Sounds like a good plan?

Well, you may want to learn various aspects of starting a charity or running a Community Interest Company with the experts in social entrepreneurship, funding officers and savvy social entrepreneurs.

Social Enterprise Conference, November 21st 2018, Wednesday, 12 noon – 4p.m, Free admission.

Hub for Innovation and Enterprise as the University of Kent’s dedicated base for business ideas, student enterprise, business incubation and start-up support is running a conference on November 21st 2018 where students and staff can learn the difference between charity and CIC, find out about available funding and hear local and national success stories. We don’t look at this opportunity  through rose-tinted spectacles though, so you will also learn about pitfalls of running a social enterprise from the experts.

A lot of young people aspire today to make a change and give back to the community. Running your own business and making that mark in the society is a very attractive concept and an opportunity to lead the way and make your money in a sustainable way.

Come along to the conference to meet like-minded people, network, learn and find your future business partner!

Spaces are limited, please, register online with your UniKent e-mail: www.kent.ac.uk/innovation-hub

Generously supported by:

Student Project Grant Scheme

In cooperation with:

UnLtd

Social Enterprise Kent Group

Kent CAN CIC

Kent Foundation

Enactus Kent

Enactus UK

In Information Services we are always looking to improve the service you receive, helping you study and achieve your goals. We cover a huge range of services that you will all have some experience of – email, printing, Wi-Fi, study space, books and e-resources and so much more. It is important to us to get your feedback. What is working? What can we improve? What can we do differently?

Information Services, together with the Kent Union Student reps, will be in the Library Cafe from 12.00-14.00 on Thursday 1 November, getting your views. Have your say and make your voice heard! Come and get your free cookie and a cuppa.

Look out for an email with a link to the annual Information Services Library and IT Resources Survey 2018 in a couple of weeks too.

Find out more about how the University is listening to the Student Voice here.

The Graduate School are hosting a number of workshops during Enhancement Week for Undergraduate and Master’s students who are thinking about their future in academia.

Wednesday 7 November

Talk to our Postgraduates

14.00 – 16.00, Graduate School, CE329 Cornwallis East 3^rd Floor

(Final Year UG and Master’s Students)

Current Master’s and PhD students have volunteered their time to talk to you about their time as a postgraduate student. You can ask them about their experiences and what life is like as a postgraduate at Kent. Hear about postgraduate facilities, intensity of workload and how they manage their finances.  Get to know what expectations are realistic and tips on establishing a work/life balance. Ask about support and what relationships/contacts they have developed during study and, find out what challenges there may be to overcome.

Let us know you are coming by registering here.

Thursday 8 November

Designing a Research Proposal or Master’s Application

13.00 – 16.00, Graduate School, CE329 Cornwallis East 3^rd

(Final Year UG and Master’s Students)

This workshop is aimed at students who are putting together a Master’s application or research proposals for PhD projects.  We will consider what a good application/proposal needs, examine some examples of successful applications/proposals, and consider some tips and tricks from successful applicants. Participants should bring along their draft applications (if you have already started), as there will be an opportunity to work on these in the session. The workshop will provide a supportive, interactive work space for participants who are designing their own projects.

Facilitated by Dr Jo Collins, Postgraduate Development Advisor – Graduate School.

Undergraduate students register here.
Master’s students register through Bloom here.

Friday 9 November

Kent Scholarships – what’s on offer?

10.00 – 11.00, Graduate School Training Room, Cornwallis East 3^rd Floor

(Final Year UG and Master’s Students)

This workshop is designed to give you an insight into applying for postgraduate scholarships at Kent. We will be covering what to look for when searching for a scholarship, both at Kent and from scholarship search engines and also what makes a good application. How are Scholarship decisions made? What can I expect out of a scholarship? The workshop will cover both Master’s and PhD scholarships. This will be a fully interactive session with a scholarship themed puzzles to solve.

Hosted by Stephen McLaughlin, Postgraduate Funding Officer and Louise Mann, Scholarships and Research Councils Assistant.

Let us know you are coming by registering here.

Postgraduate Funding: Considering the Alternatives

13.00 – 16.00, Graduate School Training Room, Cornwallis East 3^rd Floor

(Final Year UG and Master’s Students)

Need extra funding? For fees, living expenses, research, travel, conferences.
If the answer is ‘Yes’ to any of these, then consider this workshop with Dr Luke Blaxill, Director of GradFunding. It explores the thousands of alternative grant-making bodies in Britain: principally charities, trusts, and foundations.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained the knowledge and skills needed to:

1. identify the appropriate and best alternative funding bodies for them
2. find these bodies via books and the internet
3. apply strongly and in the correct fashion.

Undergraduate students register here.
Master’s students register through Bloom here.

Staff and students are invited to the launch of the new Global Challenges Doctoral Centre (GCDC) on Monday, 5 November 2018, from 3-4pm in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3 (DLT3).

The University of Kent has established the GCDC to serve as the nucleus for Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) PhD training activities at Kent. The GCDC is dedicated to doctoral research addressing the challenges of economic development and well-being faced by developing countries on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list.

As part of this new initiative, the University of Kent is offering eight GCDC doctoral scholarships (covering an annual stipend at UKRI rates, tuition fees and a research training support grant), and applications can be both student-led and project-led. The first four GCDC-funded doctoral students commenced their studies in the academic year 2018-2019, and the 2019-2020 call for applications can be found here.

If you are interested in learning more about the GCDC and its work, please join us at the launch event on Monday, 5 November. At the event, the four current GCDC students will present their research projects, and the GCDC academic lead, Dr Ingvild Bode, will provide further information and be available for questions regarding the 2019-2020 GCDC scholarships call for applications.

Please confirm your attendance for the GCDC launch event by emailing graduateschool@kent.ac.uk.

Over the last three weeks we have again been running public consultation sessions on our estate Masterplan for the Canterbury campus.

Our final event took place last Thursday in Darwin Conference Centre last Thursday and 130 members of staff, students and members of the local community attended. This follows similar events in Canterbury’s Westgate Hall, Tyler Hill Memorial Hall and Blean Village Hall.

The Masterplan is a requirement of Canterbury City Council’s Local Plan and is a vision for the evolution of the campus, not a set of planning applications. It provides a direction for decisions about the future of the campus and a framework against which future planning applications will be assessed.

A number of projects have been mentioned specifically, however, as being in our short- or medium-term plans. In the short-term (2018-2021) these include academic and administrative facilities including a new building for the Kent and Medway Medical School and a Life Sciences building.

Medium-term priorities (2022-2031) include new student service and Kent Union buildings, new teaching and academic buildings, additional leisure and sports facilities including a swimming pool and the possible development of a conference centre and hotel all of which are subject to funding.

The inclusion of a 150-bed hotel and conference centre our Canterbury campus reflects an aim that is supported by an external consultancy review of its potential market and is a response to the lack of hotel and conferencing facilities in the area. It would provide us with an opportunity to host academic conferences and other University events all year round as well as increasing our vacation time capacity.

It is also based on our need to diversify our future income due to an unprecedented level of challenges facing the university sector. A hotel and conferencing option – one that has already been taken up by other universities – would help us meet the economic challenges we face by generating essential revenue that would be reinvested in education and research, and our students and staff.

There is still time to send us your thoughts on the Masterplan – the deadline for inclusion in the Consultation Statement is this Friday 26 October 2018 – you can read more at www.kent.ac.uk/masterplan and email masterplan@kent.ac.uk.

Signe Barfoed, Honorary Research Fellow for the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, has contributed an article to the Carlsberg Foundation website about interesting results from her research into Homer’s Kalydon.

The famous poet Homer described the ancient Greek city of Kalydon in his legendary poem The Iliad, the story of the Trojan War. The project ‘Rediscovering Artemis. A Comprehensive Re-examination of the Artemis Laphria Sanctuary in Kalydon’ supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and hosted by the Danish Institute at Athens, is re-writing the history of the important sanctuary of the goddess Artemis in Kalydon in western Greece. Significant archaeological evidence has now been revealed which proves the existence of the Greek Bronze Age city of Kalydon, Homer’s Kalydon.

Read the full article here.

100 years ago on 11 November 1918 the guns fell silent and hostilities ceased on the western front with the signing of the armistice. 100 years later we have reached a day that maybe the men dared to dream was a day they were fighting for, a day in the future that their children’s children would see. A day when the world might be a better place because of their actions. ‘The Diaries of the Here and Now’ project developed by artist Dawn Cole will record that day and give a snapshot into the lives of the people who take part.

The University of Kent’s Special Collections and Archives is taking part in this exciting project, designed to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice. The project is also taking place at Canterbury Cathedral as part of The Memories Project (The Canterbury Journey).

How do I get involved?

We want you to record anything about your day on 11th November 2018; your thoughts, your feelings, what you did, something important that happened in any way through written form, photographs, collage, painting, poetry, creative writing, printing, colour – the possibilities are endless, but the finished diary must be contained within the small, hand-made diary that you will be given.

Where do I get a diary?

The blank diaries will be available from end October 2018 in the Templeman Library Welcome Hall, Canterbury Campus or you can make your own using this make your own diary worksheet. Complete the diary on Sun 11 November. Return it in the envelope provided with the Diaries of the Here and Now participation form by 25 November in the postbox in the Templeman Library or post to ‘Diaries of the Here and Now, Special Collections and Archives, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ’.

How will my diary be used?

In Autumn 2019 there will be an exhibition of a selection of diaries at both the University and at Canterbury Cathedral – 100 years after the first Remembrance Day. Your diary will be entered into our archives as a permanent record of peoples’ lives on this one day. Be part of this project to create a Diary of the Here and Now!

Find out more about Dawn Cole the artist.

Follow #dohn18 on Twitter 

Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Lecturer in Media Studies in the School of Arts, was interviewed on 10 October 2018 on Showcase, the arts and culture programme broadcast the on news channel TRT World, regarding the #MeToo movement.

TRT World is a Turkish international news channel, broadcasting in English.

The interview concerned the first year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, which started when the actress Alyssa Milano used the hashtag on Twitter in response to the allegations of sexual assault and harassment of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

In the interview, Kaitlyn relates the impact of the term: ‘On 15 October 2017, the term “Me Too” was used 12 million times on just one day, and from there we saw a real revolution of social change come forth.’

Does Kaitlyn consider whether the movement has led to social change? ‘I think it depends on how we define change. Has it changed social policy change? Not so much.’ However, despite this Kaitlyn argues, ‘we’re now having a much more open discussion about sexual violence which is really important.’ She suggests that with the public will, policy change will follow.

The video is available to view on the Showcase YouTube channel.