{"id":571,"date":"2026-10-19T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/?p=571"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:13:49","slug":"kent-technical-professionals-connect-with-colleagues-across-the-eastern-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2026\/10\/19\/kent-technical-professionals-connect-with-colleagues-across-the-eastern-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent technical professionals connect with colleagues across the Eastern Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent technical professionals joined colleagues from across the Eastern Arc Universities for the annual Eastern Arc Technicians\u2019 Network Symposium, hosted by the University of Essex at Wivenhoe House Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium brought together technical professionals from the Universities of Essex, East Anglia, Kent and Sussex for a day of networking, engaging talks and open discussion. An insightful panel session gave attendees further opportunity to share perspectives and explore the experiences and expertise that strengthen the technical community.<\/p>\n<p>Events like this help build connections across institutions, encourage the exchange of ideas and celebrate the vital contribution technical professionals make to university research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to University of Essex lead Christopher Spice and the network\u2019s steering group on delivering another excellent event. Special thanks to the University of Essex for hosting this years symposium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-573\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2026\/10\/Photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent technical professionals joined colleagues from across the Eastern Arc Universities for the annual Eastern Arc Technicians\u2019 Network Symposium, hosted by the University of Essex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2026\/10\/19\/kent-technical-professionals-connect-with-colleagues-across-the-eastern-arc\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78409,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241885],"tags":[212657],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techservices","tag-techcommit"],"sub_title":"18th June 2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}