{"id":234,"date":"2016-05-06T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:24:00","slug":"medway-school-of-pharmacy-international-edi-conference-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2016\/05\/06\/medway-school-of-pharmacy-international-edi-conference-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway School of Pharmacy:  International EDI conference in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medway School of Pharmacy\u2019s Project Officers Sammi Hall and Luke Taylor attended an International EDI conference in Boston from April 25-26th 2016.\u00a0 Both presented E-Posters entitled \u201cThe Use of Social Media in a UK School of Pharmacy to Increase Student Engagement and Sense of Belonging\u201d and \u201cImproving Numeracy Standards in UK Pharmacy Students\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The conference aimed to \u201cbring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion\u201d (ICEDI, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>The posters were both very well received, with particular interest in student engagement with both social media and the numeracy initiative. The attendance and presentation at this conference has allowed for potential future collaboration with other UK Universities for both Medway School of Pharmacy and the Student Success project as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2016\/05\/Boston.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2016\/05\/Boston.jpg\" alt=\"Boston\" width=\"602\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2016\/05\/Boston.jpg 602w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2016\/05\/Boston-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured \u2013 All presenters in the section 2 seminar relating to student engagement and EDI practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medway School of Pharmacy\u2019s Project Officers Sammi Hall and Luke Taylor attended an International EDI conference in Boston from April 25-26th 2016.\u00a0 Both presented E-Posters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2016\/05\/06\/medway-school-of-pharmacy-international-edi-conference-in-boston\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[146100,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}