The University of Kent’s Community Cup team played their first fixture of their Kent FA Community Cup campaign on Sunday morning. Despite the gusting winds of Storm Ciara, the team managed to rally together and walk away with an impressive 4-0 victory against Lateef Restaurant.

The first half was an interesting performance with both teams struggling to break away from the right hand side of the pitch due to the powerful cross winds. With just minutes of the first half remaining, Billy Radford, managed to secure the opener, with a big help from a deflection and the unpredictable weather conditions.

With the wind behind them in the second half, the team pressed on and goals from Charlie Dast (1) and James Budge (2) secured the victory for the team.

The victory against Lateef Restaurant puts the team in a strong position going into their last fixture of the group stage (hopefully in better weather) against Christchurch University on Sunday 1st March, 10:30am kick-off, at The Pavilion, University of Kent. The Pavilion Café Bar will be open for refreshments, so why not show your support for the team.

If you are interested in joining the team or are looking for casual football opportunities on campus, please email sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk for further details. All levels and abilities are welcome!

The Facebook album for the Kent v Lateef Restaurant can be viewed on this page.

Love the SMSAS Public Lectures? Here are the details for the talks coming up:

The next lecture is titled: A story of doughnuts, power lines and the London Underground

When:  Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18.00 – 19.00

Where: Sibson Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent Canterbury Campus

Who: Dr Constanze Roitzheim, University of Kent

Audience: The talk is suitable for a general audience and is free to attend.

Abstract: Topology is a new form of geometry that looks at things quite differently compared to the classical, Euclidean approach. We will explore how this can be applied to the world today as well as how it can be used to solve problems that have been open for several thousand years.

May Lecture

When:  Thursday 14 May 2020, 18.00 -19.00

Where: Sibson Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent Canterbury Campus

Who: Professor Peter Clarkson, University of Kent

Title: Rogue Waves, Tsunamis and Solutions 

Audience: The talk is suitable for a general audience and is free to attend.

It’s #saferinternetday on 11 February, a day which aims to make sure that anyone using the internet feels safe online, whether they are browsing, banking, sharing information about themselves, giving an opinion or posting photos.

Dr Jason Nurse, Lecturer in Cyber Security and Director of Public Engagement at the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre, has some great tips on how you and your students can stay safe online which he has released in collaboration with Futurum.

Futurum resources are created with scientists and researchers, which means they are factually correct, current and, above all, safe for the public, teachers and students to use. Below are some of our very latest research articles and activity sheets, and you’ll find even more on our website.

Dr Eleen Deprez, curator of the Studio 3 Gallery, has won an Arts Council grant for £14,000 for the forthcoming exhibition Hair: Textures of Belonging.

Hair: Textures of Belonging will explore the gendered and racial aesthetics of hair as signifier of black and gendered identity. The exhibition will celebrate the work of these artists and the diversity of black culture, and to promote diverse representations of beauty beyond the white aesthetic. The impact of the exhibition will be amplified by a day of performance and workshops at the Gulbenkian Theatre on campus.

The exhibition will feature (amongst others) Marina Abramovic, Zhu Tian, Sonia BoDyce, Yuni Kim Lang, and Sonya Clark.

The exhibition will run from 4 March until 4 April 2020.

For more details of all upcoming exhibitions in the Studio 3 Gallery, please click here.

For more details on Arts Council funding, please visit this website.

The next meeting of the University’s Honorary Degrees Committee will take place on 4 March 2020 and we are looking for suggestions/nominations for the award of honorary degrees for the consideration of the Committee.

Suggestions should be returned by the deadline of Wednesday 19 February 2020, either by email to J.L.Pearsall@kent.ac.uk or by post to Jo Pearsall, Council Secretariat, The Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ.

At its meeting in March 2020, the Committee will be considering suggestions for awards in 2020 and beyond and, to ensure the award of honorary degrees across a broad range of academic disciplines and subject areas, it would be helpful to receive at least one or two suggestions from each School.  We would also like to encourage nominations in the area of medicine and health sciences, to celebrate the opening of the Kent and Medway Medical School in 2020.

You can find all the necessary information, including the nomination form in Word and pdf formats on the honorary degree nominations website.

The published information includes the criteria for awarding honorary degrees and the honorary degrees that are available, with guidance notes. To get an idea of the calibre of University of Kent honorary graduates, our honorary graduates website shows recent recipients and short biographies.

Anyone can put forward a nomination so if you have any questions about this or wish to put forward a nomination, please email Jo Pearsall.

Staff and students are encouraged to find out more about what to do in the unlikely event of a terror incident on or off campus.

Our Campus Security Run, Hide, Tell webpages include three new videos with UK Government advice on:

• How to react to firearms or weapons attacks
• How to identify and respond to suspicious behaviour
• How to identify and deal with suspicious Items.

Mark Arnold, Head of Security at Kent, comments: ‘While there is no specific intelligence about any threats to the University, these videos are a timely reminder of common sense advice. I’d urge all members of our community to set aside some time to view them.’

The webpages also include advice on what to do if you find a lost or suspicious unattended item, on or off campus – find out more by clicking on the new tab: ‘Unattended items – lost or suspicious’.

And there’s a reminder of the Government’s key ‘Stay Safe’ principles:

RUN – find the best protection available, out of sight does not mean out of danger.

HIDE – see if you can locate the attackers, what type of weapon is being used, the direction the attacker(s) are travelling. Limit access and secure your environment. Lock the doors and remain as quiet as possible.

TELL – contact the police via 999 then Campus Security via 01227 82(3333), give them all the information you have.

Find out more and view the new videos on the Campus Security Run, Hide, Tell webpages.