‘Curtains for Endangered Species?’ is the theme of the first DICE talk of 2020.
The talk will be given by Dr Susy Paisley, a DICE alumna and a member of the DICE Advisory Board. Susy will talk about her work as a designer and her focus on a range of endangered species.
The talk takes place on Thursday 16th January, from 18.00-19.00, in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2, Canterbury campus. It is free to attend and everyone is welcome.
The Development Office sold Season’s Greetings cards on behalf of Professor David Wilkinson’s Brain Injury research at the end of last term. We are delighted to announce that we raised £144 through this!
Thank you to everyone who purchased the cards, and a special thanks to our sponsor – Carbasse Dental Practice, whose support is incredibly appreciated.
If you would like to prepare yourself for next Christmas, we still have a limited stock of the cards left. These will be sold for a special price of £9 for 3 packs of 10, and you can email K.A.Barnsdale-65@kent.ac.uk or come to G22 in the Development Office to purchase.
Fundraising is still on-going, and we need to raise £165,000 to establish a free service for those with neurodisabilities to receive the ground-breaking experimental treatment we are working on. This is a non-surgical, non-invasive treatment that has shown amazing potential.
If you would like to look to get more information on this, and look at ways in which you can support the research, please go onto the website
For more information on Carbasse Dental, please visit the Carbasse Dental website
Kent Sport is bringing back our popular running groups as we head into 2020! Why not make this the year that you take up a new hobby, or that you dust off those old trainers and get back to running. Whether you’re just starting out or a confident runner, we have adapted our sessions to suit everyone. See the full timetable on our blog.
Beginners’ Running
Our 12-week Couch to 5k program is perfect for those just starting out and will get you comfortably running each week, leading up to a 30 minutes run (approx. 5km) in just 12 weeks.
Social run club
2020 will bring a slight change to our running groups, with the introduction of our Social Run Club. The clue is in the name – this ‘social’ group will meet twice a week and will be guided by a qualified member of staff.
Intermediate Running
Already a keen runner but want to find a group to keep you motivated and push yourself? Why not join our group-led sessions with varied running routes incorporating interval sessions and weekly running challenges. All abilities are welcome!
Parkrun
Parkrun is a collection of 5-kilometre running events that take place every Saturday morning at over 1,400 locations in twenty-two countries across five continents. Join us for the Canterbury parkrun! parkrun is free for everyone, register here.
For the full timetable please go to the Kent Sport Running Group blog
All Kent Sport sessions are led by our motivated and enthusiastic staff. Free for Premium Plus and Premium members, see Let’s Play webpage for details. Just £2 for Plus members. If you aren’t a member join Kent Sport for £5 with a Pay to Play annual membership and pay £2 per session. Any questions please contact sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk.
Dr Suhraiya Jivraj has been been recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (recently rebranded AdvanceHE).
Senior Fellowship demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education. Senior Fellows must demonstrate a thorough understanding of effective approaches to teaching and learning support as a key contribution to high quality student learning. As experienced members of staff, they must also demonstrate impact and influence through their leadership, management and mentoring.
Dr Jivraj has also been promoted to Reader at Kent Law School where her work draws on critical race/religion theories and feminist/queer of colour decolonial perspectives to explore contemporary socio-legal problematics in the fields of law and religion, equalities, anti-discrimination and human rights law, gender and sexuality and Islamic family law.
Dr Jivraj’s current work brings together her ethical commitment to critical and inclusive pedagogy and decolonising work. She was awarded a UoK Teaching Enhancement Small Support Award (TESSA) in 2018/19 to collaborate with her Race, Religion and Law Module students on decolonising the curriculum The project soon extended across the university resulting in the Decolonise UKC Manifesto.
The DtC is now continuing through Suhraiya’s role as Deputy Director of Education for Decolonising the Curriculum and under her Directorship of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice (Centre SeRGJ). She also coordinates the student-led Kaleidoscope Hub activities and the Kaleidoscope Network for staff and students as part of her broader work on decolonising knowledge production.
Dr Jivraj is one of over 124,000 Fellows across the world, including Kent Law School’s Professor Nick Grief and Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris.
Are research and teaching conflicting priorities?
Research-led teaching (RLT) is supposedly definitional of higher education, and yet research and teaching are often treated as conflicting demands upon staff time. How can we pursue these practices in an integrated and authentic way? How can we explain to senior managers, prospective students and their parents – and actual students – what the value of RLT is for learners and teachers alike?
Featuring speakers from Kent and further afield (China, Australia, Wales) this conference will equip attendees to develop and articulate research-led teaching in their professional practice.
Attendance is free. You are welcome to come for all or part of the day. Please sign up here by Friday 31 January to indicate which aspects of hospitality you are likely to require – tea breaks, lunch, closing reception etc. If you make a last-minute decision to attend, that’s fine.
You can also attend the event remotely. Please email resledteach@kent.ac.uk f you wish to do so.
When: Wednesday 26 February (week 19/reading week at Kent)
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
* 10.00 – 13.00 in Keynes Lecture Theatre 2
* 14.00 – 17.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
* lunch in Aphra Foyer 13.00 – 14.00
For more details please check the conference website for the latest news and details/timings of papers so you can drop in and out
We look forward to seeing you there.
Welcome back to all Postgrad students! Getting back in to the swing of juggling studies and exercise can be hard after the Christmas vacation, so here’s a few incentives to help you stay active.
From Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2020, we are offering all University of Kent Postgraduate students free access to special fitness and dance classes:
• Monday 13 January – Zumba Toning, 15.00 – 15.30 – book now
• Wednesday 15 January – BoxFit, 11.00 – 12.00 – book now
• Friday 17 January – Stretch, tone and relax, 14.15 – 15.00 – book now
• The Kent Sport Physiotherapy Clinic are also offering an exclusive massage offer: enjoy a relaxing 30-minute massage at the Kent Sport Physiotherapy Clinic for only £15!
To take advantage of the massage offer and free classes, please supply proof of your year of study when visiting the Sports Centre reception. Visit the Physiotherapy Clinic website for more information about our services.
For those who missed out on the discounted Unirider tickets in September, or who have just started at Kent, you are in luck!
Stagecoach are releasing a further discounted Unirider ticket. Their Term 2 and 3 Unirider ticket runs from 11 January 2020 to the 14 June 2020 and costs £195. That works out at just 79p per day!
As well as allowing you to commute from Canterbury to campus, the Unirider ticket covers the whole of Kent and East Sussex- so you can explore all the region has to offer.
To purchase a Unirider ticket, either visit the Stagecoach website or the Travel Shop at the Canterbury bus station.
The Guardian University Awards 2020 are now open and entries are welcome until the final deadline of Friday 7 February.
The Guardian is inviting entries from UK higher education institutions across 14 categories, which will be shortlisted and judged by an expert panel. Winners will be announced at a prestigious awards ceremony in April. Corporate Communications will again be co-ordinating Kent’s award entries this year and is happy to support schools/departments with their submissions.
This year’s Guardian University Award categories are listed below and, with only a couple of exceptions, any projects nominated must have started within the last 18 months.
You can find out more about the awards on the Guardian webpages.
Please do get in touch with Corporate Communications asap if you know of a project that we should be considering for this year’s awards – email us on communications@kent.ac.uk.
We have now made two further appointments to our Director of Division roles, with Professor Peter Hydon leading the Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and Professor Toni Williams leading the Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice.
Peter and Toni will join the other Directors of Division on Executive Group with immediate effect. The full list of appointed Directors of Division is as follows:
Division of Arts, Culture & Design
Kent School of Architecture and Planning; School of Arts; School of English; Centre for Music and Audio Technology
Professor Simon Kirchin (who will take up the post on a two-year basis to see through the transition and begin succession planning)
Division of Humanities
School of European Culture and Languages; School of History
Professor Shane Weller
Division of Natural Sciences
School of Biosciences; School of Physical Sciences; School of Sport and Exercise Sciences; Medway School of Pharmacy (affiliate); Kent and Medway Medical School (affiliate)
Professor Claire Peppiatt-Wildman
Kent Business School
Professor Marian Garcia
Division of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences
School of Engineering and Digital Arts; School of Computing; School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Professor Peter Hydon
Division for the Study of Law, Society, and Social Justice
Kent Law School; School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research; Centre for Journalism
We are continuing to review the process of appointing a Director to the remaining Division.
Back by popular demand all University staff are invited to a very special Gulbenkian open day on Friday 17 January from 11.00 to 14.00.
You can:
-Meet our team
-Find out what’s on in 2020 and learn about your staff discounts
-Hear about our £100,000 redevelopment of the Café/Foyer space
-Taste the best coffee on campus (oh yes it is!) and fresh food from our chefs
-Find out how you can hire our spaces, volunteer, or become more involved with your arts centre here on campus
-And much more!
We look forward to seeing you then.