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Graduate 2014 Prospectus By rail The nearest train station to the AUR campus is Trastevere Station on the Pisa-Livorno-Rome, Rome- NOW IT GETS Capranica-Viterbo and Rome-Fiumicino lines. By bus and tram On leaving Trastevere station, take tram 8 towards Largo Argentina. Get off at Via E Morosini and INTERESTING catch bus 44 (in the direction of Montalcini) or bus 75 (in the direction of Poerio/Marino).

The campus is located between two stops: Via Our postgraduate programmes are informed Dandolo/Calandrelli and Via Giacinto Carini; both by a commitment to research excellence. As a stops are less than 100 metres from the AUR campus. highly ranked UK university, Kent provides a Campus map dynamic and challenging academic environment. www.kent.ac.uk/maps/rome

The University offers students a wide choice of well-structured and ambitious postgraduate programmes. At every stage, students are supported by inspirational teaching and supervision, first-class library and IT facilities and a diverse schedule of seminars, workshops and events. www.kent.ac.uk 1 2 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

WELCOME FROM THE DEAN

This is an exciting time to be a postgraduate student at the University of Kent. Our prospectus will give you an insight into the many opportunities we offer within our taught and research programmes. We also have a range of superb locations. Whether you choose to study at Canterbury, Medway, Brussels, Paris, Athens or Rome, you will benefit from a supportive environment working alongside world- class researchers. Building on Kent’s strong tradition of postgraduate education, the Graduate School works in partnership with our academic schools to enhance the quality of your study experience. Whatever your choice of location or programme, the Graduate School is here to help and ensure that you have the right support. I look forward to welcoming you to Kent and working with you to ensure excellence in all aspects of your postgraduate study experience.

Professor Diane Houston Dean of the Graduate School www.kent.ac.uk 3

CONTENTS

Finance 115 Why come to Kent? Fine Art 118 50th Anniversary 4 French 122 World-leading research 8 German 126 Strong academic community 10 Hispanic Studies 129 A global outlook 12 History 132 The Graduate School 14 History & Philosophy of Art 136 Choosing your programme 16 Italian 140 Research excellence 18 Journalism 142 Careers and employability 20 Law 145 Kent: the UK’s European university 22 Mathematics 154 Superb locations 24 Medicine, Dental and Health Sciences 157 Medieval and Early Modern Studies 158 Your study experience 26 Music and Audio Arts 161 Faculty of Humanities 28 Pharmacy 164 Faculty of Sciences 29 Philosophy 167 Faculty of Social Sciences 30 Physical Sciences 170 Politics and International Relations 174 Academic programmes 31 Professional Practice 182 Psychology 185 Actuarial Science 32 Religious Studies 191 American Studies 35 Science, Communication and Society 194 Anthropology 38 Social and Community Care 197 Architecture 43 Social and Public Policy 200 Biosciences 47 Sociology 207 Business 53 Sport and Exercise Sciences 212 Child Protection 59 Statistics 215 Classical & Archaeological Studies 61 Comparative Literature 65 Postgraduate study at Kent 219 Computing 69 Conservation 77 Fees and funding 220 Criminology 81 International students 221 Drama and Theatre 84 Canterbury 224 Economics 87 Medway 226 Education 91 European centres 228 Engineering and Digital Arts 93 How to apply 232 English 99 English Language and Linguistics 107 Index 233 Environmental Social Science 109 Film 112 Visiting the University 240

ONLINE VIDEO To find out what our students say about postgraduate study at Kent, see our online video at www.kent.ac.uk/videoaudio/film 4 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

50TH ANNIVERSARY In 1965 the University of Kent welcomed its first arrivals – now known as the ‘first 500’ they became a close-knit community, all founding members of Eliot College, at that time the only college, on the University’s sole campus, Canterbury.

The first graduation ceremony took place in 1968 in Eliot College and, like its graduates, Kent had its own ambitions for the future. As one of the pioneering universities built in the sixties, it belonged to an era of growth and change. Kent was, then as now, known for its teaching innovation and excellent staff-student relations; its vision for growth took its first bold steps in this early decade in becoming an inclusive, international and inspiring community. www.kent.ac.uk 5

PRIDE IN OUR PAST/ 6 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

50TH ANNIVERSARY Five decades later, the University of Kent is a top 20 university. Known as the UK’s European university, we have grown from 500 to 20,000 students from 140 countries, from one college to six, and from a single location to established sites throughout Europe.

From our original Canterbury campus we have expanded within the UK to include a campus in Medway and a centre in Tonbridge, and into Europe with centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome. We foster a community in which we value global citizenship, ethical thinking and the development and application of new knowledge.

Kent’s 50th anniversary year, starting in September 2014, will be a time of celebration with events to mark our past achievements, our current contributions, and with you – our ‘class of 2014/15’ – our commitment to a truly inspiring future. www.kent.ac.uk 7

/INSPIRING YOUR FUTURE 8 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014 www.kent.ac.uk 9

WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH Kent’s excellent performance in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) confirmed our position as one of the UK’s leading universities. Our 19 academic schools were found to be engaged in research of international and world-class standing.

Following our strong RAE results, Kent’s ranking among the research-intensive universities rose substantially, leading to an increase in research funding of 46%. This additional funding has enabled Kent to invest in the further development of its state-of-the-art research facilities.

With programmes of study that are informed by research, our students are able to develop skills and knowledge relevant to contemporary issues. Our research activities and collaborations with outside organisations create knowledge that is influential across a range of disciplines. 10 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

STRONG ACADEMIC COMMUNITY A thriving intellectual community of students and staff is fundamental to Kent’s position as a research-intensive university. In addition to lectures, seminars and one-to-one supervisions, our students benefit from a rich and stimulating research culture.

Academic schools hold regular events to provide a forum for students and staff to discuss their ongoing research activities, and schools also invite leaders in their field to give guest lectures. Postgraduate students are encouraged to take an active role in the academic community and develop their skills by presenting work at research seminars, participating in conferences and publishing papers. The Graduate School coordinates a range of activities to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and the development of research and transferable skills. www.kent.ac.uk 11 12 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014 www.kent.ac.uk 13

A GLOBAL OUTLOOK Kent has an excellent international reputation and our academic schools are engaged in collaborative research with universities from around the world.

Many of Kent’s programmes have a strong international focus and our global outlook is strengthened by our long-standing links with continental Europe. Known as ‘the UK’s European university’, we have specialist postgraduate centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome (see p228-231).

The global range of the University’s activities helps to attract students from overseas. Last year, over half of our postgraduate students came from countries outside the UK. This contributes to the cosmopolitan atmosphere at Kent and provides the ideal environment for analysis of global issues. In addition, Kent has exchange links with over 100 universities overseas, providing many of our taught and research students with the chance to study abroad. 14 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL At Kent, our students are part of a postgraduate community that includes students from all our campuses and European centres. The Graduate School supports this thriving community and helps to create a stimulating intellectual and social environment.

The Graduate School works in partnership with academic schools to enhance the quality of the postgraduate student experience across all campuses, and create a vibrant postgraduate community. The School is led by its Dean, Professor Diane Houston, who is responsible for the development of provision for postgraduate study and research.

The Graduate School ensures that the academic and social interests of postgraduate students are provided for within the University. It works alongside academic schools to support and develop internationally distinctive, exciting and innovative programmes of study that combine academic excellence with an exceptional student experience and appropriate learning resources through the provision of: • high-quality postgraduate facilities • a supportive environment for the intellectual interests of our postgraduates Researcher Development Programme • an excellent Researcher Development Programme The Graduate School co-ordinates the Researcher • a strong framework of specialist support for our Development Programme for research students, postgraduates across the University which includes workshops focused on research, • the cultivation of external links with Research specialist and transferable skills. The programme Councils, graduate schools and other organisations, is mapped to the national Researcher Development both nationally and internationally, to provide Framework and covers a diverse range of topics, further funding and study opportunities. including subject-specific research skills, research management, personal effectiveness, communication Championing your interests skills, networking and teamworking, and career management skills. Research Councils have identified At Kent, there is a strong postgraduate course the development of these skills as essential for all representation system working at school, faculty postgraduate researchers. and institutional levels. The Dean of the Graduate School chairs a board that is responsible for all aspects of postgraduate education. It includes student Global Skills Award Programme members as representatives of the postgraduate The Graduate School also delivers the Global Skills community to ensure that your views on all aspects Award Programme for students following taught of the study experience are listened to and acted upon programmes of study. The Programme provides a within the institution. series of lectures and workshops which enhance graduates’ awareness of current global issues and improves their career prospects. www.kent.ac.uk 15

Woolf College Academic, social and networking Located on the Canterbury campus, Woolf College is opportunities exclusively dedicated to postgraduate students and The Graduate School provides many opportunities provides purpose-built accommodation. Named after for postgraduate students to meet and socialise and the poet and writer Virginia Woolf, the College has supports student-led initiatives such as social events, a strong community feel and provides a support conferences and workshops. Students have the network during your studies. The Master of the opportunity to participate in the annual Postgraduate College works closely with the Dean of the Graduate Research Festival and can apply to the Postgraduate School and Graduate Student Association to ensure Experience Awards for funding to deliver projects or the provision of support and social activities for events which will enhance the postgraduate postgraduate students. experience at Kent. Students can join The GradPost editorial team and contribute articles to the graduate The Kent Graduate Student Association newsletter (www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/news/ The Kent Graduate Student Association (KGSA) gradpost.html). represents postgraduate students across all campuses and centres of the University. The Association focuses The Graduate School and Woolf College are located on student issues covering welfare and education (both centrally on the Canterbury campus, with offices for taught and research), and in 2012/13 was shortlisted staff members and a common room for dedicated by Kent Union for campaign of the year. The KGSA postgraduate use. also provides opportunities for postgraduate students to meet and socialise on a regular basis through events, Further information and holds its executive meeting every three weeks. The Graduate School, University of Kent, Elections for Kent Graduate Student Association Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK officers are held in the summer term. Serving as T: +44 (0)1227 824089 an elected officer is a rewarding opportunity that E: [email protected] allows you to represent the views of your fellow www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool postgraduates, meet new people and play an active role in improving the postgraduate experience at Kent. 16 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

CHOOSING YOUR PROGRAMME

Kent offers a wide choice of well-established postgraduate programmes, built upon our long- standing academic strengths. Drawing from these, we also develop new programmes that respond to contemporary issues and debates.

Whatever programme you choose to study, whether taught or research, at Kent you have the opportunity to work alongside leading academics, actively engaged in cutting-edge research.

Programme structure All programmes carry a national academic credit rating. They also carry a European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credit rating. If you have been studying elsewhere, for instance, you can apply to transfer the credit you have accumulated to a relevant Postgraduate diplomas programme at Kent. Postgraduate diplomas (PDips) are similar to a taught Master’s degree (see left), but you are only required Taught programmes to attend the taught modules. You do not complete a As a postgraduate taught student, you enrol on a dissertation or project. Some courses initially register structured programme of study made up of modules you for the PDip and then transfer your registration in specific areas. If you are taking a Master’s degree, to the Master’s degree once you have successfully you also complete a dissertation. completed the modules.

The majority of Kent’s taught Master’s degrees run Pre-Master’s graduate diplomas for a full calendar year beginning in mid-September, Pre-Master’s graduate diplomas (GDips) are or offer flexible start dates and these are detailed in ‘conversion’ programmes, designed to prepare you the individual programme listings (p32-p218): for, and provide access to, specific Master’s degrees at Kent. They allow you to develop your knowledge • MA/MSc/MRes/LLM – one calendar year of your subject, improve your academic skills and your full-time/two years part-time English language proficiency. The GDip programmes • MArch – two academic years full-time take one academic year (from September to June). • MBA – one calendar year full-time/on a modular Successful completion at a sufficient level guarantees basis entry on to specific postgraduate Master’s degrees at • GDip/PDip – one academic year full-time/two Kent. academic years part-time. Flexible and distance learning Master’s degrees Flexible and distance learning options differ from Taught Master’s programmes at Kent consist of standard programmes in their mode of delivery/ taught modules (with a national credit rating of 120 attendance. Students engage in distance learning credits), plus a dissertation or project of 10,000 to through online study and via Skype discussions with 15,000 words (60 credits), leading to a total of 180 staff and other students; attend the Canterbury or credits (90 ECTS credits) for a full degree. Medway campus in blocks of time, often over weekends; or in a combination of these methods known as blended Modules run over the first nine months of the learning. Programmes are available as short courses, programme, are taught mostly by seminar and/or Certificates, Diplomas or full postgraduate degrees lecture, and are assessed by written coursework, (MA, MSc). examinations and seminar presentations.

You need to pass all your modules before proceeding “All the academics I’ve engaged with to your project or dissertation. If, for whatever reason, have been exceptionally knowledgeable you do not complete the dissertation stage, you may be in their fields and beyond, and are eligible for the award of a postgraduate diploma (see below). Dissertations must be completed by the end clearly dedicated to providing an of your period of registration. Projects, particularly excellent education for the students.” in the sciences, may be assessed by dissertation and a presentation. Eugene Nulman MA Political Sociology www.kent.ac.uk 17

Research programmes Doctor of Medicine This degree provides experienced practitioners with Many of our research students are working towards the opportunity to obtain an MD (broadly equivalent a PhD (doctorate), but Kent also offers various other to a PhD) after a period of research. The programme types of research degrees at Master’s level. usually lasts between two and five years with the research taking place alongside normal clinical Standard attendance times are: employment in an appropriate medical position. • Master’s (MA, MSc, LLM) – one year full-time/two You can undertake research either at the University years part-time or in a recognised medical institution in the region. • MPhil – two years full-time/three years part-time • PhD (doctorate) – a minimum of three years to a New Route PhD maximum of four years full-time; a minimum of The University of Kent is one of a consortium of five years to a maximum of six years part-time around 30 universities in the UK that offer New • Doctor of Medicine (MD) – two years full-time/five Route PhDs. This national initiative aims to provide years part-time. professional and transferable skills for PhD students. The University is also investing in a number of New Route PhDs are equivalent qualifications to blended/online programmes for specific subject traditional PhDs, but integrate taught subject-specific areas. See the individual subject pages for further and skills modules with the research element. information (p32-p218). The programme takes four years full-time. The first MA, MSc, LLM two years consist of taught subject-specific modules, A thesis at this level must show the ability to modules in research and professional skills training, conduct an independent study and to understand and a research element. Years three and four focus its relationship to a wider field of knowledge. on the research project and thesis. MPhil You are assessed annually on your progress. You must Your MPhil thesis must show the ability to conduct satisfactorily pass all modules in order to proceed to an original investigation, to test ideas, to understand the next stage of the programme. the relationship of the theme to the wider field of knowledge and to organise material appropriately. External research degrees External research degrees are a means by which PhD students can undertake a research degree at another A PhD thesis should cover all the requirements of location or organisation while being supported by an MPhil thesis, plus make an original contribution academic experts from the University. This is subject to knowledge or understanding in the field you are to individual circumstances and the agreement of the investigating, and should be of a publishable standard. academic school. As your PhD progresses, you will move through Through this arrangement, where it is not possible a series of progression points and review stages to or appropriate for you to be in attendance at the ensure that you are engaged in a process of research University, we can provide you with supervision under that will lead to the production of a high-quality thesis the guidance of a supervisory team from the University and that you are on track to complete this in the time of Kent. We conduct an assessment to ensure you have available. access to the appropriate facilities, resources and support available prior to your registration. Enquiries Following submission of your PhD thesis, you will about the possibility of becoming an external research have a viva voce (oral) examination assessed by degree student should be directed to the relevant experts in your field. academic school in the first instance. Jointly supervised PhDs Jointly supervised PhDs (or co-tutelle awards) offer research students the chance to be supervised by “As you progress in your research, you a member of staff at the University of Kent and a reach a level where you feel confident member of staff at a university in another country, resulting in a dual award: a PhD from Kent and a having discussions with the academics doctorate from the partner university. To enquire and become really involved in the about co-tutelles please email [email protected] intellectual debates.”

For information on the Erasmus Mundus Joint Steve Roberts Doctoral programmes at Kent, see p23. PhD Social Policy 18 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

Kent’s excellent performance in the most We work with regional and local agents to synchronise recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE our research agenda with the interests of the region 2008) confirmed our position as one of the while maintaining our national and international UK’s leading universities. All of our academic activities. schools were found to be engaged in research of international standing. Research achievements Kent has an excellent record of research success. With programmes of study that are informed by Recent research achievements, which have impacted research, our students are able to develop skills on the economy, government policy and the daily lives and knowledge relevant to contemporary issues. of those affected, include: Our research activities and collaborations with • the development of new chemical conservation outside organisations create knowledge that is techniques to enable safe preservation of the Mary highly influential in many areas. Rose warship in one of the most significant salvage projects to take place in recent times Internationally renowned staff • revelations from a major Kent-led project prompting Kent has some of the best academic staff in the Police Scotland to investigate the use of the country’s country. All of our staff work in schools or centres airports for rendition flights to move prisoners where the research is internationally or nationally internationally recognised. These include research leaders who are • nationwide adoption of polygraph testing for sex renowned for their innovative thinking in areas such offenders after the discovery that they lead to as history, metallurgy and materials, law, French, increased disclosures by offenders social policy, statistics and operational research, • investigation of a new technique for children and English. with autism to communicate, socialise and play imaginatively using performance and puppetry Research Assessment Exercise • the discovery of a new way in which nature makes heme – the component that gives blood its colour The results of the Government’s most recent RAE and allows red blood cells to carry oxygen around saw Kent placed firmly among the UK’s most research- the body intensive universities. • investigation into the crucial role backpacker These results reflect sustained investments made tourism can play within countries in the developing by Kent over the last decade in staff, buildings, world. laboratories and equipment. At the same time, the University has maintained its commitment to Strong research publishing record ensuring that its students benefit from teaching by top researchers. We have a strong track record of research publishing at Kent, with over 650 academic staff who regularly Kent’s excellent RAE results are an indicator of the publish the outcomes of their research. We maintain excellence in world-leading research activity across the Kent Academic Repository, an online database of the University. This high level of excellence is the publications of our staff. This is a useful resource underpinned by our ability to attract externally for both staff and students who are able to see what funded research, which now consistently exceeds research is being conducted and enables cross- £12 million per annum. disciplinary work.

Many of our academic staff are engaged in You can access details of these publications by collaborative research projects with universities visiting the online Kent Academic Repository worldwide, and a high percentage of Kent’s research at www.kent.ac.uk/research/publications is funded by the European Union. Research funding support This is all further confirmation of the University’s Research Services at Kent supports the University’s academic, economic and cultural stature, and the research community, by promoting funding direct, positive implications that our research opportunities, assisting with the development activities have on the region. Good research delivers of an application, negotiating research contracts a highly skilled workforce, improves business and administering awards. performance, creates opportunities for new business activities and enterprise, and improves public services. www.kent.ac.uk 19

Doctoral training totalling over £100,000, to enhance research training Kent is part of the South-East Doctoral Training for doctoral students in the next two years across the Centre (DTC), funded by the Economic and Social consortium, in the areas of digital humanities and Research Council (ESRC), in partnership with the work placements. Universities of Reading, Royal Holloway and Surrey. These partner institutions make major contributions Kent has put forward a collaborative bid with the to social science research regionally, nationally and University of East Anglia for funding via the National internationally, and this collaboration places our Environment Research Council (NERC) Doctoral social scientists at the centre of inter-institutional Training Partnership competition for research research and training activities. The DTC funds studentships. doctoral research in economics, the environment and energy, business and management, political Further information science and international studies, psychology, www.kent.ac.uk/research social anthropology, criminology, social policy, www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding social work, sociology and law.

Kent has also entered into a consortium to bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for up to 60 fully funded studentships per year from 2014 under the AHRC’s Block Grant Partnership Scheme. “Kent provides an excellent research The Consortium for Humanities and Arts South East (CHASE) comprises: The Courtauld Institute of environment. It’s very uplifting to be Art; Goldsmiths, University of London; The Open part of a highly rated school and to be University; and the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, conducting research in an environment Kent and Sussex. The Consortium has already been successful in securing two awards from the AHRC that has such a good reputation for the quality of its research.”

William Butler PhD Irish Military History 20 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY

Kent has an excellent postgraduate employment In addition to enhancing your subject knowledge and record: over 90% of our postgraduate students expertise, postgraduate study at Kent enables you to: who graduated in 2012 found a job or further • engage with complex issues and questions study opportunity within six months. • think critically and independently about your field of study We want you to be in a good position to face the • plan a structured and effective programme of demands of a tough economic environment. During research your studies at Kent, you acquire a high level of • develop learning, research and organisational skills academic knowledge and develop transferable skills • develop associated skills – creativity, collaborative that can be applied to all aspects of employment. teamworking, problem-solving, communication, We also provide a comprehensive package of skills goal-setting development training programmes, careers advice, • communicate your knowledge and insights to and volunteering and paid work opportunities to peers, academic supervisors and people with help enhance your career prospects. lay knowledge.

Benefits of a postgraduate education Assessing your strengths Students choose to study at postgraduate level Having successfully completed your studies at for many reasons: to enhance their employment undergraduate level, you may still be unsure how to prospects, to achieve a professional qualification, pursue your future career. A postgraduate qualification to facilitate a career change or to simply further provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your their interest in a particular subject area. strengths at a higher level. This allows you to assess your personal development with a view to selecting Career development the best career path for your talents. In an ever-competitive job market, a postgraduate qualification can enhance your career and earning Careers and Employability Service prospects, and sets you apart from students who only Your postgraduate studies at Kent open up a wide hold an undergraduate degree. A postgraduate degree range of options to you upon graduation. The Careers often leads to employers entrusting you with greater and Employability Service has produced a booklet, responsibilities at an early stage as they recognise the Career Planning Guide for Postgraduate Students wider portfolio of skills that you have to offer. In turn, and Researchers, which covers career options for this is likely to lead to greater financial recognition postgraduates, the transferable skills gained through and accelerated career progression. your studies, finding job opportunities and making successful applications. Skills development The Service has an extensive website, which helps Employers are looking for highly advanced skills in you to analyse your employability skills, make career postgraduate students that will enable them to operate choices and develop your application and interview effectively at a senior level and go on to successful skills. It includes a section dedicated to postgraduate careers in business, industry and academia. students and an online database of graduate vacancies. At Kent, we help you to gain transferable skills Personal careers guidance is available at any stage of through your academic studies and also through your studies for advice and information on your options participation in the University’s range of skills after you graduate. development programmes.

The Graduate School co-ordinates the Researcher Employability Points Scheme Development Programme for postgraduate research On the Employability Points Scheme, students students, covering a broad selection of topics, including are awarded points for engaging in extracurricular research management, teamworking, problem-solving, activities, depending on their level of engagement and communication and leadership skills. commitment. The points lead to prizes ranging from vouchers and corporate activities to work experience, Taught postgraduate students can choose to apply placements, training, and internships. All rewards for a place on the Global Skills Award Programme. are carefully selected for their ability to encourage Delivered by the Graduate School, the programme is students to reflect on their experience and continue specifically designed to consolidate your awareness of their personal development. So not only are students current global issues and improve your employment enhancing their skills through the activities, but the prospects. rewards themselves are increasing their long term employability opportunities. www.kent.ac.uk 21

Volunteering Graduate destinations Kent Union, in conjunction with the University, also Our postgraduates have gone on to work for major runs a student volunteering scheme which gives you world-leading companies and organisations, such a chance to try something new, explore either outside as Renault, Accenture, the Government Statistical or professional interests, or simply give service to the Service, Cancer Research UK, Guardian News & local community and University. You can volunteer to Media, the European Commission, Deutsche Bank do practically anything, from off-campus placements and Lucasfilm. in the charity sector to University placements such as being a student ambassador, mentor or course Pathway to an academic career representative, contributing to The GradPost, the While many research degree graduates choose to postgraduate newsletter, or with on-campus clubs pursue careers outside higher education, a PhD is a or societies. clear pathway to a career in academia for those with a passion for research in their specialist subject areas. All volunteers are supported by Kent Union A research degree provides you with the skills and volunteering staff and there is an accredited training essential for a successful career as an certificate scheme available (KSCV). For more academic. information, visit www.kentunion.co.uk/volunteering

Paid work at university Student enterprise Building on our students’ growing enterprise culture Paid work through temporary or part-time jobs helps and activities, we can help you develop enterprise to cover your living costs and gives you the opportunity skills and business ideas. On Kent’s Canterbury to gain practical experience and work-related skills campus, The Bulb is the student innovation space in while you are studying. The University employs the Canterbury Innovation Centre, running talks and around 3,000 students in a range of posts, from workshops with visiting speakers from the world of mentoring, teaching and research to clerical and industry. administrative jobs in both academic schools and through our professional service offices. Further information Careers and employability Jobshop www.kent.ac.uk/ces The students’ unions at Kent (Kent Union at www.kent.ac.uk/employability Canterbury, and Greenwich and Kent Students’ www.kent.ac.uk/employabilitypoints Union Together at Medway) run Jobshop, a job agency which advertises vacancies throughout Jobshop and volunteering the local region in areas such as translation, www.kentunion.co.uk mentoring, website development, retail and charity www.gkunions.co.uk fundraising. You can register for the service online as soon as you become a student at Kent.

International graduate work in the UK RETURNING TO STUDY If you are an international student from outside the FROM A CAREER EU on a Tier 4 student visa, you are allowed to work part-time in the UK for up to a maximum of 20 hours Professional qualification per week. In some careers, a relevant postgraduate qualification is a prerequisite. If you are When you are coming to the end of your studies, you interested in changing to a new career, might be considering the possibility of staying on in postgraduate study can also equip you with the UK to work. The UK Border Agency operates a the knowledge and skills you need to move Tier 2 visa system. These visas enable you to take into a different profession. up graduate-level jobs requiring specific skills that pay a minimum salary. For up-to-date information, A postgraduate course often provides the please email: [email protected] or visit chance to further a particular interest you www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/working_after.php were exposed to at undergraduate level or in your workplace. This can open up opportunities for promotion within your present company, if you are already employed, or prepare you for a new career. 22 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

“Kent has a multicultural environment and I’m really enjoying that aspect of my studies, seeing how people from different backgrounds can work together.”

Sadiye Sadanoglu MSc Management Science www.kent.ac.uk 23

KENT: THE UK’S EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

The University prides itself on the leading All of our campuses and centres are open to all of our role it plays in the creation and dissemination students and can be used by all postgraduate students of knowledge. Since our establishment in to host conferences and academic activities. Canterbury, we have extended our centres for learning throughout the county and Europe to European students include Medway, Brussels, Paris, Athens and We attract a high percentage of our students from Rome. Our partnerships within Europe provide outside the UK and many of these come from other the foundation for our international approach European countries. Students from Europe make up to research and teaching. roughly 17% of the postgraduate student population and come from 37 different European countries. Known as the ‘UK’s European university’, Kent has centres in five major European cities, and has over 100 European partners, including the highest ranking European programmes institutions of several countries. Our collaborations Kent has a wide and growing range of programmes can boast links with the École Normale Supérieure, with a particular European focus in areas such as Paris, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Ruprecht-Karls- European culture and languages, drama, politics, Universität, Heidelberg, Universiteit Gent, Uppsala law, economics, business and migration. Some of University, and the Universities of Amsterdam, our postgraduate programmes offer dual UK and Bologna, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Vienna. Our European qualifications (International Double strong connections within Europe enhance our Degrees and jointly supervised PhD/co-tutelle international approach to all our academic activities. awards).

With 145 nationalities represented in our student Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral body and 34% of our research and teaching staff from programmes outside the UK, we celebrate intellectual and cultural diversity with a commitment to educate our students Kent also coordinates two highly prestigious Erasmus to be the global citizens of tomorrow. Mundus Joint Doctoral programmes: the Doctorate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (TEEME) and Canterbury, the location of our main campus, is the the Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology closest UK city to the European continent. Proximity (DCGC). Each programme combines the expertise to airports, the Channel ports and particularly the and strengths of four European universities with Eurostar terminals at Ashford and Ebbsfleet means established reputations in the respective fields. quick and easy access to Paris, Brussels and Lille, and from there onwards to all major European cities. European research and projects Many of our academics are involved in research Centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and projects in collaboration with other European Rome universities, and a high percentage of Kent’s research These specialist Centres, and the programmes we is funded by the European Union. Kent leads or is offer, exploit the specific historical, social, political and involved in a large number of projects funded through artistic resources available in these exceptional sites. the EU Interreg initiative within the European Kent offers programmes in international studies in Regional Development Fund, as well as research and Brussels, the political heart of Europe; programmes development projects within the EU’s Framework in the humanities in Paris, the cultural hub of the Programme. Western world; heritage management in Athens, the cradle of Western civilisation; and the study of European exchanges and credit systems the ancient world in Rome, the centre of classical Kent has been a key player in the Erasmus student antiquity. Teaching in these locations allows students exchange programme and was one of the first and staff alike to expand their knowledge, and both universities to receive the E-quality label for its social and professional networks, through direct exchange programme. Kent uses the European contact and exposure to source materials and expert Credit Transfer System (ECTS) throughout all its knowledge; from internships in EU NGOs to easy degrees and was the first UK university to introduce access to the world-class museums in Paris, to hands- the European Diploma Supplement. on experience in archaeological sites in Athens and Rome. 24 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

SUPERB LOCATIONS

The University of Kent has six exceptional postgraduate study locations. Our UK campuses, Canterbury and Medway, are in the south-east of England, close to London, and we have specialist centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome.

CANTERBURY

Set in 300 acres of parkland and overlooking the World Heritage Site of Canterbury Cathedral, our Canterbury campus is a friendly and vibrant environment with an excellent location that is less than an hour’s train journey from London. It is also close to continental Europe. Within walking distance of the city, the campus offers green and tranquil open spaces, first-class resources, lively cafés and bars, and a cosmopolitan atmosphere (see p224).

MEDWAY

On the outskirts of London, our multimillion- pound Medway campus has high-tech facilities and innovative buildings, with part of the campus based at the Chatham Historic Dockyard. First-class sports and social amenities and a cosmopolitan atmosphere all combine to create a great sense of community, with central London less than 20 minutes away by high- speed train (see p226). www.kent.ac.uk 25

ATHENS

Kent offers its MA in Heritage Management in Athens. The programme is taught in the area of Eleusina, one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The Master’s degree is a collaboration between the University of Kent and Athens University of Economics and Business (see p228).

BRUSSELS

Kent is the only UK university to have a centre in the political capital of Europe. The Brussels School of International Studies offers a close-knit student community with excellent opportunities for networking, internships and professional advancement (see p229).

PARIS

Our location in Paris allows students on a range of Master’s programmes in the humanities to capitalise on the history and heritage of the cultural centre of Europe. It provides modern study and support facilities within 18th-century buildings in a historic corner of Montparnasse, with easy access to all the cultural resources on offer (see p230).

ROME

Canterbury and Rome have been linked since the Middle Ages by the pilgrimage route Via Francigena. We offer two programmes with an opportunity to spend a term studying in Rome, the centre of classical antiquity. Students have access to key sites, museums and artefacts within this historical city (see p231). 26 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

YOUR STUDY EXPERIENCE Kent’s three faculties offer a selection of exciting programmes. The study experience at Kent is enhanced by top-quality resources and a superb range of facilities and funding opportunities. www.kent.ac.uk 27

ACADEMIC FACULTIES An overview of activities within the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences.

See p28-30

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES Information on Kent’s wide range of postgraduate study programmes, and details of the teaching and research activities within our academic schools and centres.

See p31-218

POSTGRADUATE STUDY AT KENT Information on fees and funding, our locations, how to apply and specific information for international students.

See p219-232

VISITING THE UNIVERSITY Open Days, postgraduate events and making an informal visit.

See p240 28 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Kent’s Faculty of Humanities gave a very Postgraduate culture strong performance in the latest Research Students in the Faculty belong to a thriving Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), which intellectual environment. There are numerous confirmed the excellence of the research research-dedicated activities every year, organised conducted in our schools and centres. by staff and students. These include lectures and seminars by high-profile visiting speakers from the The crowning achievement was History’s ranking UK and abroad. In addition, each school organises of 2nd nationally, closely followed by French, ranked research seminars where members of staff and 7th, while our traditionally strong School of Arts and postgraduates are able to present their work. School of English also reinforced their positions. The School of Arts was the largest in its subject areas and Postgraduates can work together to put on ranked 2nd for ‘research power’, an indication of the international conferences with financial support from quality and scale of the submission. the schools and the Faculty. These activities often lead to academic publications. The schools in the Faculty The Faculty has achieved major successes in also host several journals that have been set up attracting funding for doctoral students. Through our by students themselves, including Skepsi, a peer- participation in the Consortium for Humanities and reviewed interdisciplinary online journal based in Arts South East (CHASE), we have secured over the School of European Culture and Languages, £100,000 from the Arts and Humanities’ Research and Inscription, based in the School of English. Council (AHRC) in order to enhance research training for doctoral students for the next two years. Within the Faculty, the Centre for Medieval and Early Financial support Modern Studies has attracted funding for a The Faculty provides a variety of financial support prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral opportunities for postgraduate students, including programme in Text and Event in Early Modern the AHRC Master’s and Doctoral Awards, University Europe (TEEME). scholarships, internationalisation support and funding for a language course for all taught and PhD students. Our six schools have their own subject-specific See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding for more details. research centres and the Faculty also has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary research, all operating Schools provide further support for research students under the auspices of the Kent Institute for Advanced during their studies. All schools offer a minimum of Study in the Humanities. The Institute funds £500 for PhD students over three years. In addition, staff and postgraduate students’ research, hosts the Faculty operates a research fund for items such interdisciplinary conferences and visiting scholars, as language learning, specialised training, the coordinates lectures and other events, and establishes presentation of papers at overseas conferences, national and international links for all Kent or visits to overseas archives. postgraduates through its network with other institutes worldwide.

Schools

School of Architecture School of European Culture and Languages School of Arts School of History School of English School of Music and Fine Art

Research centres

Aesthetics Research Group Centre for Modern European Literature Centre for American Studies Centre for Modern Poetry Centre for Architecture and Sustainable Environment Centre for Reasoning Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Centre for Research in European Architecture Centre for Creative Writing Centre for the History of Archaeology Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing Centre for the History of the Sciences Centre for Heritage Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War and Society Centre for Late Antique Archaeology European Theatre Research Network Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Kent Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities www.kent.ac.uk 29

FACULTY OF SCIENCES

The Faculty of Sciences has an impressive record of research, teaching and innovation coupled with a substantial level of research funding. Our pioneering work in science and technology has led to a network of interdisciplinary and collaborative areas spreading across the classic disciplines.

The most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) results confirmed our exceptional strength across the sciences, most notably in materials science and in statistics, with both areas ranked in the top ten of their disciplines nationwide. In the last 12 months, we have supplemented our expertise with the appointment of new academics in every school. Their research strengths are in areas as diverse as magnetic nanoparticles, human-computer interaction, non-linear functional analysis and virus vaccine development. We have also invested heavily in new research equipment Much of the research at Kent involves national and across the Faculty. Our high-quality research often international collaborations. Nationally, for example, involves the integration of interdisciplinary teams: an Kent has recently joined a major initiative on cyber example is the Centre for Molecular Processing, which security. We also continue to expand our collaborative brings together biologists, engineers, mathematicians, agreements with a number of global institutions. We chemists and information technologists to tackle the have strong links with institutions in Europe, North emerging science of synthetic biology. America, India, China, south-east Asia and Japan. The strong relationship between the Faculty of All schools maintain an impressive programme Sciences and Kent Innovation and Enterprise is of research funded by the Research Councils, EU important to our success in translating research into funding schemes, charitable organisations and practical applications, and complements the Faculty’s industry. A recent achievement was a grant of links to industrial partners. An example of the impact €2 million from the European Research Council, of our work is our contribution to the preservation of awarded to the School of Physical Sciences. the Mary Rose warship in Portsmouth.

Postgraduate culture Financial support Postgraduate students within the Faculty are involved The Faculty provides a range of financial support in a diverse range of activities. As well as formal opportunities for postgraduate students and some training arranged by the University Graduate School, schools also offer their research students paid there is school-level specialised training and regular work providing teaching support. See seminars exploring novel ideas. The informal Café www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding for more details. Scientifique meetings are now embedded in our annual calendar of events.

Schools

Medway School of Pharmacy School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science School of Biosciences School of Physical Sciences School of Computing School of Sport and Exercise Sciences School of Engineering and Digital Arts

Research centres

Centre for Actuarial Science, Risk and Investment Centre for Molecular Processing Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences Computational Biology Centre Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems Kent Physics Centre Centre for Cyber Security National Centre for Statistical Ecology 30 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

The research excellence of the Faculty of Social networking opportunities including access to Sciences was recognised in the most recent advanced training offered by consortium partners. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008). Our programmes and research activities address The RAE results rated Social Policy, Sociology a wide spectrum of intellectual challenges in the (including Criminology) and Social Research as contemporary world. These range from wildlife 4th in the UK, and Law was placed 6th. Economics, conservation to engaging with issues of crime Business, Politics and International Relations, and and criminal justice, terrorism and ethnonational Psychology also achieved considerable success. The conflicts. Kent’s diverse international community Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and exchange links with prestigious institutions performed very well in its first submission to the around the world make the University a stimulating category of Earth Systems and Environmental place for postgraduate study in the social sciences. Sciences. These successes have led to a substantial increase in research funding. Postgraduates are vital to the intellectual life of the Faculty, and play a central role in regular seminars The Faculty’s schools and centres provide a diverse which showcase the work of major scholars. The range of interdisciplinary centres of research culture of excellence contributes to a dynamic excellence. environment in which research students are strongly encouraged to present their work at conferences and Postgraduate culture publish in international journals. The University of Kent is part of the South East ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in partnership Financial support with the Universities of Reading, Royal Holloway The Faculty provides a range of financial support and Surrey. These partner institutions make major opportunities for postgraduate students, including contributions to social science research regionally, awards funded by the Research Councils as well as nationally and internationally, and this collaboration specific school allowances to help cover conference places our social scientists at the centre of inter- attendance, book purchases, or other research-related institutional research and training activities. This expenses and a Faculty ‘top-up fund’ for field work or partnership enhances the doctoral experience of our conferences. Most schools offer their research students social science postgraduate researchers by providing paid teaching opportunities for which the University 25-30 fully funded scholarships across the consortium provides free training. See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding each year, as well as training, development and for more details.

Schools/academic centres

Centre for Journalism School of Economics Centre for Professional Practice School of Politics and International Relations Kent Business School School of Psychology Kent Law School School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research School of Anthropology and Conservation

Research centres

Anglo-Chinese Business and Management Centre Centre for the Study of Group Processes Centre for Agri-Environmental Economics Centre for the Study of Higher Education Centre for Biocultural Diversity Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Humanitarianism Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems and Social Justice Centre for Critical International Law Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements Centre for Employment, Competitiveness and Growth Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas Centre for European and Comparative Law Centre for Value Chain Research Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics Conflict Analysis Research Centre Centre for Federal Studies Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology Centre for Health Services Studies European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation Global Europe Centre Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychology Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality Centre for Research on Social Climate Kent Crime and Justice Centre Centre for Parenting Culture Studies Kent Osteological Research and Analysis Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing Personal Social Services Research Unit Centre for Social Science and Risk Tizard Centre Centre for the Evaluation of Research Performance Urban and Regional Studies Unit www.kent.ac.uk 31

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Canterbury ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

Qualifying as an actuary is a passport to a wide variety of careers in insurance companies, investments, pensions, health care and banking – not just in the UK, but throughout the world. Kent is one of a very few universities in the UK to teach the subject.

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Science, MSc in Applied Actuarial Science and International Master’s are all fully accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; they also provide a fast-track route to qualifying as an actuary, because students who achieve a high enough overall mark in these programmes can obtain exemptions from the professional examinations included within their studies.

The PhD in Actuarial Science offers the opportunity to begin or consolidate your research career under the guidance of internationally renowned researchers and professionals in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS). The School has a strong reputation for world-class research and a well-established system of support and training, with a high level of contact between staff and research students. The Centre for Actuarial Science, Risk and Investment (CASRI) was recently set up within SMSAS to reflect the widening scope of the teaching and research of the staff. Areas of research interest include economic capital and risk management for financial services firms, mortality and longevity modelling, longevity indices and markets. Other research topics include genetics and insurance, insurance economics, pensions and corporate reporting.

“The quality of teaching has Programmes The International Master’s offers exemptions from eight subjects within the Core Technical stage in been of a very high standard. Taught the first year and exemptions from the Core There are some hard concepts • Actuarial Science PDip Applications and Specialist Technical stages • Applied Actuarial Science MSc in the second year of the programme. of actuarial science which now • International Master’s in Applied Actuarial Science seem to be as simple as basic Links with industry arithmetic due to the standard Research The Centre for Actuarial Science, Risk and of the lectures.” • Actuarial Science PhD Investment maintains close relationships with industry actuaries through the Invicta Actuarial Society, a regional actuarial society which holds Indrajit Kundu Postgraduate resources PDip Actuarial Science its meetings at the Canterbury campus and is The University’s Templeman Library houses a organised by University of Kent students and comprehensive collection of books and research academic staff. The Society hosts an annual lecture periodicals. The University of Kent has entered into in conjunction with the Worshipful Company of an exclusive arrangement with SunGard, a global Actuaries, featuring prestigious speakers from leader in integrated software and processing industry and the profession. The Society also solutions primarily for financial services, who arranges talks from external speakers including market the industry’s leading actuarial software practitioners, careers advisers and recruiters from package PROPHET. As a result, our taught the UK and overseas. postgraduate courses include optional modules on the uses and applications of PROPHET. Dynamic publishing culture Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Professional qualifications conference proceedings and books. Among The Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Science others, they have recently contributed to: British offers exemption from eight subjects within the Actuarial Journal; Actuary Australia; Annals of Core Technical Stage of the professional Actuarial Science; Journal of Pension Economics examinations of the Institute and Faculty of and Finance. Details of recently published books Actuaries. The MSc in Applied Actuarial Science can be found within the staff research interests on offers exemption from subjects in the Core p34. Applications Stage and the Specialist Technical Stage of the professional examinations. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/casri 33

Taught programmes International Master’s in Applied Actuarial Science Actuarial Science PDip The International Master’s course is equivalent to Location: Canterbury. a Graduate Diploma (which covers the subjects Attendance: Nine months full-time. taught within the Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Entry requirements: A good first degree (usually Science), followed by the MSc in Applied Actuarial in mathematics, statistics or economics, although Science. It is aimed at international students with other subjects with a high mathematical content a good first degree (first or upper second class are acceptable). degree) in mathematics, statistics or economics (although other subjects with a high mathematical The PDip covers the syllabus of the Core Technical content are acceptable), who would like to gain Stage of the professional examinations and offers exemptions from subjects in the Core Technical, exemptions from eight subjects (subjects CT1 to Core Applications and Specialist Technical Stages CT8 inclusive). Although you only need to take 120 of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ credits (equivalent to a minimum of four subjects examinations. leading to the professional examinations) for the Diploma, you can take further subjects for exemption purposes. If you take fewer than Research programmes 120 credits, you may be eligible for a Postgraduate Actuarial Science PhD Certificate in Actuarial Science. Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A first or good second class Course content • Financial Mathematics (CT1) honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). • Finance and Financial Reporting (CT2) • Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CT3) The PhD in Actuarial Science offers the opportunity • Models (CT4) to begin or consolidate your research career under • Contingencies (CT5) the guidance of internationally renowned • Statistical Methods (CT6) researchers and professionals at SMSAS. • Business Economics (CT7) The School has a strong reputation for world-class STAFF PROFILE • Financial Economics (CT8) research and a well-established system of support and training, with a high level of contact between staff and research students. Paul Sweeting Assessment Professor of Actuarial Science Assessment is usually by a mixture of coursework and examination; exact weightings vary from Areas of interest include economic capital and risk Professor Paul Sweeting has 17 years module to module. management for financial services firms, and all areas of mortality and longevity research. Other of experience in the financial services industry, initially in pensions and Applied Actuarial Science MSc research topics in the School include genetics and insurance, insurance economics, pensions investment consultancy, then working Location: Canterbury. and corporate reporting. in asset management as Director of Entry requirements: A good first degree in Research for the Fidelity Retirement Actuarial Science, or a degree that covers all or Research groups Institute, and finally as Longevity Strategist most of the Core Technical Stage subjects of the for Munich Reinsurance with responsibility Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ examinations. Genetics and insurance risks for developing the firm’s longevity We may also accept applicants who have a good Advances in human genetics, and medical reinsurance strategy. first degree in another subject and who have sciences in general, have led to many gene passed most of the Core Technical Stage subjects. discoveries; a number of single-gene disorders Professor Sweeting has published articles have been successfully identified and studied in in the professional press and commented The MSc offers exemptions from the following detail. Researchers are now increasingly focusing in the national news, as well as in more subjects in the Core Applications Stage and on common multifactorial genetic disorders such traditional academic and professional Specialist Technical Stage. You must take 180 as cancer, heart attack and stroke, caused by publications. credits to pass the MSc. If you take fewer than interaction of genes and environmental factors. It is 180 credits, you may be eligible for the important for the insurance industry to understand Both he and Dr Pradip Tapadar were Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Actuarial the full implications of these latest developments. invited to deliver papers to the prestigious Science. First, can an insurer justify charging different 2010 International Congress of Actuaries premium rates to different risk groups? Second, in South Africa. Professor Sweeting also Course content if insurers are not allowed to discriminate between chairs the UK Actuarial Profession’s Global • Actuarial Risk Management (CA1) individuals based on their genes, by regulation Financial Crisis Group and is a council • Communications (CA3) or by law, is there a risk of adverse selection? member of the Institute and Faculty of • Life Insurance (ST2) Actuaries. • Pensions and Other Benefits (ST4) From a public policy perspective, regulators • Finance and Investment A (ST5) and governments face the dilemma of whether to • Finance and Investment B (ST6) regulate against genetic underwriting or to allow • General Insurance – Reserving and Capital market economies to take their own course. On one Modelling (ST7) hand, there is a moral obligation not to discriminate • General Insurance – Pricing (ST8) against individuals for their genetic make-up. On • Enterprise Risk Management (ST9) the other hand, risk of adverse selection against insurance firms cannot be ruled out altogether. You can also choose an optional Modelling Maintaining an appropriate balance between the module, which prepares you for subject CA2 two is key. (Model Documentation, Analysis and Reporting) in the Core Applications Stage.

Assessment As for Actuarial Science PDip.

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Economic capital and financial risk Dr Pradip Tapadar: Lecturer in Actuarial Science management Economic capital and financial risk management; Location Financial services firms are in the business of genetics and insurance. Canterbury. accepting risks on behalf of their customers. English language requirements Guy Thomas: Honorary Lecturer in Actuarial Customers do not always have the time or See p223. expertise to handle financial risks on their own, Science so they pass these on to financial services firms. Risk classification and loss coverage; price Fees and funding However, even the most reputable firms can optimisation in general insurance; taxable See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding portfolio management. sometimes get it wrong, so it is fundamentally National ratings www.guythomas.org.uk important for all stakeholders that financial Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: services firms hold an appropriate amount of 65% of our statistics and operational research Huamao Wang: Lecturer in Finance capital calculated on a robust scientific basis, to and 45% of our applied mathematics research Portfolio choice under forecasted stock dynamics back the risks they are running. Economic capital was rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally and transaction costs; momentum, mean reversion can provide answers by specifying a unifying excellent’. approach to calculating risk-based capital for and reaction to the fundamentals of price returns. any firm in the financial services sector. Applications Taught programmes Staff research interests Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply Full details of staff research interests can be found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/casri/our-people Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further Jaideep Oberoi: Lecturer in Finance details. Risk management and asset pricing. Further information T: +44 (0)1227 827181 Professor Paul Sweeting: Professor of Actuarial F: +44 (0)1227 827932 Science E: [email protected] Enterprise risk management; longevity; pensions. Recent publications include: Handbook of Mortality and Longevity: Factors, Models and Markets (2009); Financial Enterprise Risk Management (2011). 35

Canterbury AMERICAN STUDIES

American Studies at Kent dates back to 1973 and, over the last few decades, has developed a strong research culture; this matches the commitment of the University to interdisciplinary study as well as the mandate of American Studies to explore the American experience in ground-breaking ways. Our team of scholars maintains close links with a number of North and South American research institutions and archives, and the University’s Templeman Library houses impressive collections on slavery, Native American culture, and photography/visual materials.

We treat the American experience in a critical and reflective manner, and offer an extremely good base for postgraduate study. While able to supervise a wide range of American topics, the Centre currently operates three specialist research clusters of particular interest to candidates: • The American West • The Study of US Environmental Issues • The Study of Race, Ethnicity and Borders.

“The interdisciplinary nature Programmes Dynamic publishing culture of American Studies is exciting Taught Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • American Studies MA conference proceedings and books. Among because research can span others, they have recently contributed to: Journal of history, philosophy and culture Research American Studies; American Review of Canadian Studies; European Journal of American Culture; • American Studies MA, MPhil, PhD with a freedom that more American Indian Quarterly. Details of recently traditionally focused disciplines published books can be found within the staff do not offer.” Postgraduate resources research interests on p37. American Studies benefits from excellent library Ross Blair resources, and is especially strong in literature, Taught programme film and history. Specialist collections include MA by Research in American Studies American Studies MA slavery and anti-slavery, a large collection of works on photography and contemporary visual Location: Canterbury. communications, and a slide library with well over Entry requirements: A first or upper-second 100,000 classified slides. The Library also houses class honours degree in an appropriate subject the British Cartoon Archive. Kent is within easy or equivalent. reach of London’s major library resources. This interdisciplinary Master’s programme provides Postgraduate students have access to the an opportunity for you to deconstruct the American resources provided by the Centre for American experience at an advanced level. It interrogates, Studies and its related departments. The Centre challenges and moves beyond the Exceptionalist runs regular research events each year. Other rhetoric and nation-states ideology of traditional schools and departments such as English, Film American Studies to consider the USA, and its Studies, Politics and International Relations, and neighbours, in an insightful, challenging and History also host research seminars that students relevant way. are welcome to attend. You develop specialist knowledge and research skills in a range of disciplines by navigating complex historical, cultural, geo-political and environmental issues. A sophisticated awareness 36 American Studies cont

of the reach (and the limitations) of US hegemony, Research areas as well as issues of cultural collision, media Staff interests broadly fit within the parameters penetration, region and identity, give our graduates of American literature, American history, American an intellectual grounding well-suited to many film and American politics, although we actively careers, in addition to a solid foundation for welcome interdisciplinary projects that investigate graduate work at MPhil or PhD level. several areas of study. Current strengths in American Studies at Kent are: Native American Course content literature and culture; African-American history; • Transnational American Studies: Methods and slavery and the Atlantic world; the American Approaches West; US environmental issues; US visual culture; • Optional modules include: American Foreign Disney and recreation; American realist fiction; Policy; American Modernism; Boundary Busting modern American poetry; US immigration politics; and Border Crossing; From Wounded Knee to American science fiction; Hollywood; US foreign “American Studies offers a the Little Bighorn Casino; Geiger Counter at policy. Ground Zero; The Limits of Fiction; The Vietnam great opportunity to get involved War in American History. in interdisciplinary study, • Dissertation The American West strengthen old skills and Kent is the only UK institution to operate a research Assessment cluster on the American West, with five members of learn new ones, and the Assessment is by coursework, oral presentation the Centre specialising in trans-Mississippi studies. and the dissertation. The research cluster engages in pioneering work Centre at Kent has a group on Native American literature, Western films and of enthusiastic, friendly people video games, female frontiering and several other Research programme who immediately make you elements of the Western experience. American Studies MA, MPhil, PhD feel welcome.” Location: Canterbury. The Study of US Environmental Issues Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class US environmental history is a relatively new field Emma Long honours degree in an appropriate subject (for of study, but of increasing importance. Our two Awarded a PhD in American History example, American Studies, History or English environmental specialists work on wildlife degrees with US study component). management, animal studies, nuclear protest and concepts of ecological doomsday. Members of the Centre for American Studies provide supervision in many aspects of American The Study of Race, Ethnicity and Borders Studies. Supervision is team-based and reflects The Centre has a long history of studying race and the active research interests of the Centre. ethnicity. Currently, six members of the team cover a range of topics that include African-American political, cultural and social history, Native American literature, Latin American relations and immigration writing and politics. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/amst 37

Staff research interests Dr Will Pettigrew: Reader in American History Latin American Studies Slavery and the Atlantic world; 18th and Literature Full details of staff research interests can be found 19th-century history. on our website: Full details of staff research interests can be found www.kent.ac.uk/secl/hispanicstudies/staff/ on our website: Dr John Wills: Senior Lecturer in American www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles History Dr William Rowlandson: Senior Lecturer in The 1950s; California; cyberculture and Hispanic Studies Dr Stella Bolaki: Lecturer in American Literature computer games; Disney, theming and recreation; Visual and textual representations of the Cuban Multi-ethnic American writing, particularly environmental protest; nuclear age; US sociology Revolution and the revolutionary era. Recent migration/diaspora and transnational approaches; and popular culture. Recent publications include: publications include: Biografía de un Cimarrón the Bildungsroman; gender theory; life writing; US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday (ed, 2010). illness/disability; medical humanities. Recent (2012). publications include: Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea: Senior Lecturer; Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Politics Head of Hispanic Studies Fiction (2011); The Politics of Illness Narratives: Full details of staff research interests can be found State formation and political culture in the Andes Aesthetics, Identity, and Witnessing (forthcoming); on our website: from the end of the colonial period throughout the Audre Lorde’s Transatlantic Sisterhoods (co-ed, www.kent.ac.uk/politics/about-us/staff 19th century; race, ethnicity and military culture in forthcoming). the 19th and 20th centuries in South America. Dr Ruth Blakeley: Reader in International Recent publications include: The Caudillo of Dr Michael Collins: Lecturer in American Relations the Andes: Andrés de Santa Cruz (2011). Literature US foreign and security policy, US-Latin American Nineteenth-century print culture, theatre, relations, terrorism studies, and human rights. American studies and New York intellectual Recent publications include: State Terrorism and history; performance theory; new historicist Neoliberalism: The North in the South (2011). Location and/or transnational methodologies. Canterbury. Dr Andrew Wroe: Lecturer in American Politics Dr Will Norman: Lecturer in North American English language requirements Politics and process of direct democracy; Literature See p223. social inclusion and exclusion; immigration Twentieth-century American literature and culture; and race/ethnicity. Recent publications include: Fees and funding crime fiction; postmodernism; theories of time in The Republican Party and Immigration Politics: See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding relation to literature; and the critical work of Walter From Proposition 187 to George W Bush (2008); Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Fredric Jameson. National ratings Assessing the Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Recent publications include: Transitional Nabokov Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Terms (2009). (co-author, 2009). History ranked 2nd and English ranked 18th nationally for research quality. Film Dr David Stirrup: Senior Lecturer in English Kent was ranked 7th in the UK for American Full details of staff research interests can be found and American Literature studies in The Guardian University Guide on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff Native American literature and culture; 20th-century 2014. American literature; the American midwest. Recent publications include Louise Erdrich (2010); Tribal Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald: Senior Lecturer Applications Hollywood cinema; film costume; gender and Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Taught programmes Imaginary, 1900-2010 (co-author, forthcoming); sexual experience; romantic comedy; Doris Day. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Literature of the Americas (co-author, forthcoming). Recent publications include: Hollywood Catwalk: postgrad/apply Reading Costume and Transformation in American Film (2010); Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Research programmes History See p232 or contact the Centre for further Inexperience in Film (ed, 2010); Doris Day Full details of staff research interests can be found details. Confidential: Hollywood Sex and Stardom on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff (forthcoming). Further information Claire Taylor Dr George Conyne: Lecturer in American Professor Peter Stanfield: Professor of Film T: +44 (0)1227 823140 History Cultural history of American film concentrated on E: [email protected] American, constitutional, political and diplomatic and around the film criticism of Lawrence Alloway; history; Anglo-American relations; British diplomacy American underground cinema of the late 1950s; in the 20th century; the Cold War. the film adaptations of Mickey Spillane; pulp film and the avant-garde; ‘Baby Face Nelson’ and the Dr Karen Jones: Senior Lecturer in American 1950s retro-gangster cycle. Recent publications History include: Film International Vol 6 No 4 Ten Nights American West; environmental history; the wolf: in Tunisia (co-ed, 2008); Maximum Movies – Pulp science and symbolism; hunting, nature and Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel American identity; human relationships with Fuller, Mickey Spillane and Jim Thompson (co-ed, animals. Recent publications include: 2011). The American West: Competing Visions (co-author, 2009). 38

Canterbury ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology prides itself on its inclusive and interdisciplinary focus. It takes a holistic approach to human society, combining biological and social perspectives. Kent has pioneered the social anthropological study of Europe, Latin America, Melanesia, and Central and Southeast Asia, the use of computers in anthropological research, and environmental anthropology in its widest sense (including ethnobiology and ethnobotany). It maintains an active research culture, with staff working in many different parts of the world.

Our regional expertise covers Western and Southeast Europe, Europe, the Middle East, Central South East and Southern, Central and South America, Amazonia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Polynesia. Specialisation in biological anthropology includes forensics and paleopathology, osteology, evolutionary psychology and the evolutionary ecology and behaviour of great apes.

Higher degrees in anthropology create opportunities in many employment sectors including academia, the civil service and non-governmental organisations through work in areas such as human rights, journalism, documentary film making, environmental conservation and international finance. An anthropology degree also develops interpersonal and intercultural skills, which make our graduates highly desirable in any profession that involves working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

“My MSc in Ethnobotany Programmes digital video and photographic work, and has a photographic darkroom for analogue developing was the most stimulating, Taught and printing. The biological anthropology fascinating and challenging • Anthropology and Conservation MA laboratory is equipped for osteoarchaeological • Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and and forensic work. It curates the Powell-Cotton year of my working life! The Identity MA collection of human remains, together with Anglo- subjects covered were very wide- • Environmental Anthropology MA/MSc Saxon skeletons from Bishopstone, East Sussex. • Ethnobotany MSc The ethnobiology laboratory provides equipment ranging and the work intense, • Evolution and Human Behaviour MSc and specimens for teaching ethnobiological but the teaching and support (taught jointly with the School of Psychology) research skills, and serves as a transit station for • Social Anthropology MA receiving, examining and redirecting field material. offered was excellent.” • Social Anthropology and Computing MA It also houses the Powell-Cotton collection of plant- • Visual Anthropology MA based material culture from South-East Asia, and Liz Gladin a small reference and teaching collection of MSc Ethnobotany Research herbarium and spirit specimens (1,000 items) • Anthropology MA, MSc, PhD arising from recent research projects. • Ethnobiology MSc, PhD Kent has outstanding anthropology IT facilities. Over the last decade, the Centre for Social Postgraduate resources Anthropology and Computing has been associated The School has a lively postgraduate community with many innovatory projects, particularly in the drawn together not only by shared resources such field of cognitive anthropology. It provides an as postgraduate rooms, computer facilities (with a electronic information service to other anthropology dedicated IT officer) and laboratories, but also by departments, for example by hosting both the student-led events, societies, staff/postgraduate Anthropological Index Online and Experience-Rich seminars, weekly research student seminars and Anthropology project. We encourage all students to a number of special lectures. use the Centre’s facilities (no previous experience or training is necessary). The Centre has its own The School houses well-equipped research website: lucy.kent.ac.uk, which was the world’s laboratories for genetics, ecology, visual first anthropology website (and one of the first anthropology, biological anthropology, 400 websites in the world). anthropological computing, botany, osteology and ethnobiology. The state-of-the-art visual Anthropology at Kent has close links with the anthropology laboratory is stocked with digital nearby Powell-Cotton Museum, which has one of editing programmes and other facilities for the largest ethnographic collections in the British Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sac 39

Isles and is particularly strong in sub-Saharan Compulsory modules Course content African and South-East Asian material. It also • Anthropology and Conservation Content will differ slightly between the MA and the houses an extensive comparative collection of • Research Methods in Social Anthropology 2 MSc. primate and other mammalian material. Human • Theory & Ethnography in Social Anthropology 1 skeletal material is housed at the Kent Osteological • Either Research Methods for Social Science • Environmental Anthropology Research and Analysis Centre within the School. or Research Methods in Social Anthropology • Ethnobiological Knowledge Systems • Dissertation of 15,000 words • Research Methods in Social Anthropology Anthropology, together with the Durrell Institute of 1 and 2 Conservation and Ecology (DICE) form the School Assessment • Theory and Ethnography in Social Anthropology 1 of Anthropology and Conservation (see Most modules are assessed by coursework • Dissertation of 15,000 words Conservation, p77). assignments and short class tests. Assessment Dynamic publishing culture Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism As for Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity MA and Identity. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Location: Canterbury. conference proceedings and books. Among Entry requirements: A good honours degree Ethnobotany MSc others, they have recently contributed to: American (2.1 or above) in anthropology or associated fields. Location: Canterbury and Kew Gardens, London. Ethnologist; Current Anthropology, Journal of the In certain circumstances, we will consider students Entry requirements: A good honours degree Royal Anthropological Institute; American Journal who have not followed a conventional education (2.1 or above) in anthropology, botany, biology, of Physical Anthropology; Proceedings of the path. These cases are assessed individually by the environmental studies, environmental science, Royal Society B; Journal of Human Evolution. Director of Graduate Studies and the programme geography or similar. Details of recently published books can be found co-ordinator. within the staff research interests on p42. This programme combines anthropological This programme examines how anthropology studies of human-environment interaction and Taught programmes and associated social sciences contribute to our socio-cultural knowledge of plants in different understanding of issues arising from the formation, parts of the world with ecology, conservation The following Master’s programmes are recognised expression and enactment of collective identities. science and biodiversity management. It also by the Economic and Social Research Council covers plant conservation and sustainable (ESRC) as having research training status, so management practices, taxonomy, and economic successful completion of these courses is sufficient Course content • Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity 1 botany. preparation for research in the various fields of • Research Methods in Social Anthropology 2 social anthropology. Many of our students go • Theory and Ethnography in Social Anthropology The programme is taught collaboratively with the on to do PhD research. Others use their Master’s 1 and 2 Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (a World Heritage qualification in employment ranging from research • Two from a range of modules offered within Site) and DICE. in government departments to teaching to Anthropology, Politics and International Relations consultancy work overseas. or History Course content • Dissertation of 15,000 words • Botanical Foundations of Ethnobotany Please note that modules are subject to change. • Contemporary Issues in Ethnobotany Please contact the School for more detailed • Environmental Anthropology information on availability. Assessment Assessment is by written reports, oral presentations, • Ethnobiological Knowledge Systems written student feedback forms and the dissertation. • Plant Resources and their Conservation Anthropology and Conservation MA • Research Methods in Social Anthropology Location: Canterbury. Environmental Anthropology MA/MSc • Special project and a dissertation of 15,000 Entry requirements: A good honours degree (2.1 Location: Canterbury. words or above) in anthropology, any social science or Entry requirements: A good honours degree environmental conservation equivalent. In certain (2.1 or above) in anthropology or other associated Assessment circumstances, we will consider students who have fields, including environmental studies. As for Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and not followed a conventional education path. Identity. This programme offers you the opportunity to The programme encourages a critical perspective acquire advanced knowledge of how different Evolution and Human Behaviour MSc on the practice and epistemology of conservation societies are influenced by the environment (taught jointly with the School of Psychology) and anthropology, paving the way for the and manage natural resources and hazards, in Location: Canterbury. integration of the two disciplines methodologically relation to issues in human ecology, biodiversity Entry requirements: A good honours degree (2.1 and theoretically. It pays particular attention on management, sustainable development, or above) in anthropology, psychology, biology, or the inter-relationship between local/indigenous environmental change and the practical a related discipline. In certain circumstances, we populations and environmental groups, policy applications of such knowledge. will consider students who have not followed a makers, legislators, and institutions concerned conventional education path. with the protection of the environment (eg, natural As a graduate of this programme, you will have a parks, green development projects). range of both practical and evaluative skills, and This unique and innovative MSc combines experience of conducting empirical or other evolutionary anthropology, focusing on the During the programme you explore themes such applied research. This allows you to pursue work behaviour of human and non-human primates, as human-animal conflicts, environmental politics, as a researcher and will inform whatever position with evolutionary, social and cognitive psychology. disputes over fragile environments, attitudes to you take up in the future. You gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the conservation among indigenous groups, and origins and functions of human behaviour and indigenous environmental knowledge and It is expected that such work might be undertaken select modules from a range of advanced topics practices. in conjunction with a range of organisations such as evolutionary anthropology, primatology, including national or international environmental human behaviour, cognitive psychology, and Course content bodies, governmental departments and non- cognitive neuroscience. The programme is modular, comprising six months governmental organisations. of coursework, followed by a six-month research project. You can design a programme of learning to suit your individual needs, interests and career aspirations through optional modules.

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Course content research – and learn to apply specialised Compulsory modules computing methods that you develop or adapt • Advanced Statistics and Methodology to anthropological research and analysis. • Advanced Topics in Human Behaviour • Advanced Topics in Group Processes Course content • Advanced Topics in Primate Behaviour • Design and Implementation of Computer • Research Project – resulting in a publication- Applications in Anthropology ready journal article of approximately 3-5,000 • Introduction and Advanced Object-oriented words Programming (Java) • Two modules from Social Anthropology, usually Optional modules Research Methods and one other • Two from: Advanced Developmental Social • Two modules from the School of Computing Psychology; Advanced Topics in Cognition • Computing application and short dissertation in Action; Advanced Topics in Evolutionary (6-10,000 words) Anthropology; Advanced Topics in Intergroup Relations; Cognitive Neural Networks; Current Please note: students with no background in Issues in Cognitive Psychology and Java programming must take a special three-week Neuropsychology. module before the beginning of the academic year Appropriate units may also be chosen from other in September. School and faculty programmes after consultation with the programme convenor. Visual Anthropology MA Location: Canterbury. Non-credit seminars and workshops: Entry requirements: A good honours degree • Evolution in Social Sciences workshops (2.1 or above) in anthropology or fields associated • Departmental research seminars. with images and social analysis.

Assessment This programme explores both traditional and Assessment is by computing tests, unseen experimental means of using visual images to STAFF PROFILE examinations, coursework and a project report. produce and represent anthropological knowledge, furthering the Kent tradition of pioneering the uses Glenn Bowman Social Anthropology MA of multimedia in anthropology. It enables you to Reader in Social Anthropology Location: Canterbury. develop both critical and practical skills of visual Entry requirements: As for Anthropology of analysis. The programme introduces you to still “There are situations that may make it Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity, see p39. photography and digital film-making techniques. difficult for peoples to live together, but it You have access to the photographic darkroom, is vital for an anthropologist to show how This programme is designed as an advanced as well as extensive postgraduate computing inter-communal relations can work and course in social anthropology and is for students equipment in the School, including professional that ‘tearing down walls’ may be viable who have already studied anthropology either as photographic and video-editing software. alternatives to separation, caging and a degree course or as part of a degree course at enclavement.” undergraduate level. It provides in-depth generalist The MA is taught by anthropologists with training in anthropology and is excellent long-standing experience in visual methods. That’s the view of social anthropologist preparation for those embarking on research Exceptionally for UK Visual Anthropology Glenn Bowman, who specialises in ethnic, degrees in anthropology or intending to enter programmes, it includes linked modules in current political and religious identity and the professional fields in which anthropological anthropological theory and empirical research inter-relations between communities with training is advantageous. methods, combining specific techniques of visual different identities. His work on ‘walling’ analysis and documentation with general social or the separation of populations has taken Course content anthropological research. This allows visual him to Palestine, the former Yugoslavia • Research Methods in Social Anthropology 2 practice to be informed by, and linked to, and Cyprus. He is also investigating • Theory and Ethnography in Social Anthropology anthropological theory and methodology. shrine-sharing – how Muslims, Christians 1 and 2 and Jews have shared (and in some • Three options chosen from a range of modules Course content places continue to share) the same holy offered within Anthropology MA programmes • Participatory (Audio-Visual) Ethnography spaces in the Middle East and the Balkans. • Dissertation of 15,000 words • Research Methods in Social Anthropology 2 • Theory and Ethnography in Social Anthropology As Deputy Head of School for Assessment 1 and 2 Anthropology, Glenn sees his role as As for Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and • Visual Anthropological Theory ensuring “good interaction between Identity, see p39. • Dissertation incorporating visual elements research students, taught postgraduates and academics.” He enjoys teaching Social Anthropology and Computing MA Assessment anthropology because it offers “the Location: Canterbury. The programme is assessed on the basis of multi- immense satisfaction of seeing people Entry requirements: A good honours degree media portfolios (including a combination of video, open their minds, develop their ideas (2.1 or above) in any social science field. In certain photography, web-based media and blog posts), and experience new things.” circumstances, we will consider students who have a combined audio/visual dissertation (including not followed a conventional education path. a film or photographic presentation of less than 20 minutes), essays and life history analyses. This programme applies computer-based methods to anthropological research at a relatively Research programmes advanced and creative level, usually requiring In Anthropology, we pride ourselves on having a computer programming skills and/or a broad close-knit group of research students who know understanding of computing at the applications and can approach any member of staff for help level. You develop the basics of research and assistance. We have an ongoing staff/student in anthropology – the design, planning, research seminar with a varied programme of implementation and analysis of anthropological Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sac 41

seminars given by members of the School and A final strand of our research focuses on and as applied to detailed historical records; visitors. There is a special seminar for research policy and advocacy issues and examines the qualitative analysis of textual and ethnographic students in which advanced training is provided connections between morality and law, legitimacy materials; and computer-assisted approaches to (subject to discussion with each cohort of and corruption, public health policy and local visual ethnography. We are extending our range to students); later in the year, students practise healing strategies, legal pluralism and property quantitative approaches for assessing qualitative upgrade presentations and present chapters rights, and the regulation of marine resources. materials, analysing social and cultural invention, of their draft thesis. the active representation of meaning, and the Environmental Anthropology and applications and implications of mobile computing, Research students are encouraged to audit Ethnobiology sensing and communications platforms and the courses from the taught Master’s (eg, in theory Work in these areas is focused on the Centre transformation of virtual into concrete objects, and field methods) and sometimes from the for Biocultural Diversity. We conduct research institutions and structures. undergraduate programme. There are special on ethnobiological knowledge systems and other training courses for research students run by the systems of environmental knowledge as well as Biological Anthropology Graduate School, Information Services and Unit for local responses to deforestation, climate change, Biological Anthropology is the newest of the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching. There natural resource management, medical the University of Kent Anthropology research is a School IT officer who can provide assistance ethnobotany, the impacts of mobility and disciplines. We are interested in a diverse range of and advice in IT matters, and a statistics helpdesk displacement and the interface between research topics within biological and evolutionary is available. conservation and development. Current projects anthropology. These include bioarchaeology, include trade in materia medica in Ladakh human reproductive strategies, hominin evolution, Anthropology MA, MSc, PhD and Bolivia, food systems, ethno-ornithology, the primate behaviour and ecology, modern human Ethnobiology MSc, PhD development of buffer zones for protected areas variation, cultural evolution and Palaeolithic Location: Canterbury. and phytopharmacy among migrant diasporas. archaeology. This work takes us to many different Entry requirements: A good honours degree regions of the world (Asia, Africa, Europe, the (2.1 or above) in anthropology or other associated Digital Anthropology: Cultural Informatics, United States), and involves collaboration with fields. Social Invention and Computational international colleagues from a number of Methods organisations. We have a dedicated research We welcome students with the appropriate Since 1985, we have been exploring and laboratory and up-to-date computing facilities background for research. If you wish to study for a applying new approaches to research problems in to allow research in many areas of biological single year, you can do the MA or MSc by research, anthropology – often, as in the case of hypermedia, anthropology. a 12-month independent research project. electronic and internet publishing, digital media, expert systems and large-scale textual and Currently, work is being undertaken in a number of The first year may include coursework, especially historical databases, up to a decade before other these areas, and research links have been forged methods modules for students who need this anthropologists. Today, we are exploring cloud with colleagues at Kent in archaeology and additional training. In general, you work closely media, semantic networks, multi-agent modelling, biosciences, as well as with those at the Powell- with one supervisor throughout your research, dual/blended realities, data mining, smart Cotton Museum, the Budongo Forest Project although you have a committee of three (including environments and how these are mediated by (Uganda) and University College London. your primary supervisor) overseeing your progress. people into new possibilities and capabilities. If you want to research in the area of applied Kent Osteological Research and Analysis (KORA) computing in social anthropology, you would Our major developments have included advances offers a variety of osteological services for human also have a supervisor based in the School of in kinship theory and analysis supported by new remains from archaeological contexts. Computing. computational methods within field-based studies

If you are interested in registering for a research degree, you should contact the member of staff whose research is the most relevant to your interests. You should include a curriculum vitae, a short (1,000-word) research proposal, and a list of potential funding sources.

Research areas Social Anthropology The related themes of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, conflict, and the economics crisis form a major focus of our current work in the Middle East, the Balkans, South Asia, Amazonia and Central America, Europe (including the United Kingdom), Oceania and South-East Asia.

Our research extends to inter-communal violence, mental health, diasporas, pilgrimage, inter- communal trade, urban ethnogenesis, indigenous representation and the study of contemporary religions and their global connections.

We research issues in fieldwork and methodology more generally, with a strong and expanding interest in the field of visual anthropology. Our work on identity and locality links with growing strengths in customary law, kinship and parenthood. This is complemented by work on the language of relatedness, child health and on the cognitive bases of kinship terminologies. CONTINUED OVERLEAF 42 Anthropology cont

Staff research interests Dr Sarah Johns: Lecturer in Evolutionary Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos: Reader in Social Anthropology Anthropology Full details of staff research interests can be found Evolutionary psychology and behavioural ecology; Political and environmental anthropology; on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles timing of life-history events; human reproduction, Panama; Greece; ethnic relations and stereotyping; especially variation of the age at first birth and the globalisation and indigeneity; sustainability. Dr Miguel Alexiades: Senior Lecturer in evolved psychology of reproductive decision Environmental Anthropology/Ethnobotany making. Dr Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel: Lecturer in Amazonian Peru; Ese Eja; Central Mexico; role Biological Anthropology and responsibility of science; indigenous land Dr Tracy Kivell: Lecturer in Biological Evolutionary anthropology; past hominin dispersal; and resource rights; indigenous self-determination; Anthropology geometric morphometrics; comparative shape higher education programmes for local Functional morphology of the wrist and hand; analysis of Palaeolithic stone tools; communities. extant and fossil apes; origin of human bipedalism microevolutionary analysis of craniometric and hand use; ontogeny; biomechanics of primate variation within modern humans. Dr Judith Bovensiepen: Lecturer in Social locomotion. Anthropology Dr Anna Waldstein: Lecturer in Medical Anthropology of south-east Asia; East Timor; Dr Stephen Lycett: Senior Lecturer in Human Anthropology and Ethnobotany place and landscape; kinship and reciprocity; Evolution Medical anthropology; ecological anthropology; colonial history; conflict; conspiracy talk; post- Palaeoanthropology; biological anthropology Mesoamerica; Rastafari; diaspora and migration; conflict healing and reconstruction. and palaeolithic archaeology, especially cultural the effects of migration and acculturation on health; evolution; cultural transmission theory and material the use of traditional medical knowledge as an Glenn Bowman: Reader in Social Anthropology; culture; morphometrics; lithic analysis; hominin adaptive strategy among migrants; food and health Deputy Head of School dispersals; hominid phylogenetics; species sovereignty. West Bank Palestine and the former Yugoslavia; identification in the fossil record. shrines, monumentalisation, pilgrimage, intercommunal relations, identity politics, Dr Patrick Mahoney: Lecturer in Biological nationalism, walling; Orthodox and heterodox Anthropology Location Christianity, Sufism; anthropological and Evolutionary developmental biology of hominoid Canterbury. psychoanalytic approaches to identity; dentition; bioarchaeology, especially prehistoric fieldwork theory. Recent publications include: English language requirements human diet; palaeopathology. After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics within the See p223. Successor States (co-ed, 2011); Sharing the Sacra: Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher: Senior Lecturer in Fees and funding The Politics and Pragmatics of Inter-communal Primate Behavioural Ecology See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Relations Around Holy Places (2012). Evolutionary ecology and behaviour of mammals National ratings with an emphasis on primates, in particular Dr Oskar Burger: Lecturer in Biological Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: chimpanzees, including male-female aggression Anthropology 50% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or and sexual coercion, hunting behaviour, social Origin of the human life history; population ‘internationally excellent’ with excellent ratings behaviour, feeding ecology and ranging patterns. dynamics; evolutionary approaches to the for prestige. demographic transition; population-level effects Dr Daniela Peluso: Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Kent was ranked 6th in the UK of energy consumption; biology of ageing; human Anthropology in The Guardian University Guide 2014, and behavioural ecology in general. Gender; exchange theory; kinship; development; has consistently received high ratings in the indigenous urbanisation; medical anthropology; National Student Survey. Dr Melissa Demian: Lecturer in Social indigenismo; hybridity; personhood and identity; Anthropology Applications anthropology of business. The Suau Coast of south-eastern Papua New Taught programmes Guinea; the anthropology of law and legal Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Professor João de Pina-Cabral: Professor of pluralism; property theory; the concepts of postgrad/apply Social Anthropology cultural patrimony and ‘culture loss’; ‘cultural The relationship between symbolic thought Research programmes defence’ in American and British courtrooms. and social power; family and kinship; ethnicity See p232 or contact the School for further in colonial and postcolonial contexts. details. Professor Michael Fischer: Professor of Anthropological Sciences Further information Dr Mike Poltorak: Lecturer in Social The representation and structure of indigenous T: +44 (0)1227 827928 Anthropology knowledge; cultural informatics; the inter- F: +44 (0)1227 827289 Tonga; Oceania; New Zealand; Brighton and relationships between ideation and the material E: [email protected] Hove; Rajasthan; India; visual anthropology; contexts within which ideation is expressed. mental illness; medical anthropology; transnationalism; ethnopsychiatry; vaccination; Dr David Henig: Lecturer in Social Anthropology applied medical anthropology; cultural politics; Central Asia and eastern Mediterranean; indigenous epistemologies and modernities; the anthropology of Islam; socialist/post socialist medical/visual/development anthropology nexus. economy and society; exchange and materiality; cosmological thought; landscape and environment; Dr Rajindra Puri: Senior Lecturer in narrativity and ethnographic theory; social Environmental Anthropology networks and sociality. Environmental anthropology; ethnobiology; hunting; tropical forests; conservation social Dr Matt Hodges: Lecturer in Social science; biodiversity and climate change; south Anthropology and south-east Asia. France, Euskadi, Europe; time, historical consciousness, modernity, rural social transformation, cultural and heritage tourism; science and technology; continental philosophy; public anthropology, creative writing. 43

Canterbury and Paris ARCHITECTURE

Architects and the designers of our surroundings are the driving force behind the design and development of our built environment. Whether they are designing new buildings, giving a new lease of life to existing ones, developing urban spaces, landscapes or contemporary interiors, architects have a profound influence on all our lives.

The Kent School of Architecture (KSA) offers a two-year full-time ‘professional’ Master of Architecture (MArch) which gives exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 2 on completion, but, for entry, requires exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 1. The School also offers a research degree programme (PhD) and taught Master’s programmes in Architecture and Cities, Architectural Visualisation and Architecture and Sustainable Environment. These programmes also benefit from expertise in urban studies, animation and art within other schools at Kent.

School staff have design expertise and specialist knowledge; they are at the forefront of current architectural issues, including sustainability, technology, professional practice and research.

“The programme allowed me to Programmes Kent also has excellent links with schools of architecture in Lille, Bruges, Rome, Bauhaus- become familiar with a whole Taught Dessau, Beijing and, in the USA, Virginia and range of software required for • Master of Architecture (MArch with ARB/RIBA California. Part 2 exemption) developing CGI animation as • Architecture and Cities MA Academic study is complemented by a mentoring well as still images; so I had • Architecture and Cities (Paris) MA scheme organised in collaboration with the Royal • Architecture and Sustainable Environment MSc Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and involving the chance to acquire the • Architectural Visualisation MA (taught jointly students in events with local practices. necessary skills to start working with School of Engineering and Digital Arts) Dynamic publishing culture in industry as soon as I finished Research the course. With hard work and • Architecture PhD Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among extra personal investment in the others, they have recently contributed to: course, I managed to find a path Postgraduate resources Architectural Research Quarterly; Architectural The School of Architecture studios include Review; Building and Environment; The Journal in life that I had dreamt to a dedicated computing suite with a range of of Architecture; The World of Interiors. Details of discover.” environmental construction software, and a recently published books can be found within the new digital crit studio. There is a fully equipped staff research interests on p46. Mark Eszlari architectural model-making workshop for MA Architectural Visualisation graduate constructing models and large-scale prototypes. Taught programmes Master of Architecture (MArch with Professional links ARB/RIBA Part 2 exemption) The School has excellent contacts with businesses Location: Canterbury. and culture in the local area, including regional Attendance: Two years full-time. organisations such as the Kent Architecture Centre, Entry requirements: To be eligible to study on our Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Kent MArch programme, you need to have successfully County Council and Kent Design Initiative. The completed a recognised ARB/RIBA Part 1 exempt Sustainable Communities Plan is particularly strong first degree programme (ideally 2.1 or above), in south-east England, making the region the ideal followed by a minimum period of six months place in which to debate innovative solutions to recorded office-based work experience (a minimum architectural issues. of three months in any one office), in the UK or abroad.

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Those without a UK Part 1 first degree must have Assessment Assessment gained the qualification by examination before they Assessment is by a variety of methods, including Assessment is by coursework and the dissertation. make an application. You will need to apply direct portfolio of drawings and models, written case- to the Architects’ Registration Board (ARB) to take study, essay and dissertation. Architecture and Cities (Paris) MA the Part 1 as an external candidate. This would Location: Canterbury and Paris. involve paying a fee and attending an interview Architecture and Cities MA Attendance: One year full-time. with ARB in London. Procedures are explained Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: As for Architecture and Cities. at www.arb.org.uk/qualifications/default.php Entry requirements: A first or good second class honours degree (or the equivalent) in architecture Following a similar path to our Architecture and Please contact the School for further information, or another related discipline in humanities, planning Cities MA, the Paris option allows you to spend email: [email protected] or similar. Those without the degree will be your first term at our Canterbury campus with full considered for entry on an individual basis but access to its excellent academic and recreational Graduates from the MArch are able to take the must be able to show a considerable period of facilities, before relocating to our Paris centre for ARB/RIBA Part 3 examination after amassing a experience at an appropriate level. the spring term, studying in the heart of historic minimum of 24 months recorded office-based Montparnasse. work experience, 12 months of which must be This programme gives you a cross-cultural and in the UK. interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary In Paris, all modules are taught in English and architecture and urban design; understood as an you are encouraged to make full use of the city’s Kent’s MArch architecture programme is validated intersection between architecture, cities and the cultural resources and to integrate these into your by RIBA, and the award is prescribed by the ARB environment. You are taught design skills in relation studies. as giving exemption from Part 2 of their professional to the arts, design practices and latest architectural examinations. theories. Through analysis, design and modelling For course content and assessment, see previous of the conditions of cities’ life, the programme entry. The MArch Programme is divided into two stages teaches you how new design proposals and with a prominent focus on design. Design teaching heritage buildings can facilitate regeneration For further information about the University of Kent, is delivered through a unit system. Each unit has a and ecological development of cities. Paris, please see p230. unique theoretical position and comprises a mix of Stage 4 and 5 students who are allocated to a This is a versatile Master’s qualification for architects, Architecture and Sustainable specific unit on the basis of Unit Leader urban designers, surveyors, historians, landscape Environment MSc presentations at the beginning of the academic architects, theorists, engineers and other related Location: Canterbury. year. Students then express their unit preferences professionals involved with planning and design of Entry requirements: A 2.1 honours degree (or in a ballot. You remain in your unit for the duration contemporary cities, as well as graduates interested equivalent), in architecture or related discipline in of the academic year, and then ballot to remain or in pursuing further postgraduate studies and an the built environment. Those without the degree or move to another unit the following year. The initiative academic career. who come from other disciplinary backgrounds will allows for Unit Leaders to develop areas of be considered for entry on an individual basis but specialism within a wider architectural discourse, Our students have worked at the cutting edge of must be able to show a considerable period of and for students to enjoy a degree of choice in the architectural profession on a global level and experience at an appropriate level. their educational experience. Vertical peer-to-peer progressed to work in academia. learning is engendered by a mix of students, The programme is aimed at professionals and while an element of healthy competition also Course content academics with an interest in sustainability in the characterises the initiative, both within and • Architecture and Cities of the 19th and 20th built environment, including architects, engineers, between units. Century, 1840s-1960s geographers, surveyors, historians and urban • From the Idea of a City to Philosophies of designers. The MSc promotes a cross-disciplinary The Unit Leaders for 2012/13 were Michael Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism approach to research in the field of sustainability Richards, Corinna Dean, Ed Holloway and Shaun • Research Methods and Analysis in the built environment, bridging the traditional Murray. • Urban Landscape Design Project boundaries between architecture and the sciences, • Dissertation of 15,000 words research and practice. All students within a particular unit follow the same design project brief, while additional lecture and seminar modules support design through the teaching of technology, culture, dissertation and employability.

There is the opportunity to spend a term abroad in the spring of Stage 4 or autumn of Stage 5.

Course content Stage 4 • Culture 1* • Design 4a • Design 4b* • Technology • Dissertation 1*

Stage 5 • Culture 2* • Design 5a* • Design 5b • Employability • Technology 5 • Dissertation 2*

* can be substituted by Study Abroad module. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/architecture 45

The course content ranges from the development of Research programmes the technical and scientific understanding required to develop sustainable design solutions for new and Architecture PhD existing buildings, the analysis of past environment Location: Canterbury. technologies, to a critical exploration of the context Entry requirements: A minimum 2.1 honours of sustainability and environmental design. degree, plus a Master’s degree or MArch in architecture or an appropriate subject, or Course content equivalent track record and professional • Principles of Environmental Design experience in architecture. UK architecture • Rediscovery – Understanding Historic Buildings graduates applying for this programme should and Past Environmental Technologies normally have RIBA Parts 1 and 2 exemptions. • Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Performance The Kent School of Architecture offers a full-time • Sustainable Design Project and part-time research programme, leading to • Dissertation of 15,000 words a PhD research degree. The School promotes innovative and interdisciplinary research study in The programme may lead to a postgraduate architecture, urbanism and related fields. The main diploma, if taken without the dissertation. objective is to combine contemporary advanced research with an educational agenda, preparing Assessment candidates to practise in a global academic and Assessment is mostly based on coursework, professional world. with presentations, case-study analyses, design proposals, essays and the dissertation. A particular feature of the KSA research degree programme is the wide spectrum of investigation Architectural Visualisation MA and the possibility of undertaking research by (taught jointly with School of Engineering design. and Digital Arts) PhD students have access to all University of Location: Canterbury. Kent facilities and a weekly seminar designed for Attendance: One year full-time. STAFF PROFILE research students only. Each candidate is entitled Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree to two supervisors. in architecture, animation or a multimedia-related Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt discipline or similar (or equivalent). Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture The Programme Director is Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti. KSA supervisors include: Dr Architectural visualisation focuses on the Henrik trained as an architect in England Gerald Adler, Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Professor communication of architectural space and form and Austria. During his MPhil and PhD at Marialena Nikolopoulou, Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt through digital media, both static and moving the University of Cambridge he specialised and Dr Richard Watkins. image. This programme is designed to disseminate in the study of the environmental critical awareness of the power of imagery for the technologies and principles of historic Staff are active in research and give papers at marketing and communication of architectural building. His main research interest conferences nationally and internationally. form. You develop advanced skills in modelling, combines historic and technical rendering, compositing and animation and methodologies to gain critical film/video, building a portfolio ready for the Research centres understanding of the environmental placement in industry. Our students have worked KSA incorporates the Centre for Research in principles and technologies of historic at the cutting edge of the architectural visualisation European Architecture (CREAte), which focuses buildings. profession and progressed to work in the film and on research in architectural humanities and digital effects industry. design, and Centre for Architecture and His current research projects include Sustainable Environment (CASE), which promotes a study of the design and performance Taught jointly with the School of Engineering and research in the field of sustainable architecture. of the Houses of Parliament’s historic Digital Arts, you gain an insight into the industries ventilation system and an industry-funded of film, animation and digital effects, as well as CREAte research project entitled ‘Interrogating architectural visualisation. Working alongside the the technical, economic and cultural The Centre provides a focus for research in computer animation and digital visual effects challenges of delivering the passivhaus architecture in the European context. Its emphasis programmes, you develop transferable skills and standard in the UK’. academic discipline appropriate for employability is on the role and contribution of humanities to architecture and urban design in the context of or entry into further research. This programme is His research has been widely published urban and regional regeneration, nationally and open to students with an arts, architectural or and he has also presented to a wide range internationally. digital media background. of audiences, both research institutions and professional organisations, including CREAte provides a platform for evening lectures Course content the RIBA, Institute of Structural Engineering by contemporary architects and scholars; hosting • Animation Set-up and London Building Centre. He presented debates and events that are in the heart of • Digital Architecture Set-up his pedagogical research at the 2013 architectural agenda of today. • Film and Architecture TEST-conference and Annual HEA Stem • High-Definition Compositing conference. • High-Definition Video The Centre builds upon its staff specialisms, interests and skills in the following areas: regional • Virtual Cities He has recently received a grant from the studies, contemporary architectural and urban • Master’s project or Dissertation group work Higher Education Academy to conduct a theory and design, architectural history and theory research project on sustainability in (ranging from antiquity to contemporary European Assessment architectural education. Modules are taught over three terms, concluding cities), sustainability, European topographies with a major project animation which accounts for (landscape, urban, suburban and metropolitan) one third of the programme. The content of the etc. Staff participate in the activities of AHRA – animation is agreed with programme staff and Architecture Humanities Research Association you build a showreel to a professional standard. and are internationally published authors.

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CASE Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Director, Michael Richards: Senior Lecturer in Design; The Centre promotes research in the field of PhD Programme and Graduate Studies; Programme Director, MArch sustainable environment regionally, nationally Programme Director, Architecture and Cities MA Design studio pedagogy in the area of ethics; and internationally. Contemporary architectural and urban theory; the variances between the physical and fictional in particular philosophy and its relation to relative locations of ‘place’ in cinema; the Its research focus encompasses different aspects architecture, perspective and its relation to implications for an understanding of contemporary and scales of the sustainable built environment architecture and the city; representation, cities. from the individual building to the urban block, conceptual art and the relationship between promoting the wider environmental agenda and the arts and architecture; regeneration, public Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt: Lecturer in Sustainable keeping the School at the forefront of research spaces and sustainable urban design; urban Architecture and development in the field. CASE also pursues landscapes, cities and water. Recent publications History and theory of environmental design, in research into the historical and cultural dimension include: Scale: Imagination, Perception and particular in 19th and 20th-century Europe and of environmental design to foster links between the Practice in Architecture (co-ed, 2011), Foucault North America; architectural design in the context sciences, arts and humanities. There is a strong for Architects (2013). of the history and philosophy of science; history interest in understanding the environmental of glass structures for human occupation and behaviour of historic buildings and the strategies Howard Griffin: Programme Director, horticulture; environmental design pedagogy. originally deployed to manage the internal Architectural Visualisation MA; Director environment. of Recruitment, Marketing and Admissions Dr Richard Watkins: Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture and film; the representation and use of Architecture The Centre has already secured funding from architecture in film; the use of film and visualisation Urban microclimate and the urban heat island, various sources. This includes three EPSRC in architecture; virtual architecture and digital refrigeration, air movement and air quality; projects on climate change weather data for a space; looking at form and space in virtual worlds daylighting; climate change; future weather data; sustainable built environment, sustainability of and cyberspace; the architecture and symbolism building performance modelling and measurement. airport terminal buildings and design interventions of freemasonry in England. Recent publications: Daylight in Buildings (co-ed, in the public realm for affecting human behaviour, 2010); The Design Reference Year – a new and two TSB-funded projects on Building Dr Manolo Guerci: Senior Lecturer of Cultural approach to testing a building in more extreme Performance Evaluation. CASE is also involved Context and Design weather using UKCP09 projections (2012). with the recent EPSRC large-scale network on Secular architecture, particularly domestic, Digital Economy Communities and Culture. ranging from Early-Modern European palaces with emphasis on connections between Italy, France and Britain in the 17th, 18th and 19th Location Staff research interests centuries, to post-war social housing estates; Canterbury and Paris relations between European Modernism and Full details of staff research interests can be found English language requirements traditional Japanese architecture; conservation on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/architecture/staff See p223. of historic buildings, particularly 17th-century Professor Gerald Adler: Professor of Cultural construction techniques in Rome. Recent Fees and funding Context and Design; Deputy Head of School publications include: The Great Houses of See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding the Strand: 1550-1650. History, Style, Planning Twentieth-century architectural history and theory, National ratings and Influence (forthcoming). in particular in Great Britain and Germany; Heinrich Kent was ranked 6th in the UK for architecture Tessenow; architecture in its wider cultural and in The Guardian University Guide 2014 and Dr David Haney: Lecturer in Cultural Context philosophical contexts; the place of the ruin in 10th in the UK for architecture graduate and Design the modern architectural imagination. Recent employment prospects in The Times Good Relationship between landscape and architecture publications include: Scale: Imagination, Perception University Guide 2013. and Practice in Architecture (co-ed, 2011); Robert considered from both professional and cultural Maguire & Keith Murray (2012). perspectives; history of modern architecture and Applications landscape; history of ‘green’ or ecological design; Taught programmes Keith Bothwell: Senior Lecturer in Environment ecological concepts in German modernism. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ and Sustainability Recent publications include: When Modern was postgrad/apply Sustainable urban design and case studies of Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge (2010). Research programmes green buildings, in particular energy performance See p232 or contact the School for further resulting from passive design; the environmental details. impact of timber in schools; incorporating Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou: Professor of daylighting performance into building regulations. Sustainable Architecture; Programme Director, Further information Architecture and Sustainable Environments MSc T: +44 (0)1227 824689 Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin: Senior Lecturer in Comfort of complex environments; urban E: [email protected] Cultural Context; Director of Research microclimate; occupant perception and use of Early 19th-century English architecture and, space; sustainable design and rational use of in particular, the work of A W N Pugin. Recent energy in the built environment. publications include: Churches (2008); The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century (2008); Dr Giridharan Renganathan: Lecturer in Leonard Manasseh and Partners (2010); Scale: Sustainable Architecture Imagination, Perception and Practice in Urban morphology and climatology (environmental Architecture (co-ed, 2011). design), with specific interest in the urban heat island (UHI) effect; outdoor thermal comfort; summer time over heating in buildings; passive ventilation strategies; use of cool materials. 47

Canterbury BIOSCIENCES

The University of Kent’s School of Biosciences ranks among the most active in biological sciences in the UK. We have recently extended our facilities and completed a major refurbishment of our research laboratories that now house over 100 academic, research, technical and support staff devoted to research, of whom more than 70 are postgraduate students.

Research in the School of Biosciences revolves around understanding systems and processes in the living cell. It has a strong molecular focus with leading-edge activities that are synergistic with one another and complementary to the teaching provision. Our expertise in disciplines such as biochemistry, microbiology and biomedical science allows us to exploit technology and develop groundbreaking ideas in the fields of genetics, molecular biology, protein science and biophysics. Fields of enquiry encompass a range of molecular processes from cell division, transcription and translation through to molecular motors, molecular diagnostics and the production of biotherapeutics and bioenergy.

In addition to research degrees, our key research strengths underpin a range of unique and career-focused taught Master’s programmes that address key issues and challenges within the biosciences and pharmaceutical industries and prepare graduates for future employment.

“There are many highly skilled Programmes equipped with a QCI cryoprobe. Our NMR spectrometer was upgraded to this status via an scientists in my school who are Taught equipment research award from the Wellcome Trust. happy to share their expertise. • Biosciences Pre-Master’s GDip • Biotechnology and Bioengineering MSc Having regular seminars from • Cancer Biology PDip, MSc Support other research groups gives me a • Drug Design MSc All research students are supervised closely • Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics MSc and are additionally monitored online using the wider understanding of research • Science, Communication and Society MSc (see University progression and monitoring system. currently being undertaken in p194) Within Biosciences all students are given an e-Postgraduate Development Folder, providing the field of biology.” Research information on a series of training events plus a • Biochemistry MSc, MPhil, PhD record of attainment, which helps to log progress, Louise Holyoake • Cell Biology MSc, MPhil, PhD keep reports, and catalogue research training and PhD Microbiology • Genetics MSc, MPhil, PhD transferable skills modules. These form essential • Microbiology MSc, MPhil, PhD elements of your CV for subsequent job • Doctor of Medicine MD applications. Additionally, all research students are allocated a Postgraduate Supervisory Committee. The Committee helps you set realistic research Postgraduate resources objectives and regularly monitors your progress The School is well equipped, with excellent general throughout the course. research laboratories, together with a range of specialised research resources including facilities Students on taught programmes are assigned for growing micro-organisms of all kinds, extensive a personal academic tutor to provide additional laboratories for animal cell culture and monoclonal support in their postgraduate study. Throughout antibody production and an imaging suite providing the course, you are fully embedded in the high-resolution laser confocal and electron research culture of the School by attending microscopy. Additionally, the macromolecular research seminars and careers guidance sessions, analysis facility provides resources for protein and also participating in our vibrant outreach and mass spectrometry, CD and fluorescence programme within the local community. In addition spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, to taught modules, an in-depth research project and HPLC and FPLC systems for all aspects of takes place during the summer under the guidance biochemical and microbiological research. Notably, of members of academic staff. These projects the School has a new state-of-the-art Bruker Avance benefit from our outstanding research environment III four-channel 600 MHz NMR spectrometer and first-class facilities.

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An active school of progression, you may choose to study on one of the global population. The programme trains you of the following programmes: in modern biological research skills which can be Every week, Biosciences runs school seminars • Biotechnology and Bioengineering MSc harnessed to further our understanding of cancer where external guest speakers or staff, talk about • Cancer Biology MSc and improve treatment. In addition, you develop recent research. In addition, the department runs • Drug Design MSc many transferable skills that are attractive to FIREBio (Forum for Innovation, Research and • Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics MSc employers within the public and private sector. Enterprise in Biosciences), which is a weekly • Science, Communication and Society MSc. informal meeting for staff, postdocs and Each one-hour lecture is supplemented by two postgraduates involving short presentations Assessment hours of small-group seminars and workshops and discussions. Postgraduates can use the Assessment is through a combination of in which individual themes are explored in-depth. opportunity to present unpublished research assignments, coursework and examinations. There are practical classes and mini-projects in findings and discuss them in a supportive which you design, produce and characterise a environment. Biotechnology and Bioengineering MSc therapeutic protein with applications in therapy. Location: Canterbury. Worldwide partnerships Entry requirements: Minimum 2.2 degree Course content The programme incorporates modules that focus Staff in the School of Biosciences not only or equivalent in biosciences, biotechnology, on the biology and treatment of cancer, alongside collaborate extensively with other universities engineering or a related subject. advanced scientific skills training modules for in the UK (Cambridge, Cardiff, King’s College application within and outside the laboratory. London, University College London, Newcastle, This exciting new interdisciplinary MSc programme The combination of these themes provides you Oxford, Sussex, York), but also have a wide-ranging focuses on providing advanced academic training with a rigorous training in advanced biological network across the world with institutes including: in the cellular and molecular processes that science, transferable to a range of biological the Boston Biomedical Research Institute; relate to the production of biomedicines for and professional disciplines. The taught modules University of Hanover; University of Moscow; use in healthcare. This is coupled with rigorous underpin an extended, four-month research project Monash University Melbourne; Harvard; University practical training in the design, production and under the supervision of active cancer scientists. of California-Davis; Université Claude Bernard – characterisation of biomolecules using state-of-the- Lyon 1; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt; University art biotechnological and bioengineering analytical Modules of Queensland, Australia; University of Utah; and molecular technologies. • Genomic Stability and Cancer Texas A&M University; and the University of • The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cancer Braunschweig. We also collaborate with You acquire practical, academic and applied • Practical and Applied Research Skills for organisations such as the Marie Curie Research skills in data analysis, systems and modelling Advanced Biologists Institute, Cancer Research UK, National Institute for approaches, and bioinformatics, together with • Science @ Work Medical Research, MRC London, GlaxoSmithKline transferable skills in scientific writing, presentation • Targeted Cancer Therapies and the European Union Framework 5 CYTONET. and public affairs. On successful completion of the programme, you will be able to integrate • Translational Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic The School currently receives funding from: BBSRC; these skills to develop novel solutions to modern Biochemical Society; British Heart Foundation; E B biotechnological issues from both academic Charitable Hutchinson Trust; the EC; EPSRC; Kent and industrial perspectives. Assessment The programme features a combination of Cancer Trust;The Leverhulme Trust; National examinations and practically focused continuous Institutes of Health (USA); Nuffield Foundation; The range of optional modules available allows you assessment, which gives you experience within a Royal Society; Wellcome Trust. It also receives to tailor your programme to your own interests (for range of professional activities, eg, report writing, funding on specific projects from a number of example, in bioscience, engineering, computing or patent applications and public health information. industrial organisations and collaborators. business/enterprise). The assessments have been designed to promote Course content employability in a range of professional settings. Dynamic publishing culture • Advanced Molecular Processing for Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Biotechnologists and Bioengineers Drug Design MSc conference proceedings and books. Among • Biotechnology and Public Affairs Location: Canterbury. others, they have recently contributed to: Nature • Practical and Applied Research Skills for Entry requirements: As for Cancer Biology. Chemical Biology; Journal of Biological Chemistry; Advanced Biologists Cell; Molecular Cell; Proceedings of the National • Science @ Work The programme is designed for graduates with Academy of Sciences USA; PLOS One; Journal • Optional modules include: Advanced Analytical a biological background and builds on existing of Cell Science. and Emerging Technologies in Biotechnology core biosciences modules in the area of applied and Bioengineering; Advanced Control Systems; biotechnology. It gives a grounding in the early Taught programmes Advanced Instrumentation Systems; Biological stage drug discovery process for those interested Information Processing; Molecular and Quantum in careers in biotechnology or the pharmaceutical Biosciences Pre-Master’s GDip Computing; New Enterprise Start-up; Targeted industry. Location: Canterbury. Cancer Therapies; Translational Medicine: From Entry requirements: An honours degree in a the Laboratory to the Clinic. The MSc covers application of technologies to related subject. Consideration will be given to • Research Project early stage drug discovery focusing on target applicants holding equivalent qualifications or identification, target validation, and lead discovery work experience. Assessment and design follow-up through understanding Assessment is by examination, coursework and the protein ligand interactions and biophysics at a This programme offers you the opportunity to research project. molecular level in order to produce good drug develop your independent study and research skills candidate molecules via rational drug design. through a combination of subject modules within the Cancer Biology PDip, MSc School of Biosciences. In addition, as part of your Location: Canterbury. The programme also includes site visits to programme you have the opportunity to improve Entry requirements: Minimum good second class biotechnology companies and industry, plus your English language competence with dedicated honours degree in a biosciences-related subject. workshops/lectures from invited industrial experts. English and Academic Skills for Bioscience modules offered by Kent International Pathways. The MSc in Cancer Biology has been designed for Course content students who wish to gain an advanced education • Drug Design On successful completion of the Diploma and training in the biological sciences, within the • Practical and Applied Research Skills for and through meeting the University’s rules context of a disease that affects a large proportion Advanced Biologists Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/bio 49

• Research project focused on drug design We also offer a conventional MSc programme by • Science @ Work research and dissertation, in which you undertake • Optional modules include: Advanced Analytical a single, focused, research project from day one, and Emerging Technologies in Biotechnology and attend only certain components of our and Bioengineering; Advanced Molecular transferable skills modules. You can do the MSc Processing for Biotechnologists and on a part-time basis over two years. We also assign Bioengineers; Targeted Cancer Therapies; a Postgraduate Supervisory Committee to MSc Translational Medicine. students, to offer advice and keep a regular check on progress. Assessment Assessment is by coursework, examination and You can select topics for the MSc, MPhil or PhD dissertation. from any of the research areas covered below.

Reproductive Medicine: Science and Doctor of Medicine MD Ethics MSc Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. Attendance: Two years full-time or up to five years Entry requirements: A first or second class degree part-time. in a subject related to biosciences, or a medical Entry requirements: You must have held a degree. qualification recognised by the General Medical Council for at least three years and have carried This programme has been designed for those who out appropriate clinical or scientific work for at least wish to gain an advanced education and training three years. within the context of a medical issue that affects one in six couples wishing to start a family. This degree provides experienced practitioners with the opportunity to obtain an MD (broadly The MSc is taught by world-leading academics equivalent to a PhD) after a period of research. at the University of Kent and leading industry practitioners from the London Bridge Fertility The degree lasts between two and five years and Centre. This programme provides you with a deep you usually conduct your research alongside your STAFF PROFILE and broad overview of the modern practice of normal clinical employment in an appropriate reproductive medicine. With interactive laboratory- medical position. You can do your research David Brown FRSC based sessions you gain the practical, academic either at the University or in a recognised medical Professor of Structural Biology and research skills that are used in academia and institution in the region. You can obtain the degree the clinic and learn how these can be applied to either by pursuing a programme of research after Professor Brown was appointed Chair the development of new therapies. registration, or by submitting a portfolio of of Structural Biology in Biosciences in publications, together with a summary October 2011. Formerly Director of This programme will be of interest to prospective description and documentation. Structural Biology and Biophysics at researchers, clinical embryologists, clinical Pfizer, he was involved in drug discovery scientists or individuals simply interested in Research groups programmes for a wide range of diseases, reproductive medicine. including cardiovascular disease, allergy The School has eight specific research groups and and respiratory, tissue repair, pain and Course content is also intimately involved with two multidisciplinary sexual health. In his role at Pfizer, Professor • The IVF World centres: Brown solved the structure of PDE5, the • Practical Skills in Molecular Biology for • Centre for Molecular Processing biological target of Viagra and the first Reproductive Scientists • Computational Biology Centre. member of the phosphodiesterase family • Project/Dissertation of enzymes to be structurally • Reproduction and the Beginnings of Life Bacterial Pathogenesis and Sensing characterised. • Science @ Work Group • The Science of Reproduction The ability to regulate gene expression in response As part of his role at the University of Kent, to environmental and endogenous signals is a key Professor Brown launched a new start-up Assessment factor in the evolutionary success of bacteria. company, Cangenix, from within the School Assessment is by coursework and dissertation/ Work in the Group is focused on understanding of Biosciences. Cangenix is a contract project. how bacterial gene expression is regulated at both research organisation that offers the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level by crystallography and biophysics services Research programmes mechanisms such as phase variation and quorum to the pharmaceutical and biotech sensing. Understanding the physiological industry. This has given a novel dimension Biochemistry MSc, MPhil, PhD significance of the control of properties to the School of Biosciences and a Cell Biology MSc, MPhil, PhD including adherence, tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and postgraduate research culture that focuses Genetics MSc, MPhil, PhD phenoxyacetate degradation is a particular interest. on industrial as well as academic research. Microbiology MSc, MPhil, PhD Bioprocessing and Molecular In 2013, Cangenix was acquired by Location: Canterbury. Therapeutics Group Argenta, part of Galapagos NV’s service Attendance: For Cell Biology and Genetics, MSc Many of the new drugs currently under division, one of Europe’s largest contract one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two development are based upon proteins rather than research organisations and will continue to years full-time or three years part-time, PhD three traditional small molecules. These protein drugs offer structure based drug design contract years full-time or five years part-time. For are produced for the treatment of diseases such research through Argenta. Biochemistry and Microbiology, MSc one year as cancer by cells kept in culture under defined full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two or three conditions but are often challenging and costly years full-time, or three or four years part-time, PhD to generate. The Group is primarily focused upon registration three to four years full-time or five to six defining biological mechanisms that underpin the years part-time. synthesis and bioprocessing of protein based Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 degree in a therapies from cellular expression systems, relevant subject. 50 Biosciences cont

Student profile

MARCO RICCI MSc CANCER BIOLOGY

What made you want to go into this area of study? What are you most enjoying about your studies? I have always had a passion for cancer research and find cell My course has turned out to be much more exciting and biology to be the most inspiring subject I have ever studied. engaging than I thought it would be – that isn’t to say that I The intricacy of cell pathways has always intrigued me and didn’t expect it to be good, but rather that it has exceeded my led me to want to investigate further. expectations. I feel like I am gaining the exact knowledge and experience that I signed up to the course for and, as a result, What are the facilities like? going in my desired direction career-wise. The teaching facilities couldn’t really get any better and the laboratories, as I’m just discovering through my end-of-year What are you planning on doing next? project, have just about everything you could desire for I am weighing up my options. I came into the course thinking making your experiment a success. I would love to go straight into cancer research, perhaps laboratory work. However, as my appreciation for science What about the teaching? communication has developed, I have begun to consider a Every staff member is clearly very passionate about their job in science journalism. Other jobs have crossed my mind subject and it comes across in their teaching. I really feel I such as teaching but surely it’s a good thing to have too many am learning from some of the best minds in their respective choices? fields. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/bio 51

particularly mammalian cells, with strong fungal cell such as protein synthesis, amyloids and Synthetic Biology Laboratory biotechnological and industrial links to exploit cell division, members of the KFG are also using Synthetic biology is an area of biological research technology that arises as a result. We are yeast to explore the molecular basis of human that combines science and engineering. This particularly interested in control of protein diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, involves the design and construction of new synthesis and mRNA translation in both a Huntington and Parkinson diseases as well as biological functions and systems not normally biotechnological sense and upon cold-shock. ageing. The KFG not only provides support for found within the cell. It can encompass the Surprisingly, the control of mRNA translation and both fundamental and medical/translational fungal optimisation of metabolic pathways found subsequent protein synthesis in mammalian cells research, but also provides an excellent training elsewhere in nature and ultimately could lead at subphysiological temperatures (cold-shock, environment for young fungal researchers. to the construction of completely new pathways o <37 C) and upon recovery is poorly described and even new life forms. In Kent, synthetic biology even though cold-shock is used in transplant Molecular Motors and the Cytoskeleton approaches have been used to enhance metabolic medicine, heart and brain surgery, implicated Group pathways for vitamin synthesis, optimise the in mammalian hibernation, brain plasticity and Movement is a fundamental feature of living production of bio-therapeutics and to introduce ageing, and is utilised in the biotechnology sector organisms and molecular motors are the proteins compartmentalisation into cells. as a method to improve recombinant protein that move cells and move things inside cells. One production. interest of the Group is the myosin family of motors Centre for Molecular Processing that are involved in movements such as muscle The School houses one of the University’s flagship Cancer Targets and Therapies Group contraction (cardiac and skeletal muscle), cell research centres – the Centre for Molecular A vigorous and active group of laboratories is division, phagocytosis and vesicle transport. We Processing (CMP). Here, staff from Biosciences, researching into various targets in human and correlate the properties of the myosins that can be Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Computing animal cancer cells. The specific interests include studied in solutions of purified proteins (structure, and Engineering combine their expertise into the underlying mechanisms of cancer drug function and regulation) with the behaviour of a pioneering interdisciplinary biosciences resistance and how growth factors, and their the same motors in healthy and damaged cells programme at Kent, in order to unlock the secrets receptors, (eg, the Epidermal Growth Factor from yeast to humans. Spectrin-based membrane of some of the essential life processes. These Receptor Family) are altered in cancer. Studies skeleton proteins line the inner face of the plasma approaches are leading to a more integrated into the role of cell adhesion molecules as potential membrane giving it resilience to the forces understanding of biology in health and disease. cancer drug targets also provide insight into how associated with movement. They also organise In the Centre, ideas and technology embodied in cancer cells can break off and spread throughout the plasma membrane so that cell-cell adhesions different disciplines are being employed in some the body. Other areas of interest include how are strengthened and signalling complexes are of the remaining challenges in bioscience. With normal processes of DNA repair go wrong in organised. We use cell culture and in vitro such an approach, new discoveries and creative cancer cells and the engineering of therapeutic analysis of spectrin and its associated proteins to ideas are generated through the formation of new antibodies as active cancer treatment agents. investigate the role of these cytoskeletal elements collaborative teams. In this environment, the CMP in generation of cellular phenotype, especially in is broadening and enriching the training of Each of these academic study areas has practical nerve, heart and red blood cells. Neighbouring students and staff in science and technology. and therapeutic applications pertaining to cells communicate with one another via gap prognosis, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of junctions that consist of clusters of intercellular Computational Biology Centre cancer with the potential to improve the outcome channels that permit cell-cell exchange. Two Principally a collaboration between the Schools for patients. gene families have evolved to form gap-junction of Biosciences and Computing, the Computational channels – the connexins and the innexins. We Biology Centre fosters interdisciplinary research Chromonomics and Reproductive use molecular genetic, cell biological and imaging and postgraduate teaching. The Centre builds on Medicine Laboratory techniques to investigate innexin function in vivo, a thriving culture of collaboration and is involved in in vitro expression systems to investigate the ‘Chromonomics’ is the term we like to use for the work related to the modelling of biological process electrophysiological properties of innexin channels. interface between chromosome research and the in normal life and disease; the imaging of study of whole genome sequences. The laboratory biological and disease processes and knowledge- Protein Folding and Nuclear Magnetic focuses on three main areas: 1) the study of the discovery in sequence and other biological Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) relationship between chromosome abnormalities, databases. fertility, IVF failure and pregnancy loss in human The biological properties of a protein depend gametes and embryos; 2) the use of pigs as a critically on its three-dimensional shape and hence model for studying the genetic basis of human proteins need to fold to reach their functional Staff research interests disease; and 3) the study of the evolution and states. Our work is currently focused on a catalyst Full details of staff research interests can be found genome structure of birds. The work has a strong of protein folding – protein disulphide isomerase. on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/bio/profiles applied element being translated into agriculturally This protein accelerates the rate of disulphide relevant products and knowledge of the bond reduction and formation enabling the Dr Anthony Baines: Reader in Molecular Cell development of novel tools for the diagnosis of substrate to reach its folded structure more quickly. Biology genetic disease in IVF embryos. With colleagues The group is using NMR and other biophysical The proteins of the membrane-associated at the London Bridge Fertility Centre, the lab was techniques to characterise this process in more cytoskeleton, in particular the protein spectrin; shortlisted for Research Project of the Year (2010) detail at a molecular level. NMR spectroscopy is the role of spectrin and protein 4.1 in acute heart by the Times Higher Education Supplement. a technique used to study the structure, binding failure. interactions and the dynamic nature of biological Kent Fungal Group molecules including cellular metabolites, metabolic Dr Ian Blomfield: Senior Lecturer in Molecular The Kent Fungal Group (KFG) brings together pathway intermediates, peptides and proteins. Our Microbiology a number of research groups in the School of expertise includes the design and implementation The regulation of gene expression in bacteria in Biosciences who primarily use yeasts or other of novel NMR experiments as well routine methods response to environmental signals encountered in fungi as ‘model systems’ for their research. One to solve biological problems. NMR-based projects the animal host; phase variation in E coli and other strength of the KFG is the range of model fungi aim to understand the relationship of structure to bacteria; the regulation of bacterial adhesions. being exploited for both fundamental and function in biomedical or biochemical systems medical/translational research. These include and our project base includes protein folding and Professor David Brown: Professor of Structural Bakers’ yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and cancer cell molecular recognition. An upgrade of Biology Fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) and the School’s 600 MHz NMR spectrometer in spring The elucidation and role of protein structure and yeasts associated with human disease, specifically 2011 includes a new console and cryoprobe. function in molecular processes, in particular those Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans. with a potential for therapeutic intervention through In addition to studying key cellular processes in the drug design.

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Dr Alessia Buscaino: Lecturer in Biosciences Dr Dan Lloyd: Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology Dr Anastasios Tsaousis: Lecturer in Biosciences Genetics and epigenetics of repetitive DNA Cellular responses to DNA damage, with particular Understanding the role and evolution of domains. emphasis on the repair of DNA damage in human mitochondria in eukaryotic parasites. cells induced by environmental and clinical agents; Dr Martin Carden: Lecturer in Cell and Molecular novel radiopharmaceuticals used in the imaging Professor Mick Tuite: Professor of Molecular Biology treatment of cancer. Biology The composition and function of the chaperonin The mechanism and control of translation in yeast; CCT inside cells, especially as related to Professor Martin Michaelis: Professor of Cell yeast prion proteins; molecular chaperones. cytoskeletal organisation; cell cycle control; Biology avoiding pathological protein aggregation. The investigation of anti-cancer drugs in Dr Tobias von der Haar: Senior Lecturer in chemoresistant cancer cells; the influence of Systems Biology Professor Mike Geeves: Professor of Physical chemoresistance development on cancer cell How the protein synthesis apparatus is regulated Biochemistry biology. in cells and how it can achieve synthesis of exactly How the mechanochemistry of the myosin motor the right proteome for the right occasion. domain is tuned to produce widely differing Dr Mehdi Mollapour: Lecturer in Biosciences activities and how the motor activity is regulated. Post-translational regulation of the Hsp90 molecular Professor Martin Warren: Professor of chaperone machinery; development of Hsp90 Biochemistry; Head of School Dr Campbell Gourlay: Lecturer in Cell Biology inhibitors in cancer therapy. Metabolic and genetic engineering; protein Investigating the role that the actin cytoskeleton structure and function; biosynthesis of natural and its regulation plays in cell homeostasis and Dr Dan Mulvihill: Reader in Biosciences products including vitamins, cofactors and mitochondrial function, with emphasis on the The characterisation of myosins from the fission prosthetic groups. mechanisms of ageing and apoptosis. yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which have been implicated in diverse roles in its life cycle; Dr Mark Wass: Lecturer in Biosciences Professor Darren Griffin: Professor of Genetics characterising enzymatic properties of these The use of structural bioinformatics tools to analyse The cytogenetic basis of male infertility, in myosins and correlating these with established genetic variation and the functional effects that they particular the role of genetic recombination and in vivo assays. may have in disease. changes in genome organisation; chromosomes in early human development and the application Dr Peter Nicholls: Senior Lecturer in Cell and Dr Richard Williamson: Senior Lecturer in for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis; comparative Molecular Biology Protein Biochemistry genomics and genome evolution in avian species. Engineered antibody as new radiopharmaceuticals The structure and function of proteins that play key for the treatment of AML; yeast and mammalian biological roles within the body or that are known to Professor Bill Gullick: Professor of Cancer systems for the expression of clinically relevant be important in human disease; protein folding. Biology recombinant proteins. Growth factors and their receptors in cancer, in Dr Wei-Feng Xue: Lecturer in Chemical Biology particular the types and amounts of receptors Dr Pauline Phelan: Lecturer in Cell Biology Investigation of the structure, the assembly in different cell lines and normal and cancerous Gap junctions in nervous and immune systems; mechanism, the biological and disease-associated tissues; how ligands interact with the receptors; assembly, regulation and functions of innexin- properties, and the physiochemical properties of how information is stored within the receptor based junctions. forms of protein known as amyloid. interactions and how incoming signals are processed into outputs via second messenger Professor Colin Robinson: Professor in Life proteins. Sciences Mechanisms of protein transport across biological Location Dr Emma Hargreaves: Leverhulme Research membranes; the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) Canterbury. Fellow system in bacteria and chloroplasts; protein sorting English language requirements Using a cross-disciplinary approach to unravel the in cyanobacteria. See p223. biology underpinning the functional (dys)regulation of translation initiation factor levels in malignant Dr Gary Robinson: Senior Lecturer in Microbial Fees and funding transformation; the development of systems Technology See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding biology models of translation initiation that have the The use of micro-organisms for biotransformations National ratings potential to inform cell line engineering/screening and bioremediation; microbial communication in Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: strategies to enhance recombinant protein yields host-pathogen interactions. 35% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or in the biotherapeutic industry. ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 40% Dr Jeremy Rossman: Lecturer in Virology judged as ‘internationally recognised’. Dr Mark Howard: Reader in Biomolecular NMR The role of morphology on the influenza virus Spectroscopy lifecycle and pathogenesis. Kent was ranked 12th in the UK for Biological The interaction, dynamics and structural Sciences students graduate employment characterisation of biomolecules; using structure Dr Mark Shepherd: Lecturer in Microbial prospects in The Guardian University Guide to understand extracellular and intracellular integrin Biochemistry 2014. signalling; enhanced structural stability in proteins Biosynthesis of haem; the structure/function of Applications and peptides; NMR spectroscopy techniques. bacterial globin proteins; resistance mechanisms of bacterial pathogens to nitric oxide; disulphide Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Dr Peter Klappa: Reader in Biochemistry folding; the use of haem precursors and derivatives Protein folding and the role molecular chaperones as novel antimicrobials. postgrad/apply and folding catalysts play in this process; the Research programmes structure, function and specificity of peptidyl prolyl Professor Mark Smales: Professor of See p232 or contact the School for further isomerases (protein-folding catalysts that contain Mammalian Biotechnology details. thioredoxin-like domains) and peptidyl proly cis- Protein and cell biotechnology; animal cell Further information trans isomerases. engineering; proteomics and protein bioprocessing. 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Canterbury and Medway BUSINESS

A world-class business school combining rigorous teaching with real world relevance and strong links to the business community. Our research, which is within the top 30 business schools, underpins and enhances our teaching.

Our flagship programme, the Kent MBA, has AMBA accreditation and together with our Master’s in Management, Marketing, Business Analytics, Human Resource Management, Logistics, Management Science, Value Chain Management and programmes in finance and accounting, we continue to attract applicants with a wide range of backgrounds from 102 countries leading to excellent results in the 2012 Guardian and Sunday Times University League Tables.

Studying at Kent Business School (KBS) gives you the opportunity to increase your employability with real-life case studies, a student council and a business society. We have strong links to local and national organisations providing opportunities for projects, internships and graduate placements. The School attracts many high-profile speakers from industry and last year included visits and lectures from staff of the Bank of England, BAE Systems, Barclays, Lloyds Insurance, Cummins, Delphi and Kent County Council.

The School currently has 60 PhD students, who form a dynamic and close-knit research community.

“As a postgraduate student, Programmes first point of contact throughout your studies. There is a lively postgraduate community at the School, you work much more closely Taught with plenty of space to relax and interact with your with the academics. I love • The Kent MBA fellow students and our academic staff. • Business Analytics MSc listening to their lectures in • Financial Markets MSc (see p116) An international focus which they are able to share • Financial Services in Banking MSc (see p116) • Human Resource Management MSc Kent Business School has more than 50 their experiences from different • International Accounting and Finance MSc internationally recognised academics from 22 parts of the world.” (see p117) different countries. Most of our teaching faculty • Logistics MSc are involved with researching the latest issues • Management (General) MSc in business and management, working with Sadiye Sadanoglu MSc Management Science • Management (International Business) MSc organisations to provide new insight for business • Management Science MSc leaders and policymakers. Their knowledge and • Marketing MSc (subject to approval) findings feed into the programmes to ensure they • Value Chain Management MSc are both cutting-edge and globally relevant.

Research Worldwide partnerships • Accounting PhD Kent Business School has close links with: ifs • Finance PhD (Institute of Financial Services); dunnhumby, who • Industrial Relations MA, PhD partner the Consumer Insight Service in the Centre • Management MA, PhD for Value Chain Research; Universiti Teknologi • Management Science MSc, PhD Malaysia, where we have strong research links • Marketing PhD in tourism management; Deggendorf University of • Operational Research MSc, PhD Applied Sciences (Germany); Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hong Kong Baptist University, with whom Postgraduate resources we offer a joint Master’s programme in Operational Kent Business School occupies a purpose- Research and Finance Business Statistics; designed building consisting of executive learning University of Castellanza (Italy); University of the facilities with wireless provision throughout. Each Littoral (France); University of Lille (France); postgraduate student is assigned a specific University of Rouen (France); University of Deusto member of academic staff who acts as your (Spain); and University of Tasmania (Australia).

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Dynamic publishing culture Business Analytics MSc Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Location: Canterbury. conference proceedings and books. Among Attendance: One year full-time. others, they have recently contributed to: Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 or Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Quantitative equivalent) preferably in a quantitative discipline. Finance; Human Resource Management Journal; International Journal of Market Research; European The Business Analytics MSc is less technical than Journal of Operational Research. Details of recently the MSc Management Science programme, (see published books can be found within the staff p55) and more applied and business oriented. research interests on p56. Greater emphasis is placed on data analysis and interpretation, predictive modelling and strategic business modelling. Taught programmes Please note, the optional modules shown for our This programme is ideal for graduates with a good programmes are not guaranteed and are subject background in a quantitative area seeking to gain to change. Optional modules offered in any given in-depth knowledge of analytical and predictive year are based upon the availability of the relevant modelling skills as well as management, resources within the School. communication and research skills.

The Kent MBA Course content • Compulsory modules: Applied Business Location: Canterbury. Modelling; Data Analysis and Forecasting; Entry requirements: A good degree from a UK Management of Operations; Management or other approved university and/or an equivalent Science Modelling; Research Methods; professional qualification; a minimum of three Statistics for Management. years’ relevant managerial work experience. In • Two from: Business in an International addition, applicants without a Master’s qualification Perspective; Financial and Management and with less than five years managerial work Accounting; Heuristics and Optimisation; experience are required to take the GMAT. We STAFF PROFILE Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain accept scores of 580 and above. An individual Management; Performance Management; interview will form part of the selection process. Alex Mohr Simulation and Optimisation Software. • One module drawn from any other Kent Business Professor of Strategy and International The Kent MBA combines a rigorous grounding School Master’s programme Business in business theory with opportunities to put it into • Dissertation of 8-10,000 words practice with global live case studies, a European Alex Mohr studied economics and study tour, Consultancy Week – working with a range management at the University of of businesses on live issues – and internships with Assessment Assessment is by coursework, examinations and Tuebingen, Germany; the University of high-profile, multinational corporations. Edinburgh; and the University of Erlangen- the dissertation. Nuremberg, Germany. He received his Throughout the duration of the Kent MBA you PhD and his habilitation from the University engage with a range of organisations, small, Human Resource Management MSc of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is a member medium and large, regional to multinational, Location: Canterbury. of the Academy of Management, the allowing you the experience to test theories Attendance: One year full-time. Academy of International Business, the immediately in real-world situations. With a small Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 British Academy of Management, and and diverse class you are encouraged to think, or equivalent) in business or a relevant social the Euro-Asian Management Studies question and find solutions from academics, sciences discipline. Applicants with extensive Association. organisations and fellow students. You are work experience in HR will also be considered. surrounded by strategic thinkers with commercial Alex’s research focuses on various aspects flair and global perspectives. The connections you Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel of international business strategy and make during this time will be with you for life. and Development (CIPD), this MSc offers you an international human resource management. insight into the principal areas of managing human His research has been published in Course content resources (HR) by providing critical assessment journals such as the Journal of Stage 1 of the human resource management (HRM) and International Business Studies, • Compulsory modules: Accounting and Financial employment relations (ER) approach. Our teaching Management International Review and Management; Contemporary Issues in Strategic staff are members of the University’s Centre for Journal of World Business. Much of his Management; The Fundamentals of Finance and Employment, Competitiveness and Growth, which research has resulted from consultancy Investment; International Business; Introduction was established in 2003 to develop world-class projects (eg, UNCTAD, Mercedes-Benz) to Strategy; Leadership and Change; Managing research and knowledge transfer activities via or has been carried out in co-operation Processes; Marketing Analysis and Planning; . a multidisciplinary approach to human resource with multinational corporations, such as • Two optional modules from: Applied Business management and operations management. Our Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and Accenture. Modelling; Corporate Finance; Entrepreneurship; approach is to inspire and develop your people- Innovation Management and New Product management skills to operate effectively in today’s Development; International Marketing; Managing challenging business environment. Complexity; Strategic People Management. Course content Stage 2 • Compulsory modules: Developing Business Upon successfully completing Stage 1, you Skills for HRM; HRM Business Report; HRM undertake a three-month internship and produce in Context; HRM and Development in Practice; two reports: a business report and a personal Leadership and Management; Research career development and management skills report. Methods. • Five from: Employee Resourcing; Employment Assessment Relations; HR Strategy; Learning and Assessment is by examination and coursework Development; Managing Diversity and plus the two reports. Equal Opportunities; The Psychology of Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/kbs 55

Selection and Assessment; Reward and of Operations; Marketing; Organisational Course content Performance Management. Behaviour and Human Resource Management; • Compulsory modules: Heuristics and • HRM Business Report (8-10,000 words) Strategy. Optimisation; Management Science Modelling; • Two from: Applied Business Modelling; Auditing; Research Methods; Simulation and Optimisation Assessment Digital Marketing; Globalisation and Corporate Software; Spreadsheet Modelling and Decision Assessment is by examination, coursework and the Social Responsibility; International Marketing Support Systems; Statistics for Management. HRM Business Report. Strategy; Leadership and Management; • Two from: Business in an International Managing Diversity and Equal Opportunities; Perspective; Data Analysis and Forecasting; Logistics MSc Managing Island and Coastal Tourism; Managing Financial and Management Accounting; Location: Canterbury. the Multinational Enterprise; Marketing Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Attendance: One year full-time. Communications; Social Entrepreneurs and Management; Management of Operations; Entry requirements: A good first degree Social Enterprises; Structure and Organisation Managing Complexity; Performance (2.1 or equivalent) preferably in a quantitative of the e-Enterprise; Tourism Development in Management. subject, eg, engineering, logistics, mathematics, Asia-Pacific. • One module drawn from any other Kent Business economics or statistics. School Master’s programme Stage 2 • Dissertation of 8-10,000 words The Logistics programme is aimed at students Upon successfully completing Stage 1, you take seeking to work at all levels of a company, from the Personal and Management Skills Development Assessment operational to the strategic level. The combination module, the Research Methods module and Assessment is by coursework, examinations and of quantitative and qualitative skills enables you to produce two reports: The Management Skills and the dissertation. be a strategic and critical thinker while being able Personal Development Report and the Business to address operational decisions as they occur. Report. Marketing MSc Location: Canterbury. You benefit from project work, live case studies Assessment Attendance: One year full-time. with real organisations, including a visit to a Assessment is by examination, coursework and Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 or company, and guest lectures that may enhance the Business Report. equivalent). Candidates with relevant professional your employability. experience may also be considered. Management (International Business) MSc Course content Location: Canterbury. The programme covers all aspects of marketing • Compulsory modules: Contemporary Topics Attendance: One year full-time. and equips the modern marketing manager with in Logistic Research; Data Analysis and Entry requirements: As for Management (General). all the necessary tools for a successful career. It is Forecasting; Introduction to Logistics and Supply aimed at business and management graduates, as Chain Management; Management of Operations; This programme provides an insight into a number well as other non-business graduates who wish to Spreadsheet Modelling and Decision Support of areas of general management, with particular enhance their marketing knowledge and expertise Systems; Warehousing and Transportation. emphasis on key aspects of international business. and follow a career in marketing related positions. • Two from: Digital Marketing; Financial and It gives you the tools, techniques and concepts The programme focuses on creating strong Management Accounting; Heuristics and to understand how international business is employability skills and accreditation from the Optimisation; Management Science Modelling; conducted and how firms and countries can Chartered Institute of Marketing has been sought. Managing the Multinational Enterprise; thrive in today’s global marketplace. Marketing; Organisational Behaviour and Course content Human Resource Management; Performance Course content • Modules covered include: Applied Marketing Management; Simulation and Optimisation Stage 1 Research; Buyer Decision-Making; Financial Software; Statistics for Management; Structure • Compulsory modules: As for Management and Management Accounting; Integrated and Organisation of the e-Enterprise. (General) programme plus Managing the Marketing Communications; International • One module drawn from any other KBS Master’s Multinational Enterprise. Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Marketing programme • Optional modules: three from the Management Report; Organisational Behaviour and Human • Dissertation of up to 12,000 words optional modules list (see above). Resource Management. • Optional modules include: Digital Marketing; Assessment Stage 2 Marketing for Social Change; New Product As for Business Analytics, see p54. As for Management (General). Development and Innovation Management. • Other optional modules may be available to be Management (General) MSc Assessment taken during the second term from within Kent Location: Canterbury. As for Management (General). Business School Attendance: One year full-time. • Marketing Report (8-10,000 words) Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 or Management Science MSc equivalent) in a non-business-related degree. Location: Canterbury. Assessment Attendance: One year full-time. Assessment is by examination, coursework and the This programme provides you with a broad Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 Marketing Report. understanding of all areas of general management or equivalent) preferably in a strong quantitative within an international business context. You study discipline such as statistics, engineering or logistics. Value Chain Management MSc key aspects of business and management, all Location: Medway. designed to build on your existing knowledge and The MSc in Management Science equips you with Attendance: One year full-time. experiences. This develops managerial expertise advanced quantitative analysis skills to support Entry requirements: A good first degree (2.1 or and capabilities necessary for a career in decision-making, identify the best course of action equivalent). A background or interest in marketing whichever area you choose, including running in complex business situations and optimise would be beneficial. An individual telephone your own business. processes, procedures and performance. interview will form part of the selection process. Emphasis is placed on learning fundamental Course content techniques from the fields of management science The Value Chain Management MSc is the only Stage 1 and operational research, and being able to apply programme in the UK to be double accredited by • Compulsory modules: Business in an mathematical modelling in an objective way to the Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply International Perspective; Financial and help solve complex strategic, operational and (CIPS) and the Chartered Institute of Marketing Management Accounting; Management managerial planning problems. (CIM). Backed by the input of researchers who are leaders in their fields and by one of our six 56 Business cont

centres of applied research, the Centre for Value Research groups Strategy and International Business Chain Research, this expertise underpins our Accounting and Finance Research in this group focuses on strategic teaching. alliances, non-market strategies, performance This group pursues research in a variety of areas management, business in emerging economies, including financial management in the public and This programme attracts top students keen to learn international strategy, management of multinational profit-seeking sector, environmental and social how to add value and improve efficiency through enterprises and corporate social responsibility. effective management of resources within, and aspects of accounting, cash flow analysis, the law between, businesses and to put learning into and practice of auditing, accounting history and practice. You benefit from project work, live case international accounting, financial econometrics, Staff research interests studies with real organisations and guest lectures corporate finance, asset pricing, real-estate Full details of all our PhD supervisors and that enhance your employability and lead to your modelling, security price behaviour. their interests can be found on our website: desired career path. www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff-subject-area.html Marketing Course content Research in this group cuts across four main Dr Louise Ashley: Lecturer in Human Resources • Compulsory modules: Consumer and domains including, marketing strategy and Management Organisational Buyer Behaviour; Data Analysis performance; product development and innovation; Career success; organisational politics; ethnic and Forecasting; Marketing; New Product buyer behaviour; and the management of supply diversity; gender diversity; political skill; politicians; Development and Innovation Management; (value) chains and market delivery systems. Strong occupational psychology. Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource links with industry and an international network of Management; Strategic Sourcing; Value Chain research partners support the Group’s empirical Dr Nader Azizi: Lecturer in Operations Analysis; Value Chain Management. research. The growing body of postgraduate Management • Two from: Financial and Management research students is at the heart of the theoretical Operational research; operations management; Accounting; Knowledge Management; and conceptual work in which the Group is optimisation; mathematical programming; Production and Operations Management; engaged. computational intelligence; logistics; Responsible and Sustainable Value Creation; manufacturing. Retail Management. Management Science • Dissertation of 8-10,000 words This group covers a wide range of research areas Dr Xuemei Bian: Senior Lecturer in Marketing in operational research and systems thinking. These Consumer studies; consumption behaviour Assessment include research in the area of logistics including (cognitive process and emotional process); As for Management Science, see p55. green logistics and network security with a special branding and brand management. emphasis on the innovative design and analysis of Research programmes heuristic and exact optimisation, DEA, operation Dr Vinh Sum Chau: Senior Lecturer in Strategy Strategy; strategic management; policy Accounting PhD management, multi-variate analysis, biometrics, multi-methodology and soft OR/systems. deployment; performance management; service Finance PhD quality; retail banking; Chinese cultural values; Industrial Relations MA, PhD People, Management and Organisation regulation; balanced scorecards; public service; utilities; quality management tools; dynamic Research examines themes in the areas Management MA, PhD capabilities; global financial crisis; organisational of employment relations, human resource Management Science MSc, PhD effectiveness; Asia-Pacific management; health management, organisational behaviour and management. Recent publications include: Marketing PhD leadership. The Group covers a wide range of Strategic Management: Principles and Practice Operational Research MSc, PhD research, including employment relationships, (co-author, 2010). Location: Canterbury and Medway. the role of social partners, the effects of skills, Start: September and January. technology and culture on the world of work, Entry requirements: A 2.1 at undergraduate level employee engagement, and the role of leadership. and, for PhD applicants, a Merit at Master’s level in a relevant discipline from a UK or other approved university and/or equivalent. You must submit a research proposal of approximately 1,500 words on your intended topic. PhD applicants who do not hold a first class honours degree (if still completing their Master’s programme) or a relevant Master’s degree with Distinction will be asked to pay a £100 application fee (deductible from the first year’s fees).

We have international expertise in the following areas: accounting; finance, operational research, international business strategy, organisational behaviour, human resource management, marketing and supply chain management. Supervisors are not allocated until each applicant’s qualifications and eligibility have been checked after submitting a full application online.

Master’s and PhD degrees are available in most of these areas or in the general subject area of management. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/kbs 57

Dr Li-Cheng Chang: Senior Lecturer in Financial Dr Abdullah Iqbal: Senior Lecturer in Accounting Accounting and Finance Institutional theory and organisational change; Market-based accounting research; corporate performance measurement and balanced finance; corporate governance; earnings scorecard; behavioural aspects of budgetary and management; operating and stock return management control; public sector accountability. performance; seasoned equity offerings; initial public offerings; Islamic finance. Dr Gavin Dick: Lecturer in Operations Management Professor Robert Jupe: Professor of Accounting Organisation commitment; management support; Rail privatisation; Railtrack; Network Rail; nuclear bullying; police; ISO9000; ISO9001; business privatisation; British Energy; London Underground performance; attribution; causation; quality privatisation; accounting history. Recent management in higher education. publications include: In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation Professor Andrew Fearne: Professor of Food (co-ed, 2009). Marketing and Supply Chain Management Supply chain management; value chains; food Dr Des Laffey: Senior Lecturer in e-Commerce marketing; consumer insight; loyalty card data; Search engines; comparison websites; social buyer-supplier relationships; value chain analysis; media; online gambling; new venture creation. sustainability; consumer behaviour. Dr Patricia Lewis: Reader in Management Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios: Reader in International Entrepreneurial identity; female entrepreneurs; Business ‘mumpreneurs’; femininity; postfeminism; gender Multinationals; foreign direct investment; culture; and organisations. Recent publications include: cultural distance; performance; political and civil Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of liberties; roles of subsidiaries; technology. Visibility in Organisations (co-ed, 2010); Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities (co-ed, 2012). Professor Warwick Funnell: Professor of Accounting and Finance Dr Shenxue Li: Senior Lecturer in Strategy STAFF PROFILE Public sector accounting; public sector Knowledge management; organisational learning; accountability; accounting history; constitutional dynamic capabilities; corporate rigidity; global Dr Maria Paola Scaparra accountability. Recent publications include: In talent management; decision-making; local Reader in Management Science Government We Trust: Market Failure and the knowledge; multinational company; international Delusions of Privatisation (co-ed, 2009); Critical strategy; cross-border management; China. Dr Scaparra moved to Kent Business Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in School in September 2004 from the the Modern Era (co-ed, 2012). Professor Steve Wenbin Liu: Professor of University of California, Santa Barbara, Management Science and Computational where she held a position as a Dr Marian Garcia Martinez: Reader in Mathematics postdoctoral researcher in infrastructure Performance management; bibliometrics; DEA; Agri-Environmental Economics and transportation planning. She earned Crowdsourcing; open innovation; online optimisation. her MSc in Engineering-Economic communities; co-creation; value creation; food Systems and Operations Research from industry; innovation performance; customer-value- Dr Ben Lowe: Reader in Marketing Stanford University in 2000 and a PhD focused innovation. Consumer behaviour; pricing; reference price; in Mathematics Applied to Economic innovation acceptance; innovation; water Decisions from the University of Pisa, consumption; virtual health communities; Dr Mark Gilman: Senior Lecturer in Industrial Italy, in 2002. She is currently a Reader nutrition labelling. Recent publications include: Relations and Human Resource Management in Management Science. Employment relations; regulation of labour, pay and Marketing Research: 2nd Asia Pacific Edition reward; HRM; SME growth and performance; SMEs (co-ed, 2010). In the last few years she has led an EPSRC- and HRM. Recent publications include: The Ten funded project titled ‘Design and protection Characteristics of Successful SMEs (co-author, Professor Martin Meyer: Professor of Business strategies for critical infrastructure systems 2012). and Innovation; Director of KBS and supply chains’. Dr Scaparra is a Science and technology indicators; university- member of the editorial board of the industry technology transfer; intellectual property Dr Mark Hampton: Senior Lecturer in Tourism journal International Regional Science management; science-based innovation; Management Review and of several operational research Tourism planning; tourism management; tourism programme evaluation. societies (OR, EURO, AIRO, INFORMS). impacts; developing countries; island tourism; She also acts as a reviewer for several island development; marine tourism; backpackers; Professor John Mingers: Professor of operational research and geographical south-east Asia; tax havens; offshore finance; Operational Research and Systems journals. political economy. Recent publications include: Multimethodology; pluralism; critical realism; ethics, Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development habermas; systems; SSM; soft systems; bhaskar; in the Less Developed World (forthcoming). semiotics; bibliometrics; h-index; citations; journal ranking. Professor Soo Hee Lee: Professor in Organisation Studies Professor Alex Mohr: Professor of Strategy Qualitative research: strategic thinking; design and International Business management; arts policy and management; Enterprises (MNEs); alliances; joint ventures; science and technology policy; product innovation; political strategies; international human resource digital strategy; new media; human computer management (IHRM); trust; expatriates; social interaction; organisation theory; international capital. Recent publications include: Multinationals management; artistic creativity and innovation. and Asia: Organizational and Institutional Relationships (co-ed, 2012).

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Dr Jesse O’Hanley: Senior Lecturer in Managing Gender Diversity in Asia: A Research Dr Shaomin Wu: Reader in Business-Applied Environmental Systems Management Companion (co-ed 2010); Human Resource Statistics Integer programming; heuristic algorithms; facility Management in a Global Context: A Critical Stochastic operations research; statistical data location; biodiversity conservation; natural resource Approach (co-author, 2012). analysis; warranty management; reliability analysis management; fish passage; species distribution and maintenance policy optimisation. modelling; climate change impacts; nature reserve Professor Katie Truss: Professor of Management selection. Employee engagement; strategic human resource management; gender; volunteering; public sector Professor Paul Phillips: Professor of Strategic management; change management; role of the HR Location Management department. Recent publications include: Strategic Canterbury and Medway. Tourism and hotels; e-business strategy; Human Resource Management (co-ed, 2012). English language requirements performance measurement and management; See p223 or check our website for individual emerging economies. Professor Radu Tunaru: Professor of programme requirements. Quantitative Finance Dr Chloe Preece: Lecturer in Marketing Property derivatives; financial engineering; Fees and funding Arts marketing in film and visual arts; production financial mathematics; MCMC applications in See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding and consumption in the visual arts; construction finance; statistical properties of risk measures; National ratings of authenticity. pricing and hedging of reverse mortgages; Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: calibration of market price of risk with stochastic 55% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ Professor Said Salhi: Professor of Management filtering methods; Markov Chain Monte Carlo or ‘internationally excellent’. Science and Operational Research Methods for risk management in asset-backed Logistics; routing problems; location problems; securities market; dependence modelling for AMBA-accredited MBA. heuristics; optimisation. portfolio analysis. Member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), CIPD, Dr Maria Paola Scaparra: Reader in Management Dr Nikolaos Voukelatos: Lecturer in Finance CIM and CIPS. Science Econometrics; risk-neutral densities; efficiency of Mathematical modelling; network and combinatorial options markets; forecasting; conditional variance Applications optimisation; location analysis; infrastructure models. Taught programmes protection planning; supply chain reliability. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Professor Veronica Wong: Professor of postgrad/apply Dr May Seitanidi: Senior Lecturer in Strategy Marketing Social partnerships between businesses and non- Marketing strategy; marketing of innovations; global Research programmes See p232 or contact the School on profit organisations; sustainability; corporate social and international marketing; drivers of marketing [email protected] responsibility. effectiveness and strategy implementation; new product and brand development; global product Further information Dr Jawad Syed: Reader in Industrial Relations launches and commercialisation of innovations. T: +44 (0)1227 827726 and Human Resource Management F: +44 (0)1227 761187 Gender; diversity; equality; knowledge Dr Maddy Wyatt: Lecturer in Human Resources E: [email protected] management; strategic human resource Management E: [email protected] management; international HRM. Recent Career success; organisational politics; ethnic Visit Kent Business School on Facebook and publications include: Managing Cultural Diversity diversity; gender diversity; political skill; politicians; Twitter. in Asia: A Research Companion (co-ed, 2010); occupational psychology. 59

Cantebury CHILD PROTECTION

The Centre for Child Protection is part of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) and is the first centre of its kind in Europe. Combining research with distance learning programmes and a range of innovative serious training games, the Centre for Child Protection is leading the way in building knowledge and training opportunities for professionals working in this area.

We aim to: • develop innovative techniques for professional training and support • translate and apply the latest research and knowledge to inform best practice • create diverse and flexible learning programmes • address gaps in post-qualification training provision and opportunities • facilitate safe and realistic environments in which child protection professionals can develop and enhance their skills and professional practice.

The Centre is led and informed by a team of experts in the field of child protection. With many years of experience in both research and practice, we are committed to improving the provision of continued professional development to enhance the skills of those involved in child protection.

“Fascinating material and Programmes family by a health visitor and social worker. Rosie 2 was followed by Visiting Elliot which explores a visit delivered in a variety of different Taught to a sex offender in the community. Zak, the third mediums that kept the interest. • Advanced Child Protection MA game in the series, focuses on an aspect of internet grooming. I’m already using what I have Postgraduate resources learned in my day job.” The Centre for Child Protection’s series of serious This course offers you the opportunity to study game simulations provide research-based case child protection through distance learning using studies and the opportunities to explore the Rebekah Button innovative and cutting-edge techniques and MA Advanced Child Protection complex dynamics involved in making professional Children’s Services, Team Manager technology. Teaching is delivered through the assessments and decisions in these contexts. use of inter-professional serious training games, expert lectures, in the form of audio and videoed podcasts, acted role plays and discussion forums. Taught programmes You access materials and online forums via Moodle, Advanced Child Protection MA the University’s Virtual Learning Environment and Location: Canterbury/distance learning. are assigned an academic adviser to support you Entry requirements: A minimum of a second class through the duration of the course. honours degree. In certain circumstances, the School will consider candidates who have not Serious training games followed a conventional education path and these cases are assessed individually. All successful The team at the Centre for Child Protection is candidates are required to have a Disclosure and leading the way in developing new and innovative Barring Service (DBS) check and attend an ways to deliver training and opportunities for interview. simulated role play for professional development. The serious game concept offers a safe medium Teaching is based on guided study using an online to explore and reflect upon child protection learning environment (Moodle), videoed expert assessment. It offers professionals, at all stages lectures, online seminars, ‘serious games’, acted of their careers, a unique way to evaluate real-life and filmed role plays, as well as web-based situations. monthly forum discussions. The first in the series of games, Rosie 2 promotes the theme of inter-professional practice by exploring the boundaries and challenges of a joint visit to the

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Course content Dr Derek Kirton: Reader in Social Policy and Modules cover the following: understanding social Social Work Location research; definitions, prevalence, causes and Child welfare policy and practice, especially the Canterbury. areas of adoption and foster care; remuneration consequences of child protection; contemporary English language requirements for foster carers; the later life experiences of people child protection practice and policies; new See p223. perspectives on assessment and observation; growing up in the care system. Recent publications support, help and intervention; the unconscious include: Child Social Work Policy and Practice Fees and funding at work; the organisational dimensions of risk (2009) See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding management. You also complete a dissertation Applications Dr Jane Reeves: Co-director, Centre for Child on your choice of a key aspect of child protection. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Protection; Director, Advanced Child Protection postgrad/apply Assessment MA Child welfare; young families; the perspectives of Serious training simulations A range of assessment methods ensure that theory young mothers and young fathers; serious training www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/ccp/game and research relate to contemporary professional games and the use of eye tracker technology. practice. Further information T: +44 (0)1227 823086 E: [email protected] Staff research interests Professor David Shemmings: Chair of Social Work; Co-director, Centre for Child Protection Attachment theory in child protection; Assessment of Disorganised Attachment and Maltreatment (ADAM) and family members’ involvement in child protection processes. Recent publications include: Developing Research-based Social Work Practice (co-author, 2010); Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice of Working with Children and Adults (co-author, 2011); Child Abuse: An evidence base for confident practice (co-author, 2012). 61

Canterbury, Athens and Rome CLASSICAL & ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Classical & Archaeological Studies examines the textual and material evidence for a wide cross-section of the ancient world and includes three convergent research and teaching pathways: ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology. Many core areas in the investigation of the ancient world can be studied with us at postgraduate level.

Classical & Archaeological Studies operates as a department of the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), and there are corresponding opportunities for a high level of interdisciplinary interaction (five modern languages, philosophy, theology and religious studies and comparative literature), in addition to the informal links with staff in the rest of the University researching medieval history, the history of science, and social anthropology. We have good partnerships with high-profile universities and organisations such as the Universities of Ghent and Lille 3, the Flemish Heritage Institute, UCLA, the Free University of Amsterdam and the VUB (Brussels).

We offer bursaries to enable students to participate in departmental fieldwork projects for three weeks at a time, covering travel, food and accommodation. Typically, around 30 students each year have been placed on research and training excavations in Britain, Italy (including Ostia, port of Rome) and Greece, relating to sites of Bronze Age Greek (Minoan), Iron Age, Roman, and Late Antique and Anglo-Saxon date.

“The chance to work with Programmes Europe. Kent is now the home of the Renfrew archive and collection, a major resource for University of Kent specialists Taught research on the history of archaeology, is very important to my • Ancient History MA archaeological theory, prehistoric Orkney • Ancient History (with a Term in Rome) MA and the Aegean Bronze Age. research.” (subject to approval) • Archaeology MA The Department has its own technician (Lloyd Sofie Vanhoutte • Archaeology of the Transmanche Region MA Bosworth), who is widely experienced and skilled in PhD Classical & Archaeological Studies • Hellenic and Hellenistic Near East MA landscape archaeology and geophysical surveying; • Heritage Management MA he supports staff research and project work. • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip • Roman History and Archaeology MA The University of Kent’s location is highly • Roman History and Archaeology (with a Term convenient for students who need to visit not only in Rome) MA (subject to approval) the British Library and other specialist libraries in London, but also the major libraries and research Research centres within Europe. • Classical & Archaeological Studies MA, PhD Training Postgraduate resources All postgraduate students in the School of European Culture and Languages have the The School has extensive literary holdings and opportunity to undertake both subject-specific many other facilities to support active research, and training and training provided by the Graduate the Templeman Library also has excellent holdings School. The School provides training workshops in all our areas of research interest. This includes an for all postgraduate students with teaching extensive range of English and foreign periodicals, responsibilities, bringing together students from all as well as specialist collections (the library of A S L its subject areas. Training courses are also offered Farquharson, specialising in the age of Marcus by the Library and Computing Services, and by the Aurelius, and generous donations from the libraries Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching of Victor Ehrenburg in ancient social history, (UELT). Anthony Snodgrass, Richard Reece and Jill Braithwaite in archaeology). We have access to Individual training is offered in accordance with Canterbury Cathedral Library, and to archaeological a student’s needs. We offer training in Greek and libraries and collections in Kent, such as the major Latin languages at the appropriate level; and collection of the Kent Archaeological Society, and specialist skills training in epigraphy, papyrology, first-rate connections with London and continental 62 Classical & Archaeological Studies cont

palaeography and Egyptology, artefact studies and interpretation. A key focus of the MA is on the The programme aims to engage you directly with fieldwork methods. Postgraduates have also gained cities of the Roman Empire, especially the capital, first-hand archaeological evidence, exploring areas experience by mounting their own independent Rome. A term is spent in Rome, in which you study such as the relationship of sites to their wider seminar programme to discuss work in progress the monuments and artefacts of the ancient city at landscape and cultural setting, processes of (in addition to taking part in staff/postgraduate first hand, visiting relevant sites and museums, with continuity and change within the archaeological research seminars). options to study site conservation and museum record, and the interpretation of material culture. presentation as well as the history of Rome. The teaching is geared towards students’ interest Dynamic publishing culture University of Kent staff are present for part of and career needs where possible. the spring term in Rome to ensure continuity Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, of academic guidance and pastoral support. The MA in the Archaeology of the Transmanche is conference proceedings and books. Among similar to the above programme, but has a regional others, they have recently contributed to: Acta The American University of Rome was founded focus on the rich archaeological record of southern Antiqua; European Journal of Archaeology; in 1969 and runs a wide-ranging series of and eastern England and north-west Europe, Latomus; Hermes; L’Études Classiques; Aegyptus; programmes in the arts and in business especially through the first millennia BC and Annual Review of the British School at Rome; administration, including the subjects of AD. There are many similarities between the American Journal of Archaeology. Details of archaeology, classics, and cultural heritage. The two regions: in Iron Age coins, burial patterns, recently published books can be found within campus is located in the Monteverde district of conquest and absorption by Rome, and the great the staff research interests on p64. Rome, a picturesque district with a wide range of ‘Saxon shore’ forts. Equally, there are profound shops and amenities. From nearby Trastevere, it is differences. Much of the archaeology is newly Taught programmes a short bus-ride to the historic centre of Rome with discovered; the remains are widespread and its extensive array of Roman sites, monuments and offer great potential for study. Ancient History MA museums. Location: Canterbury. Both programmes include day and longer visits Attendance: One year full-time (part-time enrolment Course content to view sites and material, to undertake practical possible). Compulsory modules taught at Canterbury and/or work, and to attend seminars and lectures at Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class Rome: partner institutions such as the other universities honours degree in ancient history, ancient history • Research Skills in Ancient History in the Transmanche partnership, the Flemish and archaeology, classical studies, classical and • Rome: Ancient Sites, Excavations and Museum Heritage Institute, University of Ghent and the archaeological studies or another relevant subject Collections in the Modern City Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques (or the equivalent). • Dissertation. Préventives.

The MA in Ancient History has a focus on research Canterbury Course content training that will place you in a strong position for • Age, Gender and Ethnicity in the Roman World • Compulsory module: Contemporary Archaeology further study for a PhD or for careers outside • Ancient Greek Science • Optional modules – two from: Ancient Greek academia that require research skills. The • The Greeks in Achaemenid Persia Science and Philosophy; Artefacts in programme provides a full study of the use of • The Political, Social and Economic History of the Archaeology; Early Medieval Archaeology; a variety of types of evidence that is underpinned Hellenistic World Late Antique Archaeology; Reading the Early by a core module focused on interpretation. A • Rome: the Myth of the Eternal City Modern Town; Settlement and Society in the wide range of modules in both Greek and Roman • Sexuality, Secrecy and Sin Transmanche Region During the Iron Age and History are offered that can be chosen as part of Roman Period; Transmanche Archaeologies. the MA. This allows you not only choice, but also Rome • Critical review topic of a subject area/class of the ability to specialise in a particular area of the • Bodies and Burial evidence (guided study module) subject. • Conserving Rome’s Monuments • Special subject assignment potentially relating • Late Antique and Byzantine Art to fieldwork and/or practical study (guided study Course content • The Mediterranean World module) • Compulsory modules: Latin or Ancient Greek at • Museum Management • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words an appropriate level (Beginners, Intermediate or • Roman Imperial Art and Architecture Advanced, according to ability); Research Skills Those studying on the Transmanche MA take in Ancient History; Dissertation. Assessment the Transmanche module and subject options. • Optional modules – two from: Age, Gender and The programme is assessed by coursework for Ethnicity in the Roman World; Ancient Greek each of the modules and by the dissertation. Assessment Sciences; The Greeks in Achaemenid Persia; As for Ancient History (with a Term in Rome). The Political, Social and Economic History of Archaeology MA the Hellenistic World; Rome; Sexuality, Secrecy Archaeology of the Transmanche Region Hellenic and Hellenistic Near East MA and Sin. MA Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A degree in classical studies Assessment A first or upper-second class or a related discipline. A background in ancient The programme is assessed by coursework for Entry requirements: honours degree in archaeology, classics, Latin, Greek language is advantageous, but not required. each of the modules, an examination in Latin or Greek, ancient history or equivalent. Ancient Greek and by the dissertation. This programme trains you in the issues relating to The MA in Archaeology introduces you to the the contact between the Greek world and the Near Ancient History (with a Term in Rome) MA archaeology of selected periods and regions, East in Classical and Hellenistic periods. You learn (subject to approval) through a distinctive programme that relates this to use literary, historical, theological and linguistic Location: Canterbury and Rome. to wider spheres of evidence and understanding approaches to the period in isolation and Entry requirements: As for Ancient History. in archaeology. It provides you with a robust combination. All students undertake training in grounding in theories, methods and approaches Ancient Greek language at a standard appropriate The MA in Ancient History with a Term in Rome has within contemporary archaeology (covering, for to their level of prior knowledge and the literature of a focus on research training that places you in a instance, phenomenology and post-processualism) the Eastern Greek world. strong position for further study for a PhD, or for through a core taught module. You can then careers outside academia that require research specialise in selected periods (such as later The programme then considers areas of religious, skills. The programme provides a full study of prehistory or the Roman era) and regions through historical, literary or scientific interest in detail. You the use of a variety of types of evidence that a range of taught and directed study modules. develop a strong appreciation of the mechanics of is underpinned by a core module focused on Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics 63

cultural contact and cultural diversity, as well as On successful completion of the Diploma engaging with developments in religion, language and through meeting the University’s rules of and science, while building on your research and progression, you may choose to study on one analytical skills. of the programmes within the following disciplines: • Classical & Archaeological Studies Course content • Comparative Literature • One from: Beginner’s Greek; Intermediate • English Language and Linguistics Greek; Advanced Greek; Greek Philology. • French • Optional modules – two from: Ancient Greek • German Science and Philosophy; The Greeks in • Hispanic Studies Achaemenid Persia; Hellenistic Art and • Italian Architecture; The Political, Social and Economic • Philosophy History of the Hellenistic World; Sexuality, • Religious Studies. Secrecy and Sin. • Dissertation of 15,000 words Assessment Assessment is through a combination of Assessment assignments, coursework and examinations. As for Ancient History, see p62. Roman History and Archaeology MA Heritage Management MA Location: Canterbury. Location: Athens. Attendance: One year full-time (part-time enrolment Attendance: 18 months full-time. possible). Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class Entry requirements: As for Ancient History, honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. see p62.

The MA in Heritage Management is a unique This unique MA is designed for students who wish programme combining the worlds of archaeology to adopt a twin-tracked approach to the past by and business and is taught in Athens at Eleusis, using both historical and archaeological evidence. an area of world-class archaeological significance. The aim of the programme is to provide research STAFF PROFILE It focuses on teaching the skills required for the training in preparation for further study for a PhD management of heritage sites across the world or for a career outside academia that requires Professor Ray Laurence and how to work effectively with archaeologists, research skills. A key focus of the MA is on the Head of Classical & Archaeological architects, conservators, marketing and education cities of the Roman Empire, including the capital, Studies specialists while also fundraising and supervising Rome. There is also the possibility of specialising specific projects. in the study of age, gender and ethnicity, as well Prior to coming to Kent, Professor as taking modules in the wider history and Laurence spent over 13 years at the This new programme is a collaborative dual archaeology of the Roman period. University of Reading where he taught award from the University of Kent and the Athens Roman History and contributed to courses University of Economics and Business (AUEB), a Course content on the Classical Tradition. This included the partnership which ensures world-class tuition and • Compulsory modules: Contemporary development of the teaching of the City an interdisciplinary learning environment. It is Archaeology; Research Skills in Ancient of Rome to both undergraduates and overseen by the Initiative for Heritage Conservancy, History; Dissertation. postgraduates. In 2005, he moved to a dynamic new research and education project • Optional modules – two from: Age, Gender the University of Birmingham – where he with international funding, which is creating its and Ethnicity in the Roman World; Artefacts in taught courses on Pompeii; Roman Italy; own opportunities in the field. Archaeology; Late Antique Archaeology; The and contributed to the multi-disciplinary Political, Social and Economic History of the module on Cities. Assessment Hellenistic World: An Overview; Rome; Settlement The programme is assessed through a combination and Society in the Transmanche Region from Ray predominantly researches in the areas of coursework, oral presentation, and/or the Iron Age to Early Roman Period; Sexuality, of Roman History, Roman Archaeology, examinations as well as by the dissertation. Secrecy and Sin; Themes in the Archaeology Classics, Classical Tradition and Cultural of the Transmanche Region. Heritage. He was awarded the Leverhulme Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip Trust Major Grant (£129,000) 2009-2012 Location: Canterbury. Assessment for Age and Imperialism: Acculturation Attendance: One year full-time. As for Ancient History (with a Term in Rome), and Communications in the Western Entry requirements: An honours degree in a see p62. Mediterranean, which funds the related subject. Consideration will be given to construction of a database of all Latin applicants holding equivalent qualifications or Roman History and Archaeology (with inscriptions that mention age at death. work experience. a Term in Rome) MA (subject to approval) Location: Canterbury and Rome. Ray has supervised PhD students to This programme offers you the opportunity to Entry requirements: As for Ancient History, completion on a variety of topics in develop your independent study and research see p62. Roman history, Roman archaeology skills through a combination of subject modules and the reception of antiquity. within the School of European Culture and For course description, content and assessment, Languages. In addition, as part of your programme see Ancient History (with a Term in Rome), p62. you have the opportunity to improve your English language competence with dedicated English and Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by Kent International Pathways.

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Research programmes Staff research interests David Nightingale: Senior Lecturer in Ancient History Full details of staff research interests can be found Classical & Archaeological Studies MA, Social, economic and financial aspects of the on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff PhD Roman Republic and Empire. Location: Canterbury. Dr Anne Alwis: Senior Lecturer in Classical Entry requirements: As for Archaeology, see p62. Professor Karla Pollmann: Professor of Classics Literature Byzantine literature and culture. Each research student is assigned two internal Late Antiquity and Byzantium; hagiography; gender studies; Greek palaeography. Recent publications supervisors who arrange the programme of study Dr Ellen Swift: Senior Lecturer in Archaeology include: Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and and research to suit individual interests. Artefact studies; Roman dress accessories; the Byzantine Hagiography (2011). late post-Roman transition in the West; Roman art. Staff have received research finance from sources Recent publications include: Objects In Context, Dr Patty Baker: Senior Lecturer in Archaeology including the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity The archaeology of the Roman army and frontier; Research Council (AHRC), Leverhulme Trust, (co-ed, 2008); Style and Function in Roman archaeology and gender; classical medicine. English Heritage, European Union funds and Decoration (2009). University sources. In the last couple of years, Recent publications include: Medicine and Space: Body, Buildings and Borders in the Classical and we have been awarded INSTAP funding totalling Dr Steven Willis: Senior Lecturer in Archaeology Medieval Traditions (co-ed, 2011). $30,000 and grants from the Mediterranean Britain and Europe in the first millennium BC, the Archaeology Trust, UCLA and the Cotsen western Roman provinces, later prehistoric pottery Dr Adam Bartley: Lecturer in Classical Corporation (€300,000). and artefacts; samian pottery; the archaeology of Literature the Transmanche area; landscape and maritime Greek and Roman epic; Greek satire; studies. Recent publication projects include: the Research areas historiography. Recent publications include: A Roman villa and landscape at Ingleby Barwick, Commentary of Lucian’s Dialogi Marini (2009); Archaeology Stockton, and the Roman Roadside Settlement A Lucian for our Times (2009). Currently particular areas of interest are: and ritual complex at Nettleton, Linconshire. • the history of archaeology; artefact studies; Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas: Lecturer in Archaeology later prehistoric ceramics Archaeoastronomy; Greek ritual; religious • the archaeology of the Roman army and frontier, timekeeping; catasterism myths. archaeology and gender; classical medicine; Location Minoan iconography, Mycenaean administration, Canterbury, Athens and Rome. Dr Arthur Keaveney: Reader in Ancient History Mycenaean epigraphy, ritual theory and general History of the Roman Republic; Achaemenid English language requirements Bronze Age Aegean; archaeoastronomy; Persia; neo-Latin. Recent publications include: See p223. catasterism myths; later prehistory in The Persian Invasions of Greece (2011). temperate Europe, including the British Isles Fees and funding • the archaeology of the Roman era in Britain and See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis: Senior Lecturer the Western Provinces; Roman artefacts and art; Minoan iconography; Mycenaean administration; National ratings samian ware; the late post-Roman transition in ritual theory; general Bronze Age Aegean. Kent was ranked 5th in the UK for archaeology the West; the archaeology of early medieval and 4th in the UK for classics in the National Britain and northern Europe Dr Csaba La’da: Reader Student Survey 2012. • landscape and settlement studies Late period, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine • the archaeology of upland environments; Applications Egypt; archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece; the archaeology of the Transmanche area; Greek and Egyptian papyrology, epigraphy Taught programmes investigating the Mediterranean city in late and palaeography. Recent publications Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Antiquity (AD 300-650); late antique cities. include: Ptolemaic Documentary Papyri from the postgrad/apply Papyrussammlung Erzherzog Rainer, Vienna (2008). Research programmes Classical Studies, Late Antiquity and See p232 or contact the Department for Byzantium Professor Ray Laurence: Head of Department further details. Key research areas are: ancient narrative literature, Roman history, Roman archaeology, classics, Further information especially the novel; classical literature; Greek classical tradition, cultural heritage. Recent palaeography; Greek satire; Greek and Roman publications include: Roman Passions: A History Archaeology epic; Lucian; hagiography; Byzantium; of Pleasure in Imperial Rome (2010); Rome, Ostia, Dr Patty Baker historiography; and gender studies. Pompeii: Movement and Space (co-ed, 2011); T: +44 (0)1227 827349 The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural E: [email protected] Ancient History Change (2011); Travel and Geography in the Classics and Ancient History Achaemenid Persia; archaic, classical and Roman Empire (co-ed, 2011); Roman Archaeology Dr Csaba La’da Hellenistic Greece; late period, Hellenistic, Roman for Historians (2012). T: +44 (0)1227 827522 and Byzantine Egypt; the history of the Roman E: [email protected] Republic; the life course; roads and the landscape Dr Luke Lavan: Lecturer in Archaeology of the Roman Empire; tourism and the classical Late antique archaeology; the archaeology of late tradition; the social, economic and financial antique cities; visualisation of the ancient world. aspects of the Roman Republic and Roman Recent publications include: Objects in Context, Empire; the history of the Roman army; Greek Objects in Use (co-ed, 2008); Technology in and Egyptian papyrology; epigraphy; Transition AD300-650 (co-ed, 2008); The palaeography; and neo-Latin. Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism (co-ed, 2011). Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS) See p108. 65

Canterbury and Paris COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Comparative Literature at Kent offers an excellent environment for the postgraduate study of literature beyond national and linguistic borders.

The research interests of our staff are specifically comparativist in nature, and include the European avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism, postcolonial literature, literary theory, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. In addition to the research expertise of our staff, all postgraduates in Comparative Literature benefit from the activities organised by the Centre for Modern European Literature. These include lectures by prestigious guest speakers, research seminars, conferences and a reading group.

Comparative Literature is part of the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), which embraces eight other disciplines: Classical & Archaeological Studies, English Language and Linguistics, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Philosophy and Religious Studies. This means that students enrolled on a postgraduate programme in Comparative Literature can draw on the excellent resources of a diverse team of teachers with expertise in many key areas of European culture.

“This is a rather unique Programmes School. The School provides training workshops for postgraduate students with teaching programme, for even though Taught responsibilities, bringing together students from all there are many literature • Comparative Literature MA its subject areas. Research students gain further • Comparative Literature (Paris) MA academic experience by giving research talks in departments all over the • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip the Centre for Modern European Literature seminar world, Kent seems to be the only • Modern European Literature MA series, and attending national and international • Postcolonial Studies (Paris) MA university setting such a strong conferences. focus on the comparative aspect, Research Language speaking • Comparative Literature MA, PhD by actually having a department Every year, a considerable number of native for it. It was this aspect that I speakers of foreign languages follow our courses, Postgraduate resources and several European exchange students stay found appealing and that made The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in on to do graduate work. There are also foreign- me decide to study here.” all our areas of research interest, with particular language lectors who are either combining strengths in modern European literature. The teaching with a Kent higher degree or completing Ann-Christine Kinzer School of European Culture and Languages a dissertation for their home universities. We can MA Comparative Literature provides high-quality IT facilities, with state-of-the- assist with language-training needs for overseas art language laboratories, dedicated technical postgraduates, particularly where English is staff and designated areas for postgraduate study. concerned, and are also involved in the Erasmus Language-learning and translation facilities include and Tempus networks. eight all-purpose teaching rooms, two networked multimedia laboratories and a streamed film library, Dynamic publishing culture as well as satellite TV channels offering self- instruction facilities. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: Comparative Training Critical Studies; French Studies; Forum for Modern All postgraduate students in SECL have the Language Studies; German Life and Letters; opportunity to undertake both subject-specific Modern Language Review. Details of recently training and an extensive postgraduate skills published books can be found within the staff training programme provided by the Graduate research interests on p67.

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Taught programmes Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip Comparative Literature MA Location: Canterbury. Attendance: One year full-time. Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant related subject. Consideration will be given to subject (eg, English, French, German, Italian, applicants holding equivalent qualifications or Hispanic Studies, Classics), or equivalent. work experience. The programme comprises three main interweaving This programme offers you the opportunity to strands: develop your independent study and research • themes and major figures in European literature skills through a combination of subject modules • interactions between European national within the School of European Culture and literatures, as reflected in important genres Languages. In addition, as part of your programme such as autobiography and the fantastic you have the opportunity to improve your English • comparative literature in theory and practice, language competence with dedicated English and with an emphasis on the history of the discipline Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by and ways of reading literature comparatively. Kent International Pathways. These complementary strands encourage On successful completion of the Diploma comparative analysis in a variety of contexts: and through meeting the University’s rules of national literatures, genres, media and theory. progression, you may choose to study on one of the programmes within the following disciplines: Course content • Classical & Archaeological Studies • Three from: Comparative Literature in Theory • Comparative Literature and Practice; European Modernism; European • English Language and Linguistics Tales of the Fantastic; Late Modernism; • French Literature and Medicine; Postcolonial Cultures; • German Writing the Self; Writing Unreason. • Hispanic Studies • One option from those listed above or offered by STAFF PROFILE • Italian other departments in the Faculty of Humanities • Philosophy • Dissertation of 12,000 words Shane Weller • Religious Studies. Head of SECL; Professor of Comparative Literature; Co-director of the Centre for Assessment Assessment is by one 5,000-word essay for each Assessment Modern European Literature Assessment is through a combination of module, and the dissertation. assignments, coursework and examinations. An alumni of the University of Oxford and Comparative Literature (Paris) MA Yale University, he taught at Oxford before Modern European Literature MA Location: Canterbury and Paris. coming to Kent. His teaching and research Location: Canterbury. Attendance: One year full-time. interests lie in the fields of modern Entry requirements: As for Comparative Literature. Entry requirements: As for Comparative Literature. European literature and literary theory, Language requirements: You are expected to be tragedy and film adaptation, and literature able to read literary works in any TWO of the This programme enables you to study in and madness. following European languages (in addition to Canterbury in the autumn term and in Paris in the English): French, German, Italian, Spanish. He has written books on Samuel Beckett, spring term. The autumn term modules are the same as those for the standard MA in Comparative literature and ethics, literature and nihilism The programme is designed for students who wish Literature. The spring term modules are taught by and essays on a range of writers and to range beyond any one national tradition and to staff from the University of Kent and occasional literary theorists, such as Georges Bataille, study major writers, genres, and movements within guest lecturers, ensuring consistent academic Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Franz the broader context of modern European literature. standards and assessment throughout the year. Kafka, Wyndham Lewis, Sylvia Plath and It also gives you the opportunity to read literary These modules are designed to be specifically W G Sebald. works in their language of original composition. relevant to the experience of living and studying in Paris. You are encouraged to make full use of He is a member of the editorial board Course content Paris’ cultural resources and to integrate these into of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript • Three from: Comparative Literature in Theory your studies. University of Kent staff are resident in Project and sits on the executive committee and Practice; European Modernism; European Paris during the spring term to ensure year-long of the British Comparative Literature Tales of the Fantastic; Late Modernism; Literature continuity of academic guidance and pastoral Association. and Medicine; Literature and Theory; Modern support. Spanish Art, Music and Popular Culture; The Professor Weller is the Programme Director Night in French Literature; Postcolonial Cultures; of the MA in Comparative Literature. Course content Postmodern French Detective Fiction; Theories Canterbury of Art in Modern French Thought; Writing the Self; As for Comparative Literature. Writing Unreason; Writing the City; plus modules offered by the School of English. Paris • Dissertation of 12,000 words • Two from: Diaspora and Exile; Entente Cordiale – Myth or Reality; Film and Modernity; Paris and Assessment Modernism; Paris: Reality and Representation. As for Comparative Literature. • Dissertation of 12,000 words

Assessment As for Comparative Literature.

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Postcolonial Studies (Paris) MA Research programmes Research centres Location: Canterbury and Paris. Comparative Literature MA, PhD Centre for Language and Linguistic Attendance: One year full-time. Location: Canterbury. Studies (CLLS) Entry requirements: As for Comparative Literature, Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant See p108. see p66. subject (or equivalent) and the appropriate language skills. This programme explores colonial and postcolonial Centre for Modern European Literature discourses and the most significant strands of Many of the most significant European writers Research students need to demonstrate postcolonial theory. You study the role that culture and literary movements of the modern period competence in the relevant languages. plays in anti-colonial struggles and the role of the have traversed national, linguistic, and disciplinary postcolonial intellectual in the contemporary world, borders. Co-directed by members of Comparative as well as interactions between the Anglophone, Research areas Literature, French, and German, the Centre for Francophone, Hispanic and Lusophone spheres Modern European Literature aims to promote Areas of particular research strength in of postcolonial cultures. Areas for consideration collaborative interdisciplinary research that can Comparative Literature at Kent include the include representative works of literature and do justice to these kinds of border crossing. European avant-garde, modernism and such topics as language, identity, gender, and postmodernism, postcolonial literature, literary nationhood. During the spring term, spent in Paris, Ranging across English, French, German, Italian theory, literature and medicine, literature and the you develop your studies to include the cultural and Spanish literature, the Centre focuses in visual arts, literature and sexuality, and literature production of exiles, with particular focus on the particular on the European avant-garde, European and philosophy. The list below indicates the range role of Paris as a place of refuge and as a focus modernism and postmodernism, literary theory, the of current research interests of members of staff for multicultural encounters and creativity. international reception of European writers, and the within Comparative Literature and the other relations between modern European literature and disciplines with whom we work closely. Many the other arts, including painting, photography, film, Course content of these staff are members of the Centre for Canterbury music and architecture. The Centre’s activities Modern European Literature. They can supervise • Two from: Comparative Literature in Theory and include a lecture and seminar series and the postgraduate students for the MA or PhD degrees Practice; Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses; regular organisation of conferences. It also in any of their respective areas of expertise. If you Literature and Theory; Postcolonial Cultures. works with the editors of the postgraduate are considering applying to undertake a research journal Skepsi, and runs the MA in Modern degree, we encourage you to contact us to discuss Paris European Literature. your plans at an early stage of your application. • Two from: Diaspora and Exile; Paris: Reality and Representation; Screening Histories. • The European avant-garde Staff research interests • Modernism and postmodernism • Dissertation of 12,000 words Dr Thomas Baldwin: Reader; Head of French; • Postcolonial literature Director, Modern French Studies MA • Literary theory Assessment See p124. • Literature and medicine Assessment is by coursework and the dissertation. • Literature and philosophy Dr Francesco Capello: Lecturer For further information about the University of Kent, • Literature and sexuality See p141. Paris, please see p230. • Literature and the visual arts Professor Lorenzo Chiesa: Professor of Modern European Thought; Head of Italian See p141.

Dr Ian Cooper: Lecturer; Director, Modern German and Comparative Literature MA; See p128.

Dr Larry Duffy: Lecturer See p125.

Dr James Fowler: Senior Lecturer See p125.

Dr Katja Haustein: Lecturer French and German autobiographical writing; visual culture; memory and identity; literature and the emotions; women and gender; art and medicine. Recent publications include: Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and Affect in Proust, Benjamin and Barthes (2012). www.kent.ac.uk/secl/complit/staff

Dr Deborah Holmes: Senior Lecturer; Head of German See p128.

Professor Ben Hutchinson: Senior Lecturer; Co-director, Centre for Modern European Literature See p128.

Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll: Senior Lecturer See p131.

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Dr Ana de Medeiros: Reader in French and Life Dr Axel Stähler: Reader; Director, Postcolonial Writing; Academic Director, University of Kent, Studies MA Location Paris Jewish literature and culture; early modern Canterbury and Paris. See p125. European festival culture; the 18th-century English language requirements novel in Europe; intermediality and ‘iconarratology’; See p223. Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán: Lecturer postcolonial literature and theory; contact zones Modernism, 20th-century Hispanic and Latin and intercultural communication; fundamentalism Fees and funding American literature; Borges, Cortázar, Joyce; and literature. Recent publications include: See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding reception studies; medical humanities. Recent Literarische Konstruktionen jüdischer National ratings publications include: Borges and Joyce: An Postkolonialität. Das britische Palästinamandat Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Infinite Conversation (2011). in der anglophonen jüdischen Literatur (2009); French, German and Hispanic Studies ranked www.kent.ac.uk/secl/complit/staff Anglophone Jewish Literature (2009); Writing in the top 30 nationally. Fundamentalism (co-ed, 2009). Dr Lucy E O’Meara: Lecturer www.kent.ac.uk/secl/complit/staff Applications See p125. Professor Shane Weller: Head of SECL; Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Professor Peter Read: Chair of French Director of Postgraduate Studies in Comparative postgrad/apply See p125. Literature; Co-director, Centre for Modern European Literature Research programmes Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner: Senior Lecturer; European modernism, postmodernism and literary See p232 or contact the Department for Head of Comparative Literature; Co-director, theory; Beckett, Kafka, Blanchot, Celan, Bernhard, further details. Centre for Modern European Literature Sebald; literature and ethics; literature and Further information Modernist literature; the history of sexuality; the philosophy. Recent publications include: Literature, Professor Shane Weller European avant-garde; the history of medicine Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests T: +44 (0)1227 824716 and psychoanalysis. Recent publications include: (2008); Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (ed, 2009); E: [email protected] Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Modernism and Nihilism (2011); Modernist Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930 (2011); Eroticisms: European Literature after Sexology Modernist Eroticisms: European Literature (co-ed, 2012). after Sexology (co-ed, 2012). www.kent.ac.uk/secl/complit/staff www.kent.ac.uk/secl/complit/staff 69

Canterbury and Medway COMPUTING

Our world-leading researchers, in key areas such as systems security, programming languages, communications, computational intelligence and memory management, and in interdisciplinary work with biosciences and psychology, earned us an outstanding result in the most recent national research assessment. In addition, two of our staff have been honoured as Distinguished Scientists by the ACM and we have also held Royal Society Industrial Fellowships.

As an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, the School of Computing is a leader in computer science teaching. Two of our staff have received the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education. We are also home to two National Teaching Fellows, to authors of widely used textbooks and to award-winning teaching systems such as BlueJ.

We provide an extensive support framework for our research students and encourage involvement in the international research community.

While studying taught Master’s, you can gain work experience through our industrial placement scheme or with the Kent IT Clinic, which provides a project-based consultancy service to businesses in the region. We have strong links with industry including Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle and are among the top ten in the UK for graduate employment prospects. “My PhD allows me to explore Programmes Taught Master’s with other schools Taught Conversion Master’s • Information Security and Biometrics MSc my own personal interests in (taught jointly with the School of Engineering • Computer Science MSc* computer science and make my and Digital Arts, see p93) own discoveries. I am no longer Taught Advanced Master’s Research • Advanced Computer Science MSc* studying other people’s ideas, • Computer Science MSc, PhD • Advanced Computer Science (Computational but creating my own.” Intelligence) MSc* • Advanced Software Development MSc* Postgraduate resources Edward Barrett • Computer Security MSc* PhD Computer Science The School of Computing has a large range of • Future Computing MSc* equipment providing both UNIX (TM) and PC- • Networks and Security MSc* based systems and a cluster facility consisting of 30 Linux-based PCs for parallel computation. New Taught IT and Business Master’s resources include a multi-core enterprise server (taught jointly with Kent Business School) with 128 hardware threads and a virtual machine • Computing and Entrepreneurship MSc* server that supports computer security • Digital Enterprise and Information Systems MSc experiments. (subject to approval) • IT Consultancy MSc* All students benefit from a well-stocked library, giving access to e-books and online journals as * All taught Master’s programmes at Canterbury are well as books, and a high bandwidth internet available with an optional industrial placement or gateway. The School and its research groups hold may be combined with a Pre-Master’s course to a series of regular seminars presented by staff as form an International Master’s programme. well as by visiting speakers and our students are welcome to attend. Taught Pre-Master’s • Computer Science GDip Our taught postgraduate students enjoy a high • Computing GDip level of access to academic staff and have their own dedicated laboratory and study room. Students whose course includes an industrial placement are supported by a dedicated team which helps them gain a suitable position and provides support throughout the placement.

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Student profile

DANIEL KNOX PhD COMPUTER SCIENCE

What are you researching? academic ‘problems’ and my own projects. For example, a Because computer science is regarded as a vocational lecturer in my department helped me to see some data that subject, I am interested in the different kinds of ‘practice’ that I had collected in a new light. occur within the discipline, such as professional and academic practice. I am researching how the development of ‘place’, What’s different about postgraduate study? formed from the social interactions of people in different You’re in control. I have to decide what I work on each day and spaces, can afford different kinds of learning. make sure things get done. I can choose to work on research, teaching, my academic development or my own smaller How have you found the supervision process? projects each day. Many days I do them all; it involves long My supervisor goes above and beyond. She lets me know hours, but is very rewarding. There is also no ‘right or wrong’ when I am going down the wrong path, is always around so answer any more. This means that I have to defend my that I can quickly chat to her about my work and points me in position, based upon my research and literature in the field. the right direction for new opportunities. How have you funded your studies? What are you most enjoying about your studies? My studies are funded by an EPSRC scholarship, which funds Everyone has their specialism and they are happy to share research in science and engineering. I also do some teaching their knowledge. This means that there is always help for each term, which provides me with a little more income. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pg 71

Our full-time research students are offered Programming explore a variety of advanced topics. Depending funds for academic conference travel, to assist All courses at Canterbury include at least one on the options chosen, this course can serve as in publishing papers and getting involved in the module on object-oriented programming in Java. a springboard for employment or research. international community. You have your own desk Students with substantial prior experience of and PC/laptop in a research office, which is shared programming take a single module on Advanced Course content by other research students. We also provide Java for Programmers. Others take an introductory • Either Advanced Java for Programmers or substantial support, principally via one-to-one module followed by a more advanced one Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, supervision of research students and well- (depending on their Master’s course). plus Advanced Object-Oriented Programming integrated, active research groups, where you have • Project Research the opportunity to test and discuss your ideas in a Assessment • Project and Dissertation friendly environment. You also go on an activity • Five or six modules from a wide variety drawn Assessment is through a mixture of written weekend at an outward-bound centre in the Kent from the Advanced Master’s programmes in examinations and coursework, the relative countryside, where you will take part in team- Computational Intelligence, Advanced Software weights of which vary according to the nature building exercises designed to help you learn how Development, Networks, Computer Security and of the module. The final project is assessed by a to communicate effectively and work together to Future Computing. Selected modules from the IT dissertation, except for the MSc in IT Consultancy solve work-based problems. and Business Master’s programmes are also for which the practical consultancy work is available as options. See the sections on those assessed through a series of reports covering other programmes for further details. Dynamic publishing culture each of the projects undertaken. Staff and research students publish regularly and Advanced Computer Science widely in journals, conference proceedings and Latest information (Computational Intelligence) MSc books. Among others, they have recently Course details may be subject to change. Please Location: Canterbury. contributed to: Journal of Artificial Evolution and see the School of Computing website for the latest Entry requirements: As for Advanced Computer Applications; International Journal of Computer news, www.cs.kent.ac.uk Science. and Telecommunications Networking; Journal of Visual Languages and Computing; Journal in Taught Conversion Master’s This flexible programme combines a wide choice Computer Virology. Details of recently published of advanced topics in computer science with books can be found within the staff research programmes specialist modules relating to computational interests on p75. Computer Science MSc intelligence, including logic-based, connectionist Location: Canterbury. and evolutionary artificial intelligence, inspirations Links with industry Entry requirements: A first, 2.1 or good 2.2 from the natural world, practical applications and honours degree (or equivalent) in any subject. the philosophy of machine reasoning. Strong links with industry underpin all our work, notably with Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Agilent This conversion programme prepares graduates The programme is aimed at graduates considering Technologies, Erlang Solutions, Hewlett Packard from any discipline for a career in computing, or a a career in research and development. It would Laboratories, Ericsson and Nexor. career involving the application of computing within also provide an excellent foundation for PhD study. their original professional field. Our students come The Kent IT Clinic from a wide variety of backgrounds including Course content natural sciences, engineering, arts, humanities The Kent IT Clinic provides School of Computing • At least two from: Cognitive Neural Networks; and social sciences. No prior knowledge of students with consultancy experience while Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Logic computer science is required. studying. The Clinic provides a project-based and Logic Programming; Natural Computation. consulting service to small businesses in Kent. • Either Advanced Java for Programmers or Its wide variety of services range from e-commerce Course content Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, • Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming solutions and network support contracts to plus Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (Java) substantial software development projects. • Project Research • Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (Java) • Project and Dissertation • Logic and Logic Programming • Up to four optional modules from the MSc in Taught Master’s programmes • Software Engineering Advanced Computer Science The portfolio of taught MSc programmes offers • Systems Architecture extensive choice and flexibility in entry routes, • Web-based Information System Development Advanced Software Development MSc • Project Research content and format. Location: Canterbury. • Project and Dissertation Entry requirements: A first, 2.1 or good 2.2 honours • One from: Computer Graphics and Animation; Formats and attendance degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a Computing Law and Professional Responsibility; Each of the programmes is available in a number closely related subject with a substantial coverage Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; of formats: of programming and software engineering. Introduction to Intelligent Systems; Mobile • Intensive – 12 months full-time (Canterbury or and Ubiquitous Computing. Medway) This highly practical course will appeal to • Part time – 36 months (Canterbury or Medway) computing graduates seeking careers as • Intensive with an industrial placement – Taught Advanced Master’s professional software engineers and equip them 14-24 months full-time (Canterbury or Medway) programmes with the skills necessary to succeed. Employers often complain that computing graduates lack • International Master’s – 24 months full-time Advanced Computer Science MSc (Canterbury only) real-world practical skills. This course addresses • International Master’s with an industrial Location: Canterbury. software development for new and emerging placement – 26-36 months full-time Entry requirements: A first, 2.1 or good 2.2 platforms such as mobile phones/pads, (Canterbury only). honours degree (or equivalent) in computing multi-core processors and cloud computing. or a related subject. Modern development environments, languages Industrial placements and tools are also covered. This flexible course offers a largely free choice All programmes may optionally include an industrial of modules from our range of Advanced Master’s placement of between eight and 50 weeks. The Course content programmes. It is likely to appeal to computing • Advanced Java for Programmers timing and duration of the placements depend on graduates whose interests span more than one • Cloud Computing the particular employer. We have a dedicated team specialism and/or those seeking the freedom to • Concurrency and Parallelism to help organise this. • Development Frameworks CONTINUED OVERLEAF 72 Computing cont

• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing • Project Research • Either Introduction to Object-Oriented • Project Research • Project and Dissertation Programming or Advanced Java for • Project and Dissertation • At least two from: Biological Information Programmers • Two optional modules from the MSc in Processing; Cognitive Neural Networks; • Project Research Advanced Computer Science Green Computing; Introduction to Intelligent • Project and Dissertation Systems; Molecular and Quantum Computing. • Three from: Advanced Object-Oriented Computer Security MSc • Up to two optional modules from the MSc in Programming; Computer Security; Economics Location: Canterbury. Advanced Computer Science of the e-Marketplace; Financial and Entry requirements: As for Advanced Computer Management Accounting; IT Consultancy Science, see p71. Networks and Security MSc Methods; IT Consultancy Practice; Management Location: Canterbury. of Operations; Mobile and Ubiquitous Computer security remains a hot topic in the media Entry requirements: As for Advanced Computer Computing; Networks and Network Security; and there is strong demand for graduates with Science, see p71. Software Engineering; Strategic Management; technical skills in this area. The programme Structure and Organisation of the e-Enterprise; addresses computer and information security This programme provides a broad coverage of Web-based Information Systems Development. holistically because vulnerability in any one computer networks, computer security and mobile component can compromise an entire system. device technologies. It looks in depth at some of Digital Enterprise and Information This includes computer architectures, operating the security issues that fixed and wireless networks Systems MSc (subject to approval) systems, network technologies, data storage and are subject to, and the current solutions employed Location: Medway. software development processes. A wide range to address these problems. Entry requirements: A first, 2.1 or good 2.2 of threats and other security issues (for example, honours degree (or equivalent) in any subject. denial-of-service attacks, hacking, viruses and This course will appeal to computing graduates worms) are covered along with defences and seeking careers in the network or network security This new programme equips students with both countermeasures. industries, or those who wish to carry on with this technological and business skills to innovate and topic as an area of research. to devise strategies that can enhance productivity The programme is aimed at computing graduates and competitiveness of enterprises. who are seeking careers as computer security Course content professionals or who are interested in research. • Computer Security This programme is for graduates from a wide range • Networks and Network Security of disciplines seeking to broaden their knowledge Course content • Advanced Network Security and skills and improve their employment prospects. • Computer Security • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing • Networks and Network Security • Either Advanced Java for Programmers or Course content • Trust, Security and Privacy Management Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, • eHealth • System Security plus Advanced Object-Oriented Programming • Fundamentals of Multi-Agent Systems • Either Advanced Java for Programmers or • Project Research • Information Systems Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming • Project and Dissertation • Knowledge Management and Information plus Advanced Object-Oriented Programming • Up to two optional modules from our other Retrieval • Project Research Advanced Master’s programmes and the • Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource • Project and Dissertation MSc in Information Security and Biometrics. Management • Up to two optional modules from our other • Project Research Advanced Master’s programmes and the Taught IT and Business Master’s • Project and Dissertation MSc in Information Security and Biometrics. • Two from: Cloud Computing; Computing programmes Law; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Future Computing MSc These programmes are taught jointly with Kent Electronic Commerce; Marketing or Value Chain Location: Canterbury. Business School. Management; New Product Development and Entry requirements: As for Advanced Computer Innovation Management; Production and Science, see p71. Computing and Entrepreneurship MSc Operations Management; Semantic Web; Location: Canterbury. Web Development. This new programme explores the next generation Entry requirements: A first, 2.1 or good 2.2 of computing paradigms and their applications. honours degree (or the equivalent) in any subject. IT Consultancy MSc Cloud Computing enables consumers to access Applicants must have a keen interest in, and Location: Canterbury. resources and services without needing to own, sufficient prior knowledge of, information Entry requirements: As for Computing and operate or even be aware of the underlying technology (which need not have been Entrepreneurship. technologies. Natural Computation involves gained via formal academic study). methods inspired by, simulating or harnessing This unique course prepares graduates for a biological, chemical or physical phenomena to This programme offers a flexible mix of technical, career in IT consultancy, particularly in relation solve problems or perform tasks that would be business and entrepreneurship modules delivered to small and medium enterprise (SME) clients. difficult to tackle with conventional approaches. by the School of Computing and Kent Business It includes practical work experience in a real There are also optional modules on green (energy School. consultancy business, the Kent IT Clinic (KITC). efficient) computing, mobile technologies and The course may appeal to graduates seeking a various forms of artificial intelligence. Taking the programme helps you to fill the growing career in consultancy, or to practising consultants demand from employers for graduates who wishing to round out their skills and achieve formal The programme draws on Kent’s world-leading possess both technical and business skills. Such academic recognition. research. It prepares graduates for a career in people play vital leadership roles and function as cutting-edge industries and would also serve as a bridge between management and technical Course content an excellent foundation for future PhD research. development and support teams. In addition, many • IT Consultancy Methods new graduates are in a position, with guidance, to • Either Introduction to Object-Oriented Course content set up an enterprise of their own. Programming or Advanced Java for • Cloud Computing Programmers • Natural Computation Course content • Management of Operations • Either Advanced Java for Programmers or • Computing Law, Contracts and Professional • New Enterprise Development (project) Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, Responsibilities • Extended IT Consultancy Project (practical work plus Advanced Object-Oriented Programming • New Enterprise Development (project) experience in a real consultancy business) Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pg 73

• Three from: Advanced Object-Oriented Course content Course content Programming; Computer Security; Computing • Advanced English for Academic Study If your undergraduate degree was in Computing Law, Contracts and Professional Responsibilities; (for non-native speakers, if needed) or a related subject, then the first year is equivalent Economics of the e-Marketplace; Financial and • Advanced Object-Oriented Programming to the Computer Science GDip. Otherwise, the first Management Accounting; Mobile and Ubiquitous • Foundations of Computing year is equivalent to the Computing GDip (see left). Computing; Networks and Network Security; (mathematics, if needed) Software Engineering; Strategic Management; • Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming The second year and placement arrangements Structure and Organisation of the e-Enterprise; • Research and Study Skills are identical to the corresponding regular Master’s Web-based Information Systems Development. • Individual project programme.

Taught Pre-Master’s programmes Plus up to three optional modules from our honours Research programmes degree programmes in topics such as information The Pre-Master’s courses top up the equivalent systems, web applications, database systems and Computer Science MSc, PhD of a UK ordinary degree to UK honours level. computing law. The available options may vary Location: Canterbury. They are aimed at international students with from year to year and are subject to timetabling Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 degree or undergraduate degrees from institutions that do and prerequisite constraints. advanced/specialist taught MSc in computer not award the equivalent of UK honours degrees. science or a related discipline (such as A Graduate Diploma (GDip) can be used to gain Assessment mathematics, business studies or electronics, admission to a relevant MSc programme at Kent As for Computer Science GDip. as long as the degree has a strong computing or elsewhere in the UK (subject to satisfactory component). performance). Performance on the GDip equivalent to a good 2.2 honours level or better guarantees Taught International Master’s programmes Your research should produce an original entry to appropriate MSc programmes at Kent. contribution in your chosen field of study. The International Master’s courses are equivalent You work closely with your supervisor, a member Computer Science GDip to a Pre-Master’s Graduate Diploma, followed by of academic staff, who is your principal source of Location: Canterbury. a one-year MSc programme with an optional support. If you choose a research area that has Attendance: Nine months full-time. industrial placement. They are aimed at interdisciplinary aspects, you may have more than Entry requirements: A good ordinary Bachelor’s international students with undergraduate degrees one supervisor. In addition to regular supervision, degree (or equivalent) in computing or a related from institutions that do not award the equivalent you will be supported by a supervisory panel of subject. of UK honours degrees and who prefer (or whose three academic staff who provide further financial sponsors require) enrolment on a single structured input and guidance. The GDip in Computer Science is suitable for MSc programme. graduates of computer science or related subjects We offer an extensive support framework to all our seeking to progress to one of our Advanced or IT Entry requirements research students. We support you in becoming and Business Master’s programmes. Also see our The entry requirements differ from the an effective researcher through a series of weekly two-year International Master’s programmes. corresponding regular (non-International) workshops taken in the first year. These cover programmes as follows: research-specific subjects including how to access Course content • a good ordinary degree is needed instead of journals and review research publications, how to • Advanced English for Academic Study an honours degree write and publish academic articles and how to (for non-native speakers, if needed) • the more stringent English language requirement present your work at seminars and conferences. • Fundamentals of Programming and Logic stated for IT Consultancy does not apply. You may also attend workshops on key transferable (if not covered previously) skills including communication, time management • Research and Study Skills and teamwork. • Individual or group project

You also choose up to five optional modules from our honours degree programmes. Topics typically include: computer networks; security; web technology; mobile computing; graphics and animation; intelligent systems; data mining; neural networks; human-computer interaction; advanced programming techniques; concurrency; e-commerce; computing law. The available options may vary from year to year and are subject to timetabling and prerequisite constraints.

Assessment Assessment is through a mixture of written examinations and coursework, the relative weights of which vary according to the nature of the module.

Computing GDip Location: Canterbury. Attendance: Nine months full-time. Entry requirements: As for Computer Science GDip.

The GDip in Computing is suitable for graduates of other disciplines seeking to progress to one of our Conversion or IT and Business Master’s programmes, or to the MSc in Molecular Computing.

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You will join one or more of our well-integrated, human attention, emotions and reasoning. From active research groups where you will be able the perspective of applying biological metaphors to test and discuss your ideas and place your to computation, we research new computational research in a broader context. methods such as genetic algorithms and swarm intelligence. We host a seminar series for visiting speakers as well as holding regular seminars within our The Group also develops novel techniques for data research groups where research students are mining, visualisation and simulation. These use the encouraged to participate. We also host an results of interdisciplinary research for finding annual postgraduate conference where you have solutions to computationally expensive problems. the opportunity to both present your work and to gain experience as a conference organiser. The Group has strong links with other schools at the University of Kent, as well as with universities, Many of our research students earn money by hospitals and scientific research institutes teaching on our undergraduate programmes. throughout the country and internationally. We provide teaching development courses in your first year to give you the skills to teach effectively. Areas of research activity within the group include: • bio-inspired computing including neural Research groups networks, evolutionary • computing and swarm intelligence Programming Languages and Systems • application of computational simulations in Research Group biology and medicine Our research involves all aspects of programming • systems biology including gene expression languages and systems, from fundamental theory modelling to practical implementation. The Group has • theory and application of diagrammatic interests across a wide range of programming visualisation methods paradigms: object-oriented, concurrent, functional • data mining and knowledge discovery and logic. We research the links between logic • construction of computational models of STAFF PROFILE and programming languages, the verification of the human cognitive and neural system. the correctness of programs, and develop tools for Dr Colin Johnson refactoring, tracing and testing. We are interested Security Research Group Reader in incorporating safe concurrent programming This Group is a key partner in the University’s practices into language design. Interdisciplinary Cyber Security Research Centre, After graduating, Colin Johnson worked see www.cybersecurity.kent.ac.uk at Napier University, Edinburgh, and the The Group is also interested in practical University of Exeter, before coming to the implementation of programming languages, from Security of computer systems and the information University of Kent in 1999. massively concurrent parallel processing to battery- held on them is becoming even more important as operated mobile systems. Particular research topics a consequence of society’s increased reliance on His current research activities fall into two include lightweight multi-threading kernels, highly electronic devices – with most of these holding broad areas: concurrent operating systems, memory managers valuable information or performing critical Computing and mathematics in medicine and garbage collectors. operations, and connected through networks and biology – Colin is considering of some kind. simulations as computer programs, using Research areas include: modern theories of program analysis to • theoretical and architectural questions The Security Research Group covers a wide range provide formal tools by which we can concerning designs for both hardware of security topics, including identity management deduce properties of such programs and and software and authorisation, privacy, cloud computing, investigating whether these techniques • abstractions and implementations of intrusion detection, intrusion tolerance, network could generate information which is concurrency in programming languages overlays, cryptography, formal methods and reverse relevant to biological research. • formal specification of systems and their engineering for vulnerability analysis. It has a strong architecture involvement with postgraduate teaching in the MSc Natural science as metaphor in • design patterns and tools for enabling the safe programmes in Computer Security, Information computational intelligence – this is the and scalable exploitation of concurrency Security and Biometrics, and Networks and application of computers to use ‘intelligent’ • compilers, memory managers and garbage Security. strategies to find (often to approximate) collectors solutions to hard problems. Examples • lightweight multi-threading kernels and highly A main subgroup is the Information Systems of such techniques are evolutionary concurrent operating systems Security Group led by the authors of PERMIS, algorithms, neural networks, swarm • refactoring of functional and concurrent a fully functional open source authorisation (or intelligence methods and artificial languages privilege management) infrastructure written in immune systems. • applications of formal methods to provably Java. correct, secure systems • model checking and abstract interpretation, Research in the Security group contributes to including applications to discovering security the Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties vulnerabilities programme. • program verification and theorem proving. Research areas include: Computational Intelligence Research • public key and privilege management Group infrastructures This group brings together interdisciplinary • trust management and metrics and reputation researchers investigating the interface between systems computer science and the domains of bioscience • intrusion detection and cognition. In terms of applying computation • tools for vulnerability analysis to other domains, we have experts in investigating • formal methods for cryptography the modelling of gene expression and modeling of • policy-based security Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pg 75

• security and risk management • multi-agent systems and distributed artificial Professor Sally Fincher: Professor of • privacy and security intelligence Computing Education • autonomic security • evolutionary computation and optimisation The construction and boundaries of CS education; • user-friendly security • web-based information retrieval. the teacher perspective, especially teacher • continuous auditing decision-making; patterns and pattern languages, • cloud security. Staff research interests their use in knowledge-transfer, and their application to CS pedagogy. Recent publications Computing Education Research Group Full details of staff research interests can be found include: A Commons Leader’s Vade Mecum We focus on disciplinary-specific pedagogy, on our website: www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff (co-author, 2011). especially the teaching and learning of computer science and programming. David Barnes: Lecturer Dr Alex Freitas: Professor of Computational Tools for testing numerical and scientific software; Intelligence Our research interests focus on understanding the computer simulation in biology; technological Data mining; evolutionary algorithms; aspects of learning that are specific to computing support for computer science learning and bioinformatics; the biology of ageing. Recent education, and which range from examining teaching. Recent publications include: Introduction publications include: Automating the Design general theories of learning, through thematically to Modeling for Biosciences (co-author 2010); of Data Mining Algorithms: an evolutionary focused investigations (such as gender), to tool Objects First with Java (co-author, 2012). computation approach (co-author, 2009). construction. We examine education from multiple aspects, including supporting computing Dr Fred Barnes: Lecturer Dr Colin Johnson: Reader education research infrastructure, working Concurrent programming languages, compilers Bioinformatics; computer simulation in biology; with teachers, or focusing on student learning. and run-time systems for and based on the bio-inspired computing including genetic communicating processes model of concurrency algorithms, genetic programming and swarm Areas of interest include: (CSP and pi-calculus); low-level programming; intelligence methods. • building an evidence base of research on early operating-systems; memory management; run-time programming education system implementation; distributed, parallel and Professor Richard Jones: Professor of • tool support for learning and teaching GPU computing; languages, compilers and formal Computer Systems of programming, including custom-made methods. Implementation of programming languages; development tools, such as educational memory management; garbage collection, programming languages, or development Dr Eerke Boiten: Senior Lecturer distributed garbage collection; object environments, which can adapt to changes in Formal methods, refinement, cryptography, security. demographics; program analysis for improved programming paradigms and technology and memory management; program visualisation. pedagogical advances Professor Howard Bowman: Professor of Recent publications include: The Garbage • analysis of data generated as a part of the Cognition and Logic Collection Handbook: The art of automatic learning process, which could be text-based, Human attention, emotions, reasoning; memory management (co-author, 2011). naturally occurring in the classroom (eg, connectionist modelling; symbolic modelling; assessments), generated as a reflective process EEG recording and analysis methods; formal Dr Stefan Kahrs: Lecturer on learning (eg, diaries), or generated from methods and concurrency theory. Expressiveness of programming languages, type interaction with programming environments. systems, term rewriting, infinitary rewriting. Professor David Chadwick: Professor of Future Computing Research Group Information Systems Security Michael Kampouridis: Lecturer Public key infrastructures; privilege management Computational finance; application of We target the next generation computing infrastructures; trust management; identity computational intelligence (ci) techniques to paradigms and their applications. The Group has management; privacy management; policy based business-related problems, such as economics been working on grid/cloud computing (internet II), authorisation; cloud security; autonomic access and finance; use of evolutionary techniques green computing and virtual computing, etc, for controls and internet security research. (eg, genetic algorithms, genetic programming), many years. A developed grid/cloud computing heuristic search optimisation, and hyper-heuristics; platform conforms to the internet standard and can Dr Olaf Chitil: Lecturer financial forecasting; intelligent decision support universally accelerate office/database/web/media Semantics and theoretical foundations of systems for business. applications by a factor of up to ten. This work won programming languages; type theory; program an ACM/IEEE Super Computing Finalist Award. transformation; compiler construction; message- Dr Andy King: Reader in Program Analysis passing-based concurrency; programming tools; Abstract interpretation, logic programming and The Group’s other important work is on how to write programs. security. environment-friendly green computing through utilising a revolutionary element – memristor. Most Dr Dominique Chu: Lecturer recently, the Group has discovered that memristor Professor Michael Kölling: Professor of Computational systems biology and simulation has a peculiar effect (they named it ‘delayed Computer Science of biological systems. Recent publications include: Object-oriented systems; programming languages; switching’ in an IEEE paper). It has demonstrated Introduction to Modeling for Biosciences (co-author computer science education; development that power-saving memristors can be packed 2010); The Science Myth: God, society, the self environments and tools; visualisation; user at least twice as densely as semiconductors, and what we will never know (2013). interfaces. Recent publications include: Reflections achieving a significant breakthrough in computer on the Teaching of Programming (co-ed, 2008); storage density. Dr Rogerio de Lemos: Lecturer Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot – Software engineering for self-adaptive systems: Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games The CEMAS Lab is part of this group and conducts dynamic generation of management processes, and Simulations (2009); Objects First with Java research in the intersection between computer abstractions for supporting self-adaptability and (co-author, 2012). science and economics (including finance), and self-organisation, resilience evaluation; self-adaptive the crossroads between multi-agent systems and dependable and secure systems; architecting cloud computing. Dr Caroline Ling Li: Lecturer dependable systems: abstractions for fault Tools for controlling computer/robot using brain tolerance, and verification and validation of signal; body sensor data fusion for healthcare and Areas of interest include: dependable software architectures; software sports; methods for diagnosing, classifying and • grid/cloud computing development for safety-critical systems; monitoring states of brain health/ illness; signal • green computing dependability and bio-inspired computing. processing and machine learning methods. • biologically-inspired computing • computational economics and finance

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Fernando Otero: Lecturer Professor Simon Thompson: Professor of Logic Development of ant colony optimisation algorithms and Computation Location for data mining; economic applications of data Functional programming in Haskell and Erlang; Canterbury and Medway. mining; bioinformatics; evolutionary algorithms, refactoring functional programs: tool building, English language requirements mainly genetic programming. theory and practice; dependently-typed functional See p223. programming; testing of complex and concurrent Scott Owens: Lecturer systems using properties; property extraction from Fees and funding Semantics of shared memory concurrency; design test suites. Recent publications include: Erlang See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding of programming languages; formal verification for Programming (co-author, 2009); Haskell: the craft National ratings software and interactive theorem proving. of functional programming (2011). Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: 65% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ Dr Peter Rodgers: Senior Lecturer Gerald Tripp: Lecturer or ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 30% Information visualisation; graph drawing; Euler Techniques for the analysis and control of judged as ‘internationally recognised’. diagrams. high-speed packet networks, including system monitoring and network intrusion detection; use Applications Dr Nick Ryan: Lecturer of special-purpose hardware and firmware designs Mobile and ubiquitous systems; location and to perform high-speed string and regular Taught programmes context-awareness, particularly in field sciences; expression matching. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ visualisation and description of ancient postgrad/apply environments. Ian Utting: Senior Lecturer Research programmes Tool support for teaching and learning in CS, See p232 or contact the School for further Benjamin Kwang-Mong Sim: Professor of especially programming, and especially small details. Computer Science and mobile devices; large scale data-driven Further information Cloud computing; big data; MapReduce; studies of initial programming education, T: +44 (0)1227 764000 Hadoop, search engine; information retrieval; especially using Black Box. E: [email protected] web intelligence; services computing; artificial intelligence; multi-agent systems; distributed Professor Frank Wang: Professor in Future intelligent systems; game theory; automated Computing; Head of School negotiation; bargaining theory; computational Future computing; green computing; cloud economics; grid computing; ontology; evolutionary computing; biologically-inspired computing; computing. data storage and data communication.

“Without the degree and the placement year, I would not have the great job I have now – simple as that! The help from the placement team is invaluable as they teach you how to deal with future employers and get the best deal for you.”

Christian Baverstock MSc Computer Science with Industrial Placement 77

Canterbury and Mauritius CONSERVATION

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) is Britain’s leading research and postgraduate training centre dedicated to conserving biodiversity, as well as the ecological processes that support ecosystems and people. We focus on combining natural and social sciences to understand complex conservation issues and design effective interventions to conserve biodiversity. Our staff have outstanding international research profiles, yet integrate this with considerable on-the-ground experience working in collaboration with conservation agencies around the world. This blend of expertise ensures that our programmes deliver the skills and knowledge that are essential components of conservation implementation.

Our taught Master’s programmes cover topics in conservation management, policy, ecotourism and sustainable natural resource use. The research degree programmes (MSc by Research and PhD) encourage you to undertake original, high-quality research, which culminates in the submission of a thesis.

“DICE has a well-earned Programmes Worldwide research reputation and there’s a lot Taught Recent or current projects cover topics such as: of mutual support among • Anthropology and Conservation MA (see p39) • understanding adaptation to climate change; • Conservation and Business MSc ringneck parakeets in the UK postgraduates and researchers. • Conservation and International Wildlife Trade • improved management of socio-ecological The Institute was my first choice MSc landscapes in North-Western Ghats • Conservation and Plant Science MSc • cost, benefits and trade-offs in creating large and I wouldn’t have wanted to • Conservation and Primate Behaviour MSc conservation areas go anywhere else.” • Conservation and Rural Development MSc • monitoring population trends in tigers and their • Conservation and Tourism MSc prey in Kirinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra • Conservation Biology MSc • chameleon trade and conservation in Julia Baker Madagascar Awarded Biodiversity Management PhD • Conservation Project Management MSc • Endangered Species Recovery PDip (subject to • conservation genetics of the critically approval) endangered Seychelles paradise flycatcher • traditional knowledge, intellectual property Research rights and protected area management • the economic value of mammals in Britain • Biodiversity Management MSc by Research, PhD • estimating extinction dates of plants, birds and mammals. Postgraduate resources The DICE postgraduate student body is global. DICE has various long-term study sites around the Since 1991, there have been over 500 taught MSc world, in addition to maintaining an ecology field graduates from 75 countries, most of whom now trials area and field laboratory on the University have successful full-time conservation careers. The campus. DICE is part of the School of Anthropology PhD research degree programme has produced and Conservation, which is well equipped with over 90 graduates from 27 different countries. computing facilities and research laboratories for Several graduates have gone on to win prestigious biological anthropology, ecology, ethnobotany and international prizes for their outstanding molecular genetics. conservation achievements.

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Dynamic publishing culture Conservation and Business MSc Conservation and Primate Behaviour MSc Staff publish regularly and widely in peer-reviewed Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. journals, conference proceedings and books. Entry requirements: A good second class honours Entry requirements: As for Conservation and Articles have recently been published in prestigious degree, or better, in a relevant subject; a good Business. periodicals including: Nature; Proceedings of the honours degree in other subjects together with National Academy of Sciences; Ecology Letters; relevant practical experience. At its core, the MSc in Primate Conservation Conservation Letters; Conservation Biology; and Behaviour provides a forum for understanding Global Environmental Change. Details of recently Students on this pathway should have a strong not only the behaviour of NHPs (non-human published books can be found within the staff interest in conservation and business with a view to primates), but also the current issues and hot research interests on p80. working for a conservation-related business or in a topics in NHPs conservation and management. leadership role in a conservation NGO. Students from a more business-oriented background, but The pathway offers collaborations with NGOs Taught programmes with a strong passion for biodiversity conservation, around the world, from the neotropics to Africa and The nine MSc pathways offered by DICE follow are welcome to apply. Southeast Asia, as well as zoological institutions a common pattern, comprising six months of across Europe (eg, Howletts and Port Lympne coursework and five months of research. Within You are introduced to key business concepts and Animal Parks, Kent) and African primate each pathway, there are optional modules that allow practices such as customer behaviour, market sanctuaries. you the flexibility to devise a pathway that suits your competition and financial performance and how specific interests, with an appropriate balance they relate to biodiversity conservation. You also Course content between natural and social sciences. Please visit explore the potential role and contribution of You take the compulsory modules and a selection our website for new programmes that may be under commercial firms and for-profit business models of optional modules, listed above, plus: development that further integrate conservation to preserving biodiversity. • Current Issues in Primate Welfare and policy and practice: www.kent.ac.uk/sac Conservation. Course content In exceptional circumstances, DICE admits You take the compulsory modules and a selection Conservation and Rural Development MSc applicants without a first degree if their of optional modules, listed above, plus: Location: Canterbury. professional career and experience shows • Business Principles for Biodiversity Conservation. Entry requirements: As for Conservation and academic achievement of a high enough standard. Business. Conservation and International Wildlife Course content Trade MSc This pathway is unique in providing substantive Please note that not all modules listed here Location: Canterbury. natural and social science training in both necessarily run every year. Please contact the Entry requirements: As for Conservation and conservation and relevant aspects of rural School for more detailed information on availability. Business. development. The position of DICE in the School of Anthropology and Conservation makes it uniquely Common compulsory modules for all MSc This pathway is designed for people from areas placed to offer a consolidated interdisciplinary courses such as government, management and scientific training. • Research Methods for Natural Sciences authorities, NGOs, international agencies and • Research Methods for Social Sciences donors who are working to improve sustainability The pathway will be of particular interest to • Dissertation project (conservation) of wildlife trade. It examines a number of applicants with a strong interest in conservation and mechanisms for delivering sustainable wildlife trade, business with a view to working for a conservation- • Optional modules include: Advanced Topics especially the Convention on International Trade related business or in a leadership role in a in Ecology; Business Principles for Biodiversity in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. conservation NGO. Conservation; Conservation and Community Development; Current Issues in Primate Course content Course content Welfare and Conservation; Ecology of Plant You take the compulsory modules and a selection You take the compulsory modules and a selection Conservation; Economics of Biodiversity of optional modules, listed above, plus: of optional modules, listed above, plus: Conservation; Ecotourism and Rural • International Wildlife Trade. • Conservation and Community Development. Development Field Course; Facilitation Skills for Conservation Management; Foundations Conservation and Plant Science MSc Conservation and Tourism MSc of Natural Science for Conservation; Integrated Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. Species Conservation and Management; Entry requirements: As for Conservation and Entry requirements: As for Conservation and International Wildlife Trade; Leadership Skills for Business. Business. Conservation Management; Managing Protected Areas; Population and Evolutionary Biology; Unlike other plant conservation programmes, of The pathway offers you a critical engagement with Principles and Practice of Ecotourism; Principles which there are few, we pride ourselves in offering the subject of conservation and tourism, not only of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and both biological and social science-based training in by exploring the wide range of environmental, Remote Sensing; Seed Conservation for conservation. By the time you finish, not only will you social and economic impacts, but also through Restoration; Social Science Perspectives have a biological understanding of rarity in plants, considering difficult questions that we might ask on Conservation. but also an appreciation of the anthropogenic ourselves about our role as conservationists. For human pressures on plant population and instance, in relation to the underlying values we You may also take an appropriate module from community driven conservation practices. might introduce into different cultures around outside DICE subject to approval; modules the world as part of our ‘mission’, and what the on offer may vary from year to year and depend Course content historical roots and repercussions of these on the pathway of study. You take the compulsory modules and a selection might be. of optional modules, listed above, plus: Assessment • The Ecology of Plant Conservation. This pathway is relevant to the work of NGOs, Assessment is carried out primarily through consultancy firms and contractors, tour operators, coursework with written examinations for some conservation managers, international agencies and modules. The research dissertation is written donors. up in the format of a paper for publication. 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Course content Students are based entirely on the island of You take the compulsory modules and a selection Mauritius in the Indian Ocean where they are of optional modules, listed above, plus: immersed within a world-renowned species and • Principles and Practice of Ecotourism. habitat restoration programme, spearheaded by MWF in collaboration with Durrell. This exciting and Conservation Biology MSc novel approach to postgraduate training enables Location: Canterbury. you to learn cutting-edge conservation techniques Entry requirements: As for Conservation and and gain world-class hands-on experience in the Business, see p78. field.

This pathway is distinctive in that it takes an This unique programme, which combines an interdisciplinary approach and is international academic qualification with intensive in situ in its outlook. It covers the biological, economic, fieldwork experience on Mauritius, will be legal, political and social aspects of biodiversity administered as one of DICE’s portfolio of conservation and how these operate across spatial postgraduate programmes in conservation scales (from local to global levels). The pathway is science and management within the School designed for wildlife officers and administrators of Anthropology and Conservation. with practical experience in international conservation work, which they want to reinforce Course content with formal scientific training, in addition to students The programme consists of four taught one-week with academic qualifications in other subjects who intensive modules and one module that consists of wish to retrain for a new career in conservation. a series of field techniques and skills-development workshops interspersed with components of self- Course content directed study throughout the programme. You take the compulsory modules and a selection of optional modules, listed above, plus: Assessment • Population and Evolutionary Biology. Assessment is by written assignments, examinations and field-related activities. Conservation Project Management MSc STAFF PROFILE Location: Canterbury and the International Training Research programmes Dr David Roberts Centre at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey. Biodiversity Management MSc by Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Entry requirements: As for Conservation and Research, PhD Business, see p78. Location: Canterbury. David Roberts came to Kent from the Royal Entry requirements: A good second class This MSc pathway draws upon the extensive Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he worked in undergraduate honours degree in a relevant conservation project management experience the orchid herbarium which he describes subject for MSc by Research. Usually a Master’s of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and equips as a ‘giant flower press’. degree in a relevant subject and/or an excellent you with the skills and tools you need to manage first degree with relevant experience for PhD. conservation projects effectively. The pathway is Within the Durrell Institute of Conservation particularly suitable for managers of conservation and Ecology (DICE), he is continuing his DICE’s research degree programmes all carry projects who wish to build on their existing skills, or research into orchid ecology, species the generic title of Biodiversity Management. conservation practitioners who wish to move into a detectability and extinction – during his We welcome students with the appropriate project management role. extensive travel overseas, he’s discovered background for research. All research students a number of new species and even a have a supervisory committee, which is led by Course content genus the first being the orchid Aeranthes a main supervisor who oversees the day-to-day You take the compulsory modules and a selection virginalis named for its cross-legged administration and management of the project. of optional modules, listed above, plus: appearance. The committee also includes a chair, and, if • Leadership Skills for Conservation Management. necessary, a supplementary member (often based Dr Roberts is also interested in climate in the country where the research is conducted). Endangered Species Recovery PDip change modelling, using herbarium or In conjunction with the supervisory committee, an (subject to approval) museum specimens. “We haven’t got the individual training programme is devised for each time or resources to actually collect long- Location: Mauritius. student that includes both the generic and specific term data sets so we have to be able to Attendance: Five months full-time. skills required to undertake the programme of use what’s already available,” he says. Entry requirements: A first or good second class research. Because of the diversity and international “Biological collections such as those held in honours degree in a relevant discipline or a good nature of many field-orientated projects, the the Natural History Museum offer a window honours degree in other subjects together with amount of time that individual research students into what species were doing in the past, relevant practical experience. Applicants without spend at DICE varies. However local supervision as well as a unique opportunity for our a first degree may be considered if they have is usually organised for those students spending students.” relevant professional experience that has allowed considerable time overseas. them to achieve the necessary academic standard. Overseas students who wish to spend most of This new postgraduate diploma programme has their time in their home country while undertaking been developed by DICE and capitalises on its research may register as an external student or for long-standing links with the Durrell Wildlife a split PhD. Conservation Trust (Durrell) and the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation (MWF).

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Dr David Roberts: Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Species detectability and extinction; international wildlife trade; perception of biodiversity; the response of orchids to climate change; epiphyte community ecology and modelling epiphyte seed dispersal.

Dr Bob Smith: Senior Research Fellow Designing conservation landscapes and protected area networks, especially as part of long-term projects in southeast Africa and the English Channel.

Dr Freya St John: Research Associate Interface between biodiversity conservation and human populations who use natural resources.

Dr Matt Struebig: Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Ecology and management of tropical mammals; species response to climate change; biodiversity impacts of land-use change, disturbance and fragmentation; conservation value of degraded lands; oil palm and biodiversity.

Dr Joseph Tzanopoulos: Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity conservation using a landscape approach to assess impacts of policy scenarios; reconciling biodiversity conservation and Professor Richard Griffiths: Professor of Staff research interests sustainable development on rural areas; Biological Conservation Full details of staff research interests can be found landscape ecology and GIS; conservation policy Ecology and conservation of amphibians and on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles and governance; agro-ecology and agricultural reptiles; effects of environmental change on landscapes. threatened species; survey and monitoring Dr Peter Bennett: Reader in Biodiversity and protocols for biodiversity. Evolutionary Ecology Evolution, ecology and conservation of birds; Dr Jim Groombridge: Reader in Biodiversity biodiversity hotspots; life history evolution and Location Conservation extinction risk; marine mammals; wildlife disease. Canterbury and Mauritius. Conservation of highly threatened bird species; conservation genetics of small populations; parrot English language requirements Dr Richard Bodmer: Reader in Conservation conservation, genetics and biogeography. See p223. Ecology Population dynamics and community ecology Fees and funding Dr Nigel Hardiman: Lecturer in Conservation of rainforest mammals; community-based See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Busines conservation, sustainable use, wildlife Social and biophysical impacts of ecologically National ratings management in tropical ecosystems. sustainable tourism; the potential for private plus Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: public sector sustainable development initiatives 55% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ Dr Ian Bride: Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity to contribute to biodiversity conservation. or ‘internationally excellent’. Management Conservation education; biodiversity management; Dr Tatyana Hulme: Lecturer in Biodiversity Applications PA and visitor management; nature tourism; Conservation guiding and interpretation; community-based Taught programmes Primate conservation and behavioural ecology; conservation; and restoration ecology. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ ethnoprimatology; cultural primatology; primate postgrad/apply rehabilitation and reintroduction; human wildlife Dr Zoe Davies: Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Research programmes conflict and resource competition. Conservation See p232 or contact the School for further Conservation planning and practice; conservation details. Professor Douglas MacMillan: Professor of financial and investment; urban ecology and Conservation and Applied Resource Economics Further information human-wildlife interactions; biodiversity and Economics and wildlife conservation; T: +44 (0)1227 827928 ecosystem service relationships; species and environmental modelling; economics of F: +44 (0)1227 827289 assemblage responses to environmental change collaboration in land and wildlife management; E: [email protected] (eg, climate and habitat loss/fragmentation). forest resource economics. Professor Rosaleen Duffy: Professor of Dr Helen Newing: Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Politics Conservation Political ecology of wildlife trade and conservation The effects of conservation and protected areas issues. on rural development; participatory approaches to natural resource use; the role of NGOs; conservation and tourism. Recent publications include: Conducting Research in Conservation: Social Science Methods and Practice (2010). 81

Canterbury CRIMINOLOGY

Criminology has a long and distinguished tradition at Kent with its research base in the Crime, Culture and Control Cluster and the Kent Crime and Justice Centre (see p82). The MA was founded by the world-famous criminologist, Professor Jock Young, who continues to teach on the programme. You will also be lectured, supervised and tutored by a team of scholars and researchers internationally renowned for their world-class teaching and publications.

Criminology is an important part of the activities of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), which is one of the four top institutions of its kind in the UK as ranked by the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises. In 2012 we were awarded the first National Award for Excellence in Teaching Criminology by the British Criminology Society in recognition of our innovative approach.

The atmosphere of the School is informal and friendly and there is a lively and diverse postgraduate community. Regular staff/graduate seminars are designed to introduce you to the work of academic staff and research students as well as academic visitors, and they provide opportunities both for sociability and for intellectual stimulation. The large number of academic staff and our favourable staff/student ratios mean that academic staff are readily accessible. Where appropriate, research students are encouraged to teach part-time in the School.

“My time at Kent was one of Programmes the Peloponnese, Corinth; and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York. The Common Study sessions are the most enjoyable periods of my Taught hosted in turn by each of the participating life. The course covered a huge • Criminology MA institutions. • Criminology MA with a Semester Abroad range of topics, which broaden Dynamic publishing culture your knowledge, and you are Research • Criminology MA, MPhil, PhD Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, sure to find something that • Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology conference proceedings and books. Among you feel passionate about.” (DCGC): An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate others, they have recently contributed to: The British Journal of Criminology; Urban Studies; Theoretical Criminology; Crime, Media, Culture; Ahalya Balasunderam Postgraduate resources MA Criminology graduate Ethnography. Details of recently published Our postgraduate students are given 24-hour books can be found within the staff research access to dedicated office space within the interests on p83. Department and are able to take advantage of excellent library and computing facilities. Taught programmes Criminology MA The Common Study Programme in Canterbury. Critical Criminology Location: Entry requirements: A good honours degree in All Canterbury-based Kent postgraduate students criminology, sociology, social policy, law or other are offered the opportunity to add an international related social science discipline, or substantial dimension to their criminological study by experience in social or political research or a participating in the Common Studies Sessions relevant profession. in Critical Criminology. This student-led event provides the opportunity to exchange ideas The programme involves: and deliver papers on topics relating to critical, • the sociological study of crime and its cultural and international criminology at a bi-annual application to criminal justice and social policy conference run in collaboration with Kent’s • the study of issues at the cutting edge of current international criminology partners, which include criminological debate with a strong emphasis on Erasmus University, Rotterdam; the Universities the cultural context of crime of Barcelona, Bologna, Ghent, Hamburg, • advanced criminological theory and research Middlesex, Porto and Utrecht; ELTE, Budapest; the methods as applied to crime and criminal Democritus University of Thrace; the University of justice.

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It also offers opportunities for you to develop your The DCGC is an international, collaborative, three- career in the areas of criminal justice, policy and year postgraduate research programme led by the government. University of Kent, with partners ELTE Budapest, University of Hamburg and Utrecht University, Course content leading to the submission of a doctoral thesis. • Theories of Crime and Deviance • Research Methods in Criminology The programme is carefully structured and divided • Four from: Critical and Global Criminology; into three main strands: research, subject-specific Cultural Criminology; Gender and Crime in a training and transferable skills training. You develop Globalised World; Penology; Policing; Sociology a politically engaged, international understanding of Violence; Terrorism and Modern Society; and approach to crime, harm and its control. Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology; Youth, The programme prepares high-level doctoral Place and Crime. candidates to work in the widest range of • Dissertation employment arenas concerned with understanding, preventing and responding to crime in a way that Assessment takes account of the global and cultural context. Assessment is by six coursework essays and the Through the integration of over 30 associated dissertation. partners it responds to both the impact and the employability agenda in Erasmus Mundus Criminology MA with a Semester Abroad objectives. Location: Canterbury and a semester (spring or summer) at one of our European partner Research group universities. Entry requirements: As for Criminology, see p81. Crime, Control and Culture The School has a long-established tradition of The programme outline is the same as for conducting criminological research. The group the standard Criminology MA. It also offers covers a diverse range of topics, employs both opportunities for you to develop your career qualitative and quantitative methodologies and STAFF PROFILE in the criminal justice area. draws upon different theoretical traditions. We have particular expertise in the following areas: cultural Jock Young Our partner universities include Erasmus University, criminology; crime, punishment and social change; Professor of Criminology Rotterdam, University of Hamburg, University of drug use; gender, crime and criminal justice; Ghent, ELTE University in Budapest and Utrecht penology and imprisonment (especially of female One of the most renowned criminologists University. offenders); policing; quasi-compulsory treatment active today, Jock Young has been a for drug-using offenders; race, crime and criminal justice; restorative justice and young offenders; leading light in three successive Research programmes intellectual movements in his field: the New crime and the ‘night-time economy’, terrorism and Criminology (1970s), Left Realism (1980s Criminology MA, MPhil, PhD political crime; violence; youth crime and youth and 90s) and, most recently, Cultural Location: Canterbury. justice. Criminology. Winner of a number of Entry requirements: A good honours degree or international awards, he is an influential MA in criminology, criminal justice or a related Present and current research has been funded by figure in criminal justice policy and social science discipline. the ESRC, the Home Office and the Youth Justice criminological theory around the globe. Board. Across SSPSSR, there is a breadth and depth of He says, “Kent provides the very best research expertise and we can offer high-quality Kent Crime and Justice Centre opportunities to study criminology at supervision in a wide range of areas in criminology. The School is also home to the Kent Crime and postgraduate level. Our programmes are There are further details on the research activities Justice Centre (KCJC), which is a collaboration of vibrant, cutting-edge and friendly, with and publications of individual members of staff senior researchers at the University of Kent, based excellent European and international and the School’s research units on our website. in SSPSSR, the Personal Social Services Research contacts.” In addition to regular meetings with individual Unit and the Kent Law School. The core members supervisors, all research students take a research have a multidisciplinary background, which training programme (see Methods of Social includes sociology, economics, law and statistics, Research, p201 for details). and expertise in sophisticated quantitative techniques, economic modelling and qualitative Doctorate in Cultural and Global methods. Criminology (DCGC): An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate KCJC has a national and international reputation for interdisciplinary research in the field of criminology Location: Canterbury. and criminal justice. During recent years, the Entry requirements: A good Master’s degree in Centre has responded to a high-level demand social sciences, law or related subject. from the Home Office for evaluative research that incorporates cost-effectiveness, while still ensuring Students must submit a high quality research responsiveness to local and regional needs and proposal fitting DCGC research themes and opportunities. demonstrate eligibility and academic achievement. Full details can be found at www.dcgc.eu Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 83

Staff research interests Professor Keith Hayward: Professor of Criminology Location Full details of staff research interests can be found Criminological theory; cultural criminology, youth Canterbury. on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff crime; popular culture; spatial and social theory; English language requirements terrorism and fanaticism. Recent publications Dr Phil Carney: Lecturer in Criminology; See p223. include: Cultural Criminology: An Invitation Erasmus and International Co-ordinator; (co-author, 2008); Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology Fees and funding Kent Co-ordinator, Common Study Programme (co-ed, 2009); Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding in Critical Criminology and the Image (co-ed, 2010); Cultural Criminology Photographic theory; spectacle; radical National ratings (co-ed, 2011); Criminology 3rd ed (co-ed, 2013). criminology; cultural criminology; critical visual Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: culture; post-structuralist critical theory; desire ranked 4th nationally for research quality in Dr Johnny Ilan: Lecturer in Criminology and power; the micropolitics of fascism. the area of social work, social policy and Cultural criminology; street culture; urban administration, with 70% of the research rated ethnography; media and crime; youth crime; Dr Caroline Chatwin: Senior Lecturer ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. justice and policing. in Criminology; Director of Studies for Kent was ranked 7th in the UK for social policy Undergraduate Criminology Professor Roger Matthews: Professor in The Times Good University Guide 2013. European drug policy; young people and of Criminology; Director of Studies for victimisation; drug use and subcultural studies. Applications Postgraduate Criminology Recent publications include: Drug Policy Penology, community safety and crime prevention, Taught programmes Harmonization and the European Union (2011). prostitution, armed robbery, punitiveness, left Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ realism. Recent publications include: Prostitution postgrad/apply Dr Simon Cottee: Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy (2008); Doing Time: An Research programmes Criminology Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment See p232 or contact the School for further Sociology of crime and deviance; sociology of (2009). details. intellectuals; terrorism and apostasy; coercion; political violence. Further information Professor Larry Ray: Professor of Sociology T: +44 (0)1227 823684 Sociological theory; globalisation; race and Professor Chris Hale: Professor of Criminology; F: +44 (0)1227 827005 ethnicity; violence. Recent publications include: Director, Kent Crime and Justice Centre E: [email protected] Violence and Society (2011). How political debates around law and order have affected responses to crime; quantitative analysis Professor Kevin Stenson: Professor of of crime data, especially the relationships between Criminology crime and fear of crime with wider economic and Criminological theory, risk and governance, social changes; evaluations of new interventions youth crime. and crime reduction strategies; policing; youth crime. Recent publications include: Criminology Professor Jock Young: Professor of (co-ed, 2009). Criminology Criminological theory, social exclusion and crime; immigration; causes and consequences of terrorism. 84

Canterbury and Moscow DRAMA AND THEATRE

Postgraduate Drama and Theatre studies at Kent has a very strong reputation for research and supervision in contemporary performance processes, applied performance and European theatre. The wide-ranging interests of our international team of leading and emerging researchers (from the UK, Australia, Malta, Greece, Germany and other countries) also include research strengths in Shakespeare, 18th-century theatre, multimedia performance, and in the history of comedy and popular performance.

Our distinctive focus at Kent is on theatre as practice, whatever the topic, area, mode and methodology of research, and we encourage postgraduate students to make use of our close links and contacts with local, national and international (especially European) theatre companies, venues, schools and artists, both for research and to encourage professional postgraduate development.

Our flagship area of ‘Practice as Research’ has so far attracted a range of researchers and professionals, including the co-directors of Ridiculusmus, performance artist Kazuko Hohki, and many others working in areas from physical theatre to visual performance and cross-disciplinary projects.

“The School of Arts, and Programmes theatrical biography and the history of the stage in the 19th and 20th centuries. It also has particular especially the Drama Taught strengths as a research resource in English Department, is a wonderful • Arts Criticism MA (see p113) Renaissance drama, Russian and French • Drama and Theatre MA theatre, and British theatre since 1900. We also place to work. It has a really • Drama and Theatre (with a Term in Moscow) MA house the Jacques Copeau Archive and the British good balance of specialists • Shakespeare MA Grotowski collection. in both the practical and the Research Conferences and seminars theoretical aspects of the subject.” • Drama MA, PhD (by thesis and practice) • Drama: Practice as Research MA We have strong links with organisations such as the International Federation for Theatre Research Chris Jones PhD Drama (IFTR) and the Theatre and Performance Postgraduate resources Research Association (TaPRA), and encourage The School of Arts’ award-winning Jarman Building postgraduates to present work within national offers professional standard drama facilities, along and international conferences. Also, we run regular with social spaces and a dedicated centre for research seminars, workshops, and performance- postgraduate students. related events led by members of staff, students, and invited experts and practitioners. Additional facilities across the Canterbury campus include two theatres; the 113-seat Aphra Theatre Dynamic publishing culture (a courtyard-type gallery theatre space) and the Lumley Theatre, which is a flexible and adaptable Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, white room space. Drama students also benefit conference proceedings and books. Among from an additional rehearsal studio, a sound studio, others, they have recently contributed to: New a theatre design suite and an extensively equipped Theatre Quarterly; Contemporary Theatre Review; construction workshop. TDR: The Drama Review; Performance Research; Shakespeare Survey. Details of recently published The University’s Templeman Library is well books can be found within the staff research resourced in our subject area and houses special interests on p86. collections of 19th-century manuscripts – playbills, programmes, prints and other theatre ephemera – Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/arts/drama 85

Taught programmes Final term: Option 1 – Research • Academic conference paper Drama and Theatre MA • Dissertation of 10,000 words Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree Final term: Option 2 – Practice as Research in drama, theatre and performance studies, or • Practical project related disciplines such as dance, music, literature • Dissertation of 5,000 words and languages, film, cultural studies, history, philosophy, art and design or equivalent Assessment professional experience. Assessment is by coursework, including practical and written components for each of the modules, This MA is divided into a number of pathways: and by the final term project with its option of • Applied Performance a conference paper and dissertation or mixed • Contemporary Performance Practice practice and dissertation. • European Theatre and Dramaturgy • Physical Actor Training and Performance Shakespeare MA • Stand-up Comedy Location: Canterbury. • Theatre Directing. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree in a relevant humanities subject. In certain Teaching is based on workshops, residencies, circumstances, the School will consider candidates placements and guest lectures from practitioners, who have not followed a conventional education as well as on creative work both individually and path or who may have relevant experience in the in teams and groups (often across pathways), industry. These cases are assessed individually and culminates in an individual MA dissertation by the Director of Graduate Studies. or an extended practical project. This programme offers you the opportunity to Course content combine scholarly and practical approaches to • Three modules from your chosen area of the advanced study of Shakespeare. You develop specialism knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare, STAFF PROFILE • Dissertation or project both historically and within the contemporary theatrical scene, within and beyond, the horizon Dr Helen Brooks Assessment of British theatre practice. Lecturer in Drama Assessment is by written work, presentations, contributions to workshops and performance itself. Teaching includes workshops, a two-week Helen’s research focuses on long The final dissertation requires you to research a residency at Shakespeare’s Globe, guest lectures eighteenth-century theatre performance, project and present its findings in an appropriate from practitioners, as well as creative work both and she also has research interests in form. individually and in teams and groups. It culminates applied drama. She is currently working in an individual MA dissertation or an extended on a project exploring applied drama in Drama and Theatre (with a Term in practical project. the workplace, drawing on previous Moscow) MA experience working in applied drama Location: Canterbury and Moscow. Course content contexts and in private sector business. Attendance: One year full-time. • Compulsory modules: Approaches to She has published work in Eighteenth- Entry requirements: As for Drama and Theatre. Shakespeare; Shakespeare at the Globe. Century Life and in Studies in Theatre and • Two from: Before Shakespeare; Production Performance, and is currently working on The Physical Actor Training and Performance Project; Shakespeare and Material Culture; her monograph, Playing Women. pathway of the Drama and Theatre MA can be Shakespeare on Stage and Screen; Teaching taken with a term in Moscow. Shakespeare. As a teacher, Helen strives to develop • Dissertation innovative new modules and engage You study in Canterbury for the autumn term and students with studying theatre history from then spend the spring term in Moscow staying in, Assessment new, and often practical, perspectives. Her and learning at, the world-renowned Moscow Art As for Drama and Theatre. research is integral to her teaching and the Theatre School (MXAT). Classes in Moscow focus synergies between these two areas are a on physical actor training and will include Research programmes central feature of her work. In spring 2011, movement, stage combat, dance and acting she was awarded the Humanities Faculty classes, led by some of Russia’s best theatre Drama: Practice as Research MA Teaching Prize for her work on integrating teachers. This is the only Europe-based permanent Location: Canterbury. new technology with archival research in link with MXAT and builds on an established Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree teaching theatre history. student exchange between Kent and the Moscow in a relevant subject or equivalent professional school. experience.

Course content The programme is aimed at practitioners who Canterbury want time to develop and reflect on their work in • Physical and Vocal Training for Actors a supportive and challenging environment. It is also • Solo Acting for recent graduates who want either to develop a • Theatre Research body of practice or to conduct practice-based research at a higher level. Moscow • Ensemble Devising and Performance The programme leads through supervision to • Physical and Vocal Training for Actors project planning with practice-based presentations early in the summer term, which are then written up for the final dissertation.

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Assessment is through practice and written Staff research interests Dr David Roesner: Senior Lecturer reflection, which you can present in a range Musicality of theatre and the theatricality of music Full details of staff research interests can be found of media such as CD-Roms, DVDs, model boxes in historic and contemporary practices. Recent on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff or video, depending on the practice you are publications include: Theatre Noise (co-ed, 2011); investigating. Supervision for this MA is offered Composed Theatre (co-ed, 2012). Professor Paul Allain: Professor of Theatre and in all areas of staff interest, and we provide Performance dedicated space, technical support and a budget. Professor Nicola Shaughnessy: Senior Lecturer Movement and physical performance approaches Contemporary performance; gender; dramatic to actor training, especially the Suzuki Method; Drama MA, PhD by thesis and practice auto/biography; applied performance. Recent contemporary East European and Polish theatre, publications include: Lives of Shakespearian Location: Canterbury. Grotowski and the Gardzienice Theatre Actors, Part I (co-ed, 2008); Applying performance: Entry requirements: As for Drama: Practice as Association; intercultural theory and practice live art, socially engaged theatre and affective Research, see p85. and performance anthropology. Recent practice (2012). publications include: The Theatre Practice of Individual staff research interests cover a Tadashi Suzuki: A critical study with DVD examples Professor Robert Shaughnessy: Professor wide range of both historical and contemporary (2009); Grotowski & Company (ed, 2010); Andrei of Theatre aspects of the theory and practice of theatre, Droznin’s Physical Actor Training (2012). and supervision is available in all these areas. Shakespeare and early modern drama in performance; post-war and contemporary Dr Helen Brooks: Lecturer British and Irish drama; theatre and national For these programmes you have regular meetings Restoration and long 18th-century theatre and cultures. Recent publications include: Lives of with your supervisor as well as tuition in research performance, with a special emphasis on women’s Shakespearian Actors, Part I (co-ed, 2008); The methodologies in the early stages of your research. theatre of the period. Recent publications include: Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare (2011). Additionally, we regularly invite academic and Actresses and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: professional specialists for guest lectures, Playing Women (forthcoming)). workshops and special events relevant to Dr Melissa Trimingham: Senior Lecturer The modernist period, Bauhaus and Oskar students’ research. Practice-based students Dr Oliver Double: Senior Lecturer Schlemmer; puppet and object theatre; also have supervision in the studio or other Stand-up comedy; punk performance; variety communication on the autistic spectrum using practice-related spaces. We provide financial theatre; Karl Valentin. Recent publications include: puppetry; the relationship between robotics and and production support for students’ projects. Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre puppetry. Recent publications include: The Theatre (2012). of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Research groups Stage of Oskar Schlemmer (2010). Dr Rosemary Klich: Lecturer European Theatre Multimedia theatre; new media performance; Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin: Lecturer At Kent, the UK’s European university, we have contemporary live art and performance; history Greek theatre; commedia dell’arte; masks and set up the European Theatre Research Network of performance art; the 20th-century avant-garde; theatre. to facilitate and foster the exchange of theatre theatre reviewing. Recent publications include: traditions, contemporary practices and academic Multimedia Performance (co-author, 2011). discussion on the near European continent and also in the new European states. We invite Dr Margherita Laera: Lecturer Location postgraduate research students to contribute Contemporary theatre in Europe; adaptation and Canterbury and Moscow. to and play a part in this expanding network. translation for the stage; ‘classical’ Greek tragedy For further information, please see and its modern appropriations; intercultural and English language requirements www.europeantheatre.org.uk transnational performance. Recent publications See p223. include: Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy Fees and funding Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding The Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Tragedy (2013). Performance brings together Drama staff and National ratings staff in multimedia, Psychology, Anthropology, Professor Patrice Pavis: Professor of Drama Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: and the Tizard Centre to explore the possibilities European theatre; mise-en-scène; theories of ranked 12th nationally for research quality with of interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration acting; contemporary performance and playwriting. 70% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or between researchers and practitioners in the fields Recent publications include: La Mise en scène ‘internationally excellent’. of cognitive neuroscience, interactive performance, contemporaine: Origines, Tendances, Perspectives digital media, disability studies, and applied (2008); Contemporary Mise en scène: Staging Applications performance. Theatre Today (2012). Taught programmes For further information, please see www.c4ckp.org Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Dr Duška Radosavljevic Lecturer postgrad/apply Dramaturgy, theatre translation and adaptation, Research programmes the ‘ensemble way of working’, and contemporary See p232 or contact the School for further theatre practices in the UK and in Europe. Recent details. publications include: The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers (2013); Theatre- Further information Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance T: +44 (0)1227 764000 in the 21st Century (2013). E: [email protected] 87

Canterbury and Brussels ECONOMICS

The Kent School of Economics offers both taught and research postgraduate degrees, covering all aspects of the subject. We are dedicated to excellence in both teaching and research, demonstrated by results in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 and recent student surveys. All academic staff are active in research, and teaching and learning are informed by the School’s thriving research culture and strong cosmopolitan academic community.

Our taught courses offer excellent training in core economics; the opportunity to specialise in areas such as finance, econometrics, development, agriculture and the environment; and advanced skills necessary for employment as an economist at a senior level.

Economics staff at Kent have an international reputation in their field and the School regularly features highly in annual surveys of departments of economics in the UK. Our staff members serve as academic advisers and experts to UK and international agencies, including the World Bank, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the UK Treasury, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the UK Food Standards Agency.

We have 28 academic staff, with about 30-40 MSc students and 38 PhD students. This creates a good community for interaction between students and ensures students receive a good deal of individual attention in classes and workshops.

“The teaching at Kent is Programmes own speakers for discussion of economics topics, and Kent Invest Society which manages a virtual fantastic. All the academic staff Taught portfolio. in the School of Economics are • Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy MSc • Applied Economics and International research active so they include Development MSc An international school this in their teaching, which • Economics MSc Our postgraduate student community is global with • Economics Conversion MSc about half the students originating from outside the offers different perspectives on • Diploma in Economic Analysis UK and Europe, including Africa, China, India, the traditional models or theories.” • Economics and Econometrics MSc Middle East, Pakistan, Russia and the USA. We • Economics and Finance MSc have strong links with universities in Germany, • Finance and Econometrics MSc Bulgaria, France and China. Economics staff Alex Waters MSc Economics and Econometrics graduate, • International Development MA teach on the postgraduate courses provided by now studying for a PhD in Economics • International Finance and Economic the University of Kent at Brussels. You will be able Development MSc to integrate into this multicultural environment and build the foundations for an international Research professional network. • Agri-Environmental Economics PhD • Economics PhD Dynamic publishing culture Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Postgraduate resources conference proceedings and books. Among MSc students have a dedicated study room, others, they have recently contributed to: Journal of with meeting space and computing facilities. Economics; Journal of Applied Economics; Journal All research students have personal office space of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Agricultural and computers in the School, and access to Economics; Journal of International Money and comprehensive research support. Finance. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests on p89. The School has an active and inclusive research culture involving all postgraduate students, with Taught programmes a regular seminar programme during the year Our teaching is informed by the research and mixing internal workshops with events to which scholarship of teaching staff, and is aimed at we invite outside speakers. There is also a motivating you to achieve your full potential. All student Economics Society, which invites its 88 Economics cont

MSc students take a module in Research Methods, • Research Methods Year 2 which provides practical skills and knowledge for • One from Econometric Methods or Chosen MSc pathway MSc-level research. Students have widely differing Environmental and Resource Economics backgrounds in mathematics, so the first week of and Policy Assessment all our Master’s programmes is given over to • Three optional modules Assessment is by a mix of coursework and compulsory intensive teaching in mathematics. • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an examinations. approved topic Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics MSc MSc Assessment Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. Assessment methods vary across modules Entry requirements: As for Economics. Entry requirements: A good first degree (good but include take-home coursework essays and second class honours or equivalent) in economics problem exercises, computer-based assessment The Econometrics degree offers a thorough or another relevant subject, plus evidence of a and examinations in May. Students who training in advanced economics and econometrics. quantitative background. satisfactorily pass the taught element of the degree Building on a sound general training in progress to the final dissertation of 10-12,000 words. econometric methods, the project-oriented This programme is designed to provide an compulsory modules in time series econometrics education in economic analysis, policy and Economics MSc and applied microeconometrics introduce you to quantitative methods, as applied to problems of Location: Canterbury. the theory and practice of econometric modelling. food, agriculture and environment. The compulsory Entry requirements: A good first degree (good The programme is one of the few courses in the UK modules provide a basis for you to acquire the second class honours or equivalent) in economics to offer specialist training in advanced econometric basic skills for the programme, regardless of your or economics and another subject. methods and their application. Economists with first degree background. The optional modules quantitative skills and experience in empirical enable you to acquire a broader understanding of The programme provides training in advanced research are in high demand in both the private the issues in growth and development, trade and economic theory and econometric methods and and public sector. development, or further your skills in econometrics. allows you to specialise or take options in subjects The programme develops your ability to reflecting the School’s main areas of research Course content understand and apply economic principles and to expertise. The programme prepares you for work • Compulsory modules: Advanced analyse economic problems, decision making and as a professional economist in the private and Macroeconomics; Advanced Microeconomics policies in the area of environment. public sector, or for a career in research. of Consumers, Markets and Welfare; Applied Microeconomics; Econometric Methods; Time Course content Course content Series Econometrics. • Compulsory modules: Advanced • Compulsory modules: Advanced • Research Methods Microeconomics of Consumers, Markets and Macroeconomics; Advanced Microeconomics • Two optional modules Welfare; Econometric Methods; Environmental of Consumers, Markets and Welfare; Advanced • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an and Resource Economics and Policy; Microeconomics of Games and Information; approved topic Environmental Valuation; Political Economy of Econometric Methods. Public Policy; Rural and Peasant Economies. • Research Methods Assessment • Research Methods • Three optional modules As for Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy. • One optional module • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an approved topic Economics and Finance MSc approved topic Location: Canterbury. Assessment Entry requirements: As for Economics. Assessment As for Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy. Assessment is a mixture of assignments, written This programme prepares you for work as a examinations and a supervised dissertation. Economics Conversion MSc professional economist in the financial and Diploma in Economic Analysis banking sectors, public sector and international Applied Economics and International Location: Canterbury. organisations by providing an education in Development MSc Attendance: Two years full-time. advanced economic and finance theory Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A good first degree (good and econometric methods. It includes Entry requirements: A good first degree (good second class honours or equivalent) and evidence compulsory modules in financial econometrics, second class honours or equivalent) in a sciences of a strong quantitative background. financial markets and instruments, and the financial or social sciences subject plus evidence of a economics of asset pricing, reflecting the quantitative background. Students who do not meet the admissions School’s research expertise in finance. requirements for taught Master’s programmes This MSc provides training in the application of may enrol for a two-year Conversion MSc. During Course content economic principles to the problems of international the first year, you take the Diploma in Economic • Compulsory modules: Advanced development. It is designed for students with a Analysis (DEA). This brings you up to the standards Macroeconomics; Econometric Methods; good first degree in a sciences or social sciences required to continue with MSc study. Students who Financial Economics and Asset Pricing; subject, who would like to pursue a career in pass the DEA with 60% and above then proceed to Financial Markets and Instruments; Time economics and international development. You must one of our MSc programmes. Students who pass Series Econometrics. have some previous quantitative background, eg, a but do not achieve 60% are awarded the DEA. • Research Methods good mark in mathematics, from your pre-university • Two optional modules school course. The MSc offers great flexibility and Course content • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an breadth of choice in module options in the areas of Year 1 approved topic international finance, trade and development, • Macroeconomics environment and rural economies. • Microeconomics Assessment • Quantitative Economics As for Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy. Course content • Either Policy Analysis or Environmental • Compulsory modules: Economic Principles; Economics, Institutions and Policy Growth and Development Theory; Political • Either The Public Sector or Financial Analysis Economy of Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Economists. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/economics 89

Finance and Econometrics MSc • Four optional modules Depending on the programme and your level of Location: Canterbury. • Dissertation of 12,000 words achievement, you may have to take advanced Entry requirements: As for Economics, see p88. training in the first year of study. Further research Assessment training in subsequent years includes advanced This programme is designed to provide an Assessment is by coursework and examinations reading groups, research workshops and (if education in advanced finance theory and plus the dissertation. needed) attending specific courses related econometric methods. The compulsory modules to your research. build on your existing knowledge, understanding International Finance and Economic and skills, so you develop a deeper understanding Development MSc Research areas of econometric and financial theories, quantitative Location: Canterbury. and research methods, and policy applications. Entry requirements: As for Economics, see p88. Labour and education economics Teaching and learning skills are carefully integrated Staff research includes work in the areas of into the structure of the modules and degree This MSc prepares you for work as a professional wage distributions, skills and job quality, education, programme. economist in the various public and private migration and trade. institutions concerned with international finance Course content and development throughout the world, or for Macroeconomics, money and finance • Compulsory modules: Advanced a career in research or teaching in the field Staff research in this area includes: Macroeconomics; Applied Microeconometrics; of international finance. You develop a deeper macroeconometric theory; monetary policy; Econometric Methods; Financial Economics and understanding of international finance, financial markets and macroeconomic performance Asset Pricing; Financial Markets and Instruments; development, economic theory, econometric growth theory and international macroeconomics; Time Series Econometrics. and research methods, and policy applications. theoretical models of business cycles, labour • Research Methods market search and financial sources of economic • One from: Advanced Microeconomics of Course content fluctuations; DSGE models; growth theory and Consumers, Markets and Welfare; International • Compulsory modules: Advanced empirics. Finance. Macroeconomics; Advanced Microeconomics of • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an Consumers, Markets and Welfare; Econometric Microeconomic theory, games and approved topic Methods; Growth and Development Theory; behaviour International Finance; Trade and Development. Research interests cover public economics • Research Methods Assessment especially tax policy; gambling and uncertainty; Assessment is based on a mixture of assignments, • One optional module international trade and government procurement; projects and written examinations. • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words on an approved health economics; public goods; leadership in topic co-ordination games; industrial organisation; International Development MA theoretic modelling; economic history. Location: Brussels. Assessment As for Agri-Environmental Economics and Policy, Start: September or January. Development economics Entry requirements: A good first degree (good see p88. Research interests include work on growth; trade; second class honours or equivalent) in a relevant the balance of payments; different aspects of subject. Research programmes migration and remittances on growth; applied studies focusing on particular developing This MA examines the multifaceted political, Agri-Environmental Economics PhD countries. economic and legal processes that shape Location: Canterbury. development. It analyses a broad range of issues Entry requirements: A Master’s degree in including traditional aid and new partnerships, Economics or another relevant discipline at Agri-environmental economics trade, privatisation, informal economies, poverty merit level or above, or equivalent. Research interests cover non-market valuation, and microfinance. food safety, information economics applied to Economics PhD environmental problems, design and evaluation of The programme is offered jointly by the School of Location: Canterbury. agri-environmental policies, biodiversity, agricultural Politics and International Relations, the Kent Law Entry requirements: A Master’s degree in productivity, European agricultural policy, School and the School of Economics. You choose economics or a closely related subject at agricultural trade policy. between two streams: an economic approach, merit level or above, or equivalent. structured around the compulsory modules Transport and regional economics Development Economics and International The PhD programmes are open to students who Research strengths are the regional impact of Economics, and a politico-legal approach, have successfully completed a taught Master’s transport investments; the economic evaluation also built around the compulsory modules, programme in economics. We aim to provide you of infrastructure; regulation and alternative funding Politics of International Development and Law with an environment in which you can both develop models; the economics of public-private and Development. as an economist and complete a high quality partnerships. thesis and provide you with the appropriate The development studies programme is suitable resources to achieve this. You can expect Staff research interests for students seeking to understand the field of committed supervision, to be able to make international development as well as for regular appointments with your supervisor(s) Full details of staff research interests can be found practitioners who already have substantive to discuss your work, to receive timely and on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/economics/staff experience. It provides conceptual tools and constructive feedback on all the work that you practical skills for a variety of careers in do, and to receive advice on how to present Dr Alastair Bailey: Reader in Agricultural international affairs, including international your work externally. In the most recent national Economics organisations, non-governmental organisations Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, the Primary production systems; evaluation of and international business. School of Economics scored highly, with 100% of agricultural, trade and environmental policies. respondents expressing satisfaction with the quality Course content of the supervision and that their overall experience Dr Sylvain Barde: Lecturer in Economics • Compulsory modules: Fundamentals, either met or exceeded their expectations. This Economic geography; information-theoretical Dissertation and Research; Development underlines our commitment to creating an excellent modelling. Economics; Development Theory and Practice; environment for our research students. International Economics.

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Professor Alan Carruth: Professor of Dr Alex Klein: Lecturer in Economics Dr Zaki Wahhaj: Lecturer in Economics Economics Economic history; economic geography; Economic development and applied theory; Applied econometrics; macroeconomics; labour agglomeration economics; long-run economic social norms and household decision making economics. growth. in developing countries.

Dr Edward Cartwright: Senior Lecturer in Professor Hans-Martin Krolzig: Professor of Dr Yu Zhu: Reader in Economics Economics Economics Family economics; economics of education; Game theory; behavioural economics; public Macroeconometrics; econometric model selection; applied microeconometrics. economics. Recent publications include: Behavioral regime-switching models; business cycle analysis; Economics (2011). forecasting and macroeconomic modelling.

Professor Jagjit Chadha: Professor of Professor Miguel León-Ledesma: Professor of Location Economics Economics Canterbury and Brussels. Quantitative business cycle theory; financial Growth economics; international macroeconomics English language requirements economics. Recent publications include: Interest and applied macroeconometrics. Recent See p223. Rates, Prices and Liquidity: Lessons from the publications include: Advanced International financial crisis (co-ed, 2011); The Euro in Danger: Macro and Finance (co-author, forthcoming). Fees and funding Reform and Reset (co-author, 2012). See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Dr Keisuke Otsu: Lecturer in Economics National ratings Dr William Collier: Lecturer in Economics Quantitative dynamic macroeconomics; open- Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Labour economics; applied microeconometrics. economy macroeconomic theory. ranked 16th nationally for research quality, with 75% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or Professor Sophia Davidova: Professor of Dr John Peirson: Reader in Economics ‘internationally excellent’. European Agricultural Policy Economics of uncertainty; transport; gambling Microeconomic analysis of the impact of markets. Economics at Kent was ranked 1st for agricultural reforms. teaching and 4th for student satisfaction Dr Matloob Piracha: Senior Lecturer in in The Guardian University Guide 2014, Professor Iain Fraser: Professor of Economics 1st for student satisfaction in the Times Good Agri-Environmental Economics International trade and migration. University Guide 2013 and has been in the Environmental economics; agricultural economics; top five in the National Student Survey for resource economics. Dr Mathan Satchi: Lecturer in Economics four successive years (2009-12). Macroeconomics and theory. Applications Professor Rob Fraser: Professor of Agricultural Economics Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama: Lecturer in Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Design and evaluation of agri-environmental Economics policies; invasive species policies including Inventories in business cycles; general properties postgrad/apply policies affecting world trade. of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso: Senior Lecturer in Dr José Silva-Becerra: Lecturer in Economics details. Economics Macroeconomics; labour economics; economic Further information Industrial organisation; international trade; the growth. effect of public procurement policies on market Canterbury T: +44 (0)1227 827440 structure. Dr Anna Stepanova: Lecturer in Economics Industrial organisation; game theory. F: +44 (0)1227 827850 E: [email protected] Dr Amanda Gosling: Senior Lecturer in Economics Professor Tony Thirlwall: Professor of Applied Brussels Labour economics; applied econometrics. Economics T: +32 (0)2 641 1721 Development economics and macroeconomic F: +32 (0)2 641 1720 Dr Stefano Grassi: Lecturer in Economics policy. Recent publications include: Great E : [email protected] Time series econometrics and macroeconomic Thinkers in Economics (series editor); Trade www.kent.ac.uk/brussels models. Liberalisation and The Poverty Of Nations (co-author, 2008); Economics of Development: Dr Adelina Gschwandtner: Lecturer in Theory and Evidence (2011); Economic Growth Economics in an Open Developing Economy: The Role of Applied economics; empirical industrial Structure and Demand (2013). organisation. Professor Roger Vickerman: Professor of Professor Christopher Heady: Professor of European Economics Economics Economics of infrastructure; infrastructure Tax policy; economics of the public sector; and regional development; labour mobility development economics; environmental and migration in the EU. Recent publications economics. include: A Handbook of Transport Economics (co-ed, 2011). Dr Wei Jiang: Lecturer in Economics Fiscal and monetary policy; business cycles. 91

Canterbury EDUCATION

The newly created Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Kent provides a base for taught postgraduate provision with a distinctive focus on the field of Higher Education. The Centre is also a focal point for research in this area, supported by seminars and events to which all postgraduate students are warmly welcomed.

We currently offer four postgraduate programmes, each tailored according to different levels of experience and designed for you to select subject matter according to your own professional interests and role. The emphasis throughout is on developing an understanding of the Higher Education context, the diversity of provision and the implications for all aspects of academic work in the 21st century.

Students on our taught programmes come from a wide range of subject backgrounds and bring a rich variety of experiences to their work, resulting in a lively interdisciplinary dimension to the taught modules and opportunities for debate.

Since 2012, the Centre has offered a new PhD programme in Higher Education. This programme can be taken on a full-time or part-time basis, and is aimed at those with a professional or scholarly interest in any aspect of higher education who wish to develop as independent researchers in the field.

“The programme is excellent, Programmes also invite a number of external speakers to give lectures and seminars. Our students have I have been taught by very Taught access to lively national and international research helpful and supportive lecturers. • Higher Education PCert networks and conferences through the Centre’s • Higher Education PDip, MA active involvement in the Society for Research into They understand that we all Higher Education (www.srhe.ac.uk), the British come from different backgrounds Research Educational Research Association (www.bera.ac.uk) and encourage us to relate what • Higher Education PhD and other scholarly bodies. we are being taught to our own Research expertise and resources Dynamic publishing culture discipline.” The Centre for the Study of Higher Education Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, has members of staff based in all faculties in conference proceedings and books. Among Ashley Casson the University, as well as a core team of Education others, they have recently contributed to: Journal MA Higher Education specialists. Higher Education is a broad of Workplace Learning; Discourse; Journal of interdisciplinary field, and members of the Centre Further and Higher Education; Teaching in Higher for the Study of Higher Education research and Education; International Journal of Lifelong publish on a wide range of subjects. Full details Education. Details of recently published books can can be found on individual staff webpages. be found within the staff research interests on p92. The Centre draws on expertise from a range of disciplines; we offer joint supervision with other Taught programmes academic schools, and can accommodate a wide range of research topics. Higher Education PCert (PGCHE) Location: Canterbury. The University library houses a growing collection Entry requirements: You should be teaching at of books and journals on higher education, many Higher Education (HE) level for at least two hours of which can be accessed online. You also have per week throughout one term, so that there are access to the extensive training and other resources opportunities for sustained teaching observation. provided through the Graduate School. This programme offers theoretical and practical Research seminars/events support for those embarking on a career in HE. It considers different approaches to teaching and The Centre holds regular research seminars where learning, grounded in educational research, and academic staff and postgraduate students discuss related aspects such as curriculum design and their research and work in progress. Every term we delivery and the principles and purposes of 92 Education cont

assessment. It enables you to bring these Research programme Dr Joanna Williams: Senior Lecturer in Higher considerations to bear on your own work and Education and Academic Practice experience as a teacher, researcher or practitioner. Higher Education PhD Current research interests include the changing Location: Canterbury. construction of students as consumers of higher The emphasis throughout is on developing an Start: Anytime. education and the impact this may have upon understanding of the HE context, recognising Entry requirements: A good honours degree or students’ attitudes to learning, the purpose of the diversity of provision – universities, Further Master’s in a subject relevant to your proposed a university, and the concept of public good in Education institutions, specialist institutions, research topic. We strongly recommend that you higher education. Recent publications include: professional providers – and practices, for contact the Centre to discuss your plans before Consuming Higher Education: why learning can’t example, in different disciplinary fields. making a formal application. be bought (2013).

Course content Research on HE at Kent includes work on Edd Pitt: Lecturer in Higher Education and Compulsory modules education policy, the philosophy, economics, Academic Practice • Critical Perspectives on Academic Practice management and politics of HE, disciplinary Principal research interest is in assessment and • Introduction to Learning, Teaching and the teaching and learning, learning technology, feedback in higher education. He has a particular Academic Environment academic practice and sociological perspectives interest in staff and students’ emotional processing on academic work. of feedback and its implications for teaching Optional modules practice. • Two from: Assessment and Professional The Centre draws on expertise from across Development in Higher Education; Developing the University, so we can offer high-quality PhD The Centre for the Study of Higher Education also as a Research Degree Supervisor; Developing supervision; we work very carefully to match you includes academics from other schools across the as a Researcher in Higher Education; The with a supervisory panel that suits your interests University with interests in higher education Inclusive Curriculum; Individual Investigation and ambitions. There are further details on the research. Full staff details can be found at in Higher Education; Internationalisation and research activities and publications of individual www.kent.ac.uk/cshe/about.html Higher Education; Learning and Teaching members of staff on the Centre’s website, Innovation; Technology in the Academic www.kent.ac.uk/cshe Environment. In addition to regular meetings with supervisors, all Location Assessment research students take part in a tailored research Canterbury. Assessment is by an essay of 3,000 words or training programme, which can include research English language requirements negotiated equivalent for each module. methods modules offered by the Centre or by other schools, as appropriate. As well as attending the See p223. Higher Education PDip, MA regular research seminars offered by the Centre, Fees and funding you are encouraged to participate in the seminars, Location: Canterbury. See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding workshops, newer researcher networks and Entry requirements: A PGCHE or equivalent National ratings professional qualification or negotiated portfolio masterclasses offered by the scholarly bodies in the discipline, including the Society for Research Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: plus a minimum of two years’ recent experience Kent’s 18 academic schools were found to be as an HE professional. into Higher Education (SRHE) and the British Educational Research Association (BERA). engaged in research of international and world-class standing. This programme offers an opportunity for HE professionals to deepen their understanding of Staff research interests Applications principles, theoretical concepts and the policy Full details of staff research interests can be found Taught programmes context of HE. Practice-based specialist modules on our website:www.kent.ac.uk/cshe/about.html Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ are combined with modules supporting the postgrad/apply development of research skills, culminating in a Fran Beaton: Senior Lecturer in Higher dissertation for the MA. The emphasis throughout Research programmes Education and Academic Practice; Director is on a critical understanding of the HE context See p232 or contact the Centre for further of Taught Programmes in Higher Education. and its implications for academic work in the 21st details. Principal research interest is in the nature of century. support for early career academics and the Further information impact of this on practice and self-image. Recent Canterbury Course content publications include: Developing Effective Part-time T: +44 (0)1227 824013 PDip (research pathway) Teachers in Higher Education: new approaches to E: [email protected] • Compulsory modules: Educational Research professional development (co-ed, 2012). Methodology; Interrogating Higher Education Research. Dr Jennifer Leigh: Lecturer in Higher Education • One module from the PGCHE optional modules and Academic Practice listed above Research interests include academic practice, programmes for academic development and part- PDip (teaching pathway) time teachers as well as aspects of teaching and • Four optional modules from the PGCHE option learning in higher education. She has also explored modules listed above. reflexivity and embodiment, and is interested in how this relates to professional practice. MA • Compulsory and optional modules as for PDip Dr Janice Malcolm: Senior Lecturer in Higher • Dissertation Education and Academic Practice; Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education Assessment Principal research interest is in academic work and Assessment is by a presentation of work in the construction and practice of academic and progress, an essay of up to 5,000 words disciplinary identities. She has a particular interest for each module and a 12,000-word dissertation. in the nature of the academic workplace, and the impact of policy and regulation on disciplinary practice. 93

Canterbury ENGINEERING AND DIGITAL ARTS

The School of Engineering and Digital Arts successfully combines modern engineering and technology with the exciting new field of digital media. The School was established over 40 years ago and has developed a top-quality teaching and research base, receiving excellent ratings in both research and teaching assessments.

The School undertakes high-quality research that has had significant national and international impact, and our spread of expertise allows us to respond rapidly to new developments. Our 31 academic staff and over 130 postgraduate students and research staff form teams providing an ideal focus to effectively support a high level of research activity. There is a thriving student population studying for postgraduate degrees in a notably friendly and supportive teaching and research environment.

We have research funding from the UK Research Councils, European research programmes, a number of industrial and commercial companies and government agencies – such as the Ministry of Defence, and many others. Our Electronic Systems Design Centre and Digital Media Hub provide training and consultancy for a wide range of companies. Many of our research projects are collaborative, and we have well-developed links with institutions worldwide.

“The MSc has helped me greatly Programmes Synopsys™, Altera™, National Instruments® and Mentor Graphics™. The SMT laboratory can be to find good jobs around the Taught used for prototyping and small-volume PCB world. I worked for British • Advanced Electronic Systems Engineering PDip, manufacture. A well-equipped instrumentation MSc research laboratory is also available. Telecom, then for Lucent • Architectural Visualisation MA (taught jointly with Technologies in Germany. Kent School of Architecture) Students studying communications have access • Broadband and Mobile Communication to both commercial and in-house software tools I then moved to Spain and I’m Networks PDip, MSc for designing microwave, RF, optoelectronics and currently working on different • Computer Animation PDip, MSc antenna systems (such as ADS™, CST™, HFSS™) • Digital Visual Effects PDip, MSc and subsequent testing with network and spectrum projects around the world • Embedded Systems and Instrumentation PDip, analysers up to 110 GHz, an on-wafer prober, and including O2 Germany and MSc high-quality anechoic chambers. • Engineering with Finance PDip, MSc KTF Korea.” • Information Security and Biometrics PDip, MSc Students on the programmes in Computer • Mobile Application Design MSc Animation and Digital Visual Effects work in a Abel Mayal de la Torre • Wireless Communications and Signal Processing dedicated, state-of-the-art suite, equipped with MSc Broadband and Mobile Communication Networks, PDip, MSc now UMTS Engineer Leader for Nortel Networks, Spain leading-edge PC workstations running Alias™ Maya and Foundry Nuke. There is also a Research photographic studio and a production studio with • Electronic Engineering MSc, MPhil, PhD, EngD green screen and motion capture facilities. The • Digital Arts MSc, MPhil, PhD School is also equipped with a 3D body scanner – one of only two in the UK. Postgraduate resources Students on the Information Security and Biometrics The School is well equipped with a wide range of Master’s course have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and computing facilities and software biometrics equipment, which can be used packages for teaching and research support. for studying the characteristics of the different There is a variety of hardware and software for biometric modalities introduced during the course. image acquisition and processing, as well as extensive multimedia computing resources. The School has facilities for designing embedded Support systems using programmable logic and ASIC As a postgraduate student, you are part of a technology, supported by CAD tools and thriving research community and receive support development software from international through a wide-ranging programme of individual companies, including Cadence™, Xilinx™, 94 Engineering and Digital Arts cont

supervision, specialised research seminars, The MA in Architectural Visualisation is offered and general skills training programmes, and general jointly taught by Kent School of Architecture and the departmental colloquia, usually with external School of Engineering and Digital Arts. Building on speakers. We encourage you to attend and present the successful Master’s programmes in Computer your work at major conferences, as well as taking Animation and Digital Visual Effects, this MA part in our internal conference and seminar enables you to develop, at an advanced level, programmes. the skills, knowledge and understanding of digital simulation and 3D modelling which equips you to Dynamic publishing culture become a highly skilled professional in architectural visualisation. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among Course content others, they have recently contributed to: IEEE • Digital Visual Art Set-up (intensive four-week Transactions; IET Journals; Electronics Letters; introductory course) Applied Physics; Computers in Human Behaviour. • Digital Architecture Set-up Details of recently published books can be found • Film and Architecture within the staff research interests on p97. • High-Definition Compositing • High-Definition Video Taught programmes • Master’s Project • Virtual Cities Advanced Electronic Systems Engineering • Professional Group Work PDip, MSc Location: Canterbury. Assessment Entry requirements: A 2.2 or higher honours Modules are taught over three terms, concluding degree in electronics, computing or related with a Major Project Visualisation, which accounts electronics subject. for one third of the programme. The content of the visualisation is agreed with programme staff and This is a broad programme in advanced will allow you to build a showreel to a professional electronics, reflecting the latest developments standard. STAFF PROFILE in telecommunications, embedded systems, instrumentation and biometrics. Despite this Broadband and Mobile Communication Michael Fairhurst considerable breadth, an extensive range of Networks PDip, MSc Professor of Computer Vision options allows students to tailor the course to Location: Canterbury. suit their individual requirements. The programme Entry requirements: As for Advanced Electronic Michael Fairhurst is a Fellow of the enables students to develop advanced skills in Systems Engineering. International Association for Pattern various aspects of modern hardware, software Recognition, and sits on a number of and firmware engineering. This programme reflects the latest developments government committees. He has published in the telecommunications industry, providing high- around 350 scientific papers and sits on Course content quality systems-level education and training. The the editorial boards of several international • Advanced Control Systems coursework programme focuses on both fixed and journals. At Kent, he leads the Image and • Communication Networks wireless systems and networks, and the increasing Information Engineering research group. • Computer and Reconfigurable Architectures convergence of the two – coding, current new • Research Methods and Project Design and next generation mobile communications, Professor Fairhurst’s research interests • Two from: Advanced Pattern Recognition multimedia networking and future optical networks focus on computational architectures for Techniques; Advanced Sensors and are all covered. Much of the material is reinforced image analysis and classification, and Instrumentation Systems; Embedded Real-time with sophisticated simulation software. applications including handwritten text Operating Systems; Fundamentals of Image reading and document processing, Analysis. Course content medical image analysis and, especially, • MSc Project • Broadband Networks security and biometrics. • Communication Networks Assessment • Communication Systems Current projects include work on The project module is examined by a presentation • Digital Signal Processing multimodal biometrics, on quantifying and dissertation. The Research Methods and • Wireless/Mobile Communications the vulnerability of biometric identification Project Design module is examined by several • Signal and Communication Theory techniques, and on the analysis of components of continuous assessment. The • Research Methods and Project Design handwriting, both for identification other modules are assessed by examinations and • MSc Project purposes and to improve the effectiveness smaller components of continuous assessment. of automated processing for forensic MSc students must gain credits from all the Assessment applications. Biometric processing also modules (180 credits in total). For the PDip, you The project module is examined by a presentation underpins his work investigating document must gain at least 120 credits in total, and pass and dissertation. The Research Methods and encryption linked to biometric data. He is certain modules to meet the learning outcomes Project Design module is examined by several further developing work he pioneered at of the PDip programme. components of continuous assessment. The Kent, which established novel techniques other modules are assessed by examinations for the assessment and monitoring of Architectural Visualisation MA and smaller components of continuous neurological conditions (following a stroke, (taught jointly with Kent School of assessment. MSc students must gain credit from for example) through the analysis of Architecture) all the modules. For the PDip, you must gain at least patients’ writing and drawing abilities. Location: Canterbury. 120 credits in total, and pass certain modules to Attendance: One year full-time. meet the learning outcomes of the PDip Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree programme. in architecture, animation or a multimedia-related discipline or similar (or equivalent). Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.eda.kent.ac.uk 95

Computer Animation MSc This programme enables you to develop advanced This programme offers an advanced level Location: Canterbury. skills in the major aspects of modern embedded of learning by providing you with a thorough Attendance: One year full-time. systems design at hardware, software and firmware understanding of the theories, concepts and Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree levels, using practical examples in instrumentation, techniques for the design, development and in multimedia, art or design or a related subject. monitoring, control, computing and communication effective use of secure information systems. All applicants must present a portfolio. to illustrate the technology. Graduates of this programme are then capable of adapting to changes in the field and of leading Our programme is oriented towards current Course content it in innovation. industrial needs, technology and practice; it aims • Advanced Control Systems to be a direct route into this high-profile modern, • Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation Systems The MSc is designed for practitioners, professionals creative industry, and has been developed jointly • Communication Networks and graduates with an interest in information by the School and Framestore CFC, our industrial • Computer and Reconfigurable Architectures security, access control technologies, and partner. Each module is delivered by means of • Digital Signal Processing application domains using biometric identification lectures, demonstrations and workshops. • Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems and verification systems. • Research Methods and Project Design Course content • MSc Project Course content • Digital Visual Art Set-up (intensive four-week • Biometrics Technologies introductory course) Assessment • Computer Security • Acting in Animation As for Broadband and Mobile Communication • Fundamentals of Image Analysis • Action in Animation Networks, see p94. • Research Methods and Project Design • Animation Principles • MSc Project • Advanced 3D Modelling Engineering with Finance PDip, MSc • Two from: Advanced Sensors and • Previsualisation Location: Canterbury. Instrumentation Systems; Advanced Java for • Professional Group Work Entry requirements: A first or good second Programming; Advanced Pattern Recognition • Visual Training class honours degree (or the equivalent) in an Techniques; Computing Law, Contracts and • Computer Animation Project engineering, scientific, computing, or similar Professional Responsibility; Industrial Context discipline. Applicants should also have a proven of Biometrics: Standards, Object-orientated Assessment mathematical ability and knowledge of the basics Programming, Testing and Evaluation of Each module is assessed by practical of statistics and probability. Biometric Systems; System Security; Trust, assignments. The project work is assessed Security and Privacy Management. on the outcome of the project itself. The new MSc in Engineering with Finance has been designed for engineering and science Assessment Digital Visual Effects MSc graduates who wish to pursue a career in As for Broadband and Mobile Communication Networks, see p94. Location: Canterbury. quantitative finance. The finance industry is One year full-time. increasingly recruiting graduates who can apply Attendance: Mobile Application Design MSc Entry requirements: As for Computer Animation. traditional engineering analysis methods to find innovative solutions to financial problems. This Location: Canterbury. This programme develops at an advanced level the taught Master’s programme combines a balanced Entry requirements: A 2.2 or higher honours skills, knowledge and understanding within the field mix of engineering and quantitative finance degree in an engineering, multimedia, scientific, of high definition digital effects, equipping you to modules. You will acquire a specialised computing, or similar discipline. Applicants should become a highly skilled technical director (TD) in understanding of the principles and practices also be familiar with object-oriented programming the visual effects industry. It covers 3D model of engineering required in roles such as financial methodology. building, texturing, lighting, rendering, procedural analyst and risk management professional. animation (cloth, hair, fur, dynamics), advanced This advanced Master’s programme has been compositing and high-definition digital effects. Course content designed to allow you to become a highly skilled Each module is delivered by means of lectures, • Advanced Control Systems professional for the mobile industry, by combining demonstrations and workshops. • Advanced Pattern Recognition Techniques technology, interface design and application • Digital Signal Processing development for mobile platforms with a strong Course content • Financial Engineering emphasis on creating applications of high usability • Digital Visual Art Set-up (intensive four-week • Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models for and reliability. introductory course) Engineers • Advanced 3D Modelling • Probability and Statistics for Finance Course content • Effects Animation • Project Design • HCI for Mobiles • High Definition Compositing • Strategic Analysis of Financial Systems • iPhone Application Design • High Definition Video • MSc Project • Mobile Application Design Project • Previsualisation • Mobile Web Development • Professional Group Work Assessment • Research Methods and Project Design for • Technical Direction As for Broadband and Mobile Communication Mobile Applications • Master’s Project Networks, see p94. • MSc Project • Two from: Economics of the Electronic Assessment Information Security and Biometrics PDip, Marketplace; Embedded Real-Time Operating As for Computer Animation. MSc Systems; Object-Oriented Programming. Location: Canterbury. Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Entry requirements: A 2.2 or higher honours Assessment PDip, MSc degree (or equivalent) in a subject with a strong IT Assessment is through a mixture of written examinations and coursework, the relative Canterbury. component. We assess applicants on an individual Location: weights of which vary according to the nature A 2.2 or higher honours basis, with professional experience taken into Entry requirements: of the module. The final project is assessed by degree, or alternative international qualification consideration. a dissertation. recognised as equivalent, in electronics, computer science or a related engineering or science subject.

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Student profile

SALLY GAO PhD ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

What are you researching? How have you found the supervision process? I’m developing cutting-edge technology for gas-solids flow My supervisor is very responsible and helpful in guiding measurement in a power plant, using sensors and signal me towards being a better researcher. I am inspired by processing algorithms. It is a challenging research area – to his novel ideas and constructive suggestions. Under his measure fuel flow in the power generation industry – but also supervision, my confidence has grown through such to be able to do so in a way that will protect the environment. milestones as my first set of experiments, writing my first research paper and attending my first conference. What are you most enjoying about your studies? I am impressed with the research facilities at Kent. Each What about your employment prospects? research student in EDA is offered an office shared with other My study at Kent will definitely enhance my employment research students. We have a well-equipped workshop and opportunity in an academic or an industrial career. I have skillful technicians who help students with all kinds of tasks. published a number of research papers in scientific journals The instrumentation lab, in particular, fulfills my requirements and conference proceedings since the start of my PhD. I have of conducting experiments under various conditions using the also learnt generic skills, such as research methodology, available test rigs and tools. project management, presentation and scientific writing, which are very helpful in finding a job in academia or industry. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.eda.kent.ac.uk 97

Wireless Communications and Signal Current research themes include: film). Our work is applied across a wide range of Processing PDip, MSc • high-performance image analysis domains including e-health, cultural heritage and Location: Canterbury. • visual communication cyber influence/identity. Entry requirements: As for Advanced Electronic • biometrics and security Systems Engineering, see p94. • handwriting analysis Current research themes include: • medical image analysis • interface/interaction design and human- This programme reflects the latest developments • document processing computer interaction in the wireless communications industry, with • robotic systems • cyber behaviour/influence particular emphasis on digital signal processing • neural systems engineering and biologically • social computing and sociability design using embedded systems. inspired processing. • natural user interfaces • virtual worlds The programme provides high-quality systems-level Instrumentation, Control and Embedded • online communities and computer-mediated education and training, enabling you to develop Systems communication advanced skills in the application of modern The Instrumentation, Control and Embedded • mobile applications embedded systems design at hardware, software Systems Research Group comprises a mixture of • digital film-making and post-production. and firmware levels, using practical examples in highly experienced, young and vibrant academics wireless communication to illustrate the technology. working in three complementary research themes – Staff research interests Much of the material is reinforced with embedded systems, instrumentation and control. Full details of staff research interests can be sophisticated simulation software. The Group has established a major reputation in found on our website: recent years for solving challenging scientific and www.eda.kent.ac.uk/school/staff_directory.aspx Course content technical problems across a range of industrial • Digital Signal Processing sectors, and has strong links with many European Dr (Jim) Chee Siang Ang: Lecturer in • Signals and Communication Theory countries through EU-funded research Multimedia/Digital Systems • Computer and Reconfigurable Architectures programmes. The Group also has a history Human computer interaction; usability and • Communication Networks of industrial collaboration in the UK through playability design; computer game studies • Wireless/Mobile Communications Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. and interactive narrative; social computing • Embedded Real-time Operating Systems and sociability design; virtual worlds; online • Research Methods and Project Design The Group’s main expertise lies primarily in communities and computer-mediated • Project image processing, signal processing, embedded communication. Recent publications include: systems, optical sensors, neural networks, and Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Assessment systems on chip and advanced control. It is Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (co-ed, As for Broadband and Mobile Communication currently working in the following areas: 2008); Cross-disciplinary Advances in Human Networks, see p94. • monitoring and characterisation of combustion Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social flames Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces (co-ed, 2009); • flow measurement of particulate solids Research programmes Social Computing and Virtual Communities (co-ed, • medical instrumentation 2010). Electronic Engineering MSc, MPhil, PhD, • control of autonomous vehicles EngD • control of time-delay systems Dr John Batchelor: Reader in Antenna • high-speed architectures for real-time image Digital Arts MSc, MPhil, PhD Technology processing Location: Canterbury. Design and modelling of multi-band antennas • novel signal processing architectures based on Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree for personal, on-body and mobile communication logarithmic arithmetic. in electronics, computing or a related electronics systems; passive RFID tagging/sensing and skin subject. mounted transfer tattoo tags; reduced-size Broadband and Wireless Communications frequency selective structures (FSS and EBG) The School conducts high-quality significant The Group’s activities cover system and for incorporation into smart buildings for control national and international research and offers component technologies from microwave to of radio spectrum. excellent opportunities for graduate studies. We terahertz frequencies. These include photonics, have consistently attracted substantial research antennae and wireless components for a broad Ania Bobrowicz: Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts funding from the UK Research Councils, European range of communication systems. The Group has Human-computer interaction; computer-mediated research programmes, industrial and commercial extensive software research tools together with communication; feminism and art history. companies, government agencies and others, and antenna anechoic chambers, network and our spread of expertise allows us to respond spectrum analysers to millimetre wave frequencies David Byers Brown: Senior Lecturer rapidly to new developments. and optical signal generation, processing and Animation; digital visual effects; directing. measurement facilities. We offer higher degree research programmes Dr Farzin Deravi: Reader in Information in the four areas listed below on a full-time or Current main research themes include: Engineering part-time basis. • photonic components Pattern recognition; information fusion; computer • networks/wireless systems vision; image processing: image coding; fractals • microwave and millimetre-wave systems Research groups and self-similarity; biometrics; bio-signals; assistive • antenna systems technologies. Image and Information Engineering • radio-over-fibre systems The Group has research interests in all aspects • electromagnetic bandgaps and metamaterials Professor Michael Fairhurst: Professor of of image processing, image analysis and pattern • frequency selective surfaces. Computer Vision recognition, including high-performance classifier Image analysis; computer vision; handwriting design and image interpretation, image coding Digital Media analysis; biometrics and security; novel classifier and video processing, colour and texture feature The Digital Media group is a multidisciplinary architectures; medical image analysis and analysis, and intelligent processing structures. It group with interests in many areas including diagnostics; document processing. also has an international reputation for its work in social computing (eg, social networking, computer a number of key application areas, which include mediated communication), mobile/ubiquitous Professor Steven Gao: Professor of handwriting analysis, medical image processing, computing, human-computer interaction and digital RF/Microwave Engineering document processing and, especially, biometrics arts (eg, computer games, 3D animation, digital Space antennas; smart antennas; microwave and security. circuit and systems.

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Dr Nathan Gomes: Reader in Broadband Dr Matthew Pepper: Senior Lecturer in Dr Paul Young: Lecturer in Electronic Communications Electronic Engineering Engineering Optical-microwave interactions, especially fibre- Medical instrumentation: in particular in-shoe force Design and modelling of microwave and millimetre- radio networks; optoelectronic devices and optical measurement for gait analysis and rehabilitation wave devices and antennas, especially substrate networks. Recent publications include: Next engineering. integrated waveguides and smart antennas. Generation Wireless Communications using Radio Over Fiber (co-author, 2012). Dr Konstantinos Sirlantzis: Lecturer in Image Dr Huiling Zhu: Lecturer in Communications Processing and Vision Wireless communications and networking Dr Richard Guest: Senior Lecturer Pattern recognition; multiple classifier systems; especially OFDMA; radio resource allocation; Image processing; biometrics technologies artificial intelligence techniques; neural networks, distributed antenna systems; wireless relay including usability, cybermetric linkages and genetic algorithms, and other biologically inspired networks; user-centric networks; cooperative standardisation; automated analysis of handwritten computing paradigms; image processing; communications. data; document processing. multimodal biometric models; handwriting recognition; numerical stochastic optimisation Dr Sanaul Hoque: Lecturer in Secure Systems algorithms; nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory; Engineering Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for Location Computer vision; OCR; biometrics; security and sensor data fusion. Canterbury. encryption; multi-expert fusion and document English language requirements modelling. Professor Mohammed Sobhy: Professor See p223. Emeritus of Electronics Dr Benito Sanz Izquierdo: Lecturer in Electronic Analysis and applications of nonlinear electronic Fees and funding Systems systems. See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Antennas and microwaves. National ratings Professor Sarah Spurgeon: Professor of Control Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Dr Gareth Howells: Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering; Head of School of Engineering 40% of our research was rated ‘world-leading’ Engineering and Digital Arts or ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 45% Biometric security and pattern classification Fundamental developments in the area of nonlinear judged as ‘internationally recognised’. techniques especially deriving encryption keys control and estimation, with a particular interest in from operating characteristics of electronic circuits variable structure and sliding mode systems; The School of Engineering and Digital Arts was and systems. industrial and biomedical application of nonlinear ranked 1st in the UK for student satisfaction in control and estimation techniques. the 2012 National Student Survey and in The Stephen Kelly: Senior Lecturer in Electronic Guardian University Guide 2014. Engineering Dr Les Walczowski: Senior Lecturer in Medical electronics, including: electrocardiology; Electronic Engineering; Director of Learning Applications speech assessment; telemedicine and computer- and Teaching Taught programmes based assessment of clinical conditions. The development of dynamic web applications, Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ mobile applications and e-learning technology. postgrad/apply Peter Lee: Senior Lecturer in Electronic Research programmes Engineering Winston Waller: Senior Lecturer in Electronic See p232 or contact the School for further Embedded systems; programmable architectures; Engineering; Director of Enterprise details. high-speed signal processing; VLSI/ASIC design; Design for test; analogue and digital VLSI design; neural networks; optical sensor systems and medical applications of VLSI and low power Further information applications; image processing using VLSI. voltage circuit design. T: +44 (0)1227 823724 F: +44 (0)1227 456084 Dr Gang Lu: Senior Lecturer in Electronic Dr Chao Wang: Lecturer in Electronic Systems E: [email protected] Instrumentation Optical communications; microwave photonics; Advanced combustion instrumentation; vision- biophotonics. based instrumentation systems; digital image processing; condition monitoring. Professor Jiangzhou Wang: Professor of Telecommunications; Director of Graduate Dr Gianluca Marcelli: Lecturer in Engineering Studies The understanding of complex systems, in Modulation; coding; MIMO; mobile particular, biological and financial systems; communications; wireless sensor networks. using mathematical modelling such as molecular Recent publications include: High-Speed Wireless simulation, Brownian dynamics and network theory. Communications: Ultra-wideband, 3G Long Term Evolution, and 4G Mobile Systems (2008). Dr Richard Misek: Lecturer in Digital Media Screen technologies and aesthetics; post- Dr Xinggang Yan: Lecturer in Control production; remix cinema; digital spacetime; Engineering urban space; video art. Nonlinear control; sliding mode control; decentralised control; fault detection and Robert Oven: Lecturer in Electronic Engineering isolation. Modelling of ion implantation processes and ion diffusion into glass for integrated optic applications. Professor Yong Yan: Professor of Electronic Instrumentation; Director of Research Professor Ted Parker: Professor Emeritus of Sensors; instrumentation; measurement; condition Radio Communications monitoring; digital signal processing; digital image Microwave antennas; frequency selective surfaces processing; applications of artificial intelligence. for microwave and millimetre wave multiband antennas (dichroics); radomes and frequency dependent screening for secure buildings. 99

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The School of English has a strong international reputation and global perspective, apparent both in the background of its staff and in the diversity of our teaching and research interests. Our expertise ranges from the medieval to the postmodern, including British, American and Irish literature, postcolonial writing, 18th-century studies, Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, Victorian studies, modern poetry, critical theory and cultural history. The international standing of the School ensures that we have a lively, confident research culture, sustained by a vibrant, ambitious intellectual community. We also count a number of distinguished creative writers among our staff, and we actively explore crossovers between critical and creative writing in all our areas of teaching and research.

Our reputation for research excellence was confirmed in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) in which our research was recognised to be world-leading. The University of Kent is a research-led institution, which means that the research that the academics are engaged in continues to inform their teaching, and that you, as a student in the department, are at the centre of a dynamic and thriving academic environment.

“Having become familiar with Programmes Postgraduate resources the excellent academic staff Taught The Templeman Library is well stocked with and resources available at • The Contemporary MA excellent research resources, as are Canterbury • Creative Writing MA Cathedral Archives and Library. There are a Kent, I wanted to continue • Creative Writing (Paris) MA number of special collections: the John Crow my postgraduate study in • Critical Theory MA (taught jointly with School Collection of Elizabethan and other early printed of European Culture and Languages) texts; the Reading/Raynor Collection of theatre an environment that was • Dickens and Victorian Culture MA history (over 7,000 texts or manuscripts); ECCO established in its academic • Eighteenth-Century Studies MA (taught jointly (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online); the with School of European Culture and Languages) Melville manuscripts relating to popular culture accomplishment, welcomed • Eighteenth-Century Studies (Paris) MA in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the Pettingell innovative ideas and was open (taught jointly with School of European Culture Collection (over 7,500 items) of 19th-century and Languages) drama; the Eliot Collection; children’s literature; to new projects. “ • English and American Literature MA and popular literature. A gift from Mrs Valerie Eliot • English and American Literature (Paris) MA has increased the Library’s already extensive Claire Hurley • Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA holdings in modern poetry. The British Library PhD English (see p158) in London is also within easy reach. • Postcolonial Studies MA • Postcolonial Studies (Paris) MA Besides the Templeman Library, School resources include photocopying, fax and telephone access, Research support for attending and organising conferences, and a dedicated postgraduate study space • English MA (Res), PhD equipped with computer terminals and a printer. • The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research PhD • Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conferences and seminars MA (Res), PhD Our research centres organise many international • Poetry: Text, Practice and Research conferences, symposia and workshops. The School • Postcolonial Studies MA (Res), PhD also plays a pivotal role in the Kent Institute for • Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (TEEME): Advanced Studies in the Humanities, of which all An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate graduates are associate members. The Institute • Text and Research Practice PhD hosts interdisciplinary conferences, colloquia, and other events, and establishes international links for all Kent graduates through its network with other advanced institutes worldwide.

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School of English postgraduate students are contemporary culture. The MA equips you with encouraged to organise and participate in a the skills, knowledge and professional experience to conference at the Canterbury campus which takes progress into areas such as artistic practice, related place in the summer term. This provides students higher postgraduate research, arts management with the invaluable experience of presenting their and policy, and a variety of other careers within work to their peers. the arts.

The School runs several series of seminars, You choose from a wide variety of modules in the lectures and readings throughout the academic areas of contemporary literature, creative writing, year. Our weekly research seminars are organised film, drama, and history and philosophy of art. You collaboratively by staff and graduates in are invited to attend an induction at the ICA at the the School. Speakers range from our own start of your studies to introduce you to the facilities postgraduate students, to members of staff, to and are encouraged to make use of the ICA’s distinguished lecturers who are at the forefront programme of seminars and events. of contemporary research nationally and internationally. Course content • Compulsory module: Reading the Contemporary. The Centre for Creative Writing hosts a very popular • Three from: Advanced Critical Reading; Body and successful weekly reading series; guests have and Place in the Postcolonial Text; Cinema and included poets Katherine Pierpoint, Tony Lopez, Technology; Collaborative Project; Colonial and Christopher Reid and George Szirtes, and novelists Postcolonial Discourses; Conceptualising Film; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Ali Smith, Marina Warner and Contemporary Postcolonial Writing; European Will Self. Theatre; Film and Modernity; The Limits of Fiction; Literary Theory; Other Americas; Poetry The University of Kent is now in partnership 1; Poetry 2; Post-Conceptual Art and Visual with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Benefits Arts Criticism; Provocations and Invitations; from the ICA affiliation include free membership Revisioning Twenty-First Century Translation; for incoming students; embedded seminar Transnational Cinema. opportunities at the ICA and a small number of • Dissertation STAFF PROFILE internships for our students. The School of English also runs an interdisciplinary MA programme in the Internship Caroline Rooney Contemporary which offers students an internship You are invited to undertake an internship at the Professor of African and Middle Eastern at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). ICA (for a maximum of two days a week over a Studies month) between February and June. Each group of Dynamic publishing culture students work in the ICA studio, supervised by the Caroline Rooney was born in Zimbabwe. Associate Curator of Education, and have access Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, An undergraduate at the University of to the ICA programme and ICA archive where conference proceedings and books. They also Cape Town, she took up a Beit Fellowship necessary. The experiences and research edit several periodicals including: Angelaki: Journal to engage in doctoral research at Oxford undertaken feed into your final project while of the Theoretical Humanities; The Cambridge University. Her work mainly involves gaining vocational experience at the ICA. Bibliography of English Literature: 600-1500; The postcolonial studies, liberation struggles Dickensian; Literature Compass; Oxford Literary and aftermaths, postcolonial theory and Assessment Review; Theatre Notebook and Wasafiri. Details of diverse philosophical traditions, religious Assessment is by a 5-6,000-word essay for each recently published books can be found within the extremism and political authoritarianism, module and a 12-15,000-word dissertation based staff research interests on p104. literary and political uses of language and in part on your internship at the ICA. cross-cultural articulations of gender and sexuality. Particular interests are Southern Taught programmes Creative Writing MA African Writing, North African writing and Location: Canterbury. Please note that not all modules listed here contemporary Arab writing. Entry requirements: A first or second class necessarily run every year. Please contact the honours degree in a relevant subject (or School for more detailed information on availability. She currently works on popular imagination equivalent), or substantial creative writing and a new Middle East in the making. As a experience. You are required to submit a sample The Contemporary MA Fellow on the ESRC Global Uncertainties of your creative writing, and this will be the most Scheme, Caroline worked on a programme Location: Canterbury and London. significant factor in admissions decisions. entitled, Radical Distrust: A Cultural Entry requirements: A first or second class honours Analysis of the Emotional, Psychological degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). The MA in Creative Writing at Kent offers you the and Linguistic Formations of Extremism. opportunity to study fiction and poetry (exclusively Her follow-on programme, Imagining the This is an interdisciplinary programme in the field or together) along with optional modules in Common Ground: Utopian Thinking and of contemporary culture. It is a unique collaboration translation, and writing and the environment. the Overcoming of Resentment and between the University of Kent and the Institute of Designed with serious, ambitious writers in Distrust, combines creative and cultural Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London which allows mind, our programme uses seminars, tutorials, activities, knowledge exchange and you to choose from a range of modules, each workshops, and precise editing to enable you to international networking to explore the role focusing on different aspects of contemporary take control of your own work and write exciting, of the arts in trust-building and establishing culture. The programme also allows you to enrich contemporary material. social resilience. your academic knowledge with a practical internship at the ICA. You are taught exclusively by members of the permanent creative writing team, all of whom are The programme provides you with a deep practising, award-winning writers: Patricia Debney, understanding of the relationship between David Flusfeder, David Herd, Nancy Gaffield, disciplines in the arts and an appreciation of the Dragan Todorovic, Alex Preston, Amy Sackville, way in which interdisciplinary thinking makes it Simon Smith and Scarlett Thomas. (See staff possible to grasp and respond to key issues in research interests on p104 for further details.) Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/english 101

Course content This programme offers you the chance to study a the expertise and common research interests of You are encouraged to put together an MA range of theories in depth. It engages with modern 18th-century researchers and teachers across programme that suits you and your plans. It is a literary theory, psychoanalytical theory, political the Faculty of Humanities. The Centre provides an requirement of the programme that you take either theory and theories of visual and aesthetic excellent research context for the MA programme Fiction 1 and Fiction 2 or Poetry 1 and Poetry 2 experience. You reflect on these areas of thinking and any further postgraduate work that will arise along with one other Creative Writing module. in themselves and as they relate to particular from it. You may choose to take only creative modules, literary texts, to post-enlightenment philosophy and or to augment your study with a module from the to other relevant areas of culture and experience. Among the teachers involved in this MA are Jennie literature programmes or from other Humanities Batchelor (English), Jonathan Friday (History and programmes. Course content Philosophy of Art), Donna Landry (English), Paddy • Compulsory module: Literature and Theory. Bullard (English)and Ben Thomas (History & Assessment • Three from: Advanced Critical Reading; Colonial Philosophy of Art). You take a total of four modules, for which you will and Post-colonial Disclosures; Comparative produce approximately 8,000 words each (or an Literature in Theory and Practice; European Course content equivalent number of poems or translations). Modernism; Literary Theory; Literature and • Compulsory modules: Extremes of Feeling: In addition, you write a creative dissertation Medicine; Writing Unreason. Additional wild Literature and Empire in the 18th Century; of about 15,000 words. modules may also be available. Hacks, Dunces and Scribblers. • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words • Two from: Hogarth and the Analysis of Beauty; Creative Writing (Paris) MA Jane Austen and Material Culture; From Caxton Location: Canterbury and Paris Assessment to Kindle. Additional wild modules may also be Attendance: One year full-time. The course is assessed by coursework for each available. Entry requirements: As for Creative Writing, module and by the dissertation which accounts • Dissertation see p100. for a third of the final grade. Assessment This is an innovative and interdisciplinary MA Dickens and Victorian Culture MA As for Dickens and Victorian Culture. programme, combining taught modules and a Location: Canterbury. dissertation, which allows you to share your year Entry requirements: A first or second class Eighteenth-Century Studies (Paris) MA between Canterbury and Paris. honours degree in a relevant subject (or (taught jointly with School of European equivalent). Culture and Languages) Following a similar path to our Creative Writing MA, Location: Canterbury and Paris. the Paris option allows you to spend your first term As the only named Master’s programme within the Attendance: One year full-time. at our Canterbury campus with full access to its UK devoted to Charles Dickens, this programme Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian excellent academic and recreational facilities, studies the author in a place that perhaps offers Culture. before relocating to our Paris centre for the more Dickensian associations than anywhere else spring term, studying in the heart of historic in the world. It combines a focus on both the local Following a similar path to our Eighteenth-Century Montparnasse. and the global author through compulsory modules Studies MA, the Paris option allows you to spend contextualising the variety of ways in which your first term at our Canterbury campus with full In Paris, you participate in the Paris-focused Dickens engaged with the social, cultural and access to its excellent academic and recreational modules, taught in English. Then, in the final term, political issues of his age. Interdisciplinary facilities, before relocating to our Paris centre for you will complete your MA by writing a 15,000-word approaches are employed, using Dickens as the spring term, studying in the heart of historic dissertation on a research topic defined in a focus, to consider the relationships between Montparnasse. collaboration with your academic supervisors. 19th-century fiction and journalism, the Victorians’ engagement with material culture, and their In Paris, you participate in the Paris-focused Course content fascination with the body and its metaphors. modules, taught in English. Then, in the final term, You take either Fiction 1 in the first term and Paris: you complete your MA by writing a 12-15,000-word The Residency in the second, or Poetry 1 in the first Course content dissertation on a research topic defined in term and Paris: The Residency in the second. In the • Compulsory modules: Dickens and the collaboration with your academic supervisors. first term, you may choose from any of the other Condition of Victorian England; Dickens and the creative writing modules on offer and in the second Material Culture of the Victorian Novel; Dickens, For course content and assessment, see previous term, you choose from the modules on offer in the Victorians and the Body. entry. Paris. While in Paris, you are encouraged to attend • One from: Desire and Loss in Victorian Poetry readings and talks, and to organise your own and Prose; Extremes of Feeling; Victorian For further information about the University of Kent, writing workshops. Sustainability. Additional wild modules may Paris, please see p230. also be available. Assessment • Dissertation English and American Literature MA As for Creative Writing, see p100. Location: Canterbury. Assessment Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian For further information about the University of Kent, Assessment is by a 5-6,000-word essay for each Culture. Paris, please see p230. module and a 12-15,000-word dissertation. This programme allows you to choose from the Critical Theory MA Eighteenth-Century Studies MA full range of our MA literature modules. The list of (taught jointly with School of European (taught jointly with School of European what’s on offer is regularly added to by academics Culture and Languages) Culture and Languages) keen to explore new areas of thinking with students Location: Canterbury. Location: Canterbury. and to draw you in to our established areas of Entry requirements: A first or second class Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian research strength, such as postcolonial studies; honours degree in a relevant subject (or Culture. 18th-century studies; modern poetry and fiction; equivalent). In certain circumstances, the School or Victorian studies. The modules draw on many will consider candidates who have not followed This MA offers an intellectually dynamic introduction different critical approaches and focus on a wide a conventional education path.These cases are to one of the most exciting eras in literary history. range of historical periods, ideas and places from assessed individually by the Director of Graduate Grounded in and administered from the Centre for modern India to post-war New York to literary Studies. Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, this is an London in the 18th century. interdisciplinary MA programme that builds upon

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Student profile

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What are you researching? How have you funded your studies? I am researching the connections between Hilary Mantel, I was lucky enough to be granted a University 50th the literary author, and Jacques Derrida, the philosopher, Anniversary Scholarship with which to fund my studies. This particularly in relation to the figure of the child. The child means that my fees are paid and I get a stipend which covers as a symbol “haunts” the work of both these writers, and my living expenses too – this allows me the freedom to study has profound implications for their work as a whole. without having to work elsewhere.

Why did you choose to study at Kent? What are the advantages of doing a further degree? I came to Kent after a long time out from studying. I chose A further degree gives you the ability to become an expert Kent because the School of English had a good reputation in your chosen field. It shows you have the stamina and and the staff were encouraging about my potential research. determination to complete a long and detailed project, as well as the analytical and creative skills required. What are the facilities like? The facilities in the School are good – we have places to work Any advice for future students? and access to a common room, which is an excellent way to Make sure you love your chosen subject! You will be spending get to know fellow research students. The library café is good, a lot of time with it over the next three years. and extended library opening hours are very helpful! Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/english 103

Within this programme you may also choose to Course content 30-40,000 words. Given its emphasis on poetic take pathways, so as to concentrate on studies in • Compulsory module: Colonial and Postcolonial practice as research into the possibilities and certain specific areas (especially if you intend to Discourses. potential for contemporary poetry, the programme continue to a research degree in a particular field). • One from: Body and Place in the Postcolonial integrates with the aims and objectives of the Text; Centres and Edges; Contemporary Centre for Modern Poetry allowing for joint Course content Postcolonial Writing; Extremes of Feeling; supervision between the two centres. Cross-faculty • Example available modules: American Imagining India and Writing of Empire and work on modern poetry with colleagues in the Modernism; Centres and Edges; Colonial and Settlement. Additional wild modules may also School of European Culture and Languages is also Postcolonial Discourses; Extremes of Feeling; be available. encouraged. The programme acknowledges the From Caxton to Kindle; Illness and Disability; • Dissertation fact that poetry has historically understood itself Imagining India; Jane Austen and Material as an art, consciously informed by research. Culture; The Limits of Fiction; Men and Women; Assessment Modernism and the Avant-Garde; Other As for Dickens and Victorian Culture, see p101. The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Americas; Provocations and Invitations. Research MA (Res), PhD Additional wild modules may also be available. Postcolonial Studies (Paris) MA This is an innovative and exciting programme in • Dissertation Location: Canterbury and Paris. which you focus on writing a full-length, literary Attendance: One year full-time. novel of between 90,000 and 150,000 words. While Assessment Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian the aims and objectives remain the same as on any As for Dickens and Victorian Culture, see p101. Culture, see p101. other PhD programme in the humanities, for example, you are expected to contribute new English and American Literature (Paris) MA This is an innovative and interdisciplinary MA knowledge of some sort, and to explore original, Location: Canterbury and Paris. programme, combining taught modules and a contemporary research questions, you are Attendance: One year full-time. dissertation, which allows you to share your year expected to achieve almost all of this in the novel Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian between Canterbury and Paris. itself. There is no long critical piece attached to this Culture, see p101. PhD programme. Instead, you produce a 3-5,000- Following a similar path to our Postcolonial Studies word essay that works like a preface to your project, This is an innovative and interdisciplinary MA MA, the Paris option allows you to spend your first linking your concerns with others’, demonstrating programme, combining taught modules and a term at our Canterbury campus with full access to your awareness of theme and locating your work dissertation, which allows you to share your year its excellent academic and recreational facilities, within/without one or more traditions etc. You also between Canterbury and Paris. before relocating to our Paris centre for the need to produce a full bibliography. spring term, studying in the heart of historic Following a similar path to our English and Montparnasse. All UK universities and relevant funding councils American Literature MA, the Paris option allows you and bodies (including REF panels) now support the to spend your first term at our Canterbury campus In Paris, you participate in the Paris-focused idea that literary novels are research outputs in their with full access to its excellent academic and modules, taught in English. Then, in the the own right and in themselves make significant recreational facilities, before relocating to our Paris final term, you complete your MA by writing a contributions to knowledge. The idea that a novel centre for the spring term, studying in the heart of 12-15,000-word dissertation on a research topic might ‘know’ something about war that a piece of historic Montparnasse. defined in collaboration with your academic historical research could not know (in the case of supervisors. Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, for example), or that In Paris, you participate in the Paris-focused philosophy can be undertaken in fiction (as in modules, taught in English. Then, in the final term, For course content and assessment, see previous the work of Borges) is one that we have been you complete your MA by writing a 12-15,000-word entry. embracing at Kent for several years now. Our PhD dissertation on a research topic defined in programme brings us right up-to-date with the collaboration with your academic supervisors. For further information about the University of Kent, ways in which novelists function in universities. You Paris, see p230. need to do a lot of critical thinking, reading and For course content and assessment, see previous research and then turn it into contemporary fiction. entry. You have a supervisory team to read your work and Research programmes help you with thinking, research, plotting, editing, For further information about the University of Kent, Location: Canterbury. characterisation, pace, dialogue and so on. Paris, please see p230. Entry requirements: A first or second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent) Text, Practice and Research Postcolonial Studies MA and, normally, a taught MA qualification. This programme addresses one of our main aims at Kent, which is to enable research students to Location: Canterbury. As a research student, you meet regularly with your take risks and use cross-disciplinary techniques Entry requirements: As for Dickens and Victorian supervisor, and have the opportunity to take part to explore research questions. This is the PhD that Culture, see p101. in informal reading groups and research seminars covers narrative non-fiction, as well as other forms to which students, staff and visiting speakers of creative writing that are not poems or a novel. The MA in Postcolonial Studies develops your contribute papers. You also benefit from a series of Our first student on this programme is exploring understanding of the politics of culture in relation research skills seminars that run in the spring term, identity through hip-hop and will be handing in to both the imperialist world’s interpretation of the which gives you a chance to share the research an album alongside a piece of scholarly research. colonial, and postcolonial assertions of autonomy. expertise of staff and postdoctoral members of In this context, while ‘postcolonial’ refers primarily the department. All the research programmes enable you to feel to societies of the so-called ‘Third World’, it also part of the vibrant University community, with includes questions relevant to cultures such as As a basis for advanced research, you must access to a range of exciting events, research those of Ireland and Australia. take the School and Faculty research methods seminars and MA modules which you can take for programmes. no credit with the agreement of the convenor. Most The University of Kent was one of the first PhD students are given the opportunity to teach universities to establish postcolonial literary from their second year. studies in Britain and has continued to play a Creative Writing PhDs significant part in the development of the field. Poetry: Text, Practice as Research This programme enables promising poets to English MA (Res), PhD Among the teachers involved in the programme Staff supervise research in most areas of English develop the potential of poetry as a tool of inquiry are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caroline Rooney, Alex and associated studies, and have expertise in within the humanities. You will produce a volume of Padamsee and Donna Landry (see staff research the following areas: theory, modernism and interests on p104 for further details). poetry as well as a piece of scholarly research of 104 English cont

postmodernism, 18th and 19th-century studies, Eighteenth Century Staff research interests women’s writing, literature and visual arts, The particular interests of the Centre for Studies Full details of staff research interests can be found Shakespeare and the Renaissance, early modern in the Long Eighteenth Century converge around on our website: literature and culture, medieval studies, American gender, class, nation, travel and empire, and the www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles literature, postcolonial literature and modern poetry. relationship between print and material culture. Staff in the Centre pursue cutting-edge Professor David Ayers: Professor of Modernism Postcolonial Studies MA (Res), PhD approaches to the field and share a commitment and Critical Theory Staff supervise research in the following areas: to interdisciplinary methodologies. Anglo-American Modernism; European Avant- African literature in English and in translation, Garde; literature and culture of the Americas; Caribbean literature, African-American and Native The Centre regularly hosts visiting speakers as critical theory and philosophy; Russian Revolution American literatures, Australian literature, New part of the School of English research seminar and the Cold War. Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800, programme, and hosts day symposia, workshops Indian and South-East Asian literature in English and international conferences. Dr Jennie Batchelor: Reader in 18th-Century and in translation, postcolonial women writers, Studies theory, and travel writing. Nineteenth Century Eighteenth-century literature; gender; women’s The 19th-century research group is organised writing; fashion; visual and material culture; Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA influence and intertextuality studies and 18th and (Res), PhD around the successful MA in Dickens and Victorian The opportunities for research are many and Culture and the editorship of The Dickensian, the early 19th-century periodicals and magazines. varied: Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library official publication outlet for new Dickens letters. Recent publications include: Women’s Work: have an international reputation, but are relatively Other staff research interests include literature and Labour, Gender and Authorship, 1750-1830 (2010). under-exploited as scholarly resources; social and gender, journalism, representations of time and religious aspects of the medieval and the Tudor history, sublimity and Victorian Poetry. Dr Stella Bolaki: Lecturer in American Literature city of Canterbury provide fascinating topics for Multi-ethnic American literature (especially with investigation; the dramatic and literary associations American Literature a focus on migration/diaspora and transnational of the city are exceptionally rich. Current research Research in north American literature is approaches); the Bildungsroman; gender theory; topics (many of which have a local or regional conducted partly through the Faculty-based life writing and illness/disability; medical humanities. basis) include literacy and readership, piety, the Centre for American Studies, which also facilitates Recent publications include: Unsettling the Reformation, visual and manuscript culture, co-operation with modern US historians. Staff Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic community, and drama. research interests include 20th-century American American Women’s Fiction (2011); The Politics literature, especially poetry, Native American of Illness Narratives: Aesthetics, Identity, and Witnessing (forthcoming); Audre Lorde’s Text and Event in Early Modern Europe writing, modernism, and cultural history. (TEEME): An Erasmus Mundus Joint Transatlantic Sisterhoods (co-ed, forthcoming). Doctorate Creative Writing Professor Peter Brown: Professor of Medieval Location: Canterbury in semester 1; then a choice The Centre for Creative Writing is the focus for of two out of four locations: Canterbury, Berlin, English Literature most practice-based research in the School. Chaucer and other late-medieval English writers; Porto or Prague. Staff organise a thriving events series and run Attendance: Three years full-time. contextual aspects of medieval culture, including a research seminar for postgraduate students historiography; the visual arts; dreams and space. Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class and staff to share ideas about fiction-writing. honours degree (or equivalent in other national Established writers regularly come to read Dr Norbert Bugeja: Lecturer in Postcolonial systems) in any area of literature, history or cultural and discuss their work. studies. Applicants from other humanities or social Literature science subjects will also be considered. Middle Eastern and North African literatures; Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean writing; materialist critique and TEEME is an international doctoral programme The Faculty-based Canterbury Centre for Medieval postcolonialist thought; postcolonial theory; life in early modern studies funded by the European and Early Modern Studies has a distinctive brand writing; cultural memory and spatial theory. Recent Union under the Erasmus Mundus scheme. It is of interdisciplinarity, strong links with local archives publications include: Postcolonial Memoir in the structured around a unique collaboration between and archaeological trusts, and provides a vibrant Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi university-based researchers in the humanities and forum for investigating the relationships between Writing (2012). the cultural and creative sector in four EU countries literary and non-literary modes of writing in its (United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Czech weekly research seminar. Dr Paddy Bullard: Senior Lecturer in Republic). Candidates have research projects 18th-Century Studies that are comparative and interdisciplinary in Modern Poetry Eighteenth-century literature; the Enlightenment; conception, that bear a clear relation to present The Centre for Modern Poetry is a leading centre intellectual history; rhetoric; politics and literature; needs and debates, and that span at least two for research and publication in its field, and bibliography and book history; textual criticism and different linguistic, religious and/or ethnic cultures participates in both critical and creative research. editing. Recent publications include: Edmund within Europe, or that relate one European with Staff regularly host visiting speakers and writers, Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (2011). one non-European culture, in the period 1400 participate in national and international research to 1700, or in later political or cultural uses and networks, and organise graduate research Henry Claridge: Senior Lecturer in English and representations of early modern literature and seminars and public poetry readings. American Literature history. By relating a broad understanding of American literature; realism in the novel; literary ‘text’ – in its original meaning of tissue, web or Postcolonial criticism and critical theory; American modernism (especially poetry and fiction). Recent publications texture – to underlying ‘events’ – the raw data of Established in 1994, the Centre for Colonial include: Ernest Hemingway (2011); The American the past shaped into story by ‘weaving’ or writing – and Postcolonial Research has acquired an 1950s: Sources and Documents (ed, forthcoming). all projects combine a textual-literary with a international reputation for excellence in research. cultural-historical strand. For more information, It has an outstanding track record in publication, Dr Michael Collins: Lecturer in American see www.teemeurope.eu organises frequent international conferences, and Literature regularly hosts leading postcolonial writers and Nineteenth-century print culture, theatre, critics. It also hosts a visiting writer from India every Research centres American studies and New York intellectual year in association with the Charles Wallace Trust. Research in the School of English comes roughly history; performance theory; new historicist under the following areas. However, there is often a and/or transnational methodologies. degree of overlap between groups, and individual staff have interests that range more widely. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/english 105

Dr Rosanna Cox: Lecturer in Early Modern Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah: Professor of Professor Bernhard Klein: Professor of English Studies English and Postcolonial Literatures Early modern literature and culture; Irish studies; Milton; 16th and 17th-century literature and culture; Colonial and postcolonial discourse as they relate travel writing and cartography; maritime history gender; political writing; intellectual history. Recent to African, Caribbean and Indian writing. Recent and culture. Recent publications include: Dido: publications include: Diplomacy and Early Modern publications include: The Last Gift (2011). Dramatisches Gedicht in Drei Abteilungen (2011); Culture (co-ed, 2010); Milton and the Ideal Citizen Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in (forthcoming). Professor David Herd: Professor of English Early Modern Britain (co-ed, 2011). Twentieth-century poetry and poetics; American Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid: Lecturer in English and literature; the avant-garde; the politics of migration. Professor Donna Landry: Professor of English American Literature Recent publications include: All Just (2012). and American Literature Nineteenth-century literature and culture, especially Eighteenth-century literature, culture, and empire; representations of nature and the environment, Dr Ben Hickman: Lecturer in Modern Poetry colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; Middle time, history, queer theory; sublimity; ecology and English and American experimental poetry of Eastern, especially Turkish, literature; Ottomanism psychogeography. Recent publications include: the 20th century; new American poetry; Anglo- and Enlightenment; travel writing; queer theory; Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative & the American poetic relations; the dynamic between animal studies; sea and desert studies; historical Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture (2013). poetry and political action. Recent publications re-enactment. Recent publications include: Noble include: John Ashbery and English Poetry (2012); Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Patricia Debney: Senior Lecturer in Creative Poetry and Real Politics: Crisis and the US Avant- Culture (2008); The Geopolitical Picturesque Writing Garde (2013). (forthcoming); Globetrotters: Riding to Far Creative writing (prose poetry, short fiction); Horizons with Evliya Çelebi and Lady Anne auto/biography; translation and adaptation; Dr Sarah James: Lecturer in Medieval Literature Blunt (forthcoming). collaborative/interdisciplinary work; feminist Late-medieval literary, visual and religious culture; theory; psychoanalytic theory. Recent publications vernacular theology; hagiography; manuscript Dr Sara Lyons: Lecturer in Victorian Literature include: Black Hole and Other Stories (2008). studies. Recent publications include: Imagining Nineteenth-century literature and culture; Victorian Religious Identity in Late Medieval England poetry and critical prose; fin-de-siècle aestheticism David Flusfeder: Lecturer in Creative Writing (forthcoming) and decadence; the interrelations between Twentieth-century American and British fiction (also literature, religion, secularism in the long nineteenth Borges, Cortázar and Büchner); modernism; and Dr Andy Kesson: Lecturer in Early Modern century. the literature and cinema of the 1960s and early Studies 1970s. Recent publications include: A Film by Sixteenth and 17th-century literature; performance Dr Ariane Mildenberg: Lecturer in English and Spencer Ludwig (2010). history, practice and theory; early modern actors, American Literature authors, publishers, readers and audience Modernist poetry; Wallace Stevens; Gertrude Stein; Nancy Gaffield: Senior Lecturer in Creative members; book history and print culture; prose Virginia Woolf; the kinship of method and concern Writing fiction; pedagogy; gender studies; queer theory. between phenomenology and modernist literature The border between language and literary Recent publications include: John Lyly and Early and art; the interaction of contemporary philosophy studies: stylistics approaches to creative writing; Modern Authorship (2013); The Elizabethan Top with theology; the relationship between modernism contemporary poetry as practice, including the text Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern and postcolonial writing; translation of Scandinavian both written and performed; the role of the reader England (co-ed, 2013). poetry. Recent publications include: Phenomenology, as co-producer of meaning; the use of poetic Modernism and Beyond (co-ed, 2010); Modernism forms. Recent publications include Tokaido Road and the Epiphany: Moments of Being in Philosophy, (2011); Owhere (2012). Literature and Art (forthcoming).

Professor Jan Montefiore: Professor of English and American Literature Twentieth-century literature; Auden; Kipling; H D; Sylvia Townsend Warner; contemporary poetry; feminist critical theory; the intersections of writing and politics.

Dr Harry Newman: Lecturer in Early Modern Literature Early modern drama (especially Shakespeare, Middleton and Jonson); poetics; material culture; book history; paratexts; gender and sexuality studies; the history of science and medicine; epistolary culture and epigram collections.

Dr Will Norman: Lecturer in North American Literature Twentieth-century American literature and culture; European and American modernism; Vladimir Nabokov; models of high and low culture in the mid-20th century; critical theory; American crime fiction and transatlantic studies. Recent publications include: Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time (2012).

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Dr Marion O’Connor: Reader in English and Amy Sackville: Lecturer in Creative Writing American Literature An interest in the novel as a form and its Location Theatrical reconstructions and dramatic revivals; development since the early 20th century from Canterbury, London and Paris. iconography; drama as historiography; censorship. modern to postmodern, and in the interrelation English language requirements Recent publications include: Shakespeare of language and the world; creative writing; See p223. Reproduced: The text in history and ideology modernism. Recent publications include: (co-ed, 2008); The Court Beggar and The The Still Point (2010); Orkney (2013). Fees and funding Queen’s Exchange (The Collected Works See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding of Richard Brome) (ed, 2010). Simon Smith: Senior Lecturer in Creative National ratings Writing Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Dr Alex Padamsee: Lecturer in English and Creative writing; poetry in translation, Latin and ranked 18th nationally for research quality, with American Literature French; poetry reviewing; experimental fiction; 65% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or Postcolonial literature and theory; South Asian critical theory; theory of creative writing. Recent ‘internationally excellent’. literatures; British writing on India; race, empire publications include: Browning Variations (2009); and colonisation in 19th and 20th-century British London Bridge (2010); Gravesend (2013). English studies at Kent was ranked 9th in the literature; partition and trauma studies. UK in the National Student Survey 2012. Dr David Stirrup: Senior Lecturer in English and Applications Professor Wendy Parkins: Professor of American Literature Victorian Literature First nations and Native American literature; Taught programmes Victorian modernity; gender and sexuality in 20th-century North American literature; the Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ the 19th century; the Victorian novel (especially American and Canadian Midwest; border studies. postgrad/apply Dickens, Gaskell, Collins); literature of the fin-de- Recent publications include Louise Erdrich (2010); Research programmes siècle period; aestheticism and William Morris. Literature of the Americas (co-author, forthcoming); See p232 or contact the School for further Recent publications include: Jane Morris: The Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European details. Burden of History (2013). Imaginary, 1900-2010 (co-author, forthcoming). Further information T: +44 (0)1227 823054 Dr Ryan Perry: Lecturer in Medieval Literature Scarlett Thomas: Reader in English and E: [email protected] The axis between literary criticism and Creative Writing codicological analysis; the application of new Creative writing; writing and science; mathematics critical approaches to manuscript study, borrowing and fiction; the contemporary novel. Recent from disciplines such as anthropology and publications include: Our Tragic Universe (2010); focusing on the situation of texts within their Monkeys With Typewriters (2012). synchronic material contexts. Recent publications include: The Material Text: A Study of Middle Dragan Todorovic: Lecturer in Creative Writing English Manuscript Cultures (forthcoming). Creative non-fiction; liminal areas of fiction; writing in/for visual, aural and multimedia arts; faction Alex Preston: Lecturer in Creative Writing writing. Recent publications include: Little Red The modern novel; the ways that literature has Transistor Radio from Trieste (2012). responded to the violence of the 20th century; short stories. Recent publications include: This Professor Cathy Waters: Professor of 19th- Bleeding City (2011). Century Studies Victorian literature and culture, especially fiction Dr Catherine Richardson: Reader in and journalism; Dickens; Sala; George Eliot; Renaissance Studies literature and gender. Recent publications include: Early modern drama, literature and cultural history; Commodity Culture in Dickens’s ‘Household relation between textual and material culture, Words’: The Social Life of Goods (2008); Victorian especially clothing and the household; oral and Turns, Neovictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and literate cultures. Recent publications include: Culture (co-ed, 2008); Imagining Italy: Victorian Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern Writers and Travellers (co-author, 2010); A Library material culture and its meanings (co-ed, 2010); of Essays on Charles Dickens (forthcoming). Making Household: The account book of Sir Thomas Puckering of Warwick and London (co-ed, Dr Sarah Wood: Senior Lecturer in English and 2011); Shakespeare and Material Culture (2011). American Literature Creative critical writing; 19th and 20th-century Professor Caroline Rooney: Professor of poetry and fiction, especially Robert Browning African and Middle Eastern Studies and Elizabeth Bowen; writing and visual art; African and Middle Eastern literature, especially literary theory; deconstruction, especially Derrida; Zimbabwean and Egyptian; colonial discourse psychoanalysis; continental philosophy. Recent and postcolonial theory; the Arab Spring; liberation publications include: Derrida’s ‘Writing and literature and theory; terror and the postcolonial; Difference’: A Reader’s Guide (2009). global youth cultures, especially hip-hop and spoken word; contemporary visual arts; sea and desert studies; queer theory; psychoanalysis. Recent publications include: Kipling and Beyond: Patriotism, Globalisation and Postcolonialism (co-ed, 2010); The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to Beirut (co-ed, forthcoming). 107

Canterbury ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

English Language and Linguistics (ELL), founded in 2010, is the newest department of the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL). We have a strong team of research-active staff, a lively teaching and research culture with regular seminars by staff and visiting speakers, and Erasmus teaching and research links with, among others, Switzerland (Berne), Netherlands (Nijmegen) and Spain (Autonomous University of Madrid).

Staff and postgraduates are members of the Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS), a research centre that seeks to promote interdisciplinary linguistic research, and runs a biennial conference, Interfaces in Language. We also have links with research networks outside Kent, and are involved with national and international academic associations including the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, the Linguistic Society of America, the Association for French Language Studies and the Poetics and Linguistics Association.

Our interests focus on quantitative and experimental research in speech and language processing, variation and acquisition, but also cover formal areas such as syntax, as well as literary stylistics. We welcome applications from students interested in MA, MPhil and PhD research.

“The University of Kent has Programmes Although ELL is a new department, the study of linguistics has a long tradition at Kent and the afforded me the opportunity to Taught Templeman Library is well stocked in all areas, make the most of my time as a • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip particularly those in which we specialise, including • Linguistics MA sociolinguistics, phonetics, acquisition, language research postgraduate. I enjoy processing, language teaching and stylistics. a very strong and productive Research • Linguistics MA, MPhil, PhD The School also provides high-quality IT facilities, relationship with my supervisors including state-of-the-art media laboratories, and there is an open and dedicated technical staff and designated areas Postgraduate resources for postgraduate study. Other facilities include all- efficient research environment ELL runs the Linguistics Laboratory which provides purpose teaching rooms, two networked multimedia where I am encouraged to share facilities for research in acoustic and auditory laboratories equipped for teaching in phonetics and phonetics, sociophonetics, language processing psycholinguistics and a streamed film library, as my research with other members and acquisition. In addition, ELL members have well as access to satellite TV channels. Experienced of the Department.” access to a recording studio and a multimedia lab technicians can provide support with computing, that can be used both for undergraduate teaching sound recording and digital media. Jonathan Kasstan and the running of experiments in speech and PhD Linguistics language processing. Training ELL organises ‘Linglunch’ a regular series of The Graduate School offers all SECL seminars with both local and invited speakers postgraduates a wide-ranging programme of that take place throughout the year. CLLS also training in transferable skills. SECL itself provides organises various events from talks to symposia. training workshops for postgraduate students with In addition, postgraduates can attend the Syntax teaching responsibilities, bringing together Reading Group which provides a space where postgraduates from all our subject areas. staff members, final-year undergraduates and postgraduate students with an interest in syntax, Research students gain further academic psycholinguistics and first/second language experience by giving talks at the Linglunch acquisition, have the opportunity to exchange ideas seminars. Those with a special interest in stylistics about current research issues. The Group meets and discourse analysis also have the opportunity regularly to discuss recent research papers as to liaise with the Centre for Modern European well as draft research papers written by individual Literature and present at the Centre’s research members of the Group. seminars. SECL postgraduates also organise their 108 English Language and Linguistics cont

own annual international conference and edit and Course content Dr Michael Hughes: Senior Lecturer contribute to Skepsi, the School’s postgraduate • Compulsory modules: Principles of Language; Michael’s research interests include the efficacy of online journal of European thought at Kent. Research Dissertation; Research Methods in teaching training programmes for English language Linguistics. teachers and the student experience of higher Taught programmes • Optional modules include: English Phonetics; education, particularly that of international students. Language Processing; Literary Stylistics; Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Dr Vikki Janke: Lecturer Location: Canterbury. Sociolinguistic Theory; Theories of Language Vikki works on syntax and first and second Attendance: One year full-time. Learning and Teaching; Topics in Syntax. language acquisition. Main interests include Entry requirements: An honours degree in a syntactically and pragmatically regulated control, related subject. Consideration will be given to Assessment English VP-structure, complex grammar in typical applicants holding equivalent qualifications or Modules are typically assessed by a 4,000-word and atypical populations and the changing nature work experience. essay, but assessment patterns vary from module of lexical representations during second language to module. The research dissertation has a word acquisition. She is willing to supervise on This programme offers you the opportunity to limit of 15,000 words. any areas related to the above. develop your independent study and research skills through a combination of subject modules Research programme Dr Marina Kolokonte: Lecturer within the School of European Culture and Marina’s research interests lie in the field of Languages. In addition, as part of your programme Linguistics MA, MPhil, PhD syntactic theory, especially the interface between you have the opportunity to improve your English Location: Canterbury. syntax, semantics and pragmatics; she also language competence with dedicated English and Entry requirements: A first or upper-second works on Romance and Greek linguistics and Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by class honours degree in a relevant subject psycholinguistics. She is willing to supervise Kent International Pathways. or equivalent. research in any of these areas.

On successful completion of the Diploma The English Language and Linguistics staff Dr Jeremy Scott: Senior Lecturer and through meeting the University’s rules of conduct research in various areas of linguistics Jeremy’s research interests are, broadly, in progression, you may choose to study on one that focus on language variation, processing and narrative, literary representations of dialect, of the programmes within the following disciplines: acquisition. The staff research interests below and interfaces between stylistics/narratology • Classical & Archaeological Studies provide a guide for those wishing to undertake and creative writing. He is interested in supervising • Comparative Literature a PhD, MPhil or MA by research and contain an projects on literary stylistics, narratology, dialects • English Language and Linguistics outline of the topics that they are willing to and identities in literature, and creative writing • French supervise. (particularly in terms of its relationship to stylistics • German and critical theory). • Hispanic Studies Research centre • Italian Tamara Rathcke: Lecturer • Philosophy Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies Tamara’s research focuses on production and • Religious Studies. (CLLS) perception of speech in different languages and Founded in 2007, the Centre for Language dialects. She is particularly interested in studying Assessment and Linguistic Studies (CLLS) promotes rhythm and intonation in language, speech and Assessment is through a combination of interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic research music, methods of foreign language acquisition assignments, coursework and examinations. and teaching. Membership embraces not just the and language variation and change. She is members of English Language and Linguistics available to supervise in all of these topics. Linguistics MA but also other SECL members with an interest Location: Canterbury. in the study of language, as well as researchers Attendance: One year full-time. in philosophy, computing, psychology and Entry requirements: A first or second class anthropology, reflecting the many and varied routes Location honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. by which individuals come to a love of language Canterbury. and an interest in the various disciplines and sub- This programme is designed for those looking to English language requirements disciplines of linguistics. See p223. explore, in depth, the theory and methodology of linguistics; from the study of sound (phonetics and Fees and funding phonology) to the study of words, sentences and Staff research interests See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding meaning (morphology, syntax, semantics and Full details of staff research interests can be found National ratings pragmatics). The programme also offers options on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ell/staff Kent was ranked 14th in the UK for Modern on sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and language Languages and Linguistics in The Guardian learning and teaching, allowing you to delve Professor Amalia Arvaniti: Head of Department University Guide 2014. deeper into your own areas of interest. The Amalia’s research is cross-linguistic in nature programme offers a smooth transition to doctoral and focuses on intonation and speech rhythm, Applications work for those who wish to pursue further study. with sociolinguistics and Greek being secondary Taught programmes foci. Amalia is happy to supervise research on Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ You take a total of four modules over the autumn the production and perception of rhythm and postgrad/apply and spring terms. The compulsory modules intonation, Greek phonetics and phonology, and Research programmes provide a solid grounding in linguistic theory and sociolinguistics, particularly on questions of gender See p232 or contact the School for further methodology, while a range of optional modules and dialectal variation. either develop themes from the Principles of details. Language compulsory module, or explore the Dr David Hornsby: Senior Lecturer Further information relationship between language and other While David’s research has focused primarily on Professor Amalia Arvaniti disciplines. You also write one 15,000-word emergent vernacular varieties in France, he retains T: +44 (0)1227 827734 dissertation on a topic you select in consultation a wider interest in theoretical issues in variationist E: [email protected] with your supervisor. sociolinguistics. He is happy to supervise research in most areas relating to language variation and change, or the history of French. 109

Canterbury ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Environmental Social Science programmes are interdepartmental and benefit from expertise found across the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Social science perspectives are crucial to understanding and solving environmental problems. Human behaviour produces many elements of the ‘natural’ environment, from landscapes to floods and famines. Local and national policies and international agreements regulate the environmental practices of corporations, governments and households. The social sciences have a great deal to contribute to understanding what have become defined as environmental issues, and what measures can most effectively tackle them.

The multidisciplinary Environmental Social Science programmes draw on the contributions of Anthropology, Conservation and Ecology, Law, Social Policy and Sociology. In each of these disciplines, Kent is very active in research, and the majority of research outputs were rated ‘internationally excellent’ or better in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The programmes therefore build upon a strong base.

“The Environmental Social Programmes Taught programme Science programme allows you Taught Environmental Social Science MSc to choose most of your modules • Environmental Social Science MSc Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A good honours degree and that makes it a hugely Research in a relevant subject or equivalent vocational personalised degree. You are • Environmental Social Science MSc, MPhil, PhD experience. also able to share different This interdisciplinary programme introduces you perspectives, knowledge and Postgraduate resources to social science perspectives on environmental Our postgraduate students are given 24-hour issues. It draws on sociology, politics, social policy, experiences with students from access to dedicated office space within the anthropology and law. The dissertation is a chance various parts of the world.” Department and are able to take advantage for you to make a specialised study of a topic that of excellent library and computing facilities. interests you, and we encourage first-hand Mami Shijo Where appropriate, research students are research. The programme is suitable for MSc Environmental Social Science encouraged to expand their experience by graduates with a wide range of first degrees. teaching part-time in the School. Course content • Social Science Perspectives on Environmental Dynamic publishing culture Issues Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • Design Philosophy and Ethics of Social Inquiry conference proceedings and books. Among • Four modules drawn from a wide range, others, they have recently contributed to: including: Environmental Anthropology; Environmental Politics; Global Environmental Environmental Politics; Ethnobiological Change; Human Organization; Journal of the Royal Knowledge Systems; Governing Science, Anthropological Institute; Sociology of Health and Technology and Society in the 21st Century; Illness. Details of recently published books can be Risk and Society; Tourism and Conservation; found within the staff research interests on p110. various options in environmental law and environmental social sciences. • Dissertation of 15,000 words

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Assessment Staff research interests The programme is assessed by coursework Dr Adam Burgess: Reader in Sociology (normally one 5,000-word essay per module) Communications; mass media; risk. Recent and the dissertation. publications include: Study of the Origins and Diffusion of Mobile Phone Fears and Anti-EMF Research programmes Campaigns (2010). Environmental Social Science MSc, www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff MPhil, PhD Professor Rosaleen Duffy: Professor of Location: Canterbury. Conservation Politics Entry requirements: A good honours degree Global environmental governance, especially in a relevant subject or equivalent vocational the roles of international NGOs and international experience. treaties; the politics of tourism, especially ecotourism; links between tourism and global Research programmes involve writing a thesis on capitalism. Recent publications include: Nature a particular topic with specialist supervision. You Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future are given research training, which is tailored to the of Protected Areas (co-author, 2008); Nature Crime: particular needs of your research and takes into How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong (2010). account any training you have previously received. www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles You also have opportunities to attend modules on relevant subjects on a non-assessed basis to fill Professor William Howarth: Professor of any gaps in your background. Environmental Law Environmental law; conservation of aquatic We offer research supervision across a broad environment and ecosystems. Recent publications range of topics. We are especially interested in include: Halsbury’s Laws of England, Water applications that include proposals to investigate and Waterways (ed, 2009); Halsbury’s Laws the social dimensions of environmental issues in of England, Environmental Quality and Public the countries in which we have area expertise, and Health (ed, 2010); Wisdoms Law of Watercourses STAFF PROFILE topics in environmental politics and environmental (co-author, 2011); Walden and Civil Disobedience movements. (co-author, forthcoming). Chris Rootes www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/staff Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology

Chris Rootes works mainly on environmental protest, movements and NGOs. He was recently engaged in a European comparative project on street demonstrations, which aims to increase understanding of who takes to the streets and why, in protests on issues ranging from climate change to the rights of workers, asylum seekers and immigrants.

Chris is also a partner in another international project that is investigating the networks involved in forming and implementing policy on climate change.

He is also co-ordinating a research network focused on the impact of the changing salience of climate change and the global financial and economic crisis upon environmental NGOs and activists.

Chris is editor-in-chief of the journal, Environmental Politics. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 111

Dr Jeremy Kendall: Senior Lecturer in Social Professor Chris Rootes: Professor of Policy Environmental Politics and Political Sociology Location NGOs, charities, voluntary organisations and civil Environmental politics; protest, social and political Canterbury. society. Recent publications include: Handbook on movements; environmental citizenship; politics of English language requirements Third Sector Policy in Europe: Multi-level Processes climate change. Recent publications include: See p223. and Organised Civil Society (2009); Constituting the Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations Third Sector: processes of decontestation and and Campaigns (2008); Environmental Movements Fees and funding contention under the New Labour governments and Waste Infrastructure (co-author, 2010). See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding in England (co-author, 2011); The Voluntary and www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff National ratings Community Sector Social Policy (2012); Voluntary Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Welfare The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Dr Joy Zhang: Lecturer in Sociology Environmental Science: 55% of our research (2012). Sociology of science, medicine, the environment rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff and globalisation, especially in China. Recent excellent’. publications include The Cosmopolitanization of Dr Helen Newing: Lecturer in Biodiversity Science: Stem Cell Governance in China (2012); Social Policy (including Sociology): ranked Conservation Climate Politics in China (forthcoming). in top four nationally for research quality, with Communities, conservation and development www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff 70% of the research rated ‘world-leading’ or in tropical forest regions; indigenous peoples ‘internationally excellent’. and biodiversity. Recent publications include: Law: ranked in top six nationally for research Conducting Research in Conservation: Social quality, with 65% of the research rated ‘world- Science Methods and Practice (2010). leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles Applications Dr Rajindra Puri: Senior Lecturer in Taught programmes Environmental Anthropology Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Historical ecology; knowledge transmission; postgrad/apply adaptation to climate change; wildlife trade; Research programmes protected areas; South-east Asia; Borneo. See p232 or contact the schools for further Recent publications include: Ethnobotany details. in the New Europe: people, health and minor plant resource pools (co-ed 2010). Further information www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles T: +44 (0)1227 823684 F: +44 (0)1227 827005 E: [email protected] 112

Canterbury and Paris FILM

The Film Department at the University of Kent is known for its excellence in research and teaching. It was ranked second in the UK for research power in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). One of the largest European centres for the study of film, it has an established reputation going back 35 years. Approaching film as a dynamic part of our cultural experience, we encourage thinking about film as it emerges at the intersections of art, document and entertainment. Through theory and practice, individual research, student-led seminars and visiting speakers, we promote an environment in which postgraduate students are able to engage with the continuing vibrancy of cinema.

Studying film as a postgraduate at the University of Kent will give you the opportunity to experience our rich resources of academic expertise, library facilities and a campus- based film culture. We currently offer expertise in North American, European and Latin American cinemas. Our research and teaching will engage you in a dialogue with aesthetic, conceptual and historical perspectives, as well as with digital media and practice by research.

“With regards to Film, Kent has Programmes Internationally recognised research a great reputation for excellent Taught Our staff produce internationally recognised research so I know studying here • Arts Criticism MA research at the intersection of film theory, history, • Film MA practice, and the conceptual and stylistic analysis is a great springboard to future • Film (Paris) MA of moving image media. Based on this expertise, employment. By the time I have we are able to support research across a wide Research range of topics, including: moving image theory, history and criticism; American, European and completed my PhD, I know I • Film PhD Latin American cinemas; British Cinema; the avant- • Film: Practice by Research MA, PhD will have gained the necessary garde; and digital media and animation. There are expertise in my research area also close connections between Film and the while gaining the wider Postgraduate resources Aesthetics Research Group. Film at Kent has excellent viewing and library The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film transferable skills needed facilities, with a large number of films screened and the Moving Image promotes our excellence weekly during term on 35mm and Blu-Ray. The to succeed in any career.” in research and hosts a range of research events Templeman Library has extensive book and including symposia, visiting speakers and Katerina Flint-Nicol specialist journal holdings in film and related workshops. PhD Film areas; there is also a large and growing reference collection of film on DVD, with individual and group A recently established affiliation with the Institute viewing facilities. The Department also benefits of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London offers the from the presence of the Gulbenkian Cinema on possibility of collaborative projects, internships, campus, which runs a programme of new releases postgraduate events and activities as well as and classics. free membership to all postgraduate students. In 2010, we moved into the purpose-built, and RIBA award-winning, Jarman Building. The Film-making new building is home to a range of professional The Department includes film-makers among its standard editing and studio facilities, plus a members of staff. Clio Barnard’s recent film The dedicated postgraduate centre and teaching Arbor was nominated for a BAFTA and Clio received and social spaces. the best newcomer and original debut feature at the London Film Festival and best new documentary film-maker at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent work, The Selfish Giant, was chosen as one of only two films to represent the UK in the Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/arts/film 113

Directors’ Fortnight line-up at the 2013 Cannes Film MA Film Festival. Virginia Pitts’ films Trust Me (2001) and Location: Canterbury. Fleeting Beauty (2004) were selected to screen at Entry requirements: As for Arts Criticism. 25 international film festivals, toured US art galleries and sold widely to television. Her latest film, Beat The programme offers a thorough grounding in (2010), a narrative-dance piece exploring dialogism postgraduate-level Film and is suitable both for as an ideal for human interaction, is currently on graduates in the subject and those new to it. It the international festival circuit where it has been is taught by experts in Film and seeks to engage nominated for awards in New Zealand, Canada, you with the key elements that make up the diverse the US and Greece. Lawrence Jackson worked in nature of film and moving images. various crew capacities in the UK film industry for three years before working in-house, then freelance The programme consists of research training, two as a Bi-Media Producer for BBC Northern Ireland compulsory 30-credit modules and two 30-credit Drama. As writer-director, he has five short films subject options. Teaching is primarily seminar-led, and as producer-director, around 50 hours of radio with some lectures. The dissertation is written drama to his name. The shorts, shot in locations under supervision. from Margate to Northern Ireland and Prague to Newcastle, have been shown at the Munich Film Course content Festival, London’s ICA Cinema and on BBC2. • Advanced Film Theory • Cinema and Technology Dynamic publishing culture • Film and Modernity • Film History Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • Dissertation of 15,000 words conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: Screen; Cinema Assessment Journal; The Moving Image; Animation; Games and Assessment is by coursework and the dissertation. Culture; Journal of Film and Video; Early Popular Visual Culture. Details of recent films and books Film (Paris) MA can be found within the staff research interests on STAFF PROFILE p114. Location: Canterbury and Paris. Attendance: One year full-time. Entry requirements: As for Arts Criticism. Peter Stanfield Taught programmes Professor of Film Arts Criticism MA Following a similar path to our Film MA, the Paris option allows you to spend your first term at our Professor Stanfield’s primary area of Location: Canterbury. Canterbury campus with full access to its excellent interest is in American film cultures. His Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree academic and recreational facilities, before research focuses on film genres and in a relevant subject. In certain circumstances, the relocating to our Paris centre for the spring term, cycles, which includes two monographs School will consider candidates who have not studying in the heart of historic Montparnasse. on the Western. He has also published followed a conventional education path or who extensively on gangster movies and has may have relevant experience in the industry. The programme consists of research training, two co-edited a book on the blacklist era in compulsory 30-credit modules and two 30-credit American cinema. Allied to this work is a This programme offers the opportunity to develop subject options, plus a dissertation. substantial body of research on popular high-level skills and competencies as a preparation music and American film, which ranges for professional practice and further development Course content from Hollywood’s fascination with in the field of arts criticism. Canterbury America’s gutter songs in the early sound • Advanced Film Theory period, 1930s singing cowboys, the figure Teaching encompasses diverse methodologies, • Film History of Stagger Lee in Westerns, and the fad for including individual projects, one-to-one tutorials, calypso and rock ‘n’ roll in 1950s teenpics. group projects, lectures and seminar sessions. Paris His latest book, Maximum Movies – Pulp Each subject asks you to develop independent • Film and Modernity Fictions, takes a long look at academics’ critical and reflective writing portfolios that are • A wild module from those offered by University fascination with pulp cultures, tracing their outlined and discussed with the tutor at the start of Kent, Paris programmes enthrallment with the work of Samuel Fuller of the module. During the programme, these and the film adaptations of pulpsters portfolios are also informed by the compulsory Dissertations are supervised in Canterbury Mickey Spilliane (Kiss Me Deadly) and modules. and Paris. Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me).

Course content Assessment Professor Stanfield teaches pulp cinema • At least two from: Core Arts Criticism; Film As for Film. and American cinema in all its many Criticism; Theatre Criticism; Visual Arts Criticism. guises at both undergraduate and • One or two optional modules from Film, Drama or For further information on the University of Kent, postgraduate level. History & Philosophy of Art, including: Advanced Paris, see p230. Film Theory; Art Practice for Art Theorists; Professor Stanfield is a co-director of the Cinema and Technology; Conceptualising Film; Centre For the Interdisciplinary Study of European Theatre; Film and Modernity; Film Research programmes Film and the Moving Image, and helps History; Hogarth and the Analysis of Beauty; Film PhD lead the research group investigating the Introduction to Research in History & Philosophy Film: Practice by Research MA, PhD notion and actuality of repetition in the arts. of Art; Post-Conceptual Art and Curatorial Practice; Thinking Theatre. Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree Assessment in a relevant subject for the MA; an MA for the PhD. Assessment is by coursework: a mix of short reviews, review essays, self-reflective essays Postgraduate students are supervised via a and a portfolio of reviews. research team through regular meetings. Research supervision draws on wide staff interests in North 114 Film cont

American, European, and Latin American cinemas, Lawrence Jackson: Lecturer offering opportunities to study projects based in Genre storytelling, with particular focus on ghost Location aesthetic, conceptual and historical perspectives stories, thrillers and westerns; the work of new Canterbury and Paris. on film and digital media, as well as practice by British film-makers Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows, English language requirements research. For further details, see staff research Ben Wheatley and Paddy Considine. See p223. interests below. Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald: Senior Lecturer Fees and funding In addition, research students participate in a Genres, including romantic comedy, melodrama See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding series of regular events. These include work-in- and the gothic; stardom; film costume; strategies National ratings progress seminars and professional development and representation of sex and virginity; Film, which with Drama made a School of Arts workshops, both of which are organised at School performance. Recent publications include: Virgin submission, is ranked as one of the two best level. Research students are also able to enrol on Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film departments in the country in terms of the Graduate School’s Researcher Development (2010); Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and research power in the most recent Research Programme. Our research students also actively Transformation in American Film (2010); Doris Assessment Exercise: 35% of our research has participate in a research seminar, which brings Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom been recognised as ‘world-leading’ (4*) and leading scholars and practitioners to Kent. We (2013). a further 35% as ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). also hold an annual postgraduate presentation We also made one of the biggest submissions day. Dr Virginia Pitts: Lecturer to the RAE in our subject area nationwide. Processes of creative collaboration; hybrid Film was ranked 1st in the UK for cinematics Research areas cinematic genres and forms; the relation between technology and creativity; scriptwriting; and photography in the National Student Research in both theory and practice is currently improvisation for screen; innovative screen Survey 2012. centred in five broad areas: development techniques; cross-cultural creative Applications • national cinemas – form and history: North practice; indigenous praxis; embodied engagement American, European, Latin American with cinema. Recent films include: Beat (2010). Taught programmes • the moving image in a digital context Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply • documentary film Dr Cecilia Sayad: Lecturer • film aesthetics Film authorship; theories of national and Research programmes • avant-garde and experimental cinema. transnational cinemas; Third Cinemas; narratology; See p232 or contact the School for further self-reflexivity; realism; the French New Wave; Latin details. Staff research interests American cinema (especially Brazilian); post-war Further information American cinema; the modern American horror film. T: +44 (0)1227 823177 Full details of staff research interests can be Recent publications include: Performing Authorship: found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff F: +44 (0)1227 827846 Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema E: [email protected] (2013). Clio Barnard: Reader The relationship between documentary and fiction, Professor Murray Smith: Professor of Film in particular the subjectivity of recollection. Recent Philosophy, film and film theory; cognitive theory, films include: The Arbor (2010); The Selfish Giant evolutionary theory and film; sound and music in (2013). film; avant-garde and experimental film/video; contemporary independent American cinema. Dr Maurizio Cinquegrani: Lecturer British cinema; non-fiction films; early cinema; the Professor Peter Stanfield: Professor of Film intersection between cinema and urban culture, in The cultural history of American film, with a twin particular London in film; cinema and architecture; focus on cycles of formulaic movies and the amateur film-making; Swedish cinema; Italian synergy between cinema and other forms of cinema. Recent publications include: Of Empire popular culture, including music, comic book and the City: Remapping Early British Cinema and sequential art, pulp novels and material (forthcoming). culture. Recent publications include: Maximum Movies – Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Dr Mattias Frey: Senior Lecturer Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane and European cinema (with particular emphasis on Jim Thompson (co-ed, 2011). German and Austrian film); historiography; matters of media reception and consumption; the history Dr Aylish Wood: Reader of ‘classical’ and contemporary film theory; movie The impact of digital technologies on moving criticism and cinephilia. Recent publications images in animation, film and digital games and include: Postwall German Cinema: History, Film mixed-media gallery installations; creativity and History and Cinephilia (2013); Cine-Ethics: Ethical technology. Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice and Spectatorship (co-ed, 2013).

Dr Frances Guerin: Senior Lecturer Silent cinema; pre-cinema; German cinema, film and history; documentary film and its intersection with history, cinema and the other arts; modernity and cinema. Recent publications include: Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany (2011). 115

Canterbury FINANCE

In today’s competitive global environment, employers are increasingly selective in their search for competent business and financial professionals to achieve a high level of excellence and success for their organisations. At Kent, we offer a wide range of taught postgraduate programmes in finance that are both academically rigorous and practically focused, drawing on the expertise of leading academics from four of our highly rated academic schools.

Kent Business School, the School of Economics, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts and the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science each have an outstanding reputation in terms of the quality of their teaching and research. This is further confirmed by their excellent ratings in independent surveys such as the RAE, the National Student Survey and the UK university league tables.

Whether you are a graduate looking to enter the finance industry or simply advance your academic studies, or a professional wishing to improve your employment prospects, our programmes are designed to equip you with the right skills and knowledge to develop or consolidate a successful career in the financial world.

“The MSc Finance, Investment Programmes Dynamic publishing culture and Risk programme was very Taught Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, challenging but well worth it • Actuarial Science PDip (see p33) conference proceedings and books. Among • Applied Actuarial Science MSc (see p33) others, they have recently contributed to: Applied because ordinarily, it would • Economics and Finance MSc (see p88) Mathematical Finance; International Journal of have taken two separate Master’s • Engineering with Finance PDip, MSc (see p95) Financial Economics and Econometrics; European • Finance, Investment and Risk MSc Journal of Finance; Journal of Banking and to gain the amount of knowledge • Finance and Econometrics MSc (see p89) Finance; International Journal of Theoretical that I gained in the one year • Financial Markets MSc and Applied Finance. • Financial Services in Banking MSc on this programme. I highly • International Accounting and Finance MSc Taught programmes recommend this programme • International Finance and Economic Development MSc (see p89) Finance, Investment and Risk MSc to anyone considering a career • International Master’s in Applied Actuarial Location: Canterbury. in investment or risk Science (see p33) Attendance: One year full-time. • International Master’s in Statistics with Finance Entry requirements: A good degree (2.1 or above) management.” (see p215) in a relevant subject, such as accounting, finance, • Statistics with Finance MSc (see p217) economics, business, engineering or other Lilian Uwera sciences. Graduates with degrees without the MSc Finance, Investment and Risk, now Portfolio required mathematical content may be advised Manager in African Alliance Asset Management, Kenya Postgraduate resources to attend a two-week preparatory course in Kent’s libraries offer over a million books, mathematics and statistics prior to the start periodicals and journals, and we have subject- of the programme in September. specific librarians to help you secure access to the information you need. This flexible qualification opens up your career opportunities in investment banks, financial and We also offer excellent teaching facilities with management consultancies, auditing firms, risk tailor-made specialist resources. Postgraduate management departments of financial institutions students can access a range of specialist software and government departments. The programme is packages used in quantitative analysis and in well established and attracts a substantial number finance. Most academic schools have specific of applications from over 20 countries each year. study areas for postgraduates and there is also The international aspect enables you to gain a a general postgraduate common room with work deeper and wider learning experience and to area. benefit from networking opportunities during your studies and after graduation. CONTINUED OVERLEAF 116 Finance cont

The programme provides a sound understanding Financial Markets MSc Course content of the theories that underpin modern techniques in Location: Canterbury. • Compulsory modules: Corporate Finance; investment and risk management. The application Attendance: One year full-time. Derivatives; Essentials of Financial Risk of the theories is demonstrated in our finance lab Entry requirements: A good first degree Management; Financial Data Modelling; with the aid of Bloomberg, via case studies and the (2.1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject, such Foundations of Finance; Quantitative Methods. use of online data bases. Regular training sessions as finance, accounting, electronics, mathematics, • Two from: Finance with Excel; Financial and led by experienced Bloomberg trainers help you engineering or any mathematically based Management Accounting; Financial Engineering; gain valuable practice in accessing and using discipline. Applications from students with a Financial Regulation; Fixed Income Markets; market data. The Bloomberg platform also provides business studies background are also welcome. International Money and Finance. an opportunity for virtual trading practice and • Dissertation of 15,000 words competitions. This programme provides a solid background in financial principles and practices, and develops Assessment The syllabus of the programme is in line with the skills needed by future business and financial Assessment is by examination and coursework, ® ® Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA ) professional professionals. It provides a comprehensive plus the dissertation. qualifications. For those students planning to take framework of knowledge, insight and vision the CFA examinations, revision sessions for Level I regarding the key issues in finance, the finance Financial Services in Banking MSc and Level II examinations are provided. These function of organisations, and operations and Location: Canterbury. sessions are taught by professional tutors with functions of financial institutions and markets. Attendance: One year full-time. industry experience and are provided free of You develop an appropriate range of cognitive, Entry requirements: As for Financial Markets. charge. The programme is currently seeking critical, intellectual and research skills, plus Students with a degree in history, languages or accreditation from relevant professional bodies relevant personal and interpersonal skills to humanities considering a change in career path such as the Chartered Institute for Securities & interact in the real world of business and are also encouraged to apply. Investment (CISI). Exemption from the Institute and organisations. This programme also prepares Faculty of Actuaries Core Technical subjects CT2, you for research or further study in this field. The programme provides a solid background CT7 and CT8 are in place. in the principles and practices of financial Elements of practical work on the MSc in Financial institutions, markets and systems. You develop Course content Markets will be carried out in the Business School’s your knowledge, understanding and insight into • Compulsory modules: Finance and Financial dedicated Bloomberg Lab. The virtual trading how financial institutions and markets function in Reporting; Financial Risk Management; Financial platform allows students to access and engage the economy and global financial system. You also Statements Analysis; Investment Analysis and with market data through practical case studies develop an appropriate range of cognitive, critical, Portfolio Management; Quantitative Methods for and the use of online databases. The programme intellectual and research skills, plus relevant Finance. also provides students with the necessary training personal and interpersonal skills to interact in • Four from: Applied Financial Econometrics; required for the Bloomberg Certificate. the real world of business and finance. Business Economics; Case Studies in Finance; Communications in Finance and Investment Our MSc in Financial Markets has been recognised Elements of practical work on the MSc in Financial Writing; Applied Financial Econometrics; by two world renowned professional bodies, the Services in Banking will be carried out in the Financial Modelling and Analysis; Fixed Income CFA Institute and PRMIA (Professional Risk Business School’s dedicated Bloomberg Lab. Analysis; Fund Management; Mathematics of Managers’ International Association). This The virtual trading platform allows students to Financial Derivatives; Portfolio Theory and Asset gives Kent Business School the status of PRMIA access and engage with market data through Pricing Models. academic partner as well as CFA participating practical case studies and the use of online partner at programme level, both reserved for a databases. The programme also provides Assessment limited and select number of finance programmes students with the necessary training required Assessment is by a combination of coursework in the world. for the Bloomberg Certificate. and written examinations. Our MSc in Financial Services in Banking has been recognised by two world renowned professional bodies, the CFA Institute and PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers’ International Association). This gives Kent Business School the status of PRMIA academic partner as well as CFA participating partner at programme level, both reserved for a limited and select number of finance programmes in the world.

Course content • Compulsory modules: Commercial and Investment Banking; Corporate Finance; Derivatives; Essentials of Financial Risk Management; Financial Regulation; Financial Systems and Institutions. • Two from: Finance with Excel; Financial Data Modelling; Financial Engineering; Fixed Income Markets; Foundations of Finance; International Financial Reporting; International Money and Finance; Investments and Portfolio Management; Quantitative Methods. • Dissertation of 15,000 words

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Dr Konstantinos Sirlantzis: Lecturer in Image Processing and Vision See p98.

Professor Sarah Spurgeon: Professor of Control Engineering See p98.

Professor Paul Sweeting: Professor of Actuarial Science See p34.

Dr Pradip Tapadar: Lecturer in Actuarial Science See p34.

R Guy Thomas: Honorary Lecturer in Actuarial Science See p34.

Professor Radu Tunaru: Professor of Quantitative Finance See p58.

Dr Nikolaos Voukelatos: Lecturer in Finance See p58.

International Accounting and Finance MSc Staff research interests Professor Stephen Walker: Professor of Statistics Location: Canterbury. Dr Antonis Alexandridis: Lecturer in Finance See p218. Attendance: One year full-time. See p156. Entry requirements: A good first degree Dr Huamao Wang: Lecturer in Finance (2.1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject, such Dr Lothar Breuer: Reader in Statistics See p156. as finance, accounting, electronics, mathematics, See p218. engineering or any mathematically based natural science discipline. Students must have studied Professor Jagjit Chadha: Professor of at least 60 credits in accounting within their first Economics Location degree or hold equivalent work experience. See p90. Canterbury.

This programme prepares and develops you for Dr Li-Cheng Chang: Senior Lecturer in Financial English language requirements a career in international accounting and finance Accounting See p223 or check our website for individual by developing knowledge and skills to a high See p57. programme requirements. professional standard. It also prepares you Fees and funding for research and further study in this area. It is well Dr Farzin Deravi: Reader in Information See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding suited to students who have some knowledge of Engineering accounting and finance and who wish to expand See p97. National ratings their skills and knowledge to an advanced level. Finance at Kent had an 87% overall student The programme is also designed for students with Professor Warwick Funnell: Professor of satisfaction rate in the 2012 National Student a very good academic standing from a related Accounting and Finance Survey. discipline who wish to enhance their careers in See p57. Applications international accounting and finance. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Dr Abdullah Iqbal: Senior Lecturer in postgrad/apply Course content Accounting and Finance • Compulsory modules: Advanced Management See p57. Further information Accounting; Derivatives; Essentials of Financial T: +44 (0)1227 827272 Risk Management; Financial and Management Dr Robert Jupe: Professor of Accounting E: [email protected] Accounting; Foundations of Finance; See p57. International Financial Reporting. • Two modules chosen from: Auditing; Data Dr Gianluca Marcelli: Lecturer in Engineering Analysis and Forecasting; Ethics of International See p98. Business; Finance with Excel; Financial Data Modelling; Financial Regulation; Financial Dr Jaideep Oberoi: Lecturer in Finance Systems and Institutions; International Finance See p34. and Money; Investments and Portfolio Management; Public Sector Accounting and Dr Keisuke Otsu: Lecturer in Economics Accountability; Quantitative Methods. See p90. • Dissertation of up to 15,000 words Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama: Lecturer in Assessment Economics Assessment is by examination, coursework and the See p90. dissertation. 118

Medway FINE ART

Postgraduate studies in Fine Art at Kent offer you an energetic, challenging and open framework in which to explore your artistic practice. The programme welcomes independent thinkers who seek to develop their practice in a discursive environment that brings together a diverse set of attitudes to making and producing art work in contemporary culture. As a student, you are encouraged to realise your creative and intellectual potential within your discipline informed by specialists within your field.

The MA Fine Art programme prepares you for a professional career in the arts and we offer new workshops and studio spaces with excellent technical support to realise your practice-based projects. New opportunities to work together on ambitious group projects in public are encouraged and supported by a staff team made up of practicing artists.

Our new MA Sound and Image programme is our interdisciplinary collaboration between Fine Art and Music. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills in advanced practice- based research, and foster individual creative ideas.

The Fine Art PhD programme enables you to develop your work through an intensive period of study in an ambitious and challenging research environment. Alongside supervisory support, you are offered workshops, seminars and exhibition opportunities throughout your research period.

“This MA course gave me a Programmes of periodicals, and a slide library with well over 100,000 classified slides. The programmes also definite motivation to broaden Taught include regular trips abroad to cities such as my horizons as a professional • Fine Art MA Madrid, Berlin, New York and to major arts events • Sound and Image MA such as the Venice Biennale. The Department artist. It’s a very intensive takes advantage of its proximity to London with environment allowing us to Research regular visits to London galleries, as well as • Fine Art PhD providing opportunities for you to develop research focus on our work. All staff links and projects with spaces in the capital. enthusiastically support us Postgraduate resources Support as students to become serious The University of Kent has invested over £5 million artists in the future.” in its Arts at Medway initiative, to provide you with We hold regular studio-based seminars, lectures the best possible study and research environment. and discussion seminars, bringing together Sehee Kim practices of making, organising, reading and MA Fine Art A number of historic buildings in the atmospheric critique for group discussion. Visiting specialists, Chatham Historic Dockyard have been renovated representing the current debates within the to provide a new range of professional standard discipline, regularly visit the Department providing facilities. You are given studio space within the lectures and one-to-one tutorials. Department as well as access to full workshops that include wood, metal, plaster, digital media, During your degree programme, we offer training audio-visual media and photography as well as in research skills, a regular research newsletter, on-site technical support. Off-site working can also and the opportunity to take part in our research be organised within the multiple opportunities for seminar programme. All PhD students have the site-specific production available at the Dockyard opportunity for funded conference attendance. campus and beyond. Dynamic exhibiting culture The University offers access to a broad-based library stock, covering the fields of painting, Staff exhibit at major institutions in the UK and sculpture and architecture, as well as a large beyond. This includes Sarah Turner’s Perestroika, collection of works on photography, contemporary 2009, theatrically released at the Institute of visual communications, aesthetic theory, cultural Contemporary Arts (ICA), and widely screened studies and philosophy. There is a substantial stock in international film festivals; Shona Illingworth’s Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/fineart 119

The Watch Man and Balnakiel, (2011) exhbited at our new multimillion pound development on the It is designed to provide you with knowledge and widely at venues including the Museum of Modern Chatham Historic Dockyard, just 55 minutes from skills in advanced practice-based research; you Art, Bologna, the Wellcome Collection, London, London. explore the creation and analysis of audio-visual the National Museum, Tirana and Interaccess works, taking into account major artistic Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto. The programme welcomes students who wish developments over the past few decades. to pursue any form of artistic practice in an Julie Louise Bacon’s The Possibility of Impossible interdisciplinary studio-based research Seminars and workshops cover the history and Dialogues in the solar art festival Desert Equinox, environment. A core series of critical studies repertoire of recent developments in audio-visual Australia (2012); the site-specific video installation lectures, seminars, tutorials and collaborative work as well as evaluating the significance of Double Fountain [After a Water Clock Design by the opportunities allow you to develop your awareness collaborative and interdisciplinary practices. Arab Engineer Al-Jaziri 1136-1206] (with James of key issues in contemporary culture. We also Technical and craft-based workshops supplement Geurts) in the annual photography and moving offer opportunities for working with museums the theoretical materials covered, in order to image festival Photopolis, Canada (2011); and and galleries outside of the University, developing support you in the development of specialist the mixed-media installation The Twins in your specialism towards the achievement of practical skills. Convergences: Literary Art Exhibitions at the professional excellence within your field. Golden Thread Gallery, Northern Ireland (2011). The Departments of Fine Art and Music have Course content cutting-edge facilities which include audio-visual Dr Steve Klee’s work at The David Roberts Arts • Collaborative Project edit suites, a spatial audio studio, Foley studio, Foundation, 176 Gallery, Five Years Gallery, • Developing Practice rehearsal spaces, a flagship recording studio, No.w.here Gallery, Glasgow Tramway and • Resolution large-scale digital printing and the newly renovated Transmission Galleries and at Lena Rosselli • Dissertation Boiler House Workshop. In addition, the Music and Gallery, Budapest. Audio Arts Sound Theatre (MAAST), a collection The programme also includes visits to galleries, of high-quality loudspeakers, controllers and Staff also publish journal articles, catalogue essays professional practice sessions, workshop training, interfaces for the diffusion of sound, is one of and regularly speak at conferences and symposia. lectures, studio and reading seminars and tutorials. the best in the UK. Their research spans the areas of performance, lens-based media, identity politics and the politics Assessment Course content of representation. The programme is assessed by self-directed • Collaborative Project written and practice-based coursework for each • Resolution: Audio-Visual Project Taught programmes of the modules. • Sound, Image, Space: Practice and Process • Dissertation Fine Art MA Sound and Image MA Location: Medway. Location: Medway. Assessment Entry requirements: An upper-second class Entry requirements: A 2.1 or above in fine art, film, As for Fine Art. degree in an arts or humanities discipline. A music, digital arts or a related subject. A portfolio portfolio of creative work is required for admission. of creative work is required for admission. Research programmes

This programme develops your practice towards This programme develops your creative, critical Fine Art PhD establishing a creative, critical and independent and independent practice within interdisciplinary Location: Medway. practice. You have your own studio space in which sound and image work. The programme Entry requirements: An upper-second class to explore and test your studio work, with full encompasses artist’s film, audio-visual works, degree and a taught MA in arts or humanities access to workshops and high-quality resources installations, interactive and multimedia works. discipline. A portfolio of creative work is required for admission.

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Student profile

ROSIE JAMES MA FINE ART

What attracted you to this course? found that the location has made such a profound impression Initially I was unsure about choosing art as a degree but it is on them. Their work has become a direct response to and the best decision I have made. Not only have I had the chance dialogue with it; something that is really exciting and unique to develop as an artist, I have also had the opportunity to write to the course here. a dissertation – it’s a perfectly well-rounded course. What about the teaching? What are the facilities like in your school? The tutors are brilliant, perfectly balancing empathy with We have recently had an upgrade on a lot of our facilities and pressure; something that I have gained a lot from this year. the change in people’s work is noticeable. With the fantastic Their background in the specific subject area is what makes equipment now available to us in the workshop, our work the course, by providing invaluable advice. knows no bounds and it’s really exciting to see the vast variety of materials that are being used. What are you planning to do next? I definitely do not want to give up being an artist. I am What are you particularly enjoying about your studies? exploring different routes that I could take to ensure that Looking out of my studio window and seeing various ships, I don’t lose the passion I now have for art. I am seriously film crews and members of the public really adds to the considering a PhD because my MA has given me a spark character and personality of the space. Many students have that I would like to explore. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/fineart 121

You have your own studio space in which to Shona Illingworth: Lecturer in Fine Art Visiting artists and lecturers explore and test your studio work, with full access Shona is an artist whose work with moving image Our associate lecturers all operate as practising to workshops and high quality resources at our new and/or sound takes the form of gallery-based artists, curators and writers. They include Alia multimillion pound development on the Chatham and site-specific installation, and combines Syed, Adam Chodzko, Doug Fishbone, Ian Historic Dockyard, just 45 minutes from London. interdisciplinary research (particularly with Gonczarow and Ruth McLennan. We also have emerging neuropsychological models of memory an extensive list of visiting lecturers including The programme welcomes students who wish and critical approaches to memory studies) with Evan Calder Williams, Laura Oldfield Ford, Mark to pursue any form of artistic practice in an publicly engaged practice. Her work has been McGowan, Sharon Kivland, Marina Vishmidt, Andy interdisciplinary studio-based research commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, London; Conio, Maxa Zoller and Andrea Luka Zimmerman. environment. Research students are supported Channel 4 Television; FABRICA and Photoworks; through their studies by a supervisory team and Cornerhouse and Film and Video Umbrella and regular supervisory meetings. has been supported by the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England and the British Council. She has Location You are provided with research methodology exhibited widely at venues including the Museum Medway. training sessions to ground and support your of Modern Art, Bologna, the Wellcome Collection, research in its early stages, as well as offered London, the National Museum, Tirana and English language requirements a breadth of research seminars, workshops Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, See p223. and symposia. Toronto. Fees and funding See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Research students are encouraged to enrol on the Dr Steve Klee: Lecturer Researcher Development Programme provided by Steve works primarily in video. In the last five years National ratings the University’s Graduate School, and to attend he has shown in London at (among other places) Kent was ranked 6th in the UK for art and regular Research Centre and Research Group The David Roberts Arts Foundation, 176 Gallery, design in The Guardian University Guide 2014. led events. You have access to a national and Five Years Gallery, No.w.here Gallery, Limehouse Applications international cross-disciplinary visiting lecture Town Hall, Zoo Art Fair and Event Gallery. His work series enabling you to access specialists in has also been shown in Glasgow at Tramway and Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ your territory and beyond. Transmission Galleries and at Lena Rosselli Gallery, postgrad/apply Budapest. Writing about art and writing as art is To discuss a PhD application, in the first instance, another important focus. He has produced texts Research programmes please contact Sarah Turner, [email protected] on the video installations of Aernout Mik as well See p232 or contact the School for further as contributing fiction pieces for Frozen Tears, details. Research areas a collection of artists’ writing, curated by John Further information Russell. He has written extensively on the aesthetic Sarah Turner The Department offers a diverse range of expertise and political philosophy of Jacques Rancière. T: +44 (0)1634 888819 across ways of making and approaches to thinking. E: [email protected] Staff are interdisciplinary and work across different Tim Meacham: Lecturer Shona Illingworth areas of art production as well as curating Tim is a practising artist who makes sculptural T: +44 (0)1634 202967 exhibitions, writing on art, and writing as art. installations in a range of media which investigate E: [email protected] and describe space, often through the use of You have access to the wide variety of research sound, movement and light. His interests include events that take place at the Medway and spatial acoustics, architecture and flight. Together Canterbury campuses. These links with the with education, Tim’s career has taken him into Canterbury campus remain key to our research public and community art, prop making and scenic culture where regular events, symposia and art for film and television, and the design of multi- exhibitions are held in collaboration with different sensory environments. Tim is currently embarking departments and disciplines. on a practice based PhD working across the subject areas of music and fine art, to research Staff research interests the spatial passage of sound through architectural interventions. These include the relaying of live Full details of staff research interests can be sound using weather balloons. found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff Sarah Turner: Reader; Director of Research; Dr Julie Louise Bacon: Lecturer in Fine Art Director of Graduate Studies; Fine Art Julie is an artist, curator and writer whose interests Curriculum Lead include the relationship between aesthetics and Sarah is a writer, curator and film-maker. Her politics, technology and consciousness, and the feature films Ecology (2007), Perestroika (2009) epistemological implications of artistic processes. and Perestroika: Reconstructed (2013) are She has presented her performances and characterised by explorations of technologies, installations worldwide, with recent works including experimental approaches to writing and an the video installation Double Fountain ((2011), The engagement with experiences of narrative, Twins (2011) and The Possibility of Impossible immersion and embodiment within the long form Dialogues (2012). In curatorial posts at arts film. Sarah is interested in writing as art practice; organisations and research centres in the UK and experimental and hybrid writing forms that engage Canada, she produced events including the Fix with fictional and poetic developments particularly performance biennial (2004), The Suicide of for the screen. Her work has been exhibited at Objects (2004) and Performing the Archive (2006- major international festivals, galleries museums 2007). Her activities as an independent curator and broadcast. include SIGNAL: Art and Network Technology (La Chambre Blanche, Quebec 2012) and The Clearing (London, 2008). She is the editor of Arkive City (2008); In Place of Passing (2008); Footnotes (2008); and publishes widely in art and critical theory journals. 122

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Kent offers an excellent environment for postgraduate study in French literature, thought, culture, society and the visual arts from the 18th century to the present. French at Kent was in the top ten in the UK in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. Our main research interests include word and image studies, narratology, literary theory, psychoanalysis, sociolinguistics, postcolonial studies, gender studies and autobiography. Staff and postgraduates in French take a leading role in the School of European Culture and Languages’ Centre for Modern European Literature and the School of English’s Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, whose activities include conferences, lectures, research seminars and reading groups. Students also participate in an annual international conference organised by Skepsi, an online journal based in the School of European Culture and Languages and run by MA and PhD candidates.

Our programmes benefit from Kent’s proximity to Paris in more than one way. Most colleagues within French have research links in Paris. We have a long-standing exchange with the prestigious École Normale Supérieure. A more recent development is the exciting range of MA programmes based in Canterbury and Paris. Roughly half of our research students opt for a co-tutelle leading to the award of a PhD from Kent and a doctorate from a French institution. Students who undertake their research entirely in Canterbury benefit from the cosmopolitan atmosphere at the UK’s European university.

“Since I began my postgraduate Programmes undergraduate teaching with study for a Kent higher degree or with writing a dissertation for their home studies, I felt very strongly Taught universities. Postgraduate dissertations in French supported by all members • French and Comparative Literature MA studies at the University of Kent may be written in • French and Comparative Literature (Paris) MA English or in French. The University of Kent also of staff and I was welcomed • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip offers language training, particularly in English, into a wide and stimulating • Modern French Studies MA for overseas postgraduates. • Modern French Studies (Paris) MA community of postgraduate Training students. This Department is Research • French MA, PhD The Graduate School offers all postgraduates in a great place to develop as an the School of European Culture and Languages academic, a teacher and an a wide-ranging programme of training in Postgraduate resources transferable skills. The School provides training individual.” The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in workshops for postgraduate students with teaching all areas relevant to our research, with particular responsibilities, bringing together postgraduates Mathilde Poizet-Amar strengths in 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st-century from all our subject areas. Research students may PhD French French literature. The School of European Culture gain further academic experience by giving talks and Languages provides high-quality IT facilities, at the Centre for Modern European Literature including state-of-the-art media laboratories, research seminars. Postgraduates in the School dedicated technical staff and designated of European Culture and Languages also organise areas for postgraduate study. Other facilities their own annual international conference, and include all-purpose teaching rooms, two networked edit and contribute to Skepsi, the School’s multimedia laboratories and a streamed film library. postgraduate online journal of European thought.

Language speaking World-leading research Every year, a considerable number of French In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, nationals and native speakers of other foreign the performance of French at the University of Kent languages follow our postgraduate courses, while was ranked 7th in the UK, with a high proportion of European exchange students who come to Kent as our research publications judged to be first-rate undergraduates often stay on to do graduate work. (‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’). We are involved in the Erasmus and Tempus Backed by strong institutional support, our group networks, and we also have a team of foreign- continues to make an assertive and original French-language lectors who combine contribution to French studies in the UK. Our research activities are given a markedly Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french 123

international dimension by publications, conference modules. You then spend the spring term in Paris, papers and public lectures in mainland Europe, the where your studies are based at our teaching and USA, Australia and elsewhere, as well as a range research centre in Montparnasse. During that term, of collaborative ventures. you take two modules taught by staff from the University of Kent and occasional guest lecturers, Dynamic publishing culture thus ensuring consistent academic standards and assessment throughout the year. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, The modules are designed to be specifically they have recently contributed to: Australian Journal relevant to the experience of living and studying of French Studies; Diderot Studies; Forum for in the city. You are encouraged to make full use of Modern Language Studies; French Cultural Studies; Paris’ cultural resources and to integrate these into French Studies; Modern Language Review; Revue your studies. University of Kent staff are resident in Romane; Romance Quarterly. Details of recently Paris during the spring term to ensure year-long published books can be found within the staff continuity of academic guidance and pastoral research interests on p124. support.

Taught programmes Course content Canterbury French and Comparative Literature MA • Two modules from those listed in French and Location: Canterbury. Comparative Literature Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject Paris or equivalent. • Two from: Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Diaspora and Exile; England and France; This programme introduces you to a wide range Entente Cordiale – Myth or Reality; Film and of theoretical positions, with the aim of enriching Modernity; Paris and Modernism; Paris: Reality your appreciation of the cultures, texts and critical and Representation; Paris: The Residency. practices examined in the various modules. • Dissertation of 12,000 words, in either English STAFF PROFILE The centres of interest of the programme are or French designed to be complementary and to encourage Peter Read comparison in a variety of contexts: national Assessment Chair of French literatures, genres, media and theory. As for French and Comparative Literature. Professor Peter Read came to the The MA is aimed at graduates in modern For further information on University of Kent, Paris, University of Kent in January 2008. He languages wanting to consolidate their knowledge see p230. is a specialist on 19th and 20th-century in a wider context; English graduates wishing to French literature, Surrealism, literary diversify their interests; and graduates in other Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip translation and relationships between humanities subjects (history, philosophy, theology) Location: Canterbury. word, image and cultural context. He has who would like to apply their knowledge to literary Attendance: One year full-time. published numerous books and articles on and visual material. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a the work of Guillaume Apollinaire and his related subject. Consideration will be given to circle, and also published on visual artists Course content applicants holding equivalent qualifications or working in France, including Picasso, • Up to two from: Literature and Theory; The work experience. Giacometti and Dufy. Night in French Literature; Postmodern Detective Fiction; Real Fictions; The Shifting Gaze; This programme offers you the opportunity to He has contributed essays to catalogues Theories of Art in Modern French Thought; develop your independent study and research for exhibitions at the Tate in London, the Through a Lens; Varieties of Artifice; Writing skills through a combination of subject modules National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Network in Modern French Culture. within the School of European Culture and the Musée national d’art modern (Centre • Up to two from: The European Avant-Garde Languages. In addition, as part of your programme Pompidou), Museu Picasso Barcelona, Van in Literature, Art and Film; European Modernism; you have the opportunity to improve your English Gogh Museum Amsterdam and the Centre European Tales of the Fantastic; Literature in language competence with dedicated English and Pompidou in Metz. Dark Times; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by Writing the Self. Kent International Pathways. His expertise is often sought by members • Dissertation of 12,000 words, written in either of the British and French press, and he is a English or French On successful completion of the Diploma regular contributor to a number of learned and through meeting the University’s rules of publications. Assessment progression, you may choose to study on one Assessment is by one 5,000-word essay for each of the programmes within the following disciplines: module and the dissertation. • Classical & Archaeological Studies • Comparative Literature French and Comparative Literature • English Language and Linguistics (Paris) MA • French Location: Canterbury and Paris. • German Attendance: One year full-time. • Hispanic Studies Entry requirements: As for French and • Italian Comparative Literature. • Philosophy • Religious Studies. This programme enables you to study in Canterbury in the autumn term and in Paris in the spring term. Assessment In Canterbury, you choose two relevant 30-credit Assessment is through a combination of assignments, coursework and examinations.

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Modern French Studies MA Course content Recent publications have focused on authors, Location: Canterbury. Canterbury artists and thinkers including the following: Entry requirements: As for French and • Two from those listed in Modern French Studies Apollinaire; Artaud; Badiou; Barthes; Blanchot; Comparative Literature, see p123. Cocteau; Crébillon fils; Deleuze; Diderot; Djebar; Paris Flaubert; Foucault; Houellebecq; Lacan; The MA in Modern French Studies offers you the As for French and Comparative Literature (Paris), Maupassant; Mérimée; Nimier; Proust; Sade; opportunity to study a range of major writers and see p123. Yourcenar; Zola. key themes in French literature, visual culture and thought from the eighteenth century to the present Assessment Research centres day. The programme is designed for students with As for French and Comparative Literature, see a variety of interests, including literature, the visual p123. Centre for Language and Linguistic arts, philosophy and aesthetics. It also reflects the Studies (CLLS) research specialisms and publications of the For further information on University of Kent at See p108. members of staff involved. Paris, see p230. Centre for Modern European Literature Course content Research programmes See p67. • Four from: Detective Fiction; Modern French Thought; Postmodern The Night in French French MA, PhD Literature; Real Fictions; The Shifting Gaze; Location: Canterbury (with an optional year in Staff research interests Theories of Art in Literature and Theory; Through Paris at the École Normale Supérieure). Dr Thomas Baldwin: Reader; Head of French; a Lens; Varieties of Artifice; Writing the Network Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class Director, Modern French Studies MA in Modern French Culture. honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent Nineteenth and 20th-century French literature; • Dissertation of 12,000 words, written in either and the appropriate language skills. representations of art in literature; literary theory English or French and philosophy. Recent publications include: The Research areas Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze Assessment (2010); Text and Image Relations In Modern Staff interests broadly fit within the parameters of As for French and Comparative Literature, see European Culture: Comparative Perspectives French literature and thought from the 18th century p123. (co-ed, 2012); Questions of Influence in Modern to the present, with research clusters organised European Literature (co-ed, 2013). around the following areas: the European Modern French Studies (Paris) MA www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment; Canterbury and Paris. Location: Ekphrasis; Franco-Sino relations; Life Writing; One year full-time. Professor Lorenzo Chiesa: Professor of Modern Attendance: Medical Humanities; Philosophy and Critical As for French and European Thought Entry requirements: Theory; French Surrealism; Cubism; the Avant- Comparative Literature, see p123. Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis; 20th- garde; the interface between visual arts and text. century French philosophy; contemporary Italian For the basic programme structure, see French and critical theory. Recent publications include: The Comparative Literature (Paris), see p123. Italian Difference (2009); Italian Thought Today (2011). www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french 125

Dr Ian Cooper: Lecturer; Director, Modern Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll: Senior Lecturer German and Comparative Literature MA See p131. Location See p128. Canterbury and Paris. Dr Ana de Medeiros: Reader in French and Life English language requirements Dr Larry Duffy: Lecturer Writing; Academic Director, University of Kent, See p223. Nineteenth-century French literature, thought Paris and culture; Flaubert, Zola; Houellebecq; realism, Francophone and Lusophone women authors, Fees and funding naturalism and documentary literature; the body. in particular Marguerite Yourcenar, Assia Djebar, See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Recent publications include: Flaubert, Zola and Marie Nimier and Annie Ernaux; autobiography National ratings the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge and postcolonial studies. Recent publications Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: (forthcoming). include: Questions of Influence in Modern French was ranked 7th nationally for research www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff European Literature (co-ed, 2013). quality, with 50% of our research rated ‘world- www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. Dr James Fowler: Senior Lecturer Novels, drama and other writings of the 18th Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán: Lecturer Applications century; Diderot and the Enlightenment; prudes See p68. and their relation to libertinage; narratology; Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ psychoanalysis; discourses of the body; Dr Lucy E O’Meara: Lecturer Richardson’s reception in France. Recent Literary and cultural theory; aesthetics; Roland postgrad/apply publications include: The Libertine’s Nemesis: Barthes. Recent publications include: Roland Research programmes The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin Barthes at the Collège de France (2012). See p232 or contact the School for further (2011); New Essays on Diderot (ed, 2011); www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff details. Questions of Influence in Modern European Further information Literature (co-ed, 2013). Professor Peter Read: Chair of French Dr Thomas Baldwin www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Nineteenth and 20th-century French literature T: +44 (0)1227 824718 and the visual arts; Apollinaire; Surrealism. Recent E: [email protected] Dr Marine Ganofsky: Lecturer publications include: Les Dessins de Guillaume Early modern literature; novels, drama and other Apollinaire (co-ed, 2009); Picasso and Apollinaire: writings of the 18th century; libertine literature The Persistence of Memory (2010). (Crébillon, Vivant Denon, Rétif, Laclos, Sade, www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Casanova); literary theory; myths, symbols and archetypes in literature. Recent publications Dr Montserrat Roser-i-Puig: Senior Lecturer include: Casanova’s Nights: Casanova Eternal See p131. Feminine (forthcoming). www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Dr William Rowlandson: Senior Lecturer See p131. Dr Katja Haustein: Lecturer See p67. Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner: Senior Lecturer; Head of Comparative Literature; Co-director, Dr Deborah Holmes: Senior Lecturer; Head of Centre for Modern European Literature German See p68. See p128. Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea: Senior Lecturer; Dr David Hornsby: Senior Lecturer Head of Hispanic Studies See p108. See p131.

Professor Alex Hughes: Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr Axel Stähler: Reader Franco-Sino relations; gender studies; See p68. autobiography and photography. www.kent.ac.uk/secl/french/staff Professor Núria Triana-Toribio: Professor of Hispanic Studies Professor Ben Hutchinson: Senior Lecturer; See p131. Co-director, Centre for Modern European Literature Professor Shane Weller: Head of SECL; See p128. Director of Postgraduate Studies in Comparative Literature; Co-director, Dr Jon Kear: Lecturer Centre for Modern European Literature See p139. See p68. 126

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German at Kent offers an ideal environment for the postgraduate study of literature and culture within a broadly European context. The research interests of our staff cover the entire modern period both within German- speaking countries and across Europe, and include poetry, the European avant-garde, women’s writing, modernism, postmodernism and literary theory. Members of the department are experienced in running international projects and have attracted external funding from prestigious sources such as the Leverhulme Trust and the Humboldt Foundation. In addition to the expertise of our staff, all postgraduates in German benefit from the activities co- ordinated by the Centre for Modern European Literature, including lectures by distinguished guest speakers, research seminars, conferences and reading groups. The MA programme enjoys a broader perspective than many purely German MA programmes, since the University of Kent is one of the few British universities to have a dedicated Department of Comparative Literature.

German is part of the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), which embraces eight other disciplines; our students can draw on the excellent resources of a diverse team of lecturers with expertise in many key areas of European culture. The Centre for Modern European Literature brings together various subjects within the School and ensures a vigorous and lively research culture.

“This combined MA gave me Programmes Language speaking the ideal opportunity to pursue Taught Every year, a considerable number of native my interest in modern German • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip speakers of foreign languages follow our courses • Modern German and Comparative Literature MA and several European exchange students stay literature without losing sight • Modern European Literature MA on to do graduate work. There are also foreign- of its broader European context. language lectors who are either combining Research teaching with a Kent higher degree or completing dissertations for their home universities. We can I was able to deepen my • German and Comparative Literature PhD assist with language-training needs of overseas • German Literature MA, PhD knowledge, not only of modern postgraduates, particularly where English is literature, but also of European concerned, and are also involved in the Erasmus literary theory. It’s an exciting Postgraduate resources and Tempus networks. The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in and challenging degree.” all our areas of research interest, with particular Training strengths in modern European literature. The All postgraduate students in the School of Angela Gerhardt School of European Culture and Languages MA Modern German and Comparative Literature European Culture and Languages have the provides high-quality IT facilities, dedicated opportunity to undertake a Researcher technical staff and designated areas for Development Programme provided by the postgraduate study. Language-learning and Graduate School. There are training workshops translation facilities include eight all-purpose for postgraduate students with teaching teaching rooms, two networked multimedia responsibilities, which bring together students laboratories, and a streamed film library as well from all its subject areas. Research students gain as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction further academic experience by giving research facilities. The University of Kent’s location is the talks in the Centre for Modern European Literature best in Britain for students who need to visit not series, and attending national and international only the British Library (London) but also the major conferences. libraries and research centres on the continent. In particular, we have close links with the Austrian Literary Archives in Vienna and the Deutsches Conferences Literaturarchiv, Marbach; in 2012, we co-organised We encourage all of our postgraduate students to the first-ever graduate school for UK postgraduates get involved in conferences, whether by attending, in Marbach. contributing or organising. In 2007, the National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies was Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/german 127

held in Canterbury, and postgraduate students Comparative Literature Department, giving you in German are also involved in the conferences the opportunity to hone your literary and analytical organised by Skepsi. Recent conferences skills not only on German texts, but also on a organised by staff include Jean Améry – Literatur broader range of modern literature. zwischen Erinnerung, Politik und Selbstsuche (January 2009, Deutsches Literaturarchiv The programme is suitable both for those who wish Marbach), The Plastic Expression, The Fruitful to take their undergraduate studies a stage further Sphere: European Poets and Sculptors in the 20th and for those who wish to go on to a career in Century (November 2009, Henry Moore Institute literary studies or intend to do a PhD. Leeds), Archive: The XIIth British Comparative Literature Association Conference (July 2010, Course content Kent), and Cultures at War: Austria-Hungary • Compulsory modules: German Modernism; 1914-1918 (Oxford, April 2011). Post-war Literature and Memory; Writing the City. Dynamic publishing culture • Optional modules include: Classical Myths; European Modernism; European Tales of the Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Fantastic; Literature and Theory; Literature conference proceedings and books. Among in Dark Times; Women Writers and the Family others, they have recently contributed to: Forum in 20th-Century Literature; Writing the Self. for Modern Language Studies; Germanic Review; • Dissertation of 12,000 words Modern Language Review; Austrian Studies; Etudes Germaniques. Details of recently published Assessment books can be found within the staff research Assessment is by one 5,000-word essay for each interests on p128. module and the dissertation.

Taught programmes Modern European Literature MA Location: Canterbury. Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant Location: Canterbury. subject (eg, English, French, German, Italian, STAFF PROFILE Attendance: One year full-time. Hispanic Studies, Classics), or equivalent. An honours degree in a Entry requirements: Language requirement: You are expected to Dr Ian Cooper related subject. Consideration will be given to be able to read literary works in any two of the Lecturer; Director, Modern German and applicants holding equivalent qualifications or following European languages (in addition to Comparative Literature MA work experience. English): French, German, Italian, Spanish. Ian Cooper joined the German Department This programme offers you the opportunity to The MA in Modern European Literature is designed at Kent in 2012, following a period as develop your independent study and research for students who wish to range beyond any one Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt- skills through a combination of subject modules national tradition and to study major writers, genres Stiftung in Göttingen and, prior to that, a within the School of European Culture and and movements within the broader context of Junior Research Fellowship in Cambridge. Languages. In addition, as part of your programme modern European literature. It also gives you the His work ranges across modern German you have the opportunity to improve your English opportunity to read literary works in their original literature and thought, with a special language competence with dedicated English and language. interest in the relationship between Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by lyric and philosophical traditions. Kent International Pathways. Course content • Literature and Theory In addition to time spent at British and On successful completion of the Diploma • Three from: Blindness, Vision and Aesthetic German institutions, Dr Cooper has also and through meeting the University’s rules of Writing in the 19th Century; Contemporary been a Visiting Fellow at Brown University. progression, you may choose to study on one Women Poets; The European Avant-Garde in He has given research talks in Britain, of the programmes within the following disciplines: Literature, Art and Film; European Tales of the Germany and the United States. • Classical & Archaeological Studies Fantastic; From Pure to Committed Literature; • Comparative Literature Literary Theory; National and Regional Recently, Dr Cooper has sat on the • English Language and Linguistics Consciousness in Modern Spanish Literature; Steering Committee of a major Leverhulme • French Post-War Literature and Memory; Psychoanalysis Trust International Network on The Impact • German and Literature; Through a Lens; Varieties of of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian • Hispanic Studies Artifice; Women Writers and the Family in German Thought, contributions to which • Italian 20th-Century Literature; Writing the Self. are shortly to be published in four volumes • Philosophy • Dissertation of 12,000 words with Cambridge University Press. • Religious Studies. Assessment Assessment As for Modern German and Comparative Literature. Assessment is through a combination of assignments, coursework and examinations. Research programmes Modern German and Comparative German and Comparative Literature PhD Literature MA German Literature MA, PhD Canterbury. Location: Location: Canterbury. A first or 2.1 in a relevant Entry requirements: Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject (normally German), or equivalent. subject (or equivalent) and the appropriate language skills. This MA is aimed at students who wish to deepen their knowledge of modern German literature within a broader European context. Kent is one of the few universities in the UK to have a thriving

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Research areas Staff research interests Professor Ben Hutchinson: Senior Lecturer; Co-director, Centre for Modern European Staff research interests in German include: Dr Ian Cooper: Lecturer; Director, Modern Literature Austrian studies; post-Idealist philosophy and the German and Comparative Literature MA; Nineteenth and 20th-century German and German lyric tradition; naturalism; modernism and Director, Postgraduate Studies European literature, especially Rilke, W G Sebald, 20th-century literature, especially Rilke, Kafka, German Idealist and post-Idealist philosophy and Jean Améry, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Geoffrey Mann, W G Sebald and Jean Améry. Other areas the German lyric tradition; comparative approaches Hill, 20th-century poetry, modernism. Recent of specialism within the School include: Beckett; to German and English poetry. Recent publications publications include: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Proust; the European avant-garde; modernism include: The Near and Distant God: Poetry, Idealism The Book of Hours: A new Translation with and postmodernism; cross-cultural transmission; and Religious Thought (2008); Third Agents: Secret Commentary (ed, 2008/2012); W G Sebald Die translation theory; literary theory and aesthetics; Protagonists of the Modern Imagination (co-ed, Dialektische Imagination (2009); Modernism and Jewish writing; and literature and fundamentalism. 2008); Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of Style (2011); Archive, special issue of Comparative the Third in Modernity (co-ed, 2013). Critical Studies 8: 2-3 (co-ed, 2011); A Literature of The research culture is consciously conceived as www.kent.ac.uk/secl/german/staff Restitution: Essays on W G Sebald (co-ed, 2013). interdisciplinary, through close links with the Centre www.kent.ac.uk/secl/german/staff for Modern European Literature (co-directed by Dr Katja Haustein: Lecturer German). Regular research seminars help to bring See p67. Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner: Senior Lecturer; postgraduates together as a community, as well as Co-director, Centre for Modern European to introduce them to visiting speakers from outside Dr Deborah Holmes: Senior Lecturer; Head of Literature the University. German See p68. Biography; Austrian studies; late-19th and early- We can supervise postgraduate students in any 20th-century German literature; Italian anti-fascist Dr Axel Stähler: Reader of the areas listed in our staff research interests, writing; feuilleton journalism, women’s writing. See p68. as well as in other main fields of German and Recent publications include: Austrian Studies European literature. We encourage you to contact 16: From Ausgleich to Jahrhundertwende (co-ed, Professor Shane Weller: Head of SECL; us to discuss your plans at an early stage of your 2008); Ikonen, Helden, Außenseiter. Film und Director of Postgraduate Studies in application. Biographie (co-ed, 2009); Interwar Vienna. Comparative Literature; Co-director, Culture between Tradition and Modernity (co-ed, Centre for Modern European Literature 2009); Langeweile ist Gift: Das Leben der Eugenie Research centres See p68. Schwarzwald (2012); Austrian Studies 21: Culture Centre for Language and Linguistic at War. Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (2013). Studies (CLLS) www.kent.ac.uk/secl/german/staff See p108. Location Canterbury. Centre for Modern European Literature English language requirements See p67. See p223. Fees and funding See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding National ratings Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: ranked in the top 30 nationally, 20% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ with a further 50% judged to be ‘internationally recognised’.

Applications Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further details. Further information Professor Ben Hutchinson E: [email protected] 129

Canterbury HISPANIC STUDIES

The taught MA programmes in Hispanic Studies at Kent allow you to take a full MA in Modern Hispanic Studies or to combine your interest in Hispanic Studies with the study of other European literatures on the MA in Hispanic and Comparative Literature. The MA in Modern Hispanic Studies leads you towards a better understanding of modern Hispanic society and its culture. It consists of two parts: a literary element, taught in conjunction with the MA in Hispanic and Comparative Literature, and a cultural element which is particular to this programme. The MA in Hispanic and Comparative Literature helps you acquire a deeper conceptual awareness of the function and role of literature in Spain, and assess and evaluate it within a wider European context.

The staff who teach the core modules in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature are all based in the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) and are actively engaged in research in the topics covered on the modules. We hope you enjoy studying with us and that, by the end of the programme, you feel you have developed your knowledge and critical understanding of modern Spain and Latin America. There are opportunities to continue researching in Hispanic Studies when you have completed your MA and we would be happy to discuss this possibility with you.

“These programmes give you Programmes on to do graduate work. There are also foreign- language lectors either combining teaching with the chance to study aspects of Taught a Kent higher degree or completing a dissertation not only the Spanish peninsular, • Hispanic and Comparative Literature MA for their home universities. We can assist with • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip the language-training needs of overseas but also the Latin American • Modern Hispanic Studies MA postgraduates, particularly where English is countries, which makes this a concerned, and are also involved in Erasmus Research and Tempus networks. complete learning experience.” • Hispanic Studies MA, PhD Training Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll Postgraduate resources Director of Graduate Studies in Hispanic Studies All postgraduate students in SECL have The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in the opportunity to undertake a Researcher all our areas of research interest, with particular Development Programme provided by the strengths in modern European literature. The Graduate School. The School provides training School provides high-quality facilities in IT, with workshops for postgraduate students with teaching state-of-the-art language laboratories, dedicated responsibilities, which bring together students technical staff and designated areas for from all its subject areas. Research students gain postgraduate study. Language-learning and further academic experience by giving research translation facilities include eight all-purpose talks in the Centre for Modern European Literature teaching rooms, two networked multimedia series and attending national and international laboratories, and a streamed film library as well conferences. as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction facilities. The University of Kent’s location is the best in Britain for students who need to visit not Dynamic publishing culture only the British Library (London) but also the major Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, libraries and research centres on the European conference proceedings and books. Among mainland. others, they have recently contributed to: The Americas; Journal of Romance Studies; Hispanic Language speaking Research Journal; Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies; Screen. Details of recently published Every year, a considerable number of native books can be found within the staff research speakers of foreign languages follow our courses interests on p131. and several European exchange students stay

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Conferences On successful completion of the Diploma and through meeting the University’s rules of We encourage all of our postgraduate students to progression, you may choose to study on one get involved in conferences, whether by attending, of the programmes within the following disciplines: contributing or organising. Postgraduate students • Classical & Archaeological Studies in Hispanic Studies are actively involved in the • Comparative Literature conferences organised by the journal Skepsi • English Language and Linguistics (founded and run by SECL postgraduate students). • French • German Taught programmes • Hispanic Studies • Italian Hispanic and Comparative Literature MA • Philosophy Location: Canterbury. • Religious Studies. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject (eg Hispanic Studies) or equivalent and Assessment a good working level of Spanish. Assessment is through a combination of assignments, coursework and examinations. This programme delves deeply into the function and role of literature in Spain, especially within Modern Hispanic Studies MA a wider European context. You can also take Location: Canterbury. advantage of other modules offered within the Attendance: Two years part-time. Faculty of Humanities. This gives you a choice Entry requirements: As for Hispanic and of options according to your own preferences, Comparative Literature. while at the same time reinforcing your skills in an increasingly popular and widely used world This programme provides you with a good language. understanding of modern Spanish and Spanish- American society. It consists of two parts: a literary Course content element, which is taught in conjunction with the MA • Compulsory module: Comparative Literature in STAFF PROFILE in Hispanic and Comparative Literature, and a Theory and Practice. cultural element which is a distinctive part of this • At least two of the following Hispanic Literature MA. We teach all subject options in Spanish, but Professor Núria Triana-Toribio and Culture modules: From Pure to Committed accept written work in both English and Spanish. Professor of Hispanic Studies Literature; History and Memory; Modern Spanish Art, Music and Popular Culture; Myth, Image, Núria Triana-Toribio’s research focuses on Fashion and Propaganda in the Cuban Course content • Three of the Hispanic Literature and Culture aspects of Spanish cinema and Spanish Revolutionary Era; National and Regional modules listed in Hispanic and Comparative film cultures. She has published widely Consciousness in Modern Spanish Literature; Literature on areas such as national cinemas, Spanish Cinema. • You may choose one further module from popular genres and auteurism and, • Optional modules offered by Comparative SECL-taught programmes more recently, the study of film festivals, Literature, see p66 • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words contemporary Hispanic film cultures, film • You may choose one further module from legislation and film criticism. Her current SECL-taught programmes project is a monograph entitled Spanish • Dissertation of 10-12,000 words Assessment Film Cultures. As for Hispanic and Comparative Literature. Assessment She is the author of Spanish National Assessment is by 4-6,000 words of written work Research programme Cinema (2003) and co-author of The per module and the dissertation. Cinema of Álex de la Iglesia (2007). She is Hispanic Studies MA, PhD also a co-editor of the series Spanish and Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip Location: Canterbury. Latin American Filmmakers for Manchester Entry requirements: As for Hispanic and Location: Canterbury. University Press. Comparative Literature. Attendance: One year full-time. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a Her most recent work has appeared in Research students need to demonstrate related subject. Consideration will be given to Screen, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas and competence in Spanish (and Catalan if relevant). applicants holding equivalent qualifications or the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. work experience. Research areas This programme offers you the opportunity to Hispanic Studies can be broadly characterised develop your independent study and research as concerned with modern Hispanic studies, with skills through a combination of subject modules three peninsular (Dr Montserrat Roser-i-Puig, Dr within SECL. In addition, as part of your Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Professor Núria Triana- programme you have the opportunity to improve Toribio) and two Latin American (Dr William your English language competence with dedicated Rowlandson and Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea) English and Academic Skills for Humanities specialists. The Department’s range of interests modules offered by Kent International Pathways. covers contemporary Spanish drama, film and poetry; modern and avant-garde Spanish visual culture; Catalan studies; peninsular cultural studies; Latin American literature, including poetry, history, politics (in particular the Republican Andes) and culture; and Cuban literature, film and visual art. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/hispanicstudies 131

Research centres Dr William Rowlandson: Senior Lecturer Cuban art and culture, especially José Lezama Location Centre for American Studies Lima; the reception outside Cuba of visual and Canterbury. See p38. textual representations of the Cuban Revolution English language requirements and the revolutionary era, in particular the notion See p223. Centre for Modern European Literature of myth, and the creation of an exported national See p67. identity through processes of mythologisation; Fees and funding Latin American poets, and the prose and poetry See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding of Borges. Recent publications include: Biografía European Theatre Research Network National ratings de un Cimarrón (ed, 2010). See p86. Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: ranked in the top 30 nationally, 25% of our Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea: Senior Lecturer; research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally Head of Hispanic Studies Staff research interests excellent’ with a further 50% judged to State formation and political culture in the Andes Full details of staff research interests can be be ‘internationally recognised’. from the end of the colonial period throughout the found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ 19th century, as well as issues of race, ethnicity hispanicstudies/staff Applications and military culture in the 19th and 20th centuries in South America. Recent publications include: Taught programmes Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll: Senior Lecturer; The Caudillo of the Andes: Andrés de Santa Cruz Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Director of Graduate Studies (2011). postgrad/apply Spanish cultural studies and film studies, especially Research programmes Spanish popular film; the development of film Professor Núria Triana-Toribio: Professor of See p232 or contact the School for further cultures in Spain (reception, consumption and Hispanic Studies details. fandom), and the cross-cultural dialogue between Contemporary Hispanic film cultures; film Spain and other world cinemas (international Further information legislation; film criticism; film festivals; new traditions of the horror genre, global psychotronic Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll strategies of auteurism, particularly in relation culture). Recent publications include: Spanish T: +44 (0)1227 823205 to transnational financing, production and Horror Film (2012). E: [email protected] dissemination strategies. Dr Montserrat Roser-i-Puig: Senior Lecturer Twentieth and 21st-century Spanish (including Catalan) literature, especially poetry and theatre; the avant-garde movement; the Francoist period and the literature from the transition to democracy to the present day. 132

Canterbury and Paris HISTORY

The School of History at the University of Kent offers a great environment in which to research and study. Situated in a beautiful cathedral city with its own dynamic history, the University is within easy reach of the main London archives and is convenient for travelling to mainland Europe.

The School of History is a lively, research-led department where postgraduate students are given the opportunity to work alongside academics recognised as experts in their respective fields. The School was placed second nationally for ‘world-class’ research in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, and consistently scores highly in the National Student Survey.

There is a good community spirit within the School, which includes regular postgraduate social meetings, weekly seminars and a comprehensive training programme with the full involvement of the School’s academic staff. Thanks to the wide range of teaching and research interests in the School, we can offer equally wide scope for research supervision covering British, European, African and American history.

At present, there are particularly strong groupings of research students in medieval and early modern cultural and social history, early modern religious history, the history and cultural studies of science and medicine, the history of propaganda, military history, war and the media, and the history of Kent.

“I thoroughly enjoyed the Programmes The School has a dedicated Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, which has a distinctive intellectual challenge of Taught archive of written, audio and visual propaganda completing a PhD, something • American Studies MA (see p35) materials, particularly in film, video and DVD. • Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA Locally, you have access to: the Canterbury that shouldn’t be taken lightly. (see p158) Cathedral Library and Archive (a major collection This was an enlightening • Modern History MA for the study of medieval and early modern religious • Modern History (Paris) MA and social history); the Centre for Kentish Studies at experience that has really • History of Science, Medicine, Environment and Maidstone; and the National Maritime Collection at pushed me. I have also Technology MA Greenwich. Kent is also within easy reach of the • Science, Communication and Society MSc country’s premier research collections in London thoroughly enjoyed teaching (see p195) and the national libraries in Paris and Brussels. undergraduates during my • War, Media and Society MA • War Studies MA PhD, something I have found Dynamic publishing culture to be immensely stimulating.” Research Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • History MA, MPhil, PhD conference proceedings and books. Among Mark Hurst • Cartoons and Caricature MA, MPhil, PhD others, they have recently contributed to: Journal PhD History • History of Science, Technology and Medicine of Contemporary History; English Historical MA, MPhil, PhD Review; British Journal for the History of Science; Technology and Culture; War and Society. Details of recently published books can be found within Postgraduate resources the staff research interests on p134. The resources for historical research at Kent are led by the University’s Templeman Library: a Taught programmes designated European Documentation Centre which holds specialised collections on slavery and anti- Modern History MA slavery, and on medical science. The Library has Location: Canterbury. a substantial collection of secondary materials to Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 or equivalent back-up an excellent collection of primary sources in history or a relevant subject (eg, politics, including the British Cartoon Archive, newspapers, international relations, archaeology). In certain a large audio-visual library, and a complete set of circumstances, the School will consider candidates British Second World War Ministry of Information who have not followed a conventional education propaganda pamphlets. path. These cases are assessed individually by the Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/history 133

This popular MA programme focuses on the period Course content programme and introduces you to the particular c1500-2000, and draws on the considerable range Canterbury demands of postgraduate study in history. of expertise within the School to offer a broad As for Modern History selection of modules, allowing you to tailor your Course content programme to your interests. Paris • Methods and Interpretations in Historical • England and France: Two kingdoms, two images Research You learn from academics regarded as experts in • One subject option from: Diaspora and • At least one from: Battles for Health and Minds; their fields and research areas. You develop your Exile; Film and Modernity; Independent The British Army and the Great War; From capacity to think critically about past events, historical research essay; Paris: Reality Wounded Knee to the Little Bighorn Casino; approach primary and secondary sources from and Representation; Paris and Modernism. Geiger Counter at Ground Zero; Scum of the a variety of perspectives and strive to understand Earth to Virtuous Warriors; The Vietnam War in the complex issues surrounding context and Assessment American History, Media and Memory; War and significance. In addition, you engage with the wider As for Modern History, see p132. the City (all subject to student recruitment and historiography and discourse associated with your tutor availability). studies, understanding the structure and nature of For further information on University of Kent at • Dissertation of 18-20,000 words cultural, political and social forces in the modern Paris, see p230. period. Assessment History of Science, Medicine, Environment As for Modern History, see p132. Course content and Technology MA • Methods and Interpretations in Historical Location: Canterbury. War Studies MA Research Entry requirements: As for Modern History, Location: Canterbury. • At least one from: Britain and the Modern World; see p132. Entry requirements: As for Modern History, The British Army and the Great War; Cities at see p132. War; The Early Modern Town: Canterbury, an This programme is unique in teaching the collective International City; From Wounded Knee to the history of science, medicine, environment and Building upon the success of our highly popular Little Bighorn Casino; Geiger Counter at Ground technology. It is also unique as it offers modules War Studies undergraduate programme, this MA Zero; The Global History of Capitalism; History that combine imperial, ethical, and military history concentrates on in-depth study of military history of Science; No End of a Lesson: Britain and the with general areas of history of science and taught by our expert historians. Boer War; Religion and Society in 17th-century medicine. You learn from experts working in these England; Science, Ethics and Controversy; diverse fields, being taught how different societies, It is highly valuable to anyone considering a career The Vietnam War; Visualising Science; War cultures, and races have conceptualised disease, in the armed forces, security industry or wishing to Propaganda and the Media; Word and Image reacted to changes in environment and created move on to further research. (all subject to student recruitment and tutor different technological artefacts and scientific availability). knowledge. You are introduced to the major and In addition to the extensive collection of materials • Dissertation of 18-20,000 words recent historiographical and methodological in the Templeman Library, the School also has approaches, become familiar with the main excellent links with the National Army Museum and Assessment archives in the UK and encouraged to approach the Royal Engineers Museum, both of which have All courses are assessed by coursework, and the history of medicine, science, environment and excellent archive collections, as well as excellent the dissertation counts for half the final grade technology from past as well as contemporary transport links to both London and the Continent. (comprising one third assessed preparation, concerns. two thirds actual dissertation). The School of History runs a military history seminar Course content series and annual battlefield tours. Members of the Modern History (Paris) MA • Methods and Interpretations in Historical teaching team are also involved in convening the Location: Canterbury and Paris. Research War, Society and Culture seminar series at the Attendance: One year full-time. • At least one from: Deformed, Deranged and Institute of Historical Research in London, which Entry requirements: As for Modern History, Deviant; Geiger Counter at Ground Zero; History provides another forum for high-level discussion see p132. of Modern Medicine, War and the Media; on a wide range of military history topics. Science, Ethics and Controversy; Science in Following a similar path to our Modern History MA, Translation; Visualising Science (all subject to Course content the Paris option allows you to spend your first term student recruitment and tutor availability). • Methods and Interpretations in Historical at our Canterbury campus with full access to its • Dissertation of 18-20,000 words Research excellent academic and recreational facilities, • At least one from: British Army and the Great before relocating to our Paris centre for the Assessment War; Cities at War; No end of a lesson: Britain spring term, studying in the heart of historic 132. and the Boer War; Propaganda and the Media; Montparnasse. Scum of the Earth to Virtuous Warriors; The War, Media and Society MA Vietnam War in American History, Media and In Paris, you take the Paris-specific history module, Location: Canterbury. Memory (all subject to student recruitment and England and France: Two kingdoms, two images, Entry requirements: As for Modern History, tutor availability). c1500-1700, and can choose between an historical see p132. • Dissertation of 18-20,000 words independent research essay or select a ‘wild’ option from the range of humanities modules This MA programme explores how conflict occurs Assessment offered in Paris. across a variety of countries and landscapes in the As for Modern History, see p132. late 19th and 20th centuries, and how such conflict In the final term, you complete your MA by writing is managed and presented through media and Research programmes an 18-20,000-word dissertation on a research topic propaganda. It takes in different types of conflict, defined in collaboration with an academic from conventional trench warfare and geopolitical History MA, MPhil, PhD supervisor. stand-offs to guerrilla tactics and civil defence Location: Canterbury. initiatives. It also examines the application of Entry requirements: As for Modern History, All teaching is provided in English, by University of technology in warfare, the impact of the media see p132. Kent academics. on public opinion, along with the increasing importance of the home front in 20th-century Research programmes are best suited to students warfare. The compulsory module provides a strong who have a clear idea of a topic they would like interpretative and conceptual backbone to the to investigate in detail. There are two types of 134 History cont

programme. The MA by Research entails Research areas producing a 40,000-word thesis; the MPhil and PhD programmes demand a high level of Medieval and early modern history research and analysis resulting in a 60,000 (MPhil) Covering c400–c1500, incorporating such themes or 100,000 (PhD) word thesis. as Anglo-Saxon England, early-modern France, palaeography, British and European politics and We welcome research applications across the society, religion and papacy. range of expertise within the School. We run regular seminars in medieval and Tudor studies, Modern history modern history, the history and cultural studies Covering c1500–present, incorporating such of science, and the study of propaganda. themes as modern British, European and American history, British military history, and 20th-century All first-year research students attend a conflict and propaganda. Methodologies and Research Skills seminar, which is split between components run by the School and History of science, technology and others provided by the Faculty of Humanities. This medicine training improves your knowledge of both historical Incorporating such themes as colonial science and theory and methods of using primary material, and medicine, Nazi medicine, eugenics, science and can assist in funding applications. technology in 19th-century Britain. Cartoons and Caricature MA, MPhil, PhD Location: Canterbury. Staff research interests Entry requirements: As for Modern History, Full details of staff research interests can be found see p132. on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff

The British Cartoon Archive was established Dr Julie Anderson: Senior Lecturer in the in 1973 at the University of Kent, to collect and History of Modern Medicine preserve British cartoons of social and political The cultural and social history of 20th-century STAFF PROFILE comment, and make them freely available for medicine in Britain and the Commonwealth, study. It is a library, archive, gallery and registered particularly with regard to war and medicine, Mark Connelly museum, dedicated to the history of British surgery and disability. Recent publications Professor of Modern British History cartooning over the last 200 years. CartoonHub, include: War, Disability and Rehabilitation in an online cartoon database shared with a number Britain: Soul of a Nation (2011); The Hospital in Professor Mark Connelly is an expert in of other institutions, is also the world’s largest a Garden: The History of the Royal Orthopaedic modern British military history. electronic archive of cartoons, with a catalogued Hospital 1817-2009 (2011). database of over 120,000 images, the majority of Fascinated by history from a young age which are stored in original in the Centre. It is Dr Barbara Bombi: Reader in Medieval History (largely shaped by Ladybird history books, therefore an excellent resource for research Ecclesiastical and religious history, 1200-1400; visits to castles and Airfix kits) his students, capable of supporting a range of canon law and history of the medieval papacy; profession now involves combining his different research interests and specialities. crusades and history of the military orders; love for military history with his interests in Anglo-papal relations in the 14th century; Latin culture, films, television and visual images. We accept candidates for the degree of MA, MPhil diplomatic and palaeography. Recent publications or PhD by research and thesis. Staff supervision include: I Cristiani e il favoloso Egitto: Una relazione His research interests primarily centre on comes from the appropriate departments. dall’Oriente e la storia di Damietta di Oliviero the British at war from 1800, and the image da Colonia (co-ed, 2009). of war in popular culture. History of Science, Technology and Medicine MA, MPhil, PhD Dr Philip Boobbyer: Senior Lecturer in Modern As well as having an extensive list of Location: Canterbury. European History publications, he has made numerous Entry requirements: As for Modern History, Russian and Soviet history, especially Russian appearances with the BBC and is see p132. religious and political philosophy. Recent considered an expert on the cultural publications include: The Spiritual Vision history of Christmas. The School’s complementary Centres for the History of Frank Buchman (2013). of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities, and for the Sciences have a strong postgraduate Dr Alixe Bovey: Senior Lecturer in Medieval research group, and support full or part-time History research. Recently completed theses include Medieval visual culture, focusing especially projects on 19th-century literature and science, the on Gothic illuminated manuscripts. Recent relations between instrument makers and natural publications include: Jean de Carpentin’s Book of philosophers, the history of home computers, the Hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden construction of engineering science in Britain, Prayer Book (2011). and the history of Porton Down. Current research includes literature and science in 20th-century Dr Timothy Bowman: Senior Lecturer in British cultural context, the popularisation of science in Military History France, and spatial themes in the history of science. British military history in the 19th and 20th centuries; Irish history c1775-1998. Recent The Centre for the History of the Sciences also publications include: The Edwardian Army: offers a taught MSc in Science, Communication Recruiting, Training, and Deploying the British and Society. This is suitable for students who Army, 1902-1914 (co-author, 2012). wish to build on their undergraduate studies in the history of science with a professionally oriented Dr Pratik Chakrabarti: Senior Lecturer in the qualification, or who have a particular interest in History of Modern Medicine the history of science and its media. For further History of colonial science and medicine; South information, see p195. Asian and imperial history from the 18th to the Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/history 135

20th century. Recent publications include: Materials Dr Karen Jones: Senior Lecturer in American Dr Charlotte Sleigh: Reader in the History of and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics History Science in the Eighteenth Century (2010); Bacteriology in The American West; environmental history; the History and culture of the life sciences in the British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics wolf: science and symbolism; hunting, nature 19th and 20th centuries; history of natural history; (2012); Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (2013). and American identity; human relationships literature; gender. Recent publications include: with animals; nuclear culture; parks and other Literature and Science (2010); Frog (2012). Professor Mark Connelly: Professor of Modern tourist/heritage landscapes. Recent publications British History include: The American West: Competing Visions Professor Crosbie Smith: Professor of the British modern history; British military history; (co-author, 2009); Epiphany in the Wilderness: History of Science the British at war from 1800; the image of war Hunting and Nature in the Nineteenth Century Science and technology in 19th-century Britain; in popular culture. Recent publications include: American West (2013). literature and science in historical context; the The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training, and historiography of science. Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914 (co-author, Dr Jan Loop: Lecturer in History 2012). The intellectual, religious and cultural history of Professor David Welch: Professor of Modern Europe and the Near East, with a special focus History Dr George Conyne: Lecturer in American on Western knowledge of the Arab, Ottoman and Late 19th and 20th-century German history; History Persian world 1450-1800. political propaganda in the 20th century; war American, constitutional, political and diplomatic and the media. Recent publications include: history; Anglo-American relations; British diplomacy Dr Giacomo Macola: Senior Lecturer in African Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the in the 20th century; the Cold War. History Modern Age (co-ed, 2012); Propaganda, Power Central African political and intellectual history and Persuasion: From the First World War to Professor Grayson Ditchfield: Professor of from the 18th century to the present. Recent WikiLeaks (ed, 2013). 18th-Century History publications include: One Zambia, Many Histories: Eighteenth-century British political and religious Towards a History of Post-colonial Zambia (co-ed, Dr John Wills: Senior Lecturer in American history; reforming movements; the Evangelical 2008); Recasting the Past: History Writing and History Revival; the career of Dr Johnson; the nature of the Political Work in Modern Africa (co-ed, 2009); Modern US history; environmental, cultural and British monarchy in the reign of George III; English Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography visual history; American nuclear landscapes; Unitarianism and the correspondence of its father of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (2010); Living the California protest culture; Disney; theme parks; figure, the Rev Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808). End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial tourism; 1950s America; cyber-society (including Recent publications include: The Letters of Zambia (co-ed, 2011). video games). Recent publications include: The Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808), Volume II: American West: Competing Visions (co-author, 1789-1808 (2012). Professor David Ormrod: Professor of 2009); US Environmental History: Inviting Economic and Cultural History Doomsday (2012). Professor Kenneth Fincham: Professor of Early Early modern economic and social history, focusing Modern History on overseas trade, the economy of Kent and the Early modern British politics and religion; the clergy south-east, and relations with the Low Countries; of the Anglican Church; the era of the Civil Wars. museum theory and practice. Recent publications Location Recent publications include: Vital Statistics: include: The Rise of Commercial Empires: England Canterbury and Paris. Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, English language requirements 1646-60, English Historical Review (co-ed, 2011). 1650-1770 (2008); Artists, Dealers and See p223. Connoisseurs. The Origins of the English Dr Helen Gittos: Lecturer in Medieval History Art Market, 1650-1815 (forthcoming). Fees and funding Anglo-Saxon England, especially church history; See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding early medieval liturgy and architecture. Recent Dr William Pettigrew: Reader in American National ratings publications include: Liturgy, Architecture, and History Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England (2013); England and her Atlantic colonies in the 16th to ranked 2nd nationally for research quality, with Understanding Medieval Liturgy (co-ed, 2013). 18th centuries; the history of the British Atlantic 70% of our research rated ‘world-leading’‚ or Empire; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; race and ‘internationally excellent’. Dr Stefan Goebel: Senior Lecturer in Modern ethnicity; the history of economic thought; British History Renaissance diplomacy. Recent publications History at Kent received a rating of 94% for Modern British and German history; war and include: Freedom’s Debt: Politics and the student satisfaction in the National Student commemoration; the impact of war on cities; Escalation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Survey 2012. collective memory; 20th-century urban history. Trade, 1672-1752 (2013). Applications Recent publications include: Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Dr David Potter: Reader in French History Taught programmes Commemorations of Total War (co-ed, 2011). Early modern France; the state and local society Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ in the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of war; postgrad/apply Dr David Grummitt: Lecturer in Early Modern the French aristocracy in the 16th century; Research programmes History Renaissance diplomacy. Recent publications See p232 or contact the School for further Early modern government and politics, diplomacy include: Renaissance France at War: Armies, details. and war; particularly Tudor England. Recent Culture and Society, c.1480-1560 (2008); Henry Further information publications include: The Calais Garrison: War VIII and Francis I: the Final Conflict, 1540-47 (2011). T: +44 (0)1227 827279 and Military Service in England 1436-1558 F: +44 (0)1227 827258 (2008); War, State and Society in England and Professor Ulf Schmidt: Professor of Modern E: [email protected] the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (co-author, 2008); History A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (2012). German and European modern history, especially the history of medicine, eugenics and medical films Dr Danielle van den Heuvel: Lecturer in History during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich The position of women in early modern Dutch and the Cold War. Recent publications include: society; street vending in early modern Europe; Hitlers Arzt Karl Brandt: Medizin und Macht im guilds, consumption and retail development. Dritten Reich (2009); Secret Science: Human Experimentation in Biological and Chemical Warfare Research during the Cold War (forthcoming). 136

Canterbury and Paris HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF ART

History & Philosophy of Art at Kent provides opportunities for graduate study with well-established researchers in the fields of art history, philosophy of art and aesthetics. Staff research covers contemporary art and aesthetics, modernism, theories of art, the historiography of art and the Cold War; biographical monographs, the photograph (in its historical, contemporary and critical contexts), and the historical interplay of image, theory and institutions from the Renaissance to the present (especially European and North American).

Developing areas of interest include the cultural and historical significance of the print, and the role of performance and new media in contemporary art practices, which draw upon our links with other subjects within the School of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities. In particular, postgraduates have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the multidisciplinary Aesthetics Research Centre, and there is also a full programme of visiting speakers from across the constituent subject areas within the School of Arts, which includes Film and Drama.

“My supervisor began helping Programmes Support me with my doctoral research Taught All postgraduate students are offered research even before I arrived at Kent • Arts Criticism MA (see p113) skills training and the opportunity to take part • Curating MA in reading groups and research seminars at which, as an international • History & Philosophy of Art MA departmental, school and faculty level. Research • History & Philosophy of Art (Paris) MA students have the added opportunity for funded student, I found very impressive. conference attendance. There is also a dedicated This kind of attention, Research student support office at our Canterbury campus, which can offer support and guidance throughout • History & Philosophy of Art PhD availability and academic your studies, in addition to an office in Paris. support is a testament to Postgraduate resources In recent years, several members of the History the staff.” & Philosophy of Art Department, both full-time There is a large and wide-ranging library and part-time, have been awarded University holding for History & Philosophy of Art, covering Jordan Amirkhani prizes for excellence in student support, curriculum PhD History & Philosophy of Art the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, innovation and research-based teaching – an ethos photography, aesthetics and contemporary visual which we seek to extend to the postgraduate communications. There is a substantial stock of community. periodicals, online access to e-journals and a slide library with well over 100,000 images, covering areas such as contemporary art, visual Dynamic publishing culture cultures, garden history and the film still, as well as Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, traditional media. Kent is ideally located for access conference proceedings and books. Among to galleries in London and on the continent. others, they have recently contributed to: British Journal of Aesthetics; Art History; History of In 2010, we moved into the purpose-built, and Photography; Journal of Aesthetics and Art RIBA award-winning, Jarman Building located Criticism; Journal of Visual Arts Practice; The at the centre of the Canterbury campus. The Philosophical Quarterly. Details of recently new building is home to the Studio 3 Gallery and published books can be found within the staff a range of teaching and social spaces as well as research interests on p139. a dedicated postgraduate centre. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/arts/hpa 137

Taught programmes Assessment Assessment Assessment is through a combination of Assessment is by coursework and the dissertation. Curating MA coursework essays, critical logbooks and practice- Location: Canterbury. based exercises. A long dissertation is required for History & Philosophy of Art (Paris) MA Entry requirements: A 2.1 honours degree. the Exhibition Development and Design module. Location: Canterbury and Paris. Attendance: One year full-time. This programme develops your skills and provides History & Philosophy of Art MA Entry requirements: As for History & Philosophy of experience relevant to a career in curating. Based Location: Canterbury. Art. at the School of Arts Studio 3 Gallery, you are Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree involved in all aspects of the running of the Gallery. in a relevant humanities subject. Applicants without This MA provides a structured introduction to the You work closely with partner organisations such these qualifications will be judged on the basis of postgraduate study of the history and philosophy as Canterbury museums and the Institute of a sample of written work, an interview and relevant of art. Particular focuses include contemporary art, Contemporary Arts (ICA). experience. photography, Renaissance art, medieval art, 18th- century British painting, 19th-century French The compulsory modules provide an overview of This MA provides a structured introduction to the painting, modernism, aesthetics and the the history of collecting and exhibitions through postgraduate study of the history and philosophy philosophy of art and film. a series of case studies, taking advantage of our of art. Particular focuses include contemporary proximity to major London collections. We also art, photography, Renaissance art, medieval art, During the term in Paris, you focus on the ongoing cover theoretical issues relating to curating and 18th-century British painting, 19th-century French history of dialogue across the Channel and the museology. You also develop your own project painting, modernism, aesthetics and the philosophy Atlantic, and consider the role of leading French, working within the Gallery’s exhibition programme. of art and film. You may elect to take a Philosophy British and American artists, critics, collectors and Optional modules focus on providing practice- of Art & Aesthetics pathway, which draws on the exhibitions. based opportunities for developing curatorial skills. expertise of our Aesthetics Research Group. The programme is intended for graduates in art The programme is delivered by a combination of The programme is intended for graduates in art history, philosophy and cognate subjects, such as staff at the School of Arts and specialist visiting history, philosophy and cognate subjects, such as fine art. It gives you the opportunity to pursue your lecturers. fine art. It gives you the opportunity to pursue your interest in visual art at advanced level, to develop interest in visual art at advanced level, to develop a high level of expertise in topics in history and Course content a high level of expertise in topics in history and philosophy of art and to prepare for doctoral • Compulsory modules: Exhibition Development philosophy of art and to prepare for doctoral research in history of art or philosophy of art. and Design; History of Collecting and research in history of art or philosophy of art. Exhibitions. Course content • One from: Materials and Techniques; Provenance Course content Canterbury Research and Cataloguing; Visual Arts Criticism. • Introduction to Research in History and • Core module: Introduction to Research in History • You may also choose from a wide range of Philosophy of Art and Philosophy of Art. optional modules including: Hogarth and the • Two from: Art Practice for Art Theorists; • One from a list of optional modules which Analysis of Beauty; Post-Conceptual Art and Conceptualising Film; Film Criticism; History and may include: Art Practice for Art Theorists; Curatorial Practice; Topics in Contemporary Theory of Curating; Philosophical Issues in Art Beyond the Pale; Conceptualising Film; Hogarth Art; Topics in the History of Aesthetics. History and Visual Culture; Post-Conceptual Art and the Analysis of Beauty; The Idea of the and Visual Arts Criticism; Theories in Modern Renaissance; Post-Conceptual Art and Visual French Thought; Thinking Theatre. Arts Criticism; Taste, Beauty and the Sublime; • Dissertation of 15,000 words Theories of Art in 20th and 21st-Century French Thought.

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Student profile

SOPHIA OLVER MA HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF ART

What attracted you to this course? What is the level of support like for postgraduates? I have always been passionate about the arts. Having The tutors are very willing to help with any problems we studied fine art at A level I wanted to develop my interest might have. As I have been the Student Representative for in aesthetics as well as the history of art for my undergraduate the course, I have been able to give feedback about any degree and Kent’s course in history and philosophy of art problems that my fellow students have expressed to me and was a unique opportunity to study both. Having finished my the department has been very helpful in resolving any issues undergraduate studies, I wanted to further my knowledge and raised with them. chose to stay at Kent. Any advice for future students? What about the teaching? I would highly recommend this course, and I think that even The teaching at Kent is excellent, I thoroughly enjoy my if you have not previously studied history of art or aesthetics seminars because our tutors encourage us to be inquisitive. previously you can undertake it and succeed. But if you have Also, the tutors are so personable and easy to contact, we studied these subjects before you will find the course have developed a good relationship, so I feel I can ask stimulating because it offers such a varied teaching for their help whenever I need it. programme. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/arts/hpa 139

Paris Dr Jon Kear: Lecturer • Core module: Paris, London, New York: Modern Nineteenth-century French and European Location Art in Translation. painting; Impressionism, Cubism and modernism; Canterbury and Paris. • One from: Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries approaches to art history; cultural memory; English language requirements (1840s-1960s); Diaspora and Exile; England and photomontage; the films of Chris Marker, Alain See p223. France; Entente Cordiale; Film and Modernity; Robbe-Grillet, Alain Resnais and other French Paris and the European Enlightenment; Paris and film-makers; Proust and the visual arts; the Fees and funding Modernism; Paris: Reality and Representation; relationship of art and literature. Recent See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Paris: The Residency. publications include: Les Impressionnistes (2008); National ratings • Dissertation of 15,000 words The Treasures of the Impressionists (2008); In Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and Elysium: Prints by James Barry (co-author, 2010); design graduate employment prospects in The Art of Lithography: French 19th-Century Prints Assessment The Guardian University Guide 2012. Assessment is by two assignments per module and (co-author, 2010); Portraits and a Dream: Art & the dissertation. Language (ed, 2011); Degas, His Life and Works Applications in 500 Images (2012). Taught programme Research programme Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Dr Hans Maes: Lecturer; Director of Graduate postgrad/apply History & Philosophy of Art PhD Studies Philosophy of art and aesthetics including the Research programmes Location: Canterbury. See p232 or contact the School for further role of intention in the interpretation of art; the Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree details. in a relevant subject or equivalent. relation between (erotic) art and pornography; the role of beauty in art and culture; the nature and Further information Individual staff interests are listed below. As a value of aesthetic experience. Recent publications T: +44 (0)1227 823410 group, we have a collective interest in developing include: Art and Pornography: Philosophical E: [email protected] interdisciplinary projects, including projects Essays (co-ed, forthcoming); Pornographic Art and informed by art history and philosophy of the Aesthetics of Pornography (ed, forthcoming). art or aesthetics. Shared areas of research interest include: photography, art theory from the Dr Theresa Mikuriya: Lecturer Renaissance to recent times and contemporary art. The history of photography and aspects of practice; surrealism; the relationship of word and image. Recent publications include: Staff research interests The Spell of Photography (forthcoming). Full details of staff research interests can be found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff Dr Michael Newall: Lecturer; Director, MA Programme Dr Jonathan Friday: Senior Lecturer; Head of Philosophy of painting; depiction; theories of the School of Arts sublime; art school education; contemporary art. Aesthetic theory and photographic studies; Recent publications include: What is a Picture? 18th-century British aesthetic theory; classical and Depiction, Realism, Abstraction (2011). contemporary photographic theory; photographic genre. Dr Grant Pooke FRSA: Senior Lecturer; Head of Subject and Research Professor Martin Hammer: Professor Contemporary British art; Marxist art historiography, British art in the mid 20th-century (artists such as the Cold War and aesthetics; developing teaching Naum Gabo, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, approaches to art history; art histories, boundaries Stanley Spencer); modern and contemporary and aspects of the postcolonial. Recent international art; the modern portrait. Recent publications include: Contemporary British Art: publications include: Francis Bacon: Images An Introduction (2010); Understand Contemporary of Power (2012). Art: Teach Yourself (co-author, 2010); Understand Art History (co-author, 2010); Fifty Key Texts in Professor Tom Henry: Professor Art History (co-ed, 2011); The Art of Revolution: Specialist in Italian renaissance art, with a Illustrated by the Collection of the Marx Memorial particular interest in Central Italian painters Library (co-author, 2011). including Raphael, Piero della Francesca, Pietro Perugino and Luca Signorelli. Recent publications Dr Ben Thomas: Lecturer; Curator, Studio 3 include: The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli (2012). Gallery Renaissance art; Renaissance art theory; Renaissance and baroque prints; the history of collecting and museums; historiography of art, particularly the work of Edgar Wind and the Cold War. 140

Canterbury ITALIAN

Without doubt, Italy is a cornerstone of European culture, art and history, as well as providing a controversial and stimulating area of studies in the modern period.

Kent offers an ideal environment for the postgraduate study of modern Italian society, literature and thought, within a broadly European context. With the research interests of staff covering the modern period, postgraduates can also benefit from the Italian studies interdisciplinary research seminar series, co-ordinated by the Department, which includes lectures by prestigious guest speakers. The Department is also running a PhD co-tutelle programme with the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), one of the leading research institutions in Italy.

“As a PhD student at Kent, Programmes Language speaking I have been offered a great range Taught A significant number of native speakers of • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip European languages follow our courses and of opportunities to develop my several European exchange students stay on to research interests. This year Research do graduate work. We can assist with language- training needs for overseas postgraduates, • Italian MA, PhD I am co-organising a major particularly where English is concerned, and are international conference in my also involved in the Erasmus and Tempus networks. area of research, for which I Postgraduate resources The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in Training have secured the support of both all our areas of research interest, with particular All postgraduate students in SECL have the strengths in modern Italian literature and culture. the Department and the Faculty opportunity to undertake the Researcher In addition, the School of European Culture and Development Programme provided by the of Humanities.” Languages (SECL) provides high-quality facilities Graduate School. The School provides training in IT, with state-of-the-art language laboratories, workshops for postgraduate students with teaching Marco Piasentier dedicated technical staff and designated areas PhD Italian responsibilities, which bring together students for postgraduate study. Italian television channels from all its subject areas. Research students gain can be viewed, and language-learning and further academic experience attending national translation facilities include eight all-purpose and international conferences. teaching rooms, two networked multimedia laboratories, and a streamed film library as well as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction Conferences and seminars facilities. The University of Kent’s location is We encourage all of our postgraduate students excellent for students who want to visit not only to get involved in conferences, by attending, the British Library in London, but also the major contributing or organising them. Furthermore, libraries and research centres on the European Italian postgraduate students are currently mainland. editors of the journal Skepsi (founded and run by postgraduate SECL students). Regular research seminars help to bring postgraduates together as a community, as well as to introduce them to visiting speakers from outside the University. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/italian 141

Dynamic publishing culture Assessment Staff research interests Assessment is through a combination of Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Full details of staff research interests can be found assignments, coursework and examinations. conference proceedings and books. Among on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/italian/staff others, they have recently contributed to: Italian Studies; The Italianist; Angelaki, Modern Language Research programme Dr Francesco Capello: Lecturer in Italian Review; Revue Internationale de Philosophie; Film- Italian MA, PhD Turn-of-the-century Italian literature and culture; Philosophy; aut aut. Details of recently published 20th-century Italian poetry; psychoanalysis applied Location: Canterbury. books can be found within the staff research to the humanities. Recent publications include: Citta’ Start: At any time but preferably in September. interests. specchio. Soggettivita’ e spazio urbano nel Primo Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant Novecento (2013). subject (or equivalent). Taught programme Professor Lorenzo Chiesa: Professor of Modern We can offer supervision on contemporary Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip European Thought; Head of Italian Italian critical thought as well as contemporary Canterbury. Contemporary Italian critical thought; Freudian Location: Italian literature and cultural studies. Attendance: One year full-time. and Lacanian psychoanalysis; 20th-century French An honours degree in a philosophy. Recent publications include: The Italian Entry requirements: We welcome postgraduate students who obtained related subject. Consideration will be given to Difference (2009); Italian Thought Today (2011). their first degree in Italy. applicants holding equivalent qualifications or work experience. Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia: Lecturer in Italian Research areas Italian biopolitical thought; Italian mental health care; medical humanities in Italian studies. This programme offers you the opportunity to The research strength of the Italian Department Recent publications include: Psychiatry, Subjectivity, develop your independent study and research lies at the intersection of critical thought and Community. Franco Basaglia and Biopolitics (2013). skills through a combination of subject modules literary theory. Research at Kent is consciously within SECL. In addition, as part of your conceived as interdisciplinary. programme you have the opportunity to improve your English language competence with dedicated We encourage you to contact us to discuss your Location English and Academic Skills for Humanities plans at an early stage of your application. modules offered by Kent International Pathways. Canterbury. Research centres English language requirements On successful completion of the Diploma See p223. and through meeting the University’s rules of Centre for Language and Linguistic progression, you may choose to study on one Studies (CLLS) Fees and funding of the programmes within the following disciplines: See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding See p108. • Classical & Archaeological Studies National ratings • Comparative Literature Centre for Modern European Literature Kent was ranked 9th in the UK for Modern • English Language and Linguistics Languages and Linguistics in the Guardian See p67. • French University Guide 2013. • German • Hispanic Studies Applications • Italian See p232 or contact the School for further • Philosophy details. • Religious Studies. Further information Professor Lorenzo Chiesa T: +44 (0)1227 827951 E: [email protected] 142

Medway JOURNALISM

Postgraduate programmes in journalism at Kent offer you the opportunity to research and learn in an environment that combines excellence in the practice of convergent, multimedia journalism with intellectual leadership in the history, ethics and future of the news industry. The Centre for Journalism is leading the development of journalism as an academic discipline rooted in professional newsroom practice. It was established in 2008 to achieve top standards in teaching and research. It is professionally accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists and has unique work placement and scholarship agreements with partners including Sky News, Associated Newspapers and the Kent Messenger Group.

A lively and welcoming community spirit exists within the Centre. There are regular social events, seminars and masterclasses. Recent visitors have included: Allan Little, BBC correspondent; Sarah Ivens founding Editor-in-Chief of OK! Magazine USA; Gavin Esler, presenter of Newsnight; Jon Snow, presenter of Channel 4 News and Mark Thompson, former Director General of the BBC. Thanks to the range of research and professional interests in the Centre, we can offer wide scope for research supervision.

The Centre enjoys strong links with other academic departments including the School of History, Kent Law School and the School of Politics and International Relations. It encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary research and joint supervision.

“This is a great course. It puts Programmes include a complete microfiche archive of popular newspapers of the Second World War. Students you out into the field from Taught have access to online full-text journals plus the very beginning and helps • International Multimedia Journalism MA extensive online newspaper resources. The Centre • Multimedia Journalism MA subscribes to all relevant UK journals. Research you learn the skills you need students have access to the SCONUL access to become a professional, Research scheme to visit and borrow from other UK libraries. • Journalism MA, MPhil, PhD The Drill Hall Library contains more than 250 study multimedia journalist. The spaces, 370 computers and more than 150,000 items. lecturers are very supportive Postgraduate resources and the facilities are excellent.” The Centre is based in state-of-the-art multimedia Dynamic publishing culture newsrooms equipped with the latest audio and Simon Jayawardena video-editing technology, a radio studio and Staff regularly contribute to newspapers, MA Multimedia Journalism broadcast-quality television facilities. A dedicated magazines, journals and books. These have postgraduate newsroom opened in September included: This is Today – a Biography of the 2010. Newsroom computers offer a wide range Today Programme, The Phone Hacking Scandal: of software for teaching and research support. Journalism on Trial, Mirage in the Desert? Reporting Students have access to Press Association the Arab Spring, Face the Future: Tools for the news wires, Sky News Radio and Reuters Modern Media Age and Afghanistan, War and World Television News feeds. They use the the Media (Tim Luckhurst); The Media, Politics and Centre’s dedicated multimedia website, Public Life, Slow Living, Informing Voters? Politics, www.centreforjournalism.co.uk which offers live Media and the New Zealand Election 2008, Politics publishing facilities in text, audio and video. The and the Media (Geoffrey Craig); What do We Mean site is a forum for debate about issues in journalism by Local? (Ian Reeves), Specialist Journalism: and the news industry involving students and Reporting the Environment (Sarah Lonsdale); practitioners in Britain and abroad. Journalism Studies; Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism; Ethical Space; British Journalism Review; The resources for journalism research at Kent Parliamentary Affairs; Journal of Language and are led by the Drill Hall Library at Medway. The Politics; Environmental Communication; The journalism collection includes a comprehensive Guardian; Media History; Political Quarterly; The range of texts on the history, principles and Daily Telegraph; Independent; The Times; Sunday practice of journalism. Specialist resources Telegraph; Toronto Globe and Mail; Los Angeles Times; The New Republic; The Word; Prospect. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/journalism 143

Taught programmes Course content We welcome research applications across the Compulsory modules in Reporting and Writing, range of expertise in the Centre and from all International Multimedia Journalism MA Media Law and Ethics, and Principles and over the world. Location: Medway. Practices of Convergent Journalism introduce you Attendance: One year full-time. to the professional challenges of modern reporting Staff research interests Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 or equivalent in and prepare you to pass the National Council a relevant academic subject (eg, politics, history, for the Training of Journalists’ Diploma in Full details of staff research interests can be found English, international relations) and demonstrable Journalism (this involves passing papers in on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/journalism/staff.html interest in and aptitude for journalism. Suitably shorthand, public affairs, law and reporting). qualified applicants will be invited for interview and You choose academic modules from a range Professor Tim Luckhurst: Professor of will be required to sit an entrance test. In certain including: History of Journalism; The Reporter in Journalism; Head of the Centre for Journalism circumstances, the Centre will consider candidates Fiction; and Communication and Humanitarianism. Tim is a former editor of The Scotsman and former who have not followed a conventional education Students may choose to complete a dissertation. BBC News and Current Affairs editor. His research path. These cases are assessed individually by interests include the history of journalism and, in the Head of Centre and/or the Director of Learning Assessment particular, the reporting of conflict from the Spanish and Teaching and the Director of Research. As for International Multimedia Journalism. Civil War to the present day. He is the author of This is Today…A Biography of the Today Programme The International Multimedia Journalism MA and of essays including: ‘Excellent but Gullible programme teaches multimedia journalism to Research programmes People – Newspaper Coverage of the People’s graduates of universities outside the UK who Journalism MA, MPhil, PhD Convention, January 1941’, ‘It is thrown against aspire to pursue a career in the news industry. Location: Medway. me that I have a castle’ – a portrait of newspaper You learn to report for newspapers, websites, Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 or equivalent coverage in the Central Southwark by-election, radio and television in a live newsroom environment. in a relevant subject. In certain circumstances, February 1940; ‘Compromising the First Draft?’ Using state-of-the-art technology located in the Centre will consider candidates who have and ‘Dr Hack I presume? Liberal Journalism in dedicated radio/television studios and multimedia not followed a conventional education path, eg, the Multimedia Age’. He has written thousands newsrooms you work to real deadlines to make working or former journalists who have acquired of articles in publications ranging from British news programmes and upload your work to the a minimum of three years’ professional experience Journalism Review to the Daily Mail and he writes internet. Your tutors are award-winning journalists in the news industry. These cases are considered frequently for The Guardian and The Independent. with decades of front-line experience in national individually. His academic work has appeared in journals and international news. Every day starts with an including Journalism Studies, British Journalism editorial conference and the degree programme Research programmes are best suited to students Review and Ethical Space and numerous balances focus on journalism as practical reality who have a clear and original idea of a topic that newspapers and publications. with intense academic study and reflection. they would like to investigate in detail. There are two types of programme: the MA by Research Professor Geoffrey Craig: Director of Research Course content entails producing a 40,000 word thesis; the MPhil Geoff is the author of The Media, Politics and Compulsory modules in Reporting and Writing, and PhD programmes demand a high level of Public Life, the co-author of Slow Living (with Journalism and Free Expression and Practical research and analysis resulting in dissertations of Wendy Parkins) and the co-editor of Informing Multimedia Journalism introduce you to the c50,000 words (MPhil) or 80,000 words (PhD). All Voters? Politics, Media and the New Zealand intellectual and professional challenges of first-year research students attend a Methodologies Election 2008 (with Chris Rudd and Janine reporting for newspapers, radio, television and Research Skills seminar. Through the Faculty Hayward). He worked as a correspondent for and the internet. You choose optional academic of Social Sciences, the Centre provides training in Reuters and has previously taught at universities modules from a range including: History of methods of using sources and can assist in in Australia and New Zealand. Geoff conducts Journalism; The Reporter in Fiction; Reporting funding applications. research on political interviews and leaders’ Conflict; and Communication and Humanitarianism. debates, environmental journalism and topics You may choose to complete a dissertation. relating to journalism, democracy and the public

Assessment The degree is taught by a combination of lectures, seminars, masterclasses, news days, tutorials and editorial conferences. Assessment is by coursework (including essays, reporting exercises and presentations) and examinations. The optional dissertation counts for a third of the final grade.

Multimedia Journalism MA Location: Medway. Attendance: One year full-time. Entry requirements: As for International Multimedia Journalism.

The MA programme teaches multimedia journalism to graduates who are determined to pursue a career in the news industry. You learn to report for newspapers, websites, radio and television in a live newsroom environment. Using state-of-the- art technology and working to real deadlines, you upload your work to the internet. Your tutors are award-winning journalists with decades of front-line experience in national and international news. Every day starts with an editorial conference and the programme balances intense focus on journalism as practical reality with intense academic study and reflection. 144 Journalism cont

sphere. He has published across a broad range Sarah Lonsdale: Lecturer in Reporting and Rob Bailey: Lecturer in Reporting and Writing of international journals including: Journalism Writing Rob is a former news editor and chief reporter of Studies; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; After graduating, Sarah trained for two years on the Kent Messenger in Maidstone, the country’s Environmental Communication and many more. the Reading Chronicle, during which time she was biggest-selling weekly, weekday newspaper. He is highly commended in the Young Journalist of the a former KM Group reporter of the year. He joined Ian Reeves: Director of Learning and Teaching Year category at the British Press Awards, before the Kent Messenger as editorial assistant in A former editor of Press Gazette, he was joining The Observer as a general reporter. In September 1999 and took his first reporting job on responsible for developing the Student Journalism 1993, she went freelance and has been writing the first UK paper founded in the new millennium, Awards, the Magazine Design and Journalism features for national newspapers and magazines the Swanley Messenger. He went on to work on Awards, and the innovative Press Cadets project. ever since. She writes a regular environmental titles across Kent, including two stints at the Kent He was Weekly Business Writer of the Year in column in The Sunday Telegraph. She has won two Messenger Group’s flagship Maidstone edition. 2003’s Periodical Publishers Association awards. national awards for environmental journalism. She He also worked as senior press officer for social He continues to write about business and media has also won the Industrial Journalist of the Year services at Kent County Council. He is an alumnus and has a particular interest in how technology is award in the magazine category. Her research of the University of Kent, having graduated with a changing journalism. He designed the Centre for interests include the depiction of journalism in BA in English and Philosophy in 1999. Journalism’s live publishing website and built the literary fiction and reporting the environment. first iPad app for any UK university department – now available on the Apple Store. Recent Lesley Phippen: Lecturer in Law and the Media publications include: What Do We Mean by Originally qualified as a solicitor, Lesley has been Location Local? (co-ed, 2012). teaching Law for over 20 years on programmes for Medway. both professional and academic qualifications. In English language requirements Richard Pendry: Lecturer in Broadcast and 2001, she joined the Kent Law School as Director See p223. Online Journalism of Legal Studies. During her time at the Kent Law Richard is a BAFTA award-winning television School, Lesley developed a Media Law module Fees and funding producer with 20 years’ experience as a freelance, and was the driving force behind the first cross- See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding working in documentaries, news and current disciplinary conference at the Medway campus Applications affairs. During most of the 1990s Richard was a on Privacy and the Individual. Lesley moved to member of Frontline Television News, an agency the Centre for Journalism in July 2010 to deliver Taught programmes which specialised in reportage from war. A fluent the academic law teaching. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Russian speaker, Richard filed stories for Frontline postgrad/apply from all over the former Soviet Union, including Research programmes Chechnya. His research focuses on how See p232 or contact the Centre for further independent reporters gather news in conflict details. zones such as the Caucasus and Iraq. His Further information research has been published in journals including T: +44 (0)1634 202913 Ethical Space and British Journalism Review and E: [email protected] in films for The Daily Beast and the Frontline Club.

“The work placement was invaluable. It taught me a lot about how newspapers work and I got to really spread my wings.”

John Saunders Journalism student 145

Canterbury and Brussels LAW

Kent Law School (KLS) is a cosmopolitan centre of world-class critical legal research, offering a supportive and intellectually stimulating place to study postgraduate taught and research degrees. Rated as the 6th best Law School in the UK in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (and 4th for the proportion of research classified as world-class and internationally excellent), KLS gives you unparalleled opportunities to study with leading academic experts in a variety of specialised fields of law.

The KLS programmes in Canterbury and Brussels enable you to gain expertise in a wide range of international and domestic subjects and to develop advanced, transferable research, writing and oral communication skills. All of our LLM and Diploma programmes allow you to broaden and deepen your understanding and knowledge of law and we offer a variety of flexible specialisation options. Some LLM specialisations allow you to study at Canterbury and Brussels, with a term at each campus, returning to your chosen primary location to complete your dissertation.

Our programmes attract excellent law graduates from around the world and are also open to non-law graduates with an appropriate academic or professional background who wish to develop an advanced understanding of law in their field. You study within a close-knit, supportive and intellectually stimulating environment, working closely with academic staff. KLS uses critical research-led teaching throughout our programmes to ensure that you benefit from the Law School’s world-class research.

“The programme has given me Programmes Postgraduate resources a greater in-depth knowledge of Taught Postgraduate students at Kent Law School have international law. I feel that I Canterbury access to a postgraduate computing room, study • LLM, PDip with specialisation area and common room with wireless internet will be qualified to get involved • LLM, PDip with major/minor specialisation access. The Law School has an active and in international development, • Law PGCert, PDip, LLM inclusive extra-curricular academic and social • Law (Erasmus-Europe) LLM scene, with weekly graduate seminars, a or to work with an international postgraduate student group for all students, and NGO or in the field of diplomacy Available specialisations a regular guest lecture programme organised by • Criminal Justice our research centres (which include the Centre for upon graduation.” • Environmental Law and Policy Critical International Law, the Kent Centre for Law, • European Law Gender and Sexuality, and the Kent Centre for Vebi Kosumi • Human Rights Law European and Comparative Law). LLM International Law with International Relations • International Commercial Law • International Criminal Justice Award-winning Law Library • International Environmental Law Our Law Library has long been a leader in the • International Law with International Relations development of electronic resources for legal • Medical Law and Ethics teaching and research. The extensive and up-to- • Public International Law date law collection in the University’s Templeman Library is particularly strong on electronic material, Brussels and the Electronic Law Library includes numerous • International Economic Law LLM legal databases, which are increasingly invaluable • International Law with International Relations tools for research. In addition, you can access the PGDip, LLM text of thousands of law journals online. Our law • Public International Law PGDip, LLM librarian is available to train you to use these resources and runs regular legal research Research classes with postgraduate students. • Law LLM, MPhil, PhD • International Law MPhil, PhD (Brussels) Support • Socio-legal Studies LLM, MPhil, PhD We have a dedicated postgraduate office, offering support from application to graduation. Research students benefit from a research training programme in the first year. An academic staff member acts as postgraduate research 146 Law cont

co-ordinator and runs a weekly postgraduate Available specialisations European Law study group, at which students present and Criminal Justice This specialisation provides you with a broad, discuss research. and advanced, understanding of a wide range This specialisation is designed for people who of European legal topic areas, notably but not already work, or intend to work, within the criminal The Law School provides research students with exclusively relating to the law of the European justice system, whether for the police, probation an allowance for conferences and other research Union. expenses, and an annual printing allowance. service, prison service or other organisations, or those with an interest in such matters. In addition to focusing on the law and policy of the EU, including constitutional law, the law relating to Dynamic publishing culture This specialisation covers criminal law and the single market, competition law, environmental Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, procedure in the UK, internationally and law, and human rights law, the programme also conference proceedings and books. Among comparatively. It examines criminal justice systems offers you the opportunity to study European legal others, they have recently contributed to: Modern from a range of other perspectives, including the integration from a comparative law perspective. Law Review; Social & Legal Studies; The Canadian management of organisations, human rights, the Journal of Law & Society; Legal Studies; Signs: psychological and sociological causes of criminal The overall approach adopted involves considering Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Details behaviour and social and economic perspectives. not only a wide range of key legal principles that of recently published books can be found within There is close co-operation with the MA in underpin the evolving framework of European legal the staff research interests on p151. Criminology (see p81), run by the School of Social integration, but also the impact of European law in Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Students on its broader social, political and economic context. Taught programmes the LLM and MA are able to take modules from both programmes. Criminology has specialists in many The proximity of Kent to London, Brussels and The postgraduate programmes offered within the areas including criminological theory, research other major European capital cities makes it ideally Law School are usually taught in seminar format. methods, youth crime, gender, cultural criminology located for the study of European Law. Students on the Diploma and LLM programmes and terrorism. study three modules in each of the autumn and Modules for this specialisation include: spring terms. The modules normally are assessed Modules for this specialisation include: • EU Constitutional and Institutional Law; EU by a 4-5,000-word essay. Students undertaking an • Crime, Disorder and Community; European Environmental Law and Policy; EU External LLM degree must write a dissertation of 15-20,000 Human Rights Law; Gender, Crime and Criminal Relations Law; European Human Rights Law; words. Justice; International Criminal Law; International European Comparative Law; European Contract Protection of Human Rights; Introduction to the Law; Foundations of EU Internal Market and Entry requirements Criminal Justice System; Law and Society; Economic Law. A first or good second class honours degree in law Penology; Policing; Reading Murder Cases 1860-1960; Research Methods in Criminology; or a related subject. Kent Law School (KLS) may Human Rights Law also take account of relevant work experience Theories of Crime and Deviance; Transnational This specialisation enables you to examine human when considering applications. Criminal Law; Transnational Justice and Rule of Law Programming; Young People, Crime and rights protection at the national, regional and Place international levels. It is particularly suited to Canterbury programmes • You may also choose from modules offered on those who currently work in, or hope to work in Choosing your specialisation the MA in Criminology (see p81). international organisations, non-governmental organisations, international law firms and foreign Our LLM and Diploma programmes allow you affairs departments. It is also suited to those who to broaden and deepen your knowledge and Environmental Law and Policy want to develop a human rights practice in a understanding of law by specialising in one or Following this specialisation gives you the domestic law context. Students studying human more different areas. You can tailor your studies opportunity to study environmental law, in depth, rights are encouraged to participate in the activities to your particular needs and interests to obtain within its policy context, exploring law at national, of the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) an LLM or Diploma in a single specialisation, in EU and global levels and comparing legal regimes. at Kent. These include, workshops, trips to two specialisations jointly, or by choosing a broad international courts and tribunals, and guest range of modules in different areas of law to obtain This specialisation equips you with a broad lecture series. a general LLM or Diploma in Law. expertise which will benefit you in careers in government departments and agencies, Modules for this specialisation include: As a student on the LLM at Canterbury, your choice international organisations, non-governmental • European Human Rights Law; European Union of specialisation will be shaped by the modules you organisations, private practice, policymaking or Migration Law; International Criminal Law; take and your dissertation topic. To be awarded an in an advisory capacity. The degree also provides International Human Rights Law; International LLM in a single specialisation, at least three of your an excellent foundation for further research. Migration Law; Policing; Transitional Justice and six modules must be chosen from those associated the Rule of Law Programming. with that specialisation with your dissertation also The specialisation is for both graduates with a first focusing on that area of law. The other three degree in law and students with other relevant International Commercial Law modules can be chosen from any offered in the Law academic and professional backgrounds. School. To be awarded a major/minor specialisation This specialisation opens up access to a range you will need to choose three modules associated Modules for this specialisation include: of occupations that require specialist expertise. It with one specialisation, and three from another • Climate Change and Renewable Energy Law; equips you with the necessary intellectual tools to specialisation, with the dissertation determining Conservation and Natural Resources Law; practise international commercial law, or work for which is your ‘major’ specialisation. Environmental Quality Law; European Community relevant government departments, regulators and Environmental Law and Policy; International international organisations in a policymaking For example, a student who completes at least Environmental Law – Legal Foundations; or advisory capacity. It also provides an excellent three modules in International Commercial Law International Environmental Law – Substantive foundation for students who may wish to pursue a and completes a dissertation in this area would Legal Aspects; International Trade Law and the research degree in the field. graduate with an LLM in International Commercial Environment; and Land Development Law Law; a student who completes three Criminal • You may also choose from modules offered on It combines a thorough grounding in technical Justice modules and three Environmental Law the MSc in Environmental Social Science (see legal instruments of international commercial modules and then undertakes a dissertation which p109). law with sophisticated training in interdisciplinary engages with Criminal Justice would graduate with frameworks for analysis of global business an LLM in Criminal Justice and Environmental Law. regulation as well as reflective evaluation of the operation and effectiveness of law. Emphasis is also placed upon the interaction of law with other Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/law 147

disciplines, particularly economics and politics. the substantive areas of law, as well as the practical The modules are taught by distinguished academic situations in which international environmental law specialists who cover a large and diverse range operates. Graduates of the LLM take with them the of subjects within the field. knowledge and expertise required to pursue a professional or academic career in this Modules for this specialisation include: contemporary and developing discipline. • Air and Outer Spaces; Banking Law; Commercial Credit; Corporate Governance; Modules for this specialisation include: Intellectual Property Law; International and • Climate Change and Renewable Energy Law; Comparative Consumer Law Policy; International European Community Environmental Law and Business Transactions; International Commercial Policy; International Environmental Law – Legal Arbitration; International Financial Services Foundations; International Environmental Law – Regulation; International Law on Foreign Substantive Legal Aspects; International Trade Investment; International Trade Law and the Law and the Environment. Environment; Law and Development; Laws of Maritime; World Trade Organisation Law. International Law with International Relations International Criminal Justice This specialisation allows international law Following a specialisation in International and international relations to inform each other. Criminal Justice enables you to develop a critical It covers the general methods, scope and theories understanding of the operation of international of international law, international humanitarian law and transnational criminal justice, particularly in and international relations. The specialisation contexts that are perceived to be controversial or provides a detailed understanding of the role, in a state of evolution. You learn about the main potential and limitations of public international law legal instruments and institutions that provide for in international affairs. Its interdisciplinary approach international co-operation and prosecution of is particularly suited to those involved with, or international, transnational and national crime and hoping to work for, international organisations, the impact of human rights and combine this with non-governmental organisations, foreign affairs critical reflection of the broader context and of the departments and international law firms. Students STAFF PROFILE effectiveness of law. There is co-operation with the studying International Law with International MA in Criminology (see p81), run by the School of Relations are encouraged to participate in the Iain Ramsay Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. In activities of the Centre for Critical International Law Professor addition to available law options, you may choose (CeCIL) at Kent. These include, workshops, trips to one module from the MA in Criminology. This international courts and tribunals, and guest lecture Professor Iain Ramsay is one of the includes modules on terrorism and sociological series. foremost international authorities on the theories of violence and gender and crime in a regulation of consumer markets, with a globalised world. Students taking this specialisation can choose to particular focus on issues of credit and spend one term at our Canterbury campus and insolvency, and an associated interest in You are also encouraged to participate in the one at our Brussels centre (returning to their commercial credit and commercial law. activities of the Kent Centre for Critical International primary location to complete the dissertation) Law (CeCIL). under our split-site option for this programme. From 1986-2007 Professor Ramsay was Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law International Criminal Justice will be of particular Modules for this specialisation include: School, York University, Toronto, Canada. interest to those who work, intend to work, or • International Criminal Law; International He has written extensively on consumer have an interest in the fields of international and Protection of Human Rights; International credit and insolvency in North America transnational criminal justice, criminal justice and Humanitarian Law (Brussels only); International and Europe, conducted groundbreaking human rights more broadly. Migration Law; Legal Aspects of Contemporary empirical research on consumer insolvency, International Problems; Public International Law; and edited several international and Modules for this specialisation include: Transnational Criminal Law; Transnational Justice comparative books on credit, debt and • International Criminal Law; International and Rule of Law Programming insolvency. He has acted as an adviser Protection of Human Rights; Transnational • You also take two modules drawn from the to governments and NGOs in North and Criminal Law; Transitional Justice and Rule School of Politics and International Relations. South America, and Europe. of Law Programming • You may also choose one module from those Medical Law and Ethics He was president of the International offered on the MA in Criminology (see p81), This specialisation examines the role of law Association of Consumer Law from currently including: Critical and Global within contemporary health care, providing 2003-07, a member of the Canadian Task Criminology; Gender and Crime in a Globalised a sound introduction to the institutions and Force on Personal Insolvency 2000-02, and World; Sociological Theories of Violence; organisations associated with medical law and is currently part of the World Bank Working Terrorism and Modern Society. the inter-relationships between them. It explores Group on Personal Insolvency. He is also the practical context within which medical law an elected member of the American Law International Environmental Law operates in order to develop an understanding of Institute. This specialisation stimulates a critical awareness the theoretical and ethical issues that underpin it. of the operation of international environmental A foundation module introduces students who are law and policy, and features a particular focus on new to the study of law to the key principles and topics that are perceived to be controversial or in institutions associated with the legal system, core a state of evolution. medico-legal concepts and research methods.

Following this specialisation you develop a sound Modules for this specialisation include: knowledge and systematic understanding of the • Consent to Treatment; Death and Dying; institutional structures, key principles of law and Foundations of the English Legal System; policy, and the contexts within which international Issues in Medical Law; Medical Practice law operates. You study the theoretical, social, and Malpractice; Reproduction and the political and scientific perspectives that underlie Beginnings of Life. CONTINUED OVERLEAF 148 Law cont

Public International Law Students who select this option may choose to Law for Postgraduate Study GDip This specialisation is taught primarily by examining spend one term at our Canterbury campus and Attendance: One year full-time. current international events and the theoretical one at our Brussels centre (returning to their Entry requirements: An honours degree in a bases of international law. It is particularly suited to primary location to complete the dissertation) related subject. Consideration will be given to those involved with, or who are hoping to work for, under our split-site option for this programme. applicants holding equivalent qualifications or international organisations, non-governmental work experience. organisations, international law firms and foreign Course content affairs departments. Students studying Public • Six modules drawn from those offered on the This programme offers you the opportunity to International Law are encouraged to participate in LLM specialisations in Kent Law School, see develop your independent study and research the activities of the Centre for Critical International p146-148 skills through a combination of subject modules Law (CeCIL) at Kent. These include, workshops, • Dissertation of 15-20,000 words in the area within Kent Law School. In addition, as part of your trips to international courts and tribunals, and guest studied during one or more modules programme you have the opportunity to improve lecture series. your English language competence with dedicated Law (Erasmus-Europe) LLM English and Academic Skills for Law modules Students following this specialisation can choose Attendance: One year full-time. offered by Kent International Pathways. to spend one term at our Canterbury campus and one at our Brussels centre (returning to their This programme enables you to obtain an LLM by On successful completion of the Diploma primary location to complete the dissertation) spending your first term at Kent, and your second and through meeting the University’s rules of under our split-site option for this programme. at one of our partner universities in Europe, before progression, you may progress to the LLM and any returning to Kent to complete a dissertation. The of the specialisms offered within the Law School. Modules for this specialisation include: programme gives you the opportunity to study at • International Criminal Law; International two high-quality law schools and also lets you Assessment Humanitarian Law (Brussels only); International experience two countries, their cultures and their Assessment is by a combination of coursework, Protection of Human Rights; Legal Aspects of legal systems. assignments, examinations and a dissertation. Contemporary International Problems; Public International Law . During your second term, you complete a Brussels programmes comparative research paper, supervised by Kent Individualised programme of legal studies staff, on an area of law that you have studied at International Economic Law LLM Students who prefer to design their own both Kent and your partner university. Start: September or January. programme of study to meet their own individual needs and interests may select from the wide and Course content This programme gives you the opportunity to look at exciting range of modules on contemporary legal • Three core modules from the range of taught some of the most pertinent and engaging questions issues. This option allows you to take modules in LLM modules at Kent raised by the recent turmoil in the international any of the specialisations listed on these pages, • An approved programme of study at the economy – the relationships between states and offering a high level of flexibility and control, and European partner university markets, political authority and economic rationality, the opportunity to study modules in very different • A comparative research paper of 7-8,000 words and the relevance of concepts of social justice and legal areas. Students who successfully complete and a dissertation of 15-20,000 words global distribution of wealth in the international an individualised programme of legal studies will regulation of economic processes. obtain an LLM in Law. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/law 149

The LLM in International Economic Law addresses Criminal Law; International Economic Law; Research areas these and other issues in close conjunction with the International Diplomatic Law; International MA programmes in International Political Economy Migration Law; Transnational Justice and Rule Criminal Justice and International Development (also offered at the of Law Programming. Much of the School’s research activity in criminal University of Kent’s Brussels centre), offering a • Two modules drawn from the School of Politics justice takes place in co-operation with the School uniquely integrated critical and interdisciplinary and International Relations of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research approach to the study of economic governance • Dissertation of 15-20,000 words and under the auspices of the Kent Criminal and the legal institutionalisation of global Justice Centre. Established in 1996, the Centre capitalism. Open to students with first degrees in Assessment co-ordinates and encourages research in the field law and cognate subjects, this LLM programme As for International Economic Law, see p148. of criminal justice, and develops teaching and enables students to acquire the skills and education initiatives, especially in co-operation knowledge appropriate for careers in public and Public International Law PDip, LLM with local criminal justice agencies. private organisations concerned with international Start: September or January. development, trade, investment and finance. Critical Commercial Law and Business This programme is taught primarily by examining Law and Regulation Course content current international events and the theoretical Kent Law School has established a rich tradition • Compulsory modules: Corporate Governance; bases of international law. It is particularly suited of critical scholarship on the legal regulation of the Fundamentals, Dissertation and Research; to those involved with, or who are hoping to work business practices and commercial relations of International Economic Law; International for, international organisations, non-governmental market economies that attracts graduate students Economic Regulation. organisations, international law firms and foreign and researchers from around the world. Staff and • Up to three modules offered by the Law School, affairs departments. Students studying Public graduate student research features theoretical, or by other academic schools at our Brussels International Law are encouraged to participate in empirical, comparative and doctrinal studies centre, with modules including: Development the activities of the Centre for Critical International and spans a wide range of critical socio-legal Economics; European Migration Law; Law (CeCIL) at Kent. These include, workshops, approaches to commercial, business and financial International Economics; International Law trips to international courts and tribunals, and guest institutions. The scholarship of Kent’s experts of the Sea; International Migration Law; lecture series. informs research-led teaching in such fields as International Political Economy; Law and consumer debt and bankruptcy, secured credit, Development; Legal Aspects of Contemporary Students on this LLM can choose to spend intellectual property, International Financial International Problems; Politics of Globalisation; one term at our Brussels centre and one at our Institutions, economic development, international Politics of International Development; Public Canterbury campus (returning to their primary trade, international business transactions, International Law; State, Market and Society. location to complete the dissertation) under our commercial arbitration, international labour • Dissertation of 15-20,000 words split-site option for this programme. regulation, corporate governance, banking law, regulation of personal financial services, Assessment Course content e-commerce and information technology law. Assessment is by a 4-5,000-word essay for each • Compulsory modules: Fundamentals, module, or equivalent coursework, and the Dissertation and Research; International Human Critical Obligations dissertation for the Master’s award. Rights Law (Brussels only); Legal Aspects of Our expertise in the area of obligations shares a Contemporary International Problems; Public commitment to challenging the apparently coherent International Law with International International Law. and common-sense rules of contract and tort. Relations PDip, LLM • Up to three modules from any others offered We do this by identifying the conflicts in the world Start: September or January. by Kent Law School, including: International outside of the textbook that shape and destabilise Migration Law; Transnational Justice and Rule the operation of these rules, and by revealing the This LLM programme allows international law and of Law Programming; International Criminal ideological, political, and distributive biases that international relations to inform each other. It covers Law; International Economic Law; International the rules of contract and tort help to perpetuate. the general methods, scope and theories of Diplomatic Law. international law, international humanitarian law and • Dissertation of 15-20,000 words Environmental Law international relations. The programme provides a The Law School has long been established as a detailed understanding of the role, potential and Assessment recognised centre of excellence in research and limitations of public international law in international As for International Economic Law, see p148. graduate teaching in environmental law, spanning affairs. Its interdisciplinary approach is particularly international, EC and national law and policy. suited to those involved with, or hoping to work for, Research programmes Current research interests include climate change, international organisations, non-governmental the aquatic environment, biodiversity conservation, organisations, foreign affairs departments and Law LLM, MPhil, PhD regulation and enforcement, and trade. international law firms. Students studying International Law MPhil, PhD (Brussels) International Law with International Relations are Socio-legal Studies LLM, MPhil, PhD encouraged to participate in the activities of the European and Comparative Law Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent. Location: Canterbury and Brussels. European and Comparative Law is being These include, workshops, trips to international Entry requirements: A first or good second conducted both at an individual level as well as courts and tribunals, and guest lecture series. class honours degree in law or a relevant subject. at the Kent Centre for European and Comparative A Master’s degree is recommended, but not Law, which was established in 2004 with a view to Students on this LLM can choose to spend essential. providing a framework for the further development one term at our Brussels centre and one at our of the Law School’s research and teaching Canterbury campus (returning to their primary We welcome applications for research degrees in activities in this area. Research and teaching location to complete the dissertation) under our a wide range of areas. We recommend you contact reaches from general areas of comparative split-site option for this programme. the School informally before applying, and you and European public and private law to more should accompany your application with a brief specialised areas and specific projects. Course content (two to four-page) outline of the research project • Compulsory modules: Fundamentals, you envisage and your intended methodology. You Gender and Sexuality Dissertation and Research; Legal Aspects of may find it helpful to discuss your project informally Home to the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Contemporary International Problems; Public with an appropriate member of staff (contact Sexuality, Kent Law School makes a significant International Law. details are on our website) or with the Director contribution to the development of feminist • Up to three modules from any others offered of Postgraduate Research. perspectives on law, both nationally and by Kent Law School, including: International internationally. The Centre produces wide-ranging, 150 Law cont

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Why did you choose to study at Kent? How would you describe your fellow students? The University of Kent is among the best research institutions They were from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds. in the UK. I also chose Kent because it has a good reputation It was an invaluable experience in intellectual dynamism and in international law, and although the programme looked they were all very friendly. demanding I knew that, ultimately, it would be rewarding. What have you gained by taking a further degree? What about the teaching in particular? I wanted to secure my economics future in my own country, The standard of lectures is what one would expect from an Nigeria, and also expand my skillset. I am now not only a institution with such a good academic pedigree. My lecturers lawyer but qualified in commercial law as well, which also have immense knowledge in their fields; this is really means that my employability and the value of my services important for me because it sparked a new passion for has increased. research. Teaching is based upon case studies and scenarios with informative handouts to accompany lectures and seminars. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/law 151

interdisciplinary work drawing on a broad range of Law and Political Economy & Law and Dr Nicola Barker: Senior Lecturer intellectual trajectories in addition to legal studies, Development Marriage and civil partnerships; welfare; human including political theory, philosophy, sociology, Law and its relation to political economy are rights. Recent publications include: Not The political economy, cultural studies, geography, addressed from a variety of angles, including Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex history, and drama. An important aspect of their the exploration of the micro and macrolevel of Marriage (2012). work is to explore how sexuality is produced economic regulations as well as theoretical aspects through political categories of difference and of law and political economy. Dr Kate Bedford: Reader how it is governed. The research carried out by Gender, sexuality and international political the Centre demonstrates a shared preoccupation Legal Theories and Philosophy economy; critical development studies; the with inequality and social change. World Bank; Latin America, heteronormativity and Identifying the fact that several academics do work social policy; gambling regulation and economic in cultural theory and political theory (including on Governance and Regulation regeneration, especially bingo; UK equalities law normative concepts, religion and the state). While and policy. Recent publications include: Developing Legal research invariably involves studying feminist and critical legal theories are focal points Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality and the Reformed processes of regulation and governance. This at Kent Law School, the departmental expertise World Bank (2009). research cluster focuses specifically on the also covers more essential aspects such as character of regulation and governance in order classical jurisprudence and the application Dr Anne Bottomley: Reader to critically understand the different modes through of philosophy to law. which governing takes place – the conditions, Property practices in relation to urban planning and architecture – drawing from Deleuze and relations of power and effects of governance and Property Law regulation; the spaces where governing happens theoretical perspectives emerging in anthropology Kent Law School’s property lawyers have a range within and beyond the state; and to address, from and social theory. Debates surrounding theoretical of overlapping interests in both global and local a more normative perspective, how governing perspectives within feminism. Recent publications property issues. Their work covers indigenous might take place. Work within this area is include: Changing Contours of Domestic Life, people’s rights, the environment, housing, methodologically diverse, including scholarship Family and Law: Caring and Sharing (co-ed, 2009). community land, social enterprise, cultural with more theoretical, interpretive and empirical heritage law and urban design, as well as the orientations. Intellectually, the area draws on a wide Dr Ruth Cain: Lecturer question of intellectual property. They have links range of different currents, including socio-legal Regulation and representation of reproduction with anthropologists working at the University and studies; Foucauldian perspectives on power and and parenting, especially maternity, tracking have run a very successful series of workshops governmentality; Actor Network Theory; feminist relationships between law, literature, popular exploring common interests. Their research political theory and political economy; postcolonial culture and the media, and how these shape draws on a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives studies; continental political philosophy; cultural perceptions of gender, sexuality and embodiment, including postcolonialism, feminism, and Foucault. studies; and utopian studies. health care law, including mental health law; the gendering of capitalism, neo-imperialism and post Healthcare Law and Ethics Additional areas of research interest 9/11 trauma. Other research areas within KLS include: A number of Kent Law School (KLS) staff have • human rights Dr Helen Carr: Reader interests in the area of Health Care Law and Ethics, • labour law Housing law and social welfare, with particular focusing in particular on issues relating to human • law and culture interests in regulation of the poor and with the reproduction. Much of the research carried out by • law, science and technology gendered and racialised dimensions of that scholars in this area is critical and theoretical and • legal methods and epistemology regulation. Recent publications include: Law for has a strong interdisciplinary flavour. In addition to • public law Social Workers (co-author, 2010); Skills for Law conducting their own research projects, staff have • race, religion and the law. Students (co-author, 2009). developed strong and fruitful collaborations with ethicists and medical professionals. Donal Casey: Lecturer Staff research interests Food governance and regulation; the issues of International Law Full details of staff research interests can be found legitimacy and accountability. The starting point for research in international law on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/law/people at Kent Law School is that international law is not Dr Emilie Cloatre: Senior Lecturer apolitical and that its political ideology reflects Professor Anneli Albi: Professor The intersection between law and contemporary the interests of powerful states and transnational Comparative constitutional law; EU constitutional ‘science and society’ issues, for example patent economic actors. In both research and teaching, law; EU enlargements; European Neighbourhood law and access to health care, and the regulatory staff situate international law in the context of Policy. networks of climate change. This is particularly histories of colonialism to analyse critically its (although not exclusively) in the context of development, doctrines and ramifications. Critical Dr Donatella Alessandrini: Reader developing countries. Recent publications include: International Law at KLS engages with theories of International trade theory and practice; neo- Pills for the Poorest: an Exploration of TRIPS and political economy, international relations and gender liberalism; international political economy; Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013). and sexuality to contribute to scholarly and policy development studies. Recent publications include: debates across the spectrum of international Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Dr Vicky Conway: Senior Lecturer law, which we define widely to include public Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO’s Policing and police accountability; miscarriages international law, international economic law, Development Mission (2010). of justice and the systems put in place by states international human rights law, international criminal to provide remedies in such cases. Recent law, international commercial law and law and Dr Yutaka Arai: Reader publications include: The Blue Wall of Silence: the development. A number of scholars attached to the International humanitarian law (including part of Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in Ireland Centre for Critical International Law engage in the international criminal law); the relationship between (2010); Irish Criminal Justice: Theory, Process and practical application of international law through international humanitarian law and international Procedure (co-author, 2010); Policing Twentieth litigation, training, research and consultancies for human rights law. Recent publications include: Century Ireland: A History of an Garda Síochána international organisations, NGOs and states. The Law of Occupation: Continuity and Change of (forthcoming). International Humanitarian Law, and Its Interaction with International Human Rights Law (2009).

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Professor Davina Cooper: Professor Martin Hedemann-Robinson: Senior Lecturer Professor Robin Mackenzie: Professor Social and political theory; cultural geography; European Union and international environmental Bioscience and law; body modification; feminism and sexuality; governance and radical law, notably in relation to law enforcement. constructions of addiction; death and the dying politics; Utopian studies. Recent publications process; enhancement; feminist perspectives; include: Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Professor Didi Herman: Professor; Head of genetics and other new technologies; neuroethics Power, and the Politics of Location (co-ed, 2009); School and law; neuroscience; propertisation and Intimate Public Practices: A Methodological Gender and sexuality; race, religion and ethnicity; biovalue; psychoactive substances; public health Challenge (ed, 2009). popular culture; social movement; law reform. governance; reprogenetics; strategic rhetoric in Recent publications include: Intersectionality and regulation; surrogacy; critical and cultural theory Dr Eleanor Curran: Senior Lecturer Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location applied to all of the above. Hobbes; rights theory and the history of rights (co-ed, 2009); An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, theory; political theory; moral theory; jurisprudence. Jewishness, and English Law (2011). Dr Alex Magaisa: Senior Lecturer Financial services regulation, with special focus Dr Karen Devine: Lecturer Dr Kirsty Horsey: Senior Lecturer on international finance centres (offshore finance The law of obligations; tortious legal issues, Human reproduction and genetics, particularly jurisdictions); the law relating to corporate groups, particularly those relating to the collection, storage where these overlap with issues in family law; with special interest in responsibility for corporate and use of human tissue; decision-making in health legal education. Recent publications include: torts; intellectual property and developing care and the role of informed consent; medical law Skills for Law Students (co-author, 2009); Tor t countries; general interest in the interaction and ethics generally. Law (co-author, 2009). between law and politics in Africa.

Lisa Dickson: Senior Lecturer Professor William Howarth: Professor Dr Francesco Messineo: Lecturer Forensic science and the law; evidence and the Environmental and ecological law, with particular Public international law with an emphasis on trial process; general areas of criminal justice. emphasis on the legal protection of the aquatic international human rights law (international environment and the ecosystems that it supports. refugee law, the use of force and the law of armed Maria Drakopoulou: Reader Recent publications include: Halsbury’s Laws of conflict, international criminal law, the history and Feminist theory; feminist jurisprudence; legal theory England, Water and Waterways (ed, 2009); philosophy of public international law) EU refugee and philosophy; legal history; Roman law; equity Halsbury’s Laws of England, Environmental and immigration law and Italian immigration, and trusts. Recent publications include: Rethinking Quality and Public Health (ed, 2010). asylum and refugee law. Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges (co-ed, 2008); Feminist Encounters with Legal Professor Rosemary Hunter: Professor Dr Gbenga Oduntan: Senior Lecturer Philosophy (ed, forthcoming). Feminist legal scholarship including family law, Private and public international law; international access to justice, domestic violence, women’s courts and tribunals; arbitration; international Máiréad Enright: Lecturer employment (including women in the legal commercial law; land and maritime boundary and Legal regulation of culture and religion, and profession and women judges), anti-discrimination territorial disputes; air and space law; international particularly the effects of legal engagement with law, and dispute resolution; the interface between economic law; immigration and asylum law; traditionally ‘private’ aspects of religious practice law and society, and people’s encounters with constitutional law; criminal justice; scientific for ‘public’ conceptions of membership. the legal system. Recent publications include: and technological issues in policing. Recent Domestic Violence Law Reform and Women’s publications include: Sovereignty and Jurisdiction Professor John Fitzpatrick: Professor; Director Experience in Court: The Implementation of in Airspace and Outer Space: Legal Criteria for of Kent Law Clinic Feminist Reforms in Civil Proceedings (2008); Spatial Delimitation (2011). Human rights law; constitutional law; public legal Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist services; legal process. Challenges (co-ed, 2008); Enforcing Human Connal Parsley: Lecturer Rights in Australia: An Evaluation of the New Jurisprudence; critical legal theory; political Iain Frame: Lecturer Regime (co-author, 2010); Feminist Judgments: theory; public law; law and aesthetics; law and Legal and economic history; monetary theory; From Theory to Practice (co-ed, 2010). film; Australian Aboriginal legal issues; legal ethics. social and legal theory. Nick Jackson: Senior Lecturer Sebastian Payne: Lecturer Dr Simone Glanert: Senior Lecturer Land law; housing; intellectual property and The Crown; constitutional reform; the royal Comparative legal studies; legal translation; scholarship of learning and teaching. prerogative; oversight issues relating to the statutory interpretation; European law; French intelligence and security services; decision law and German law. Recent publications include: Dr Suhraiya Jivraj: Lecturer making and its relation to law. De la traductibilité du droit (2011); Comparative Law and religion; equalities, anti-discrimination and Law: Engaging Translation (ed, 2012). human rights law; critical race/postcolonial studies; Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris: Professor gender and sexuality; Muslim feminisms and Law and development, including econo-socio-legal Dr Emily Grabham: Senior Lecturer Islamic law. Recent publications include: development; the role of legal indicators and legal Citizenship; belonging and corporeality; feminist Interrogating Law’s Religion (forthcoming). systems in development; economic approaches to and queer theories of embodiment; labour law; law and development. Recent publications include: welfare reform and its connection to work/family Per Laleng: Lecturer; Director of Mooting Global Business, Local Law: The Indian Legal policy. Recent publications include: Intersectionality Law of tort – focused on the concept of causation System as a Communal Resource in Foreign and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of particularly in the context of industrial and other Investment Relations (2008). Location (co-ed, 2009). diseases. Other research interests include law and football, and law and photography. Recent Dr Stephen Pethick: Senior Lecturer Professor Nick Grief: Professor publications include: A Brief Guide to Mooting Jurisprudence, with emphasis on epistemology and Public international law, human rights and EU (2012). metaphysics and the law; philosophy of language law, with particular reference to the legal status and the law; reasoning and the law; the concept of of nuclear weapons. Sian Lewis-Anthony: Lecturer coherence and its use in legal theory and legal International human rights law, in particular, reasoning; the legal writings of Francis Bacon; the Dr Emily Haslam: Lecturer the right to a fair trial and the issue of the history of legal ideas from the early modern period Public international law; international criminal law; independence and impartiality of the judiciary. onwards; analytic legal theory; legal history; the law civil society. of evidence. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/law 153

Nick Piska: Lecturer Professor Harm Schepel: Professor A critical engagement with private law, particularly Legal sociology; international and European Location in the area of equity and trusts, and a broader economic law. Recent publications include: Canterbury and Brussels. interest in the figure of the equitable subject and State and Market in European Union Law English language requirements the ways in which equitable subjects are produced (co-author, 2009). See p223. in modernity. Professor Sally Sheldon: Professor Fees and funding David Radlett: Lecturer Medical ethics and law, particularly with reference See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding The shift in power from the elected and notionally to reproductive issues; legal regulation of gender National ratings representative and accountable to the unelected and sexuality; fatherhood. Recent publications Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: and obviously unrepresentatitive and include: Fragmenting Fatherhood (co-author, 2008). ranked 6th nationally for research quality, with unaccountable. 65% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or Dr Sophie Vigneron: Senior Lecturer ‘internationally excellent’. Dr Nikolas Rajkovic: Lecturer French public and private law; English tort law; art Theories of public international law; critical law; the Europeanisation of private law; cultural Applications approaches to global law and governance; global heritage law. constitutionalism; post-national adjudication and Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ judicialisation; transnational law and arbitration; Professor Dermot Walsh: Professor legalisation and juridification; international relations Policing and criminal justice; criminal procedure; postgrad/apply theory; lawfare and international criminal law, human rights; European criminal law and Research programmes European human rights law. procedure. See p232 or contact the School for further details. Professor Iain Ramsay: Professor John Wightman: Senior Lecturer; Dean of the Further information Regulation of consumer markets at the national, Faculty of Social Sciences regional and international level, with a particular Theory, history, and empirical work relating Canterbury interest in issues of credit and insolvency, to private law, especially tort and contract. T: +44 (0)1227 824595 commercial credit and commercial law, focusing F: +44 (0)1227 827442 E: [email protected] on the role of credit law in development. Recent Professor Toni Williams: Professor publications include: Consumer Credit, Debt Regulation and governance of economic Brussels and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International development and market relations; regulation T: +32 (0)2 641 1721 Perspectives (co-ed, 2009); Handbook of Research of consumer financial services; the implications F: +32 (0)2 641 1720 on International Consumer Law (co-ed, 2010). of information technology for the regulation of E: [email protected] consumer markets. www.kent.ac.uk/brussels Sinéad Ring: Lecturer The legitimacy of the criminal trial, particularly the Dr Simone Wong: Senior Lecturer substantive implications of the criminal process’ Equity; banking and finance; cohabitation and professed commitment to the rule of law. other domestic relationships. Recent publications include: Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Professor Geoffrey Samuel: Professor Family and Law: Caring and Sharing (co-ed, 2009). Law of obligations (English, Roman and French); comparative law; legal remedies; legal theory; legal epistemology. Recent publications include: Law of Obligations (2010). 154

Canterbury MATHEMATICS

Studying Mathematics at postgraduate level gives you a chance to begin your own research, develop your own creativity and be part of a long tradition of people investigating analytic, geometric and algebraic ideas. Under the guidance of internationally renowned researchers in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS), postgraduate students develop analytical, communication and research skills. Developing computational skills and applying them to mathematical problems forms a significant part of the postgraduate training in the School.

The Mathematics Group at Kent ranked highly in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. With 100% of the Applied Mathematics Group submitted, all research outputs were judged to be of international quality and 12.5% was rated 4*. For the Pure Mathematics Group, a large proportion of the outputs demonstrated international excellence.

The Mathematics Group also has an excellent track record of winning research grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Royal Society, the EU, the London Mathematical Society and the Leverhulme Trust.

“I enjoyed having the time Programmes The School is a member of the EPSRC-funded London Taught Course Centre for PhD students to study something I really Taught in the mathematical sciences, and students can loved in greater depth, being • Mathematics and its Applications MSc participate in the courses and workshops offered • International Master’s in Mathematics and by the Centre. The School offers conference grants treated more as an equal its Applications to enable research students to present their work by staff members, having at national and international conferences. Research the opportunity to do some • Mathematics MSc, MPhil, PhD Dynamic publishing culture undergraduate teaching, and Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, living and working among Postgraduate resources conference proceedings and books. Among people from many different The University’s Templeman Library houses a others, they have recently contributed to: Advances comprehensive collection of books and research in Mathematics; Algebra and Representation nationalities.” periodicals. Online access to a wide variety of Theory; Journal of Physics A; Journal of Symbolic journals is available through services such as Computations; Journal of Topology and Analysis. Helen Webster ScienceDirect and SpringerLink. The School has Details of recently published books can be found PhD Applied Mathematics, now an atmospheric within the staff research interests on p156. dispersion scientist at the Meteorological Office licences for major numerical and computer algebra software packages. Postgraduates are provided with computers in shared offices in the School. Taught programmes The School has two dedicated terminal rooms for taught postgraduate students to use for lectures Mathematics and its Applications MSc and self-study. Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A first or second class Support honours degree in a subject with a significant The School has a well-established system of mathematical content (or equivalent). Students not support and training, with a high level of contact meeting the entry requirement may take the two- between staff and research students. There are year full-time International Master’s in Mathematics two weekly seminar series: The Mathematics and its Applications (see p155). Colloquium at Kent attracts international speakers This programme allows you to further enhance your discussing recent advances in their subject; the knowledge, creativity and computational skills in Friday seminar series features in-house speakers core mathematical subjects and their applications and visitors talking about their latest work. These giving you a competitive advantage in a wide range are supplemented by weekly discussion groups. of mathematically based careers. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/smsas 155

The modules, which are designed and taught by International Master’s in Mathematics and Painlevé Equations internationally known researchers, are accessible, its Applications Current research on the Painlevé equations relevant, interesting and challenging. Location: Canterbury. involves the structure of hierarchies of rational, Attendance: Two years full-time. algebraic and special function families of exact At least one modern application of mathematics Entry requirements: A good ordinary Bachelor’s solutions, Bäcklund transformations and is studied in-depth by each student. Mathematical degree (or the equivalent) in an appropriate connection formulae using the isomonodromic computing and open-ended project work forms an subject. deformation method. The group is also studying integral part of the learning experience. There are analogous results for the discrete Painlevé opportunities for outreach and engagement with If your mathematical background is insufficient equations, which are nonlinear difference the public on mathematics. for direct entry to the MSc in Mathematics and its equations. Applications, you may apply for this course. The Course content first year of the programme has been designed Mathematical Biology You take eight modules in total: six from the list to give you a strong background in mathematics, Artificial immune systems use nonlinear below; a short project module and a dissertation equivalent to the Graduate Diploma in module. interactions between cell populations in the Mathematics. This is followed by the MSc immune system as the inspiration for new computer in Mathematics and its Applications. The modules concentrate on a specific topic from: algorithms. We are using techniques of nonlinear Analysis; Applied Mathematics; Geometry; and dynamical systems to analyse the properties of Course content these systems. Algebra. Modules in the first year include, but are not limited to: Quantum Integrable Systems • Six from: Algebraic Curves in Nature; Applied • Analysis Algebraic Topology; Applied Differential • Complex Analysis Current research on quantum integrable systems Geometry; Asymptotics and Perturbation • Discrete Mathematics focuses on powerful exact analytical and numerical Methods; Basic Differential Algebra; Diagram • Elements of Abstract Analysis techniques, with applications in particle physics, Algebras in Mathematics and Physics; • Groups, Rings and Fields quantum information theory and mathematical Functional Analysis; Geometric Integration; • Groups and Representations physics. Introduction to Lie Groups and Algebras; • Linear Algebra Mathematics and Music; Nonlinear Analysis • Nonlinear Systems and Mathematical Biology Topological Solitons and Optimisation; Nonlinear Waves and Solitons; • Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations Topological solitons are stable, finite energy, Poisson Algebras and Combinatorics; Quantum • Polynomials in Several Variables particle-like solutions of nonlinear wave equations Physics; Symmetries, Groups and Invariants; • Topics in Applied Mathematics. that arise due to the general topological properties plus a maximum of two from the list of of the nonlinear system concerned. Examples undergraduate modules. Depending on your background, the Advanced include monopoles, skyrmions and vortices. English for Academic Study (Science) module This research focuses on classical and quantum The short project module involves a choice of may be taken. In the second year, you follow the behaviour of solitons with applications in various computational studies, designed to enhance your standard MSc in Mathematics and its Applications areas of physics including particle, nuclear and creativity as well as your understanding of how programme described previously. condensed matter physics. The group employs mathematics is used in a wider context. a wide range of different techniques including Assessment numerical simulations, exact analytic solutions The dissertation module involves a longer Closed book examinations, take-home problem and geometrical methods. independent study carried out under the assignments and computer lab assignments supervision of a member of the Mathematics (depending on the module). Algebra and Representation Theory Group. Chosen from a wide range of topics, A representation of a group is the concrete the dissertation may take the form of an in-depth Research programmes realisation of the group as a group of exposition, a longer open-ended investigation, or transformations. Representation theory played a multimedia presentation designed for a more Mathematics MSc, MPhil, PhD an important role in the proof of the classification general audience. Location: Canterbury. of finite simple groups, one of the outstanding achievements of 20th-century algebra. You also design a conference poster for the annual Entry requirements: A first or second class Representations of both groups and algebras Kent Mathematics Student Workshop, based on honours degree in a subject with a significant are important in diverse areas of mathematics, your short project or dissertation, as well as mathematical content (or equivalent). such as statistical mechanics, knot theory and learning professional mathematical typesetting, combinatorics. how to deliver a technical talk, how to write and edit The research interests of the Mathematics Group technical articles, and how to design a successful cover a wide range of topics following our strategy mathematical project. of cohesion with diversity. The areas outlined below Algebraic Topology provide focal points for these varied interests. In topology, geometry is studied with algebraic Assessment tools. An example of an algebraic object assigned Assessment is by closed book exams, take-home Research areas to a geometric phenomenon is the winding number: problem assignments and computer lab this is an integer assigned to a map of the assignments (depending on the module). The Nonlinear Differential Equations n-dimensional sphere to itself. The methods used project and dissertation modules are assessed The research on nonlinear differential equations in algebraic topology link in with homotopy theory, mainly on the reports or work you produce, but also primarily studies algorithms for their classification, homological algebra and modern category theory. on workshop activities during the teaching term. normal forms, symmetry reductions and exact solutions. Boundary value problems are studied Invariant Theory from an analytical viewpoint, using functional Invariant theory has its roots in the classical analysis and spectral theory to investigate constructive algebra of the 19th century and properties of solutions. We also study applications motivated the development of modern algebra of symmetry methods to numerical schemes, in by Hilbert, Noether, Weyl and others. There are particular the applications of moving frames. natural applications and interactions with algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and representation theory. The starting point is an action of a group on a commutative ring, often a ring of polynomials on several variables. The ring of invariants, the subring 156 Mathematics cont

of fixed points, is the primary object of study. Dr Stéphane Launois: Senior Lecturer in Dr Jing Ping Wang: Senior Lecturer in We use computational methods to construct Pure Mathematics Applied Mathematics generators for the ring of invariants, and theoretical Non-commutative algebra and non-commutative Geometric and algebraic properties of nonlinear methods to understand the relationship between geometry, in particular, quantum algebras and links partial differential equations; test and classification the structure of the ring of invariants and the with their (semi-)classical counterparts: enveloping of integral systems and asymptotic normal forms of underlying representation. algebras and Poisson algebras. partial differential equations.

Financial Mathematics Dr Bas Lemmens: Senior Lecturer in Dr Ian Wood: Lecturer in Mathematics Research includes work on financial risk Mathematics Analysis of PDEs and spectral theory, in particular, management, asset pricing and optimal asset Analysis, metric geometry and combinatorics; the study of spectral properties of non-self adjoint allocation, along with models to improve corporate applications in optimal control, game theory operators via boundary triples and M-functions financial management. and computer science. Recent publications (generalised Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps), include: Nonlinear Perron-Frobenius Theory regularity to solutions of PDEs in Lipschitz (co-author, 2012). domains and waveguides in periodic structures. Staff research interests Full details of staff research interests can be found Dr Ana Soares Loureiro: Lecturer in Dr Chris Woodcock: Senior Lecturer in on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/staff Mathematics Pure Mathematics Orthogonal polynomials; special functions and P-adic analogues of classical functions; Dr Antonis Alexandridis: Lecturer in Finance integral transforms; some aspects of combinatorics commutative algebra; algebraic geometry; Artificial intelligence and financial engineering and approximation theory. modular invariant theory. including financial derivative modelling, pricing and forecasting, weather risk management, Professor Elizabeth L Mansfield: machine learning, computer science, neural and Professor of Mathematics wavelet networks, stochastic calculus, wavelet Nonlinear differential and difference equations; Location analysis and signal denoising. variational methods; moving frames and geometric Canterbury. integration. Recent publications include: A Practical English language requirements Guide to the Invariant Calculus (2010). Professor Peter A Clarkson: Professor of See p223. Mathematics Symmetry reductions and exact solutions of Dr Jaideep Oberoi: Lecturer in Finance Fees and funding nonlinear partial differential equations; reductions Identification and quantification of liquidity risk in See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding financial markets and the implications of incomplete of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations; soliton theory National ratings information for asset price co-variation. and discrete and continuous Painlevé equations. Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: 45% of our applied mathematics research and Dr Rowena Paget: Lecturer in Pure Mathematics Dr Olivia Constantin: Lecturer in Mathematics 35% of our pure mathematics research was Representation theory of groups and algebras, Various classes of operators acting on scalar or rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally with emphasis on algebras possessing a quasi- vector-valued spaces of analytic functions. excellent’, with a further 55% of each hereditary or cellular structure, such as the group judged as ‘internationally recognised’. Dr Clare Dunning: Senior Lecturer in algebras of symmetric groups, Brauer algebras Applied Mathematics and other diagram algebras. Mathematics and Statistics at Kent had a 92% Exactly solvable models in mathematical physics; satisfaction rate in the National Student Survey integrable quantum field theory and spectral theory Dr Constanze Roitzheim: Lecturer in 2012. of ordinary differential equations. Mathematics Applications Stable homotopy theory, in particular model Taught programmes Professor Peter Fleischmann: Professor of categories and chromatic homotopy theory; Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Pure Mathematics homological algebra; A-infinity algebras. postgrad/apply Representation theory and structure theory of finite groups; constructive invariant theory; applied Dr Markus Rosenkranz: Lecturer in Mathematics Research programmes algebra and discrete mathematics. Symbolic methods for (linear) boundary problems; See p232 or contact the School for further computer algebra; differential algebra; D-module details. Professor Andrew Hone: Professor in theory. Further information Mathematics T: +44 (0)1227 824133 Nonlinear dynamical systems; coherent structures Dr R James Shank: Reader in Mathematics E: [email protected] in nonlinear differential equations, particularly The invariant theory of finite groups and related solitons in integrable systems; Painlevé aspects of commutative algebra; algebraic transcendents; exactly solvable models of topology and representation theory. mathematical physics and mathematical biology. Dr Huamao Wang: Lecturer in Finance Dr Steffen Krusch: Lecturer in Developing mathematical models; numerical Applied Mathematics methods and practical application of portfolio Topological solitons in mathematical physics, in optimisation; derivative pricing and hedging; risk particular the classical and quantum behaviour management based on stochastic calculus, optimal of Skyrmions. control, filtering and simulation. 157

Canterbury and Medway MEDICINE, DENTAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

At Kent, we deliver research and teaching in a range of areas of medicine and health care. We favour a multidisciplinary approach and have strong links with social sciences and with basic sciences within the University.

Kent has established itself as a leading institution for education, training, research and development in the following areas: clinical education; drug discovery and design; supportive and palliative care; reproductive biology; pharmacy, and dental education and oral health. Our health-related activities are co-ordinated through KentHealth (www.kent.ac.uk/health) who are able to advise health practitioners on suitable courses or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and can assist in the design of tailored courses for health commissioners. We have collaborative training partnerships with a number of health service providers, such as the NHS Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex (Postgraduate Dental Deanery) and the Kent Community Health NHS Trust.

Our programmes in these areas are offered by the Centre for Health Services Studies (see p203), the Centre for Professional Practice (see p182), Kent Law School (see p145), Medway School of Pharmacy (see p164), the School of Biosciences (see p47) and the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (see p212).

“The University has launched Programmes Clinical and Research Taught • Doctor of Medicine MD (see p49) a new and ambitious health • Sport, Exercise and Health Science Professional • Advanced and Specialist Healthcare MSc strategy and is taking the Doctorate (see p213) (see p183) lead in developing new and • Applied Drug Discovery MSc (see p164) innovative postgraduate • Biotechnology and Bioengineering MSc Professional links (see p48) Many of the staff within the academic divisions programmes in healthcare.” • Cancer Biology PDip, MSc (see p48) have a clinical commitment to the NHS or industry. • Drug Design MSc (see p48) Likewise, our honorary staff have a commitment Peter Jeffries • General Pharmacy Practice PCert, PDip to NHS posts, but additionally provide a valuable Director, KentHealth (see p165) contribution to the University’s programmes. • Independent/ Supplementary Prescribing PCert (see p165) • Medical Humanities MA (see p168) Flexible programmes • Medical Law and Ethics PDip, LLM (see p147) Our courses take account of the working • Primary Dental Care for Foundation Dentists circumstances of healthcare staff, the diverse PCert (see p183) circumstances of patients and the obstacles • Primary Dental Care MSc (see p183) professionals may face in taking up learning • Professional Practice MA, MSc (see p183) opportunities. We offer programmes by teaching • Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics MSc or research pathways for both medical and non- (see p49) medical students on a full or part-time basis. • Science, Communication and Society MSc Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (see p194) courses are flexible, with different stepping-on • Strategic Leadership and Medical Education and stepping-off points, so that you can either PCert (see p213) take single modules for CPD or work towards a postgraduate certificate, diploma or Master’s degree. 158

Canterbury MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies brings together academic staff members from all the schools in the Faculty of Humanities, and offers postgraduate training in medieval and early modern research methods to students from many different disciplines. The Centre has a reputation as a vigorous and supportive community of teachers and postgraduate students, with a strong, focused identity.

Our location in the historic city of Canterbury offers you the opportunity to experience medieval and early modern art and architecture at first hand. The Centre enjoys a close relationship with Canterbury Cathedral Archives, the Cathedral Library and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, allowing you access to a wide range of unique historical, literary and material documents. We are also in easy reach of London and continental Europe.

“The Centre for Medieval and Programmes Dynamic publishing culture Early Modern Studies’ vibrant Taught Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA conference proceedings and books. Among community of enthusiastic others, they have recently contributed to: Historical postgraduate students and Research Research; English Historical Review; Renaissance Studies; Medium Aevum; Transactions of the Royal • Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA, talented academic staff make it Historical Society; Studies in the Age of Chaucer. MPhil, PhD Details of recently published books can be found an excellent place to create and • Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (TEEME): within the staff research interests on p159. undertake exciting research An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate projects. The training and Taught programme Postgraduate resources guidance I’ve received have Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library have proved invaluable in furthering unparalleled holdings of manuscripts and early Location: Canterbury. my research.” printed books. Kent’s Templeman Library holds Entry requirements: A first or upper-second a good stock of facsimiles, scholarly editions, class honours degree in an appropriate subject or equivalent. Tom Lawrence monographs and journals, and we are within easy PhD Medieval and Early Modern Studies reach of the British Library, The National Archives, and other London research libraries. There are This unique interdisciplinary programme provides good online computing facilities across campus the opportunity for intensive historical, literary and and, in addition, our students have special art-historical study. It challenges you to engage access to postgraduate computer terminals and with the evidence and methods of different the postgraduate student room provided by the disciplines in order to equip you with the wide School of History. range of research techniques crucial for studying the period. The Centre runs a weekly research seminar, and special termly, public lectures to which we welcome The MA provides a thorough grounding in the skills distinguished speakers. These events are at the required for advanced study in the medieval and heart of the Centre’s activities. We also run a early modern periods, as well as a compulsory full programme of conferences and colloquia. module in disciplinary methods and an exciting and varied range of optional modules. In addition, you produce a final dissertation of 12-15,000 words, for which you receive one-to-one supervision. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/mems 159

Course content representations of early modern literature and Dr David Grummitt: Lecturer in Early Modern • Compulsory modules: Latin; Palaeography history. By relating a broad understanding of History and Manuscripts; Reading the Evidence. ‘text’ – in its original meaning of tissue, web or Early modern government and politics, diplomacy • Modules drawn from options such as: Anglo- texture – to underlying ‘events’ – the raw data of and war; particularly Tudor England. Recent Saxon Churches; The Gothic Imagination; Grand the past shaped into story by ‘weaving’ or writing – publications include: The Calais Garrison: War and Designs and Intimate Liaisons; Making the News; all projects will combine a textual-literary with a Military Service in England 1436-1558 (2008); War, Before Shakespeare; Parliament, Representation cultural-historical strand. State and Society in England and the Netherlands, and Political Culture in England c1300-1601. 1477-1559 (co-author, 2008); A Short History of the • Dissertation Staff research interests Wars of the Roses (2012). www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff Assessment Dr Barbara Bombi: Reader in Medieval History Assessment is by coursework and dissertation. Ecclesiastical and religious history, 1200-1400; Dr Sarah James: Lecturer in Medieval Literature The skills modules are assessed by a combination canon law and history of the medieval papacy; Late medieval vernacular theological writings in of coursework and examination. crusades and history of the military orders; Anglo- their historical, religious and political contexts; papal relations in the 14th century; Latin diplomatic the pastoral care tradition; interactions between and palaeography. Recent publications include: Research programmes medieval literature and visual culture; dreams and I Cristiani e il favoloso Egitto: Una relazione visions; late medieval drama. Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA, dall’Oriente e la storia di Damietta di Oliviero www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles MPhil, PhD da Colonia (co-ed, 2009). Location: Canterbury. www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff Dr Andy Kesson: Lecturer in Early Modern Entry requirements: As for taught programme. Studies Dr Alixe Bovey: Senior Lecturer in Medieval Performance theory, book history, representations We are interested in hearing from students History of the body and sexuality on and off the stage, with research proposals covering all aspects of Medieval visual culture, focusing especially reception theory, pedagogy and the history of medieval and early modern history, life and culture. on Gothic illuminated manuscripts. Recent English as a scholarly discipline. Current projects Academic staff interests include: early modern publications include: Jean de Carpentin’s Book of include a collaborative workshop investigating the material culture; late medieval art history; medieval Hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden relationship between words and action onstage. and early modern religious history; Anglo-Saxon Prayer Book (2011). Recent publications include: John Lyly and Early archaeology and liturgy; early modern politics; www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff Modern Authorship (forthcoming); The Elizabethan medieval and early modern drama; and textual Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern editing. Professor Peter Brown: Professor of Medieval England (co-ed, 2013). English Literature www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles At present, research topics include: the Chaucer and other late-medieval English writers; Reformation; visual and manuscript culture; contextual aspects of medieval culture, including Professor Bernhard Klein: Professor of English community; the plays of John Lyly; medieval historiography, the visual arts, dreams and space. Early modern literature and culture, Irish studies, ecclesiastical architecture; female sexuality and www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles maritime culture and history. Recent publications transexuality; priory management; deviant and include: Dido: Dramatisches Gedicht in Drei vernacular language; and kingship. You will be Dr Rosanna Cox: Lecturer in Early Modern Abteilungen (2011); Literature, Mapping and the part of a vibrant and varied community of Studies Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (co-ed, researchers from different disciplines. Political thought, culture and literature in the mid 2011). to late 17th century; John Milton; early modern www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles Text and Event in Early Modern Europe statecraft and diplomacy; gender, politics and (TEEME): An Erasmus Mundus Joint reading; education and the English universities Dr Luke Lavan: Lecturer in Archaeology Doctorate from the mid-16th century. Recent publications Everyday use of space in the late antique and include: Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture early medieval city (AD 300-700), drawing on Location: Canterbury in Semester 1; then a choice (co-ed, 2010); Milton and the Ideal Citizen of two out of four locations: Canterbury, Berlin, archaeological, textual and epigraphic evidence (forthcoming). Porto or Prague. from across the Roman Empire. Recent publications www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles include: Objects in Context, Objects in Use (co-ed, Attendance: Three years full-time. 2008); Technology in Transition AD 300-650 (co-ed, Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class Professor Kenneth Fincham: Professor of Early honours degree (or equivalent in other national 2008); The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism Modern History systems) in any area of literature, history or cultural (co-ed, 2011). Early modern Britain, particularly religion; the studies. Applicants from other humanities or social www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff clergy of the Anglican Church; the era of the Civil science subjects will also be considered. Wars. Recent publications include: Vital Statistics: Dr Jan Loop: Lecturer in History Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, TEEME is an international doctoral programme Intellectual, religious and cultural history of Europe 1646-60, English Historical Review (co-ed, 2011). in early modern studies funded by the European and the Near East. www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff Union under the Erasmus Mundus scheme. It is www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff structured around a unique collaboration between Dr Helen Gittos: Lecturer in Medieval History university-based researchers in the humanities and Dr Marion O’Connor: Reader in English and Anglo-Saxon England, especially the 10th and 11th the cultural and creative sector in four EU countries American Literature centuries; the earlier medieval European Church, (United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Czech Theatrical reconstructions and dramatic revivals; especially its liturgy and architecture; the status Republic). iconography; drama as historiography; censorship. and uses of medieval vernacular languages; Anglo- Recent publications include: Shakespeare Norman liturgy and architecture, and the impact of We are looking for candidates with research Reproduced: The text in history and ideology the Conquest on these topics. Recent publications projects that are comparative and interdisciplinary (co-ed, 2008); The Court Beggar and The include: Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in conception, that bear a clear relation to present Queen’s Exchange (The Collected Works in Anglo-Saxon England (2013); Understanding needs and debates, and that span at least two of Richard Brome) (ed, 2010). Medieval Liturgy (co-ed, 2013) different linguistic, religious and/or ethnic cultures www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff within Europe, or that relate one European with one non-European culture, in the period 1400 to 1700, or in later political or cultural uses and

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Professor David Ormrod: Professor of Dr Catherine Richardson: Reader in Economic and Cultural History Renaissance Studies Location Early modern English and European economic and Early modern literature and drama; language and Canterbury. cultural history. Recent publications include: The narrative; material culture, especially clothing and English language requirements Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the the household. Recent publications include: William See p223. Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770 Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his (2008); Artists, Dealers and Connoisseurs. The Writings and His County (co-ed, 2009); Everyday Fees and funding Origins of the English Art Market, 1650-1815 Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding (forthcoming). Culture and its Meanings (co-ed, 2010); Making National ratings www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles Household: The account book of Sir Thomas Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Puckering of Warwick and London (co-ed, 2011). History ranked 2nd, Drama ranked 12th and Dr Ryan Perry: Lecturer in Medieval Literature www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles English ranked 18th nationally for research Middle English textual cultures with a particular quality. focus on historiographical literature; pastoral/ Dr Ben Thomas: Lecturer in History & affective writings of the 14th and 15th centuries; Philosophy of Art; Curator, Studio 3 Gallery Applications late-medieval manuscripts containing English texts Italian Renaissance art; Renaissance writing and methodologies which explore the axis between on the visual arts; 16th and 17th-century prints. Taught programmes textual and material culture; devotional manuals www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ and books containing lives of Christ. postgrad/apply www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles Dr Danielle Van den Heuvel: Lecturer in Early Research programmes Modern History See p232 or contact the Centre for further Dr David Potter: Reader in French History Early modern social and economic history. details. Early modern France; the state and local society www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff Further information in the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of war; T: +44 (0)1227 823140 the French aristocracy in the 16th century; E: [email protected] Renaissance diplomacy. Recent publications include: Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c.1480-1560 (2008); Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540-47 (2011). www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff 161

Medway MUSIC AND AUDIO ARTS

Our taught and research programmes are exciting and innovative, offering you the opportunity to mix with composers, sound designers, film-makers, technologists, theorists, visual artists and curators. During your time with us, you become part of our specialist community, exchanging ideas and developing your own creative and intellectual interests, informed by expert academic staff.

We are situated on the Medway campus of the University of Kent and our facilities include purpose-built recording studios, post-production rooms, rehearsal spaces, workstations and seminar rooms. We have a professionally designed 5.1 recording and compositional space and a spatial audio studio. In addition, we have a multi-loudspeaker sound diffusion system for the performance of sonic art and live electronics.

Our location on the Chatham Historic Dockyard provides interesting and unique spaces for concerts, performances and sound installations, with further venues on the other parts of the campus and in the surrounding area. Our students explore both the creative and technical aspects of music and its related technologies and also have the opportunity to work collaboratively with practitioners from other arts subjects.

“The studios are great and are Programmes Research-led musical culture constantly being updated with Taught Members of staff have their work performed the latest equipment to keep us • Music Composition MA regularly. Recently performed works include: • Music Technology MA Northern Loop, an eighty-minute electroacoustic up-to-date on what we’d be • Sound and Image MA work in collaboration with Ambrose Field, released expected to use out in the on the Sargasso label (Dr Paul Fretwell); Flags, Research audio-visual work in collaboration with Nick Cope, part of The Engine Room Exhibition (Professor Tim business world.” • Music and Technology PhD Howle); Promming, a commission from the BBC Jack Tomkins Proms 2012 Music Walk event (Dr Claudia Molitor); MA Music Technology Postgraduate resources Diesis, for solo double bass and electronics performed by Enno Senft (Duncan MacLeod). We are part of a new multimillion-pound investment by the University of Kent in arts facilities on the Chatham Historic Dockyard. Our new specialist Taught programmes facilities include a large recording studio, a Foley Music Composition MA recording space, surround-sound studio and post- production rooms. All have been designed to the Music Technology MA highest standard in order to provide an excellent Sound and Image MA environment for postgraduate work. Location: Medway. Entry requirements: A 2.1 honours degree, We have an array of loudspeakers for or above, in a related discipline. electroacoustic performance, live sound and collaborative arts projects. Students are These programmes share common modules in encouraged to participate in these music concerts research methods and postgraduate study skills, and interdisciplinary events, becoming part of the while giving you the opportunity to foster your exciting artistic environment here at the University subject skills in specialist modules. Work is of Kent. developed through individual enquiry as well as sharing and critiquing ideas through group The University’s Drill Hall Library is well resourced seminars, designed to provide a forum for debate in our subject area and houses special collections as well as practical instruction. There will also of CDs, DVDs and musical scores. Students also be significant opportunity for collaborative and have access to specialist online and printed interdisciplinary work taking into account other journals as well as other electronic resources. arts subjects at Medway and Canterbury.

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Student profile

RODRIGO TASCON PhD MUSIC COMPOSITION

What are you researching? What support do you receive as a research student? I’m doing a PhD in music composition concerning digital As a research student in my school, I was assigned a working visualisation of sound and its applications in electro-acoustic space and provided with all the equipment I need to carry out music composition. It’s a multidisciplinary study involving my work. In wider terms, the University assigns a host college computer science, psychoacoustics, cognitive sciences, signal to every postgraduate, which organises social and academic processing and music. It consists of creating a portfolio of events. music compositions along with a thesis, a written documented account of the techniques implemented in the pieces. How have you funded your studies? I was awarded one of the University’s 50th Anniversary What are you most enjoying about your time here? Research Scholarship, which covers tuition fees, provides My passion is my music and I feel privileged that I am able a monthly bursary and assigns me a graduate teaching to compose every day, in inspiring surroundings with modern assistantship position. facilities. I find the landscape of the Dockyard quite charming and introspective. Another aspect I like about the campus is What are you planning to do next? that Fine Art and Music share a working space, which I plan to keep building my career as both a composer and an enriches the experience. academic; I think both disciplines complement each other well. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/musicandaudio 163

The MA in Music Composition focuses on the Sound and Image Professor Kevin Dawes: Professor of creation and analysis of music, taking into account • Collaborative Project Ethnomusicology (from November 2013) major musical developments over the past few • Resolution: Audio-Visual Project Ethnomusicology; the anthropology of sound decades. • Sound, Image, Space: Practice and Process and music; ecomusicology and acoustic ecology; • Dissertation music and well-being. The MA in Music Technology focuses on the use, development and implementation of technology Assessment Dr Paul Fretwell: Senior Lecturer within the wider musical context, exploring issues Assessment is by a range of coursework, including Composition (instrumental and electroacoustic), such as interactivity, audio programming, sound individual projects, skills-based tasks, seminar laptop performance, musical gesture. spatialisation and multimedia. presentations and written work. Professor Tim Howle: Professor of The MA in Sound and Image focuses upon the Research programmes Contemporary Music creation and critical analysis of audio-visual works. Composition, sonic art, acousmatic music and The programme engages with film, interactivity, Music and Technology PhD video. installation art and multimedia, examining recent Location: Medway. artistic and cultural developments. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree Duncan MacLeod: Lecturer in a relevant subject or equivalent professional Concert music; cross-arts collaboration (film, fine All MA programmes are designed to provide experience. art and contemporary dance); computer music; knowledge and skills in practice-based research, electro-acoustic composition; writing for amateurs. as well as giving you experience of current Individual staff research interests cover a wide research practices in various areas of critical range of aspects of music technology and Dr Claudia Molitor: Lecturer and analytical thinking. composition, and supervision is available in all Post-disciplinary artistic practice; the score: these areas. For these programmes, you have notation as drawing, touch as a way to engage, Course content regular meetings with your supervisor as well experience, explore and effect music; sound and Music Composition as tuition in research methodologies in the early visual art; performance art; moving image. • Composition Project stages of your research. Additionally, we regularly • Composition Techniques invite academic and professional specialists for Dr Aki Pasoulas: Lecturer • Dissertation guest lectures, workshops and special events Electroacoustic music; acousmatic music; time and • Option choice relevant to students’ research. timescale perception; psychoacoustics and sound perception; spatial sound; acoustic communication Music Technology and soundscape ecology. • Advanced Audio Skills Staff research interests • Music Technology Project Full details of staff research interests can be found • Dissertation on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff • Option choice Location Dr Ben Curry: Lecturer Medway. Music and meaning; semiotics; film music; popular English language requirements music; music as cultural practice; music analysis. See p223. Fees and funding See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Applications Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply Research programmes See p232 or contact the relevant School for further details. Further information Tim Howle T: +44 (0)1634 202966 E: [email protected] Ben Curry T: +44 (0)1634 888818 E: [email protected] 164

Medway PHARMACY

Medway School of Pharmacy is one of the few regional schools of pharmacy in the UK, a collaboration between the University of Kent and the University of Greenwich. The impetus for the formation of the Medway School of Pharmacy came from the local community, who recognised the shortage of qualified pharmacists in all branches of the pharmacy profession in Kent.

The School is now recognised as an established school with accreditation from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as well as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Graduates are employed in health disciplines in Kent and the south east and more broadly across the UK.

“I’ve enjoyed the nature of the Programmes Dynamic publishing culture programme, the approachable Taught Medway School of Pharmacy has a research and friendly staff, as well as • Applied Drug Discovery MSc culture and as such postgraduate students publish • General Pharmacy Practice PCert, PDip regularly and widely in journals, conference the challenge of completing • Independent/Supplementary Prescribing PCert/ proceedings and books. Among others, they have a Master’s-level prescribing Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for recently contributed to: International Journal of Nurses (level H) Short Course Programme Pharmacy Practice; Nephron Physiology; Acta programme.” • Medicines Management PCert, PDip, MSc Physiologica; Purinergic Signalling; European • Pharmacotherapy and Service Development Journal of Pharmacology. Jerome Barton PCert PCert Independent/Supplementary Prescribing Taught programmes Research Applied Drug Discovery MSc • Pharmacy MPhil, PhD Location: Medway or distance learning. Entry requirements: Good degree in a relevant Postgraduate resources subject, (eg, pharmacology, biochemistry, Postgraduate students have access to all the physiology, applied biology, molecular biology, facilities at the Medway School of Pharmacy, biomedical science or similar). including clinical skills labs and a ‘simulation man’. As the School of Pharmacy is a joint venture This programme is taught as either a classic one- between the two universities, students have access year full-time programme with attendance required to facilities at Kent’s Medway and Canterbury on Mondays and Tuesdays for 48 weeks plus an campuses, and the University of Greenwich. additional study day off-campus, or delivered through distance e-learning using an interactive virtual learning environment on a two-year part-time Flexible programmes basis. It builds on a very successful in-house Programmes are in units of five, ten, 15 and 30 training programme implemented by a major credits. This variable credit structure enables pharmaceutical company. The programme was you to individualise your study programme to designed and conceived by pharmaceutical suit your needs. industry experts in drug discovery and will be delivered and assessed by experts in this field at the School of Pharmacy. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/pharmacy 165

The MSc covers how fundamental science is Completing the practice elements of the Options include: applied to the discovery and development of programme leads to both an academic award and • Bipolar disorder; COPD; Depression; Infections medicines and the main aims are to: the award of a Statement of Completion of General and Infestations; Pain; Patient Monitoring in • provide you with the experience of critically Pharmacist Training (SCGPT) from an accredited Practice*; Principles of Medicines Management; appraising the research questions and training centre. Skills for MURs*; Skills for Public Health.* techniques that are routine in the pharmaceutical industry workplace Course content • Modules in Alcohol Misuse; Asthma; Dementia; • produce graduates trained in the processes • Establishing Your Clinical and Professional Heart Failure; Hypertension; Schizophrenia; by which fundamental science is linked to the Practice Substance Misuse; Type 2 Diabetes; Upper design and development of modern medicines. • Medicines Management in Practice Gastrointestinal Disease. • provide expert preparation for students who wish • Practitioner Development *pharmacists only to pursue a career in drug discovery, or wish to proceed to a PhD. Assessment Assessment Assessment is by Objective Structure Clinical Assessment includes case study analysis, critical The programme comprises 60 credits at certificate Examination (OSCE), multiple-choice questions, appraisal of literature, assignments including short level, 60 credits at diploma level and 60 credits at assignments, literature review, prescribing audit, essays, a research project and dissertation. Master’s level. You may choose to end your study change management project, and a competency- at any one of these stages. based portfolio review. Independent/Supplementary Prescribing PCert/Independent/Supplementary Course content Medicines Management PCert, PDip, MSc Prescribing for Nurses (level H) Options include: Location: Medway. Medway. • Applied Pharmacology; Critical Thinking; Location: Attendance: One to six years part-time, flexible Eight months part-time, flexible Experimental Protocol; Extended ‘Real’ Research Attendance: learning. learning. Project; Infectious Disease and Allergy Drug Start: Flexible. October or May. Discovery; Neuroscience and Drug Discovery; Start: Entry requirements: A first degree in a relevant Registration with the Project Background and Design; Renal and Entry requirements: subject from an EU university; equivalent appropriate professional/regulatory body (GPhC Cardiovascular Drug Discovery; Translational qualifications from a non-EU university may or PSNI for pharmacists, NMC for nurses, HCPC Biology. be acceptable, but their comparability will be for allied health professionals). A first degree or assessed on an individual basis; or at least five evidence of having studied at level H (for those Assessment years of working experience in health care after Assessment is by 100% coursework; including wishing to undertake a Master’s-level qualification), obtaining a relevant professional qualification. evidence of having studied at level I for nurses scientific reports, assignments, essays, a research Students must also be registered with the relevant project and portfolio entries. wishing to study prescribing at level H; at least UK professional body and practising in the UK, two years’ post-registration clinical experience preferably within the National Health Service. General Pharmacy Practice PCert, PDip (pharmacists); at least three years’ post-registration clinical experience (nurses and allied health Location: Medway. The Medway School of Pharmacy’s innovative professionals). Attendance: Flexible learning, up to a maximum postgraduate distance-learning programme in of 15 contact days over a two to four-year period. Medicines Management aims to equip healthcare Students on this programme will also need support Start: September and April. professionals with the skills and knowledge to from a sponsoring organisation, confirming service Entry requirements: Registration with the General contribute effectively to medicines management need and access to a prescribing budget to meet Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). services and to individual drug therapy decisions. the costs of prescriptions on completion of training, and a named designated medical The overall aim of this programme is to The programme emphasises clinical and cost- practitioner who will supervise and provide provide general-level hospital and community effective prescribing in the context of holistic support during clinical placement. pharmacists – registered with the GPhC and consideration of patient needs, and one of its working – with the core skills required to provide pathways offers you the chance to qualify as This programme, approved by the appropriate holistic pharmaceutical care in the practice setting. an independent/supplementary prescriber. professional/regulatory bodies, provides a distance The programme aligns with a nationally agreed learning option for qualification as a non-medical pharmacy practitioner development strategy and You can register for the full MSc programme or prescriber. Eight (nine for nurses) contact days is the result of a unique collaboration of higher undertake stand-alone modules. Modules can be cover communication and diagnostic skills. Other education institutions across London and the put together to form a short course programme. topics on the syllabus include the legal, policy, south and east of England. Module length varies from five to 15 credits. professional and ethical aspects of prescribing, plus pharmacology and patient assessment and The programme develops your underpinning For the PCert, you must complete 60 credits, monitoring. knowledge and skills in clinical pharmacy of which at least 20 must be from core modules. practice and medicines management. It works Diploma students must complete 120 credits, You can take the Master’s programme as a on a philosophy of student-centred workplace of which at least 40 credits must be from core stand-alone PCert in Independent/Supplementary learning, supported by workbooks and contact modules. To gain the MSc, you must complete Prescribing, or as one pathway into the Medicines days facilitated by experienced pharmacy a 60-credit research project, write a dissertation Management programme (see left), by studying practitioners. You are expected to take and present the results as a poster. prescribing as either the first or second year of the responsibility for managing your learning and Medicines Management PDip. achieving the programme objectives. The ethos Course content and culture of the programme is to enhance and Certificate core modules On successful completion, the School will notify the develop self-reliance and an adult approach to • Medication Review in Practice appropriate professional/regulatory body that you learning in support of Continuing Professional • Medicines Management in Practice have qualified as an independent/supplementary Development. prescriber. Diploma core modules The programme is further supported by student- • Consultation and Communication in Practice Course content learning sets, downloadable interactive computer- • Using Evidence Effectively Master’s assisted learning and a range of resources, • Consultation and Decision-making including the library facilities at Medway and • Non-Medical Prescribing in Context your practice base, and the internet. • Putting Prescribing into Practice • Safe and Effective Prescribing CONTINUED OVERLEAF 166 Pharmacy cont

Level H Research programmes • Background to Non-Medical Prescribing Location • Embedding Prescribing in Your Consultation Pharmacy MPhil, PhD Medway. • The Practice of Prescribing Location: Medway. English language requirements • Prescribing Safely and Effectively Start: At any time but preferably in September. Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree in See p223. Assessment an appropriate subject, or taught Master’s. Potential Fees and funding Assessment is by Objective Structured Clinical applicants with non-standard qualifications but See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Examination (OSCE), assignments, case-study significant experience should contact the School’s National ratings analysis, multiple-choice questions, short answer Director of Graduate Studies. Kent was ranked 8th in the UK for Pharmacy paper, narrative based on portfolio entries and and Pharmacology in The Guardian University attendance at a period of learning in practice. The Medway School of Pharmacy houses strong and vibrant research groups that span a range of Guide 2014. Pharmacotherapy and Service pharmacy-related areas. Staff have a wealth of Applications research experience, and UK and international Development PCert Taught programmes links with both industry and academic institutions. Location: Medway. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Attendance: Flexible learning, no attendance postgrad/apply The programme gives postgraduate students the required. integrated, broad-based research training needed Potential prescribing students must complete Start: Flexible. to exploit current advances in pharmaceutical and a specific Prescribing Application form which Entry requirements: A first degree in a relevant biological sciences and pharmacy practice. you can get from the School of Pharmacy. subject from an EU university, or evidence of having worked at level H. We may accept Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further equivalent qualifications from a non-EU university, Research areas details. but will assess them on an individual basis. Chemistry and drug delivery Further information The aim of the PCert in Pharmacotherapy and This group has laboratories with dedicated state-of- T: +44 (0)1634 202935 Service Development is to equip healthcare the art drug delivery, nanotechnology, spectroscopy, E: [email protected] professionals with the skills and knowledge to chromatography and organic synthesis facilities. contribute effectively to medicines management services and to individual drug therapy decisions It brings together researchers in medicinal in primary and secondary care. The curriculum chemistry and drug design, nanotechnology and relates to practice throughout, with emphasis materials science, drug delivery and pharmaceutics on the contribution of medicines management encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to techniques to chronic disease management. Its research. Research covers synthesis and biological structure and content enables you to incorporate evaluation of potential anti-cancer agents, structure- your learning directly into your workplace. based drug design, QSAR predication of ADMET properties, controlled release, particle engineering, The programme offers a flexible approach to powder technology, pharmaceutical technology, accumulating credits through a short course and novel drug delivery systems, with a focus on pathway – students who gain 40 credits have respiratory drug delivery. the option to register for the full PCert. Biological sciences You must take at least two of the MSc Medicines This group is housed in recently refurbished Management core modules for the full PCert, laboratories with dedicated state-of-the-art together with 40 credits of options. molecular biological, electrophysiological, tissue culture and microscopy facilities. Successfully completing the Skills for MUR module links to accreditation to provide a Medicines Use The research is divided into four main themes; Review service under the Pharmacy Contract. infectious diseases and allergy; neuroscience; renal and cardiovascular physiology; and pharmacology. Course content Examples of current work include: investigation of • Options include: Asthma; Hypertension; Minor the use of non-pathogenic virus ‘pseudotypes’ to Ailments: Infections and Infestations; Minor study pathogenic RNA, study of the properties of Ailments: Pain; Patient Monitoring in Practice; neuronal potassium channels and their modulation Skills for MURs; Skills for Public Health; Type 2 and the development of new therapies for Diabetes; Upper Gastrointestinal Disease. patients that have developed acute kidney injury in collaboration with a major pharmaceutical company. Assessment Assessment is through case studies and Pharmacy practice assignments which are principally work-based. This group conducts research in two areas: public health and medicines optimisation, with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases and mental health. Work in public health includes studies in physical exercise, alcohol, cardiovascular screening and spirometry testing, plus pharmacovigilance. Studies in medicines optimisation include work in dementia, bipolar disorder and stroke, with an emphasis on the patient perspective. 167

Canterbury PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy at Kent prides itself on the flexibility of its programmes. Students are able to negotiate their own paths of study through a full range of mixed- level modules and specialist seminars that reflect the research interests of members of staff.

We offer a wide variety of topics and modules, in all areas of philosophy. Our department is a place of academic brilliance, friendly exchange, intellectual excitement and diversity. In our weekly departmental research seminar, colleagues and philosophers from other universities present their current work, and in our thriving student-run graduate seminar, students discuss their ideas with peers and members of staff. We host a Centre for Reasoning and are connected to the Aesthetics Research Group, both offering their own weekly research seminars.

Philosophy is part of the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), which embraces eight other disciplines: Classical & Archaeological Studies; Comparative Literature; English Language and Linguistics; French; German; Hispanic Studies; Italian; and Religious Studies. This means that students enrolled on a postgraduate programme in Philosophy can draw on the excellent resources of a diverse team of teachers with expertise in many key areas of European culture.

“I really enjoy being integrated Programmes Training in the Department’s dynamics. Taught All postgraduate students in SECL have the The support is very good, • Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip opportunity to undertake the Researcher • Medical Humanities MA Development Programme provided by the everybody is available to help • Philosophy MA Graduate School. The School provides training • Reasoning MA workshops for all postgraduates with teaching you and they are happy to do it.” responsibilities, which bring together students from Research all its subject areas. Research students gain further Juliette Ferry academic experience by giving research talks, and MA Philosophy • Philosophy MA, PhD attending national and international conferences.

Postgraduate resources Dynamic publishing culture SECL has extensive facilities to support research, Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, and the Templeman Library has excellent holdings conference proceedings and books. Among in all our areas of research interest. The University others, they have recently contributed to: The of Kent’s location is the best in Britain for students Journal of Philosophy; Philosophical Studies; who need to visit not only the British Library in Philosophers’ Imprint; Proceedings of the London, but also the major libraries and research Aristotelian Society; Journal of Applied Philosophy. centres on the continent. The School also provides Details of recently published books can be found excellent IT facilities. within the staff research interests on p169.

We hold a general postgraduate seminar in The Department of Philosophy’s Centre for philosophy once a week in term-time. Active Reasoning publishes a monthly gazette, The collaboration between departments within the Reasoner, which features exciting new research School also ensures that we have a vigorous and on reasoning, inference and method. This gazette, lively research culture, with numerous research available at www.thereasoner.org, acts as a forum seminars and lectures, plus conferences organised for the global community of researchers in this around the research interests of our staff. area. A typical issue will contain an interview with a leading figure in the field, several short peer- reviewed features, news items, a monthly column or two, and announcements of conferences, jobs and studentships.

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Taught programmes Once the four coursework modules are passed, you proceed to the dissertation. This can be Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip focused within one subject stream or be Location: Canterbury. interdisciplinary. Attendance: One year full-time. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a Assessment related subject. Consideration will be given to Assessments vary across the modules. Typically applicants holding equivalent qualifications or the main assessment is a 5-6,000 word essay and work experience. a dissertation of 12-20,000 words.

This programme offers you the opportunity to Philosophy MA develop your independent study and research Location: Canterbury. skills through a combination of subject modules Entry requirements: A first or second class within the School of European Culture and honours degree in a relevant subject (or Languages. In addition, as part of your programme equivalent). you have the opportunity to improve your English language competence with dedicated English and Our MA in Philosophy is designed for those Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by who wish to broaden their study of philosophy and Kent International Pathways. make a gradual transition to research. It is ideally suited to students with previous philosophical On successful completion of the Diploma training who would like to widen their knowledge and through meeting the University’s rules of of topics, gain more training in philosophical progression, you may choose to study on one methodology, and/or narrow down their interests of the programmes within the following disciplines: of specialisation in preparation for an MPhil/PhD. • Classical & Archaeological Studies We offer a wide variety of topics and modules, • Comparative Literature in theoretical philosophy (mind, language, logic, • English Language and Linguistics epistemology, metaphysics), in moral philosophy • French (metaethics, normative ethics, political philosophy), • German STAFF PROFILE and in history of philosophy (ancient philosophy, • Hispanic Studies modern philosophy, 20th-century analytic • Italian Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij philosophy). All our MA students are offered • Philosophy Lecturer in Philosophy supervision by staff members. • Religious Studies. Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij’s research interest is Course content Assessment in the epistemic good: what it is, and what There are weekly dedicated MA seminars in Assessment is through a combination of empirical psychology can tell us about theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy/ assignments, coursework and examinations. how we can attain it. Recently, he has been history. In addition, you may choose from a number working on whether research on our dual of mixed undergraduate/postgraduate courses, Medical Humanities MA tendency for bias and overconfidence which typically include: Aesthetics; Contemporary suggests that we should practice epistemic Location: Canterbury. Theory of Knowledge; Descartes-Kant; Logic; paternalism. He has also worked on the Entry requirements: A good degree in a relevant Meta-ethics; Normative Ethics; Paradoxes; epistemic value of liberal democracy, on subject, typically 2.1 or above. Those with other Philosophical Logic; Philosophy of Cognitive epistemic justice, and on the idea that true qualifications will also be considered. Science and Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy belief is unique in being of intrinsic of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy epistemic value. Medicine is one of the great human activities. The of Religion; Philosophy of Science; Political changes that medicine has undergone, and the Philosophy; Wittgenstein. In autumn 2013, he will join an inter- problems and opportunities it raises, should be disciplinary team of researchers on a of interest to everyone. In this MA programme, You are also able to choose from any of the project titled ‘Knowledge in a Digital World’ you are introduced to many questions asked about courses available on the MA in Reasoning as well – a collaboration between Kent’s Centre medicine from within the humanities. For example, as the philosophy modules offered in the MA in for Reasoning and Lund University, Sweden. you have the opportunity to examine the history of Aesthetics. Special topics are also available from He will be looking at the extent to which it’s Western medicine and to consider how medical other approved MA courses in the SECL, the appropriate to trust online sources and practice is presented in, and shaped by, literature. School of Arts and the School of Law. thereby depend upon people about whom You have the chance to reflect on what is involved we often know very little, and on whether it’s in classifying something as a disease or an Assessment ever appropriate to restrict free speech on abnormal mental state, and to explore various Assessment is by coursework essays of 4,000 the web to prevent the spread of ethical and legal problems that arise within words and the dissertation of 8-10,000 words. misinformation. medicine. Reasoning MA The programme is aimed primarily at people with Location: Canterbury. a Humanities background, but we also welcome Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree people with medical backgrounds and current in a relevant subject (or equivalent). medical practitioners. This MA programme offers a selection of topics The programme is taught by scholars from many related to reasoning and inference. It covers areas different disciplines around the University. such as cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI); scientific, mathematical, logical, causal and Course content inductive reasoning; philosophy of mind, logic and All students take one core module in the autumn, language. The programme is ideally suited to and then three option modules, within streamed students with philosophical training who would like options. Current streams include: history, law to pursue their undergraduate interests yet develop and ethics, and literature. skills that make them attractive to a broad range of Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy 169

employers, or who would like the advanced training Dr David Corfield: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Professor Jon Williamson: Professor of required for a PhD in this area. The flexibility of this Philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of science; Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method programme enables you to negotiate your own path philosophy of psychology. Philosophy of causality; philosophy of probability; of study through a range of topics. You can focus logics and reasoning. Recent publications include: exclusively on philosophical topics or can study Dr George Darby: Lecturer in Philosophy In Defence of Objective Bayesianism (2010); reasoning-related topics in psychology, computing, Philosophy of science; metaphysics and logic, Probabilistic Logics and Probablistic Networks (co- statistics, law, social policy, biosciences and history. and especially their intersections. ed, 2011); Causality in the Sciences (co-ed, 2011); Is Working Longer the Answer: Unequal Prospects Course content Professor Laurence Goldstein: Professor of for Older Workers (co-author, 2013). You may, in consultation with the Programme Philosophy Director, choose from a number of core modules, Paradoxes; the philosophy of logic and language; which typically include: Advanced Topics in Mind the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Recent publications and Language; Advanced Topics in Reasoning; include: Lógica: conceptos clave en filosofia (2008); Location Logic; Paradoxes; Philosophy of Cognitive Science Brevity (forthcoming). Canterbury. and Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy of Language; English language requirements Philosophy of Logic; Philosophy of Mind; Dr Edward Kanterian: Senior Lecturer in See p223. Philosophy of Science. Philosophy Kant; Frege; Wittgenstein; metaphysics; philosophy Fees and funding These are taught through mixed undergraduate/ of language; history of philosophy since Descartes; See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding postgraduate classes and Master’s-level the Enlightenment; political philosophy; defending National ratings supervisions. liberal democracy against totalitarian ideologies; Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: ethics of memory. Recent publications include: 35% of our research was rated ‘world-leading’ You may also choose from a wide range of Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012); The or ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 55% reasoning-related modules in psychology, Theological Foundations of Kant’s Metaphysics judged as ‘internationally recognised’. computing, law, statistics, social policy and the (forthcoming). history of science. Other wild modules are Applications possible in philosophy and other areas. Dr Simon Kirchin: Reader in Philosophy Moral philosophy; aesthetics; particularism; Taught programmes Assessment moral realism; medical ethics. Recent publications Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ As for Philosophy, see p168. include: Understanding Ethics (2008); A World postgrad/apply Without Values (co-ed, 2010); Metaethics (2012); Research programmes Research programmes A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie’s See p232 or contact the School for further Moral Error Theory (co-ed, forthcoming). details. Philosophy MA, PhD Further information Location: Canterbury. Dr Julien Murzi: Lecturer in Philosophy Entry requirements: As for Philosophy, see p168. Philosophies of language and logic. Recent Taught programmes publications include: Coming True: A Note on Edward Kanterian T: +44 (0)1227 827915 The list below indicates the range of current Truth and Actuality (co-ed, 2013). E: [email protected] research interests of members of staff. We can supervise postgraduate students for the degrees Dr Lubomira Radoilska: Lecturer Research programmes of MA, MPhil or PhD in any of these areas, as well Philosophy of mind; political philosophy; Julia Tanney as in other main fields of philosophy. We encourage autonomous agency; mental illness; Aristotle. T: +44 (0)1227 827059 you to contact us to discuss your plans at an early Recent publications include: Autonomy and Mental E: [email protected] stage of your application. Disorder (ed, 2012), Addiction and Weakness of Will (forthcoming). Research areas Dr Kelli Rudolph: Lecturer in Philosophy The main research interests of the staff are in Ancient philosophy and science, especially moral and political philosophy, philosophy of issues related to ancient physics, metaphysics and language and logic, causality and probability, epistemology; the fragmentary texts of Presocratic the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy. of Wittgenstein, epistemology, modern European philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Professor Sean Sayers: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Staff research interests Social, moral and political philosophy; Hegel and Marx. Recent publications include: Marx and In 2013, new staff will be joining the Department Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (2011). of Philosophy. Full details of these and our staff research interests can be found on our website: Dr Julia Tanney: Reader in Philosophy of Mind www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/staff Philosophy of mind; philosophy of cognitive science; self-knowledge; normativity and rules; Dr Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij: Lecturer in reason-explanation; Ryle; Wittgenstein. Recent Philosophy publications include: Rules, Reason and Self- Epistemology and its intersections with ethics knowledge (2012). and political philosophy; epistemic paternalism; epistemic expressivism; the epistemic value of liberal democracy; what research in social psychology can tell us about the epistemic virtue of deferring to others, and how eradicating epistemic injustices may serve to promote that virtue. Recent publications include: Epistemic Paternalism: A Defence (2013). 170

Canterbury PHYSICAL SCIENCES

The School of Physical Sciences offers postgraduate students the opportunity to participate in groundbreaking science in the realms of physics, chemistry, forensics and astronomy. With strong international reputations, our staff provide plausible ideas, well-designed projects, research training and enthusiasm within a stimulating environment. Recent investment in modern laboratory equipment and computational facilities accelerates the research.

The School maintains a focus on progress to ensure each student is able to compete with their peers in their chosen field. We carefully nurture the skills, abilities and motivation of our students which are vital elements in our research activity. We offer higher degree programmes in chemistry and physics (including specialisations in forensics, astronomy and space science) by research. We also offer taught programmes in Forensic Science, studied over one year full-time, and a two-year European-style Master’s in Physics.

Our principal research covers a wide variety of topics within physics, astronomy and chemistry, ranging from specifically theoretical work on surfaces and interfaces, through mainstream experimental condensed matter physics, astrobiology, space science and astrophysics, to applied areas such as biomedical imaging, forensic imaging and space vehicle protection. We scored highly in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, with 25% of our research ranked as ‘world-leading’ and our Functional Materials Research Group ranked 2nd nationally in the Metallurgy and Materials discipline.

“You learn an incredible amount Programmes Interdisciplinary approach during a PhD, and not just in Taught Much of the School’s work is interdisciplinary your topic area. The skills • Forensic Science GDip and we have successful collaborative projects • Forensic Science MSc with members of the Schools of Biosciences, and experience you gain are Computing and Engineering and Digital Arts Taught research at Kent, as well as an extensive network of applicable to any job, the work international collaborations. is interesting and you can steer • MSc Physics (EuroMasters) it in any direction.” Research National and international links • Chemistry MSc, MPhil, PhD The School is a leading partner in the South East Kate Wetherall • Physics MSc, MPhil, PhD Physics Network (SEPnet), a consortium of seven PhD Physics universities in the south-east, acting together to Postgraduate resources promote physics in the region through national and international channels. The School benefits through The University has good facilities for modern the £12.5 million of funding from the Higher research in physical sciences. Among the major Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), instrumentation and techniques available on the creating new facilities and resources to enable us campus are NMR spectrometers (including to expand our research portfolio. solutions at 600 MHz), several infrared and uv- visible spectrometers, a Raman spectrometer, two The School’s research is well supported by powder X-ray diffractometers, X-ray fluorescence, contracts and grants and we have numerous atomic absorption in flame and graphite furnace collaborations with groups in universities around mode, gel-permeation chromatography, gas- the world. We have particularly strong links with chromatography, analytical and preparative high- universities in Germany, France, Italy and the USA. performance liquid chromatography (including UK links include King’s College, London and St GC-MS and HPLC-MS), mass spectrometry Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Our industrial (electrospray and MALDI), scanning electron partners include British Aerospace, New York microscopy and EDX, various microscopes Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Ophthalmic Technology (including hot-stage), differential scanning Inc, Canada. The universe is explored through calorimetry and thermal gravimetric analysis, collaborations with NASA, ESO and ESA scientists. dionex analysis of anions and automated CHN analysis. For planetary science impact studies, there is a two-stage light gas gun. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/physical-sciences 171

Dynamic publishing culture analytical techniques for forensic investigation Research programmes and to use a wide range of advanced analytic Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, apparatus to evidential standards. Chemistry MSc, MPhil, PhD conference proceedings and books. Among others, Physics MSc, MPhil, PhD they have recently contributed to: Nature; Science; At the end of the programme, you will have gained Canterbury. Astrophysical Journal; Journal of Polymer Science; Location: the skills and knowledge to recognise and solve A first or second class Journal of Materials Chemistry; Applied Optics. Entry requirements: forensic-related problems at an advanced level. honours degree in Physics or Chemistry. We will Details of recently published books can be found In addition to enhancing the employment also consider applicants with degrees in computer within the staff research interests on p172. opportunities and career prospects of graduates science, electronics, biochemistry or other closely in forensic science and related subject areas, this related disciplines. Taught programmes programme helps you to develop an integrated and critical understanding of forensic science to Forensic Science GDip We make every attempt to allocate you to prepare you to undertake a PhD in any associated a supervisor directly in your field of interest, Location: Canterbury. discipline. consistent with available funding and staff Attendance: One year full-time. loading. When you apply, please give specific Entry requirements: A first degree or diploma in a Course content indications of your research interest – including, science subject or equivalent. Admission may be • Advanced Laboratory Techniques where appropriate, the member(s) of staff you possible with exemptions for advanced standing • Incident Management wish to work with – and whether you are applying and credit accumulation. • (Physical Science) Research Planning for a studentship or propose to be self-funded. • Substances of Abuse The programme provides a broad and balanced • Topics in Functional Materials foundation of the science and law that underpins • Optional modules drawn from: Fires and Research groups forensic practice and methodology in modern Explosions; Forensic DNA Analysis; Image Applied Optics Group (AOG) society. This includes detailed knowledge of Processing the physical techniques and methods of assay, Optical sensors • MSc Research Project This activity largely covers research into analysis and examination used by forensic the fundamental properties of guided wave scientists, together with the essential chemical and Assessment interferometers, and their application in fields biological knowledge required for understanding Assessment is by examination and coursework. ranging from monitoring bridge structures to forensic evidence and its presentation. diagnostic procedures in medicine. Course content EuroMasters programme • Six from: Analytical Chemistry; Collision (Taught and Research) Biomedical imaging/Optical coherence tomography (OCT) Investigation; Criminal Law for Forensic MSc Physics (EuroMasters) Scientists; Firearms and Forensic Ballistics; Fires Two-year programme, 120 ECTS credit equivalent. OCT is a relatively new technique which can and Explosions; Forensic Archaeology; Forensic provide very high-resolution images of tissue, DNA Analysis; Forensic Facial Identification and The School offers a two-year Master’s degree in and which has a major application in imaging Image Analysis; Forensic Physical Methods; Physics in partnership with the South East Physics the human eye. We are investigating different time Forensic Presentation and Media Skills; Law Network (SEPnet) which comprises the universities domain and spectral domain OCT configurations. of Evidence for Forensic Science; Medicinal of Kent, Portsmouth, Queen Mary London, Royal Chemistry; Numeracy Skills for Forensic Science. Holloway London, Southampton, Surrey and The Group is developing systems in collaboration • Forensic Science project Sussex. with a variety of different national and international institutions to extend the OCT capabilities from On completion of the programme, you will be able The programme involves both a taught and systems dedicated to eye imaging to systems to proceed to further study in the forensic area or research component. In the first year, you will for endoscopy, imaging skin and tooth caries. in aspects of chemistry, physics or bioscience that follow a taught Master’s course, which includes Distinctively, the OCT systems developed at Kent are relevant to forensic and related practices. specialised research, and in the second year you can provide both transverse and longitudinal will undertake an advanced research project with images from the tissue, along with a confocal Assessment the option to change locations to a SEPnet partner image, useful in associating the easy to interpret Assessment is by examination and coursework. university or research institution. This may include en-face view with the more traditional OCT cross Cern, Switzerland, the UK’s Rutherford Appleton section views. Forensic Science MSc Laboratory, ISIS, Diamond or NPL. The School of The Group also conducts research on coherence Location: Canterbury. Physical Sciences at Kent offers EuroMasters gated wavefront sensors and multiple path Attendance: One year full-time. research strands in Atomic and Condensed interferometry, that extend the hardware technology Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 degree in Matter and Astrophysics. forensic science or a forensic-related subject. of OCT to imaging with reduced aberrations and The MSc in Physics (EuroMasters) is fully to sensing applications of optical time domain This course is for graduates with a strong compatible with the European Credit Transfer reflectometry. grounding in forensic science who wish to advance Accumulation System across the European Union their knowledge of the field. The programme and other collaborating European countries, and Forensic Imaging Group (FIG) prepares you for a professional role in forensic qualifies students to pursue a PhD or a career in The research of the forensic imaging team is science within the criminal or civil judicial system, physics upon completion. It is also open to UK primarily applied, focusing on mathematical and police or forensic practice, or research. You entrants. computational techniques and employing a wide develop command, control and management skills variety of image processing and analysis methods that will enable you to present expert evidential SEPnet scholarships are available for this for applications in modern forensic science. The incident reports to the highest standard at court. programme, which cover tuition fees and may Group has attracted approximately £850,000 of provide up to €13,000 towards living expenses; research funding in the last five years, from several You also develop your knowledge and please state your interest when making enquiries academic, industrial and commercial organisations understanding of advanced laboratory analytical or when applying. in the UK and the US. The Group also collaborates methods applied to forensic investigation. This closely with the Forensic Psychology Group of the enables you to select the most appropriate Please contact us for further information. Open University.

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Current active research projects include: techniques (FT-IR, UV-Vis, 1H, 13C and 29Si NMR • the development of high-quality, fast facial spectroscopy, polarimetry). The group uses a composite systems based on evolutionary number of means to examine the organisation algorithms and statistical models of human of self-assembling materials including DSC, DMTA, facial appearance polarising optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, • interactive, evolutionary search methods and dynamic NMR spectroscopy and electron evolutionary design microscopy. • statistically rigorous ageing of photo-quality images of the human face (for tracing and Theory and modelling of materials identifying missing persons) The Group’s interest focuses on first principles • real and pseudo 3D models for modelling and modelling of rare earth materials, carbon nanotubes analysis of the human face and oxides, and classical modelling of ionic solids • generating ‘mathematically fair’ virtual line-ups and glasses. We primarily use first principles for suspect identification. simulations to solve problems in condensed matter physics and materials chemistry. In the case of Functional Materials Group (FMG) ionic solids, we also use classical modelling to The research in FMG is concerned with synthesis study properties that require computer calculations. and characterisation of functional materials, as exemplified by materials with useful optical, First principles simulations are predictive catalytic, or electronic properties, and with an and powerful tools, giving access to accurate emerging theme in biomaterials. The Group also energies and electronic structures. One strand uses computer modelling studies to augment of our research covers nanostructured materials, experimental work. The research covers the surfaces, oxides, carbon and water/ice in situations following main areas: ranging from vacuum surface science to complex nanostructured battery electrodes. Amorphous and nanostructured solids Our interest is in inorganic solids (primarily The related applications include filled and ceramics and glasses) which possess useful functionalised nanotubes, electrochromic oxides, STAFF PROFILE functional properties (eg electrical, optical, and battery materials. Another strand of research catalytic) stemming from their composition covers first principles simulations involving relativistic quantum mechanics. These are needed Michael Went and/or nanostructures. Our research includes to accurately model the properties of rare earth Professor of Chemistry and Forensic the synthesis of novel materials, the experimental materials and relativistic effects in materials, Science characterisation of their atomic and nano-scale structure and the computer modelling of including superconductivity. We also undertake classical modelling to study time-consuming Professor Went’s research interests focus these structures and associated properties. properties, such as diffusion in ionic crystals on synthetic and analytical chemistry. The Understanding these complex materials and medium-range structure of glasses. synthetic chemistry expertise has been demands the use of a range of advanced applied to coordination chemistry of modern characterisation methods. The truly atomic technetium, rhenium and copper with scale probes available to us are X-ray absorption Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary applications in nuclear medicine. Currently, spectroscopy, and X-ray and neutron diffraction. Science (CAPS) he is involved with the synthesis of new Porosimetry and analogous techniques, such as The group’s research focuses on observational and radiopharmaceuticals containing isotopes small angle scattering, allow us to probe length modelling programmes in star formation, planetary of copper and zirconium for the imaging scales approaching microns. Our work relies on science and early solar system bodies, galactic of hypoxia and as use as radiotracers. access to world-class international facilities such astronomy and astrobiology. We gain data from as the ISIS pulsed neutron source at the Rutherford the largest telescopes in the world and in space, His recent publications in forensic analysis Appleton Laboratory, and the ILL neutron and ESRF such as ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the New report the development of methods for synchrotron X-ray sources in Grenoble (France). Technology Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope detecting of drugs of abuse embedded Advanced computer modelling and simulation and the Herschel Space Observatory. We also use in fingerprints by Raman spectroscopy methods are increasingly being integrated with our in-house facilities which include a two-stage as well as the detection of the ‘date rape’ the experimental work. light gas gun for impact studies. drug GHB by microcrystal tests and X-ray diffraction. Current forensic science Soft functional materials Staff are involved in a wide range of international research by his group is investigating the One of the most exciting areas of contemporary collaborative research projects. Areas of particular detection and identification of cosmetics materials research is the design of ‘soft’ functional interest include: star formation, extragalactic as trace evidence, the recovery of materials organised at the nanoscale, using astronomy, solar system science and fingerprints from metal surfaces and organic, organometallic, polymer and inorganic instrumentation development. the trace metal content of street drugs. chemistry to investigate the synthesis of such materials. The functionality in these materials comes from one or two properties: (i) the self- Staff research interests assembly of varying constituent molecular or Full details of staff research interests can be macromolecular sub units; (ii) the incorporation found on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/physical- of biologically derived motifs. The materials are sciences/staff being developed as smart adhesive materials for biomaterial applications, self-assembling bioactive, Dr Maria Alfredsson: Senior Lecturer in electroactive and drug delivery vehicles and Theoretical Materials conducting/photoconducting liquid crystalline Quantum-mechanical modelling of clusters, materials. surfaces and solids; inter-atomic potential calculations of defects and grain-boundaries; high The Group’s research incorporates a range pressure and temperature simulations; H-bonding. of synthetic skills (peptide, ligand, polymer, heterocyclic, organometallic and inorganic Dr Donna Arnold: Lecturer in Forensic Science synthesis), using fully equipped synthetic Synthesis and characterisation of bulk and nano laboratories with the associated characterisation structured novel multiferroics (materials which Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/physical-sciences 173

exhibit electric and magnetic ordering); butyrolactone (GBL) and related neurotransmitters, are then interrogated to predict a variety of enhancement of the ferroelectric and magnetic with applications for forensic detection in complex physical, chemical and mechanical properties properties of bismuth ferrite through chemical aqueous milieu. and associated phenomenon. doping. Dr Stephen Lowry: Senior Lecturer in Dr Christopher Shepherd: Lecturer in Forensic Dr Robert Benfield: Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Astrophysics Science Chemistry Comets, asteroids, solar system, spacecraft and Ballistics with a particular emphasis on the The structure and bonding of metal clusters and remote observation. application of modern techniques to interrogate nanowires; ordered arrays of metal nanowires the wounding potential of different projectiles on contained within mesoporous alumina membranes, Dr Emma McCabe: Lecturer in Chemistry the human body for forensic applications. and nanoparticles of cobalt. Materials chemistry and focus on the synthesis; structural characterisation and physical properties Professor Michael Smith: Professor of Dr Stefano Biagini: Senior Lecturer in Organic of complex transition metal oxides and mixed anion Astronomy Chemistry systems; magnetism in solids; inorganic chemistry Star formation; molecular clouds; evolution of Ring-opening metathesis polymerisations; complex synthesis; structural characterisation and galaxies; astrophysical simulation; simulation; monomer syntheses; block copolymers, self- crystallography, driven by the structure-property shock waves; planetary nebulae. Recent assembly, properties and applications; nuclear relationship and understanding how changes in the publications include: Astrophysical Jets medicine; unnatural amino acid and peptide composition and structure can be used to tune the and Beams (2012). syntheses; radiolabelling; nanoparticles; surface physical properties of materials. modifications on silica magnetite. Dr Chris Solomon: Reader in Physics Dr Jing-Qi Miao: Senior Lecturer in Numerical Image processing and reconstruction; facial Dr Barry Blight: Lecturer in Chemistry and Astrophysics modelling, encoding and synthesis; facial Forensic Science SPH numerical simulation of collapsing molecular composites, forensic image analysis. Recent The development of chiral porous solids that can clouds; effect of the UV radiation on the Bright Rim publications include: Fundamentals of Digital transfer chiral information into enantioselective clouds; DSMC modelling of the space particles Image Processing: A Practical Approach with reactivity in catalytic transformations; inorganic impacts on spacecraft; structures and formation Examples in Matlab (co-author, 2010). photovoltaics (O-PVDs); employing supramolecular of proplyds. polymerisation with new photoactive hydrogen Professor Paul Strange: Professor of Physical bonding synthons. Dr Gavin Mountjoy: Senior Lecturer in Sciences Condensed Matter Physics First principles calculation of the properties of Professor Mark Burchell: Professor of Space Multi-technique characterisation of oxide glasses condensed matter; the electronic and magnetic Science (including ‘sol gels’); vibrational spectroscopy of properties of rare earth materials, superconductors, Hypervelocity impacts, the very violent events silicate glasses; use of X-ray absorption carbon and other nanotubes; superatom materials. typical of solar system impacts, including: impact spectroscopy to characterise nanocrystalline Recent publications include: Relativistic Quantum cratering in ices, intact capture in aerogel, impact transition metal alloys and oxides, including Mechanics: With Applications in Condensed Matter disruption of target bodies, oblique incidence nanocomposite materials. and Atomic Physics (2008). impacts, astrobiology (survival of microbial life in impact events); solar system dust using impact Professor Robert Newport: Professor of Professor Michael Went: Professor of Chemistry ionisation techniques. Recent publications include: Materials Physics and Forensic Science Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice Atomic-scale structure of novel amorphous (non- Chemistry of co-ordinated alkynes; new chelating (co-ed, 2010). crystalline) materials of contemporary interest such and macrocyclic ligands with phosphine, thioether as nonlinear optical glasses and ‘sol gel’ glasses, and ether donor groups; synthesis of new Dr George Dobre: Lecturer in Applied Optics which may be catalytically or biologically active. radiopharmaceuticals; forensic analysis. Optical coherence tomography; optical design; interferometric sensors; fibre optic sensors. Professor Adrian Podoleanu: Professor of Biomedical Optics Location Dr Dirk Froebrich: Senior Lecturer in Non-invasive imaging of tissue, especially optical Canterbury. Astrophysics coherence tomography and confocal microscopy; Earliest stages of star and star cluster formation; optical sensing; fast optoelectronics. English language requirements structure and properties of molecular clouds; See p223. structure analysis of star clusters. Dr Mark Price: Lecturer in Space Science Fees and funding Experimentally based and computer modelling of See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Dr Stuart Gibson: Lecturer in Forensic Science hypervelocity impacts relevant to the evolution of Digital image processing with forensic applications; solar system bodies. National ratings computer vision; interactive evolutionary Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: computation (IEC) and cognitive psychology Dr Jorge Quintanilla: Lecturer/SEPnet Fellow in our Functional Materials Research Group was relating to human facial appearance. Condensed Matter Theory ranked 2nd nationally in the Metallurgy and Quantum condensed matter and materials Materials discipline, with 80% of our research Dr Simon J Holder: Senior Lecturer in Organic physics; spontaneous Fermi surface deformations in rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally Chemistry strongly correlated quantum matter; unconventional excellent’. Synthesis and application of novel polymeric pairing in superconductors; complementarity materials; polymerisation of dichlorodiorganosilanes between cold atom and condensed matter Applications to improve the yields, allowing for the first time the experiments; proximity effect in magnetic nano- Taught programmes high yield synthesis of a variety of polysilanes at structures; design of new quantum information- Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ ambient temperatures; synthesis by controlled based neutron scattering and cold atoms probes postgrad/apply polymerisations and application of novel of strongly correlated quantum matter, and novel Research programmes copolymers; design and development of novel topological excitations in frustrated magnets. See p232 or contact the School for further non-invasive polymer-based optical sensor systems. details. Dr Dean Sayle: Reader in Chemistry Dr Angeline Kanagasooriam: Lecturer in Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to mirror Further information Medicinal and Physical Organic Chemistry experiment; ‘simulating synthesis’ at the atomistic T: +44 (0)1227 823759 The analysis of physiochemical model systems level to generate models of nanomaterials spanning F: +44 (0)1227 827558 for gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GBH), gamma nanoparticles to mesoporous architectures, which E: [email protected] 174

Canterbury and Brussels POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The School of Politics and International Relations is one of the most dynamic places to study Politics and International Relations. We combine high-quality teaching with cutting-edge research in a supportive environment that welcomes students from all over the world. All lectures and seminars on postgraduate modules are informed by the latest research and scholarship, and are delivered by full-time academic staff who have internationally recognised expertise in their field. The School has grown significantly in the last few years and now has over 30 academic staff based at two locations, in Canterbury and Brussels. The School is cosmopolitan, with staff originating from eight different countries, and well over half of all postgraduate students come from outside the UK.

We pride ourselves on our global outlook, which is reflected in the wide range of international partnerships. We are the only politics and international relations school in the country with a postgraduate centre in Brussels, which allows students on some of our programmes to follow part, or their entire, programme in Brussels. Agreements with partner institutions in France, Germany, Poland and Russia enable us to offer Double Award versions of the MAs in European and Global Governance, International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies, leading to the award of two Master’s degrees.

“I feel I have gained much Programmes Research Taught • Comparative Politics, MA, MPhil, PhD more knowledge than in my • International Conflict Analysis MA, MPhil, PhD undergraduate degree and Canterbury • International Relations MA, MPhil, PhD • Comparative Politics PDip, MA • Political and Social Thought MA, MPhil, PhD I am more experienced in the • European and Global Governance PDip, MA field of research. Because I • European and Global Governance MA (International Double Award) Postgraduate resources am able to focus on my special • Human Rights PDip, MA Students have access to an excellent library interests, I feel more driven and • International Conflict Analysis PDip, MA and extensive computing facilities. You also have • International Relations PDip, MA access to online resources; inter-library loans; enthusiastic about my studies.” • International Relations MA (International video library; online book renewals and Double Award) reservations; laptop and netbook loan facilities; Hatice Ozyurt • International Relations with International Law more than 1,300 study spaces/seats; more than MA Peace and Conflict Studies PDip, MA 27,500 books and 10,500 bound periodicals • International Security and the Politics of Terror catalogued under politics and international PDip, MA relations and related class marks plus British • Peace and Conflict Studies MA (International Government Publications and 50,000 online Double Award) journals also available off-campus. The School’s • Political Theory and Practices of Resistance resources include a European Documentation PDip, MA Centre, with all official publications of the EU • Politics and International Relations Pre-Master’s institutions, and a specialised collection on GDip international conflict and federal studies as well as • Security and Terrorism PDip, MA (taught jointly the University’s collection of political cartoons. In with School of Social Policy, Sociology and addition, postgraduate research students have their Social Research) own designated room with 12 computer terminals.

Brussels • European Public Policy MA Dynamic publishing culture • International Conflict and Security MA Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • International Development MA conference proceedings and books. Among • International Migration MA others, they have recently contributed to: • International Political Economy MA Contemporary Political Theory; International • International Relations MA Political Sociology; Journal of Human Rights; • Political Strategy and Communication MA New Political Economy; Political Studies; Telos. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/politics 175

Details of recently published books can be found The programme is also offered in a two-year, Assessment within the staff research interests on p180. 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught As for Comparative Politics. modules followed by a dissertation. Students can Taught programmes spend the first term of the second year studying Human Rights MA abroad at one of our partner institutions. Location: Canterbury. Comparative Politics PDip, MA Attendance: As for Comparative Politics. Location: Canterbury. Assessment Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics. Attendance: One year full-time, two years part-time As for Comparative Politics. (90 ECTS credits) or two years full-time (120 ECTS Human rights has become a central concern for credits). European and Global Governance MA states, citizens, international organisations, and Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class (International Double Award) advocacy networks in the world today. This honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Location: Canterbury and either Grenoble or programme is designed to provide you with a Krakow. practical and theoretical understanding of human This programme offers an advanced understanding Attendance: Two years full-time (120 ECTS credits). rights issues in domestic, regional, and global of contemporary politics from a global comparative Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class contexts. We examine the history of the human perspective. You engage with key questions in honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. rights regime with an emphasis on questions political behaviour and mass participation; Advanced knowledge of French – at level DALF C2 concerning the universality of human rights; whose governmental institutions and policy making; public – for the pathway with the second year in Grenoble. responsibility it is to protect human rights; and values, attitudes, and opinion; tolerance/trust; mass whether human rights conventions, laws, and media; collective action and social movements; This version of the European and Global regimes are effective. We further analyse the role parties and party systems; and modernisation and Governance programme offers the opportunity to of civil society and transnational activism in the democratisation. You also receive training in the study at two institutions in two different countries diffusion and translation of global norms, as well as methodological skills necessary to pursue your own and obtain two Master’s degrees. You spend the the effectiveness of human rights monitoring and research interests, in particular for the dissertation. first year at Kent and the second year at one of naming and shaming practises. You gain practical The programme offers a solid preparation for a our partner institutions in Grenoble or Krakow. experience in assessing the human rights of states. range of professional careers in fields such as Successful completion of the programme leads research, government, international organisations, to the award of the MA in European Governance Course content and the media or a foundation for further studies at (IDA) and either the Master Gouvernance • Human Rights in a World of States doctoral level. Européenne de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de • International Human Rights Law Grenoble or the Master in European Studies of • Philosophy and Methodology Course content the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. • Three other modules taught within the School • Comparative Political Behaviour • Dissertation • Key Issues in Comparative Politics Courses in Grenoble are taught in French while • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and courses in Krakow are taught in English. The programme is also offered in a two-year, International Relations 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught • Three other modules taught within the School Assessment modules followed by a dissertation. • Dissertation As for Comparative Politics. Assessment The programme is also offered in a two-year, European Public Policy MA As for Comparative Politics. 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught Location: Brussels. modules followed by a dissertation. Attendance: As for Comparative Politics. International Conflict Analysis PDip, MA Start: September or January. Location: Canterbury or Canterbury and Brusssels Assessment Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics. (if studying two years full-time, 120 ECTS credits) Assessment is by coursework plus the dissertation. Attendance: As for Comparative Politics. Brussels is the centre of European decision- Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics. European and Global Governance PDip, making. It is estimated that 60% of national MA legislation of EU member states originates, The programme examines the major theories of Location: Canterbury. in some form, in Brussels. Anyone wanting to enter conflict and conflict resolution in international Attendance: As for Comparative Politics. a career in civil service, either at the EU level or affairs, supplementing theory with detailed case Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics. in a national government in Europe, must gain a studies. Topics include negotiation, mediation, strategic understanding of the scope, content, conference diplomacy, third party intervention, The European and Global Governance programme decision-cycle and implementation of policy in restorative justice, peacekeeping, peacemaking, provides an advanced understanding of the Europe. and coercive diplomacy. European Union for students who are considering a career in European affairs. It focuses on the The MA in European Public Policy is a specialised Course content constitutional design, the process of decision- graduate programme that centres on the policy • Conflict Resolution in World Politics making, public policy and the role of the EU in process in the European Union. The curriculum • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and world politics. It blends academic analysis with combines legal theory, economics and political International Relations applying concepts and theories to the challenges science with a focus on public policy analysis. • Theories of Conflict and Violence facing the enlarged European Union in the 21st • Three other modules taught within the School century. Course content • Dissertation • EU Constitutional and Institutional Law Course content • EU Politics and Governance The programme is also offered in a two-year, • The European Union in the World • Three from: Contemporary Energy Security; 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught • The Governance of the European Union Development Economics; Europe and Global modules followed by a dissertation. This version of • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and Change; European Foreign and Security Policy; the programme includes the option to study the first International Relations Foreign Policy Analysis; Political Strategy; The year in Canterbury and the second year at Brussels. • Three other modules taught within the School Politics of Globalisation. • Dissertation • One from: Global Governance and International Assessment Organisation; Political Communication; Public As for Comparative Politics. Policy Analysis. • Dissertation

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Student profile

DARIUS MIKULENAS MA EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE

What made you want to go into this area of study? What is the teaching like? My undergraduate degree course gave me a broad overview Teaching at Kent is top class. The lecturers are not here simply of politics and international relations but it was specifically the to pass on information to you; they get you to think in broader EU that caught my attention. I was amazed at how much it terms, to question prevailing beliefs and build your own does, the influence it exerts and the continual changes it is opinion. They help you to explore new avenues of knowledge going through. It wasn’t long before I realised I was set on a and build your own conclusions. They are always willing to go career specialising in European Union affairs. the extra mile.

Why did you choose to study at Kent? What about your employment prospects? Kent positions itself as the ‘UK’s European university’ and it I think my time at Kent will really boost my career options. lives up to that name. I’ve got to know people from all parts of My studies here have given me a range of sought-after skills, Europe, built long-lasting relationships and met officials from including research, public speaking and communication. various European organisations. Kent was one of the few Outside of the classroom, I had the chance to develop my universities that had a course I could fine tune to my needs leadership skills by volunteering as a course representative, and interests, and learn a broad range of topics while still and teamwork skills by participating in various societies. In fact, enhancing my knowledge of the EU. there are more opportunities than there is time to pursue them. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/politics 177

International Conflict and Security MA poverty eradication, legal empowerment, public- International Political Economy MA Location: Brussels. private partnerships, social entrepreneurship, trade Location: Brussels. Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. and privatisation, informal economies and finance, Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Start: September or January. and technological initiatives. Start: September or January. Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. The programme is offered jointly by the School see p175. of Politics and International Relations, Kent Law The MA in International Conflict and Security at the School and the School of Economics to provide This programme offers a combined competency in Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) is you with an interdisciplinary approach to economics and politics, enriched with the study of structured to introduce you to the key concepts and development and to allow you to specialise in your law. It additionally allows for a specialisation in a theories necessary to understand the features of field of interest, such as development economics, subfield such as development, environmental contemporary international conflict and security development and migration, development and policy, migration, conflict and security, political issues. At the same time, it gives the opportunity, conflict, or human rights. You may choose between strategy and European public policy, and so equips through practical and case study-driven modules, an economic stream and a politico-legal stream, you with cutting-edge qualifications. The exposure to learn about conflict prevention and early complemented by a wealth of elective modules you are given to policy practice at the international warning, as well as the appropriate ways of from various departments. institutions based in Brussels, together with high managing conflicts peacefully through negotiation quality education, prepares you for a challenging and mediation. Course content and fulfilling career in international and domestic • Politics of International Development public policy, diplomacy, non-governmental The programme also provides you with training • Development: Theory and Practice organisations, as well as in the private sector. specific to working in the field of conflict analysis, • Two from: Identity, State and Belonging; such as preparing reports on specific conflicts or International Economics; International Problems; Course content security issues, drafting recommendations for Law and Development; Legal Aspects of • International Political Economy policymakers, or mediating between conflicting Contemporary State, Market and Society. • State, Market and Society parties. The programme is constantly updated to • Two from: Conflict and Security; Development • Two from: Corporate Governance; Development introduce fresh insights from the theory of conflict Economics; International Human Rights Law; The Economics; International Economic Law; and innovative policy strategies as developed in the Politics of Globalisation; Transitional Justice and International Economic Regulation; International field by practitioners and academics alike. Rule of Law Programming; Project Appraisal. Economics; International Public Policy; Politics • Dissertation of International Development; The Politics of Course content Globalisation; Public International Law. • Conflict and Security Assessment • Two from those listed above plus: Contemporary • Theories of Conflict and Violence As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Energy Security; Development: Theory and • Four other modules taught within the School, Practice; Environmental Law; European which include: Contemporary Energy Security; International Migration MA Public Policy; Foreign Policy Analysis; Global Gender and Conflicts; Islam, Conflict and the Location: Brussels. Governance and International Organisation; State; Law of Armed Conflict; Negotiation and Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. International Migration Law; International Mediation; Security and Liberties; Transitional Start: September or January. Relations Theory; Law and Development; Justice and the Rule of Law. Entry requirements: First or upper-second class Legal Aspects of Contemporary International • Dissertation honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Problems; Migration; Public Policy Analysis; Theories of Migration, Integration and Citizenship. Assessment The programme offers an interdisciplinary • Dissertation As for Comparative Politics, see p175. perspective on migration. You gain an in-depth understanding of the broader field of migration Assessment International Development MA while being able to specialise in a particular As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Location: Brussels. migration issue, (eg, human trafficking, asylum Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. or forced migration, or integration and citizenship), International Relations PDip, MA Start: September or January. and to examine the links between migration and Location: Canterbury or Brussels. Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, other fields ranging from development economics Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. see p175. and conflict analysis to human rights law or Start: September (Canterbury and Brussels) or international migration law. January (Brussels only). The MA in International Development is a unique Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, interdisciplinary programme taught by academics, The programme brings together theory, policy and see p175. practitioners and policymakers to understand the examination of case studies, and is suitable the multifaceted political, economic and legal either for students who have recently completed In the post-Cold War globalising world, there is processes that shape development. It is suitable their undergraduate studies or those who have an increasing need for more sophisticated ways of for students seeking to understand the field some experience working with migrants/refugees understanding the dramatic changes taking place. of international development as well as for or on migration issues. This course addresses that need. This is a very practitioners who already have substantive flexible MA programme that allows you maximum experience. It provides conceptual tools and Course content scope to construct a degree that suits your special practical skills for a variety of careers in • Migration: Conflict, the State and Human Rights interests. international affairs. • Theories of Migration: Integration and Citizenship Course content The programme seeks to contribute to a critical • Four other modules taught within the School, • International Relations Theory understanding of contemporary issues in which may include: EU Migration Law; • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and development and provides practical tools for Humanitarian Issues in Forced Migration; International Relations Relations (Fundamentals, a future engagement. It considers theoretical, Identity, State and Belonging; International Dissertation and Research if studying first year practical and ethical issues by interrogating Migration Law; Islam, Conflict and the State; in Brussels) development discourses, objectives and effects, Law and Development. • Four other modules taught within the School and by seeking to understand forms of • Dissertation inclusion/exclusion and intervention in societies. Assessment Issues covered include economic development, As for Comparative Politics, see p175.

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The programme is also offered in a two-year, The programme is also offered in a two-year, 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught modules followed by a dissertation. This version of modules followed by a dissertation. the programme includes the option to study the first year in Canterbury and the second year at Brussels. Assessment As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Assessment As for Comparative Politics, see p175. International Security and the Politics of Terror PDip, MA International Relations MA Location: Canterbury. (International Double Award) Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Location: Canterbury and Moscow. Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, Attendance: Two years full-time. see p175. Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. This programme provides a good grounding in the study of approaches to, and issues in, international This is a version of the International Relations security and the challenges of national security programme which offers the opportunity to study planning in the era of increased concerns about at the prestigious Higher School of Economics in terror. It examines how state, non-state and supra- Moscow and obtain two Master’s degrees. You national actors behave and interact in managing or spend the first year at Kent and the second year in causing threats to international security and peace. Moscow. Courses in Moscow are taught in English It deals with issues such as the emerging synergy with the option to take Russian language courses. between national and international security and the The programme features a mandatory research use of non-military tools to combat terrorism and internship that is linked to the MA dissertation. the infringement of civil liberties and problems of social cohesion in national security planning. Course content As for International Relations (Canterbury), Course content STAFF PROFILE see p177. • International Security in a Changing World • Terrorism and National Security Dr Ruth Blakeley Assessment • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and Reader in International Relations As for Comparative Politics, see p175. International Relations • Three other modules taught within the School Ruth Blakeley has developed an International Relations with International • Dissertation international reputation for research on Law PDip, MA state violence. She secured an Economic Location: Canterbury. The programme is also offered in a two-year, and Social Research Council (ESRC) Small Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught Grant for research on the Globalisation of Entry requirements:As for Comparative Politics, modules followed by a dissertation. Rendition and Secret Detention. This 18- see p175. month study began in January 2011. Apart Assessment from high quality publications, the work has Despite their close relationship, international law As for Comparative Politics, see p175. resulted in the Rendition Project Website: and international relations have traditionally been www.therenditionproject.org.uk taught as discrete subjects. This programme is Peace and Conflict Studies MA based on a recognition of the need to allow each (International Double Award) This is a continuing project designed to discipline to be informed by the other, and covers Location: Canterbury and Marburg. analyse the global system of rendition, the general methods, scope and theories of Attendance: Two years full-time. secret detention and torture initiated by international relations and international law. The Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, the George W Bush administration as part objective of the programme is to develop a critical see p175. of its ‘War on Terror’. Blakeley said, “After consideration of traditional approaches to the 9/11 the US government led the way in discipline of international relations. This programme offers the opportunity to study at constructing a global system of detention the University of Marburg and obtain two Master’s outside the law, illegal prisoner transfers In post-Cold War globalisation, there is an degrees. You spend the first year in Canterbury and (rendition) and torture, in which many increasingly apparent need for ever-more the second year in Marburg where courses will be states, including the UK and other sophisticated ways of understanding the dramatic taught in English. The programme features a European partners played a significant changes taking place. At the same time, this mandatory internship that is linked to the MA role. The Rendition Project aims to uncover programme allows you to consider the role, dissertation. the extent of the global rendition system, by potential and limitations of public international bringing all the data together in one place.” law in international affairs. Course content Modules for the first year in Canterbury include: Course content • Conflict Resolution in World Politics • International Relations Theory • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and • Public International Law International Relations • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and • Theories of Conflict and Violence International Relations • Three others modules taught within the School • Three other modules chosen from the School of • Dissertation. Politics and International Relations and the Kent Law School, making a total of four Politics and Assessment International Relations modules and two Law As for Comparative Politics, see p175. modules • Dissertation Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/politics 179

Political Strategy and Communication MA Assessment Research programmes As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Location: Brussels. Comparative Politics MA, MPhil, PhD Start: September or January. (available at Canterbury only) Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, Politics and International Relations see p175. Pre-Master’s GDip International Conflict Analysis MA, Location: Canterbury. MPhil, PhD Sophisticated politics involves communication, Attendance: One year full-time. International Relations MA, MPhil, PhD strategy and manipulation of the political agenda. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a Political and Social Thought MA, MPhil, This programme engages you in the practical related subject. Consideration will be given to PhD (available at Canterbury only) issues of political delivery. The areas of political applicants holding equivalent qualifications or Location: Canterbury or Brussels. communication, political leadership, strategy, crisis work experience. Start: September or January. management, political branding, and public Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class relations are all the leading vocational aspects of This programme offers you the opportunity to honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. a developed academic understanding of politics develop your independent study and research skills If applying for the PhD programme, a Master’s and international relations. It is an area of growing through a combination of subject modules within degree in a relevant subject is preferable. importance that distinguishes our graduates as the School of Politics and International Relations. policy-relevant, engaged thinkers in the political In addition, as part of your programme you have arena. the opportunity to improve your English language Research areas competence with dedicated English and Academic Our research interests span a broad spectrum of Course content Skills for Politics and International Relations the discipline, with particular strengths in the fields • Political Communication modules offered by Kent International Pathways. of conflict analysis and resolution, political theory • Political Strategy and European politics. The strength of the School’s • Two from: EU Constitutional and Institutional On successful completion of the Diploma research culture is reflected in the numerous books Law; EU Politics and Governance; European and through meeting the University’s rules of and articles published and in the existence of its Foreign and Security Policy; Negotiation and progression, you may choose from a number of three core research groups: Conflict, Security and Mediation; Parties and Elections. programmes offered within the School of Politics Human Rights; Comparative Politics; and Political • Two from those listed above plus: Conflict and and International Relations. and Social Thought. We also host four University- Security; Diplomatic Law; EU Public Policy; EU recognised research centres: the Conflict Analysis in the World; Foreign Policy Analysis; Gender Assessment Research Centre (CARC), the Centre for Federal and Conflicts; International Relations Theory; Assessment is through a combination of Studies (CFS), the Global Europe Centre (GEC). The Politics of Globalisation; Public Policy assignments, coursework and examinations. and the Centre for Critical Thought (CCT). Analysis; State, Market and Society. • Dissertation Security and Terrorism PDip, MA All members of staff can supervise theses leading (taught jointly with School of Social Policy, to research degrees. We encourage potential Assessment Sociology and Social Research) research students to refer to our postgraduate As for Comparative Politics, see p175. Location: Canterbury. research handbook for detailed information at Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. www.kent.ac.uk/politics/postgraduates/research- Political Theory and Practices of Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, programmes/pgrhandbook.pdf Resistance PDip, MA see p175. Location: Canterbury. In 2011, the University successfully applied for Attendance: As for Comparative Politics, see p175. This programme analyses the phenomena of ESRC recognition as a provider of doctoral training Entry requirements: As for Comparative Politics, terrorism and political violence as perpetrated by in political science and international studies (and see p175 both state and non-state actors, drawing on various other areas of the social sciences) as part of a disciplines within the social sciences. You explore consortium. As a result, we are now part of the This programme explores the theme of resistance the theoretical, methodological and ethical debates South East ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, making in political theory. It examines how this theme has relating to the study of state and non-state us one of the key training outlets in our subject in featured in the history of political ideas from Plato violence, and we consider their implications for the UK. Further details can be found on the South to Badiou. It also investigates past and present various international actors and policymakers. East DTC website: http://southeastdtc.surrey.ac.uk practices of resistance in a wide range of activities including art, film, poetry and fiction. By linking You have input from research-active staff with Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) considerable expertise in the fields of international theory to practice and focusing on a core thematic, Kent has been at the forefront of conflict negotiation relations, sociology and criminology. this MA will develop an innovative approach to and resolution for almost 50 years. The Conflict political thought encompassing historical, Analysis Research Centre brings together conceptual and practical knowledge. The core Course content academics working on different aspects of conflict • Terrorism and Modern Society modules provide a strong grounding in theories and security as well as PhD and Master’s students • Terrorism and National Security and practices of resistance, and the MA offers studying International Conflict Analysis, International • Philosophy and Methodology of Politics and students the opportunity to do an assessed Law and International Relations. Current research International Relations practical performance. includes an investigation into how migrant • Three other modules chosen from the School communities can support peacebuilding in their of Politics and International Relations and the Course content home society and how South Africa and the UK School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social • Resistance in Practice treat refugees and security. The Centre is also at the Research • Resistance in Theory forefront of trying to resolve actual conflicts – for • Dissertation • Four other modules which might include example, it played a role in the Moldova-Transnistria specialist modules in Resistance and the peace process and has supported reconciliation The programme is also offered in a two-year, Politics of Truth, and Resistance and efforts in Africa. Alternatives to Capitalism and Democracy 120 ECTS credit format, comprising nine taught modules followed by a dissertation. • Dissertation Centre for Federal Studies (CFS) Assessment The Centre for Federal Studies, officially launched As for Comparative Politics, see p175. in October 2005, is the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom and it welcomes expressions of interest from both students and established scholars in any branch of federal studies. The 180 Politics and International Relations cont

focus of the Centre’s activities is not only the Dr Tugba Basaran: Lecturer in International Dr Frank Grundig: Lecturer in International established federations, such as the United States, Development Relations Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and Critical approaches to international relations and Power, interests and institutions; regime and Austria but also the European Union (EU) as an international development; political, social and rational actor theory; international environmental emergent federal union together with those parts postcolonial theory; politics of exclusion; security, politics; hegemonic leadership. of the world where federal arrangements have the liberty, law and borders; migration and refugees. practical possibility to promote peace, justice and Recent publications include: Security, Law and Dr Anne Hammerstad: Lecturer in International stability. The work of the Centre is consonant with Borders: At the Limits of Liberties (2012). Relations world trends that indicate a renaissance of federal Displacement and security; securitisation theory; ideas, proposals and practices appropriate to the Dr Ruth Blakeley: Reader in International the UNHCR; conflict and security in Africa. new age of justice as the recognition of difference, Relations diversity and human rights. US foreign policy; US-Latin American relations; Dr Sarah Hyde: Senior Lecturer in Politics and terrorism; state violence; human rights. Recent International Relations of East Asia Global Europe Centre (GEC) publications include: State Terrorism and Party politics; electoral systems; participation; The Global Europe Centre is a pioneering research- Neoliberalism: The North in the South (2009). e-democracy; e-voting; Japanese politics. Recent led learning centre focusing on the study of Europe publications include: The Transformation of the and its relations with the outside world. The GEC’s Professor Michael Burgess: Professor of Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New research focus is on contemporary policy Federal Studies Democrats (2009). challenges to Europe and its nation states, the Federal political theory and philosophy; engagement with policy-makers and policy-shapers comparative federalism; Canadian constitutional Professor Elena Korosteleva: Professor of is at the core of its activities. The GEC mission is to politics; European integration. Recent publications International Politics, Director of the Global promote excellence, through innovative research include: Federal Democracies (co-ed, 2010); In Europe Centre (Professional Studies); and knowledge exchange and to facilitate research- Search of the Federal Spirit: New Theoretical and Director of Graduate Studies (Taught) driven impact through its learning and teaching Empirical Perspective in Comparative Federalism European politics; EU as a global actor and EU activities. The GEC’s activities include dissemination (2012). foreign policies studies; Eastern partnership and of policy-relevant research via publications, the new eastern Europe; the concept of democracy Dr Tom Casier: Senior Lecturer in International research-led knowledge transfer workshops, and democracy promotion. Recent publications Relations and Jean Monnet Professor conferences and public lectures, and keynote include: The European Union and its Eastern EU as an international actor; EU-Russian relations; addresses by leading public figures. The Centre Neighbours: Towards a more ambitious Russian foreign policy. has a strong commitment to the creation of the partnership? (2012). next generation of ideas innovators and policy Dr Govinda Clayton: Lecturer in International makers and pursues these through its learning, Dr Ersun N Kurtulus: Lecturer in Middle Eastern Conflict Analysis teaching and knowledge exchange activities and Politics International conflict and co-operation; mediation; via the Global Europe Student Forum. GEC is an State sovereignty; Lebanese politics; collapsed negotiation, intra-state conflict and resolution; interdisciplinary research centre aiming to develop states; international relations of the Middle East; mathematical and statistical models, research synergies across Politics and International counter-terrorism. design and methodology. Relations, Economics, Law, Business, History, and European Languages and Culture. Professor Donna Lee: Professor of International Professor Feargal Cochrane: Professor of Political Economy International Conflict Analysis Centre for Critical Thought (CCT) Expert in the diplomacy associated with trade Conflict studies; Northern Ireland conflict; Irish relations; global economic governance; diplomatic The Centre for Critical Thought is an exciting American diaspora. Recent publications include theory and practice; rising powers; corporeal multidisciplinary initiative across both the Social The End of Irish-America (2010). capitalism; queer theory in IPE. Sciences and Humanities Faculties, co-ordinated by staff in Politics and International Relations, Law Dr Philip Cunliffe: Lecturer in International Dr Pak Kuen Lee: Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Italian Studies. It enables staff and students Conflict Politics and International Relations interested in cutting-edge critical thought to IR theory; sovereignty; peacekeeping; liberal Chinese politics; non-traditional security threats in discuss their work together and to explore the interventionism; Marxism and critical theory; political China (especially energy security and public health insights of interdisciplinary collaboration. In theory; social theory. Recent publications include: security); China’s engagement with global addition, it serves as a forum for distinguished Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to governance. Recent publications include: China lectures, seminars and an annual workshop. The Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice (2011). Engages Global Governance: A New World Order Annual Kent Lecture in Political and Social Thought in the Making? (co-author, 2011). is the headline lecture series and recent speakers Dr Paolo Dardanelli: Senior Lecturer in have included Professor Bernard Stiegler, Professor European and Comparative Politics Dr Neophytos Loizides: Senior Lecturer in Chantal Mouffe and Professor William Outhwaite. Federalism, devolution, secession; nationalism; International Conflict Analysis All students interested in contemporary critical democracy; state formation and dissolution; Federalism; ethnic conflict; international politics; thought are encouraged to become members European politics. conflict analysis; negotiation and mediation; while at Kent. referendums. Recent publications include: Cyprus: Dr Andrea den Boer: Lecturer in International Federal and Consociational Failures and Prospects Staff research interests Relations (forthcoming). Human rights and ethics; international political Full details of staff research interests and theory; continental political philosophy; feminism. Dr Matthew Loveless: Senior Lecturer in publications can be found on our website: Comparative Politics www.kent.ac.uk/politics/about-us/staff Dr Charles Devellennes: Lecturer in Political and Comparative and European politics; political Social Thought behaviour and attitudes. Dr Albena Azmanova: Senior Lecturer in Political theory; history of political thought; International Relations international relations theory. Dr Iain MacKenzie: Senior Lecturer in Politics Political traditions and democratisation; Critical political theory and philosophy. Recent globalisation and political identities; European Dr Elise Féron: Senior Lecturer in International publications include: Politics: Key Concepts in integration. Recent publications include: The Conflict Analysis Philosophy (2009); Dramatizing the Political: Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Conflict prevention; gender and conflicts; Deleuze and Guattari (co-author, 2011). Judgment (2012). diasporas and conflicts; conflicts and questions of identity. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/politics 181

Dr Luca Mavelli: Lecturer in Politics and Professor Richard Sakwa: Professor of Russian International Relations and European Politics; Head of School Location International relations theory, social theory; security Russian government and politics; communism Canterbury and Brussels. and political violence. Recent publications include: and postcommunism; democratisation. Recent English language requirements Europe’s Encounter with Islam: The Secular and publications include: Russian Politics and See p223. the Postsecular (2012). Society (2008); The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair (2009); Fees and funding Dr Seán Molloy: Reader in International Communism in Russia (2010); The Crisis of See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Relations Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism National ratings Realism; international ethics; democratic peace and the Medvedev Succession (2011). Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: theory; cosmopolitanism. 35% of our research rated ‘internationally Dr Ben Seyd: Lecturer in British and excellent’, with a further 40% judged as Dr Edward Morgan-Jones: Lecturer in Comparative Politics ‘internationally recognised’. Comparative Politics Political institutions; electoral systems; public Parliamentary and semi-presidential regimes; attitudes to the state and trust; British politics. Applications Cabinet composition and termination; West and Recent publications include: Has Devolution East European Politics. Recent publications Worked? (co-author, 2009). Taught programmes include: Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty (2010). Dr Harmonie Toros: Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis Research programmes Dr Jane O’Mahony: Lecturer in European Conflict resolution, conflict transformation, terrorism See p232 or contact the School for further Politics studies. Recent publications include: Terrorism, details. European integration; EU policymaking; Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach Further information Europeanisation; Irish politics. Recent publications (2012). include: Ireland and the European Union (co-author, Canterbury T: +44 (0)1227 827307 2008). Professor Richard Whitman: Professor of F: +44 (0)1227 827033 Politics; Director of the Global Europe Centre E: [email protected] Dr Adrian Pabst: Senior Lecturer in Politics European studies; international relations; Political theory and political economy; political international role of the European Union. Recent Brussels philosophy and history of ideas; European thought; publications include: The European Neighbourhood T: +32 (0)2 641 1721 religion, politics and ethics, with a special focus on Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and F: +32 (0)2 641 1720 Christian social teaching. Recent publications Impact (co-ed, 2010); Normative Power Europe: E: [email protected] include: The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Pope Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (2011); www.kent.ac.uk/brussels Benedict XVI’s Social Encyclical and the Future The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager of Political Economy (2011); Metaphysics: The (co-ed, 2012). Creation of Hierarchy (2012). Dr Andrew Wroe: Lecturer in American Politics Dr Stefan Rossbach: Senior Lecturer in Politics Direct democracy; trust in politics; immigration; Political theory and methodology; history of race/ethnicity; American politics and government. political philosophy; religion and politics. Recent publications include: The Republican Party and Immigration Politics: From Proposition 187 to George W Bush (2008); Assessing the George W Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms (2009). 182

Canterbury and Medway PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

In 2008, the University of Kent established the Centre for Professional Practice (CPP) to support its strategic plans for employer engagement and, specifically, to lead the design and delivery of workplace and work-related learning qualifications across all its campus locations. CPP is located at the Medway campus and within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

CPP has established itself as a leading centre for education, training, and research and development in the following areas: clinical education, supportive and palliative care, minimally invasive surgery, dental education, professional practice and development. CPP is currently offering a new postgraduate programme, Advanced and Specialist Healthcare MSc with a variety of specialist pathways and also accredits two postgraduate dental programmes.

“Without exception, the teaching Programmes (Postgraduate Dental Deanery), Kent Community Health NHS Trust and the New Horizons Teaching has been excellent. All the tutors Taught School Alliance, with whom the University of Kent are very different, yet they offer • Advanced and Specialist Healthcare MSc has close working relationships. • Primary Dental Care for Foundation Dentists something to every student. PCert Flexible programmes Nothing is ever too much trouble, • Primary Dental Care PDip, MSc • Professional Practice MA, MSc Our courses take account of the working and they often share their own circumstances of professional people; the time to ensure that you don’t Professional links diverse nature of the workplace and the obstacles professionals may face in taking up learning leave until you are clear about Many of the staff within CPP have experience opportunities. Our teaching and research what is being expected of you of working in business and industry and/or have programmes will be of interest to professional a clinical commitment to health, social care, or people working in the public, private or third with regard to the assignments.” dental sectors, and therefore provide a valuable sectors. Our part-time and modular programmes contribution to CPP’s programmes. In addition, allow people to study while working and offer James Devine we have a wealth of knowledge and experience flexibility in order to fit in with your personal MSc Professional Practice in professional practice and development so can circumstances. Our continuing professional Head of Human Resources, Barts NHS Trust support you to realise your potential in your working development courses are flexible, with different life. Our strong links with local employers and stepping-on and stepping-off points, so that you national organisations mean we keep up to date can either take single modules or work towards with important changes and developments in the a postgraduate certificate, diploma or Master’s workplace and understand the needs of employers degree. and individual staff in relation to learning and development. CPP has strong links with NHS organisations including those delivering primary Continuing professional development and secondary healthcare and those responsible courses for monitoring standards of care, such as the Royal We offer a number of CPD courses in evidence- College of Surgeons. based practice, research skills, collaborative and interprofessional working, and competencies for CPP is also responsible for accrediting professionals and leadership. You can obtain postgraduate training courses developed by further information about these programmes the Faculty of General Dental Practice and the from CPP. NHS Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/cpp 183

Dynamic publishing culture work, seminars, one-to-one tutorials, workshops, following on from the PCert for Foundation Dentists. practical/clinical session and distance learning The programme is designed for primary care Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, through the use of the University’s Moodle system. dentists wishing to develop their personal conference proceedings and books, both nationally Typically, in the final stage of the programme, you and professional skills in order to engage more and internationally. Among others, they have will be expected to complete a dissertation of effectively in meeting the changing needs of a recently contributed to: Journal of Primary Dental between 10-12,000 words. modern dental care service. Care; Dental Nursing Journal; European Journal of Palliative Care; Journal of Palliative Care; British Primary Dental Care for Foundation The programme provides you with the opportunity Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. Dentists PCert to assess and raise the standards of patient care Location: NHS Health Education Kent, Surrey and through workplace-based learning; to critically Taught programmes Sussex (Postgraduate Dental Deanery). review outcomes of care delivered through informed research and audit; to enhance skills in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare MSc Attendance: One year embedded with vocational dental training. clinical and non-clinical disciplines. It also provides Location: Medway. Entry requirements: Nomination for Dental a quality standard to assist Primary Care Trusts Attendance: Two to three years part-time. Foundation Training in Primary Dental Care wishing to contract with dentists for special interest Start: January or September (pathway dependent). Practice delivered by NHS Health Education services. Entry requirements: A first or upper-second KSS; registration with the General Dental Council. class degree and/or an equivalent professional This programme has been designed to be qualification plus a minimum of two years’ This programme is work-based and structured studied on a part-time basis, with formal teaching practitioner experience. Accreditation of Prior specifically for primary dental care practitioners accompanied by tutor group sessions, action- Experiential and Certificated Learning (APECL) entering the Foundation Dentist Year 1 training. learning sets, e-learning, e-mentoring and self- is encouraged and can be discussed with the The programme has a flexible, modular format directed learning. With guidance and support admissions officer in CPP. and adopts a blended learning approach; from the NHS Health Education KSS teaching designed to combine academic study, professional staff, students consider the nature of their role in This is a flexible, multidisciplinary, postgraduate practice and online techniques. It is delivered by the practice, and are assessed on the underpinning programme designed to meet the needs of the experienced specialist staff at NHS Health theory behind their clinical and non-clinical work. By healthcare professionals working in clinical Education KSS. analysing your skills and knowledge in this way, you practice areas that include minimally invasive are able to increase your professional contribution surgery, applied dental professional practice The programme content promotes subject-specific to the practice, and ultimately, to your patients. and supportive and palliative care (all subject knowledge and competencies in preparation for to availability).The individual pathways within the entry into the recognised primary dental care The programme provides transferable credits to programme provide subject-specific skills and career pathway. It also provides transferable credits the NHS Health Education KSS Career Pathway, knowledge. Further information on each of the towards a Fellowship of the Faculty of General the career development framework that leads to pathways within this programme can be obtained Dental Practice UK (FFGDP) and an opportunity the Fellowship of the Faculty, the FFGDP(UK). from CPP. for you to develop both personal and professional skills enabling you to engage more effectively in Students who successfully complete the PDip, but Course content meeting the changing needs of the dental sector. decide not to go onto the final MSc, will be eligible The course includes core modules and compulsory for a fallback of award of postgraduate diploma in or optional modules specific to each pathway. The initial award is for a postgraduate certificate Primary Dental Care. All students take the following core modules: but further study can lead to a diploma and onwards to a Master’s degree. Course content • Evidence-Based Practice PDip • Interprofessional Working • Core module: Research Skills • Research Skills Course content All students take the following core modules: • Optional modules include: Appraisal of • Dissertation. • Dental Clinical Practice Dental Practices; Clinical Education; Clinical • Dental Key Skills Endodontics; Clinical Minor Oral Surgery; You then take modules specific to your chosen • Professionalism in Dentistry. Clinical Periodontics. pathway.

Teaching is through a variety of techniques, MSc Supportive and Palliative Care including class lectures, group seminars, • Dissertation • Concepts of End of Life Care e-learning using the NHS E-Den online tool as • Concepts of Symptom Management well as vital individual practice clinical mentorship. Professional Practice MA, MSc • Psychosocial Care and Bereavement Location: Medway. Attendance: Two or three years part-time (subject Minimally Invasive Surgery Assessment Assessment is by a range of methods including, to approval). • Minimally Invasive Surgery 1: Principles and clinical key skills portfolio, clinical case studies, A professional qualification Practices Entry requirements: practice audit and the completion of an electronic or appropriate degree-level qualification and/or • Minimally Invasive Surgery 2: Laparoscopic personal development portfolio. equivalent work experience at the appropriate level. Biliary and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Students entering the programme will be expected • Minimally Invasive Surgery 3: Laparoscopic to demonstrate professional experience in a role Hernia and Colorectal Primary Dental Care PDip, MSc that involves responsibility which they have held • Minimally Invasive Surgery 4: Laparoscopic Location: NHS Health Education Kent, Surrey and for at least two years. Applicants without traditional Training Methods Speciality and Procedures Sussex (Postgraduate Dental Deanery). Attendance: Two years part-time. qualifications will be considered on an individual basis and will be required to demonstrate potential Applied Dental Professional Practice Start: Usually October. to study at postgraduate level. • Advancing Dental Professional Practice Entry requirements: Current registration with the • Dentistry in a Contemporary Context General Dental Council or own national equivalent; This is an interdisciplinary programme for • Developing Dental Practice Through Mentorship involvement in primary dental care practice; professionals who want to develop and enhance • Professional Standard Setting working in an environment that enables the study and successful completion of the programme. their practice at postgraduate level. It is a work- based learning programme designed for Assessment The pathways within the programme include a NHS Health Education KSS have collaborated in participants from a variety of professional settings variety of learning activities depending on the the development of an exciting new programme including the private, public and third sector, for modules studied. These include small group in Primary Dental Care that provides a pathway example, health and social care; education; local 184 Professional Practice cont

government; public services; human resources; Research areas administrative services; cultural industries or the Location Current research areas include: experiential arts. Medway. learning; palliative care for people with learning disabilities; palliative care for people with non- English language requirements The programme offers you the opportunity to malignant disease; pulmonary vascular diseases; See p223. explore your profession further, consider the reflective practice; communities of practice; dental challenges associated with your professional Fees and funding education. practice and develop your generic knowledge and See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding skills in the workplace; while being able to focus on National ratings a specific area of practice relevant to you and your Staff research interests Kent was ranked 9th in the UK for Other work. In particular, you develop strategic skills, Debbie Reed: Head of Centre; Senior Lecturer in Subjects Allied to Medicine in the National knowledge of leadership styles and approaches, Primary Dental Care Student Survey 2012. and critical analysis in the context of multi-agency Dental communities of practice and teamworking; working and research-based practice. dental work force development and education; Applications Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ reflective practice; professionalisation. This flexible programme allows you to follow one postgrad/apply of our specific accredited pathways or select Professor Kenneth Eaton: Honorary Professor Further information modules of personal and professional interest from Comparison of systems of oral health in Europe; T: +44 (0)1634 888929 across the University, enabling you to review and e-learning; periodontal epidemiology; oral health E: [email protected] analyse the current debates relating to key issues care workforce. relevant to the professional context in which you are working. Professor Amir Nisar: Honorary Professor of Minimally Invasive Surgery Course content Minimally invasive surgery; clinical research. Compulsory modules • Learning and Development in Organisations Tom Bates: Honorary Professor of Surgical • Evidence-Based Practice Practice • Interprofessional/Collaborative Working Management of breast cancer; surgical teaching • Research Skills and training; generic issues of clinical practice. • Dissertation Tania Hopper: Programme Director, Professional Optional modules Practice You select from the following optional modules from Power dynamics and power relationships within within CPP; or a choice of modules from across the educational and organisational environments. University; or a combination of both (subject to availability): Dr Mike Nicholls: Honorary Senior Lecturer • Power Dynamics within Professional Practice Design and development of new curricula and • Qualitative Research Methods Applied to methods of delivery; negotiated, work-based Professional Practice and practice-based learning; ‘graduateness’ as “I joined this programme to • Quantitative Research Methods Applied to a transferable skill; public understanding of the Professional Practice consolidate my experience, take natural world; conservation education; public • Special area of study. education in zoos; raptor biology. a view of my own practice and employment sector through a Teaching and learning Maureen Shaw: Senior Lecturer in This is a work-based pathway in collaboration Psychotherapy theoretical/academic lens and with Rochester Grammar School and Brompton Reflective practice; interprofessional working; Academy and the New Horizon Teaching Alliance. also to obtain a higher degree; learning in the workplace, mentoring and Modules include: supervision; communication in organisations; something I had wanted to do • A Thinking School: Transforming Learning dynamics of the workplace. • Addressing Barriers to Learning. for many years. The Professional Dr Terence Nice: Lecturer in Psychotherapy Practice MSc is an excellent Teaching sessions are structured around the Reflective and interdisciplinary practice in health programme’s taught weekend sessions, which opportunity to meet all of these organisations. typically run Friday to Sunday. The weekend taught requirements.” sessions include tutor and peer-led discussion, and Dr Nick Riding: Lecturer in Psychotherapy one-to-one supervision. Psychotherapy outcome and process research. Jane Howard MSc Professional Practice Assessment Assessment may include written assignments, work-based projects, oral presentations, portfolio assessment, seminar contributions and reflective learning submissions. In the final stage of the programme, you complete a dissertation of 10-12,000 words. 185

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Psychology at Kent offers a supportive, dynamic and diverse environment for creative research and learning. We conduct both basic and applied research in several areas, and we are highly regarded as a leading European centre for postgraduate research. We have a long-established international reputation in social psychology, and this is complemented by our strengths in cognitive, developmental and forensic psychology. The School attracts excellent visiting scholars and postgraduate students from both within the UK and overseas. Some of our PhD students are self-funded, and others are funded by grants or awards either from the School, UK or their countries of origin. Some are also paid for doing part-time teaching within the School.

Our taught Master’s (MSc) programmes have been recognised by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as meeting the nationally recognised criteria for preparation training for PhD research. The MSc in Forensic Psychology at Kent is also accredited by The British Psychological Society as providing the first (academic) year of professional training for those who pass the course and wish to qualify as Chartered Forensic Psychologists. The School has a strong track record of attracting ESRC research studentship funding, which involves partnerships with external organisations such as Age Concern England and the Equality and Human Rights Commission and collaborative studentships with partners such as People United.

“Further study gives you the Programmes • a full range of computer-based experiment generators and productivity software installed chance to focus on an area of Taught on all the School’s systems your field that truly captures • Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology MSc • an upgraded laboratory suite with equipment • Developmental Psychology MSc for digital sound and vision recording your interest and to strive to find • Forensic Psychology MSc • a suite equipped with two EEG/ERP (event- answers to the questions that • Group Processes and Intergroup Relations MSc related brain potential) systems, a sophisticated • Psychology Pre-Master’s GDip means of measuring brain activity while you’ve always wanted to ask.” • Research Methods in Psychology MSc participants perform cognitive tasks; five • Social and Applied Psychology MSc eye-tracking systems; and fully sound-proofed Hazel Wardrop cubicles equipped for language-based research PhD Psychology Research • a suite equipped with Bio-Pac recorders to • Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology PhD allow for a range of physiological measures • Forensic Psychology PhD, NRPhD to be taken during stressful and other tasks • Psychology MSc, PhD, NRPhD • specialist laboratories equipped for face • Social Psychology MSc, PhD, NRPhD processing and vision research • a virtual reality laboratory • a social cognition laboratory Postgraduate resources • creation in 2010 of the Kent Child Development The School has excellent facilities for both Unit and research team focusing on how laboratory and field research, including advanced children learn about their world, about other laboratory and teaching facilities. Resources people and about the language they hear include: around them. • three fully equipped colour video laboratories for face-to-face group research, together with Dynamic publishing culture ten satellite laboratories connected via remote- control CCTV and two-way audio links Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, • 58 research laboratories, all containing conference proceedings and books. Among networked computers others, they have recently contributed to: • a further 80 PCs available exclusively to Science; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology students, including a designated Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social MSc computer-networked room providing full Psychology; Child Development; Clinical email and internet access Psychology Review. Details of recently published • shared offices and a personal, networked books can be found within the staff research computer for research students interests on p189.

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Taught programmes Course content • Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology • Advanced Statistics and Methodology 1: Theory These programmes run for one year full-time or two • Advanced Developmental Social Psychology • Optional module from a range including: Current years part-time. They involve lecture, workshop and • Advanced Topics in Cognitive Development Issues in Social and Applied Psychology 2: seminar-based teaching, as well as an individually • Two optional modules, eg, Advanced Cognitive Applications; Advanced Developmental Social supervised empirical research project. The optional (Neuroscience) Methods in Practice; Advanced Psychology; The Psychology of Eyewitness modules listed are not exhaustive, as new modules Topics in Intergroup Relations; Current Issues Testimony. may be approved or opened to students by the in Social and Applied Psychology 1: Theory; • Research Project start of the academic year. Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology 2: Applications; Developmental Psychology in Assessment Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology Professional Practice; The Psychology of As for Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology. MSc Eyewitness Testimony. Location: Canterbury. • Research Project Psychology Pre-Master’s GDip Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in one of the core Location: Canterbury. areas of cognitive psychology/neuropsychology, Assessment Attendance: One year full-time. such as psychology, biology or computer science. As for Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a Applicants with undergraduate degrees in other related subject. Consideration will be given to scientific disciplines will be considered. Forensic Psychology MSc applicants holding equivalent qualifications or Location: Canterbury. work experience. Cognitive psychology and neuropsychology Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in psychology. bring together a range of different theoretical You must also qualify for the Graduate Basis for This programme offers you the opportunity to frameworks. Cognitive psychological, Chartered Membership (GBC) with the British develop your independent study and research neuropsychological, neurobiological and Psychological Society (BPS); Graduate skills through a combination of subject modules computer science approaches combine in order Membership of the BPS is insufficient. within the School of Psychology. In addition, as to understand how the human mind/brain solves a part of your programme you have the opportunity variety of complex problems, such as recognising The MSc in Forensic Psychology aims to satisfy to improve your English language competence objects, remembering previous experiences, the academic component of professional training with dedicated English and Academic Skills for reading, speaking and reasoning. in forensic psychology (that is, to become a Psychology modules offered by Kent International Chartered Forensic Psychologist). Throughout the Pathways. Course content programme, you attend non-assessed seminars • Advanced Statistics and Methodology and go on site visits. The MSc in Forensic On successful completion of the Diploma • Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology and Psychology is accredited by the British and through meeting the University’s rules of Neuropsychology Psychological Society. progression, you may choose from a number of • Two optional modules, eg, Advanced Cognitive programmes offered within the School, including: (Neuroscience) Methods in Practice; Advanced Course content • Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology MSc Topics in Cognition in Action; Advanced Topics • Advanced Statistics and Methodology • Developmental Psychology MSc in Cognitive Development; Cognitive Neural • Assessment and Treatment of Offenders in • Group Processes and Intergroup Relations MSc Networks; The Psychology of Eyewitness Forensic Settings • Research Methods in Psychology MSc Testimony • Forensic Cognition: Theory, Research and • Social and Applied Psychology MSc. • A supervised empirical or theoretical Practice dissertation of 8-10,000 words • Psychology of Criminal Conduct Assessment • Psychology of Law and Justice Assessment is through a combination of Assessment • Forensic Psychology Empirical Research Project assignments, coursework and examinations. Assessment is mainly by coursework assignment (4-6,000-word essays), examination (for the Assessment Research Methods in Psychology MSc Advanced Statistics and Methodology module Advanced Statistics and Methodology is assessed only), plus the dissertation. Location: Canterbury. by examination. All other taught modules are Entry requirements: As for Developmental assessed by written work and presentations. Psychology. Developmental Psychology MSc Research is assessed by two articles: one Location: Canterbury. empirical paper and one review article on This is a generic research methods programme that Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in psychology or your chosen topic. offers advanced and broad-based training in the a closely related discipline. major methods and statistical techniques in use in Group Processes and Intergroup psychology, together with a wide range of optional The MSc in Developmental Psychology focuses Relations MSc modules to allow you to tailor your studies to suit on questions such as: What psychological changes Location: Canterbury. your own particular interests. You choose modules occur during infancy, childhood and adolescence? Entry requirements: As for Developmental from those on offer in the more specialised Master’s What psychological processes drive the Psychology. programmes and undertake a project in one of the development of children? Why are children major research areas of the School. different from adults? What can psychologists This programme focuses on social psychological do to promote healthy development? theory and research in intergroup and group Course content behaviour. The MSc is recognised by the Economic • Advanced Statistics and Methodology The programme draws on the strengths of and Social Research Council as the basis for PhD • Four options from a range including: Advanced developmental psychologists working in the Child research. The programme explores major and Cognitive (Neuroscience) Methods in Practice; Development Unit (CDU), which brings together current research covering issues such as Advanced Developmental Social Psychology; academic staff and other researchers interested intergroup contact, social and cognitive processes Advanced Topics in Cognition in Action; in studying developmental psychology among underlying prejudice, discrimination, collective Advanced Topics in Cognitive Development; children and adolescents. The aim is to provide protest, group decision-making, leadership and Advanced Topics in Group Processes; Advanced you with specialised knowledge of a range group performance. Topics in Intergroup Relations; Current Issues in of theoretical and practical approaches to Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology; developmental psychology, and an understanding Course content Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology of how they can inform policy and practice across • Advanced Statistics and Methodology 1: Theory; Current Issues in Social and Applied educational, health, forensic and clinical • Advanced Topics in Group Processes Psychology 2: Applications; Developmental professional practice. • Advanced Topics in Intergroup Relations Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/psychology 187

Psychology in Professional Practice; The forensic psychology; cognitive psychology; Social Psychology Psychology of Eyewitness Testimony. existential psychology; personality and motivation. Much of our social psychology research is co- • Research Project You should include an outline of your proposed ordinated through the Centre for the Study of research in your online application form. Group Processes (CSGP), the largest research Assessment group in this area in Europe. As for Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology, The New Route PhD is a special option for students see p187. who wish to commit to a programme combining The Centre attracts a stream of major international taught and research elements. New Route PhD is social psychology researchers, who visit the Centre Social and Applied Psychology MSc a four-year degree that spreads the coursework regularly to work with our staff and are officially Location: Canterbury. of one of our taught MSc programmes throughout affiliated to the Centre. The Social Psychology Entry requirements: As for Developmental the first two years of registration, but otherwise group also includes the co-editor of Group Psychology, see p187. proceeds as a normal doctorate. Processes and Intergroup Relations (Abrams).

This programme is taught by the School’s Your research will be supported by a supervisory Social psychology research at Kent is funded outstanding research group in social psychology. panel which will include a main supervisor and by a variety of British and international sources, Our teaching and research covers the psychology a secondary supervisor. Who you have as currently and recently including ESRC, British of intergroup behaviour, group decision and supervisors is decided by the compatibility Academy, Leverhulme, Age Concern, European performance, attitudes and persuasion, between your own and the available supervisors’ Commission, European Science Foundation, Home organisational psychology, social cognition, research interests. Typically, you meet with your Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission, children’s self-concept and social attitudes, supervisors more frequently at the initial stages of Nuffield, and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, as and cross-cultural questions, relating social research than during the phases of data collection well as government departments such as the psychological research in these areas to social and analysis. Department for Communities and Local problems. Course tutors include academics and Government and the Department for Work experts who work in the media, the health service We also provide substantial additional training and Pensions. and other applied settings. The MSc is recognised for our doctoral students. If you have not already by the ESRC as a basis for PhD research. successfully completed an advanced statistics and The Social Psychology group includes the methods course, in your first year you will need to following themes: Course content take the Advanced Statistics and Methodology • Advanced Statistics and Methodology module from the taught MSc. Doctoral students Prejudice, intergroup contact and social • Current Issues in Social and Applied at Kent are also provided with training in research- categorisation Psychology 1: Theory specific and broader ‘transferable’ skills, including This research is carried out in our social • Current Issues in Social and Applied academic writing, career management and psychology laboratories, at schools and in business Psychology 2: Applications presentation skills. You also have the opportunity to organisations. For example, research within this • Two options from a range including: Advanced train for an advanced teaching qualification (ATAP). topic focuses on questions such as: how contact Developmental Social Psychology; Advanced During term time, the research groups hold weekly between members of different social groups is Topics in Cognitive Development; Advanced meetings to discuss ongoing work, and there are represented psychologically, how intergroup Topics in Group Processes; Advanced Topics in also weekly seminars featuring external speakers. contact affects prejudice, when outgroups are Intergroup Relations; Developmental Psychology Numerous data analysis and research methods seen as less human, when and why children in Professional Practice; The Psychology of workshops (recent examples: structural equation show prejudice, and why organisational mergers Eyewitness Testimony. modelling; hierarchical linear modelling; meta- sometimes fail. • Research Project analysis; EPrime experimental software), and individual training opportunities are available. Social inequality and cohesion Assessment Research on this topic combines theory-driven As for Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology, We also offer MSc degrees by research (one research and engagement with policy. It is see p187. year full-time, or two years part-time), involving conducted in real-life settings such as the a research project and the Advanced Statistics workplace, and involves national and international training required of doctoral students. Research programmes surveys. For example, the research focuses on the well-being of elderly people in Britain, work Doctoral studies (MPhil/PhD sequence or New Research themes participation and motherhood, and discrimination Route PhD): against different groups in society. Research is focused within four core collaborative, Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology thematic groupings: Social Psychology, Cognitive PhD Group dynamics and social influence Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Laboratory studies and community-based research Forensic Psychology PhD, NRPhD Developmental Psychology. The research are conducted on this topic. For example, research Psychology MSc, PhD, NRPhD environment is designed to sustain a strong, focuses on co-operation in small groups, group vibrant research culture, encourage collaboration, Social Psychology PhD, NRPhD decision-making, perception and influence of and unite staff and students with shared research leaders, social communication and language, interests. Our themes ensure critical mass and Under the PhD and NRPhD programmes, subjective group dynamics in adults and children, create a highly energetic and stimulating you may also be supervised in the area of the dynamics of prison gang activity, and the intellectual climate. Developmental Psychology. impact of alcohol on group processes. Research activity is supported by: Research-only MSc degrees: Personality and social motivation • centrally co-ordinated provision and use of Much of this research is carried out in laboratories, Psychology MSc laboratories and technical support through surveys and in clinical or other applied Social Psychology MSc • selection of speakers for our weekly settings. For example, research has examined departmental research colloquia Location: Canterbury. aggression, the adaptive functions of perfectionism, • weekly research meetings within each theme Entry requirements: As for Developmental and consequences of mortality salience. to develop, report and analyse research, and Psychology, see p187. host our many visiting scholars Cognitive Psychology • several monthly small meeting series on The breadth of our research interests allows us specific areas of cross-cutting research Research under this theme has an international to offer supervision of research degrees in a (such as forensic, social development, reputation in the topic areas of Visual Cognition number of areas of psychology, including: emotion, social cognition and health). and Attention and Language and Communication. social psychology; developmental psychology; Some of this research activity occurs in the Centre 188 Psychology cont

for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems, Developmental Psychology a strategic partnership between the Schools of The main population of interest is children, from Psychology and Computing. infancy to adolescence. Research topics in social psychology include the expression and control of Visual Cognition and Attention ethnic and gender prejudice, social ostracism and Research on this topic focuses primarily on inclusion, conversational norms and group identity the role of vision and visual perception in human in children. Our cognitive developmental research performance. The fundamental aim of this work is includes such topics as theory of mind, language to identify the cognitive processes and neurological development and children’s information mechanisms underlying various visual tasks. processing. Forensic research on children is Studies involving neurologically healthy volunteers focused on adolescents, in particular gang activity examine issues such as face recognition and and antisocial behaviour. Lifespan research at Kent identification, eyewitness testimony, person also includes research on social aspects of older detection, emotion processing and pattern adulthood, in particular self-stereotyping and and motion recognition. prejudice against elderly people.

Language and Communication Research in this group examines various Research centres aspects of semantic, pragmatic and syntactic The School of Psychology currently includes three understanding. Research questions on healthy formally constituted research centres, representing populations include the role of executive functions areas of concentration and excellence in research. in successful language use and communication, how language influences attentional processes Centre for the Study of Group Processes and perspective taking, anomaly detection, and The Centre for the Study of Group Processes the effect of interruptions on reading. Work on (CSGP) was set up in 1990 to consolidate the developmental populations examines issues such School’s excellent international reputation for social as how children learn to understand and produce psychological research into group processes and sentences in their own language, and how they intergroup relations. The Centre is now a thriving learn conversational conventions and self-repair. STAFF PROFILE international research community, including 15 Research also examines developmental disorders full-time academic staff and a large number of of communication, including autism spectrum Theresa Gannon research fellows and PhD students. The Centre disorders and dyslexia. This research group has Professor of Forensic Psychology also attracts a stream of major international group links with researchers in the School of European researchers, who visit the Centre regularly to work Culture and Languages, as part of the Centre for Exploring the mindset of firesetters with our staff and are officially affiliated to the Language and Linguistic Studies. and sex offenders fascinates forensic Centre. The Centre also edits an international psychologist Theresa Gannon. She journal, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. specialises in researching these offenders Forensic Psychology as well as treating them in a unit run by Forensic Psychology research at Kent and all Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Kent Forensic Psychiatry Services. forensic-related teaching operates through our Cognitive Systems newly constituted Centre of Research and The objective of the Centre for Cognitive Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP). Professor Gannon became interested in Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CCNCS) Current research is focused on bullying in prisons, sex offenders following a lecture on their is to harness the potential for cross-disciplinary prison gang behaviour, jury decision-making, child cognition during her BSc in Psychology: research at the junction of cognitive psychology sexual offending, rape, rape proclivity, female “It was the first time that I’d heard and the computational sciences. The Centre sexual offending, theories of offender rehabilitation, research being applied to sex offenders focuses on how behavioural and neuro- firesetting, sexual harassment, violence, aggression and I thought it was the most amazing physiological experimentation needs to inform and and alcohol, and the infrahumanisation of amalgamation of science and social be informed by the construction of computational offenders. Other areas of research include social impact.” models. Furthermore, the results of such studies cognition, social and moral emotion, and group should inform the construction of artificial systems, process theory, all of which are applied to the study Professor Gannon’s current research such as forensic imaging, human-computer of offending behaviour or court process issues. includes evaluating community supervision interfaces and robotic systems. strategies for sex offenders. She’s also looking at standardised treatment for Forensic psychology research at Kent is funded by various national and international sources, which Centre of Research and Education in firesetters and identifying models to Forensic Psychology explain female sex offenders. include: The British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, Home Office, Leverhulme, The main aim of the Centre of Research and “It all sounds a bit bleak and you have Ministry of Justice and the Nuffield Foundation. Education in Forensic Psychology is to conduct to be a certain type of person to work high-impact psychological research to further in this area,” she admits. “But what I Research may be carried out with staff or understand key forensic issues of social like most is working with offenders for a offenders/ex-offenders in a variety of settings, significance, and to lead to cutting-edge teaching lengthy period and then seeing them go including prisons, youth offender institutions, and research opportunities for postgraduate back into society and doing okay. That’s secure mental health units and probation offices. students. Forensic psychology is an extremely really great.” Alternatively, research may take place with students popular and rapidly developing branch of or members of the community in our newly psychology that seeks to understand the equipped laboratories. psychological processes underlying offending behaviour (including group processes), the reduction and supervision of offending behaviour (ie, rehabilitation, treatment and management of community risk), victim responses to offending, the mechanisms underlying the criminal justice system more generally (ie, jury decision-making and the courts), and attitudes to offenders and offender reintegration in society. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/psychology 189

Staff research interests Dr Karen Douglas: Reader in Psychology Professor Robert Johnston: Professor of Understanding beliefs in conspiracy theories, Cognitive Psychology Full details of staff research interests can be found language and stereotyping, sexist language, Cognitive processes underlying face and object on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/people lay theories of persuasion, social psychology processing, eg accessing and representing of the internet, interpersonal and intergroup information about familiar people; recognising Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith: Lecturer in Psychology communication. Recent publications include: other-race faces; understanding how unfamiliar Child language development and its intersection Feedback: The communication of praise, faces become familiar; determining how age-of- with how children perceive events. criticism and advice (co-ed, 2010); Social acquisition influences object identification. Psychology (co-author, 2013). Professor Dominic Abrams: Professor of Social Dr Erika Nurmsoo: Lecturer in Psychology Psychology Dr Heather Ferguson: Senior Lecturer in Language acquisition, focusing on word learning; Social identity and intergroup relations; prejudice; Psychology theory of mind development; source monitoring sexism; deviance; social identity in organisational Language and communication; perspective taking; and use of testimony in preschoolers; children’s contexts; group consensus processes; the self- comprehension of counterfactuals and negation; comprehension of partial and ambiguous input; concept and self-regulation of behaviour. mental representations involved in language understanding and use of symbols, drawing, understanding; time-course and brain processes and pretence. Dr Zara Bergström: Lecturer in Cognitive involved in various cognitive functions; autistic Psychology spectrum disorder. Dr Afroditi Pina: Lecturer in Psychology The neurocognitive mechanisms of episodic Sexual violence, gender equality and victimisation, memory; control processes and long-term memory Dr Mike Forrester: Reader in Psychology in particular rape and the myths that surround it; retrieval; cognitive neuroscience techniques; Children’s conversational skills; discourse and sexual harassment, its impact on its victims, applied memory research; memory in old age. conversation analysis; psychoanalytic women’s coping strategies, and the link between developmental psychology; the development of sexual harassment and the emotions of anger Dr Markus Bindemann: Senior Lecturer in singing and musicality. Recent publications include: and fear; self and sexual objectification and its Psychology Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Insights effects on women’s self esteem; victim blaming; Face and person perception; detection of people from Conversation Analysis (co-ed, 2010); Doing coping strategies. in natural settings; person memory and eyewitness Qualitative Research in Psychology: A Practical identification; perception of eye-gaze and emotion Guide (2010). Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura: Senior from faces and other aspects of social cognition. Lecturer in Social Psychology Professor Theresa Gannon: Professor of Intra and intergroup dynamics and social Dr Joseph Brooks: Lecturer in Psychology Forensic Psychology psychology in organisations, especially leadership, Visual perception; perceptual organisation; visual The cognition of child molesters, rapists and violent innovation and what happens when group illusions; ambiguous images (can be seen in offenders; detecting fake-good responses in prison members break rules or norms. different ways); visual attention and the neural populations; the rehabilitation and treatment of processes that give rise to them; effect of social sexual offenders; applied cognitive-experimental Dr Dinkar Sharma: Senior Lecturer in aspects of behaviour, such as sexuality, on psychology; the characteristics and treatment of Psychology attention and perception. female sexual offenders and firesetters. Recent Cognition and emotion; selective attention; publications include: Public Opinion and Criminal priming; cognitive approaches to addiction. Dr Anna Brown: Lecturer in Psychological Justice (co-ed, 2008); Female Sexual Offenders: Methods and Statistics Theory, Assessment and Treatment (co-ed, 2010); Professor Joachim Stoeber: Professor of Quantitative modelling of psychological date; Firesetting and Mental Health: Theory, Research Psychology modelling response processes to cognitive and and Practice (co-ed, 2012); Crime and Crime Perfectionism, well-being and performance; non-cognitive assessments using Item Response Reduction: The importance of group processes coping; personal goals in adolescence; stress Theory (IRT). (co-ed, 2013); What Works in Offender and health in the workplace; motivation; personality Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Approach and individual differences. Dr Rachel Calogero: Reader in Psychology to Assessment and Treatment (co-ed, 2013). Motivated social cognition; social psychology of Dr Robbie Sutton: Reader in Psychology gender, class, the body, and inequality; sexism and Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla: Professor of Just-world beliefs and system-justification; social feminism; understanding objectification of others Social Psychology norms and communication processes especially and self-objectification; psychological determinants The role of emotions in prejudice and self-control; as they relate to prejudice, stereotyping and the of system justification and social change; how we moral judgements and emotion (anger, disgust, perpetuation of injustice and inequality; the inner respond to perceived and actual threats (physical, guilt and shame); cross-cultural differences in logic of apparently irrational behaviours such as psychological, social); needs and motives related moral beliefs; intergroup emotions; shame and mutually destructive conflicts and environmental to the pursuit of social justice; mindfulness as a guilt. Recent publications include: Judging despoilation; implications of these processes for mindset intervention; sociocultural context for Passions: Moral Emotions in Persons and gender (sexism, fear of crime and views of dysfunctional exercise, eating, and body image. Groups (2012). rape complainants) and global warming Recent publications include: Self-Objectification (climate change). Recent publications include: in Women: Causes, Consequences, and Dr Tim Hopthrow: Senior Lecturer in Feedback: The communication of praise, criticism Counteractions (co-ed, 2011). Psychology and advice (co-ed, 2010); Social Psychology: An Small group performance and decision-making interactive text (co-ed, 2013). Dr Lindsey Cameron: Lecturer in Psychology especially in the context of co-operative behaviour Social developmental psychology: development in social dilemmas; the effects of alcohol Dr Ayse Uskul: Lecturer in Psychology and reduction of intergroup prejudice in children; consumption on group performance. Cultural conceptions of honour and roots of direct intergroup contact and extended intergroup honour-related aggression; ecocultural influences contact; development of ethnic and national Professor Diane Houston: Professor of on cognitive and social psychological (eg, social identity in children and adolescents; acculturation Psychology exclusion, honour) processes; social, cultural, and in childhood; experience of prejudice and Applied social psychology and its interface with religious correlates of attitudes toward inter-ethnic discrimination, and its consequences for sociology and social policy; theoretical approaches and inter-faith intimate relationship; the role of self- social development. to women’s work participation, occupational regulatory mechanisms insocial cognition (eg, segregation and career development; processes processing of health messages); social interaction of discrimination, particularly sexism; the ways in (eg, aggression); well-being (eg, depression). which different policy contexts shape gender equality and gender stereotyping; work-life balance and career consequences of flexible working. 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Dr Eduardo Vasquez: Lecturer in Forensic Dr David Williams: Reader in Developmental Psychology Psychology Location Aggression and displaced aggression; anger, Various forms of developmental psychopathology, Canterbury. rumination, and aggression and violent behaviours; including autism spectrum disorder and specific English language requirements inter-group relations; personalisation, self-disclosure language impairment; the nature and neuro- See p223. and liking; inter-group conflict and aggression; inter- cognitive bases of developmental disorders, as gang violence; alcohol and social behaviours: well as what these disorders tell us about typical Fees and funding alcohol and aggression, alcohol and inter-group development; use of cognitive-experimental See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding anxiety; applications to criminal behaviour. techniques among typical and atypical populations. National ratings Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Dr Tendayi Viki: Senior Lecturer in Forensic Dr Arnaud Wisman: Lecturer in Psychology 50% increase in research-related income as a Psychology Coping mortality salience; terror management result of this competitive nationwide exercise; Organisational psychology, mergers and theory; the self-concept, self-esteem and self- 40% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or acquisitions, psychology and the workplace, regulation; groups, automatic social behaviour, ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 40% innovation and creativity, entrepreneurship, conformism and cultural worldviews; evolutionary judged ‘internationally recognised’. methodology and statistics. social psychology, attraction, scent and sexuality. Applications Dr Mario Weick: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Dr Jane Wood: Senior Lecturer in Forensic The impact of social and situational factors on Psychology Taught programmes people’s perceptions, judgements and actions; Street and prison gang formation and activity; Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ the role of power and control – specifically how public attitudes to crime and punishment, bullying in postgrad/apply powerful and powerless people differ in their prison and schools; resettlement and rehabilitation Research programmes perceptions, the way they make judgements of ex-offenders and the role of emotions in judging See p232 or contact the School for further and their actions. offenders. Recent publications include: Public details. Opinion and Criminal Justice: Context, Practice and Further information Dr David Wilkinson: Reader in Psychology Values (co-ed, 2008); Crime and Crime Reduction: T: +44 (0)1227 824775 Visual cognition; perceptual and attentional The importance of group processes (co-ed, 2013). F: +44 (0)1227 827030 performance in healthy and brain-damaged E: [email protected] individuals; the use of sensory stimulation to rehabilitate stroke.

TAUGHT PROGRAMME UNDER DEVELOPMENT An exciting new venture sees the launch of a new MSc programme bringing together aspects of psychological research into applied, social and organisational psychology modules from Kent’s School of Psychology, together with modules on organisational behaviour and people management from Kent Business School.

For further information, please go to www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/msc/organisational or informal enquiries, please email [email protected] 191

Canterbury RELIGIOUS STUDIES

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent provides the highest standards of graduate training in the UK and is the only department in its subject area to have received two national grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support specialist training for doctoral students.

The Department’s particular areas of research and teaching strength are in the fields of religion and contemporary society, religious subjectivities and experience, religion, media and culture, and theory and method in the study of religion. Our staff are widely recognised for their areas of research expertise and students within the Department have the opportunity to engage with the leading edge of work in their field.

The Department strongly supports cross-disciplinary work and students are encouraged to take advantage of the wide range of postgraduate classes and seminars available both within the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) and across the University as a whole.

“This has been a wonderful Programmes students from around the UK. Doctoral students are supported with undertaking wider professional opportunity for me to build a Taught development activities, including teaching and relationship with an excellent • Humanities Pre-Masters’s GDip writing for publication, that would prepare them for • Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience future academic work. Broader training support is adviser who is involved in MA also available through the University’s Graduate the international Jungian • Theory and Method in the Study of Religion MA School. community. I chose Kent based Research Dynamic publishing culture on his research and publishing • Theology and Religious Studies MA, PhD All staff are involved in writing research interests and it has been a monographs and articles, as well as a range of great decision.” Postgraduate resources research networking and editing activities. Where The Templeman Library has strong electronic and appropriate, postgraduate students are helped to Stephani Stephens print collections in religious studies, and a wide publish their own work, either as sole-authored PhD Theology and Religious Studies range of related disciplines including anthropology, pieces with feedback and guidance from staff, or cultural and critical theory, history, literature, as co-authored projects written with a staff member. philosophy, politics and sociology. Doctoral The Journal of Hindu Studies, published by Oxford students are offered research support funds to University Press, is edited from the Department. enable them to attend academic conferences or Details of recently published books can be found to meet other costs associated with their research. within the staff research interests on p193.

Training Taught programmes Postgraduate students in Religious Studies are Humanities Pre-Master’s GDip expected to play an active role in the training and Location: Canterbury. research culture of the Department as a whole. Attendance: One year full-time. This includes the Department’s regular research Entry requirements: An honours degree in a seminar, the advanced theory reading group and related subject. Consideration will be given to other training workshops offered through the year applicants holding equivalent qualifications or involving internationally recognised researchers. work experience. Postgraduate students have the opportunity to take the Department’s week-long training course in This programme offers you the opportunity to methodological approaches to the study of religion develop your independent study and research in the spring term, which is also taken by doctoral skills through a combination of subject modules 192 Religious Studies cont

within the School of European Culture and It is also possible to enrol for 12-month, part-time Languages. In addition, as part of your programme study for a PCert in Theory and Method in the you have the opportunity to improve your English Study of Religion, taking the two compulsory language competence with dedicated English and modules listed below. Academic Skills for Humanities modules offered by Kent International Pathways. Course content • Compulsory modules: Methodological On successful completion of the Diploma Approaches to the Study of Religion; and through meeting the University’s rules of Theory and the Study of Religion. progression, you may choose to study on one • Two optional modules from those offered by the of the programmes within the following disciplines: Department, School of European Culture and • Classical & Archaeological Studies Languages or other schools in the University • Comparative Literature where appropriate • English Language and Linguistics • Dissertation • French • German Assessment • Hispanic Studies As for Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience. • Italian • Philosophy Research programmes • Religious Studies. Theology and Religious Studies MA, PhD Assessment Location: Canterbury. Assessment is through a combination of Entry requirements: MA by research: a first or assignments, coursework and examinations. good second class degree; PhD: an undergraduate degree (first or 2.1) and a Master’s degree Study of Mysticism and Religious (distinction). In exceptional circumstances, Experience MA candidates with only a first class undergraduate Location: Canterbury. degree will be considered. STAFF PROFILE Entry requirements: A first or good second class honours degree (or the equivalent) in a relevant You are expected to provide a strong research Gordon Lynch subject. proposal at the time of application. Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology The study of mysticism and religious experience, Staff can supervise theses in the main areas of centred on religious studies, involves subjects interest listed below. Professor Lynch’s research focuses on the as diverse as philosophy, theology, psychology, cultural study of religion and the sacred. parapsychology, anthropology, sociology, classics, Research areas His most recent work explores significant history, literature, art history, medicine and sacred forms within modern society that psychiatry. Mysticism, religious experience and shape both religious and secular life, religious subjectivities including nationalism and humanitarianism. Course content Work within the Department focuses particularly • Methods and Theories in the Study of on theory and method of mysticism and religious He works closely with leading scholars Religious Experience experience, the psychology of religion, William in the field of cultural sociology and is a • Mysticism and Religious Experience: James, Indian religious thought (particularly Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Contemporary Issues Hinduism), and the study of religious subjectivities Sociology at Yale University. He has also • Mystical Traditions: East and West in late modern societies. previously been the Chair of the Sociology • Spirituality and Popular Culture of Religion study group within the British • Dissertation Religion, the sacred and contemporary Sociological Association and co-chair of society the Media, Religion and Culture group Assessment Within the Department, this includes the study of within the American Academy of Religion. Assessment is by coursework on four taught the role of religious NGOs in global civil society, the modules and the dissertation. cultural sociological study of the sacred (including His leading work in developing doctoral- humanitarianism and nationalism), the relationship level training has been recognised by two Theory and Method in the Study of between religion and late capitalism, and religious AHRC national level training grants, and Religion MA engagements with pluralist, secular societies. he has been actively involved in the Location: Canterbury. development of the major five-year Entry requirements: A first or good second class Religion, media and culture Religion and Society research programme honours degree (or the equivalent) in a relevant The Department has particular expertise in funded by the AHRC and ESRC. humanities or social science subject. the study of religion and film, including both the religious significance of film as a medium and the The programme provides core training for students critical theological analysis of film texts. Other work wanting to pursue further postgraduate research explores different forms of the mediation of religion, or research in other contexts. The MA offers an the material and aesthetic dimensions of religious overview of key theoretical debates in the study life, and the significance of news media for the of religion, as well as methodological issues and circulation of sacred meanings. approaches for conducting fieldwork. You are also able to select optional modules that will help you Theory and method in the study of religion to develop your specific interests. As demand for doctoral research funding becomes increasingly In addition to engaging with current debates about competitive, this programme will also provide the nature of religious experience and the broader guidance on seeking funding and writing research understanding of religion and the sacred, the proposals, as well as the opportunity to refine ideas Department has expertise in a range of theoretical for a research project through the taught modules writers and debates within continental philosophy, and dissertation. cultural, critical and social theory, and psychological Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs 193

theory. Research supported within the Department Dr Jessica Frazier: Lecturer in Religious Studies Dr Anna Strhan: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow utilises a range of approaches including theoretical Theories and methods in the study of religion; Conservative evangelicalism in contemporary research, textual analysis, analysis of visual and Hindu religious traditions; phenomenology, religious society; childhood and religion; religion and the city; material culture, historical research and experience, and theories of the self; religion and religion and education; subjectivity; ethnographic ethnography. culture; Islamic liberalism and fundamentalism; approaches to the study of religion. Recent Gadamer and continental philosophy. Recent publications include: Levinas, Subjectivity, Staff research interests publications include: Reality, Religion, and Passion Education: Towards an Ethics of Radical (2008); The Continuum Companion to Hindu Responsibility (2012). Full details of staff research interests can be found Studies (2011). on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/staff Professor Richard King: Professor of Buddhist Dr Ward Blanton: Reader in Biblical Cultures and Asian Studies Location and European Thought Buddhism and Asian traditions, theory and method; Canterbury. St Paul; the New Testament; continental and politics and spirituality; the comparative study of English language requirements European thought. Recent publications include: apophatic mysticism (Christian, Vedantic, See p223. A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Buddhist); Eastern-inspired new Age spiritualities; Philosophy of Undying Life (2013). and genealogies of Religious Studies. Recent Fees and funding publications include: Theory/Religion/Critique See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Dr Abby Day: Senior Research Fellow (forthcoming). Theoretical and empirical study of belief; study National ratings Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: of belief across cultural contexts; longitudinal Professor Gordon Lynch: Michael Ramsey Chair 40% of our research was rated ‘world-leading’ qualitative study of religion; study of religion and of Modern Theology or ‘internationally excellent’, with a further 30% later life; ethnographic study of religion. Recent Forms of the sacred within contemporary culture; judged as ‘internationally recognised’. publications include: Believing in Belonging: Belief religion, media and culture; lived religion; religion and Social Identity in the Modern World (2011). and the secular; conservative and progressive Applications religious movements in the West; religion, arts Professor Jeremy Carrette: Professor of and public cultural spaces. Recent publications Taught programmes Religion and Culture; Head of Religious Studies include: The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Michel Foucault; William James; critical psychology Sociological Approach (2012); Religion, Media and postgrad/apply and religion; globalisation, social theory and Culture: A Reader (co-ed, 2012). Research programmes religion; politics of spirituality; capitalism and See p232 or contact the School for further religion; theology and economics; Christian ethics; Professor Yvonne Sherwood: Professor of Bible details. gender, sexuality and theology. Recent publications and European Thought Further information include: William James’s Hidden Religious The Hebrew Bible; post-structuralism and the Professor Jeremy Carrette Imagination (2013). Bible; continental and European thought. Recent T: +44 (0)1227 823145 publications include: The Invention of the Biblical E: [email protected] Dr Christopher Deacy: Senior Lecturer in Scholar: A Critical Manifesto (2011); Biblical Applied Theology Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Theology, religious studies and film, in particular Age (2012). how film appreciation enriches theological enquiry; theological/religious perspectives on life after death. Recent publications include: Screening the Afterlife: Theology, Eschatology and Film (2011). 194 Science, Communication and Society

Student profile

JESSICA MILLER MSc SCIENCE, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY

What attracted you to this course? feedback is always very helpful, with a good balance of I have a degree in Biology and through this developed an positive comment and areas for improvement. They are also interest in the ways in which science relates to the wider world always happy to answer any questions that you may have. and culture. As part of my degree I took a module in Science Although the course is taught between two departments, Communication, which I thoroughly enjoyed. This helped me the modules complement each other really well. decide to take a Master’s in this subject. How would you describe your fellow students? What is the level of support like for postgraduates? We are a small group, but everyone is passionate about the The support is very good. The teachers are always willing to subject and very friendly. The size of the groups allows for make time to help you if you need it. There are also a number interesting and lively in-class discussion. of skills workshops designed to help you with essay writing and any other areas you need some support in. Any advice to future students? Always work hard at the seminar preparation, as it can feed What about the teaching? directly into assessments and means that you get far more The teaching has been of a very high quality. The tutors out of the course. Also, make full use of the library, you will facilitate interesting discussions, while giving us the theoretical need it for assessments and it is an excellent place to study. background needed to understand the topics. Assessment 195

Canterbury SCIENCE, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

The MSc in Science, Communication and Society gives critical, professional and practical perspectives on science communication.

Using the latest scholarship, we enable you to get behind contemporary and historic science to understand how knowledge is created and consumed within society. The programme also features professionals from a range of sectors (medical writing, journalism, industry, policy). These bring real-life case studies that inform your critical perspectives on science communication. Practical and innovative assessments harness your developing knowledge to create a portfolio of skills that are highly valued by employers.

The MSc in Science, Communication and Society is intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the following: • science graduates intending to pursue a career within science but not in the laboratory • humanities graduates with an interest in Science and Technology Studies • practising scientists wanting a career change into media, education, policy or other communicational area of science.

“This programme gives you a Programmes Taught programme grounding in both science and Taught Science, Communication and Society MSc arts. It gives you the ability to • Science, Communication and Society MSc Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: Minimum 2.1 degree in a see things from both sides of the Postgraduate resources relevant subject. coin on the same issue and I Both schools have a research-intensive The MSc has been developed by the School of think that’s really valuable. It environment. The School of Biosciences offers Biosciences, a leading school in teaching, research looks at how things have been state-of-the-art research facilities, which have and science communication, and the School of recently undergone a £1 million refurbishment. History, which has a dedicated research centre in done in the past and how we The research laboratories now house over 100 the History of the Sciences. It integrates current can do things in the future and academic, research, technical and support staff theory and practice in communicating science with devoted to research, of whom more than 70 are insights from historical and ethical perspectives. that’s absolutely fantastic!” postgraduate students. Annual research funding Two core modules have a case study-driven is in excess of £2 million. approach to science communication, learning Louise Sands from key scientific moments in history and from MSc Science, Communication and Society The School of History has around 25 research- science communicators who work in a variety of active members of staff and 30 postgraduate different professions (eg, media, politics, education, students. It has an excellent library collection journalism). relating to science, past and present. Two optional modules allow you to specialise in a The programme benefits from an outstanding particular area relevant to science communication, academic environment. Both schools have a based on your interests and experience, focusing vibrant postgraduate community featuring seminar on either practical/scientific or humanities-based series, symposia and social events. A strong approaches to the study of science communication. feature of the programme is the opportunities for An extended research project allows you to take a community engagement and science outreach, practical approach to science communication, including events during National Science and or to do in-depth research on a historical or Engineering Week, science-art gallery exhibitions, contemporary episode in science. and links with local museums. These add to your portfolio of skills and experience and promote future employability.

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In some cases, these projects may be undertaken in conjunction with external partners, such as Location Research Councils, charities and NGOs. Canterbury. English language requirements You can opt to take only the core modules, See p223. resulting in a postgraduate certificate, or to take the compulsory plus two optional modules, leading Fees and funding to a postgraduate diploma. See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding National ratings Course content Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Compulsory modules • History of Science Communication History: ranked 2nd nationally for research • Science @ Work: Professional Science quality, with 70% of our research rated Communication ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. • Project Biosciences: 35% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, Optional modules with a further 40% judged as ‘internationally Two from: Deformed, Deranged and Deviant; recognised’. Geiger Counter at Ground Zero; Science Applications Communication in Practice; Science, Ethics Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ and Controversy; Science in Translation; Visualising postgrad/apply Science. Further information Assessment T: +44 (0)1227 827357 Continuous assessment throughout the year is E: [email protected] diverse, innovative and context-driven, from short www.kent.ac.uk/bio/study/postgraduate/ pieces of writing to longer essays, and from the master/sc development and evaluation of science STAFF PROFILES communication activities to mock professional reports and grant applications. The aim of each assessment is not only to monitor understanding, Dr Charlotte Sleigh and Dr Dan Lloyd but also to integrate information across modules Programme Directors of the MSc in and give you practical experience in a range of Science, Communication and Society transferable skills for future employability. Dr Charlotte Sleigh is a Reader in the School of History, and Dr Dan Lloyd Research groups is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Research in the School of Biosciences revolves Biosciences. Both are active researchers around understanding and exploiting the impact with a passion for explaining their research of systems and processes in the living cell. Our to non-specialist audiences. They are also expertise is in three overlapping disciplines and award-winning teachers, both being research themes of protein science, molecular independent recipients of Faculty microbiology and biomolecular medicine. Each Teaching Prizes from the University of group contains researchers active in science Kent. Dr Dan Lloyd also won a National communication and public engagement. The Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his School of History has a dedicated Centre for science communication work with the History of Science and Technology, with students. researchers working on individual and group projects in areas as diverse as human Dan says, “As a scientist, I firmly believe experimentation at Porton Down, steamships, it’s our responsibility to communicate literature and science, and public perceptions science effectively. I also feel it’s important of nuclear technology. to engage with other academic disciplines to give a reasoned perspective on how this communication is best achieved. Staff research interests Dr Dan Lloyd: Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology; “I feel that one of the real strengths National Teaching Fellow of this course is the bringing together Cellular responses to DNA damage, with particular of scientific- and humanities-based emphasis on the repair of DNA damage in human approaches to public engagement, cells induced by environmental and clinical agents; allowing us to learn from each other and novel radiopharmaceuticals used in the imaging develop the most appropriate strategies treatment of cancer. for making science interesting, accessible www.kent.ac.uk/bio/profiles and relevant to all.” Dr Charlotte Sleigh: Reader in the History of Science History and culture of the life sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; history of natural history; literature; gender. Recent publications include: Literature and Science (2010); Frog (2012). www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff 197

Canterbury SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE

The Tizard Centre is part of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) and is one of the leading UK academic groups working in intellectual disability and community care. The Centre has excellent links with health and social care organisations, and other relevant establishments.

Our primary aims, through research, teaching and consultancy, are: • to find out more about how to effectively support and work with people with learning disabilities • to help carers, managers and professionals develop the values, knowledge and skills that enable better services • to aid policymakers, planners, managers and practitioners to organise and provide enhanced services.

The Tizard Centre is recognised as leading the field in deinstitutionalisation and community living, challenging behaviour, quality of staff support, sexuality and autism, and has had a significant impact on national policies in these areas. We are committed to addressing issues arising from social inequality.

“The MSc course has been a Programmes Acclaimed active department fantastic experience – the quality Taught The Tizard Centre runs an annual seminar series of teaching and supervision is • Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual and where staff or guest lecturers present the results Developmental Disabilities PDip, MSc of research or highlight recent developments in excellent, and the teaching staff • Applied Behaviour Analysis PCert, PDip, MSc the field of social care. The Jim Mansell Memorial are all clearly passionate about • Autism Studies PCert, PDip, MA Lecture invites public figures or distinguished • Autism Studies PCert, PDip, MA (Distance academics to discuss topics that could interest the subject and are motivating Learning) a wider audience. The Centre also publishes the and encouraging. I have come • Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Tizard Learning Disability Review (in conjunction PCert, PDip, MA with Emerald Publishing) to provide a source of out of the year with more • Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities up-to-date information for professionals and carers. PCert, PDip, MA (Distance Learning) knowledge and positive The Tizard Centre provides consultancy to experiences than I could Research organisations in the statutory and independent sectors, both nationally and internationally, in • Applied Psychology MPhil, PhD have imagined.” diversified areas such as service assessment, • Community Care MPhil, PhD person-centred approaches, active support and Rhea Young • Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities adult protection. The Centre also teaches a range MSc Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual MPhil, PhD of short courses, often in conjunction with other and Developmental Disabilities • Mental Health MPhil, PhD organisations.

Postgraduate resources Dynamic publishing culture All teaching takes place at the Tizard Centre. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, The Centre has its own video equipment and conference proceedings and books. Among computer-based systems for analysing video others, they have recently contributed to: Journal footage. Postgraduate research students have of Mental Health; Journal of Applied Research a shared office space with a computer and and Intellectual Disabilities; American Journal telephone. of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests on p199.

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Taught programmes problem. Placements are assessed by two 2,000- word service reports and one 4,000-word case Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual report, plus feedback by placement supervisors. and Developmental Disabilities PDip, MSc Autism Studies PCert, PDip, MA Applied Behaviour Analysis PCert, PDip, Autism Studies PCert, PDip, MA (Distance MSc Learning) Location: Canterbury. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Entry requirements: A first or second class PCert, PDip, MA honours degree in a social science discipline; voluntary, professional or family experience of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities children or adults with a learning disability PCert, PDip, MA (Distance Learning) and/or autism. Location: Canterbury. “I wanted a programme with an Entry requirements: A good honours degree, The programme seeks to develop a critical international reputation, highly typically in psychology or other relevant social understanding of concepts and principles sciences, or comparable professional qualifications of applied behaviour analysis. It provides you qualified and expert lecturers, and experience. Analysis and Intervention in with a detailed knowledge of intellectual and and course content that was Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities students developmental disabilities and experience of also need some practical experience in services practice or conducting research in this field. applicable to my daily work with for people with intellectual and developmental The programme is aimed at both recent graduates my clients – the Tizard Centre disabilities. and experienced practitioners. Benefits include academic and professional support from some met all of these expectations. These degrees are advanced professional of the UK’s leading applied behaviour analysts The content offered a broad development programmes involving some or and intellectual and developmental disability perspective on the life journey all of the following: distance learning; study researchers. The programme also provides workshops; service placement visits; and a clinical the necessary coursework to apply to sit the of an individual with placement (which can be in your home area). The international examination for certification as programmes in Intellectual and Developmental a behaviour analyst. developmental disabilities Disabilities and Autism Studies can be completed and the accompanying issues mainly by distance learning, with a residential Course content of providing adequate services workshop in the spring. • Four modules in applied behaviour analysis including: Concepts of Applied Behaviour across that lifespan.” Accreditation of Prior Learning and Prior Analysis; Developing and Implementing Experiential Learning may be possible on Interventions; Observation and Analysis of Crystal Lee Clark all programmes. You can transfer between Behaviour; Values, Ethics and Professional MA Autism Studies (Distance Learning) programmes and between levels, subject Practice. British Columbia, Canada to meeting admission requirements. • Five modules in intellectual/developmental disabilities including: Behaviour Analysis Coursework is taught through a mixture of and Intervention; Extended Essay; Research web-based resources, directed reading, videos, Methods; Service Issues; Social Psychology lectures, seminars and practical sessions, of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. supported by a number of workshops, where • Option of completing a dissertation or a project you work with skilled professionals and have the linked to work-based learning opportunity to share ideas and experiences with fellow students. Assessment Modules are assessed by examination, essay, Students taking the PDip or MSc in Analysis and practical assignment, video. Dissertation of Intervention in Intellectual and Developmental 10,000 words or, for work-based learning option, Disabilities must work in two different placements 7,000-word case report and video. during the programme: a service placement based at the Tizard Centre and an individual clinical placement based in a community learning disability Research programmes team or social care service. If you are taking Applied Psychology MPhil, PhD the PDip or MSc in Analysis and Intervention in Community Care MPhil, PhD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, you must base your dissertation on empirical research Intellectual and Developmental in services. Disabilities MPhil, PhD Mental Health MPhil, PhD Course content Location: Canterbury. • Behavioural Analysis and Intervention Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant • Research Methods subject. • Service Issues • Social Psychology of Intellectual and The Centre offers excellent opportunities for full Developmental Disabilities/Social Psychology or part-time research in intellectual disability and of Autism community care leading to higher degrees. • Project/dissertation/case study The Tizard Centre has a strong track record Assessment of attracting University and ESRC research Each of the four taught modules is assessed by a studentship funding. one-hour, web-based, multiple-choice exam and an extended essay. In addition, the Research Methods You should send an outline of your research module involves short assignments and a worked proposal with your application. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/tizard 199

Research groups and centres Dr Nick Gore: Lecturer in Learning Disability Relational Frame Theory; acceptance and Location Current research areas include: social commitment therapy (ACT); challenging Canterbury. inequalities and community care; intellectual behaviour; supported employment. and developmental disabilities. English language requirements See p223. Dr Michelle McCarthy: Senior Lecturer in Staff research interests Learning Disability Fees and funding The sexuality of people with learning disabilities, See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Full details of staff research interests can be found in particular women with learning disabilities, and on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/staff National ratings sexual abuse; sexual and reproductive health; the Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: menopause for women with learning disabilities. Dr Julie Beadle-Brown: Reader in Learning social work, social policy and administration Recent publications include: Sex and the 3R’s: Disability ranked 4th nationally for research quality, with Rights, Risks and Responsibilities (co-author, Autism and social impairment in learning disability; 70% of the research rated ‘world-leading’ or 2008). the implementation of active support in services; ‘internationally excellent’. the effect of grouping people in services; person- centred approaches; exclusion of people with Peter McGill: Co-Director; Reader in Applied Applications challenging behaviour from services. Recent Clinical Psychology of Learning Disability Applied behaviour analysis; challenging behaviour; Taught programmes publications include: Active Support: Enabling positive behaviour support; family support. Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ and Empowering People with Intellectual postgrad/apply Disabilities (co-author, 2012). Professor Glynis Murphy: Co-Director; Research programmes Professor of Clinical Psychology of Learning See p232 or contact the Centre for further Dr Jill Bradshaw: Lecturer in Learning Disability, Disability details. Communication and Challenging Behaviour Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural treatment Staff attributions; communication and person- Further information for men at risk of sexual offending; effectiveness of centred active support; communication T: +44 (0)1227 827373 treatment for people with untreated phenylketonuria environments; total communication approaches; E: [email protected] (PKU); symptoms of abuse for people with severe augmentative and alternative communication. learning disabilities; capacity to consent to sexual relationships; early development of self-injurious Dr Mecca Chiesa: Lecturer in Learning Disability behaviour; effectiveness of early intervention in Behaviour analysis; precision teaching; fluency autism. building; autism and learning disabilities.

Tony Osgood: Lecturer in Learning Disability Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones: Reader in Health, Behaviour analysis; person-centred planning; Community and Social Care positive behaviour support; autism and Community care outcomes (mental health, learning organisational influence on human service disabilities); social networks and social support outcomes. relating to all client groups, including university students; social inclusion; social environments; supported employment; death, bereavement and Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou: Lecturer in spirituality. Learning Disability Sleep functioning and sleep problems in children and adults with learning disabilities and/or autism; sleep and challenging behaviour; offending in people with learning disabilities; person-centred active support. 200

Canterbury and Medway SOCIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY

The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. It has received top ratings in Research Assessment Exercises, and most recently had 70% of its work judged as either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in terms of its “originality, significance and rigour”.

The School supports a large and thriving postgraduate community and in 2010 distributed in excess of £100,000 in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota awards, and in University and SSPSSR bursaries and scholarships to new students.

Colleagues specialise in research of international, comparative and theoretical significance, and we have collective strengths in the following areas: civil society, NGOs and the third sector; cross-national and European social policy; health, social care and health studies; work, employment and economic life; risk, ‘risk society’ and risk management; race, ethnicity and religion; social and public policy; sociology and the body; crime, culture and control; sociological theory and the culture of modernity.

“The people on my programme Programmes Our postgraduate students are given 24-hour access to dedicated office space within the came from many different Taught department and are able to take advantage countries. This helped to make • Civil Society, NGO and Non-profit Studies of excellent library and computing facilities. Where PDip, MA appropriate, research students are encouraged to the discussions much more • International Social Policy MA expand their experience by teaching part-time in exciting as people could share • Methods of Social Research MA the School. • Social and Public Policy PDip, MA their experiences of systems in • Social and Public Policy (Commissioning) Dynamic publishing culture their own countries. It is always PDip, MA • Social and Public Policy (Criminal Justice) Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, helpful to have people share PDip, MA conference proceedings and books. Among their stories to drive home how • Social and Public Policy (Urban Regeneration) others, they have recently contributed to: Journal PDip, MA of Social Policy; Journal of European Social Policy; different social policy is around • Social Work MA Voluntas; Social Policy and Administration; Social the world.” • Two-year MA programmes (Criminology; Policy and Society. Details of recently published Criminology with a semester abroad; books can be found within the staff research Vid Calovski International Social Policy; Methods interests on p205. MA International Social Policy of Social Research; Sociology) Taught programmes Research • Personal Social Services MPhil, PhD Civil Society, NGO and Non-profit Studies • Social Policy MA, MPhil, PhD PDip, MA • Social Work MPhil, PhD Location: Canterbury. Entry requirements: A 2.1 or higher university degree in a social science discipline. Postgraduate resources The atmosphere in the School is informal The programme provides you with an advanced and friendly and has at its centre a lively and understanding of social science debates, theories diverse postgraduate community. The weekly and concepts relevant to organised civil society, staff/postgraduate seminar series is designed including the ‘third sector’ of NGOs, social to introduce you to the work of major scholars from movements and other formations between the UK and abroad, and there is also a wide range market and state, and refers to the institutions and of other seminar and workshop series each practices of philanthropy, altruism and reciprocity. academic year. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 201

It imparts country-specific as well as cross-national Methods of Social Research MA and transnational empirical and theoretical Location: Canterbury. knowledge of the historical and contemporary Entry requirements: A good honours degree in challenges faced by these organisations. It also a relevant subject. In certain circumstances, the analyses how they relate to ongoing social, political School will consider applicants who have not and economic transformations. In particular, your followed a conventional education path and capacity to think sympathetically, but critically, about these cases are assessed individually. your contributions to policy through welfare systems and in other public policy arenas is developed. This programme provides essential training for those who will go on to employment involving the Course content use of social research, or to further research in the • Design of Social Research social sciences. It introduces a variety of different • The Idea of Civil Society approaches to social science research, presented • The Third Sector and Organised Civil Society in a multidisciplinary context and at an advanced • Three from a selection, including: Comparative level. The programme focuses on developing Social Policy; Fundraising and Philanthropy; practical skills in analysis and presentation of social Human Rights in a World of States; International research, the philosophical, theoretical and ethical Migration; Social and Political Movements. issues surrounding research, and to debates about • Dissertation of 15,000 words (for the MA only) the relationship between theory and research, and between research and policy/practice. Assessment Assessment is by coursework, plus the dissertation Course content (for the award of the MA). • Compulsory modules include: Analysis of Quantitative Data; Design of Social Research; International Social Policy MA Qualitative Research Methods; Using Research- Location: Canterbury. Advanced Critical Skills. Entry requirements: As for Civil Society, NGO and • Two modules from those available within the Non-profit Studies, see p200. School, covering a wide range of topics from sociology, social policy, criminology and more STAFF PROFILE The programme provides you with an advanced • Dissertation of 15,000 words involving some understanding of current debates, theories and original empirical research Julia Twigg concepts relevant to international social policy. Professor of Social Policy and Sociology You learn about the common features of social Assessment policy arrangements internationally and Assessments range from essays to a portfolio of Julia has been the major figure responsible the diversity and differences that characterise work and in-class tests. for introducing body issues into social welfare in different countries. policy, and her book, The Body in Health Social and Public Policy PDip, MA and Social Care, reflects on the relevance The programme enables you to apply theories and Location: Medway/distance learning. of new writing on the body for policy- methods of social policy in exploring specific social Attendance: Usually two years part-time. related areas. She is co-convenor of the policy fields such as health, migration, pensions, Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree BSA Study Group, Ageing, the Body and education, social care, poverty and social in social sciences or other relevant subject. In Society, and has recently been involved exclusion, urban development and family policy. some cases, we will accept students who do in co-ordinating an international project You become familiar with the use of primary and not have a first degree but who can demonstrate on the subject of body work across a secondary data collection in areas pertaining to equivalent prior learning. wide range of occupations. social policy, and are equipped to think critically about the development of social welfare systems Taught through distance learning, the programme Her present research focuses on the in a global age. gives you a thorough understanding of the social embodiment of age, using clothing and science ideas and research methods that are dress to explore the changing ways in A new two-year route for this programme is applied to the study and development of social which age is experienced, understood and currently in development. For more information, and public policy. This includes an advanced imaged in modern culture. The work draws please see our website. understanding of governmental strategies that can on interviews with older women, as well as be used to develop and improve human well-being. respondents in the fashion industry in the Course content It also considers how governments and other form of designers, retailers and journalists. • Compulsory modules include: Design of Social agencies influence, create, implement and evaluate Julia is also interested in patterns of Research; International Social Policy; Key Issues policies in this area. It uses UK and international consumption in relation to appearance in Comparative Social Policy. examples to help you develop your ability to study and dress from the 1960s onwards. • Optional modules include: Analysis of and create effective social and public policy. Quantitative Data; Design of Social Research; Human Rights in a World of States; Making Course content and Implementing Health Policies; Qualitative • Compulsory modules include: The Design and Research Methods; Social and Political Conduct of Enquiry; Public Law. Movements; Terrorism and Modern Society; • Optional modules include: History of Social Third Sector and Organised Civil Society; Policy; The Policy Process; Qualitative Research; Using Research-Advanced Critical Skills. Quantitative Research; Social Ethics; Social • Dissertation. Problems and Policy; A wide range of other social policy modules from across the School. Assessment • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words. Modules combine various forms of coursework; a research dissertation also acts as a modular Assessment component of the course in its own right. Assessment is by a range of methods, including coursework essays, the dissertation and assessed policy projects.

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Social and Public Policy (Commissioning) Social and Public Policy (Urban PDip, MA Regeneration) PDip, MA Location: Medway/distance learning. Location: Medway/distance learning. Attendance: As for Social and Public Policy, Attendance: As for Social and Public Policy, see p201. see p201. Entry requirements: As for Social and Public Policy, Entry requirements: As for Social and Public Policy, see p201. see p201.

One of our range of distance learning This distance learning programme is based on programmes, you gain a thorough understanding a core of social science modules designed to of the practice of commissioning of public encourage a critical and rigorous understanding of services within the context of social and public urban policy and its social impacts. The substantive policy. It is aimed at students who are working (or content of the course is delivered through two who wish to work) in commissioning roles and linked modules on urban problems and policy – City would like to increase their understanding of the and Community and Urban Policy – that provide an business practices, legal frameworks and policy understanding of the ideological underpinnings, contexts in order to improve their commissioning aims and outcomes of contemporary urban policy. practice and their career prospects. A range of optional modules provides the basis for developing a tailored course in which issues of Course content social policy, public commissioning, criminal justice • Compulsory modules include: The Policy policy, social ethics, environmental issues, health, Process; Public Sector Management; Social risk or social movements may also be explored Problems and Policy; Understanding Social alongside the compulsory urban modules. Research; Value Chain Management. • Optional modules include: History of Social Course content Policy; Public Law; Qualitative Research; • Compulsory modules include: City and Quantitative Research; Social Ethics; a wide Community; Understanding Social Research; range of other social policy modules from Urban Policy. STAFF PROFILE across the School. • Optional modules include: History of Social • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words Policy; The Policy Process; Public Law; Professor Alex Stevens Qualitative Research; Quantitative Research; Professor in Criminal Justice; Convenor of Assessment Social Ethics; Social Problems and Policy; Visual the MA programmes in Social and Public As for Social and Public Policy, see p201. Methods; a wide range of other social policy Policy (distance learning) modules from across the School. Social and Public Policy (Criminal Justice) • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words Professor Alex Stevens has worked with PDip, MA charities in the fields of drugs, prisons and Location: Medway/distance learning. Assessment youth justice, and is an expert on British Attendance: As for Social and Public Policy, As for Social and Public Policy, see p201. and international drug policy. His research see p201. interests focus on illicit drug policies and Entry requirements: As for Social and Public Policy, Social Work MA how they affect drug use, crime and public see p201. Location: Medway. health. He has published extensively on Attendance: Two years full-time. these issues and also addressed Taught through distance learning, the programme Entry requirements: A 2.1 honours degree in a Parliamentary committees. He is particularly gives you a thorough understanding of the social relevant subject, plus Maths and English GCSE interested in how evidence is used in science ideas and research methods that are Grade C or above. You should also have at least making policy and the effectiveness of drug applied to the study and development of criminal six months full-time (or equivalent part-time) treatment interventions, which, he says, ‘is justice policy and practice. This includes an relevant experience in social care/social work. important when scarce resources need to advanced understanding of governmental This could be voluntary or unpaid work caring for be used well’. strategies that can be used to reduce social harm a relative with a disability. Applicants with a 2.2 and crime, with a particular emphasis on the policy honours degree may be considered if you have He has been involved in developing and practice of prisons, probation and the police. a sustained period of relevant experience and/or distance learning Master’s programmes It uses UK and international examples to help you work experience at a senior management level. to support those already working in areas develop your ability to study and create effective Candidates already holding a Master’s qualification of social and public policy. These have criminal justice policy and practice. may also be considered. specialist pathways: Commissioning, Criminal Justice and Urban Regeneration – Course content Social Work at the University of Kent is taught so you can choose a route best suited to • Compulsory modules include: Comparative by world-leading academics and practitioners, your career path. Crime Prevention; Theories of Crime; and benefits from being part of one of the most Understanding Social Research. successful social science communities in Europe. • Optional modules include: Policy and Politics of Criminal Justice; The Policy and Practice of The MA in Social Work offers you the opportunity Prisons and Probation; The Policy Process; to gain a professional qualification in social work Qualitative Research; Quantitative Research; alongside a Master’s degree. The programme Social Ethics; Social Problems and Policy; a wide offers successful graduates eligibility for range of other social policy modules from across professional registration with the Health and Care the School. Professions Council (HCPC), the regulatory body • Dissertation of 12-15,000 words for social work. The MA provides the national required standard in knowledge and skills needed Assessment by professional social workers. The programme As for Social and Public Policy, see p201. also provides extensive work in practice learning settings that meet Government requirements. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 203

Kent’s social work students have an excellent You also take four modules from your chosen Research units and research areas employability record with 85% of graduates in pathway. Typical pathway modules include: relevant to Social Policy work six months after graduation – 95% of these • Concepts and Theories in Sociology; Digital in managerial positions. Culture; Education, Training and Social Policy; The School and its Social Policy component have Globalisation and Development; Racism; Social several research units which act as a focus for Course content Research Methods; The Sociology of Crime and postgraduate students working within those areas. There is considerable emphasis on participative Deviance; Terrorism and Modern Society. Other research interests within the School have seminars and class sizes are generally smaller been grouped under certain headings for to facilitate this approach. You are allocated an Stage 2 guidance. However, there is a degree of overlap academic adviser to support and mentor you Following successful completion of the first year, between groups and your research project does throughout the programme. you take optional modules in your chosen pathway not have to fall neatly within any one of them. from a wide selection available from across the Stage 1 School. Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) You undertake a practice placement and The Centre for Health Services Studies has a assignment alongside modules, which include: Assessment strong record in attracting research grants from • Communication and Interpersonal Skills; The Assessment is by a coursework, presentations, the National Institute for Health Research, Individual, the Family and Society; Law, Rights portfolios and unseen written exams, as well as European Union Framework Programme, ESRC, and Justice; Readiness for Direct Practice; individual and group project work. Department of Health, as well as local health Social Work Theories, Interventions and Skills; authorities and trusts. It is a designated NIHR Values, Ethics and Diversity. Research programmes Research Design Support Service. Particular areas of expertise include pragmatic trials, risk Stage 2 Personal Social Services MPhil, PhD assessment and management, care of vulnerable Practical application of theory and knowledge Social Policy MA, MPhil, PhD adults including older people, and public health. continue with both a practice placement and Social Work MPhil, PhD assignment alongside modules, which include: Centre for the Study of Social and Political • Critical and Reflective Practice; Research Location: Canterbury. Movements Entry requirements: A good honours degree in Methods; Social Work With Adults and Mental The Centre was established in 1992 in order to Health Issues; Social Work With Children and the social sciences, an interest in the chosen topic area and a clear idea of your proposed thesis consolidate Kent’s leading position in the study Families in Britain of social and political movements. The • Dissertation. topic. In the case of research in health services and personal social services, we will also consider Centre is actively involved in international networks candidates with professional qualifications alone of social movement researchers through its Assessment and/or relevant experience in the health service. participation in the Erasmus network on ‘Social In addition to assessed work, linked to both taught movements, conflict and political action’ and modules and practice learning, you also complete Within the School, there is a breadth and depth of through its members’ activity in the relevant a dissertation in a specific area of research in your expertise and we can offer high-quality supervision research committees of the International second year. across a wide range of social and public policy Sociological Association, the European areas. There are further details on the research Sociological Association, and the European Two-year MA programmes activities and publications of individual members Consortium for Political Research. Criminology of staff and the School’s research units on the Criminology with a semester abroad website. In addition to regular meetings with International Social Policy individual supervisors, all research students Methods of Social Research take a research training programme. Sociology Location: Canterbury. Attendance: Two years full-time. Entry requirements: An honours degree in a relevant subject. An IELTS score of 6.0 is required. Applicants not meeting this requirement will need to attend one of our pre-sessional English programmes. See p222.

The programme is aimed at students wanting to improve their language and independent study skills at the same time as gaining a UK postgraduate qualification. The specialist pathways enable you to tailor your degree to your needs and career aspirations.

You develop highly transferable skills including time management, teamwork, research and analytic methods, problem-solving and IT skills. Teaching is student-centred through a combination of taught classes, lectures, seminars, group work and independent study.

Course content Stage 1 All students take the following compulsory modules: • Advanced Academic Skills for Research in Social Sciences and Sciences/Humanities • English for Postgraduate Academic Study in Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Civil Society, the Third Sector and and non-governmental organisations. The core the Centre for Philanthropy members have a multidisciplinary background, The School has a strong and growing focus on which includes sociology, economics, law and the meanings, behaviours, resources and roles statistics, and expertise in sophisticated of civil society. Our interests in these areas focus quantitative techniques, economic modelling and on civil society and NGOs at both national and qualitative methods (see also Criminology on p81). international levels: we analyse its contributions across a variety of fields, including environmental Centre for Child Protection action, philanthropy, international development and See p59. social welfare; we engage with both contemporary and historic dimensions of key issues; and we Personal Social Services Research Unit deploy a range of disciplinary and methodological The PSSRU is the largest social services research tools, drawing on researchers’ backgrounds in unit in the UK, and operates at three sites: the sociology, social policy and policy analysis. University of Kent, the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester. Dedicated to an understanding of the social Facilities include the Griffiths Library of Community processes and cultural experiences by which Care, a reference library of more than 10,000 people acquire moral dispositions to care books, journals and other literature linked to the for others, the Centre for Philanthropy offers a focal Unit’s field of study. Research focuses on needs, point for much of this work. Research is conducted resources and outcomes in health and social care: into the ways in which our capacity for feelings are major concerns are resourcing, equity and socially cultivated, corporately structured, politically efficiency from the perspective of users, agencies mediated and economically expressed. The School and others. The Unit has developed a distinctive is also linked to the Third Sector Research Centre analytical framework called the ‘production of (TSRC), collaborating with the University of welfare approach’ to illuminate this research. Birmingham on third sector theory and policy analysis. Race, Ethnicity and Religion Though socially and discursively constructed, STAFF PROFILE Cross-national and European Social Policy ‘race’ continues to be a key basis of social division Using the framework of studying different welfare and identification in British society, across Europe, Phil Hubbard regimes, academic staff research a wide range and globally. Not only do many disparate ethnic Professor of Urban Studies of topics, while postgraduate students conduct minority groups continue to identify along ethnic, research projects in every part of the world. Many racial and religious lines, but ethnicity and race Phil Hubbard is a geographer and urban of these projects involve overseas students making continue to shape a variety of outcomes, such as sociologist who has written widely on comparative studies involving their own country employment, educational attainment and senses of questions of urban policy and planning. and European or UK services. The work of ‘belonging’. In this sense, ‘race’ and the recognition He is best known for having demonstrated academic staff has resulted in a wide range of of difference continues to matter and is a key the importance of planning for gender and policy research related to Europe. Recent cross- element in the School’s research interests. sexual diversity and his book, Cities and national work has included projects examining Sexualities, summarises the ways in which home care services for older people, formal and Risk, ‘Risk Society’ and Risk Management cities normalise certain sexual practices informal social care systems, institutional change The critical analysis of risk and perceptions of and identities. His work on the impact of and the future of welfare reform, industrial relations, risk have become central issues in the sociology prostitution on residential neighbourhoods housing and community activism. Other interests of the ‘risk society’ and this is an important focus has been cited by the Home Office, and he include globalisation and welfare, and subsidiarity of activity in the School. Staff research includes is currently involved in projects comparing and convergence. Current or recent thesis topics work on health risks and their management, the the policing of prostitution in the UK, include: democratisation and social policy in Korea; implications of attitudes and behaviour concerning Australia and Canada. youth homelessness in Greece and the UK. risk for the welfare state, the development of a culture of risk and anxiety, moral panics, risk and Phil’s work also covers other dimensions Health, Social Care and Health Studies of urban life, such as the provision of crime, risk and the life course, suffering and the Present studies cover a range of issues within the housing for different populations, including perceptions of new communications technology. fields of health services, social work and health student housing and the studentification of policy. Particular interests include health care British towns and cities. This work is having Social and Public Policy, Sociology and organisation and policy; risk assessment and a direct impact on the strategies employed the Body management; primary care; public and user views by universities and local authorities as they Issues concerned with the body and embodiment of health care; health inequalities; occupational seek to maximise the benefits of higher have become core to the social sciences over the therapy; care work in health and social care; education for the local economy. last 25 years, and the interests of this Group are adoption; foster care; adult attachment theory; dedicated to advancing this interdisciplinary field. mental health; child protection; body work; Present and recent projects undertaken by Group psychoanalysis; race, ethnicity and health. Current members have revolved around: the development or recent thesis topics include: women’s health in of corporeal realism; the sociology of suffering; Uzbekistan; improving men’s health: the role of the body in community care; the body in health healthy living centres; women, the body and and social care; clothing, the body and ageing; madness. This group hosts the national co- and the study of body pedagogics, as a new ordinator of the Research Development Initiative approach to the study of culture and society. in Social Work. The Group hosts the co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Study Group Ageing, Kent Crime and Justice Centre (KCJC) the Body and Society. KCJC is a collaboration of senior researchers at the University of Kent, based in the School, the Tizard Centre Personal Social Services Research Unit and Kent See p197. Law School. It works in partnership with Kent Youth Offending Service and other criminal justice Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 205

Work, Employment and Economic Life Professor Phil Hubbard: Professor of Urban methods and approaches. Recent publications Interest in the issues surrounding work stretches Studies; Director of Research (Medway) include: Work and Society: Sociological across SSPSSR and current projects focus on The relationship between sexuality and space, with Approaches, Themes and Methods work identity and meaning; work/life balance; age, particular attention being paid to the regulation of (co-author, 2008). generation and employment; visual representation commercial sex in the city; urban social theory; of work; deindustrialisation; organisational nightlife and urban consumption practices; the Professor Alex Stevens: Professor of Criminal sociology; gender, ethnicity and class at work; impact of planning and urban regeneration on Justice; Deputy Head of School historiography of work sociology; moral economy; different social groups. Recent publications The politics and practice of criminal justice, with workplace ethnography and oral histories. include: Cities and Sexualities (2011); Key a specific emphasis on national and international Thinkers on Space and Place (co-ed, 2011). drug policy, youth justice, gangs, organised crime, probation practice and the use of evidence in Staff research interests Professor Roger Matthews: Professor of policymaking. Recent publications include: Full details of staff research interests can be found Criminology Crossing Frontiers: International Developments on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff Policing; drugs policy; prostitution; critical in the Treatment of Drug Dependence (2008); criminology. Recent publications include: Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The Political Professor Mike Calnan: Professor of Medical Prostitution Politics and Policy (2008); Doing Time: Economy of Drug Policy (2011). Sociology An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment Diffusion and innovation in health care and (2009). Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby: Professor of technology; trust and health care; dignity and the Social Policy provision of health and social care for older people. Professor Alisoun Milne: Professor of Social Austerity and the impact of the financial crisis; Recent publications include: Trust Matters in Health Gerontology and Social Work comparative cross-national work on European Care (co-author, 2008); The New Sociology of the Mental health in later life; older carers; dementia social policy; theoretical developments in social Health Service (co-ed, 2009); Trusting on the Edge, carers; service development. policy; managing social risk. Recent publications Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the include: Political Philosophy and Social Welfare Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems Professor Stephen Peckham: Professor of (co-ed, 2009); Reframing Social Citizenship (2010); (co-author, 2012). Health Policy; Head of CHSS New Paradigms in Public Policy (2012). Health policy analysis; organisational and service Professor Simon Coulton: Professor of Health delivery; primary care and public health; evaluation Professor Julia Twigg: Professor of Social Services Research of new clinical commissioning groups; patient and Policy and Sociology Deafness in babies and post-natal screening; public involvement in commissioning; exploring the The body, and temporal and spatial ordering; age management of back pain; self-management public health role of general practice. and ageing; disability; medicine and health care; in heart failure. food, diet and health; home care; public and Professor Chris Rootes: Professor of private space; care work and the care workforce; Professor Frank Furedi: Professor of Sociology Environmental Politics and Political Sociology the sociology of food. Recent publications include: The different manifestations of contemporary Environmental protest, environmental movements, Body Work in Health and Social Care (co-author, risk consciousness; the relationship between the interactions between environmental 2011); Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later the diminishing of cultural authority and society’s campaigners and industry, government Life (2012); Routledge Handbook of Cultural capacity to manage risk and change; the sociology and governmental agencies; cross-nationally Gerontology (co-author, forthcoming). of rumour and dissident knowledge; sociology of comparative research on protest, social movements fear and terrorism. Recent publications include: and political participation; the formation and Professor Sarah Vickerstaff: Professor of Work Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating (2010); implementation of environmental policy, particularly and Employment; Head of School From Two Cultures to No Culture: CP Snow’s ‘Two in respect of climate change. Recent publications The relationship between paid work and the life Cultures’ Lecture Fifty Years On (co-author, 2011); include: Acting Locally: Local Environmental course; the employability of older workers; the On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Mobilizations and Campaigns (2008); apprentice model of vocational training and Moral Independence (2011); On Tolerance: Environmental Movements and Waste intermediate skills acquisition and the transition Continuum (2011); Sex Unsexed (forthcoming). Infrastructure (co-author, 2010). from school to work. Recent publications include: The Future for Older Workers: New Perspectives Professor Chris Hale: Professor of Criminology; Professor David Shemmings: Professor of (co-ed, 2009); Social Policy (co-ed, 2011); Work, Director, Kent Crime and Justice Centre Social Work; Co-director, Centre for Child Health and Wellbeing: The Challenges of Criminological research: the application of Protection Managing Health at Work (co-ed, 2011). econometric techniques to various topics, including Adult attachment theory; safeguarding children the relationship of both crime and punishment to and child protection; contemporary quantitative Jenny Billings: Reader in Applied Health social and economic change and to the study of research methods. Recent publications include: Research fear of crime. Recent publications include: Developing Research Based Social Work Practice Health and social care services research and Criminology (co-ed, 2009). (co-author, 2010); Understanding Disorganized evaluation; vulnerable groups; sustainable service Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working developments; teenage pregnancy and continence Professor Keith Hayward: Professor of with Children and Adults (co-author, 2011); Child services. Recent publications include: Evidence- Criminology Abuse: An Evidence Base for Confident Practice Based Guidelines on Health Promotion for Older Criminological theory (in particular, the relationship (co-author, 2012). People (co-author, 2008); Long-Term Care in between consumer culture and crime); the various Europe: Improving Policy and Practice (co-author, ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with Professor Miri Song: Professor of Sociology 2013). the practices of crime and crime control within Ethnic identity; race; racism; immigrant adaptation; contemporary society; cultural criminology. Recent ‘mixed race’. Recent publications include: Dr Adam Burgess: Reader in Sociology publications include: Cultural Criminology: An International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Contemporary understanding of risk in Western Invitation (co-author, 2008); Criminology, 2nd edn Mixedness and Mixing (co-ed, 2012); Mixed Race societies; the impact of health risks and neuroses (co-ed, 2009); Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology Identities (co-ed, forthcoming). upon individuals and society; the spread of generic (co-ed, 2009); Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology risk assessment and management to every walk and the Image (co-ed, 2010); Cultural Criminology Professor Tim Strangleman: Professor of of professional life; precaution and the study of (co-ed, 2011). Sociology rumours and urban legends. Recent publications Work identity and meaning; nostalgia; heritage; include: Study of the Origins and Diffusion of industrial decline; masculinity and age; historical Mobile Phone Fears and Anti-EMF Campaigns sociology; oral histories; life histories; visual (2010).

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Dr Derek Kirton: Reader in Social Policy and Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe: Multi- Dr Heejung Chung: Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work level Processes and Organised Civil Society (2009); Social Policy Child welfare policy and practice, and especially Constituting the Third Sector: Processes of Welfare state and labour markets; gender; work-life the areas of adoption and foster care; remuneration Decontestation and Contention Under the New balance and work-family conflict; labour market for foster carers; the later life experiences of people Labour Governments in England (co-author, 2011). flexibility; working-time flexibility; employment growing up in the care system. Recent publications insecurity. include: Child Social Work Policy and Practice Dr Anne Logan: Senior Lecturer in Criminal (2009). Justice Studies Dr Jonathan Ilan: Lecturer in Criminology History of feminism; history of criminal justice; Ethnography; youth crime, justice and policing; Dr Ellie Lee: Reader in Social Policy gender, voluntary work and professionalism. urban sociology and cultural criminology. Health policy, in particular reproductive health Recent publications include: Feminism and and parent-child relations; contraception; abortion; Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective (2008). Dr Axel Klein: Lecturer in the Study of Addictive assisted conception; ‘designer babies’; maternal Behaviour mental health; infant feeding. Dr Dawn Lyon: Senior Lecturer in Sociology International drugs trade and policy; the sociology Sociology of work; gender; embodiment; visual and culture of drug consumption and addiction; Dr Kate Bradley: Senior Lecturer in Social and sensory sociology. drug policy. Recent publications include: Drugs History and Social Policy and the World (2008). History of social policy; charities; youth crime, Dr Balihar Sanghera: Senior Lecturer in justice and welfare. Recent publications include: Sociology Dr Shepard Masocha: Lecturer in Social Work Poverty, Philanthropy and the State: Charities and Ethics, moral economy and sentiments; political The role of language as a vehicle for social work the Working Classes in London 1918-1979 (2009). economy; philanthropy; post-soviet Kyrgyzstan. practice; social workers’ language use; local meanings and micro discourses; social welfare Dr Simon Cottee: Senior Lecturer in Dr Jo Warner: Senior Lecturer in Social Work and social justice in Africa and Zimbabwe. Criminology Sociological approaches to risk, care, mental Sociology of crime and deviance; sociology of health and social welfare. Dr Lavinia Mitton: Lecturer in Social Policy intellectuals; terrorism and apostasy; coercion; Government tax and social security policies, and political violence. Dr Ben Baumberg: Lecturer in Sociology and how they affect people, in particular with respect Social Policy to the family and income inequality; the history of Dr Jeremy Kendall: Senior Lecturer in Social Disability, the nature of work and the benefits social policy and long-term change in economic Policy system; the relationship of evidence, policy and social conditions. Recent publications include: The voluntary sector in the UK; the welfare mix, and critique; attitudes to tax/benefits; theorising The Victorian Hospital (2008); Social Policy (co-ed, particularly the motivations and behaviours of inequality; alcohol (and other addictions) 2011); The Migration History, Demography and providers of care for older people in the UK; British policy, especially pleasure and corporate Socio-Economic Position of the Somali Community social policy in general; the European dimension social responsibility. in Britain (co-author, 2011). of public policy, particularly social policy, towards organised civil society. Recent publications include: Dr Steve Roberts: Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy Youth transitions; work-based learning; experience of non-traditional students in higher education.

Location Canterbury and Medway. English language requirements See p223. Fees and funding See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding National ratings Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: social work, social policy and administration ranked 4th nationally for research quality, with 70% of the research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

Applications Taught programmes Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ postgrad/apply Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further details. Further information T: +44 (0)1227 823684 F: +44 (0)1227 827005 E: [email protected] 207

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The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. It has received top ratings in Research Assessment Exercises, and most recently had 70% of its work judged as either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent” in terms of its “originality, significance and rigour”.

The School supports a large and thriving postgraduate community, and in 2010 distributed to new students in excess of £100,000 in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota awards, University and SSPSSR bursaries and scholarships.

Our faculty staff are world authorities in their fields. Members attract large research grants from bodies such as the ESRC, the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council, European Commission, Anglo-German Foundation, NATO, Equal Opportunities Commission, National Probation Service and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. We take part in international symposia and research projects, and act as consultants and advisers to a wide variety of government departments, professional organisations, research funding bodies and learned journals.

“I’ve learnt a lot from the way Programmes Taught programmes the staff discuss their research Taught Methods of Social Research MA in informal ways. Everyone is • Methods of Social Research MA Location: Canterbury. • Political Sociology MA Entry requirements: A good honours degree in the really open. They are always • Sociology MA social sciences and an interest in social issues. interested in what I am Research This programme develops your skills in planning, researching and suggest new • Sociology MA, MPhil, PhD carrying out, writing up and appraising research, ideas and avenues that I could and introduces you to the main techniques for qualitative and quantitative research, including explore.” Postgraduate resources conducting surveys, interviewing, running focus Our postgraduate students are given 24-hour groups, using life history and observational Victoria Tedder access to dedicated office space within the techniques, and analysing data. The programme MA Methods of Social Research department and are able to take advantage of also provides a base for students who are going excellent library and computing facilities. Where on to an MPhil or PhD by research. This programme appropriate, research students are encouraged to is also valuable if you plan to conduct, commission expand their experience by teaching part-time in or manage social research or use findings from the School. research projects in your professional life.

Course content Dynamic publishing culture • Compulsory modules: Analysis of Quantitative Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, Data ; Design of Social Research; Qualitative conference proceedings and books. Among Methods; Using Research-Advanced Critical others, they have recently contributed to: Theory Skills. and Society; Sociology; European Journal of Social • Two optional modules on social policy or Theory; The Sociological Review; International sociological topics, from those available Sociology. Details of recently published books within the School can be found within the staff research interests • Dissertation of 15,000 words on p210. Assessment Assessment is by coursework, in-class assignments, and the dissertation.

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Political Sociology MA Religion and Social Theory; Risk and Society; Location: Canterbury. Social and Political Movements; Sociology of Entry requirements: A good honours degree Violence; Terrorism and Modern Societies; Using in sociology, politics, history or a related social Research-Advanced Critical Skills; Young People, science discipline, or substantial experience in Crime and Place. social or political research, journalism or another relevant profession. Assessment As for Political Sociology. The programme combines the perspectives of sociology and political science to address key Research programme issues of social and political change in modern societies. It examines the interaction between, Sociology MA, MPhil, PhD and interdependence among, social and political Location: Canterbury. institutions, processes and action, especially Entry requirements: A good honours degree collective action. The MA is distinctive in its focus or MA in Sociology or a related social science on social and political movements, protest, and the discipline. less conventional and less institutionalised forms of political action and participation. It also gives Research in Sociology at Kent covers a range of particular opportunities to study environmental areas, including social and critical theory, social politics and globalisation, and to choose from the movements, globalisation and everyday life, cities wide range of optional modules in Sociology, Social and space, media and technology, class, ‘race’ Policy and Politics and International Relations. and ethnicity, gender, work, visual sociology, the welfare state, risk and society, violence, NGOs and Course content organisations, and social aspects of the body. We • Environmental Politics offer high-quality supervision across a wide range • Social and Political Movements of areas and we work carefully to match you with a • A methodology module supervisor who suits your interests and ambitions. • Two or more modules offered by the School of There are further details on the research activities STAFF PROFILE Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research or and publications of individual members of staff the School of Politics and International Relations and the School’s research units on the School’s Chris Shilling • Dissertation of 15,000 words website at www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr In addition to Professor of Sociology and Director of regular meetings with individual supervisors, all Graduate Studies (Research) Assessment research students take part in a research training Assessment is by coursework and the dissertation. programme. Professor Chris Shilling has written widely on sociological and social theory, and is Sociology MA Research areas particularly interested in how the various Location: Canterbury. Academic staff at Kent share a number of traditions of classical and contemporary Entry requirements: A good honours degree in interests, grouped here for your guidance. sociology constitute competing visions of sociology or a related social science discipline, However, there is often a degree of overlap the elementary forms of social and moral or substantial experience in social or political between groups and your research project does life dominant within modernity. research or a relevant profession. not have to fall neatly within any one of them. The School also has several research centres that bring Over the past 20 years, Chris has also The MA in Sociology invites you to think together experts in the field, co-ordinate research, been a key figure in seeking to ‘embody’ systematically about the social world and organise talks and offer opportunities for the study of sociological theory. His how it is changing. The programme provides postgraduate students to get involved in various monographs on the subject have a comprehensive overview of the foundational discussions and research projects. provided a manifesto for the study of the concerns and current debates in sociology, and body and a re-reading of Western history, offers a range of options for exploring applications Globalisation and explored the potential of pragmatism in specific areas of research. You learn about for enhancing our understanding of the current theoretical tools and develop skills in At Kent, research in this area includes the role of embodied basis of cultural life. research and data analysis, which can be used in a global civil society, critical analysis of terrorism and range of professional fields. The programme is also responses to it, globalisation and everyday life, Chris’s current research (with Philip an excellent basis for pursuing further research in migration, the role of communication technologies, A Mellor) has resulted in a series of sociology or more specialised or applied subjects. and the global expansion of capitalism and sociological analyses of the religious responses to it in social movements. habitus, and writings on the interrelated Course content areas of eroticism, sacrifice, intoxication Core modules include: The Individual and the Social and pain. His work has resulted in • Contemporary Social Theory Within this area, staff have worked on the ‘culture numerous articles in journals such • Foundations of Sociology of anxiety’ and the ‘therapy culture’, the impact on as Sociology, The British Journal of • Dissertation of 15,000 words. individual lives and experiences of masculinity, Sociology, and The Sociological Review, gender, race and ethnicity, parenthood and and his co-authored book, The Optional modules nationality. Other interests include the social context Sociological Ambition. • Four or more optional modules offered by in which attributions of mental illness are made and the School or other related fields, such as, managed, the meaning and construction of pain in anthropology or politics and international late modernity, and the sociology of crime and relations. Optional modules include: deviance. Comparative Social Policy; Contemporary Problems in Sociology; Criminology; Design of Risk and Society Social Research; Fundraising and Philanthropy; The critical analysis of risk and perceptions of risk Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice; Governing have become central issues in the sociology of the Science, Technology and Society in the 21st ‘risk society’ and this is a major focus of research Century; Organised Civil Society; Qualitative activity in the School. Staff research includes Methods; Race, Ethnicity and Difference; work on health risks and their management, the Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 209

implications of attitudes and behaviour concerning as well as the bearing of government policies and Gender risk for the welfare state, the development of a governmental processes upon the charitable sector Research at Kent addresses how gender is culture of risk and anxiety, moral panics, risk and and philanthropic activity. constructed and how it operates in a variety of crime, risk and the life course, suffering and the social realms. Some of our recent projects have perceptions of new communications technology. Sociology of the Body focused on gender in prisons, on women working In this research cluster, staff seek to understand as door staff in nightclubs and on how women are Race, Ethnicity and Migration the complex relationships between embodied addressed in advice on pregnancy. Our research The School has strong expertise in the area of subjects, and the social and cultural forms, on social policy also includes a focus on gender, race and ethnicity, and in the area of migration. relationships, institutions and structures that shape examining how men, women and families are Our work includes projects on mixed race, and are shaped by these actors. This includes affected by legislation and service provision. immigrant communities and refugees. research on clothing and fashion, the embodiment Research at Kent has also addressed diasporas, of age, and the body in health and social care. Media undocumented migrants and the links between Thesis topics within this cluster have included Staff share a research interest in the social role of marriage and migration. female binge drinking, female body builders, the media, how media are used and how they are tattooing and piercing, and the embodied changing. Research at Kent has included work on The Analysis of Social Movements sociology of private spaces. the role of the media in constructing social Social and political changes have stimulated new problems and moral panics, media and crime, forms of political participation and mobilisation, Crime, Control and Culture new media, media and subcultures, and the role including waves of protest, new social movement Members of the crime, control and culture of media in representing space and identity. organisations focused on old as well as new issues, research cluster are primarily involved in projects new political parties and global social movements. and research-centred activities connected with Visual Sociology Staff interests include environmental movements, cultural criminology, for example in the areas of Staff share an interest in the visual dimension humanitarian NGOs, elite networks, and the subcultures, drug use and intoxification, the night- of social life. How is life seen, how are images ‘postmodern’ politics of anti-communist movements time economy, the surveillance society, the created, stored and used? In various research in Eastern Europe. photographic representation of crime, young projects, we also explore the use of images in people and crime, and the carnival of crime. In innovative forms of research design and in Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social addition, work of a more traditional nature is also sharing our findings. Justice being undertaken, for example in the fields of Staff in this research cluster seek to understand international drug policy, the history of crime Work, Employment and Economic Life and punishment, and violence. the social forces and cultural interests that move This research cluster represents a long-standing people to take moral responsibility for responding interest within SSPSSR at Kent. Currently, ten Sociological Theory and the Culture of to/caring for the needs of others; document and members of the School are researching and Modernity explain the institutional organisation of charitable teaching in this broad field, representing staff in behaviour and its social impacts; the socio-cultural Staff working in this cluster study issues such as sociology, social policy, criminology and cultural dynamics of philanthropic behaviour and its effects classical social theory, the impact on social theory studies. Themes studied include: age, generation on society; contemporary humanitarianism and its of the fall of communism, and the theoretical and employment; deindustrialisation; gender, powers of influence over social policy and political implications of the changing boundaries of social ethnicity and class at work; historiography of process; and to understand the character of the life. This has further entailed work on the integrity of work sociology; moral economy; organisational social ties and cultural values that structure the auto/biography as a form of social information and sociology; policy effects on formal and informal interrelationships between humanitarian action, its impact on diverse disciplines of feminist labour; visual representation of work; work identity charitable endeavour and philanthropic intervention; perspectives. and meaning; work/life balance; workplace ethnography and oral histories.

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Cross-national and European Social Professor Frank Furedi: Professor of Sociology Professor Chris Shilling: Professor of Policy The different manifestations of contemporary Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies Cross-national study, both among staff and risk consciousness; the relationship between (Research) postgraduate students, is widespread throughout the diminishing of cultural authority and society’s The body; embodiment; body pedagogics; religion; the School and relevant to all research clusters. capacity to manage risk and change; the sociology social, sociological and cultural theory. Recent However, some of our research also takes cross- of rumour and dissident knowledge; the sociology publications include: Changing Bodies. Habit, national comparison as its major focus. This of fear. Recent publications include: Wasted: Crisis and Creativity (2008). includes analysing policy formation and its impact Why Education Isn’t Educating (2010); From Two on individuals, families and social groups within Cultures to No Culture: CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ Professor Miri Song: Professor of Sociology different states and within a global context. Lecture Fifty Years On (co-author, 2011); On Ethnic identity; race; racism; immigrant adaptation; Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral ‘mixed race’. Recent publications include: Using the framework of different welfare regimes, Independence (2011); On Tolerance: Continuum International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic academic staff research a wide range of topics, (2011); Sex Unsexed (forthcoming). Mixedness and Mixing (co-ed, 2012); Mixed Race while postgraduate students conduct research Identities (co-ed, forthcoming). projects in every part of the world. Many of these Professor Chris Hale: Professor of Criminology; projects involve overseas students comparing Director, Kent Crime and Justice Centre; Professor Tim Strangleman: Professor of their own country and European or UK services. Director, Methods of Social Research MA Sociology Recent cross-national work has included projects Criminological research (the application of Work identity and meaning; nostalgia; heritage; examining home care services for older econometric techniques to various topics, including industrial decline; masculinity and age; historical people, formal and informal social care systems, the relationship of both crime and punishment to sociology; oral histories; life histories; visual institutional change and the future of welfare social and economic change and to the study of methods and approaches. Recent publications reform, gender and family, globalisation, housing, fear of crime). Recent publications include: include: Work and Society: Sociological and community activism. Criminology (co-ed, 2009). Approaches, Themes and Methods (co-author, 2008). Professor Keith Hayward: Professor in Research centres Criminology; Director, Criminology MA Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby: Professor of The School also has several research centres Criminological theory (in particular, the relationship Social Policy that bring together experts in the field, co-ordinate between consumer culture and crime); the various Risk; comparative cross-national work on European research, organise talks and offer opportunities ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with social policy; theoretical developments in social for postgraduate students to get involved in the practices of crime and crime control within policy. Recent publications include: Political discussions and research projects. contemporary society; cultural criminology. Recent Philosophy and Social Welfare (co-ed, 2009); publications include: Cultural Criminology: An Reframing Social Citizenship (2010). Centre for Child Protection Invitation (co-author, 2008); Criminology 2nd edn (co-ed, 2009); Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology Professor Julia Twigg: Professor of Social See p59. (co-ed, 2009); Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology Policy and Sociology and the Image (co-ed, 2010); Cultural Criminology The body, and temporal and spatial ordering; age Centre for Health Services Studies (co-ed, 2011). and ageing; disability; medicine and health care; See p203. food, diet and health; home care; public and Professor Larry Ray: Professor of Sociology private space; care work and the care workforce; Centre for Philanthropy Sociological theory; postcommunism, social the sociology of food. Recent publications include: See p204. memory and the emergence of new Jewish Body Work in Health and Social Care (co-author, cultures in Europe; globalisation; race; ethnicity; 2011); Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Centre for the Study of Social and violence. Recent publications include: Violence Life (2012); Routledge Handbook of Cultural Political Movements and Society (2011). Gerontology (co-author, forthcoming). See p203. Professor Chris Rootes: Professor of Professor Sarah Vickerstaff: Professor of Work Kent Crime and Justice Centre Environmental Politics and Political Sociology; and Employment; Head of School Director, Political Sociology MA The relationship between paid work and the life See p204. Environmental protest, environmental movements, course; the employability of older workers; the the interactions between environmental apprentice model of vocational training and Personal Social Services Research Unit campaigners and industry, government intermediate skills acquisition; and the transition See p204. and governmental agencies; cross-nationally from school to work. Recent publications include: comparative research on protest, social The Future for Older Workers: New Perspectives Tizard Centre movements and political participation; the (co-ed, 2009); Social Policy (co-ed, 2011); Work, See p197. formation and implementation of environmental Health and Wellbeing: The Challenges of policy, particularly in respect of climate change. Managing Health at Work (co-ed, 2011). Recent publications include: Acting Locally: Local Staff research interests Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns Dr David Boothroyd: Reader in Cultural Studies Full details of staff research interests can be found (2008); Environmental Movements and Waste Cultural theory; cultural metaphysics and European on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff Infrastructure (co-author, 2010). thought (psychoanalysis, phenomenology; libidinal materialism, deconstruction) applied to drugs and Professor Mike Calnan: Professor of Medical Professor David Shemmings: Professor of drug cultures, everyday life, TV, film and new media Sociology Social Work and new technologies, ethics and hospitality; Diffusion and innovation in health care and Adult attachment theory; safeguarding children cultures of the extreme. technology; trust and health care; dignity and the and child protection; contemporary quantitative provision of health and social care for older people. research methods. Recent publications include: Dr Adam Burgess: Reader in Sociology Recent publications include: Trust Matters in Health Developing Research Based Social Work Practice Contemporary understanding of risk in Western Care (co-author, 2008); The New Sociology of the (co-author, 2010); Understanding Disorganized societies; the impact of health risks and neuroses Health Service (co-ed, 2009); Trusting on the Edge, Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working upon individuals and society; the spread of generic Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the with Children and Adults (co-author, 2011); Child risk assessment and management to every walk Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems Abuse: An Evidence Base For Confident Practice of professional life; precaution and the study of (co-author, 2012). (co-author, 2012). Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/postgraduate 211

rumours and urban legends. Recent publications Dr Balihar Sanghera: Senior Lecturer in Dr Lavinia Mitton: Lecturer in Social Policy include: Study of the Origins and Diffusion of Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies Government tax and social security policies, and Mobile Phone Fears and Anti-EMF Campaigns (Taught) how they affect people, in particular with respect (2010). Ethics, moral economy and sentiments; political to the family and income inequality; the history of economy; philanthropy; post-soviet Kyrgyzstan. social policy and long-term change in economic Dr Derek Kirton: Reader in Social Policy and and social conditions. Recent publications include: Social Work Dr Jo Warner: Senior Lecturer in Social Work The Victorian Hospital (2008); Social Policy (co-ed, Child welfare policy and practice, and especially Risk; mental health; social work; documentary 2011); The Migration History, Demography and the areas of adoption and foster care; remuneration analysis; gender. Socio-Economic Position of the Somali Community for foster carers; the later life experiences of people in Britain (co-author, 2011). growing up in the care system. Recent publications Dr Iain Wilkinson: Senior Lecturer in Sociology include: Child Social Work Policy and Practice Social theory; sociology of risk; sociology of Dr Joy Zhang: Lecturer in Sociology (2009). health; sociology of mass media; the ways people Transnational governance of scientific uncertainties; experience and respond to their knowledge of risk, cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanisation; Chinese- Dr Ellie Lee: Reader in Social Policy crisis and disaster. Recent publications include: European co-operation; Chinese civil societies; Health policy, in particular reproductive health Health, Risk and Vulnerability (2008); Risk, art-science interface. Recent publications include: and parent-child relations; contraception; abortion; Vulnerability and Everyday Life (2009); A Passion Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell assisted conception; ‘designer babies’; maternal for Society: Essays on Social Suffering (co-ed, Governance in China (2012); Climate Politics mental health; infant feeding. forthcoming). in China (forthcoming).

Dr Kate Bradley: Senior Lecturer in Social Dr Ben Baumberg: Lecturer in Sociology and History and Social Policy Social Policy History of social policy; charities; youth crime, Disability; the workplace; inequality; the benefits Location justice and welfare. Recent publications include: system; addictions policy; Corporate Social Canterbury. Poverty, Philanthropy and the State: Charities and Responsibility (CSR); the relationship between English language requirements the Working Classes in London 1918-1979 (2009). evidence and policy; stratification across the See p223. lifecourse; new ideas for the welfare state. Recent Dr Caroline Chatwin: Senior Lecturer in publications include: Best practice in estimating Fees and funding Criminology the costs of alcohol (2010). See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Patterns of illegal drug abuse; drug markets; National ratings criminological theory. Recent publications include: Dr Phil Carney: Lecturer in Criminology Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: Drug Policy Harmonization and the European Media representations of crime and punishment; social work, social policy and administration Union (2011). photographic theory; contemporary social and ranked 4th nationally for research quality, with cultural theory; poststructuralist philosophy. 70% of the research rated ‘world-leading’ or Dr Jeremy Kendall: Senior Lecturer in Social ‘internationally excellent’. Policy Dr Heejung Chung: Lecturer in Sociology and The voluntary sector in the UK; the welfare mix, Social Policy Applications particularly the motivations and behaviours of Employment insecurity perceptions; work-family providers of care for older people in the UK; British conflict and gender gaps; flexible working time Taught programmes social policy in general; the European dimension arrangements; support for child care in Europe; Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ of public policy, particularly social policy, towards youth in the labour market after the crisis; relative postgrad/apply organised civil society. Recent publications importance of social life and the role of the welfare Research programmes include: Handbook on Third Sector Policy in state; gender norm dimensions. See p232 or contact the School for further Europe: Multi-level Processes and Organised details. Civil Society (2009). Dr David Garbin: Lecturer in Sociology Further information Transnational religion; African and south Asian T: +44 (0)1227 823684 Dr Anne Logan: Senior Lecturer diasporas; migration; globalisation; diasporic F: +44 (0)1227 827005 History of feminism; history of criminal justice; processes; popular culture; the politics of identity E: [email protected] gender, voluntary work and professionalism. and ethnicity in urban settings. Recent publications include: Feminism and Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective (2008). Dr Jonathan Ilan: Lecturer in Criminology Ethnography of crime; youth crime and justice; Dr Dawn Lyon: Senior Lecturer in Sociology street culture; disadvantaged communities; class Sociology of work; migration; visual sociology; culture; policing; cultural criminology; urban music; gender relations; comparative cultural sociology media and crime. (especially France and Italy). Recent publications include: A New Dawn: From Sunset… to Sunrise (2012).

Dr Vince Miller: Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Director, Sociology MA Urban sociology; theories of urban social change and fragmentation; social theory of space; the information society; media and new media; digital culture and in particular social media. Recent publications include: Understanding Digital Culture (2011). 212

Medway SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCES

The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences is one of the most exciting and innovative sports schools in the UK. The School is based on the University’s award-winning Medway campus and has well-equipped, state-of the-art sports science laboratories, sports therapy clinic, sports rehabilitation gymnasium and respiratory clinic. The University of Kent has recently benefited from the development of Medway Park, an £11 million project to create a regional centre of sporting excellence that was an approved pre-Olympic training camp venue for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Medway Park has hosted a number of major sporting events, such as the Modern Pentathlon World Cup and European Championships.

The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences offers both taught and research postgraduate courses in Sport and Exercise Science and Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.

“The Master’s programme is Programmes have been set up with over £700,000 of new equipment, including an anti-gravity treadmill, a research-led course, so the Taught a 3D video analysis system, 2D force pedals, ultra- teaching is informed by the • Sport Science for Optimal Performance PDip, sound imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy and a MSc gait analysis system. latest research which you are • Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation PDip, MSc then able to put into practice. • Strategic Leadership and Medical Education The School operates a commercial sports injury PCert and rehabilitation clinic, respiratory clinic and This means you are not only sports performance services from Medway Park learning from textbooks, you Research to support elite athletes, regional squads and local • Sport and Exercise Science MPhil, PhD residents. As a postgraduate student, you have the are also studying the most • Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation MPhil, PhD opportunity to develop your professional skills as modern techniques.” • Sport, Exercise and Health Science Professional you work with clients in the clinic and laboratory Doctorate under staff supervision. Hugh Thomson MA Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Postgraduate resources Dynamic publishing culture The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has Staff publish regularly and widely in leading recently invested heavily in its equipment and other scientific journals. Among others, they have resources, and has world-class sports therapy and recently contributed to: Medicine & Science in sport science facilities. Campus facilities include a Sports & Exercise; American Journal of Sports 12-couch teaching clinic and state-of-the-art sports Medicine; Journal of Applied Physiology; British science laboratories. There is a wide range of Journal of Sports Medicine. equipment, including motorised and non-motorised treadmills, cycle ergometers, an isokinetic Taught programmes dynamometer, and blood and gas analysis equipment. In addition, at Medway Park, the Sports Science for Optimal Performance School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has PDip, MSc its own cutting-edge sports therapy clinic, Location: Medway. rehabilitation gymnasium, sports science Entry requirements: A good honours degree laboratories and a respiratory clinic. (at least a high 2.2) in sports science, exercise science or related subject. Alternatively, a relevant There is also a hypoxic environmental chamber, professional qualification with appropriate and analytical chemistry, respiratory testing and experience will be considered. psychobiology laboratories. These specialist rooms Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences 213

The programme aims to enhance your specialist Course content Course content knowledge and understanding of the scientific Typical modules include: All students take the following core modules: principles underpinning optimal performance in Compulsory • Collaborative Working sport and exercise. It develops your understanding • Advanced Soft Tissue Techniques • Evidence-Based Practice of current theory, research and debates in sports • Advanced Sports Rehabilitation Techniques • Supervision in the Workplace. science and gives you the opportunity to conduct • Research Methods an in-depth study in your chosen areas of interest. • Dissertation Assessment Assessment is by your academic portfolio of It provides opportunities for you to develop Optional evidence and an academically written and professional skills, including monitoring, analysing, • Injury Prevention referenced self-evaluation questionnaire. evaluating and prescribing interventions, and • Psychology for Injury and Rehabilitation application to client issues, for the optimisation • Return to Sport Research programmes of performance in a sport or exercise context. • Specialised Issues in Sport • Sport and Exercise Nutrition for the High- Sport and Exercise Science MPhil, PhD The programme is designed to develop the Performance Athlete Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation MPhil, professional and academic skills of graduate PhD sport scientists. Health and sport professionals Assessment Location: Medway. who want to take modules on a stand-alone basis As for Sports Science and Optimal Performance, Start: Preferably in September or January. for continuing professional development are see p212. Entry requirements: An MSc, or a first or upper- welcome to contact us. second class honours degree in a relevant subject. Strategic Leadership and Medical Course content Education PCert The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences Typical modules include: Location: London/Medway/distance learning. provides an excellent environment for MPhil/PhD. Compulsory Attendance: One to two years part-time. We have an active group of both full-time and part- • Assessment for Optimal Performance Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class time postgraduate research students in the School. • Contemporary Perspectives in Sport Research degree or a relevant professional qualification plus The breadth of staff research interests enables us • Research Methods a minimum of two years’ practitioner experience. to supervise research degrees in a number of • Dissertation Applicants must have MRCGP and usually have areas, in the sport and exercise sciences and three years’ post qualification as a GP, have a in sports therapy. These areas include: exercise Optional substantive post in general practice and have physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, injury, • Applied Athlete Support worked for a minimum of one year in their current rehabilitation, psychology. More specifically, we • Injury Prevention practice. The GP should be working in a GP can offer research in the areas of: mental fatigue; • Psychology for Injury and Rehabilitation practice which has attained high QOF achievement, perceived effort and exercise capacity; training • Return to Sport this usually means over 900 points. and sports performance; cycling efficiency, mega • Specialised Issues in Sport sporting events and their legacy; rehabilitation; • Sport and Exercise Nutrition for the High This programme for potential and existing GP physical activity in various populations; threat Performance Athlete. trainers has been developed in association with and challenge in sports psychology; sports the Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) GP Deanery. nutrition; exercise immunology, pre-habilitation Assessment Any doctor wishing to become a GP trainer in and rehabilitation from injury or surgery; and Assessment is typically by coursework and the final KSS should take this programme. manual therapy in sport and lower back pain. dissertation research project. The programme gives you an opportunity to As a research student at Kent, you are provided Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation PDip, develop high-level reflection on experience gained with training in research-specific and broader MSc through practice and also the opportunity to ‘transferable skills’, including academic writing, Location: Medway. develop knowledge and understanding of the career management and presentation skills. Entry requirements: A good honours degree complexities of inter-disciplinary working. The Doctoral students also have the opportunity to (at least a high 2.2) in sports therapy, sport programme follows a flexible, modular format with train for an advanced teaching qualification (ATAP). rehabilitation or a related course. Alternatively, a blended learning approaches. A high standard of During term time, the research groups hold weekly relevant professional qualification with appropriate teaching is delivered by experienced academic meetings to discuss ongoing work, and there are experience will be considered. and specialist staff and the programme is also weekly seminars featuring external speakers. recognised by national and local employers. If you do not have any postgraduate experience of The programme takes an interdisciplinary statistical analysis, you can take our MSc module in approach to the study of sports therapy and The programme of study is designed to be flexible Research Methods. sports-related injury rehabilitation. The MSc aims and related to the work needed to be done to to enhance your understanding of the scientific become accredited as a trainer or will enhance Sport, Exercise and Health Science principles underpinning preparation for, the work necessary to be done to be reaccredited Professional Doctorate participation in, and recovery from sport and as a trainer. The programme has been designed Location: Medway. exercise. It develops your understanding of current as portfolio-based learning which takes account Attendance: Up to six years part-time. theory, research and debates in sports therapy and of the existing work you undertake as a clinician. Start: At any time. rehabilitation, and gives you the opportunity to Entry requirements: Candidates must normally be conduct an in-depth study in your chosen areas The initial award is for a postgraduate certificate experienced sport, exercise or health practitioners. of interest. There are practical sports clinic and but further programmes are being developed which Candidates will be required to write a brief laboratory experiences within modules on this will lead to a diploma and onwards to a Master’s proposal and will be invited to attend an informal course. degree. Once enrolled you may elect which stages interview with the programme director and potential of the pathway you wish to complete. For GP supervisor. The course is designed to develop the professional educators who already have a postgraduate and academic skills of graduate sports therapists, certificate or diploma, it will be possible to enter The Professional Doctorate in Sport, Exercise rehabilitators, and similar practising professionals. the programme at the appropriate level of study. and Health Science is a specialist programme Health and sport professionals who want to take designed for experienced sport, exercise and modules on a stand-alone basis for continuing health practitioners who would like to undertake professional development are welcome to research that is relevant and applied to their area contact us. of professional practice. Through a combination 214 Sport and Exercise Sciences cont

of individually tutored modules and your own Dr John Dickinson: Lecturer Steve Meadows: Lecturer research, you develop your academic and Exercise-induced asthma in athletes; inspiratory Energy expenditure differences in heart attack professional knowledge and acquire a range stridor and breathing technique; inspiratory muscle patients during walking and cycling; group exercise of advanced research skills. The professional training; the respiratory system and athletic and exercise adherence; physical activity doctorate programme culminates with the performance. promotion to the general population. submission of your doctoral thesis or portfolio on a topic that advances your area of professional Dr Kristina Dietz: Research Assistant Dr Carla Meijen: Lecturer knowledge or practice. Computing and psychology to examine different How athletes approach competition; how challenge schema of memory; modelling endurance training. and threat states comprise cognitive (self-efficacy, Research perceived control, achievement goals), affective Andy Galbraith: Lecturer in Principles of and physiological components. The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has Training a strong and vibrant research culture. It is quickly The physiology of middle and long distance Dr Sakis Pappous: Senior Lecturer establishing the University of Kent as one of the running, specifically looking at the distance-time Social (eg, mass media, significant others) and leading places in the UK for the study of sport. relationship and its use in endurance training and psychological (eg, motivation, attitudes, self- The School’s research interests focus on two broad performance. efficacy) factors that influence participation in sport themes: endurance performance and exercise, and physical activity; strategies aiming to increase sports therapy and injury rehabilitation. Lucy Hale: Lecturer participation of groups of society who are Nutritional interventions to improve sport and sedentary, including disabled people, people In endurance performance, the School has one of exercise performance; the effect of Omega 3 from minority ethnic groups and older people. the largest groups of research excellence within EPA/DHA on markers of inflammation; exercise- Europe lead by Professors Samuele Marcora induced asthma in athletes. Professor Louis Passfield: Head of School and Louis Passfield. Professor Sam Marcora Interdisciplinary applied sports science issues in is the School’s Research Director and a prolific Dr Karen Hambly: Senior Lecturer high performance sport; optimising training and researcher. He has published many studies on Rehabilitation and outcome measures; competitive performance; enhancing physical a range of topics. Professor Louis Passfield rehabilitation after articular cartilage repair of activity in the local population. Louis’ research has been conducting sports science research the knee; return to sports after injury and patient focuses on endurance training and performance, for over 20 years and has published many papers perspectives of outcome measurement; and elite cycling in particular. on training and cycling. He has also worked as development of exercise interventions for a sports scientist with British Cycling, helping osteoarthritic populations. Dr Samantha Winter: Lecturer Britain’s leading riders prepare for four Olympic Clinical biomechanics with a particular focus Games, including the highly successful Beijing Dr James Hopker: Lecturer on interventions to prevent falls in older people; Olympic team. We have a strong team of prolific, The physiological determinants of endurance steadiness in isometric force production including leading researchers within this group, and many performance and adaptations from exercise changes with ageing and strength training; are involved in a range of projects. For further training; the use of pre-operative exercise training mechanical models of muscle; the application details, see: www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences/ to increase patient fitness prior to major inter-cavity of non-linear dynamics to movement, such as the research/ERG.html surgery; the use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in effect of gait interventions on the fractal properties the assessment of muscle and brain tissue oxygen of the ground reaction force and joint moments,; In sports therapy and injury rehabilitation, Dr Karen consumption. changes in postural stability with aging. Hambly has established a world-wide reputation for her work in this area, and other staff within the Sadie Jones: Lecturer School are involved in ground-breaking studies Working in collaboration with the Rugby Football within this field. For further details, see: Union to identify current practice in the prevention, Location www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences/research/HRG.html management and treatment of hamstring injuries; Medway. researching hamstring muscles and fatigue and English language requirements return to play following hamstring injuries. Research staff interests See p223. Full details of staff research interests can be found Professor Samuele Marcora: Director of Fees and funding on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences/staff Research See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Psychobiology of perception of effort and National ratings Dr Mark Burnley: Senior Lecturer endurance performance; fatigue in chronic Sports studies at Kent received a rating of Oxygen uptake kinetics; endurance performance; disease (eg, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, ME); 100% for student satisfaction in a recent neuromuscular fatigue; applying control systems psychobiology of exercise adherence. theory and non-linear dynamics to the physiology National Student Survey. of exercise. Dr Lex Mauger: Lecturer Applications How the body, as an integrative system, maintains Dr Glen Davison: Lecturer Taught programmes a relative homeostasis during intense exercise Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Sports nutrition and supplements; immune system through the anticipatory regulation of work rate; postgrad/apply function in athletes and how the immune system the role of the different afferents produced during responds to various types of training; endurance exercise and how these may be responded to by Research programmes See p232 or contact the School for further performance; interval training; nutrition and health. systems of central control; models of endurance details. performance, particularly through self-paced Kyra de Coninck: Lecturer exercise. Further information Anatomy and function of fascia, myofascial pain T: +44 (0)1634 888858 and adaptation of fascia to mechanical loading; Laura McPherson: Technician E: [email protected] interaction between chronic pain, physical activity Physiological and biomechanical effects on the and changes within the fascia network; ultrasound body using the AlterG Anti-Gravity treadmill during imaging of thoracolumbar fascia in a sedentary different running speeds. and athletic population, both with and without lower back pain. 215

Canterbury STATISTICS

The Statistics Group is forward-thinking, with varied research, and received consistently high rankings in the last two Research Assessment Exercises. In 2011, we updated our MSc in Statistics and introduced a new MSc in Statistics with Finance. Research projects have a good blend of theory and applications. We encourage all postgraduate Statistics students to take part in statistics seminars and to help in tutorial classes.

Statistics at Kent provides: • a programme that gives you the opportunity to develop practical, mathematical and computing skills in statistics, while working on challenging and important problems relevant to a broad range of potential employers • teaching and supervision by staff who are research-active, with established reputations and who are accessible, supportive and genuinely interested in your work • advanced and accessible computing and other facilities • a congenial work atmosphere with pleasant surroundings and location, where you can socialise and discuss issues with a community of other students.

“There’s a great rapport between Programmes Taught programmes staff and students, and the Taught International Master’s in Statistics growing number of students • International Master’s in Statistics International Master’s in Statistics • International Master’s in Statistics with Finance with Finance just adds to the good support • Statistics MSc Location: Canterbury. network that already exists. • Statistics with Finance MSc Attendance: Two years full-time. Entry requirements: A good first degree (or the There are also several Research equivalent) in an appropriate quantitative subject. opportunities to assist in • Statistics MSc, MPhil, PhD undergraduate classes and to Students whose mathematical and statistical Postgraduate resources background is insufficient for direct entry on to the travel to conferences all around appropriate programme, may apply for this course. the world, giving you plenty to Kent’s Computing Service central facility runs The first year of the programme gives you a strong Windows. Within the School, postgraduate students background in statistics, including its mathematical write on your CV.” can use a range of UNIX servers and workstations. aspects, equivalent to the Graduate Diploma in Packages available include R, SAS, MATLAB, SPSS Statistics. This is followed by the MSc in Statistics Karen Palmer and MINITAB. or MSc in Statistics with Finance. PhD Statistics Professional recognition Course content Modules in the first year include: The taught programmes in Statistics and • Analysis Statistics with Finance provide exemption from the • Analysis of Variance professional examinations of the Royal Statistical • Linear Algebra Society and qualification for Graduate Statistician • Probability and Inference status. • Regression • Stochastic Processes. Dynamic publishing culture Depending on your background, the Advanced Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, English for Academic Study (Science) module conference proceedings and books. Among may be taken. In the second year, you follow the others, they have recently contributed to: Annals standard appropriate MSc programme (see p217). of Statistics; Biometrics; Biometrika; Journal of Royal Society, Series B; Statistics and Computing. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests on p218. CONTINUED OVERLEAF 216 Statistics cont

Student profile

NICK JOHNSON MSc STATISTICS

Why did you choose to study at Kent? statistician dramatically and my theoretical knowledge The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, is a lot more sound. I have also made good friends with the and the course director, were extremely helpful in answering athletics and cross-country team and got to experience a trip my questions and eliminated any doubts I had about to Barcelona I will never forget. applying. Also, the campus is located on a hill on the outskirts of the city, giving the most amazing view and it is surrounded What are the facilities like on campus? by beautiful countryside, yet the city centre is only 15 minutes The accommodation is spacious and clean. There are plenty away. of bars and restaurants mere seconds away, which is ideal and also a shop where you can buy essentials. The gym What’s different about postgraduate study? and sports facilities are very good, especially the recent The workload is intense, far greater that what I remember refurbishment and extension. If you enjoy keeping fit, the from my undergraduate years. That said, though, they do not gym is great value and offers daily classes to keep you on throw you in at the deep end – you are eased into the course. your toes.

What are you particularly enjoying? What are you planning to do next? The course has been demanding and challenging but A year in industry, which is most likely to be clinical trials. ultimately rewarding. I have improved my abilities as a After that, who knows, possibly a PhD. Admissions enquiries T: +44 (0)1227 827272 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/statistics 217

Assessment You undertake a substantial project in the area of The programme is assessed by coursework and finance or financial econometrics, supervised by written examinations. In the second year, there is an experienced researcher. Some projects are also a substantial dissertation. focused on the analysis of particular complex data sets while others are more concerned with generic Statistics MSc methodology. Location: Canterbury. Attendance: One year full-time. Course content Entry requirements: A minimum of 2.2, with a • Advanced Regression Modelling substantial amount of mathematics at university • Bayesian Methods level. • Modelling of Time-dependent Data and Financial Econometrics This programme, which has recently been updated, • Practical Statistics and Computing trains professional statisticians for posts in industry, • Stochastic Processes and Insurance Risk government, research and teaching. It provides • Two from: Analysis of Large Data Sets; a suitable preparation for careers in other fields Mathematics of Financial Derivatives; Portfolio requiring a strong statistical background. Core Theory and Asset Pricing. modules give a thorough grounding in modern • Project of 12,000 words statistical methods and there is the opportunity to choose additional topics to study. Assessment As for Statistics. You gain experience of analysing real data problems through practical classes and exercises. Research programme The course includes training in the computer language R. Statistics MSc, MPhil, PhD Location: Canterbury. You undertake a substantial project in statistics, Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant supervised by an experienced researcher. Some subject. projects are focused on the analysis of particular STAFF PROFILE complex data sets while others are more Staff research interests are diverse, and include: concerned with generic methodology. Bayesian statistics; bioinformatics; biometry; Jim Griffin ecological statistics; epidemic modelling; medical Professor of Statistics Course content statistics; nonparametric statistics and semi- • Advanced Regression Modelling parametric modelling; risk and queueing theory; Professor Griffin’s research interests • Bayesian Methods shape statistics. include nonparametric statistics, • Computational Statistics regression modelling and time series. • Practical Statistics and Computing Statistics has strong connections with a number His work has included the development • Principles of Data Collection of prestigious research universities such as Texas of statistical models, which have been • Probability and Classical Inference A&M University, the University of Texas, the applied to diverse areas such as • Two from: Analysis of Large Data Sets; University of Otago, the University of Sydney and forecasting inflation, analysing stock Stochastic Models in Ecology and Medicine; other research institutions at home and abroad. prices and identifying cancer subtypes. Stochastic Processes and Time Series. • Project of 12,000 words (60 credits) The research interests of the group are in line with He has extensive experience of cross- the mainstream of statistics, with emphasis on both disciplinary research in the areas of Assessment theoretical and applied subjects. finance, economics and systems biology. Assessment is through coursework and formal He is currently part of the £1.4 million examinations. The group regularly receives research grants. EPSRC-funded project, Advanced The EPSRC has awarded two major grants, which Bayesian Computation for Cross- Statistics with Finance MSc support the National Centre for Statistical Ecology Disciplinary Research, looking at fast (NCSE), a joint venture between several institutions. Location: Canterbury. methods for fitting models in astronomy, A BBSRC grant supports stochastic modelling in Attendance: One year full-time. economics, machine learning and systems bioscience. Entry requirements: A minimum of 2.2, with a biology. substantial amount of mathematics at university level. Prior experience of finance is not required. Research areas Before coming to Kent, Professor Griffin previously worked at NCR (1998-2000) Biometry and ecological statistics This newly introduced programme trains students and the University of Warwick (2004-07). for careers using statistics in the financial services Specific interests are in biometry, cluster analysis, industry. You study the statistical modelling stochastic population processes, analysis of underpinning much modern financial engineering discrete data, analysis of quantal assay data, combined with a deep understanding of core overdispersion, and we enjoy good links within the statistical concepts. The course includes modelling University, including the School of Biosciences and of financial time series, risk and multivariate the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. techniques. A recent major joint research project involves modelling the behaviour of yeast prions and builds You gain experience of analysing real data upon previous work in this area. We also work in problems through practical classes and exercises. collaboration with many external institutions. The course includes training in the computer language R. Bayesian statistics Current work includes non-parametric Bayes, inference robustness, modelling with non-normal distributions, model uncertainty, variable selection and functional data analysis.

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Bioinformatics, statistical genetics and Dr Efang Kong: Lecturer in Statistics Dr Xue Wang: Lecturer in Statistics medical statistics Semi and non-parametric modelling and related Bayesian nonparametric methods; copula function Research covers bioinformatics (eg DNA subset selection; robust regression and Bahadur with its applications in finance; wavelet estimation microarray data), involving collaboration with the representation; empirical likelihood. methods. School of Biosciences. Other interests include population genetics, clinical trials and survival Dr Alfred Kume: Lecturer in Statistics Professor Jian Zhang: Professor of Statistics analysis. Shape analysis; directional statistics; image Semi and non-parametric statistical modelling; analysis. statistical genetics with medical applications; Nonparametric statistics Bayesian modelling; mixture models; neuroimaging. Dr Alexa Laurence: Lecturer in Statistics Research focuses on empirical likelihood, high- Medical statistics and applied statistics. dimensional data analysis, nonlinear dynamic analysis, semi-parametric modelling, survival Dr Owen Lyne: Lecturer in Statistics Location analysis, risk insurance, functional data analysis, Stochastic epidemic models; applied probability; Canterbury. spatial data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, simulation; statistical inference; goodness of fit; feature selection and wavelets. English language requirements branching processes; martingales; medical See p223. education. Staff research interests Fees and funding Professor Byron Morgan: Professor of Applied See www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding Full details of staff research interests can be found Statistics on our website: www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/our-people National ratings Biometry; cluster analysis; stochastic population Most recent Research Assessment Exercise: processes; psychological applications of statistics; Dr Eryl Bassett: Honorary Senior Lecturer in 65% of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or multivariate analysis; simulation; analysis of quantal Statistics ‘internationally excellent’. assay data; medical statistics; ecological statistics; Theory of inference; life testing; applied statistics; overdispersion; estimation using transforms. Recent statistical computing. Applications publications include: Applied Scholastic Modelling (2008); Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology Taught programmes Dr Lothar Breuer: Reader in Statistics (co-author, 2009). Online at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/ Stochastic processes; queueing theory; risk theory; postgrad/apply Markov-additive processes. Recent publications Professor Martin Ridout: Professor of Applied Research programmes include: An Introduction to Queueing Theory: and Statistics See p232 or contact the School for further Matrix-Analytic Methods (co-author, 2010). Analysis of discrete data in biology; generalised details. linear models; overdispersion; stochastic models; Professor Philip Brown: Professor of Statistics Further information transform methods. Multivariate analysis; medical statistics; Bayesian Claire Carter methods; chemometrics; electoral prediction and T: 44 (0)1227 824133 Professor Stephen Walker: Professor of polling. E: [email protected] Statistics Bayesian inference; Bayesian nonparametric Professor James Griffin: Professor of Statistics methods; time series; survival analysis; MCMC; Bayesian nonparametric modelling; high frequency matrix algebra. Recent publications include: financial data analysis; regression with many Bayesian Nonparametrics (co-ed, 2010). explanatory variables; MCMC. www.kent.ac.uk 219

POSTGRADUATE STUDY AT KENT “There’s a very good research community here at Kent and people are given tremendous scope to develop their own research interests and pursue their own paths.”

Dr William Rowlandson School of European Culture and Languages

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220 / Fees and funding 221 / International students 224 / Canterbury 226 / Medway 228 / European centres 232 / How to apply 220 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

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Postgraduate study is an investment 50th Anniversary Research in your future; you develop expertise Scholarships TUITION FEES in an area that inspires you, while In preparation for the University’s 50th anniversary gaining skills and knowledge that in 2015, Kent has established an additional 100 The basic rate of tuition fee for 2013 for home will improve your career prospects. doctoral scholarships to be awarded annually. fee-paying students on postgraduate taught To help fund your studies, the These scholarships will be offered in the form programmes is £4,950. Re search degrees University of Kent has a generous of GTAs (see above). Successful candidates will are charged at the fee set by the Re search Councils, wh ich is £3,900. International budget of £8.5 million. need to demonstrate academic excellence and outstanding research potential. student fees are £14,360 for laboratory programmes and £12,030 for non-laboratory The University allocates over £6.5 million from its programmes. own funds and attracts an additional £2 million to School scholarships provide a variety of financial support opportunities Many schools at Kent also offer postgraduate Fee-paying catego ries for postgraduate students. There are a number of research scholarships, each available for three research student scholarships, through to location- UK or European Union fee status depends years. These scholarships vary in amount; for specific funding, sport and music scholarships, on your nationality and residency. In general, example, they may cover or contribute to tuition fees and funding specifically for overseas fee-paying students paying the UK or EU fe e should and/or provide a stipend. All postgraduate research students. have ‘settled status’ under UK immigration applicants are eligible to apply for postgraduate regulat ions prior to the start o f their course, research scholarships. The range of support varies, but can run from or students holding full European Union a tuition fee discount to a full fee waiver with a nationality should h ave been resident in the maintenance stipend to cover your living costs. Additional scholarships European Economic Area fo r non-educational For example, the standard UK Research Council purposes fo r three years prior to the start Kent offers one of the best scholarship maintenance grant for the 2013/14 academic year of their course. Th e UK/EU category a lso programmes in the country to support many will be £13,726. includes EU students with indefinite leave specific activities. For example, our scholarships to remain in the UK. programme includes: Research Council funding • University Music Performance Scholarships – up to £5,000 a year Payment of tuition fees Kent has a record of attracting funding from the • University sports scholarships – between £250 seven UK Research Councils: There are two main ways o f p aying: and £5,000 a year • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) • I n full – this qualifies for a 2 % discount • Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship to undertake • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) if cleared funds are receive d in full by a period of sustained research in the USA – • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences 31 August 2014. The discount can be up to £10,000. Research Council (BBSRC) deducted from the payment • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research • I n t wo instalments – 50% on or before In addition to these we have numerous other Council (EPSRC) registration and 50% by 1 December 2014. awards to support specific programmes and • Medical Research Council (MRC) The instalment plan needs to be set up objectives, provided via generous philanthropic • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) online at https://epay. kent.ac.uk/epay gifts. These are too numerous to list but are • Science and Technology Facilities Council updated regularly at: (STFC). Further information www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate www.kent.ac.uk/finance-student In general, Research Council awards provide full tuition fees with a maintenance grant. Awards from Loyalty awards Living costs these councils are highly competitive. You must The University of Kent values its graduates and apply via the University and we encourage early Each student has different circumstances, alumni and is pleased to offer a choice of three application; the University normally has internal so to help you estimate your living costs, we special schemes to assist with the cost of deadlines that you must meet in order for provide a n online calculator at the website postgraduate study: applications to be submitted to the Research below. • The Graduate School Scholarship provides a Councils for their deadlines. scholarship of £1,000 towards the first year’s Further information fees for those moving directly from www.kent.ac.uk/finance-student/livingcosts.html Graduate Teaching Assistantships undergraduate to postgraduate study • The Loyalty Discount offers a 10% reduction The University, and many of our individual schools, on the cost of the first year’s fees. offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching • The Alumni Research Scholarship covers tuition Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate fees at the home/EU rate and provides a research students receive financial support in return maintenance grant at the same rate as the UK for teaching. The amount of the GTA award varies; Research Councils. It is offered for one year in however many GTAs are ‘full’ awards that cover the first instance, renewable for a maximum of tuition fees at the home/EU rate plus a combined three years. salary and maintenance stipend, which together equal up to the UK Research Council award. All postgraduate research applicants are eligible to Further information apply for GTAs. Please visit www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding or see the Funding for Graduate Study brochure. www.kent.ac.uk 221

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SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

The University of Kent is one of the most cosmopolitan universities in the UK, with a strong international community. There are 140 different nationalities represented at the University, with over half of all newly recruited postgraduate students coming from outside the UK.

We give our international students dedicated support, from application through to graduation and beyond.

International qualifications We have an excellent knowledge of international qualifications and can provide specialist advice on applications, equivalencies of qualifications and entry requirements to Kent. Information relevant to your country is also provided on our website. Please see further information (below) for website details. Special welcome of topics including academic, finance, immigration and housing. They offer full appointments, drop-in Kent representatives To help you feel at home, we organise a special sessions, email and telephone advice. Whatever Welcome Week for our new international students The University has many local representatives advice you need, the advisers will be able to either before classes start, including a welcome dinner around the world who can advise on our help you or point you in the direction of someone and visits to local tourist attractions. Representatives programmes. We also hold interview and guidance who can. sessions at representatives’ offices if you would of the University meet students and organise transport to our UK campuses from some airports like the chance to meet with a member of staff. If Both unions support many societies for international when they first arrive in the UK. you wish to speak to a representative in your own students, such as Afro-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, country, please see further information (below) for German, Hellenic and Japanese. Kent Union also website details. International events runs an international buddy scheme, where new international students are matched with current We hold international events throughout the year, international students to help them adjust to their Staff visits abroad including Thanksgiving Dinner, Chinese New Year, local environment and settle in. Our staff visit many countries throughout the Europe Day and WorldFest. world, often at higher education fairs, giving you Kent Union also works closely with students the opportunity to speak directly to someone who International Development at our European centres to ensure appropriate can answer your questions about all aspects of representation and support. life at Kent. We also hold pre-departure events Our International Development Team provides help in-country for new students. Please see further and support for all international students, both in information (below) for website details. making their application to Kent and throughout Further information their studies. We have links with the University’s www.kentunion.co.uk various cultural and international societies, and www.gkunions.co.uk Personal tours of the University we meet many of our current and former students If you live outside of the United Kingdom you during visits abroad. Funding and scholarships may find it difficult to attend our Open or Visit Days. The University offers a variety of financial We are happy to organise personal tours of our Further information support and scholarships for international students Canterbury or Medway campuses for you and your E: [email protected] and there is a wide range of additional funding family at any time of the year. You may also be able www.kent.ac.uk/internationalstudent opportunities available to postgraduates. Because to meet up with an academic in a particular subject of agreements within the European Union, EU area. Bookings need to be made in advance. To Student unions at Kent students can apply to the same funding sources book your tour, go to www.kent.ac.uk/informal The student unions at Canterbury and Medway as UK students. For further information, see have Student Advice Centres which provides www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding free, confidential and impartial advice on a range

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ENGLISH AND WORLD Only English language tests taken up to a maximum The Centre for World Languages of two years prior to the date of registration will be (CEWL) LANGUAGES accepted for admission to the University. The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) aims to support you during the course of If you need to improve your English Please note that if your university studies have been completed entirely in English, you may be your studies by offering a range of modules and before beginning your postgraduate exempt from providing an English test certificate. programmes in English, as well as in other world studies, Kent offers a range of Please contact International Development for languages. pathways in English for Academic clarification (see p241). Purposes (EAP). English Language Development Programme Pre-sessional courses in English for These pathways are designed to give you the best Even once you have satisfied the English language possible start to your studies. They are provided by academic purposes requirements for admission, you may still require Kent International Pathways – a specialist team The University offers Pre-sessional English courses support during your studies. The English Language within the University – allowing you to study with our for students who need to improve their English Development Programme helps you improve your experienced EAP tutors who fully understand the and study skills before joining a postgraduate English language and gives you the chance to demands of your postgraduate programme. programme. There are a number of courses of discuss your specific learning objectives. You can different lengths, depending on your current level attend a total of two hours weekly in the autumn English language proficiency for of English and the level you need to reach in order and spring terms and will receive guidance on to study on your pathway or degree course. which of the components will be most useful to postgraduate study meet your particular needs. Students with high The University requires all non-native speakers of Course content attendance rates will be awarded a letter of English to reach a minimum standard of proficiency Teaching includes lectures on subjects of academic attendance. in written and spoken English before beginning a interest and life in the UK, given by UK academics postgraduate degree. and other specialists, along with seminars, In-sessional English for specific academic workshops, independent research tasks and purposes The minimum English language test scores required group and pair work. The workload is intensive, In addition, CEWL works closely with a number of by most schools are listed in the table on the with regular homework averaging two hours after academic schools across the University in order following page. Certain subjects such as Business, class each day. to deliver credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing English, Journalism and Law require a higher level. modules in English for specific academic Course details can be found at www.kent.ac.uk/ purposes, such as English for Law. Consult your international-pathways/pre-sessional academic school for further details of specific provision and eligibility for enrolment.

Language Express courses CEWL offers a range of different foreign language classes, such as Arabic, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish, on a flexible and non- credit-bearing basis to all members of the University. Classes are usually scheduled at lunchtimes and early evenings so that you can take full advantage of the provision alongside your main study commitments.

Further information Centre for English and World Languages Keynes College University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7NP, UK T: +44 (0)1227 824401 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk/cewl www.kent.ac.uk 223

English language requirements

Programmes IELTS TOEFL internet based Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic)

General postgraduate 6.5 incl 90 incl 62 incl programmes 6.0 reading 22 reading 60 in all four subtests 6.0 writing 21 writing 5.5 listening 21 listening 5.5 speaking 23 speaking

PDip Actuarial Science 6.0 incl 87 incl 59 incl 5.5 reading 22 reading 59 in all four subtests 5.5 writing 21 writing 5.5 listening 21 listening 5.5 speaking 23 speaking

Kent Business School 7.0 incl 100 incl 68 incl Management programmes, 6.5 reading 22 reading 65 in all four subtests Marketing, HRM, Value Chain 6.5 writing 22 writing Management, MBA 6.0 listening 21 listening 6.0 speaking 23 speaking

MSc IT Consultancy 7.0 incl 100 incl 68 incl 6.0 reading 22 reading 65 speaking 6.0 writing 22 writing 62 in other three subtests 6.0 listening 21 listening 7.0 speaking 23 speaking

School of English 7.0 incl 100 incl 68 incl programmes 6.5 reading 22 reading 65 in all four subtests 6.5 writing 22 writing 5.5 listening 21 listening 5.5 speaking 23 speaking

Centre for Higher Education 7.0 incl 100 incl 68 incl programmes 6.0 reading 22 reading 65 in all four subtests 6.0 writing 22 writing 6.0 listening 21 listening 6.0 speaking 23 speaking

Centre for Journalism 7.5 incl The IELTS test can be accepted for the Multimedia Journalism MA. programmes 7.0 reading For other programmes, in addition to this test, English language ability is tested 7.0 writing by interview and a specific admissions test, prior to any offer being made. 7.0 listening Please contact the Centre for Journalism for further details, see p142. 7.0 speaking Kent Law School 7.0 incl 100 incl 68 incl programmes 6.5 reading 22 reading 65 in all four subtests 6.5 writing 22 writing 5.5 listening 21 listening 5.5 speaking 23 speaking

Pre-sessional English Kent International Pathways offer a range of Pre-sessional English courses catering to a range of English language levels and abilities. For full details of the courses on offer, please check the Kent International Pathways website: www.kent.ac.uk/international-pathways 224 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014 www.kent.ac.uk 225

CANTERBURY

Canterbury is a beautiful and cosmopolitan city with a rich heritage and vibrant culture. A World Heritage Site, it is home to the world-famous Canterbury Cathedral, which attracts millions of tourists every year and is one of the venues for our graduation ceremonies.

Campus life Founded in 1965, the Canterbury campus is Kent’s original site and is built on 300 acres of parkland overlooking the city centre. Modern buildings are surrounded by open green spaces, courtyards, gardens and woodland, with stunning views of Canterbury and the Stour Valley.

The campus is self-contained, which means that you are within walking distance of all the excellent facilities on offer: lecture theatres and seminar Gulbenkian café, Origins in Darwin College, rooms, academic staff offices, the Graduate Social life Mungo’s in Eliot College, Bag It in Rutherford School, the Sports Centre and Pavilion, the Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema Dining Hall and Woodys in Park Wood. Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema, the Colyer- From student productions to great stand-up, music, Fergusson Building for music performance, inspiring theatre and dance, our on-campus venue Clubs and bars the Templeman Library, the Medical Centre, provides an exciting and diverse programme. Our The Venue is a student nightclub run by Kent Union. the Computing Service, the campus shop and cinema shows the best in film; British, foreign It plays host to a range of acts and offers a variety bookshop, a pharmacy, an off-licence, bistros, language, indie, cult, blockbusters, the big new of music genres, club nights and live entertainment, bars, the Students’ Union (including The Venue releases and everyone’s favourite classics, so we including local, student and mainstream bands. nightclub), free-access computer areas, bus stops have something for all students. For more details, and launderettes. Canterbury city centre is only see www.thegulbenkian.co.uk 25 minutes’ walk from the campus and there is Some colleges have their own bar: Mungo’s, a frequent and direct bus service. Origins and the K-Bar. Woodys is a more traditional Music sports pub in the heart of Park Wood, while the There is a wide range of music-making at the Gulbenkian has a relaxed café-bar in the theatre- Location University, and students of all subjects have cinema complex, with outdoor tables in the summer. Canterbury is the closest UK city to continental the opportunity to take part in the flourishing Europe, and offers easy access to three of the programme of extra-curricular music activities. Student activities most influential cities in Europe: London, Paris and The Student Activities Centre provides opportunities Thanks to a generous donation from the Colyer- Brussels. High-speed trains run regularly between for you to participate in a diverse range of activities Fergusson Charitable Trust, a new centre for music Canterbury West and London St Pancras and take and groups, led by students and supported by the performance has been built on campus. The Colyer- approximately 56 minutes. We are in close proximity sabbatical officers and full-time staff members. Fergusson Building is located near the Gulbenkian to airports, the Channel ports and the Eurostar These include societies, sports clubs, student media complex to create an arts hub and houses the wide Terminals at Ashford and Ebbsfleet, from where and volunteering. A dedicated student media centre range of music-making activity at the University. you can be in Paris or Brussels in approximately is currently being installed above The Venue and two hours, and Lille in just over an hour. will house our radio station, student newspaper and If you sing or play an instrument, there are plenty KTV – our own TV station. For more information, see of opportunities to get involved: Kent has its own www.kentunion.co.uk Accommodation symphony orchestra, concert band, big band, The majority of new postgraduate students are chorus and chamber choir. Kent also offers Kent Sport offered accommodation in Woolf College. The music scholarships to talented instrumentalists en-suite rooms are arranged in flats with six or and singers. For further information, see Kent Sport has recently completed a £4.8 million eight students per flat and a large shared kitchen. www.kent.ac.uk/music refurbishment, which offers a new fitness suite, The College has its own courtyard areas and fitness class studios and indoor tennis and netball launderette. Each room has free internet connection Kent Union courts. This complements existing facilities including badminton, basketball and squash courts, and a link to the University’s computer network Kent Union, the students’ union at Canterbury, is outdoor tennis courts, all-weather football pitches, system, and is rented for 51 weeks to cater for the run ‘by the students, for the students’. It provides and cricket pitches. We also provide sports academic demands of postgraduate study and in a wide variety of facilities, services and activities, courses, leagues and tournaments, fitness line with students’ registration periods. Postgraduate represents students’ interests, and offers help, assessments and tailored exercise programmes. students who, for academic purposes, will be support and advice when needed. resident in Canterbury for fewer than 51 weeks You can choose from a range of sports societies and teams. Kent offers sports scholarships to should contact our Accommodation Office. For Eating out more details, see www.kent.ac.uk/accommodation students who have demonstrated significant The campus has many great places to eat, sporting potential. For further information, see including Dolche Vita in Keynes College, the www.kent.ac.uk/sports 226 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014 www.kent.ac.uk 227

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Our Medway campus is in a great location, close to the River Medway with part of the campus based at the Chatham Historic Dockyard, less than 20 minutes away from London by high-speed train. It houses award- winning buildings and brand new facilities, and has an exciting social life with a strong sense of community.

Campus life Medway students enjoy a modern study environment with state-of-the-art facilities. The flagship Medway Building has won several awards for design excellence. The Gillingham Building houses fully equipped teaching rooms and academic schools, and the Rochester Building includes the No 1 Bistro, plus large rooms for seminars and executive meetings. We have also invested in a multimillion-pound refurbishment of key academic facilities at Chatham Historic Dockyard as part of the expansion of the School of Arts. The campus is close to central London: trains There are several cafés and restaurants on campus, All our professionally focused programmes are from Ebbsfleet International take approximately 17 as well as Coopers, a lively and vibrant bar that supported by state-of-the-art facilities. For example, minutes and trains from Chatham take 45 minutes. serves food and shows live sport. Nearby is a multi- Music and Audio students have access to rehearsal If you want to explore Paris or Brussels, the Eurostar screen cinema showing the most popular movies. rooms, tracking, overdubbing and post-production train from Ebbsfleet International can take you there The local town of Chatham provides entertainment studios equipped with industry-standard software. in about two hours. The town centres of Chatham such as live music and a comedy club. Fine Art students have access to a gallery, a and Rochester are a short bus ride away. darkroom, a kiln room, plaster-casting, metalwork, Sport wood and machine workshops, as well as print and digital facilities. Journalism students benefit from Accommodation The University has a wide range of sports societies – everything from table tennis to ladies’ football. a multimedia newsroom with complete editorial We can offer all eligible postgraduate students the Being close to the river means that many students resources including audio and video editing, opportunity to live as part of the student community also take part in activities such as rowing, canoeing cameras and autocues, and broadcast studios in new self-catered, en-suite accommodation at and sailing. fully equipped for live and recorded programme- Liberty Quays. Located right by the River Medway, making, and Sport and Exercise Sciences students each flat has single en-suite rooms for six to eight The nearby multimillion-pound sports centre, use the extensive sports facilities at Medway Park students who share a fully equipped kitchen. The Medway Park (partly funded by the University), (see right). accommodation has its own social facilities and offers special rates to our students. Facilities launderette and each room has internet access. include a swimming pool, fitness suite and an For more details, see www.kent.ac.uk/ Location athletics track, as well as several sports halls. All accommodation/medway/apply The Medway towns of Chatham, Gillingham, facilities are built to high standards and the Park Rainham, Rochester and Strood stand on the mouth was an approved pre-Games training camp for of the River Medway where it flows into the Thames Social life 13 Olympic and eight Paralympic sports for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. estuary. Kent’s Medway campus is part of Chatham There is a great sense of community on campus Maritime, where the Historic Dockyard has been and plenty of opportunities to make friends. For Also in the Medway area, you can enjoy an ice redeveloped and refurbished. Nearby is a multiplex socialising, there’s a lively bar that holds regular rink, dry ski slope, karting circuit, golf course cinema, the Dockside retail outlet, wine bars, theme nights. Most social activities are run by the with driving range, athletics track and indoor restaurants and the Strand Leisure Park. Medway students’ union, Kent and Greenwich bowls. Student Unions Together. The range of societies Medway has a rich and fascinating history. and clubs on offer include an international society, Rochester Castle was one of the first large stone debating society, Medway law society and many keeps built by William the Conqueror after the cultural and religious societies. The Union also Norman Conquest, while Rochester Cathedral – runs a campus student magazine, The Medwire, where Kent holds its Medway graduation designed and edited by students. Annual events DID YOU KNOW? ceremonies – is more than 1,400 years old. Medway include the Summer Ball, which is held at a large also has a distinguished naval history – the first ship local venue and features celebrity DJs. See The Drill Hall Library, the Medway Building and the Pilkington Building built at Chatham’s Dockyard took part in the defeat www.gktogether.co.uk for more details. of the Armada. One of Medway’s most famous have all won prestigious awards both inhabitants was Charles Dickens, who lived in for design excellence and for their contribution to the Medway region’s Chatham as a child, and in Rochester for 14 regeneration. years until his death. 228 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

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In addition to Kent's teaching 30km away, and as such you have close access societies for sailing, windsurfing, mountaineering and research partnerships with to many other major historical sites including the and basketball. There is an annual arts festival, universities across Europe, we Parthenon, Ancient Corinth, Nemea and Thebes. where you can experience Greek music and have invested in four specialist theatre. Eleusis is a fairly large town with many amenities postgraduate centres in some of the such as a sports centre, shops, restaurants, cafés, Further information most exciting and historic cities in libraries, a museum and a summer cinema, music www.kent.ac.uk/secl Europe, where study and research schools and foreign language schools. It has a good www.heritage.aueb.gr are underpinned by the specialist bus connection to Athens and the surrounding area. facilities and resources of each BRUSSELS location. Campus life With its interdisciplinary focus and the combination In Brussels, the political heart of Europe, we offer Most classes are held either at the archaeological of academics and practitioners, the University international studies; in Paris, the cultural hub of the site in Eleusina, or in the well-equipped seminar of Kent at Brussels offers you a unique and western world, we provide a range of Master’s in the rooms of the municipality of Eleusina building, unparalleled opportunity for education and Arts and Humanities; our Rome programmes are courtesy of the Initiative for Heritage Conservancy professional advancement. Its programmes and focused on classical antiquity and in Athens, the (IHC). The library holdings and computer facilities courses cover the spectrum of international studies cradle of western civilisation, we offer heritage of the IHC are all at your disposal, and you also and you are therefore able to design a course to management. have access to the library of the AUEB in central Athens, as well as the electronic libraries of AUEB suit your individual strengths and needs. and Kent. ATHENS Campus life Accommodation Kent offers its Heritage Management MA in Athens. The opportunities for networking in Brussels are first The Master’s degree is a collaboration between A list of suitable accommodation in Eleusina class and you regularly attend and contribute to the the University of Kent and Athens University of or central Athens is provided to all students. We policy discussions and debates across the city. This Economics and Business (AUEB) and teaches the also offer advice on arranging your own rented is complemented by practitioners who either teach skills required for the management of heritage sites accommodation and liaise with landlords on your on courses in their field of expertise or who are across the world. Teaching is in English and there behalf. Please contact the local administrator for invited to deliver specific lectures on a weekly basis. are a range of scholarships available. more information, email: [email protected] Recent speakers have included Lord Hannay of Chiswick (former British Ambassador to the UN), HE Location Social life Mr Homayoun Tandar (Ambassador of Afghanistan The programme is ideally located in the Athenian In collaboration with the IHC, there are a number to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg), Gareth Evans suburb of Eleusina, the birthplace of Aeschylus of extracurricular activities available in Eleusina at (President Emeritus of the International Crisis and one of the most important archaeological a discounted fee, including courses for non-Greek Group) and General Sir Mike Jackson (former NATO religious sites in the world as the location of the speakers in music, painting and dance. Eleusina commander in Kosovo and head of the British Army). Eleusinian mysteries. The centre of Athens is only is also excellent for outdoor pursuits, with local www.kent.ac.uk 229

Our career development programme offers you the chance to improve their English. For more formal Social life the opportunity to take part in regular coaching language classes, students can choose to study at Brussels is a cultural city with many music and film sessions and workshops to help you secure our partner institution, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel festivals and exhibitions, plus a great number of internships and jobs. (VUB), whose campus is next to ours. For more cafés, bars and restaurants. You can sample the information, visit www.vub.ac.be/khnb world-class chocolates and take advantage of the The thriving Alumni Network communicates on excellent shopping – from large gallery shopping many levels to keep alumni in touch with each other, Location centres to colourful local markets. the University, current students and developments in the field of international affairs. Alumni have also The Brussels campus is a 15-minute drive from the For 20 years, Kent has held a tradition of hosting agreed to share their experiences in their respective city centre and there are also metro, bus and tram an annual formal High Table Dinner to mark the fields and to help where possible with internships links. It is easy to reach other European cities: end of the teaching year to which a guest (usually and employment. destinations such as London, Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne are all around two hours away by a politician, diplomat or senior member of an international organisation) is invited. This tradition All students are encouraged to participate in a high-speed train and Brussels has a major has been continued in Brussels, where a committee variety of student fora. Current topics include international airport. of students chooses the venue and plans the event, International Justice, Migration Studies, Strategic which is often based around a particular Affairs and the Environmental Forum. You also have Accommodation international theme. the opportunity to submit articles to the Journal of International Studies. Kent does not offer University accommodation in Brussels, but there are many private rental options Sport Each year, students take leadership roles in available and students usually find a place to live Students have use of the VUB sporting facilities, organising the annual conference, which regularly shortly after arrival. Studio apartments with all which include football and rugby pitches, a attracts participants from various countries charges included (water, electricity, gas, tenant 25-metre swimming pool, an athletics track, sports € including Russia, Austria, the UK, the Netherlands, charges) cost around 550-650 per month. A one- halls for squash, tennis, badminton, martial arts, Italy and Belgium. bedroom apartment with all charges included is basketball and indoor soccer. There is also a variety usually €650-750 per month. Students who arrange of exercise classes on offer and a sports bar. Kent Although all teaching is in English, you may wish flat shares are often able to reduce costs even students are able to join Health City, a state-of-the- to develop your language skills, which can be further. Incoming students are placed on our list- art fitness facility located in the VUB sports complex, essential for building a career in international serve, through which they are sent information on which offers a huge range of aerobic and resistance affairs. There are many private agencies and housing, orientation, registration and practical tips training equipment. schools offering language courses as well as on preparing for and arriving in Brussels. For details, students who will offer lessons in exchange for see www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/studying/arriving Further information www.kent.ac.uk/brussels

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weekly excursions and film screenings which Location PARIS complement and enhance the theoretical aspects The University of Kent at Paris is easily accessible of your programme. The Kent at Paris MA programmes and associated by metro, tram or bus as it is in the center of Paris and is 15 minutes away from the Gare du Nord train activities are designed to increase cultural Paris is also an international centre of contemporary station. Paris is ideally located to reach other major knowledge, to heighten social and historical creativity, attracting musicians, writers, artists and mainland European cities as well as the UK. awareness and to broaden intellectual and film-makers from all over the world. The resulting Brussels and London are only about two hours imaginative horizons. Through taught modules contemporary arts scene is energised by a vibrant away by train and the city is served by two main and independent research for a dissertation you mix of intercultural styles and influences. are encouraged to fulfill your analytical, creative airports, offering international and domestic connections. and communicative potential, and so develop All students are encouraged to participate in essential transferable skills. All the courses available a variety of workshops and conferences. The in Paris are designed so as to best take advantage most recent conferences have resulted in major Accommodation of the city and its rich cultural infrastructure. publications on Autobiography, Influences, and Kent does not have University accommodation in Representations of Wounded Bodies in 21st- Paris but we are able to offer advice to help you Century Literature. You also have the opportunity to Campus life find suitable accommodation. Options may include be involved in the newly launched literary magazine, staying in a hall of residence or with a host family. The University of Kent at Paris is based at Reid The Menteur. Hall, in the historic heart of Montparnasse, where There are also organisations in Paris to help students find short-term accommodation, as well Picasso and Modigliani had their studios, and near Although all teaching is in English you may wish as private accommodation agencies. For more cafés that were frequented by Gertrude Stein and to develop your language skills, which can be information, please visit our website. You may also Ernest Hemingway. essential for your future career and personal plans. contact the University of Kent at Paris by email: French language classes are available throughout [email protected] Reid Hall is a beautiful and convivial space where the autumn and spring terms. you will have many opportunities to meet students and staff not only from Kent but also from other Each year the Faculty of Humanities offers one of Social life universities established there, including Columbia the Kent at Paris graduates the opportunity to have University, Barnard College and Dartmouth College. Students are able to make full use of the city’s a paid internship in Canterbury for three months extraordinary social and cultural resources, working alongside the Administrator supporting Paris is internationally recognised as a major enjoying all the opportunities that come with the Paris programmes and working with the new living and working in Paris. centre of European culture and the city’s historic students. This is an excellent opportunity to gain status is evident in its exceptional architecture, valuable skills and experience working in a top 20 libraries, museums and art galleries. There are university. www.kent.ac.uk 231

For students with a passion for literature, art, history, Situated in the picturesque district of Monteverde, film and music, Paris offers an unrivalled choice of ROME with a wide range of shops and amenities close by, libraries, galleries, museums, cinemas, theatres, the campus is within walking distance of Rome’s clubs and concert halls. Reid Hall is only a few Our MA programmes in Ancient History and Roman historic centre and the city’s extensive array of minutes’ walk from the Luxembourg Gardens – History & Archaeology give you the opportunity to Roman sites, monuments and museums. an expansive, classically designed park, much study in Rome for a term. You study the monuments frequented by students from the Sorbonne and and artefacts of ancient Rome at first hand, visiting Study facilities at the AUR include computer other Latin-Quarter institutions. relevant sites and museums, and discover the workstations, free wi-fi and full audio-visual history of the city. equipment in all classrooms. Lecture rooms are Paris, its region and the whole of France have housed in a former monastery while the gardens an excellent transport system, offering you the Location and terraces act as convivial social spaces. There opportunity for trips to Zola’s house in Médan, is a library located in Evans Hall, a stately two-story Rodin’s house and studios in Meudon, Monet’s Rome is arguably the most historically and building housing over 15,000 volumes, a large house and gardens in Giverny or, further afield, archaeologically significant city in Europe, if not collection of DVDs, as well as access to important to the châteaux of the Loire, to Lyons, Marseilles the world. You not only study the ancient sites, online databases and the vast network of Rome’s or the Picasso museum in Antibes on the Côte such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the other libraries. d’Azur. Trips to Italy, Spain and other neighbouring Roman Forum, but also see the development of the countries are easily organised. city over time. There is the Rome of mythology, the Rome of the Republic, the Rome of the emperors, Accommodation Academic and support staff who are with you but also of later eras: of medieval pilgrimage, of the Accommodation is arranged with the AUR. during your time in Paris will provide advice and Renaissance, of the Risorgimento (unification of Accommodation consists of furnished apartments guidance on how you can get involved in the life Italy), of Mussolini and fascism, and of the more with shared bedrooms in traditional, well- of the city and how such activities can both recent past. More importantly, it is an exciting and established neighbourhoods. complement your studies and make your stay cosmopolitan city today. in Paris a life-enhancing experience. Student life Campus life Students have full access to all support facilities, Further information In Rome, Kent students are based at the campus of www.kent.ac.uk/paris including an English-speaking GP on site, a the American University of Rome (AUR), which has counsellor, and support from staff in the Student a long tradition of pairing intellectual rigour with the Life Office. There is also a range of student unique opportunity to use its location in the Eternal societies, cultural events and sports clubs City as its classroom. available to suit almost every interest.

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General entry requirements Applications where appropriate. The University must also be satisfied that you have the necessary qualifications Students who wish to apply for a higher degree Applications are made electronically via our website and experience. This early discussion also allows must normally have a first or second class honours at www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/gradapply.html you and the Director of Graduate Studies/your degree in a relevant or appropriate subject, or potential supervisor to explore funding the equivalent from an internationally recognised If you do not have access to the web, please opportunities. institution (for more information on requirements contact the Recruitment and Admissions Office for international qualifications, visit for advice (see below). There is no fixed closing deadline for applications to www.kent.ac.uk/internationalstudent/country). research degrees. However, we strongly recommend Taught Master’s degrees and other taught that you apply as soon as possible and no later than English language programmes three months before your intended start date. While There is no fixed closing deadline for applications research degree registration can begin at the start The University requires all non-native speakers of to most postgraduate taught degrees. However, of any month, it is recommended that you begin in English to reach a minimum standard of proficiency we strongly recommend that you apply as soon either September or January to take advantage of in written and spoken English before beginning a as possible and no later than three months before the University’s induction programme. postgraduate degree. your intended start date. Most coursework degrees begin in September although some, most notably The minimum English language test scores Applying for accommodation research degrees or those in Brussels, may offer required by most schools are listed on p223. If you wish to apply for campus accommodation, the opportunity to start in January. Certain subjects such as English and Journalism you need to have received an offer for a place of require a higher level. study and make an online application for Research degree programmes accommodation by 31 July 2014. Only English language tests taken up to a maximum It is strongly recommended that you contact the of two years prior to the date of registration will be Director of Graduate Studies in the school where Further information accepted for admission to the University. Please you wish to pursue your studies. If you already Recruitment and Admissions Office note that if your university studies have been know the member of staff you wish to supervise T: +44 (0)1227 827272 completed entirely in English, you may be exempt your project, you should contact him or her directly. F: +44 (0)1227 827077 from providing an English test certificate. Academic staff welcome direct contact with E: [email protected] potential students as it allows them the opportunity Please contact International Development to discuss your research proposal. This is an (see p241) for clarification. important aspect of the application process as the University must be assured that it can provide If you do not reach the required standard, you can a suitable programme of training and research apply for one of our pre-sessional English courses support, a supervisor who has the requisite (see p222). expertise, and suitable facilities and equipment www.kent.ac.uk 233

INDEX “The research environment is good and there are very supportive research facilities. I think postgraduate students will find an inspiring environment if they come to Kent.”

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A Economics and International Brussels 23, 25, 228 Comparative Politics 175, 179 Academic Development 88 accommodation 229 Composition, Music 161 career 21 Psychology 198 campus life 228 Computer community 10 Social and 187 location 229 Animation 95 credit 16 Archaeological Studies, social life 229 Science 71, 73 opportunities 15 Classical & 61, 64 sport 229 Advanced 71 programmes 31 Archaeology 62 transport links 240 Computational Intelligence 71 Accommodation of the Transmanche Region 62 Business 53 Security 72 Athens 228 Roman History and 63 Analytics 54 Computing 69, 73 Brussels 229 (with a Term in Rome) 63 Conservation and 78 and Entrepreneurship 72 Canterbury 225 Architectural Visualisation 45, 94 Management, International 55 Future 72 Medway 227 Architecture 43, 45 Social Anthropology and 40 Paris 230 and Cities 44 C Conflict Rome 231 (Paris) 44 Cancer Biology 48 Analysis, International 175, 179 Accounting 56 and Sustainable Environments 44 Canterbury 24, 224 and Security, International 177 and Finance, International 117 Master of 43 accommodation 225 Studies, Peace and 178 Actuarial Science 32, 33 Art campus life 225 Conservation 77 Applied 33 Fine 118, 119 location 225 Anthropology and 39 International Master’s in 33 History & social life 225 and Business 78 Addresses 241 Philosophy of 136, 137, 139 transport links 240 and International Wildlife Trade 78 Advanced (Paris) 137 Career and Plant Science 78 and Specialist Healthcare 183 Arts academic 21 and Primate Behaviour 78 Child Protection 59 Criticism 113 development 20 and Rural Development 78 Computer Science 71 Digital 97 Careers and employability 20 and Tourism 78 Computer Science Engineering and 92 Service 20 Biology 79 (Computational Intelligence) 71 Music and Audio 161 Cartoons and Caricature 134 Project Management 79 Electronic Systems Athens 23, 25, 228 Cell Biology 49 Consultancy, IT 72 Engineering 94 accommodation 228 Centre for English and World Contact details 241 Software Development 71 campus life 228 Languages (CEWL) 222 Contemporary, The 100 Agri-Environmental Economics 89 location 228 Chemistry 171 Novel: Practice as Research 103 and Policy 88 social life 228 Child Protection 59 Conversion, Economics 88 American transport links 240 Advanced 59 Costs, living 220 Literature, English and 101 Audio Arts, Music and 161 Choosing your programme 16 Courses, pre-sessional English 222 (Paris) 103 Autism Studies 198 Civil Society, NGO and Creative Writing 100, 103 Studies 35, 36 Non-profit Studies 200 (Paris) 101 Analysis and Intervention in B Classical & Archaeological Credit Intellectual and Developmental Banking, Financial Services in 116 Studies 61, 64 academic 16 Disabilities 198 Behaviour Cognitive Psychology/ systems, European 23 Ancient History 62 Analysis, Applied 198 Neuropsychology 186, 187 Criminal Justice 146 (with a Term in Rome) 62 Conservation and Primate 78 Commercial Law, International 146 International 147 Animation, Computer 95 Evolution and Human 39 Commissioning, Social and Social and Public Policy 202 Anthropology 38, 41 Biochemistry 49 Public Policy 202 Criminology 81, 82, 203 and Computing, Social 40 Biodiversity Communication Cultural and Global 82 and Conservation 39 Management 79 and Society, Science 195 with a Semester Abroad 82, 203 Environmental 39 Bioengineering, Networks, Broadband and Critical Theory 101 of Ethnicity, Nationalism Biotechnology and 48 Mobile 94 Criticism, Arts 113 and Identity 39 Biology Political Strategy and 179 Cultural and Global Criminology 82 Social 40 Cancer 48 Communications and Signal Culture, Dickens and Victorian 101 and Computing 40 Cell 49 Processing, Wireless 97 Curating 137 Visual 40 Conservation 79 Community Care 198 Application Design, Mobile 95 Biometrics, Information Social and 197 D Applications 232 Security and 95 Comparative Literature 65, 66, 67 Degrees Applied Biosciences 47 French and 123 external research 17 Actuarial Science 33 Pre-Master’s 48 (Paris) 123 Master’s 16, 232 International Master’s in 33 Biotechnology and German and 127 research 17, 232 Behaviour Analysis 198 Bioengineering 48 Hispanic and 130 taught 16, 232 Drug Discovery 164 Broadband and Mobile Modern German and 127 Dental Care, Primary 183 Communication Networks 94 (Paris) 66 for Foundation Dentists, 183 www.kent.ac.uk 235

Education 91 Higher 91, 92 Strategic Leadership and Medical 213 Eighteenth-Century Studies 101 (Paris) 101 Electronic Engineering 97 Systems Engineering, Advanced 94 Embedded Systems and Instrumentation 95 Employability 20 Service, Careers and 20 Points Scheme 20 Endangered Species Recovery 79 Engineering Advanced Electronic Systems 94 and Digital Arts 93 Electronic 97 with Finance 95 English 99, 103 and American Literature 101 (Paris) 103 in-sessional courses 222 Language and Linguistics 107 language learning 222 language requirements 223, 232 pre-sessional courses 222 Enterprise and Information Systems, Digital 72 student 21 Development Applied Drug Entrepreneurship, Computing and 72 International 89, 177 Behaviour Analysis 198 Design 48 Entry requirements 232 International Finance and Drug Discovery 164 Discovery, Applied 164 Environment Economic 89 Autism Studies 198 and Technology, History of Developmental General Pharmacy Practice 165 E Science, Medicine, 133 Disabilities, Analysis and Independent/Supplementary Early Modern Architecture and Sustainable 41 Intervention in Intellectual and 198 Prescribing 165 Europe, Text and Event in 104, 159 Environmental Disabilities, Intellectual and 198 Intellectual and Developmental Studies, Medieval Anthropology 39 Psychology 186 Disabilities 198 and 104, 158, 159 Law and Policy 146 Dickens and Victorian Culture 101 Kent MBA 54 Econometrics Law, International 147 Digital Medicines Management 165 Economics and 88 Social Science 109, 110 Arts 97 Pharmacotherapy and Service Finance and 89 Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Engineering and 93 Development 166 Economic programmes 23, 82, 104, 159 Enterprise and Information Primary Dental Care 183 Analysis, Diploma in 88 ESRC South East Doctoral Training Systems 72 for Foundation Dentists 183 Development, International Centre 19 Visual Effects 95 Professional Practice 183 Finance and 89 Ethics Diploma in Economic Analysis 88 Social Law, International 148 Reproductive Medicine: Diplomas and Public Policy 201, 202 Economics 87, 88, 89 Science and 49 graduate 16 Work 202 Agri-Environmental 89 Medical Law and 147 postgraduate 16 Doctor of Medicine 17, 49 and Policy 88 Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity Disabilities, Intellectual and Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) 19 and Econometrics 88 Anthropology of 39 Developmental 198 Double Degrees, International 23 and Finance 88 Ethnobiology 41 Analysis and Intervention in 198 Drama 85, 86 and International Development Ethnobotany 39 Distance learning programmes 16 and Theatre 84, 85 Applied, 88 EuroMasters, Physics 171 Advanced (with a Term in Moscow) 85 Conversion 88 Europe, Text and Event in and Specialist Healthcare 183 Economy, International Political 177 Early Modern 104, 159 Child Protection 59

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European Funding 220, 221 of Science, Medicine, Migration 177 and Global Governance 175 research 18 Environment and Technology 133 Multimedia Journalism 143 Double Award 175 Future Computing 72 of Science, Technology and Political Economy 177 centres 23, 228 Medicine 134 qualifications 221 credit systems 23 G Modern 132 Relations 177, 179 exchanges 23 General Pharmacy Practice 165 (Paris) 133 Double Award 178 Law 146 Genetics 49 Roman, and Archaeology 63 Politics and 174, 179 Literature, Modern 66, 127 German 126 (with a Term in Rome) 63 Pre-Master’s 179 partnerships 23 and Comparative Literature 127 How to apply 232 with International programmes 23 Modern 127 Human Law 147, 149, 178 Public Policy 175 Literature 127 Behaviour, Evolution and 39 Security and the Politics of research 23 Global Resource Management 54 Terror 178 students 23 Criminology, Cultural and 82 Rights 175 Social Policy 201, 203 university, Kent: the UK’s 23 Governance, European and 175 Law 146 students 221 EU students, funding 220 outlook 12 Humanities Wildlife Trade, Events, international 221 Skills Award 14, 20 Pre-Master’s 63, 66, 108, 123, Conservation and 78 Evolution and Human Behaviour 39 Governance, European and 127, 130, 141, 168, 191 International Master’s Exchanges, European 23 Global 175 Faculty of 28 Applied Actuarial Science 33 Exercise Graduate Medical 168 Mathematics and its and Health Science, Sport 213 destinations 21 Applications 155 Science, Sport and 213 School, The 14 I Statistics 215 Sciences, Sport and 212 Student Association 15 Identity, Anthropology of Ethnicity, with Finance 215 External research degrees 17 Teaching Assistantships 220 Nationalism and 39 Investment and Risk, Finance, 115 Graduate diplomas 16 Image, Sound and 119, 161 IT Consultancy 72 F Biosciences 48 Independent/Supplementary Italian 140, 141 50th Anniversary 4 Computer Science 73 Prescribing 165 Research Scholarships 220 Computing 73 Industrial Relations 56 J Faculties Forensic Science 171 Information Jobshop 21 Humanities 28 Humanities 63, 66, 108, 123, 127, Security and Biometrics 95 Joint Sciences 29 130, 141, 168, 191 Systems, Digital Enterprise and 72 Doctoral programmes, Erasmus Social Sciences 30 Law for Postgraduate Study 148 Instrumentation, Embedded Mundus 23, 82, 104, 159 Fees, tuition 220 Politics and International Systems and 95 PhD supervision 17 Film 112, 113 Relations 179 Intellectual and Developmental Journalism 142, 143 (Paris) 113 Psychology 186 Disabilities 198 International Multimedia 143 Finance 56, 115 Group Processes and Intergroup Analysis and Intervention in 198 Multimedia 143 and Econometrics 89 Relations 186 Intergroup Relations, Group Justice, Criminal 146 and Economic Development, Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema 225 Processes and 186 International 147 International 89 International Social and Public Policy 202 Economics and 88 H Accounting and Finance 117 Engineering with 95 Health Business Management 55 K International Accounting and 117 Mental 198 Commercial Law 146 Kent Investment and Risk 115 Science, Sport, Exercise and 213 Conflict Analysis 175, 179 Academic Repository 18 Statistics with 217 Sciences, Medicine, Conflict and Security 177 Graduate Student Association 15 International Master’s in 215 Dental and 157 Criminal Justice 147 International Pathways 222 Financial Healthcare, Advanced and Development 89, 177 MBA, The 54 Markets 116 Specialist 183 Applied Economics and 88 representatives 221 Services in Banking 116 Hellenic and Hellenistic Team 221 Sport 225 support 220 Near East 62 Double Degrees 23 the UK’s European university 23 Fine Art 118, 119 Heritage Management 63 Economic Law 148 Union 221, 225 Flexible learning Hispanic Environmental Law 147 and Greenwich 227 (see distance learning) and Comparative Literature 130 events 221 Forensic Studies 129, 130 Finance and Economic L Psychology 186, 187 Development 89 Studies, Modern 130 Language Science 171 funding 221 History 132, 133 and Linguistics, English 107 French 122, 124 graduate work 21 Ancient 62 Express courses 222 and Comparative Literature 123 Law 149 (with a Term in Rome) 62 learning, English 222 (Paris) 123 Public 148, 149 & Philosophy of Art 136, 137, 139 requirements, English 223 Studies, Modern 124 (Paris) 137 with International (Paris) 124 Relations 147, 149, 178 www.kent.ac.uk 237

Law 145, 149 Medway 25, 226 Environment and Technology, Studies, Medieval and Ethics, Medical 147 Paris 25, 230 History of Science, 133 and Early 104, 158, 159 and Policy, Environmental 146 Rome 25, 231 History of Science, Multimedia Journalism 143 (Erasmus-Europe) 148 Logistics 55 Technology and 134 International 143 European 146 Loyalty awards 220 Reproductive 49 Music for Postgraduate Study 148 Medicines Management 165 and Audio Arts 161 Human Rights 146 M Medieval and Early Modern Canterbury 225 International 149 Management 55, 56 Studies 104, 158, 159 Composition 161 Commercial 146 Biodiversity 79 Medway 24, 226 Technology 161, 163 Economic 148 Conservation Project 79 accommodation 227 Mysticism and Religious Environmental 147 Heritage 63 campus life 227 Experience, Study of 192 with International Human Resource 54 location 227 Relations 147, 149, 178 International Business 55 social life 227 N Public International 148, 149 Medicines 165 transport links 240 Networking opportunities 15 Linguistics 108 Science 55, 56 Mental Health 198 Networks English Language and 107 Value Chain 55 Methods of Social and Security 72 Literature Map 241 Research 201, 203, 207 Broadband and Mobile Comparative 65, 66, 67 Marketing 55, 56 Microbiology 49 Communication 94 (Paris) 66 Master of Architecture 43 Migration, International 177 Neuropsychology, Cognitive English and American 101 Master’s degrees 16 Mobile Psychology/ 186, 187 (Paris) 103 Mathematics 154, 155 Application Design 95 New Route PhD 17 French and Comparative 123 and its Applications 154 Communication Networks, Novel, The Contemporary: (Paris) 123 International Master’s in 155 Broadband and 94 Practice as Research 103 German 127 MBA, The Kent 54 Modern and Comparative 127 Media and Society, War 133 Europe, Text and Event O Hispanic and Comparative 130 in Early 104, 159 Medical Open Days 240 Modern European 66, 127 European Literature 66, 127 Education, Strategic Operational Research 56 Modern German and French Studies 124 Leadership and 213 Opportunities 15 Comparative 127 (Paris) 124 Humanities 168 teaching 220 Living costs 220 Law and Ethics 147 German and Comparative Locations 24 Literature 127 Medicine P Athens 25, 228 Dental and Health Sciences 157 Hispanic Studies 130 Paid work at university 21 Brussels 25, 228 Doctor of 17, 49 History 132 Canterbury 25, 224 (Paris) 133 Paris 23, 25, 230 accommodation 230 campus life 230 location 230 social life 230 transport links 240 Partnerships, European 23 Peace and Conflict Studies 178 Personal Social Services 203 Pharmacotherapy and Service Development 166 Pharmacy 164, 166 Practice, General 165 PhD 17 jointly supervised 17 New Route 17 Philosophy 167, 168, 169 of Art, History & 136, 137, 139 (Paris) 137 Physical Sciences 170 Physics 171 (EuroMasters) 171 Plant Science, Conservation and 78 Poetry: Text, Practice as Research 103

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Political Public Rural Development, South-East Doctoral Training and Social Thought 179 International Law 148, 149 Conservation and 78 Centre 19 Economy, International 177 Policy, Sport Sociology 208 European 175 S and Exercise Science 213 Strategy and Communication 179 Social and 200, 201, 202 Scholarships 220, 221 and Exercise Sciences 212 Theory and Practices of School, The Graduate 14 Brussels 229 Resistance 179 Q Science Canterbury 225 Politics Qualifications, international 221 and Ethics, Reproductive Exercise and Health Science 213 and International Medicine: 49 Medway 227 Relations 174, 179 R Communication and Society 195 Sports Pre-Master’s 179 Science for Optimal Reasoning 168 Medicine, Environment and Comparative 175, 179 Performance 212 Religion, Theory and Method Technology, History of 133 of Terror, International Therapy and Rehabilitation 213 in the Study of 192 Technology and Medicine, Security and the 178 Staff visits 221 Religious History of 134 Postcolonial Studies 103, 104 Statistics 215, 217 Experience, Study of Sciences, Faculty of 29 (Paris) 67, 103 International Master’s in 215 Mysticism and 192 Security Postgraduate with Finance 217 Studies 191 and Biometrics, Information 95 careers and employability 20 International Master’s in 215 Theology and 192 and Terrorism 179 diplomas 16 Strategic Leadership and Representatives, Kent 221 and the Politics of Terror, research degrees, 17 Medical Education 213 Reproductive Medicine: International 178 external 17 Strategy Science and Ethics 49 Computer 72 students, support for 14 and Communication, Political 179 Requirements International Conflict and 177 study at Kent 219 Student English language 223, 232 Networks and 72 taught degrees 16 Activities Centre (Canterbury) 225 entry 232 Shakespeare 85 Pre-Master’s graduate diplomas 16 Association, Kent Graduate 15 Research Signal Processing, Wireless Pre-sessional courses in English 222 enterprise 21 academic credit 16 Communications and 97 Prescribing, Independent/ life achievements 18 Skills Supplementary 165 Athens 228 Assessment Exercise 8, 18 Award Programme, Global 14 Primary Dental Care 183 Brussels 228 Councils, UK 220 development 20 for Foundation Dentists 183 Canterbury 225 degrees 17, 232 Social Primate Behaviour, Medway 227 excellence 18 and Applied Psychology 187 Conservation and 78 Paris 230 external degrees 17 and Community Care 197 Professional Practice 182, 183 Rome 231 European 23 and Public Policy 200, 201, 202 Programme Students funding 18 Anthropology 40 choosing 16 European 23 Methods and Computing 40 Global Skills Award 14, 20 international 221 in Psychology 186 Policy 203 Researcher Development 14, 20 union 221, 225, 227 of Social 201, 203, 207 International 201, 203 structure 16 Study New Route PhD 17 Psychology 187 Programmes of Mysticism and Religious Operational 56 opportunities 15 Academic 31 Experience 192 programmes 17 Research, Erasmus Mundus Joint Postgraduate 219 Scholarships, Methods of 201, 203, 207 Doctoral 23, 82, 104, 159 Studying 50th Anniversary 220 Services, Personal 203 European 23 for a Master’s 16 skills 14 Thought, Political and 179 research 17, 232 for a PhD 17 teaching opportunities 220 Work 202, 203 taught 16, 232 Support training 14 Social Science, Project Management, financial 220 world-leading 8 Environmental 109, 110 Conservation 79 for international students 221 Researcher Development Social Sciences, Faculty of 30 Psychology 185, 187 for postgraduate students 14 Programme 14, 20 Society Applied 198 Sustainable Environment, Resistance, Political Theory and Civil, NGO and Non-profit Cognitive/ Architecture and 44 Practices of 179 Studies 200 Neuropsychology 186, 187 Systems Risk, Finance, Investment and 115 Science, Communication and 195 Developmental 186 and Instrumentation, Roman History and Archaeology 63 War, Media and 133 Forensic 186, 187 Embedded 95 (with a Term in Rome) 63 Socio-legal Studies 149 Pre-Master’s 186 Digital Enterprise and Rome 23, 25, 231 Sociology 203, 207, 208 Research Methods in 186 Information 72 accommodation 231 Political 208 Social 187 Engineering, Advanced campus life 231 Software Development, and Applied 187 Electronic 94 location 231 Advanced 71 student life 231 Sound and Image 119, 161 transport links 240 www.kent.ac.uk 239

T Taught programmes 16, 232 Teaching opportunities 220 Technology and Medicine, History of Science, 134 History of Science, Medicine, Environment and 133 Music 161, 163 Terrorism, Security and 179 Text and Event in Early Modern Europe 104, 159 Practice and Research 103 Theatre, Drama and 84, 85 (with a Term in Moscow) 85 Theology and Religious Studies 192 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion 192 Therapy and Rehabilitation, Sports 213 Tourism, Conservation and 78 Tours of the University 221, 240 Training doctoral 19 research 14 skills 14 Transport links Athens 240 Visual The University will use all reasonable Brussels 240 Anthropology 40 endeavours to deliver courses and other services in accordance with the Canterbury 240 Effects, Digital 95 descriptions set out in this prospectus. Medway 240 Visualisation, Architectural 45, 94 However, the University does not provide Paris 240 Volunteering 21 education on a commercial basis. It is also Rome 240 largely dependent on charitable and public funds which the University has to manage in Tuition fees 220 W a way which is efficient and cost effective in War the context of the provision of a wide range U Media and Society 133 of courses and services to a large number of students. The University therefore UK and EU students, funding 220 Studies 133 reserves the right to make variations to the UK Research Councils 220 Welcome programme 221 contents and method of delivery of courses UK’s European university 23 Wildlife Trade, Conservation and and other services, to discontinue courses Union International 78 and other services and to merge or combine courses, if such action is Kent 225 Wireless Communications reasonably considered to be necessary by and Greenwich 227 and Signal Processing 97 the University. If the University discontinues Students’ 225, 227 Woolf College 15 any course, it will use its best endeavours University Work, paid at university 21 to provide a suitable alternative course. contact details 241 World Languages, All students will be required, as a condition European 23 Centre for English and 222 of enrolment, to agree to abide by and to tours 221, 240 World-leading research 8 submit to the procedures of the University’s visiting the 240 Writing Regulations as amended from time to time. Urban Regeneration, Social and Creative 100, 103 A copy of the current Regulations is available online at Public Policy 202 (Paris) 101 www.kent.ac.uk/regulations

V Data protection and consent to process Value Chain Management 55 For the University to operate efficiently, it needs to process information about you for Victorian Culture, Dickens and 101 administrative, academic and health and Visiting the University 240 safety reasons. Any offer this institution Visits, staff 221 makes to you is subject to your consent to process such information and is therefore a requirement before we can register you as a student. 240 University of Kent / Graduate Prospectus 2014

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We welcome and encourage you to Medway Paris visit our campuses and specialist By air By air postgraduate centres. The nearest major airports to the Medway campus The nearest major airports to Reid Hall campus in are London Heathrow (LHR) and London Gatwick Paris are Roissy-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Orly The University holds a number of organised events, (LGW), both with excellent transport links to central (ORY), both with excellent transport links to central such as our general Open Days at our Canterbury London and onwards. Paris. and Medway campuses. These events are open to everyone and are designed to give you a flavour By rail By rail of what it is like to be a student at Kent. We also organise events specifically for postgraduate London Victoria and Charing Cross to Chatham: The largest railway station in Paris is Gare du Nord, students on our Canterbury campus. Please journey time approx 45 minutes. St Pancras to where you may access Reid Hall by metro (see see www.kent.ac.uk/opendays or contact the Ebbsfleet International, approx 20 minutes or below). The closest railway station to Reid Hall is Recruitment and Admissions Office for further Gillingham approx 50 minutes. Port Royal, which is on the RER B line and links details. In addition, a number of schools hold open directly to Charles de Gaulle airport and Gare du days or open evenings to which they invite potential By bus Nord station. students. From Chatham Station to Chatham Maritime: journey time approx 15 minutes. By metro If you are not able to attend one of these planned Reid Hall is close to the Vavin metro station. If you events, you are still welcome to visit the University By road are coming from the Gare du Nord, take the line and join one of our campus tour days. The tours are From London, the north and west: M25, M2. 4 (purple) in direction of Mairie de Montrouge. It conducted by Kent students who will give you an Follow signs for Gillingham, then the Historic takes about 30 minutes to get to Reid Hall with no insight into what it is like to be a student at Kent. Dockyard and Chatham Maritime via the A289 and changes. Tours of the Canterbury campus take place on the Medway Tunnel. From the east: A2, A289, the Mondays and Fridays and tours of the Medway Gillingham Northern Link Road, follow signs for Campus map campus take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. the Medway Tunnel. www.kent.ac.uk/maps/paris Alternatively campuses at Canterbury and Medway are also open to the public at any time for self- Campus map guided tours. Please visit www.kent.ac.uk/informal Athens www.kent.ac.uk/maps/medway for more information or to book a planned tour. By air The nearest major airport to Eleusina is Athens If you wish to study at one of our Brussels, Paris, Brussels International Airport, also known as Eleftherios Athens or Rome centres, please contact staff at Venizelos (ATH). To reach Eleusina, you take a the location to arrange a visit to view our premises By air combination of Rail or Metro with bus services. and meet staff and current students. The nearest major airports to the Brussels School of International Studies are Brussels Airport (BRU) By rail and bus Canterbury and Charleroi Brussels South (CRL), both with excellent transport links to Brussels. At the airport, you take the light rail (proastiakos) By air towards Corinth (Korinthos) or Kiato and get off at The nearest major airports to the Canterbury By rail Magoula. From there you pick up bus 863 outside the Proastiakos Magoula station and get off at the campus are London Heathrow (LHR) and London The Etterbeek train station is 100 metres from Heroon Polytechniou. Gatwick (LGW), both with excellent transport links the Brussels campus and provides regular to central London and onwards. connections with Schuman, Brussels North and Brussels Midi stations. By metro and bus By rail From the airport, you take Athens Metro line 3 London St Pancras to Canterbury West: journey By tram to Egaleo. You then take bus A16 to its terminal stop at Eleusina. There, you get on bus 863 to time approx 55 minutes. Take the 7 or 25 and alight at the Etterbeek stop, Heroon Polytechniou. from which Kent’s Brussels campus is a five- By bus minute walk. Campus map London Victoria to Canterbury bus station: journey time approx 120 minutes. Canterbury bus station to By metro www.heritage.aueb.gr/260.htm the University, regular service: journey time approx Kent’s Brussels campus is a short walk across 15 minutes. the VUB Etterbeek campus from the Pétillon Metro Rome station. By air By road The nearest major airport to the campus of From London, the north and west: M25, (M20), M2, Campus map the American University of Rome (AUR) is A2. Canterbury central ring road, A290 Whitstable www.kent.ac.uk/maps/brussels Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci International Road, St Thomas Hill, approx one mile (1.6km) up Airport (FCO). the A290, University entrance on right (signposted) near top of hill.

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ADDRESSES

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International Development The Registry, The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, UK T: +44 (0)1227 824904 F: +44 (0)1227 823247 E: [email protected]

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The University offers students a wide choice of well-structured and ambitious postgraduate programmes. At every stage, students are supported by inspirational teaching and supervision, first-class library and IT facilities and a diverse schedule of seminars, workshops and events. The UK’s European university UNIVERSITY OF KENT OPEN DAYS IN 2013/14 Postgraduate events Wed 27 November 2013 Sat 1 February 2014

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