The Medway Collaborative Projects Initiative provides funding for staff of the three Universities at Medway to collaborate on projects that will benefit all Medway students.

A total project fund of £2000 is available. Individuals or teams from the three universities and their partner colleges can apply for amounts up to this maximum to support collaborative projects that aim to enhance the experience of students at Medway and beyond. It is anticipated that individual project applications will normally be in the region of £500 – £1000.

The submission deadline for applications is Friday 1st February 2019.

Please see here for the guidelines for applicants and the application form.

A two-month visit to Kent Law School proved “crucial” for doctoral legal scholar Natalia Torres Zuniga who found the exposure to critical theory and socio-legal studies to be pivotal for the development of her thesis.

Natalia spent two months at Kent as a PhD Visiting Student. Originally from Peru, Natalia is studying her PhD at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.

Natalia said: ‘The period in Kent was crucial for my thesis. This is the first time that I have been in real contact with academics working with critical theory and socio-legal studies. During my stay, I attended the PhD study group and discovered new literature and new topics of interest. Participating in the Marxist reading group was also a great experience because I realised that “academia” at Kent means plurality. Here I could see that there is a joint dialogue driven by academics using different critical approaches, regardless of the differences in their thought.’

To help tackle the internal structure of her thesis, Natalia prepared an abstract comprising the core elements of the project. This became a route map for writing her final draft and the two chapters that she wrote at Kent were well received by her supervisors in Oslo.

Natalia also enjoyed the diversity of the student body at Kent, meeting PhD students from Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Thailand, Russia, Australia, Israel and the USA among others: ‘I am impressed by their research topics and I am looking forward to seeing their contributions in the future.’

Natalia has now returned to Oslo and hopes to complete her thesis in February 2019. She has no hesitation in recommending Kent to other PhD scholars and hopes to return to be able to present the outcome of her research.

Dr Edward Kanterian, Reader in Department of Philosophy, has had his latest monograph ‘Kant, God and metaphysics: the secret thorn’ (Abingdon, Routledge, 2017) reviewed by The British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

‘In Kant, God and Metaphysics: The Secret Thorn, [Edward Kanterian] examines Kant’s early work, up to around 1770, to demonstrate that Kant was firmly embedded in the eighteenth century, and especially in the German, broadly Protestant, philosophy of that age” the review states, “Kanterian challenges the common assumption that Kant is closer to us than to his own age’.

Todd Mei, Head of the Department of Philosophy, writes: ‘I have always had the suspicion that the intriguing yet problematic role of God in Kant’s philosophy is tied up with how Kant’s metaphysics can be understood as either dualistic or not. Edward’s book is a hugely significant achievement in the area of Kant scholarship, and what I find most impressive is his ability to engage with both the analytic and continental traditions of philosophy. What more could you ask for when investigating the thought of a monumental figure in the history of philosophy?’

The full review is available via Taylor & Francis online.

The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) is offering Individual Speaking Tutorials to give you the opportunity to to refine your spoken accuracy, fluency and pronunciation for seminars and presentations with an academic member of staff, who will give you advice and feedback on your speaking.

Individual sessions last 45 minutes each.and are free of charge.

To make an appointment, please email us at cewl@kent.ac.uk

The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) is offering Individual Writing Tutorials to give you the opportunity to discuss your academic writing with a member of staff from CEWL. Advice will be given on your language and the structure, coherence and cohesion of your work. Individual sessions last 20-30 minutes each and are free of charge.

Tutorials are available all year. To make an appointment, please email us at cewl@kent.ac.uk

Please note that this is not a proof-eading service.

Learning and Organisational Development’s full catalogue of courses is now viewable via Staff Connect. We still have places available on our Leading and Managing through Change training session, running on the 7th December, 9.30am-4.30pm.  Please use Staff Connect to see further information and to book a place.

We are running a number of drop in sessions to demonstrate the training and appraisal modules, and dates can be found on our website.

Colleagues are invited to attend a super-book launch, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and the Visual and Sensory Research Cluster, on Monday 26 November,15.00-18.00 in the UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury.

The event brings together five Kent authors, who will collaboratively introduce their newly published books. The five authors will offer brief reflections about the arguments and insights of their books and discuss questions from an open audience.

The event aims to celebrate the contribution of CSHE, CER and the Visual and Sensory Research Cluster (based at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research) to emerging research across theory and practice.

See the event programme here.

Please confirm your attendance by completing the online booking form.

Calling all alumni, staff and students to our final pub night of the year – a chance to network and find out what happens after leaving the University of Kent.

A great opportunity to meet people studying at the University as well as those who have left and moved on to a range of different careers. November’s pub night will be a chance to meet our current Alumni Postgraduate Scholars who are supported by the University’s charity, the Kent Opportunity Fund.

Speak to the scholars about their research, what it’s like to study a PhD or ask them anything you would like to know! There will be one free drink per attendee and a light buffet will be served. To receive your free drink please register here.

We will be at the Miller’s Arms pub in Canterbury from 18.00 – 20.00 on Tuesday 27 November. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions or would like to register via person please call 01227 816055 or email N.Fleet@kent.ac.uk.

DICE  are continuing their monthly talks this evening given by Will Baldwin-Contello, Chief Advisor of Forests, WWF-UK. It is entitled ‘The Triple Challenge: Food, Climate and Forests’, and will discuss how we can restore nature, feed the world and avoid dangerous climate change – all very topical.

This evening’s talk will take place in Keynes Lecture Theatre 6 from 18.00-19.00 is open to everyone in the community.

The series is also available on Youtube. 

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All students currently registered at the University of Kent, alumni of the University, belong to a college; students at Medway are members of Medway College.

Currently Medway is the only one of the seven University of Kent Colleges not to have its own College logo, colours and flag.  The time has now come for the College members to decide on a logo and College colours.

The Medway College team has put together a number of designs and colour schemes and would like you to vote for your favourite combination. Ultimately, the combination with the most votes wins and will be announced before the Christmas holidays.

Vote here now. Deadline for submitting your vote is 12 noon on Wednesday 12 December 2018.