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Students Collins Konadu-Mensah and Evangeline Agyeman (pictured) and Liaison Librarians Emma Mires-Richards and Sarah Field accepted the Talis Aspire User Group Creativity Award on behalf of the project, and presented a paper to the conference which outlined the work and its outcomes – Diversity in the curriculum: a collaborative approach. You can read the full article here:   https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/isnews/ken...

Staff and students from the University of Kent are invited to join this half day workshop on anti-racist practice and pedagogy in Higher Education. The workshop will be facilitated by Building the Anti-Racist Classroom (BARC) Collective, an international collective of women of colour academics, in collaboration with Decolonise UKC. The workshop will provide a forum for people of colour and white allies to discuss and develop interventions that address racial...

Blackboard Ally, a plugin within the Moodle environment, uses machine learning algorithms to automatically provide alternative formats for course content, giving students immediate access to more accessible alternatives. You are invited to attend an interactive workshop for staff in Keynes Computer Room and take a more in depth look at Kent’s current Ally usage and future plans. There will be opportunities to share your experience of using Ally (both staff and students) and a netwo...

The MERB cluster in SSPSSR are running an afternoon workshop on 'Race, Class and Habitus' this Friday, 5th April from 2pm – 4:30pm on the Medway Campus. In this themed workshop (co-hosted by the Migration Ethnicity Race and Belonging Cluster) SSPSSR Medway Research present three distinct speakers, who explore the intersections between race, racialization, class and habitus using inter-disciplinary framings from sociology, social work and cri...

This Saturday, 16th March, sees the second running of the Kent Africa Summit, and will feature a keynote speech by the Labour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy. The conference is taking part in the Colyer-Fergusson building from 09.00-16.00 with free tickets available at: https://kentunion.co.uk/events/id/684-kas Kent Africa Summit is a one-day conference which aims to bring together generations and individuals from differing ...