Kent Diamonds
Celebrating the students, staff and alumni who make Kent shine.
Kent Diamonds
Celebrating our past. Inspiring your future.
As part of our Diamond Anniversary year, we're celebrating our amazing Kent community.
This month's Kent Diamonds are our Passionate Performance Directors Esme, Caitlin and Fin, Mental Health Mentor Kerriva, and Lizzie Holland, our Community Collaborator who works for KMMS.
Passionate Performance Directors
As Performance Directors for the Threads and Legends fashion event with Fenwick, their passion and creativity helped to bring ideas to life and make it a truly legendary event!
Mental Health Mentor
Kerriva is passionate about helping others and spends much of her time volunteering for charities to promote mental health and support vulnerable people. She volunteers for organisations such as Samaritans, Mind, Keep Talking Services and more!
Community Collaborator
Our next staff Kent Diamond is Lizzie Holland. Lizzie is responsible for co-ordinating the voluntary Patient Engagement programme at Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS) and supports a wide range of charities in the local community.
Taekwondo Triumph
At a recent national competition, the Taekwondo Society won a very impressive 11 medals from 15 competitors! Taekwondo are the second oldest society at Kent and still going strong!
Lawyering Leader
Darren Weir is a Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School and supports a wide range of extra-curricular activities and events for the School. Darren is also responsible for the roll out of a national scheme adopted by other universities.
Inaugural Innovators
The First 500 were enrolled at Kent in October 1965 and have paved the way for generations of students since. Their contribution to the University is hugely important to our shared history.
Do you know someone who goes above and beyond?
If you know an inspiring person or group – student, staff or alumni – let us know!
