Yearly Archives: 2018

Student voter registration

Want to make sure your voice is heard in the next election? Register to vote with your new term-time address on your return to University.

Why do I need to register?
You will be deleted from the electoral register at your existing student address during July / August this year.

When can I register?
When you return to Canterbury in September / October, you will need to register to vote (www.gov.uk/register-to-vote) giving your new term-time address.

What if I don’t want to use my vote?
If you return and decide that you do not wish to register to vote in Canterbury, please send an email to electoral.services@canterbury.gov.uk giving your name, address and stating why you do not wish to register to vote.

When is the next election?
The next planned election for the Canterbury area is the City election which will be held on Thursday 2 May 2019.

Student Success Project – Mainstream Initiatives Launch

We are delighted to invite you to the next Student Success launch on Wednesday 27 June. At this event, we will be launching the improved Student Success Dashboard – QlikView Phase 2, SStaRT: the  Student Success Resources Toolkit, and the highly anticipated Progress Profiles

Programme

13.30-13.45 – Arrival and refreshments
14.00-14.30 – Student Success Dashboard – QlikView Phase 2
14.30 – 15.00 – SStaRT: Student Success Resources Toolkit
15.15  – 16.00 –  Progress Profiles demo and questions

Student Success Dashboard – QlikView Phase 2

  • The second version of the Student Success QlikView dashboard, which can provide data about school cohorts, is released with added functionality, and granularity
  • Access to the SSP Dashboard is strictly limited, so this is your opportunity to see what data is available to you and find out who has access in your department

SStaRT: the Student Success Resources Toolkit

  • Come and find out how the new toolkit can help you find the best initiatives for your school
  • Hear how to contribute your own activities and best practice to the toolkit

Progress Profile

  • See the long awaited Progress Profiles and learn how they can support Academic Advisor meetings
  • Hear when they will be available, and what information they will contain

For more information and to register for this event and to see the agenda please visit our EventBrite page.

This event is free and open to all Kent staff.

 

Staff in Registry 3

Project Management Training

Learning and Organisational Development will be running a two-day Project Management training course on 27 and 28 June.

Objectives and learning outcomes are as follows:

  • understand the need for a consistent approach to project management within the University
  • use the underlying principles contained within the University of Kent project management framework on all future projects
  • work with a colleague post course to develop your personal action plan
  • communicate the new project management approach to colleagues and partners within the University

If you would like to attend a session, please email the Learning and Organisational Development Team ldev@kent.ac.uk

The roundhouse perspective

The Green Room: From tree to building

A University of Kent Crowdfunding Platform is being launched by the Development Office to support student projects at Kent.

First up are a group of enterprising students who are raising money to build an environmentally sustainable round wooden timber-framed building – using materials taken from the University’s own coppiced woodland.

This exciting project will create a teaching, learning, and social space set within an ethnobotanical garden. They need your help to prepare the site, assemble the circular structure, add the roof, and then design and construct the floor and walls.

You can follow their progress on Facebook or on Twitter @tree2_b

The crowdfunding launches this weekend!

Debarking

 

New Findings on Scientific Productivity workshop

Workshop: New Findings on Scientific Productivity – 27 June

A half-day workshop on ‘New Findings on Scientific Productivity’ is being organised by the School of Economics on Wednesday 27 June.

The workshop aim is to promote an exchange of knowledge and ideas between academics and other stakeholders in the area of science, research and innovation.

The workshop will take place in Darwin Conference Suite, Canterbury campus, starting with lunch at 12.00 and ending with a conference dinner at The Goods Shed, Canterbury.

The workshop will include presentations on:

  • Impacts of academic conferences in scientific productivity
  • Research funding and academics’ behaviour
  • The role of gender on collaboration decisions
  • The trends of ageing in science
  • Incentives and academics’ productivity

For more information about the workshop, talks and presenting papers, click here.

Registration is open and free via this link.

 

Kent Student Awards Gala Dinner 2018

On Friday 1 June, Kent Union and the University celebrated outstanding co-curricular student achievement at the 2018 Kent Student Awards Gala Dinner.

Over 250 students were nominated in 11 categories, with the entire shortlist being congratulated for going above and beyond in a number of activities and initiatives that benefit others.

Student of the Year

The overall ‘Student of the Year’ award, chosen from the category winners, was presented to joint winners Lily Dedman and Valiant Dorian.

Lily won for her amazing work as Kent Union’s Women’s Officer and for organising a wide range of events, including the ‘Reclaim the Night March’ and International Women’s Week.

Valiant won for being a dedicated Kent Union LGBT+ Trans Officer, from helping with the University’s new trans policy to organising a variety of LGBT+ events, notably ‘Fit for LGBT+ Trans Swimming’.

Group of the Year

The Kent Islamic Society was awarded the additional honour of being named ‘Group of the Year’ by judges. This is for their work celebrating and supporting the diverse cultures at the University, fundraising for international charities and celebrating multiculturalism at the Cultural Food Fair.

Highly commended students

The following students were highly commended across multiple categories:

Read more about all the winners and runners-up here.

Tamara Rathcke to talk at Humbolt

Dr Tamara Rathcke, Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving her talk entitled ‘Autosegmental-Metrical Approaches to Modelling Russian Intonation: Evidence and Issues’ at Humboldt University of Berlin on Wednesday, 6 June 2018.

 

Autosegmental phonology is an approach to phonology that allows the processing of sounds in language, such as tone and vowel harmony, to be independent of and extend beyond individual consonants and vowels.

Tamara will give an overview of the current autosegmental-metrical approaches to studying the intonation in the speaking of Russian, and present some original data that challenges some of the previous assumptions, and helps to advance our understanding of the structure of tonal representations (both in Russian and other languages).

The talk will be part of the lecture series organised by the Corpus Linguistics and Morphology research centre.

 

Further details of the their events.

New degree programme: Global Philosophies BA (Hons)

The Department of Religious Studies is delighted to announce the launch of its new degree programme BA (Hons) in Global Philosophies, to begin in September 2018.

 

Global Philosophies provides an exciting, innovative opportunity to engage with intellectual thought from around the world. The programme offers a global approach to philosophical study with modules drawing not only on European or Western thought, but also on traditions originating in Asia, Africa and the Middle East from antiquity to the present day.

Professor Richard King, Head of the Department of Religious Studies, said of the programme: ‘The University of Kent is one of the few places in the country where students can study the wide variety of philosophical traditions that make up our global cultural heritage. This new degree provides an international focus for the study of intellectual thought around the world, both ancient and contemporary.’

For more details about the programme, please see the webpage.

Paul Andrew March-Russell

Nostalgia podcast with Paul March-Russell

Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has just released the second instalment of his podcast series on ‘Nostalgia’.

 

In the latest podcast, Chris interviews Dr Paul March-Russell, Specialist Associate Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature. Paul talks about his earliest memories and how television played a role in shaping his identity, from Doctor Who and John Peel to Minipops. He discusses the pitfalls of ‘going back’ to one’s childhood home and about how he followed a path in academia – but that it wasn’t where he necessarily thought he would end up. He also reflects on the role of religion in shaping his values and goals.

 

To listen to the podcast, please see the page here.