Kent Sport have put together a comprehensive programme of activities for the summer term to help keep all members active and stress-free.

We have a thirty minute fitness and dance classes throughout the week. Give Express Yoga a whirl, breathe in the fresh air on our Healthy Walk or try your hand at Tai Chi. These three calming classes run weekly until 16 June.

Other Stamp Out Stress activities include:

• Cycle to Whitstable, Wednesday 24 May
• Obstacle assault course, Thursday 25 May
• Dodgeball competition, Friday 26 May
• Sports day at the beach, Sunday 28 May
• Robin Hood Archery at Broad Oak Road, The Goose, Wednesday 31 May
• Cycle to Chartham, Sunday 4 June

For more details visit the Kent Sport website You can also find out what’s on via our online events calendar or download our term three Sport at Kent activities booklet.

Bake, donate, change lives – it’s that simple!

In this time of instability around the world, unprecedented numbers of people have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety and security – and among them are many promising students and academics.

For some time, the University has been providing support to international students and for academics at risk of persecution, and now has established a new fund to allow staff to personally contribute to this important work, should they wish to do so.

This fund supports students and academics who wish to continue their education and research at Kent, presently supporting individuals assisted by two organisations: the Helena Kennedy Foundation ‘Article 26 Project and the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara).

On Friday May 26, we’re encouraging all Schools and departments around the University to get involved baking (and eating!) delicious treats from around the world, while raising money to change the lives of students and academics in need.

Sweet or savoury, old favourite or something more experimental, we need you to rise to the challenge and get backing for a great cause, and we know there are some amazing bakers out there! Be it perfect pretzels, beautiful baklava, naughty natas or even magnificent mandazi we’d love to see it, so, dust off those pans, rifle through those recipes and most importantly of all, make sure you order your team kit, containing everything you need for the big day. Kits are limited, so email j.e.baxter@kent.ac.uk today to reserve yours!

At this busy time of year, please respect each other in the Library and study hubs across campus. Here are six ways you can help to make it easier for everyone:

-Respect silent and quiet zones
-Don’t reserve study spaces or PCs
-Clear your table before you leave
-Set your phone to silent
-Turn headphones down low
-No noisy or smelly food

Take a Break on student PCs
If you’re using a student PC and have to leave it, you can lock it for up to 20 minutes while you’re away. Click Take a Break on the desktop.

If you don’t return in 20 minutes, it logs you off so someone else can use the PC. 

Is someone disturbing you in the Library?
Email library-report@kent.ac.uk or speak to any member of staff and they will be able to help you.

Choose your study zone
However you like to study, there’s a zone to suit you:

–Templeman Library
– Study hubs and PC rooms across campus
–Extra revision spaces in Rutherford, Eliot, Darwin and Keynes (open to all students from 8 May to 16 June)

And if you want to take some time out from studying, try the Library Chill Out Zone on Floor 3, Templeman East.

From Monday 8 May, extra revision spaces will be open around Canterbury campus, from 09:00-22:00 every day. They are open to all students – try them out and find a space that works for you.

Rutherford
–Cloister rooms 15-21
-Junior Common Room

Eliot
-Cloister rooms: Bird, Holland, Chilver, Pollard, Barlow, Taylor.

Darwin
–Seminar room 2
–Seminar room 7
–Darwin Tower Room

Keynes
–Keynes Lecture Theatre 3

Remember there are also PC rooms and study hubs all over campus.

Try the Library’s Chill Out Zone, wellbeing books and productivity tools.

Templeman Library Chill Out Zone

Relax in a calm pop-up space in the Library, open just for exam season. Take some time out from your revision, flop on a beanbag or comfy chair, enjoy the views, do some colouring or just chill. No studying allowed!

The Chill Out Zone is on Floor 3, Templeman East. Take the stairs or lift to the top of the Library and turn left, it’s the room in the corner. It’s open from 09.00-21.00 Monday to Friday and you need your KentOne card to enter.

Relax with some reading

Browse or borrow books on wellbeing and exam skills from the display in the Library Cafe. All the books are from the Wellbeing and Self Help reading list, which also includes e-books. Topics include:

-Study and exam skills
-Motivation
-Mindfulness
-Healthy eating
-Coping with stress and anxiety

If you need more support, Student Wellbeing can help you.

Study smarter with productivity tools

Try some of these free apps and tools, picked out by Student Support. They can save you time, make it easier to access study material and increase your productivity.

#StaySafe on your way to the Library

The Templeman Library is open 24/7 until June. Make sure you’re safe, whatever time you arrive and leave:

-Use the SafeZone app for quick access to campus security and emergency services
-Stagecoach is running a 24/7 bus service to the University until 4 June, so you’re never left stranded.

Tuesday 18 April – Friday 5 May, 2017

The portable appliance testing for Rutherford College is scheduled to take place from Tuesday 18 April – Friday 5 May 2017.

Please ensure all equipment is available for testing.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and we will endeavour to keep any disruption to a minimum. If there are any queries please call the Estates Helpdesk on Extn 3209.

As everyone gets busy with assignments and revision, remember there are lots of study spaces around Canterbury campus.

Where to study

The Templeman Library is open 24/7 until June (including over Easter).

Templeman East is often less busy than West. We’ve just added more study spaces, and there are large Quiet and Silent PC rooms.

There are Study hubs across campus. You can use most of them no matter where you live. Study hubs are spaces to work in a quiet, relaxed setting, whether you’re using a PC, at a table or sofa, on your own or in a group. All of them have PCs and Print Copy Scan machines, and some are open 24/7.

Study hubs map: find a study hub to suit you.

Keynes ground floor PC room: newly refurbished with meeting booths

Have you tried our newly refurbished PC rooms? Keynes ground floor PC room and Eliot PC corridor have a fresh look and new group study booths.

Find a free PC

If you need a student PC, check how many PCs are free around campus before you choose where to go – it could save you time looking for one.

In the Templeman Library, check the screens to see where in the Library there are free PCs. From start of next term there will be some additional revision spaces too.

E-resources wherever you go

You can use Library resources, like e-books, journals, news and statistics, wherever you are, at any time. You don’t have to be in the Library or even on campus just log in with your Kent IT Account.

Thank you to everyone who took Information Services’ survey on internet access in campus accommodation.

We run this survey every year to help improve WiFi and wired internet access across campus.

Well done to the prize draw winners, who each won a £15 Amazon voucher:

Jonathan Baker, studying Electronic Engineering in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Nathan Hassall, a postgraduate studying Creative Writing in the School of English (pictured).

Join us for a morning of innovation, creativity and enterprise with inspiring talks and workshops showcasing the University’s academic excellence and world-leading research.
During the morning guests will enjoy presentations from Dr Dan Lloyd from the School of Biosciences, Professor Aylish Wood from The School of Arts and Dalia Halpern-Matthews, Chief Executive of Nucleus Arts, focusing on the relationship between Art and Science. After the presentations there will be opportunities to find out more about how the University can work collaboratively with businesses, from funding support to graduate placements.

The sessions will be followed by a concert in The University’s Colyer-Fergusson Hall. During the performance you will enjoy a unique visual and musical experience that pairs the beauty of research data from the School of Biosciences with live piano.

Registration for this event closes at midnight on the 11 April.

For more information please visit the event page.