Each year, the University awards a number of prizes to individual staff or teams for outstanding work in teaching and/or learning support.
The call for applications for the 2019 prizes is now open, and applications must be received by 17.00 on Friday 17 May 2019.
Details of how to apply are available on our Teaching webpages.
The prizes will be awarded by the Vice-Chancellor at a lunchtime ceremony later in 2019, to which all staff are invited.
Booking is now available for the Campus Shuttle. Book a seat online here.
If you are travelling to exams, be sure to book a seat to guarantee your travel. Where possible, we recommend booking on an earlier service to ensure you arrive in plenty of time for your exams.
The Campus Shuttle starts running again Tuesday 7 May 2019 for the start of the summer term.
The Campus Shuttle is a free coach service between Medway and Canterbury campuses which runs during term-time only.
For more information visit the Campus Shuttle webpage or follow @CampusShuttle on twitter.
Professor Aylish Wood, Professor in Film, will be giving her Inaugural Professorial Lecture, entitled ‘Making Waves: Taking a software approach to Moanaand what it tells us about digital culture’, on Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 5pm.
The Disney animation Moana‘s release was accompanied by celebrations of animation software and the ingenuity of VFX practitioners. Frequently focussing on the feature’s quite fabulous looking water animation, these commentaries are a valuable starting point for challenging the extent to which simulations in cinema are, as is so often claimed, ‘realistic.’ Given their scale and increasingly detailed textures, it is easy to get caught up in the visual appeal of simulations created with VFX software. Aylish’s purpose in exploring Moana is to step around the power of this visual appeal, and map a route through to the computational and cultural influences that inform and shape simulations.
Aylish’s lecture will take place on Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 5pm in Keynes College Lecture Theatre 1, and will be followed by a drinks reception in Keynes College Atrium at 7pm. Attendance is free, but please book your place here.
Do not miss your chance to nominate someone for this year’s Graduate School Prizes.
These prizes recognise the excellence of its postgraduate researchers and the outstanding work carried out by academic and administrative staff members in support of postgraduate research and education.
The Graduate School Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
Apply or nominate a candidate now via the Graduate School website.
Deadline for nominations is 8 May 2019, and winners will be announced on 30 May 2019 at the Kent Researchers’ Showcase.
Read about last year’s winners here.
Join us for our ‘Summer Special’ Global Hangout from 5 – 7pm in the Gulbenkian Café. There will be live music, summer punch, tasty snacks and much more – all free of charge! Take a break from exams and celebrate as we near the end of term. All students welcome – tickets available on a first come, first served basis. Book now!
The International Partnerships team look forward to seeing you all there!
The closure of Sports Centre Road on Wednesday 1 May and Thursday 2 May 2019 has been delayed until Thursday 2 May and Friday 3 May 2019.
The work is to install the site accommodation for the new Kent and Medway Medical School building. Sports Centre Road and the car parks to the rear of the Sports Centre will be closed between 08.00 and 16.00 on each day.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and we will endeavour to keep any disruption to a minimum. If there are any queries please contact the Estates Customer Services on ext 16666.
Mark Ashmore
Estates Project Manager
Estates Department,
CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is an internationally recognised qualification, allowing you to teach English to adults in the UK and abroad. The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) runs an intensive CELTA training course starting on 17 June 2019.
At the end of the course you will have the chance to meet representatives from local language schools.
Find out more about CELTA and apply.
The Academic Career Map (ACM) will be launched, alongside a revised Academic Promotion Policy, to take effect in September 2019.
ACM is a framework setting out relevant expectations, supporting development and recognising achievements at each academic career stage. The related changes to the Academic Promotion Policy will mean significant changes to the promotion application process for academic staff on Teaching & Research, Teaching & Scholarship and Research contracts.
Academic staff are invited to find out more about ACM at one of several staff information sessions taking place during May and June. The team behind ACM will also be visiting some schools, but if one is not yet scheduled, you could attend one of our open-invitation sessions. Dates for all planned sessions, from 8 May to 21 June, are available now on the ACM webpages
The ACM was developed in partnership with academic and academic-related staff, through the Recognising Excellence in Academia Project, with the aim of providing greater clarity around expectations. The proposed detail was shared with all staff through the University website and several staff engagement and consultation events in November/December 2018. Helpful feedback resulted in the ACM being finalised and approved by relevant committees.
The Academic Promotion Policy has been revised to align with the ACM framework and introduce other changes to address feedback received from staff throughout the project.
To find out more about the ACM framework, and guidance on how it will work, see the ACM webpages
If you have any comments or questions, please email academiccareermap@kent.ac.uk
European Parliamentary elections are taking place on 23 May 2019. To have your say you must register to vote by Tuesday 7 May.
To find out more and register to vote go to:
Funding is available through the Kent Innovation & Enterprise Industrial Strategy Fund for business-university innovation collaboration. This round of funding is available until, and must be spent by, June 30th 2019, and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
This is support funding whereby a cash contribution from business is match funded from the University – in effect the University contribution is free of charge to the company. Business contribution must be a minimum of £3,000 and a maximum of £40,000.
The aim of the fund is to drive commercial development, economic growth and job creation by enabling UK businesses to undertake innovation projects with the University of Kent. Collaborative development projects are designed to assist the industrial community in areas highlighted in the UK Industrial Strategy.
If you’d like more information or have a collaboration in mind that you would like to explore please contact the Innovation & Enterprise team at enterprise@kent.ac.uk..