Our campuses have a range of facilities available to our students.

Medway

• The Deep End is a combined social space, with a restaurant and bar, they offer Starbuck’s coffee, it is utilised as an events hall and a student union hub, and is a centralised space for Kent students. Check out their events schedule for the upcoming term.
• Team Medway sports activities both competitive and non.
• CARGO bar and bistro located a ten minute walk from campus next to Liberty Quays, offers a great tasting menu from tapas, fajitas, curry and often hosts live music performances and acts.
• The Galvanising Shop Café  based on the Historic Dockyard site offers a great breakfast and serves hot snacks up until 16.00.
• Venue cafe in the Pilkington building is a great place for a meal, snack or coffee with friends in between lectures.
• Take a virtual tour of Medway facilities here.

Canterbury

• Kent Sport fitness suite and The Pavilion which facilitates all outdoor sports with a full-size flood lit 3GX rugby pitch.
• Gulbenkian theatre and cinema with a ‘two for Tuesday’ deal for students every week.
• Student Media Centre which is home to CSR FM (Canterbury’s student radio), KTV (Kent Television) and InQuire (Kent’s student newspaper).
• Venue is the university’s night club with a range of events every day of the week.
• Study hubs are available all over campus if you want to escape the library.
• Careers & Employability Centre located next to Keynes offers CV advice, assessment and interview skills.
• Origins bar and grill located in Darwin.
• Mungo’s bar and bistro in Eliot which hosts huge events especially around Halloween.
• K Bar is one of the most popular bars serving pizzas with an outside garden area.
• Dolche Vita has the most varied menu on campus and offers catering packages located in Keynes.
• Essentials is the campus shop located in the centre of campus and at Park Wood.
• Park Wood are opening a new Woody’s bar with a roof terrace, a study hub and social space…keep an eye out!
• Take a virtual tour of Canterbury campus here.

  Written by recent graduate Sophia Cheraitia

The Community Scholarships programme, previously known as Medway Community Scholarships, is now open to all students applicants registered at both the Canterbury and Medway campuses, from all stages, disciplines and modes of study. Projects can be related to sport, arts, music, cultural or any other interest area.

The Community Scholarships programme aims to empower students to either deliver self-devised projects or collaborate on an existing project which engages with the local community, and develops the student experience. The hope is that the scholarship will give students the opportunity to demonstrate leadership, enthusiasm and organisational skills, whilst benefiting the community.

The Community Scholarships can support co-curricular projects that either stem from a students personal interest, a community organisation, or a University of Kent department.

What’s included in the scholarship?

• £1,000 financial support to cover personal expenses and project running costs.
• Advice, training and project management support from the Student Activities and Scholarships Officer in delivering your project.
• Personal and employability skills development.
• Employability points.
• Access to additional project funding dependent on the nature and quality of the individual scholarship project.

If you are student interested to find out more, a community organisation or member of staff with a project in mind please contact: communityscholarships@kent.ac.uk for further information visit the Student Life web page.

The Understanding Unbelief programme, led by Dr Lois Lee, Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies, has just announced the public engagement projects awarded funding through the programme.

Just some of the highlights include projects on ‘National Life Stories’ with the British Library, a three-episode podcast series ‘Meet the Unbelievers’ for History Hit, as well as an hour-long documentary ‘A History of Unbelief’ hosted by Dan Snow; a documentary film ‘Between Beliefs’ produced by Banyak Films, and resources for teachers ‘Understanding Unbelief in the RE Classroom’ produced RE Today Services.

For a complete list of the awards, including further details of the individual awards, please see the page here.

Amalia Arvaniti, Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving a talk at the University of Leiden, entitled ‘Tackling Variability in Intonation Research and Analysis’, today 14 September 2018.

Intonation is essential for communication as it conveys information that helps listeners make inferences about the pragmatic intent of the speaker. Despite increased understanding of intonation’s importance, there is little agreement even about essential aspects of its structure and meaning. This is at least in part because research has eschewed the study of intonational variability, seeing it as a problem rather than a natural facet of speech production that needs to be understood and accounted for in studying and modelling intonation.

The talk will present a principled approach to the study of intonational variability (Tame Intonation, or TINT) together with results from a number of studies that put TINT to practice.

The workshop is entitled ‘Prosodic Variation Across Languages: The State of the Art in Comparative Prosodic Research’, and is funded by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

For full details of the workshop, please see the LUCL webpage here.

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 interview, Chris interviews Dr Reshmi Dutta-Flanders, Honorary Research Fellow for the Department of English Language & Linguistics. Reshmi grew up in Calcutta and came to the UK to study English at King’s College London in 1989. In this fascinating conversation, Reshmi compares her experiences of previously studying literature in India and how she was able to acquire various research skills.

Reshmi talks about the influence of her aspirational parents. Her father was a survivor of the Partition, and ended up doing an Engineering Degree in Wolverhampton. She also discusses her own experience of an arranged marriage, and we learn that her mother has just written a book, at the age of 80, in the field of Religious Studies.

Reshmi has often felt a need to prove something to herself, and has often felt a sense of dissatisfaction and never really felt a sense of belonging. She discusses how fear has often prompted her to push herself forward, and we talk about the degree to which education can be seen as an enjoyable pursuit and how it might be possible to enjoy what one is doing in the moment without worrying unduly about the future.

In the final part of the interview, Reshmi speaks candidly about her experience of teaching in Category B and C prisons where her students were often inveterate and institutionalized prisoners.

The podcast is available here:
https://audioboom.com/posts/6993486-reshmi-dutta-flanders