We are holding a Postgraduate Open Event on Saturday 24 November at Darwin College from 10am – 1pm.

The event will cover all Kent’s programmes offered at our locations in Canterbury, Medway, Athens, Brussels, Paris and Rome and you will be able to:

• find out about Kent’s £11m postgraduate scholarship fund and Research Council funding
• discuss, on a one-to-one basis, your specific study needs and raise any questions you may have with academic staff
• hear from the Dean of the Graduate School

To book your place go visit our postgraduate events page.

As well as this, we will be holding a workshop on designing a good research proposal or Master’s application. This will take place after the Postgraduate Open Event in Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 at 1.15pm where you will be able to consider what makes a successful proposal.

If you are an international student at Kent and are preparing to take either the Cambridge or IELTS exam or if you would just like to improve your English, Study Plus are offering free Cambridge and IELTS exam preparation taster sessions.

The IELTS taster sessions are designed to give you an overview of the skills you need to prepare for the IELTS exam. The Cambridge taster sessions will give you an overview of the language and examination skills required and familiarisation with the test formats. Both courses will be taught by an experienced IELTS/Cambridge teacher.

The courses will take place during weeks 8-11 at the Canterbury campus.

If you would like more information, please visit the Study Plus website.

Book your place via SDS.

See a different perspective of our Canterbury campus; take to the skies and see the campus and Canterbury with a drone tour recorded this summer (which seems a long time ago now!). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the views as the drone explores the sights, old and new, on our 300-acre site.

Current undergraduate Kent students are invited to learn how adding a Year in Data Analytics to their degree can enhance their employability, at the Year in Data Analytics Information Event on Wednesday 21 November, 1:00 – 15:00 in Sibson Lecture Theatre 2.

The one-year self-contained programme, run by the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) in partnership with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), provides students with the opportunity to develop key data gathering, analysis and reporting skills. Such skills are highly sought-after by a wide range of employers across all sectors.

For more information about the Year in Data Analytics visit http://bit.ly/YearinData or email smsasugadmissions@kent.ac.uk 

Our new IT Hub is open above Woody’s! It’s on the first floor of the new Student Hub and we’re calling it Woody’s IT Hub (we thought Student Hub IT Hub might be a bit of a mouthful).

The study space is open 24/7 with KentOne Card access and offers:

• 26 PCs
• printer
• Print Credits machine
• 5 height adjustable desks
• Desktop power sockets

Accessibility

The IT Hub is situated on the first floor of the Woody’s building and is accessible for wheelchair users via a lift.

Do you enjoy helping others to learn a language? Or would you like to meet students at Kent who can help improve a language you are currently learning? If so, you might be interested in joining the FREE Language Exchange Community hosted by the Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL).

Language Exchange is a Moodle based language community in which we encourage students to pair up and exchange information and knowledge of their respective cultures and languages. In support of this the Centre for English and World Language also host Language Exchange evenings once a term for students who are learning Mandarin, Russian, Japanese or Arabic to meet native speakers of their target language to socialise and practice speaking and listening. Our next Language Exchange Evening will be held on Monday 19 November 2018 from 18.00-19.00 in the Chipperfield Atrium.

If you would like to find out more about Language Exchange or how to sign up, please visit the Moodle page or alternatively email us.

To book your place on our Autumn Language Exchange evening.

The Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies is delighted to announce that Sophie Vanhoutte has completed her PhD in Classical & Archaeological Studies under the supervision of Dr Stephen Willis. The PhD is entitled ‘Change and Continuity at the Roman Fort at Oudenburg from the late 2nd until the early 5th century AD, with a particular focus on the evidence of the material culture and its significance within the wider context of the Roman North Sea and Channel Frontier zone’.

In the later Roman period, the North Sea region was the scene of seaborne attacks, political crises, army reforms, Germanic invasions and imperial defence strategies. As a consequence, the defence of the shores became increasingly important. However, this history remains little understood.

Sophie’s research contributes to the big questions of later Antiquity in the North-West: what changed when, and what did it mean? The changes had impact on the lives of soldiers and their interaction with other forts and with the region. Sophie’s research explores what was changing on a military level in this frontier region by looking at the material culture and by studying find contexts as reflections of the socio-cultural world.

Our congratulations to Dr Vanoutte.

Interested in postgraduate study at the University of Kent? Find out more about the PhD in Classical & Archaeological Studies.