Learning and Organisational Development are pleased to announce an upcoming Presentation Skills training session, running on Friday 19th October, 9.30am-5.00pm, at the Canterbury campus.
For further information, and to book a place, please visit our L&OD events calendar.
Learning and Organisational Development are pleased to announce an upcoming Introduction to HE training session, running on Friday 5th October, 9.30am-12.30pm, at the Canterbury campus.
For further information, and to book a place, please visit our L&OD events calendar.
Art Fund are launching a scheme called Student Art Pass, allowing any full-time higher education student to engage with art and culture.
Explore world-class museums all over the UK and enjoy a year of endless inspiration with friends, for your studies, or just for you.
From the V&A and British Museum to Cardiff Castle and Jupiter Artland, a Student Art Pass brings you free access to over 240 museums, galleries and historic houses, and 50% off major exhibitions.
Student Art Pass membership costs £5 a year and includes access to recommendations on what to see, creative competitions and paid opportunities in the arts.
The Student Art Pass is available for £5 for a limited time (until 9 December) to all full-time students, get yours here.
Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.
Have a great 2018-2019 at Kent!
If you’re fully registered for your modules, here’s when you can expect to receive your personal timetable for 2018-19:
Stage 0 and 1 modules
Stage 0 and 1 module timetables will be on the Student Guide by Friday 21 September 2018.
Stage 2 and 3 modules
Stage 2 and 3 module timetables will be on the Student Guide on Tuesday 11 September 2018 (revised date due to technical issues. Sorry for any inconvenience caused).
Postgraduate modules
Postgraduate module timetables will be on the Student Guide by Friday 21 September 2018.
If you change module or register late there may be a delay in receiving your personal timetable.
Resit students
If you had to resit an exam over the summer your timetable might be delayed. Your timetable will be on the Student Guide by Friday 21 September 2018 at the latest.
If you change module or register late there may be a delay in receiving your personal timetable.
Important – check your timetable in the Student Guide regularly!
Continue to go back and check your timetable regularly for updates including other events.
Got a question?
Read our timetabling FAQs.
You’ll be pleased to know that while you have been away we have been busy creating 140 new study spaces in Block D of the Templeman Library by converting office space on Floors 2 and 3. The toilets in Block D are also getting a make-over and will be gender neutral! The work in D Block will be completed before the end of the year.
We have been working on LibrarySearch, making it easier to:
When the same book is held by the Templeman, Drill Hall or Tonbridge Centre Library we have combined them into one entry!
The DVD collection has moved location, but it is still on the ground floor of Block B. This is a result of consultation with the School of Arts about how best to place the DVDs and viewing stations to enable collection-related academic activities throughout the year. Watch this space for some talks about our film collection in the Autumn Term.
There have been some exciting changes to Study Hubs over the Summer. We’ve got a new study space opening in the Park Wood Student Hub complex, Darwin’s small PC room had a make-over and Senate will be opening as a dedicated Postgraduate study hub!
Join us for a screening of two fascinating short research documentaries over lunchtime at our Canterbury and Medway campuses on Monday 17 September and Thursday 20 September.
Made for KMTV, each film will last around 12 minutes followed by a guided debate with the scientists, contributors and filmmakers involved. There will also be a small gallery showcasing some of the public engagement work being undertaken by researchers at Kent.
What does it mean to be conscious? How do we know if someone is a conscious entity? For centuries, human consciousness has continued to both intrigue and baffle.
This film follows the research of Kent computational neuroscientist Dr Srivas Chennu who, using advanced electroencephalogram technology (EEG), is able to look inside the brain of vegetative state patients who are otherwise unable to respond and appear unaware of their surroundings.
Dr Chennu’s research has revealed remarkable levels of activity in patients that are often indisguishable from healthy controls. Today it is estimated that up to 40 per-cent of patients in a vegetative state have some hidden level of consciousness but are effectively “locked in”.
The documentary explores the increasing reliance on medical technology to make life and death decisions and in doing so delves into one of the most ethically, socially and clinically complex areas faced by the modern medical community.
Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby celebrated her 40th birthday in July. Since then more than six million IVF babies have been born and the technique has evolved considerably. This short documentary will explore the world of IVF from the scientist’s laboratory bench to the private clinic.
World leading IVF scientists Professor Darren Griffin (Kent) and Professor Alan Thornhill will explore the science behind the procedure and talk about the techniques and advances being developed globally.
The film includes touching interviews with a mother about to have her first pre-natal scan, and a father of two teenage sons both conceived by IVF. As the NHS slashes IVF funding, the film also explores how this decision will impact on people and sectors of society that don’t have the funds for private treatments and asks if it’s time for the Government to review the current regulatory framework.
The Medway screening will take place from 12.00 to 13.00 on Monday September 17 in the Dockyard Church at Chatham Maritime Historic Dockyard and you can register for this here.
The Canterbury screening will take place from 12.00 to 13.00 on Thursday September 20 in the Gulbenkian Cinema and you can register here.
Entry is free and open to anyone but places are limited. Please reserve a seat by booking through either the Eventbrite Medway or Canterbury page or by contacting Jill Hurst – j.hurst-853@kent.ac.uk or ext 3907.
Image details:
The Mohawk of Consciousness: A new way of analysing brain activity shows a striking difference in the brain activity of two vegetative patients (left and middle). Despite being unresponsive, the patient in the middle had brain activity similar to that of a healthy adult (right).
Update at 9.30 on Tuesday 11 September
The technical issue with timetables has now been fixed. You can view stage 2 and 3 module timetables on the Student Guide.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Update at 15.19 on Monday 10 September
We are working on a technical issue which is preventing some students from viewing their timetable.
We hope to have this issue fixed by Tuesday 11 September so please check the Student Guide again then.
The theme of this year’s Wain Medal Lecture is Coming Up for Air: How Plants Sense and Respond to Floods.
The lecture will be given by Dr Emily Flashman, Department of Chemistry, from the University of Oxford, on Wednesday 10 October from 17.00 in Woolf College.
The lecture will focus on how plants regulate flood-survival responses and how her lab has uncovered the key role of the Plant Cysteine Oxidases.
Dr Flashman will talk about the potential for improving flood tolerance by manipulating these responses and will present her group’s recent structural and functional work which aims to find ways to genetically modify the Plant Cysteine Oxidases as a way to achieve this.
The University of Kent established an annual Wain Medal Lecture and Award as a result of a generous endowment from the family of the late Professor Louis Wain CBE, FRS.
Admission to the lecture is free and open to all.
Professor Peter Read is co-organising an International Conference, Métamorphoses d’Apollinaire, this autumn at the University of Turin and the Museum of Modern Art, Turin. The conference, running on 22-23 October 2018, marks the centenary of the death of French war-poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and will bring together speakers from France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Switzerland, UK and USA.
The conference will also include the opening of an exhibition on Picasso and his circle at Turin’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and a professional performance of Apollinaire’s “surrealist drama” The Breasts of Tiresias, first published in 1918, at Turin’s Teatro Stabile. Peter is co-organising the conference with Professor Franca Bruera (University of Turin) and Professor Laurence Campa (University of Paris X-Nanterre). The conference is co-sponsored by the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent.