{"id":2005,"date":"2019-04-25T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2019-04-25T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:58:56","slug":"honorary-graduates-announced-for-july-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/04\/25\/honorary-graduates-announced-for-july-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary graduates announced for July ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is among thirteen people due to receive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/22111\/singer-ellie-goulding-among-those-to-receive-honorary-degrees-from-kent\">honorary degrees<\/a> from the University of Kent in ceremonies at Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals during July.<\/p>\n<p>Graduating students from the School of Computing in Medway will see poet and performer <a href=\"https:\/\/literature.britishcouncil.org\/writer\/patience-agbabi\">Patience Agbabi<\/a>\u00a0receive her honorary Doctor of Letters degree at a ceremony at Rochester Cathedral on 9 July, starting at 14.30.<\/p>\n<p>Akaliza Keza Ntwari is an ICT expert and advocate and a member of a UN-convened panel on digital co-operation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/akalizakeza\/\">Akaliza Ntwari<\/a> is an alumna of Kent who studied Multimedia Technology and Design. She will receive her honorary Doctor of Science degree at a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral on 17 July, starting at 14.30, when the Canterbury-based Computer Science students graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is among thirteen people due to receive honorary degrees from the University of Kent in ceremonies at Canterbury and Rochester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/04\/25\/honorary-graduates-announced-for-july-ceremonies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}