture on Monday 4 June will be delivered by Dr Celine Tan, the Director of the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) based at Warwick Law School.

All students are welcome to attend the conference which will be held on Kent’s Canterbury campus. Further details are available via email from the Graduate Conference Committee. Follow the committee’s Facebook page and/or their @KLSPGConference Twitter account for updates.

Members of Kent students, staff and alumni are taking to the Marlowe stage mid-April with local amateur theatre company Canterbury Operatic Society in their production of Oklahoma!

Students Eleanor Farley and Beth Aherne alongside staff members, Leanne Hardy, Mariah Young and Marina Ivanova will be performing with a talented cast of local performers, including some Kent alumni, from Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 April including two matinees on the Friday and Saturday.

Oklahoma!, the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, making it an even more special production. It is a colourful and energetic musical about an obstacle-filled love story between the dashing cowboy Curly McLain and Laurey Williams, a winsome yet willful farm girl.

The story is set against a colourful background of high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys – pistols and all! The show is chock full of upbeat showtunes and promises to be a very entertaining evening.

Book your tickets online now via the Marlowe Theatre Website.