The next meeting of the Kent Enterprise and Impact Network (KEIN) will take place on Wednesday, 8th November, 12.00 -14.00, Gillingham Building, G3-05 – Medway Campus.

KEIN, a network jointly created by Kent Innovation & Enterprise (KIE) and Learning and Development (L&D), brings together staff interested in collaboration. Academics, researchers, technicians and other members of staff can explore innovation and enterprise activities, maximising the impact of their work, and alternative sources of funding, in an informal setting.

This session will give information on the subject of enterprise funding. KIE’s Chris Nash (Innovation Officer for Funding) will deliver a presentation on the support offered for enterprise funding, and Dr John Dickinson, Reader in the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences, will share his experiences of working with external organisations as partners and clients, will tell us about his recently awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, with Manchester-based, Smart life, worth £163, 000.

All University staff are welcome to attend. To reserve your place at the session, including a free light lunch, please email entadmin@kent.ac.uk and specify any dietary or access requirements.

If you would like to come along for the presentations only, you are welcome to turn up on the day without booking a place and feel free to bring your lunch with you.

After a networking lunch, there will be two short presentations with Q+A, and informal discussion.

If you have any enterprise ideas or ideas prompted by the presentations, this is also an opportunity to share these and hear about how the University can provide support

International law scholar Professor Anne Orford will examine punitive responses to the current migrant and refugee crisis from a longer legal and social historical perspective for the 2017/18 Centre for Critical International Laws (CeCIL) Annual Lecture.

When is the talk?
The talk on Surplus Population and the History of International Law will be held on Kent’s Canterbury campus on Thursday 30 November.

Professor Orfords talk is open to all and will begin at 18.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 with an introduction by CeCIL staff member Professor Donatella Alessandrini. It will be preceded by a reception in Grinond Foyer from 17.00

Who is Professor Orford?

Professor Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, and Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she directs the Laureate Program in International Law. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.

Her scholarship combines study of the history and theory of international law, analysis of developments in international legal doctrines and practice, and an engagement with central debates and concepts in related fields, in order to grasp the changing nature and role of international law in contemporary politics. Recent publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press 2011) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press 2016).

In anticipation of this years event, CeCIL is posting a special series of Professor Anne Orford quotes on its Facebook page.

CeCIL is an innovative research centre which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems.

Explore world-class museums all over the UK and enjoy a year of endless inspiration with friends, for your studies, or just for you. Miss nothing with a Student Art Pass.

From the V&A and Tate Modern to Cardiff Castle and Jupiter Artland, a Student Art Pass brings you free access to over 240 museums, galleries and historic houses, and 50% off major exhibitions. Plus, grab a tasty refreshment or memento at a bargain price with loads of café and shop discounts too.

The Student Art Pass is available for free to KENT Fine Art students, thanks to the generous funding of a private donor. The offer is open for a limited time, so apply today to avoid missing out.

Apply here

The Graduate School runs the postgraduate research café to provide opportunity for you to showcase your work and to listen to talks from postgraduate researchers from different disciplines, with a chance for questions, debate and networking over tea and coffee.

Events

‘Your PhD learning journey’
8 November, 15.00-17.00, Graduate School training room (Cornwallis East, 3rd floor)

How can reflection help make us better researchers?  The better we are at reflecting, the better we are at getting to deeper levels of analysis.  Exploring our choices, assumptions and connections can help us to think about new ways to open up our studies, it can get us to think about any blindspots we have, and consider the reasons we have adopted certain methodologies and rejected others. In this interactive workshop you will experiment with different means of and tools for reflection, in order to foster your theoretical and practical understanding of reflexivity.

‘How do we make sense of ourselves and the world? A cognitive and discursive approach’
5 December, 12.30-14.00, Graduate School training room (Cornwallis East, 3rd floor)

Andy Dean from Social of Anthropology and Conservation will present on: ‘How do we make sense of ourselves and the world? A cognitive and discursive approach’. Tom John (Tizard) will discuss: ‘Enhancing service user involvement in care planning’.

If you would like to attend any of these events, gain more information or contribute in 2017-18, please email us.

Postgraduate Research Cafe on the Medway campus

Information about the Postgraduate Research Café in Medway can be found on the Facebook page.  The Medway Research Café runs every two weeks on a Friday in Room DC-105 in the Drill Hall

Please contact Aiste Steponenaite if you have any queries about Postgraduate Research Cafe, Medway.

Join Medway College Life Activties for the annual fireworks display at Great Lines on Saturday 4 November.

We will be meeting at Liberty Quays at 18.00 to all walk together to Great Lines Park for the fireworks at 19.00.

Board games and soup will be provided at the Medway Chaplain’s residence after the fireworks for a donation of £1.

Please book a place so we know numbers.

Use your STUDENT ID NUMBER as your access code when booking online.

We were delighted to welcome our new cohort of international students to our campuses at the end of September and kick start the new academic year in style!

During Arrivals Weekend, we welcomed nearly 400 new international students via our airport transfer service from Heathrow and Gatwick airports. In booking this service, the students were welcomed at the airport, had transport arranged to then take them to the Canterbury or Medway campus, where our Meet and Greet team welcomed and escorted them directly to their accommodation. As well as staff members, it was wonderful to have many of our current students who have just returned from their Year Abroad overseas, volunteer to be part of this meet and greet service both at the airports and on Campus.

Following the weekend, our Welcome Week saw a series of activities to help settle the students into their life of Kent. These included our annual ‘Global Hangouts‘ launch a popular networking and interactivity event designed for all new international and European students, and hosted at both our Medway and Canterbury campuses. With internationally-themed activities and refreshments, the atmosphere was one of connectivity, fun and cultural festivity and kicked-off an annual series of smaller-scale Global Hangouts arranged throughout the academic year that are open for all students to join.

Welcome Week concluded with approx 450 students enjoying our organised trip to Leeds Castle. Katharina Kalinowski remarked:

“It was lovely to meet new people and spend time with the international community. It was also interesting to learn about British history. I would definitely recommend it and would like to go on similar trips in the future.” Known as the ‘Loveliest Castle in the World’, students had the opportunity experience a little of our heritage right here in Kent.