Dr Anne-Maria Brennan, a lecturer at the Centre for Professional Practice, recently took part in the Global Forum on Balanced and Inclusive Education which was held in Mexico City.

The UN-backed Forum has been tasked to work on the Universal Declaration on Balanced and Inclusive Education, part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4 which seeks to ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.’

As part of the Forum, Dr Brennan gave a presentation entitled From practice to policy…  to practice: the UK experience in a plenary session on Achieving SDG4, from theory to practice.

Commenting on her presentation she said ‘the aim was to highlight the need to use evidence-based practice to inform policy, whilst also ensuring the loop is closed by feeding back into practice in a reflective cycle.’

She also formally endorsed the International Call for Balanced and Inclusive Education as Vice President of Science Engagement at the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation.

The work of the Forum will form part of next July’s UN High Level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals. This will review and refine six key goals of the 17 SDGs (including the goal of taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts), with the aim of empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality.

The Centre for Professional Practice programmes and short courses Professional Practice MSc and Introduction to Masters-Level Study have been specifically designed to meet the needs of those professionals who wish to develop their academic ability while maintaining their professional role.

For more information, visit www.kent.ac.uk/cpp, email: cppmedway@kent.ac.uk  or telephone 01634 888929.

Dr Ellen Swift, Reader in Archaeology and Dr Jo Stoner, Research Associate, both in the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, have worked together with Dr April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University) to organise a forthcoming exhibition at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, as part of their AHRC-funded research project Roman and Late Antique Artefacts in Egypt.

Their exhibition, ‘Sounds of Roman Egypt’, is free entry and showcases the project’s research into the musical instruments from the Petrie Museum’s Roman collection, exploring what life in Roman Egypt sounded like.

What objects did people use to make music? What did they sound like? How were instruments used in Romano-Egyptian rituals, homes, and childhood? This exhibition begins to answer these questions, bringing to life the soundscape of Egypt during the Roman period. Visitors will see original Roman instruments displayed alongside the project’s modern replicas, and learn about how they were used in the Roman period.

Visitors will be able to experience the sounds of the artefacts, handle and play the replica items, with additional sound recordings providing an evocative illustration of the sounds of Roman Egyptian life. The display also explains the process of using modern technologies to recreate ancient artefacts.

Archaeology technician Lloyd Bosworth laser scanned the original instruments to create 3D digital models which will be on display, along with the 3D printed models. Thanks are also due to Lloyd for his work developing the exhibition’s visitor computer interface. The exhibition will be open to the public from Tuesday 22 January – Monday 22 April 2019.

Students on the undergraduate Drama and Theatre programmes, who are taking the module Applied Theatre, are giving a celebratory performance workshop at St Nicolas School in Canterbury this week (on Wednesday 5 December).

St Nicholas School is a community day school providing education for over 190 children aged between 4 and 19 who have profound severe and complex learning difficulties.

The Applied Theatre module offers students the opportunity to both understand and apply workshop techniques, planning, facilitation and management of projects. The performance workshop is the culmination of this term’s planning and rehearsal. It will engage the pupils in an interactive performance, involving them in a series of adventures.

A photo album of the rehearsals for the performance is available here.

Opening times

This winter vacation, the Templeman Library, Canterbury campus will be open for a few extra days during the University’s Christmas closure period.

• Friday 14 December (end of Autumn Term): library closes at 23:00
• Saturday 15 – Friday 21 December: 08:00 – 19:00
• Saturday 22 – Wednesday 26 December: closed
• Thursday 27 – Monday 31 December: 11:00 – 19:00
• Tuesday 1 January: closed
• Wednesday 2 January – Sunday 13 January: 08:00 – 19:00
• Monday 14 January (start of Spring Term): library opens at 08:00 and stays open 24 hours

Full vacation opening hours

Borrowing arrangements

You don’t need to renew or return any books, including document deliveries, from Saturday 22 December to Wednesday 2 January inclusive.

Books you have on loan can still be reserved, so before you go return any books you don’t need. You could also check LibrarySearch to see if there’s an e-book version of any books you need, so you don’t have to borrow them.

While you’re away:

• books will automatically renew, unless they’re reserved
• check your student email and Library account, in case someone reserves a book on loan to you
• return books when someone reserves them
• books can be reserved at short notice and the fine for overdue items is £2 per day
• if you can’t return a book in person, you can send it to us by post

When the library is closed you can return your items at the drop box near the Library Road entrance.

If you can’t get a book back to us in time or are concerned about fines, get in touch as soon as possible. Our staff will do their best to resolve your problem:

• in person: IT & Library Support Desk, Block C, Floor 1, Templeman Library
• phone: 01227 82 4999
• email: lendingenquiries@kent.ac.uk

Document delivery items

Any document delivery books that automatically renew on 15 December or after will be due on Thursday 3 January 2018.

If your document delivery book reaches its final due date before Christmas, please return it by the end of Wednesday 19 December if you can, so we can return it to the lending institution.

Winter Vacation at Canterbury Campus

Discover festive events in the local area, including pantomimes, carol services and Christmas markets. Find out about Winter at Kent.

Using other libraries

Away from campus for the Christmas vacation? You can use other academic libraries around the UK and Ireland by registering for SCONUL Access.

The University’s School of Music and Fine Art presents Mouthing Off, the Fine Art Interim Show 2018 at Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, featuring the work of 20 3rd year BA Fine Art students.

The exhibition is open to all and is free to attend. It opens with a preview on Friday 7 December (17.00-19.00). It is open to the public from 8 -11 December from 10.00-16.00 (apart from 12.00-16.00 on Sunday 9 December and closed on Monday 10 December).

Continuing a tradition of showcasing bold, exploratory exhibitions, our visitors will encounter a broad range of artistic styles and media, an explosion of imagination and a celebration of art’s potential contribution to society.

“Mouthing Off” offers the public a fascinating insight into contemporary art’s most recent practices and processes including works where the projected traces of finger tips touch and move across the surface of a mobile phone screen; net curtains blur the boundaries between public and private domains in an intimate exchange of light and movement of bodies; fragments of monuments from past leaders and dictators are strewn across the gallery and a dynamic exploration female space takes place through dance, body extensions and performance.

The Law School is a dynamic and cosmopolitan centre of world-class critical legal research. Our vibrant research community is both supportive and intellectually stimulating. We host a broad range of interdisciplinary research centres and groups offering students many opportunities to engage critically with academic research and contemporary issues. Our academic staff engage in a rich variety of research projects and collaborations that aim to make meaningful contributions to all aspects of life – including the social, political, economic, environmental and cultural. We particularly welcome research proposals in socio-legal studies, law and the humanities, and critical legal studies.

Scholarships available for our PhD in Law and for our PhD in Socio-legal Studies include:

•       Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South East (CHASE) – closing date for applications: Friday 11 January 2019 https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FNADAHRC0002

•       Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS)- closing date for applications: Sunday 20 January 2019 https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FNADESRC0002

•       Kent Law School Studentships – closing date for applications: Sunday 20 January 2019 https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FN37LSSTUD02

•       Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarships – closing date for applications: Sunday 20 January 2019 https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FNADVICECH02

For those who intend to undertake an LLM by Research, Kent Law School invites applications for the:

Larry Grant Scholarship – closing date for applications: Friday 3 May 2019 https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FN37LARGRA02

More details, including how to apply, is available on the Kent Law School website https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/news/index.html?view=3712 or via Professor Rosemary Hunter and/or Dr Thanos Zartaloudis: klspgstudentships@kent.ac.uk

An “informed, civilised and passionate” debate on citizens’ rights after Brexit was hosted by Kent Law Clinic on Friday.

The debate, held before an audience of staff and students in the Wigoder Law Building’s Moot Room, was led by Dr Anthony Valcke, founder and supervisor of the EU Rights Clinic at the University of Kent in Brussels, and Kent Law Clinic Director Graham Tegg, a specialist in EU rights and welfare benefits who is responsible for a number of leading cases in the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Each gave presentations on their understanding of the current legal rights of EU and British citizens and presented their analyses of what Brexit might mean for citizens of the UK and of the 27 EU Member States. They also presented sharply differing critiques of the European Union itself and of the potential benefits and costs of Brexit.

Law Clinic Solicitor Sheona York, who attended the debate, said: ‘Both speakers were informed, civilised and passionate, and received deserved applause. The questions from the floor were well thought out and imaginative, and the answers illuminating. Afterwards one member of the audience said they had so far “despaired” of the Brexit debate occurring in the media and was very pleased to attend a debate where the facts were discussed sensibly and reasonably.’

A full account of each speakers critique and comments is available to read on the Law Clinic’s blog.

Sheona added: ‘At Kent Law Clinic we endeavour to create and sustain a space where people feel able to debate legal, political, social, cultural issues, where all opinions can be analysed and challenged. We will be holding more ‘Brexit debates’ – watch out for them!’

The latest episode of the podcast series on ‘Nostalgia’, hosted by Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has just been released.

In this week’s episode, Chris interviews Will Wollen, Faculty Director of Public Engagement (Faculty of Humanities), the Academic Lead for Employability (School of Arts), and Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre (Acting). Will is an actor and the Faculty’s Director of Public Engagement. Will talks about his career on the stage, how he wasn’t planning on becoming an academic, being into The Beatles as a child, and why he is nostalgic about Radio 4.