Thinking about professional development programmes?

The Centre for Professional Practice, which offers flexible, part-time, work-based studies is coming to Canterbury campus with its Pop-up stand to provide information to the University’s staff who may want to further their careers.

Come and find us:

Wednesday, 4 July, 12.00-13.00 near Gulbiankin and 13.00-14.00 near Blackwells Book Shop

The Master’s in Professional Practice or BA/BSc Top-up in Professional Practice are flexible, part-time programmes which have been developed for professionals who want the opportunity to validate the professional knowledge, experience and skills they have amassed during their careers and use this to progress their professional careers:

BA/BSc Top-up in Professional Practice. This two-year, part-time programme is suitable for those who already have an Undergraduate and  Foundation Degrees, HND or equivalent and would like to top it up to an honours degree.

MA/MSc in Professional Practice. This three-year, flexible, part-time programme has proved particularly popular amongst managers and professional staff in a range of organisations and businesses.  Requests for accreditation of prior experiential and certificated learning (APECL) are welcome.

The programmes enable participants to:

•       Gain new perspectives on their professional role and develop new approaches to transform their work-related practice

•       Develop professional knowledge and enhance career opportunities

•       Stimulate thinking about the challenges associated with their area of practice

•       Engage, review and analyse the currents debates associated with work practice

The programmes, delivered by the Centre for Professional Practice at the University of Kent’s Medway Campus, offer a flexible way of study (on average 6 weekends a year, Friday-Sunday) and are currently recruiting to the 2018/19 intake, which commences on 19 October 2018.

Students may be eligible for staff fee remission or loans (subject to eligibility criteria).

For more information see Centre for Professional Practice page.

We are pleased to be able to offer sessions led by Psicon who are a local specialist in Psychology and Health Services.

Open to any member of staff who would like to increase their understanding of mental health awareness and managing personal resilience, the presentation-style sessions will provide a comprehensive blend of practical advice alongside an overview of underpinning theory and models to help participants gain a rounded understanding of managing mental health.

The sessions take place on:
6 July: 10.00-12.00 and 13.00-15.00 – Keynes Seminar Room 16

To book a place and to obtain further information, please visit Resilience – A biopsychosocial model of health and wellbeing (Mental Health Awareness)  calendar.

Kent will be hosting a wine tasting day with Professor Vladimir Jiranek – Head of Department of Wine and Food Science at University of Adelaide (South Australia) – on Friday 6 July, 09.00 – 17.00.

Titled Wine 101: An introduction to winemaking, styles and evaluation, the one day course is perfect for novices and new enthusiasts who simply want to learn about the core concepts of wine, omitting the overly technical stuff in favour of understandable explanations.

Discover which grapes are used for each wine; how these grapes are grown and harvested; how they are processed in to red, white, sparkling and fortified styles; what effects the grape-growing and wine making have on the final product; what the basic appearances, tastes, aromas and flavours of different wines; and what these senses can tell you about the wine you are drinking.

The day will begin with an introductory talk, followed by a guided tasting journey through 25 different wines, during which a two-course lunch will be served. We will progressively build your wine recognition and evaluation throughout the day, leaving you with a familiarity of the attributes and faults with different wine varieties and styles.

The course fee is £114 and includes all tastings and a two course lunch in Dolche Vita.
Sign up here.
Attendees must be 18 or over.

On Friday 22 June, as part of the ‘Unpredictable Series’  SMFA’s Dr Blanca Regina, Associate Lecturer in Event and Experience Design performs in an evening of audiovisual concerts at IKLECTIK in London, with internationally acclaimed artists Sculpture, Zan Lyons, and Noriko Okaku with special guest Steve Beresford.

Blanca Regina is an artist, curator, and tutor based in London who is currently involved in creating audiovisual performances, sound works, installations, and film. She has performed with numerous artists, including Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford, David Toop and Matthias Kispert, and curated a number of events and installations internationally.

A visiting research fellow at University of the Arts London, her research and practice encompass expanded cinema, free improvisation, moving image, photography and audiovisual performance.  In 2010, she received a doctorate in Humanities from University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, with the thesis The VJ and audiovisual performance: towards a radical aesthetic of postmodernism.

She is curator at the London-based Music Hackspace, Live Cinema Foundation and Strange Umbrellas. With Matthias Kispert she founded the Material Studies Group, developing a series of workshops and performances around the production of sound with everyday objects.

Get tickets for the event – £8 advance or £10 on the door.

Doors open at 19.00 for 20.00 start.