Next week Kent Innovation and Enterprise (KIE) are hosting a free event focusing on innovative approaches to improving health through exercise and enhancing capability through collaboration.

At this event, you will enjoy talks from:

Innovative sport technology company Smartlife about the benefits brought by a Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

Medway Community Healthcare Trust about its successful student placement scheme.

The University’s Respiratory Clinic about its world-class research with elite and professional athletes on exercise-induced asthma.

This event is free and open to all and is an opportunity to network with academics and businesses to explore development opportunities. You will also be able to hear about relevant funding available to support collaborations.

This is part of KIE’s Midweek @ Medway Series.

Event Details:

• Wed 23 May 2018
• 15:00 – 18:00
• Rochester Building, University of Kent Medway Campus, Chatham ME4 4AG

To book or for more information please email enterprise@kent.ac.uk

First launched in February 2015, these informal lunchtime talks are given by specialists across Student Services and provide staff with the opportunity to improve their knowledge and understanding on a variety of student related topics, and share experiences and best practice.

The talks will start at 1.10pm and will finish by 2.00pm. Staff can bring their lunch if they wish. There will be a question and answer session at the end of each talk.

Monday 21 May 2018, Sibson Building, Seminar Room 3

Self-care in supporting students

Suzanne Balabil is a Senior Counsellor in Student Support and will present a talk that addresses how we balance caring for others with caring for ourselves. The talk will explore what sustains and what depletes our professional and personal self, especially in times of severe stress.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, Sibson Building, Seminar Room 3

Autism Spectrum Conditions

Tom Sharp, Disability Team Manager will present a talk outlining the specific challenges that students with autism spectrum conditions face and the kind of support they require, including how staff members can better understand the needs of these students.

Thursday 24 May 2018, Sibson Building, Seminar Room 4

Understanding Mental Health Difficulties

Kate Pitchforth, Senior Wellbeing Advisor will present a talk on the mental health issues that students present with and outline the support offered by the Wellbeing Advisors.  The talk will include advice as to how to spot the possible indicators of ill health in students and what staff members can do to offer help and support.

The Billhook Nook outdoor theatre space, opposite the new KBS building on Parkwood Road, will play host to a performance of Dvořák’s ‘American’ quartet, as the ensemble heads out into the summer sunshine (or so we hope, anyway…) on Thursday 31 May at 13.10.

Comprising third-year Law student and Music Scholar, Lydia Cheng, second-year Asian Studies & Classical and Archaeological Studies student, Alice Nixon, second-year Music Scholar reading Mathematics, Molly Richetta on viola, and final-year Law student, cellist Alex Deacon-Viney, the ensemble plans to take Dvořák’s popular work out of the concert-hall and into somewhere you wouldn’t expect to hear it.

Assuming the weather is as good (or even better) than it is at the moment, people are encouraged to bring a picnic and enjoy some fine weather and even finer music on Thursday 31 May at 13.10. During what is always a busy term, with students (and staff) working under the pressure of examinations, the chance to hear music in an informal and relaxed environment will hopefully offer a welcome respite from the term’s busy commitments.

The event is free to attend: more details online. The Billhook Nook space is part of the Creative Campus initiative.

Please note that the event is entirely weather-dependent! Please keep an eye on Twitter @unikent_music for updates on the day in the event of uncertain weather conditions.

We have exciting news!!

We are launching a joint (University and Kent Union) Employability Strategy in September and we want to get your views on what our thoughts are so far.

This is a great opportunity to help shape the University’s future Employability focus.

Come along to a discussion group (and get free food) on either:

• 17 May 12.00 – 12.45
• 22 May 14.00 – 14.45

Make sure you sign up for the session so we can make sure we have enough pizza for everyone.

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The Kent Sport Physiotherapy Clinic would like to invite members, non-members and local runners to the fourth informative running workshop. In this workshop we will be looking at what your running is worth. Could your time be better spent?

The workshop will be split in to two sessions; In the first session, we will re-visit running drills as there is always room for improvement. The second session will then look at how much time you invest in your own functional movements and identifying weaknesses.

When: Saturday 21 July 2018, 10.00 – 12.30

Where: The Pavilion, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus, CT2 7NL

Who: Open to members and non-members. All abilities welcome

Cost: £6 per person with complimentary tea and coffee on arrival

Payment: Must be made before the event by visiting reception at the Sports Centre or the Pavilion

To register: Either email your application form to: physio@kent.ac.uk or mail / drop it off to the Physiotherapy Clinic.

What to bring: Running gear if you would like to complete parkrun first, plus additional running attire that is both comfortable to sit in during the lecture and then straight into the practical elements

For more information about the running workshop, please visit the running workshop webpage.

In a first for the ever-developing #EarBox series that brings together music and visual art, the next event on Thursday 24 May features the hypnotic soundscape of ‘Night Liminal,’ an electroacoustic piece by Simon Cummings inspired by the transitional period of Compline, which will be unveiled in the sepulchral environs of Studio 3 Gallery.

Released in 2012, the piece is an enthralling sound-odyssey, a slow-moving exploration of the mystery of the ever-changing moment. Like drifting clouds, sounds blossom gradually, changing as they grow in a way that reflects the creeping changing of shadows as daylight fades and dusk draws on.

The piece lasts just under forty minutes and will unfold against the backdrop of Studio 3 Gallery’s new exhibition, ‘Enhancing the Frame,’ which opened last week.

Admission to #EarBox is free, and the event begins at 13.10. Prepare for an  immersive experience of contemplative listening; more details online here:

Find out what’s on here.

Historic England has announced this week that a number of major postmodern buildings will receive listed building status, thus preserving this important period of British architecture for posterity. Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, CREAte member and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society which campaigned for the change, hailed this as a major event in architectural conservation history.

Dr Brittain-Catlin said ‘The Twentieth Century Society sees this announcement as an important turning point. Many of these buildings were at serious risk, and some were already being damaged or destroyed. This decision by Historic England comes as a result of a long campaign by the Society to draw attention to the monuments of British postmodernism and the risk they are at. We were the first to organise a major symposium on the issue, we made a presentation at the RIBA with a group of highly influential speakers, and we have organised walking tours and sell-out lectures to spread the word. It is important when making the case to protect buildings that show that there is wide public interest in them.

‘We won an important battle to protect James Stirling’s No 1, Poultry in the City of London from mutilation, and this latest decision shows that we were in the vanguard of the movement to protect Britain’s best postmodern heritage.

‘We supported the successful campaign to protect Sir Terry Farrell’s Comyn Ching development in 2016. KSA and the CREAte research centre value very greatly our connection with Sir Terry and we are delighted to be playing this an active role.’

Architectural historians Elain Harwood and Geraint Franklin from Historic England recently published their book on post-modern buildings in Britain in collaboration with the Twentieth Century society.