Have you thought about postgraduate study for career progression or personal interest? If so, find out more at Kent’s Postgraduate Open Evening on Tuesday 6 March, 17.00-19.00 in Darwin.
We will have the latest information about loans for Master’s and PhDs and you may also be eligible for a staff discount on your fees.
Most of Kent’s programmes are available part-time and some are taught online and at weekends. All Kent’s UK and EU locations will be represented.
Find out more and sign-up here.
We are strongly committed to enhancing the quality of your postgraduate student experience at Kent.
About the Postgraduate Research student Experience Survey (PRES)
If you’re a research student, you will be emailed a unique web link to take the PRES. Once you have completed the survey, you will be emailed your £10 Amazon voucher.
The Postgraduate Research student Experience Survey (PRES) is an opportunity for you to provide us with feedback on many aspects of your postgraduate student experience including supervision, academic support, learning resources, skills training, career development and wellbeing.
About the Postgraduate Taught student Experience Survey (PTES)
If you’re a Master’s student, you will be emailed a unique web link to take the PTES. Once you have completed the survey, you will be emailed your £10 Amazon voucher.
The Postgraduate Taught student Experience Survey (PTES) is an opportunity for you to provide us with feedback on many aspects of your postgraduate student experience including teaching and learning, assessment and feedback, learning resources, skills training and career development.
Why should I complete the survey?
We very much hope that you will take this chance to have your say and make your views heard for the benefit of current and future postgraduate students.
The responses you give will be taken very seriously by the University and we will ensure that the postgraduate student community is informed of actions taken in response to feedback.
We are keen to obtain a good response rate so that we can be assured that any changes we make in response to the survey will fully represent the views of all our postgraduate students.
Student Services are looking to recruit extra staff for the Sexual Assault Responder (SAR) team in Medway.
The role of the Sexual Assault Responder is to provide immediate support to victims of serious sexual assault or rape at the Medway campus out of hours (between 17.00 and 9.00) and at weekends. Full training is provided, and SARs operate on a rota system. The role is to provide advice and guidance to victims of serious sexual assault or rape with regards to aftercare support procedures. The role is NOT a counselling role.
SARs receive a £100 remuneration for joining the team and completing the training and receive £70 for the first hour of a call out, with time and a half for subsequent hours. Any transport costs are also reimbursed.
A Sexual Assault Responder must meet the following criteria:
For more information, to request a role description, or to express an interest in becoming a SAR, please email Debbie Worthington in Student Services.
CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is one of the most globally recognised qualifications for teaching English to speakers of other languages. It will enable you to apply for teaching posts either overseas or in the UK. It is regarded by employers as providing sound initial training and a strong basis from which to develop as a teacher of English.
CELTA is also an excellent way of enhancing your employability and if you are thinking of working locally, travelling over the summer, or taking a gap year after university CELTA is a great way to earn money.
The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) is offering an intensive full time 5-week programme starting on Monday 18 June 2018.
For more information, visit our website. Or email the CELTA Team.
Please join us next Monday 5 February, 19.00-21.00 for Dr Tracy Kivell’s pubTALK; “Thumbs up! The evolution of our hands” and help us celebrate two years of pubTALK!
As usual this pubTALK will take place in the upstairs function room at The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury. Doors open at 19.00 for a 19.30 start and entry is free of charge. Everyone is encouraged to stay behind after the talk to continue the discussions for a drink or two!
Please feel free to invite colleagues and friends – all are welcome. You can also get up to date information via our website or mailing list.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
The Q-Step team
[Picture: 7-14 Canterbury by David Casteel. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]
Following research as part of the Simplifying Kent Internal Communications Project, work has begun on developing a new online staff guide.
The new guide would replace the existing Campus Online webpages and act as a one-stop shop for all staff-related information and services across Kent.
Corporate Communications is leading the development of this project and we want to involve as many staff as possible in developing the guide to ensure it works for everyone.
To start, we are planning a number of focus groups with staff at different campuses to find out what you want from the new-look webpages.
Please help us by joining in a focus group at:
Canterbury:
Medway:
Brussels:
Refreshments will be provided so please let us know whether you can attend by emailing us at communications@kent.ac.uk by 31 January stating which group you’d like to join in.
We look forward to seeing you!
Wendy Raeside and Etienne Donzelot, Corporate Communications
Congratulations to Principal Investigator, Professor John Batchelor from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, in collaboration with Dr Maria Alfredsson from the School of Physical Sciences, and Professor Stephen Yeates at the Manchester School of Chemistry, on the award of a £1.3m EPSRC grant.
The grant is entitled ‘Formulating and Manufacturing Low Profile Integrated Batteries for Wireless Sensing Labels’, which seeks to create wireless sensors unlike existing electronics.
You can find out more on the EDA webpages.
Kent Critical Law Society has issued a call for papers exploring the relationship between metamorphosis and law in advance of its Critical Law Conference in March.
Conference organisers are interested in research that critically examines the different ways law has evolved and changed the world. Some examples include: the adaptations of the law to suit social, political, economic, or developmental change; legal historical analyses of the evolution of law; emergences of new legal fields; regressions; and the need for and possibility of reform.
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics includes:
Papers are welcomed from academic staff, undergraduate students, postgraduate students and practitioners across all disciplines. Proposals from literary, scientific, socio-political, economic, historical and philosophical fields are particularly encouraged.
Contributors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, together with a biography of no more than 50 words, to conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk by Friday 23 February 2018. Any informal enquiries can be directed to: presidentkclsoc@kent.ac.uk
Kent Critical Law Society (KCLS) is a student-led critical lawyers’ group that aims to interrogate the social, economic and political dimensions shaping legal doctrine and contemporary society.
This year’s conference on ‘Law and Metamorphosis’ will be held on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March in the Grimond Building on Kent’s Canterbury campus.
Bookable group study booths
We now have four booths available for booking, between 9:00 – 21:00, near the IT and Library support desk in Block C on Floor 1. The spaces are perfect for group study so we’ve put them on our booking system for exactly that purpose! You can find a slot through isbooking.kent.ac.uk.
Find a study space in the Library
Similar to our popular Find a PC service, Find a Study Space live availability screens will now show where desks are free in the library.
Sensors under desks can detect whether a space is free or not and the information is then displayed online and on screens throughout the library.
Our trial of this service last summer was successful and we received good feedback from students who used it to find a space to study.
No other information or personal data is collected from the sensors; they’re there to save you time when looking for desk space and to give us a better idea of how the library is used.
Group study rooms
There are two new group study rooms available for booking in D block on the Ground Floor, making a total of 8 group study rooms!
All can be booked up to four weeks in advance and have a large screen and student PC, perfect for collaboration.
Speaker: Bridget Minamore
Date: Wednesday 7 February 2018
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Venue: Cornwallis Northwest Seminar Room 5
Admission: Free
Discuss the narratives of sexual violence and consent with Bridget Minamore and explore your personal writings style to convey your thoughts and feelings on the topic.
Bridget is a writer from and based in SE London. She is part of the creative team behind Brainchild Festival and works with charity My Body Back, a project to empower women who have experienced sexual violence. She mostly writes about London, pop culture, race and feminism, as well as the intersections between them.
Find out more and book on Kent Union’s website.