Arrived at the University recently? Or perhaps you regret not purchasing the Unirider ticket earlier in the year?
You can purchase a term 2 and 3 Unirider for £180 for unlimited travel on all Stagecoach buses in Kent and East Sussex. This is a discount available exclusively to University of Kent students.
Term 2 and 3 Unirider bus tickets can be purchased from the Stagecoach website.
For more information about bus routes, timetables and discounts visit our Canterbury bus webpage.
Welcome back everyone! We’ve been busy making improvements: check out the newly opened study areas in D Block on floors 2 and 3. We think you’ll love them!
The former PC room in D Block Floor 2 is now open with more study spaces for individual quiet study. Most desks have a PC, and 24 PCs of these are now bookable.
There are 44 new study spaces in a new silent zone on Floor 3 in D Block. 14 of the spaces have PCs. The space offers spectacular views across Canterbury.
Need a height adjustable workspace? There are six additional height adjustable desks in D Block Floor 2. Four have PCs on, and two of these are bookable. There are more height adjustable desks in D Block Floor 3 in the silent study zone.
The toilets in D Block have also had a complete makeover: there are now 5 gender neutral toilets and 1 accessible toilet on each Floor 1, 2 and 3.
The lift in D Block is available again so you can use it to get to these new spaces
From start of term, the Library is now back to 24/7 opening until June so you’ll have plenty of time to check out the new areas.
‘Book a PC’ trial service
To guarantee use of a PC at a certain time there are now 24 bookable PCs in the Library. You can now book up to four weeks in advance using our new <strong>Book a PC</strong> trial service, which will run until the end of the summer term. The PCs are for quiet individual study and are located in new study space on Floor 2, D Block (the former PC room).
The SECL Student Success Project is offering students the chance to meet with an Academic Peer Mentor over a FREE drink and cake.
The Academic Peer Mentoring (APM) scheme is a chance for undergraduate students to be mentored in their studies by experienced students, and this is a great chance to learn more about the scheme. If you’ve never heard of Academic Peer Mentors before and you’re not sure how they can help, then this is your chance to see how they can benefit you.
All you need to do is email SECL@kent.ac.uk with ‘Meet Me in the Gulb’ in the subject, tell us what course you are on and we’ll do the rest!
Beginning on Wednesday 30th January, the SECL Student Support team will begin running weekly drop-in sessions in the Staff Room (on the first floor of Cornwallis North West, opposite SECL Reception), 14.00-15.30. There is no need to register – just turn up.
Refreshments will be provided and all students are welcome to drop by just to relax, play board games, read, or have a chat. If you have some time between afternoon lectures or seminars, please come along and join us!
Email seclstusup@kent.ac.uk for more information
The Year in Computing gives Kent students from any subject area the opportunity to add a Year in Computing to their degree to help improve their skills and employability. To help interested students find out more, the School of Computing, have arranged a “kick start lunch”, with free pizza, on Tuesday 22 January,12.30-14.00, in Cornwallis SW101.
Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more about computing for their own interests. The Year in Computing is a free-standing, self-contained year, offered to students from other schools in the University and can be taken after stage two or three (that is, between your second and final year, or after your final year). This extra year can be taken after stage 2 or the final year of a students’ current degree programme.
The Year in Computing will especially be of interest to you if:
If you would like to attend, please book your place online.
Tickets for the Researching the Rainbow Conference at the University of Kent on 15 and 16 February 2019 are now available,
The Conference will be held on Friday 15 February from 14.00-19.00 2 and on Saturday 16 February from 10.00-17.00 and is free to attend and open to all.
The call for Papers is also open until 20 January, so there is still time to register as a contributor. Papers are welcome from academics at any stage of their career, students or professionals.
Research posters from any discipline are also welcomed for display. If you would like to give a talk (15 or 30 minutes) or display a poster, please email lgbtstaffnetwork@kent.ac.uk by 20 January.
The University can also offer 10 students or early career researchers (up to three years post PhD) up to £140 towards travel and accommodation. Please email lgbtstaffnetwork@kent.ac.uk if you are interested.
This is the University of Kent LGBT+ Staff Network’s third annual Researching the Rainbow Conference and will be held on the University’s Canterbury campus.
The conference, which takes part during LGBT History Month, is to showcase the vast array of excellent research being done on or related to LGBT+ people and issues, and to encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration and networking.
Previous topics have included gay and lesbian representation in the media, transgender issues within mental health care and parenting law, British colonial laws on sodomy, homosexual WWII clandestine operatives, and queer exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Fancy hiring a bike for the term to help you get around? We work with Chris and his team at ByCycle to provide an affordable cycle hire scheme for students.
Hire a recycled bicycle for only £40 per term (plus refundable £60 deposit). The price includes a heavy-duty lock, bell, kickstand and lights.
Hire dates and times:
Find ByCycle at the Cycle Hub by the Pavilion, Park Wood from 10.00-16.00 on the hire dates. For more information please see the cycle hire leaflet or our cycle hire webpage.
Kent Law School are looking for actors to play the parts of witnesses, defendants and court staff in our upcoming mock trials.
We are looking for actors (both male and female) who have excellent improvisation skills with prior acting expereince.
This is a unique opportunity and one that will look good on CVs when applying for future acting jobs that require role play experience. The trials will be recorded and so could be used for actors’ showreels if so required.
Although unpaid, students will be able to obtain employability points.
Time Commitment: The successful candidates will need to be available on 13, 15 and 22 March, from 17.00-20.00. They will also need to be available for two rehearsal workshops at the start of March (times and dates to be arranged). The trials and rehearsals will take place at the Canterbury campus.
Applications: In the first instance please send your CV (or statement outlining your acting experience) and a head and shoulder photograph to Darren Weir, by email: d.weir@kent.ac.uk. Auditions will be held in January at the start of the Spring Term.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 15 January at 17.00
Dr Helen Brooks, Reader in Theatre and Cultural History in the School of Arts, was interviewed for BBC Radio Kent this week, on the Dominic King Show broadcast on Monday 7 January.
Helen was interviewed about a guided research workshop ‘A Night in the West End’, which will take place on Friday 11 January, to explore the role that London’s West End theatre district played during the First World War.
‘The idea is to bring academics and members of the public who have an interest in the subject together, to see what they can find out using newspapers and old periodicals to discover nuggets of history that have been long forgotten,’ explains Helen in the interview.
Helen is co-investigator on Gateways to the First World War: an AHRC-funded consortium for public engagement with the centenary of the conflict.
The broadcast is available on the BBC site and can be heard approximate 1 hour 22 minutes into the programme.
The workshop is free and open to all: to book a place, please see the Eventbrite link.
Courses on offer this term include:
KE113 Business Start-up workshops and KE192 #DigitalReboot Business Start-up workshops (Canterbury and Medway)
KE122 Digital Photography
KE142 Introduction to Medieval and Tudor Canterbury
KE156 Discover Dutch and KE123 Introduction to Modern Greek Language and Culture
KE180 Film and Media Analysis (New for 2019)
We also have four one-hour Excel skills courses – KE125, KE126, KE127 and KE166.
Book your place via the Workshops page in SDS.
For more information and to see all of the courses on offer, please visit the Study Plus website.