Kent Global Newsletter - November 2019

Kent Global Newsletter - November 2019
From: Anthony Manning - Dean for Internationalisation

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November 2019

Welcome to this month's issue. November is always a really busy month for international activity at Kent, as reflected in this Newsletter. Amongst many other things, last week we hosted the annual general assembly of the SGroup European Universities Network. We have also been preparing for a delegation visit to China, which will take place from today in Beijing and move on to Shanghai and Hong Kong. The picture on the right shows our staff and students at our launch event in the Sibson building last Friday.

We're trying more and more to think 'glocally'. With SGroup we've been sharing insights into sustainability and digitisation, which will benefit our respective institutions and our wider European networks. In China we're collaborating with Visit Kent, our local destination management organisation, in order to build connections for the University and our wider region.

Click to see the Visit Kent Website

Kent hosts SGroup European Network meeting

The event welcomed representatives from the SGroup's 32 member institutions from 17 European countries attend as well as the Network's associate partners from Armenia, China and Colombia.

Kent-Ghent 2020: Joint call for projects

The University is pleased to announce the call for joint Kent-Ghent collaborative projects, taking place in 2020, with one of our longstanding international partners, Ghent University, Belgium.

Kent students win Best Student Film award at LA Film Awards

The film You Won’t Remember Me (2019), made by students from the School of Arts and KTV Film, has won ‘Best Student Film (Feature)’ at the Los Angeles Film Awards.

International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport

Professor Roger Vickerman, Emeritus Professor of European Economics, attended Thredbo’s first foray into Asia, which was great success.

Send us links to your own international activities to feature in the next newsletter

Understanding contemporary Chinese Buddhism using Social Anthropology

A new article published by Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Dr Jonathan Mair, explains the appeal of a rapidly growing Chinese religious practice.

Undergraduate field trip to forest reserve in Uganda - "an experience that will stay with us forever!"

This field trip, organised by the School of Anthropology and Conservation, took students to a forest reserve in Uganda and was described by participants as, "an experience that will stay with us forever!"

Follow this link to international travel guidance and risk assessment forms

More than 40 students visited the EU Parliament for discussions about Brexit

On Thursday 17th October 2019 over 40 BSIS students had the opportunity to visit the European Parliament to participate in a roundtable discussion on Brexit.

The event was titled: “Brexit: The Real Will of the People”.

Affiliation with GLO

The School of Economics at Kent is pleased to announce a new affiliation with the Global Labor Organization (GLO), which will connect the University of Kent with over 1,500 academics and researchers worldwide.

Mita Mondal, School Administration Manager, visits Pakistan

Mita Mondal, School Administration Manager with the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, reports on an international recruitment trip to Pakistan.

Tamara Rathcke speaks at Macquarie and Sydney universities

Dr Tamara Rathcke, senior lecturer in linguistics for the department of English Language and Linguistics, gave a talk at Macquarie University, Sydney, entitled ‘When language hits the beat: synchronising movement to simple tonal and verbal stimuli’.

Kent Historian wins €10 million grant to study the European 'common good'

Allons-y! University Camerata visit to Calais is coming

Preparations are underway at Colyer Towers for a special event next week, when the University Camerata will cross la Manche to give a concert at the l’Eglise de Notre-Dame in the city of Calais.

New international network on theme of 'Law and the Human' at Kent

Kent Law School is hosting a new AHRC-funded international network on the theme of ‘Law and the Human’, with the participation of network partner Amherst College in the US.

SSPSSR and PolIR colleagues visit leading universities in China

During the summer Dr Balihar Sanghera (SSPSSR) and Dr Elmira Satybaldieva (School of Politics & IR) visited some of the leading universities in Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai.

Launch of International Master's in Advanced Research in Criminology (IMARC)

IMARC is designed to bring together learning, research and practice through collaboration with already well-established international partners, governments, NGO’s and other universities.

SSES Reader speaks at Anti-Doping Conference

SSES Reader, Dr. James Hopker was recently invited to speak at the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s conference in Tokyo.

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