Public and Community Engagement

Engage with us
A very warm welcome to our Public & Community Engagement website
Engage with us
A
very warm welcome to our Public & Community Engagement website. It has been and will continue to be developed
as an inclusive space for engagement.
The University of Kent has pledged to be a leading civic university by 2025, to serve the communities around us and to help them flourish in every possible way. That’s a mission and a vision that fills us with great excitement and pride. However, we can only do this by working fully in partnership with our staff, students, members of our local, national or global communities, partners and businesses.
So I invite you to watch the video, take a look around the website at the various events, projects and collaborations already taking place and if there’s something that you’d like to be involved in or perhaps something new you’d like to explore, please get in touch.
By working and engaging together we can achieve so much.
Philip
Pothen, Director
of Engagement

SHIFT FLECTURE: Sir Paul Nurse - Creative Thinking in Science and Art
For the final Flecture in the SHIFT festival, on the 3 April, Nobel Prize winner and director of the Crick Institute (Sir) Paul Nurse and Richard Layzell, in collaboration with Division of Natural Sciences, explore creative thinking in science research and the arts.

In the Spotlight
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YOUNOME exhibition returns to Canterbury Campus
Following a successful intervention at Medway, Younome is back on display on the Canterbury campus.
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SHIFT Festival - 24 March - 12 May 2023
Redefining the University as a place of activity, SHIFT: reframe, reshape is a festival of surprise
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Come to the 'This is Home Exhibition'
From the 3-17 March come to this exhibition which features portraits from photographer Dannii Jones
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Pantomime taking archives out beyond the campus
A good portion of panto’s extensive heritage is held in the University of Kent archives
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The campus as a sustainable community resource
Our Community Oasis Garden is just one of the ways we are making our make our campus more green
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Kent climbs league table
Kent moves up in the People and Planet University League for environmental and ethical performance.
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World’s first Muslim Pantomime is added to archive
Kent's David Drummond Pantomime Collection is adding Cinder’Aliyah: to its archives.
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Generation Genome
Thrilling new British Film Institute science television series launched and ready to watch
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Birth Rites
Critical perspectives in the field of birth
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Engaging Children and Young People
Find out what exciting opportunities are available for younger members of the family
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Youth Summit
Hundreds of young people ‘Reconnect’ on campus through a shared passion for innovative learning
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Engage with others through the magic of music
Award winning Colyer-Fergusson Hall offers a way for everyone to create and enjoy music and song
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See something you like or have an idea to share? Get in touch. We are waiting to hear from you.