The Assessment and Feedback Steering Group is holding consultation meetings with representatives from different areas of the University to discuss the proposal to introduce a Winter Assessment Period.
The paper that AFSG submitted to Education Board in February 2019 can be found on our Teaching webpages.
We invite your views on the paper. Please email your feedback/comments to afsgconsult@kent.ac.uk
The Kent Voluntary Severance Scheme (KVSS) is being launched today, Monday 15 April 2019.
You can find out more about the Scheme on our HR webpages.
If you’re interested in applying, please discuss this as soon as possible with your line manager or head of school/professional service department. The last day to request an initial KVSS quotation is Friday 7 June 2019 – or Friday 17 May 2019 if you require a pension quotation as well.
The Scheme is part of our response to the challenges facing the University and UK higher education sector, as outlined in the recent Executive Group Blog by our Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Karen Cox.
This is the first stage of the scheme. KVSS will be re-opened again at relevant times and on the same terms for those staff at risk of redundancy as part of the Organising for Success Project.
If you have any questions, email our HR team KVSSenquiries@kent.ac.uk, or ask them in person at one of our informal drop-in sessions.
Drop-in sessions:
There’s no need to book, just come along. Further sessions will be held at the beginning of next term; dates to be advised.
Dr Jason Nurse will be taking his knowledge of online privacy to the pub as part of the national Pint of Science series of events.
He will be one of three speakers in the tech-themed event in The Good Intent in John Street, Rochester on Monday 20 May. The theme for the evening is the pros and cons of modern technology.
Jason’s talk specifically addresses concerns about online advertising. Firms can launch targeted ad campaigns suited to what they believe we want, or to influence our beliefs in particular ways. To allow such targeting, organisations constantly explore new ways to gather information about us, often at the expense of our privacy. This spans traditional web tracking, smartphone apps and new technologies (e.g. smart-tech). In this talk, Jason will demystify how online advertising works, the tricks advertisers use to track users, and what the risks to us are. He will also provide some tools and tips you can use to protect yourself online.
For more information and tickets (which usually sell out quickly) go to the Pint of Science website.
The University ’s School of Music and Fine Art presents Sweet FA… the Fine Art Degree Show 2019; an exhibition of work by 20 exciting, emerging international artists, set in the extraordinary environment of The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.
The exhibition opens with a Private View on Saturday May 18, from 13.00-18.00 with, at 15.00, speeches from special guests; the acclaimed artist Bob & Roberta Smith, Victoria Pomery, director of the Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate, and Karen Cox, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Kent.
The exhibition is open to all and is free to attend. It is open to the public from Sunday 19 – Friday 24 May, from 10.00-17.00. Please note the show is closed on Tuesday 21 May.
Continuing a tradition of showcasing bold, exploratory exhibitions by the University ’s Fine Art students, visitors will encounter a broad range of artistic styles and media, an explosion of imagination and a celebration of art’s potential for society, framed by the backdrop of The Historic Dockyard. The exhibition will offer the public a fascinating insight into contemporary art’s most recent practices and processes.
The catalogue for this year’s show is designed in collaboration with MA Curation students from the University of Kent’s School of Arts
The Degree Show Address:
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TY
Entry for the private view is via The Galvanising Shop (next to the Dockyard’s visitors’ car park on the East Road, and for the rest of the exhibition, via The Historic Dockyard Chatham Visitor Entrance.
More information on opening times and directions is available on The Historic Dockyard webpages.
Find out more about the event on SMFA Facebook: @unikentmfa, SMFA website or Fine art student Instagram.
This Event & Experience Design Showcase takes place from Saturday 18 May to Friday 24 May, in Studio 1, Engineering Workshop on Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Opening times are:
The Showcase, WICKED, celebrates the work of current Event and Experience Design graduating students. As this is a special celebration of the undergraduate course, we will be celebrating the achievements of our alumni from the very start of the course. Thirteen years of ambition, aspiration, achievement and excellence within education and the events industry
Like their predecessors, these early career designers have continued to make work at the forefront of contemporary practice in the ever-expanding field of events. They have embraced changes in technology, taken delight in manipulating and crafting materials and always prioritised the creation of a memorable experience for their audiences.
In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to Clive Marsh, Head of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester.
In this podcast, we learn about what it was like for Clive to follow Liverpool FC, how he discovered The Times newspaper film reviews as a teenager, listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bed covers, his upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren, how he ended up studying German and Biblical Studies at Bangor, why he joined the SDP and later the Labour Party, his awareness of how painful British society can be, and why he thinks we will only do well in the future if we do some serious reflection on our past.
Image © Ute Langkafel from Heiner Müller, Hamletmachine, dir. Sebastian Nübling, Gorki Exil Ensemble, prem. 24 Feb. 2018
Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama in the School of Arts, and Professor Peter Boenisch from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, are organising a conference entitled ‘Performing Multilingualism in Europe and Beyond: Migration, Globalisation, Utopia’ with the participation of Gintersdorfer / Klassen and Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin. The conference will feature Professor Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa) as keynote speaker, and will be hosted by the School of Arts on Friday 13 September 2019.
In an increasingly inter-connected world characterised by flows of people, goods and capital, multilingualism has become a feature in many social environments, highlighting the importance of translation in human communication. Whether enforced by financial waves, mass movement, tourism, education systems or colonialism, speaking multiple languages has become a feature of increasing importance in our societies. How do theatre and performance makers deal with multilingualism?
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
The organisers invite the submission of 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers by 6 May 2019. Please send your proposals to: performingmultilingualism@gmail.com
You can find out more about the conference on the School of Arts webpages
Nominations can now be made for the 2019 Graduate School Prizes.
The Graduate School annual prizes were set up to recognise the excellence of its postgraduate researchers and the outstanding work carried out by academic and administrative staff members in support of postgraduate research and education.
There are five categories:
Apply or nominate a candidate now via the Graduate School website. Deadline for nominations is 8 May 2019, and winners will be announced on 30 May 2019 at the Researcher Showcase.
Dr John Court, long-time Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Kent , died on 31 March after a long illness.
John retired from teaching in 2001. In the course of a distinguished and versatile academic career, which included 30 years at Kent, he served as General Editor of the prestigious Cambridge University Press ‘Society for New Testament Studies’ monograph series.
A service of thanksgiving will be held at Boughton-under-Blean Parish Church at 15.00 on Tuesday 16 April.
Eliot College presents ‘TS Eliot – In Different Voices’, an evening of poetry, prose, music and drama, on Wednesday 10 April
The event, in the Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Canterbury campus from 19.00, features the works of TS Eliot, Charles Dickens, Sergel Rachmaninoff and Mozart. It will be followed by drinks and canapes
Tickets, priced £6, are available from Gulbenkian box office – email boxoffice@kent.ac.uk or click on Gulbenkian webpages.