Online booking for the summer term is now available for the Campus Shuttle service.
The service starts up again from Tuesday 8 May 2018 and you can now book a seat to guarantee your travel from that date.
The Campus Shuttle is a free coach service between the Medway and Canterbury campuses that is made available for staff and students during term-time only.
Researchers at Kent use their expertise to tackle local, national and global challenges and address pressing public issues.
A new poster campaign celebrating the impact of this research will run in locations across Canterbury and Medway from 7 to 20 May. The campaign, designed by the Corporate Communications team, supports the University’s public engagement with research outreach programme.
The campaign highlights the public benefits of some of the most impactful research carried out at the University last year. The work featured includes scientific discoveries that could lead to new strategies for improving age-related health and for the use of immune therapy strategies to fight leukaemia; work to deliver the next generation of high speed 5G mobile networks; the discovery and identification of fossils that have changed our understanding of human evolutionary theory; and a major report recommending new housing legislation.
As part of Whitstable Biennale’s partnership with The Ash Project, SMFA Fine Art Lecturer and acclaimed artist Adam Chodzko is hosting the Ash Walk on Saturday 25 August from 14.00-16.00. He will lead a walk into the near future as part of a funeral procession for some of the UK’s last remaining ash trees.
The Ash Project is a cultural response to ash dieback in the Kent Downs, celebrating the cultural, natural and social history of the ash tree, to present a series of artists’ walks in 2018 through ash landscapes in Kent, encouraging study and providing an intimate, conversational way to explore the landscapes.
An award-winning artist, Adam Chodzko uses a wide range of media including video, installation and performance. His work is characterised by a keen curiosity, exploring the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour – the gap between how we are and how we could be. With a few surprises in store for walkers, along the way, this walk promises to be stimulating, interactive and surprising. The walk is FREE but needs to be booked online in advance.
Find out more on the Whitstable Biennale’s website.
Do you commute to Medway Campus? Then why not consider staying in a University of Kent room at Liberty Quays for the duration of your exams. Reduce stress and have more time to concentrate on studying with no need to worry about missing an exam as a result of traffic, train strikes or other travel delays outside your control.
All rooms are single en-suite rooms in flats with other students also taking exams. You will be supplied with a duvet; pillow; bed linen and towels. Kitchens will have basic items supplied for you to prepare simple meals, or you can take advantage of our catered package.
Choose from a room only package available from £110.00 for four nights or our catered package available from £150.00 for four nights.
Rooms can now be booked online. For further information please visit the event’s registration page or contact: conferences@kent.ac.uk.
SMFA Fine Art Lecturer and acclaimed artist Adam Chodzko is one of 13 artists commissioned to create permanent integrated artworks for the three new acres of public realm next to the River Thames. Art on the Tideway is an ambitious public art programme for London, inviting leading contemporary artists to meaningful connect with London’s past and future as the tunnel is built. With over fifty temporary and permanent commissions, it challenges artists to animate new environments and create engaging interventions for the city’s diverse audiences, marking the River Thames as a new cultural venue.
The artworks will be completed in 2021.
More info https://www.tideway.london/our-community/art-and-heritage/art-on-the-tideway/
Related post: https://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/news.html?view=2812
Places are now available on U.N.I (You and I) Protect workshops running in May 2018.
All of us can take action to protect each other and the wider University community to help promote a culture of dignity and respect at Kent. This programme will help you recognise and challenge problematic and harmful behaviour, such as abuse or sexual harassment.
On completion of the course participants will understand what a ‘bystander’ is and be empowered to be able to intervene in situations safely and with confidence.
The workshops will run on Friday mornings from 10.00 to 11.30 during weeks 25, 26 and 27. All students who complete the course will receive 15 Employability Points.
If you want to take part or simply want to find out more please visit the Study Plus website. The module code is KE148. To book your place, visit the Workshops page in SDS.
Further information about the course can also be found on the Student Services website.
Places are limited so please sign up as soon as you can.
The Athena SWAN Project Team wants to invite you to a ‘Progressing Together’ day where we can start the conversation; we need your input to make sure we focus on the right things that will make a difference.
Spaces are limited, so please hurry if you wish to secure a seat! We particularly want to encourage male staff members to attend, as we currently have significantly less male attendees registered for the afternoon.
Athena SWAN now has a wider reach and includes Professional Services staff in creating a better work environment for everyone.
Monday 14 May (Grimond Lecture Theatre)
Agenda:
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 12:45 Welcome from our VC Karen Cox
12:45 – 1:00 Intro: Athena SWAN and PS Staff
1:00 – 2:00 External Speaker: “Creating Opportunities- a legacy in the making” Deborah Bailey-Leek, DBL Leadership Associates LTD
2:00 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:15 Panel Discussion – Featuring a selection of our own PS staff
3:15 – 4:00 Wrap Up and Close
The central Athena SWAN team is keen to learn from the PS staff about what we are doing well but also what needs to be improved!
The exam period will soon be upon us, please see below information on what to expect this year. This can be shared with students if required.
Please be mindful during this time around venues and support students where possible. Please refer to our webpages for full information:
Dates
Tuesday 8 May – Friday 15 June 2018 (weeks 25 – 30)
Venues – Canterbury
Exam Venues:
Adapted Arrangements Venues:
Venues – Medway
Exam Venues:
Adapted Arrangements Venues:
View our venues here – https://www.kent.ac.uk/csao/exams/venueindex.html
Times
Morning exams begin promptly at 09.30, afternoon sessions begin promptly at 14.00.
Papers can last one to three hours. Students sat in adapted arrangement venues are entitled to 25%, 33%, 50% or 100% extra time. This means the latest finish could be 20.00.
Saturday exams are scheduled for the first four weeks of the exam period, morning and afternoon.
Bag Room
Students are not permitted to bring bags or coats into the exam venue. Students will need to use the following bag rooms:
Canterbury Campus –
Medway Campus –
Seating Plan
Students will be allocated a seat for each exam, the seating plan will be posted at each venue before the start of every session.
What to bring
What NOT to bring
Exam Timetable
Students can view their timetable now on SDS by clicking on “Details and Study”.
Contact Details
Follow us: @UniKent_CSAO
https://www.kent.ac.uk/csao/exams/ontheday.html
Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer for the Department of Philosophy, will be giving a talk as part of the Pint of Science festival, an annual series that brings researchers to local pubs to present their scientific discoveries.
Lauren’s talk will be part of a series of presentations under the theme ‘Community Services, Crime and Punishment, and Global Health’, to be held at the Northern Seaman pub, Rochester, 19.00 – 22.00 on Wednesday 16 May 2018.
In particular, Lauren will be talking about her research on pain and emotional suffering in criminal punishment. The talk imagines a scenario involving two prisoners, Ronnie and Reggie, both of whom have committed identical crimes under identical circumstances, and who have both been sentenced to four years in identical prison facilities. While their punishment conditions are identical in all respects, Ronnie is tormented by prison life and lives in a constant state of fear and distress, while Reggie finds prison life merely difficult and unpleasant. If we subscribe to the ‘equality principle’ of the same punishment for the same crimes, have Ronnie and Reggie been punished equally?
The event is open to all, and tickets cost £4. Find out more.
SMFA Fine Art Senior Lecturer and acclaimed artist, Adam Chodzko, is featured in Groundwork – a festival season of exceptional international contemporary art in Cornwall from 5 May through to September. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the programme of exhibitions and events in 2018 includes presentations of important new commissions and acclaimed works by internationally celebrated artists in venues and outdoor sites across West Cornwall. You can experience Adam’s work 5-7 May at St Anthony-in-Meneage, Helston and the waters of the Helford River and Gillan Creek.
Adam Chodzko’s iconic vessel Ghost will be taking passengers on voyages on Gillan Creek, near Manaccan on the Lizard peninsula, during Groundwork’s launch weekend. Ghost is a hand-made wooden kayak fabricated from hundreds of strips of different woods and is both a vessel and a sculptural object. First exhibited in the Whitstable Biennale in 2010, it has since travelled along the River Medway and the River Tamar, through The Olympic Park, London, along the Tyne and in creeks through Essex. In each location members of the public are carried in a reclining position, in a state between waking and sleeping, their passage recorded by a camera mounted on the boat’s prow.
Adam Chodzko uses a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing and performance. His work focuses on our relationships to life’s edges, endings, displacements, transitions, disappearances and in-between states and often involves looking in the ‘wrong’ place or in the ‘wrong’ way to discover productive mis-readings and to propose alternative realities.
More info about the festival here http://groundwork.art/artists/