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Congratulations Academy of Social Sciences award
AUA Co-ordinator appointment
Professor Glynis Murphy, Co-Director of the Tizard Centre at the University, is one of 28 social scientists to have recently been conferred the award of Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).
Linda Lough, Faculty Administration Manager for Sciences, has been appointed as the Southern Regional Network Co-ordinator for the Association of University Administrators (AUA). As part of this role, Linda will engage with all the AUA members across the Southern region.
AcSS is the national Academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences. It has over 900 individual Academicians, who are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors. They are awarded this status after a peer group has reviewed the standing and impact of their work. Glynis Murphy was recognised for her work on intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Book Prize for Senior Law Lecturer Dr Emilie Cloatre, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Kent Law School (KLS), has been awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2014 for her book, Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa. Awarded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association in recognition of outstanding socio-legal scholarship, the prize is the third to be won by an academic from KLS in consecutive years.
Silver award for Kent chefs
International Student Travel Award Jakob Deller, a PhD researcher from the School of Physical Sciences, has been named as a recipient of the Pierazzo International Student Travel Award 2014 for his research to demonstrate what happens when asteroids hit one another in space. Jakob Deller – who is currently on placement at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany – will be presented with his award at the 2014 International Department of Planetary Sciences American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference in Tucson, USA, in November 2014.
Chefs Rob Grimer and Eris Hoxha (left), based in the Beagle Restaurant, Darwin, have won the silver award in the 2014 TUCO Chefs’ Challenge. The chefs were tasked with producing a threecourse meal for two from a mystery box of ingredients, so there was no opportunity to practise beforehand. Twenty-one other universities took part in the competition and the gold award was won by Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Green Impact awards ‘Treemendous’ prizes were in store for Green Impact award-winners at Kent on 7 April. Each of the winning teams received a tree – birch, evergreen oak, English oak, European hornbeam, horse chestnut or beech – to replace those lost at the University in the recent storms. Full details of the awards will follow in the July issue of KENT Staff magazine.
All the fun of Worldfest
Hundreds of staff and students attended a variety of Worldfest events at the Canterbury and Medway campuses from 17 to 23 March.
The success of Worldfest week was made possible by the hard work of staff and students in organising celebratory activities and events.
Worldfest is all about celebrating diversity and multiculturalism at Kent. Celebrations this year included the Hindu spring festival of Holi and St Patrick’s Day activities. Staff and students were also able to sample food from across the world, learn dance from different cultures and listen to a diverse mix of live music at the ‘Big Tent Event’ on 20 March.
Worldfest is now embedded throughout the annual University calendar. Other events included ‘Europe Day’ (9 April) and, still to come, a Eurovision party in May. And we have already started planning for our biggest ever Worldfest celebration for Kent’s 50th anniversary next year! www.kent.ac.uk/worldfest
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