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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 ...

Dr Eleoma Bodammer, Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh, joins us on Thursday 21st March as part of the Student Success Project Inspirational Speaker programme. Dr Bodammer will talk about the need to raise the profile of Disability Studies in higher education in the UK, and discuss including the study of disability, and literature about and by disabled people in the curriculum, with the aim of creating a more inclusive learning environ...

The Student Success Project and School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) are delighted to present the next in a series of inspirational speaker events, on Wednesday 20th March from 4:00pm – 5:30pm  in Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 Dr Patrice Haynes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University, explores reasons why the whiteness of the curriculum is a problem, with focus on philosophy and the challenges universities face to a...