{"id":75,"date":"2012-12-10T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-03-20T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:25:02","slug":"sciences-research-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2012\/12\/10\/sciences-research-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sciences Research Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Sciences is holding a Research Festival on Thursday, 10 January in the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\/newbuilding.html\">Colyer-Fergusson building<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate and raise awareness of the research across the Schools in the Faculty, and to facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival is primarily for staff, postgraduate students and final year undergraduate students within the Faculty but other members of the university and general public are welcome too.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival is being organised by Professor Richard Jones,\u00a0Sciences Faculty Director of Research and Enterprise\u00a0. He said; \u2018Members of the Science Faculty have long expressed an interest in knowing\u00a0more about research in other Schools and campuses.\u00a0\u00a0With research councils increasingly emphasising\u00a0interdisciplinary work, it is essential that we utilise expertise\u00a0available across\u00a0the University.\u2018<\/p>\n<p>The programme will include two keynote talks, lots of short talks from faculty members and a wrap-up by the Vice-Chancellor. There will be\u00a0research posters, a buffet lunch, and plenty of opportunity for networking. Colleagues from support services\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/researchservices\/\">(Research Services<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/enterprise\/\">KIE<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschool\/\">Graduate School<\/a>) will also be on hand to offer advice and answer questions. The keynote speakers are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/%7Erja14\/\">Ross Anderson<\/a>, Professor of Security Engineering, University of Cambridge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/griffin.html\">Darren Griffin<\/a>, Professor of Genetics, University of Kent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Richard continued, \u2018This promises to be a fascinating and useful day. I very much hope that you will attend the festival and encourage your colleagues and students to join you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Festival will run from 10am &#8211; 6pm. There will be a buffet lunch with no charge but attendees are asked to mail\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:N.Barnes@kent.ac.uk\">Natalie Barnes<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Friday 14 December<\/strong>\u00a0to confirm their attendance and any dietary requirements.<\/p>\n<p>For more information go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/stms\/researchfestival\/\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/stms\/researchfestival\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Sciences is holding a Research Festival on Thursday, 10 January in the new\u00a0Colyer-Fergusson building\u00a0to celebrate and raise awareness of the research across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2012\/12\/10\/sciences-research-festival\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":0,"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\/75"}],"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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}