{"id":539,"date":"2018-06-25T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=539"},"modified":"2018-06-25T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:20:24","slug":"honorary-degrees-announced-for-university-ceremonies-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2018\/06\/25\/honorary-degrees-announced-for-university-ceremonies-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary degrees announced for University ceremonies in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_email.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_email-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_email-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_email.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Student Success Project are trilled that two members of their Inspirational Speaker Program, author and poet <strong>Lemn Sissay<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0<strong>Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE<\/strong>\u00a0are among those due to receive honorary degrees from the University of Kent in the ceremonies during July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lemn Sissay\u00a0<\/strong>who delivered his talk &#8220;Gold From the Stone&#8221; for the Student Success Project back in February to an audience of staff and students, will receive his honorary Doctor of Letters degree, in recognition of his \u2018contribution to literature and his inspirational life and career\u2019 at a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral on 19 July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Marie Imafidon MBE\u00a0<\/strong>visited the University of Kent School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science in as part of the Student Success Project back in October 2017 as part of the Universities Black History Month events.<\/p>\n<p>The University is honoring a really fantastic collection of specialists and champions, including\u00a0<strong>Dr Sue Black OBE<\/strong>\u00a0in recognition of her \u2018inspirational championing of women in computing and science and campaign to preserve and save Bletchley Park\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of the recipients visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/18405\/honorary-degrees-announced-for-university-ceremonies-in-july\">Kent Life website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Student Success Project are trilled that two members of their Inspirational Speaker Program, author and poet Lemn Sissay, as well as\u00a0Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2018\/06\/25\/honorary-degrees-announced-for-university-ceremonies-in-july\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"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\/40838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}