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Join the Gulbenkian Advisory Board

Would you like to help transform lives through culture and creativity?

Gulbenkian is seeking new members for our Advisory Board, and we would love to have staff and students well represented.

As we approach our 50th anniversary, we are looking to strengthen our existing Board members’ knowledge, skills and expertise in a number of key areas by recruiting well-connected and experienced individuals.

We want to recruit board members from all backgrounds, ages and sections of the community.

These are opportunities to make a real difference in the lives of young people and be part of one of Kent’s most vibrant creative organisations.

To apply please send a CV and a brief covering letter (no more than 2 pages of A4) setting out why you’re interested in becoming a member of the Advisory Board and what you may be able to contribute, for the attention of: Oliver Carruthers, Director, Gulbenkian via email o.j.carruthers@kent.ac.uk  or by post to Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB.

Download Advisory Board Recruitment Pack for more information.

Deadline for applications are on the 16th July 2018 at 5pm.

 

We are delighted to invite you to the next Mainstream Initiatives Launch of the Student Success Project for colleagues at Medway Campus on Tuesday 24th July 2018 at the Medway Building- M3-04.

The event will showcase the improved Student Success Dashboard- QlikView Phase 2,  the Student Success Resources Toolkit (SStaRT), and the highly anticipated Progress Profiles. The second version of the Student Success QlikView dashboard, which can provide data about school cohorts is released with added functionality, and granularity. Dashboard is strictly limited, so this is your opportunity to see what data is available to you and to find out who has access in your department.

So, come and find out how the toolkit can help you find the best initiatives for your school and hear how you can contribute your own activities and best practice to the toolkit.

This event is free and open to all Kent Staff and to hear when this will be available and what information it will contain, register attendance on EventBrite.

If you have any questions feel free to contact studentsuccessproject@kent.ac.uk

 

 

 

Julie Williams- Kent Hospitality’s June PRIDE Award Winner

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the June Kent Hospitality PRIDE Award is Julie Williams, Turing College Domestic Assistant. The Personal Responsibility in Delivering Excellence Award recognized Julie’s caring personality while consistently providing additional support to residential students on the Canterbury campus.

An extract from one of Julie’s nomination reads: ‘…she has always made sure that I am OK even when I am anxious about exams and she will always give me the best advice […] When I fell very ill, and an ambulance was sent to me, Julie showed the paramedics where I was and a few days later she came around to see if I was OK’.

Any Kent Hospitality staff member (permanent or casual) may be nominated from Canterbury and Medway campuses. The award is given in March, June, September/October and December with each winner receiving £100 of shopping vouchers, a certificate and a Pride pin badge.

It’s really easy to nominate a member of the Kent Hospitality team for a Pride Award. Just visit the Pride website and complete our online form. The closing date for the next Pride Award is Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 12 noon.

Well Done Julie!

 

Student Success Project team

Student Success Resources Toolkit now live

The Student Success Project central team is delighted to announce that the Student Success Resources Toolkit (SStaRT) is now live.

The toolkit is part of the Student Success Project’s mainstreaming programme. SStaRT will provide all schools with an opportunity to see what kind of initiatives from phase one and two of the Student Success Project might work with their students, what effort and costs are involved in getting them off the ground, and the lessons learned.

It will also provide a space for schools and departments to share their initiatives, using a downloadable form, so that we can all benefit from each other’s experiences.

To share your thoughts and comments about the toolkit email studentsuccessproject@kent.ac.uk.

Ian Grigg-Spall

Condolences for Ian Grigg-Spall

Former colleagues in the Law School and the wider University were saddened to learn of the death of Ian Grigg-Spall on Saturday 16 June 2018, one day short of his 75th birthday.

Ian was one of the first lecturers in law at the University, joining what was then the Board of Studies in Law in 1969. He was a mainstay and influential member of what became the Law School, until his eventual retirement in 2007. In that time he played a major role in the development of the distinctive critical orientation of the Law School at Kent, especially in relation to Marxist approaches to law. He also developed radically new approaches to teaching and research in Company Law, working closely with Professor Paddy Ireland, with whom he also edited the Critical Lawyers Handbook.

Ian was brought up in pre-independence Kenya, graduated with degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and qualified as a solicitor with a city firm before joining Kent. He made frequent trips to Africa throughout his life, including a spell as a visiting academic at the University of Dar es Salaam. In later years at the Law School he focussed on promoting recruitment and very successfully expanded the School’s number of overseas students. This took him on many international trips to Africa and further afield, where he became a well-known figure on the international university recruitment circuit.

Ian had an intensely political sense of the role of law and legal education, and is remembered by students as an inspiring and engaging teacher. He was instrumental in founding and steering the Critical Lawyers Group at Kent for students, which eventually became a national organisation holding regular conferences with major figures from the legal profession and academia. He was deeply committed to the transformative power of legal education and was one of a group of colleagues who shaped the Law School in a way which enabled it to become arguably the leading critical law school in the country.

John Wightman, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences

The funeral will be at Barham at 11.20 on Wednesday 4 July, followed by a wake at Boughton Golf Club.

Staff in Registry 4

Project management training 23-24 July

Learning and Organisational Development will be running a two-day Project Management training course on 23 and 24 July.

Objectives and learning outcomes are as follows:

  • understand the need for a consistent approach to project management within the University
  • use the underlying principles contained within the University of Kent project management framework on all future projects
  • work with a colleague post course to develop your personal action plan
  • communicate the new project management approach to colleagues and partners within the University

Please make a booking via the Learning and Development activities calendar.

The Changing Face of Medicine

Discover the Changing Face of Medicine

Distinguished cardiothoracic surgeon, Professor Tom Treasure will give a presentation on The Changing Face of Medicine on Monday 18 June.

The event is arranged by the Centre for Professional Practice and will explore how changing ideas in medicine shaped today’s healthcare. It takes place from 19.00-21.00 at Sun Pier House, Medway Street, Chatham, ME4 4HF, and admission is free.

Professor Treasure is currently Honorary Professor of the Clinical Operations Research Unit at University College, London and has chaired, participated and advised numerous initiatives and organisations and was a Director of the British Heart Foundation between 1996 and 2001.

He has wide ranging interests in medicine in general and surgery in particular and, after more than two decades as a world-renowned expert cardiac surgery, broadened his scope to cover both heart and lungs.

His fascination with the history of medicine led him to rescue documents from parts of Guys Hospital which were scheduled for demolition in the course of its refurbishment in the 1990s. Among these were meticulously-kept records belonging to ‘The Heart Club’ a group of surgeons at Guys who pioneered heart surgery in 1940’s Britain. Inspired by this he wrote a book of the same name which detailed the bravery of surgeons who dared to challenge and overturn centuries of dogma using the evidence of treating injured WW2 service personnel to do so.

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This free event is hosted by the University of Kent’s Centre for Professional Practice (CPP). The Centre’s part-time, flexible work-related programmes BA/BSc Top-up in Professional Practice or MA/MSc in Professional Practice and short courses have been specifically designed to meet the needs of working professionals who wish to develop their academic ability while maintaining their professional role.

Ruth Newman

Ruth’s charity bike ride

On 29 July 2018 Ruth Newman, from the Student Immigration Compliance Team, will be taking part in Ride London, cycling 100 miles from east London out to the Surrey hills and back.

Ruth is riding to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT), a charity which creates world-class cancer services for young people, providing care and support so that they don’t have to face cancer alone. This is the second time she has taken part in the event and she aims to raise £1,000 to help the TCT continue its work with young people.

A regular cyclist, Ruth has been training for Ride London with a good few 50 mile+ rides completed at weekends, as well as regular cycle rides to work. You can help her reach her target by donating online.

Medway campus

Medway Festival of Learning and Teaching: Register now

Registration for this year’s Medway Festival of Learning and Teaching is now open.

Entitled ‘Inclusive Practice and Student Success: Leading Change across the Medway Campus’, the Festival takes place on Thursday 13 September, from 09.00 to 14.00 in PK008, Pilkington Building, Medway Campus.

All staff are welcome to attend. Email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk to book a place at the event and confirm your dietary requirements.