From Friday 17 June to Sunday 4 September, get cinema tickets for just £6 by showing your staff ID.

Tickets can be bought over the phone or in person at the Gulbenkian Box Office (open from 11.00 over the summer).

Sent in by: d.yard@kent.ac.uk

Moodle 2016 is now available at https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/2016/. Students will not have access to Moodle 2016 until September, until then it is for staff preparation only.

As last year, all Moodle modules for the next academic year and manually created modules with a DPxxxx code are rolled over to Moodle 2016 with content, not including Turnitin assignments or KentPlayer recordings. Moodle 2015 and Moodle 2016 will run concurrently over the summer, on different URLs. The main Moodle URL, moodle.kent.ac.uk/ will take visitors to Moodle 2015 until 30 August. After that date, it will connect to Moodle 2016.

Please contact your FLT at https://www.kent.ac.uk/elearning/people.html if you have any questions about the rollover process.

Library information

New for this year, CLA scanned documents that have been used previously will be carried over automatically, so you will only need to request new ones. Ensure that requests for new extracts are submitted using Moodle 2016 (not previous years). Allow six weeks for the scans to be processed and uploaded.

You will be able to edit your reading list for 2016/17 in draft form from 26 May. To edit and publish your reading lists, link to Canterbury and Tonbridge lists via Readinglists@kent or Medway via Readinglists@kent – Medway.

Full rollover information, a link to Moodle 2016 and contact information is available to staff only on the elearning website.

During the University’s quieter summer months, you and your friends and family have the perfect opportunity to enjoy a wide range of activities at Kent Sport.

From 1 June until 1 September, you can get 50% off the price of Gold membership* with our summer membership offer, allowing you access to some of the best facilities in the county.

You can see all the benefits of membership at Kent Sport, along with the facilities and equipment available to members on our website kent.ac.uk/sports

A one-month membership is half price, with Gold adult £33.50, and Gold junior (16 to 18 years)** £26. Under 16’s pay £3.90 per activity. To purchase your membership, visit the Sports Centre or Pavilion reception. Purchase valid for one month from purchase date. Please visit our website for full terms and conditions.

*Half price based on public membership. **Please note that anyone in full-time education is entitled to the junior rate. To apply for the junior rate please bring with you proof of full-time education (student card etc).

To stay up to date with Kent Sport news, events and special offers, Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @UniKentSports.

If you would like to know more about the making and meaning of Gothic colour, then come along to Illuminating the Past, a one-day (and totally free!) cultural engagement event organised by the University’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

On Thursday 16 June 2016, we have planned an interactive workshop and a lively series of talks by graduate students and early career scholars to showcase exciting new approaches to understanding the Gothic imagination.

Illuminating the Past will take place at the Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, a 12th-century pilgrims’ residence located in the centre of historic Canterbury. To enhance the atmosphere of this special occasion, we are delighted that the choir of the University of Kent Minerva voices (@Minerva_Voices) will offer live performances of music from the Gothic era.

Please feel free to drop in at any time during the day between 09.30 and 17.00 without booking. However, attendance for the talks needs to be pre-booked. In order to do this, and to view the talks programme, please visit the workshop webpages.

IT services which were affected this morning by a network issue, are now working again. We’re sorry for the inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

We are continuing to investigate to discover the root cause, in order to prevent it happening again.

Thank you for your patience this morning whilst we dealt with the unexpected outage.

IS Services

The School of Politics and International Relations invites you to a talk on  ‘‘THIS DIFFICULT PLACE’ – Creating space for justice and peace: a Quaker in Hebron’.

The talk by Alwyn Knight takes place on Thursday 12 May at 19.00 in Rutherford Lecture Theatre 2, Canterbury campus.

Alwyn Knight is a Quaker who has been accompanying Palestinians in Hebron under Israeli occupation and he will talk about his experiences there and what conditions are like now in the divided city of Hebron, which in many ways is a microcosm of the Occupied Territories.

The talk should be of interest to students of politics, IR, conflict, peace and the Middle East, and also to anyone who would like to know more about Quaker action in Palestine.

The format will be a talk for about 45 minutes and then questions and answers.

All are welcome to attend, no booking is necessary. Please arrive early as space is limited.

Are you experiencing stress? Would you like to learn how to manage workplace stress more effectively?

Occupational Health has been approached by researchers from the University of Sussex on a study of an evidence-based stress management programme. The eight-week programme is delivered entirely via the Internet, and can be accessed at a time to suit you. There are no face-to-face appointments. You will be required to complete online assessments.

For more information please follow this link, or copy and paste it into your browser https://www.workguru.org/members/stress-research.pdf or contact the lead researcher Stephany Carolan sc587@sussex.ac.uk.

Your participation in this research will be entirely confidential and no personally identifiable data will be returned to Occupational Health.

David Chadwick, Professor of Information Systems Security in the School of Computing, is raising money for King’s College Hospital after their excellent care for him following a severe cycling accident.

David was cycling down St Thomas’ Hill, Canterbury in January when he was knocked off his bike by another cyclist, resulting in extensive injuries. He is currently on a phased return to work after two operations and a period of recuperation.

David said: ‘I was nearly killed in a cycling accident on 19 Jan 2016 whilst cycling home from the University. I suffered a broken shoulder, seven broken ribs, a shattered pelvis and cracked vertebrae. I was rushed to Kings College Hospital in the early hours of the morning and had my first operation later that day. A week later I had a bigger operation on my pelvis. Thanks to the excellent care I received, I survived. Patients have 40% greater chance of survival at Kings, so I was lucky to be transferred there, otherwise I might not be fundraising for them today.

‘I have recently began to walk again and I am hoping to be fully recovered by June, and also fit enough to take part in the sponsored abseil down the Jubilee tower block at the hospital. This is a great target to aim for, both physically and financially, since all the sponsorship money I raise will go towards the fantastic care that Kings gives to its patients.’

David is hoping to raise £1,000 for the hospital from by taking part in the abseil on Friday 17 June 2016. You can support him by visiting his Just Giving page.

The Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust is inviting all University staff to join a free preview tour of a new visitor experience at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.

The brand new ‘Command of the Oceans’ visitor experience features four superb new interactive galleries, two significant archaeological discoveries, a new children’s play area and a restored historic environment. Command of the Oceans has the latest design technology that will take you on a voyage back to the ‘Age of Sail’.

The free preview tours take place on Tuesday 24 May 2016 from 11:00 – 13:00 and
Wednesday 25 May 2016 from 10:00 – 14:00.

The Dockyard Trust would be delighted if you would become a Critical Friend. A Critical Friend is someone who is encouraging and supportive, but who also provides honest and candid feedback!

The Trust would welcome your views to ensure that every visit in the future is an exceptional one for all. At the end of your visit, they will ask you to  give  valuable feedback and your opinion of your experience. The Trust would like to hear what you thought about everything – from car parking to the new visitor reception, shop, restaurant, facilities and customer care. They will be testing everything which will be new to us too, so your feedback will help us be ready for opening to the public.

Spaces will be allocated on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVED basis and the Trust will endeavour to offer other dates later in the year for those unable to visit this time.

This opportunity includes the  new ‘Mess Deck’ restaurant and, to tempt you to test this, the Trust is pleased to offer 50% off food and drink.

To register please email events@chdt.org.uk providing your name, guest names (up to five guests), address, telephone number and company name/group – the Trust will confirm whether your application is successful via an email.