{"id":3247,"date":"2026-07-04T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:40:29","slug":"a-kent-chat-event-leaders-unscripted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/07\/04\/a-kent-chat-event-leaders-unscripted\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Kent Chat&#8217; Event: Leaders Unscripted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In June 2026, we hosted a successful Kent Chat event, bringing together students and senior leaders for open conversations about the student experience, with around 200 students in attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key feedback themes included creating more opportunities to connect during transitions, strengthening international student communities, improving direct access to senior leaders, and developing E-Sports. We are now using this feedback to shape future improvements and will continue creating more opportunities for students in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who supported the event! To get involved and find out more, email <a href=\"mailto:StudentExperience@Kent.ac.uk\">StudentExperience@Kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2026, we hosted a successful Kent Chat event, bringing together students and senior leaders for open conversations about the student experience, with around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/07\/04\/a-kent-chat-event-leaders-unscripted\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,202865],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}