U.N.I (You and I) Protect: See something? Say something. Do something! Make a difference

Places are now available on U.N.I (You and I) Protect workshops running in May 2018.

All of us can take action to protect each other and the wider University community to help promote a culture of dignity and respect at Kent. This programme will help you recognise and challenge problematic and harmful behaviour, such as abuse or sexual harassment.

On completion of the course participants will understand what a ‘bystander’ is and be empowered to be able to intervene in situations safely and with confidence.

The workshops will run on Friday mornings from 10.00 to 11.30 during weeks 25, 26 and 27. All students who complete the course will receive 15 Employability Points.

If you want to take part or simply want to find out more please visit the Study Plus website. The module code is KE148. To book your place, visit the Workshops page in SDS.

Further information about the course can also be found on the Student Services website.

Places are limited so please sign up as soon as you can.

Athena SWAN and Professional Services Progressing Together

The Athena SWAN Project Team wants to invite you to a ‘Progressing Together’ day where we can start the conversation; we need your input to make sure we focus on the right things that will make a difference.

Spaces are limited, so please hurry if you wish to secure a seat! We particularly want to encourage male staff members to attend, as we currently have significantly less male attendees registered for the afternoon.

Athena SWAN now has a wider reach and includes Professional Services staff in creating a better work environment for everyone.

Monday 14 May (Grimond Lecture Theatre)

Agenda:

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 12:45 Welcome from our VC Karen Cox

12:45 – 1:00 Intro: Athena SWAN and PS Staff

1:00 – 2:00 External Speaker: “Creating Opportunities- a legacy in the making” Deborah Bailey-Leek, DBL Leadership Associates LTD

2:00 – 2:15 Break

2:15 – 3:15 Panel Discussion – Featuring a selection of our own PS staff

3:15 – 4:00 Wrap Up and Close

The central Athena SWAN team is keen to learn from the PS staff about what we are doing well but also what needs to be improved!

Exams 2018 – Staff information

The exam period will soon be upon us, please see below information on what to expect this year. This can be shared with students if required.

Please be mindful during this time around venues and support students where possible. Please refer to our webpages for full information:

Dates

Tuesday 8 May – Friday 15 June 2018 (weeks 25 – 30)

Venues – Canterbury

Exam Venues:

Main Hall – Sports Centre
Small Hall 2 – Sports Centre
Small Hall 3 – Sports Centre
Darwin College Conference Suite
Eliot Dining Hall

Adapted Arrangements Venues:

Keynes Seminar Rooms 11-17 (Smaller Venue)
KSA 1 – Keynes College (PC Room)
Cornwallis North West Seminar Rooms 1-12 (Individual Rooms)

Venues – Medway

Exam Venues:

Pilkington Building
Dockyard Church / Sail & Colour Loft
Gillingham Building
Medway Building

Adapted Arrangements Venues:

Gillingham Building
Medway Building

View our venues here – https://www.kent.ac.uk/csao/exams/venueindex.html

Times

Morning exams begin promptly at 09.30, afternoon sessions begin promptly at 14.00.

Papers can last one to three hours. Students sat in adapted arrangement venues are entitled to 25%, 33%, 50% or 100% extra time. This means the latest finish could be 20.00.

Saturday exams are scheduled for the first four weeks of the exam period, morning and afternoon.

Bag Room

Students are not permitted to bring bags or coats into the exam venue. Students will need to use the following bag rooms:

Canterbury Campus –

Keynes Seminar Room 7

Medway Campus –

Pilkington Building Room 014
Gillingham Building Room 2 – 03
Dockyard Church – Foyer Entrance
Sail & Colour Loft – SCL216

Seating Plan

Students will be allocated a seat for each exam, the seating plan will be posted at each venue before the start of every session.

What to bring

KentOne Card
Pens, pencils and writing equipment (in a clear pencil case)
Still water in a clear plastic bottle

What NOT to bring

- - Mobile Phones / Smart Watches – All electronic devices are prohibited from exam venues. Any device brought into an exam venue will be reported to the school.
  - Bags and coats
  - Food (Unless permission given prior)
  - Any drink other than water

Exam Timetable

Students can view their timetable now on SDS by clicking on “Details and Study”.

Contact Details

exams@kent.ac.uk

medwayexams@kent.ac.uk

Follow us: @UniKent_CSAO

https://www.kent.ac.uk/csao/exams/ontheday.html

Lauren Ware at the ‘Pint of Science’ festival

Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer for the Department of Philosophy, will be giving a talk as part of the Pint of Science festival, an annual series that brings researchers to local pubs to present their scientific discoveries.

Lauren’s talk will be part of a series of presentations under the theme ‘Community Services, Crime and Punishment, and Global Health’, to be held at the Northern Seaman pub, Rochester, 19.00 – 22.00 on Wednesday 16 May 2018.

In particular, Lauren will be talking about her research on pain and emotional suffering in criminal punishment. The talk imagines a scenario involving two prisoners, Ronnie and Reggie, both of whom have committed identical crimes under identical circumstances, and who have both been sentenced to four years in identical prison facilities. While their punishment conditions are identical in all respects, Ronnie is tormented by prison life and lives in a constant state of fear and distress, while Reggie finds prison life merely difficult and unpleasant. If we subscribe to the ‘equality principle’ of the same punishment for the same crimes, have Ronnie and Reggie been punished equally?

The event is open to all, and tickets cost £4. Find out more.

SMFA’s Adam Chodzko features in international Cornish summer art festival Groundwork

SMFA Fine Art Senior Lecturer and acclaimed artist, Adam Chodzko, is featured in Groundwork – a festival season of exceptional international contemporary art in Cornwall from 5 May through to September. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the programme of exhibitions and events in 2018 includes presentations of important new commissions and acclaimed works by internationally celebrated artists in venues and outdoor sites across West Cornwall. You can experience Adam’s work 5-7 May at St Anthony-in-Meneage, Helston and the waters of the Helford River and Gillan Creek.

Adam Chodzko’s iconic vessel Ghost will be taking passengers on voyages on Gillan Creek, near Manaccan on the Lizard peninsula, during Groundwork’s launch weekend. Ghost is a hand-made wooden kayak fabricated from hundreds of strips of different woods and is both a vessel and a sculptural object. First exhibited in the Whitstable Biennale in 2010, it has since travelled along the River Medway and the River Tamar, through The Olympic Park, London, along the Tyne and in creeks through Essex. In each location members of the public are carried in a reclining position, in a state between waking and sleeping, their passage recorded by a camera mounted on the boat’s prow.

Adam Chodzko uses a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing and performance. His work focuses on our relationships to life’s edges, endings, displacements, transitions, disappearances and in-between states and often involves looking in the ‘wrong’ place or in the ‘wrong’ way to discover productive mis-readings and to propose alternative realities.

More info about the festival here http://groundwork.art/artists/

New Student Community Champion roles available

Are you interested in championing good community relations and will be living in the St Michael’s or Hales Place areas of Canterbury during 2018-19?

New Student Community Champion roles will be available to students living in these areas, offering employment and development opportunities for students.

The full job description and details on how to apply by Monday 7 May are available here.

If you have any queries please email communityliaison@kent.ac.uk

SMFA music students work performed by leading ensemble Octandre

On Monday 21 May at 13.00, the School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent, Medway is excited to present a special lunchtime recital to celebrate the work of our BMus, year 2 composition students.

Having spent the term working alongside one of the UK’s leading contemporary music ensembles, we are delighted to have three musicians from Octandre with us to showcase selected submissions.

Octandre are developing an international reputation for their work with a recent commission receiving a BASCA composition award, multiple broadcast recordings for BBC Radio 3 and several high profile performances at venues including LSO St Lukes and St John Smith’s Square. With Sir Harrison Birtwistle as their patron and a consistently thriving programme they are well and truly at the forefront of our nation’s music scene.

Octandre Trio:
Audrey Milheres – Flute
Sam Cave – Guitar
Corentin Chassard – Cello

Audio link – https://www.octandre.com/audio

Free to attend but please book via Eventbrite.

Global Business in a Dynamic Environment summer school

Exclusive discount for University of Kent students, we are opening up our ‘Global Business in a Dynamic Environment 1- 15 July’ summer school to current Kent students at an exclusive price of £1000. The cost includes full tuition, on campus accommodation in Parkwood flats, a welcome and farewell meal, refreshments every morning, guided trips as part of the programme (including a day in London). Students will be taught by expert professors from the University of Kent’s Business school and outside professionals and entrepreneurs to work towards building a finished documentation for social media, YouTube films or traditional commentary pieces addressing core issues of concern. Students will receive extra-curricular credits and a certificate on successful completion.

To apply for this summer school and exclusive discount please email summerschools@kent.ac.uk to confirm your interest and submit your application on our e-vision portal.

Find out more: https://www.kent.ac.uk/summerschools/programmes/business.html

Email: summerschools@kent.ac.uk

Fine Art PhD student wins prestigious film award

Fine Art PhD student Stephen Connolly won a 2018 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Award for his film, Machine Space.

He won the Moving Image category under Best Practice Research Portfolio for his essay film exploring a city as a machine; a place of movement and circulation. Using a kinetic approach, issues of space, race and finance frame the city of Machine Space. Residents testify in voice-over about how the city as a spatial and financial machine shapes their experience. The city is Detroit, a place that has changed from producing the means of movement to producing space itself. The film uses formal representational devices to explore this content, and addresses issues of complicity of audiences in the state of affairs in the city. It is a visualization of the ideas of Henri Lefebvre, philosopher of space and urban life.

Stephen is an artist filmmaker and Kent 50 scholar who also lectures in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, and works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Music and Fine Art.

He said: “The PhD has been such an amazing experience and deeply helpful for my practice, encouraging me to push forward towards publication. The process of academic research has allowed me to place the work in context and in conversation with other disciplines and artists. I aim to contribute to the further development of practice as research as a process of making moving image work in the arts.”

Stephen has also joined forces with Matthew Gibson, Arts GTA (Film) within the School of Music and Fine Art, and Patrick Brian Smith of Concordia University in Canada, to organise an inter-disciplinary symposium of scholars and media-makers on the topic of ‘Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation’. The event takes place on Friday 8 June in Grimond Building on the University’s Canterbury campus and registration is now open.

New Staff Health and Wellbeing Strategy Statement

As part of its ongoing commitment to employee wellbeing, the University of Kent has published a new Staff Health & Wellbeing Strategy Statement. This has been put together by Occupational Health and Safety, (SHE) in collaboration with HR. It was presented to the Safety Health and Environment Executive Committee, (SHEEC) by Bernard Angus, Director of SHE, and was agreed as ready to publish following the meeting in February.

For more information about Staff Health & Wellbeing initiatives check the University’s Safety and Health & Wellbeing website.