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Being Human Festival 2024

One student shares their experience of a work opportunity this year’s festival The Being Human Festival is the UK’s annual national festival of the humanities. Each year events are held […]

Christmas Paper Lantern-Making Workshop

The Arts and Culture team invited staff and students to the Paper Lantern-Making Workshops at the Daphne Oram Gallery to create paper and willow lanterns. The workshops were free for […]

Top Ten of 2024

As promised for this week I’m going to offer what I think were the CKHH highlights of 2024. This year I’m going to try a thematic approach for at least […]

Open Access Policy for REF 2029

The Open Access Policy for REF2029 has been published on the REF website. It includes some changes from the REF2021 Open Access Policy, but there will be no requirement for long-form publications to […]

Measurable Milestones – Activist Perspectives

David Gordon Young, a law student and Labour Party activist attended Keir Starmer’s ‘Measurable Milestones’ speech.

Success for multi-professional fellows: 

Omoy Omana and James Barber celebrated the completion of the fellowship funded by NHSE and BSMS, designed to support innovation in simulation, at an event at the University of Sussex. […]

It’s UN’s Human Rights Day; why should we care?

Dr Sofia Graca discusses the connection between Human Rights Day and the ’16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence’ campaign. Today, the 10th of December, is Human Rights Day; it […]

Social Work Employability Day 2024

🌟I was thrilled to have attended the Final Year MA & BSc Social Work Employability Day within the School of Allied and Public Health and Social Work at Canterbury Christ […]

Spotlighting Outstanding Contributions: Munya Badze

Ahead of 2025’s Alumni Awards season, we’re casting our minds back to this year’s ceremony, and highlighting some of our remarkable runners-up in each category. Nominated for the CCCU Alumni […]

Keeping it Together: tips for maintaining mental health at university

While the word ‘sustainability’ may conjure images of trees, recycling, and turning off the lights, there are aspects of equal importance that extend beyond the climate. One of these aspects […]

The Rain in the Dystopia: A #Hobopoet’s Reflection

By Tom Delahunt, the #hobopoet The future is pouring in, drop by drop. It’s already here in the shape of Elon Musk’s robots, automated taxis, and self-driving buses. The thought […]

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Meet the Team – Matthew Hood

What do the Student Life and Guidance (SLG – formerly SLW) Team do?  The SLG team can meet with you face-to-face and online if you are experiencing any issues you […]

The Medway Business and Innovation Conference

On Tuesday 22nd October, the three Universities of Medway joined together in collaboration to support local businesses with a free conference that aimed to drive economic growth and innovation in […]

Innovation in Action at Kent Science Park: The EDGE Toolkit and Immersive Centre at CCCU 

We were excited to join forces with Kent Science Park (KSP) for an event that brought together creativity, science, and enthusiasm. The collaboration between CCCU and KSP marks the beginning […]

Awards 2024: Celebrating Psychology Achievements

On 29 May, the Golden Apple & Student Voice Awards Ceremony was held by the Student Union at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), where our Psychology department proudly represented with […]

Authentic assessment for graduate interview and application success

By Kristine Pole On average, employers receive 86 applications per vacancy, up 23 per cent on last year (ISE, 2023) but only 28% of students reported being confident searching for […]

Staff Varsity

Staff Varsity

Join the Ultimate Showdown: CCCU vs. UKC What’s Happening?Get ready for an exhilarating day of sportsmanship and friendly competition. The University Staff Varsity Competition is a brand new event featuring […]

Meet the winners of The Big Idea Challenge 2023

This year CCCU’s Student Enterprise Service, LaunchPad, proudly introduced The Big Idea Challenge: a brand-new competition encouraging all CCCU students and recent graduates to share their impactful ideas in hope […]

Arts & Crafts Service at Canterbury Cathedral 1937

The ‘Arts & Crafts’ service at Canterbury Cathedral in 1937. This was filmed by by Sydney Bligh who was a keen amateur filmmaker, who produced a 90 minute newsreel each […]

The Beginning Teacher in the Science Religion Encounter

End of Project Online Event This project is a research project led by Canterbury Christ Church University with 5 other universities, funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF0375) as part […]

School of Allied and Public Health Professions School Awards 2022

We are pleased to celebrate our award winners of 2022 and wanted to share some of their inspiring quotes.

World Book Day: Spotlight on Student Author

Chantil Thomas, first year Media and Communications student, shares her motivation around her debut book ‘Selah-Encounters’ with the Canterbury Christ Church Student News team. I’ve always been writing, never really published […]

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Being a Leader of Smart Working

The development of the new Smart Working Framework here at Christ Church gives you, our leaders, an opportunity to embrace contemporary and motivating ways of working with your teams: enhancing […]

Can we all be superheroes?

What do superheroes mean to us and who can identify with them? John McGowan is joined by Clinical Psychologists Lauren Bryan, Gina Harwood and Alan Hebben-Wadey to talk about superheroes. […]

Nuria Martinez Research Interests: I am interested in exploring the relations between social identities, rhetoric, collective action and social change in intergroup contexts. Current Research Projects: My current research is […]

Key trends in the legal market to know about before you apply to work in a law firm.

Canterbury Christ Church University, Law School, is welcoming Mr Craig Sharpe to talk on key trends in the Legal Market and their relevance to Law Students on Monday 31st at 3-5 […]

Is your child in preschool or reception?

Canterbury Christ Church University’s Learning and Development lab are looking for children and parents who would like to take part in new research. Our ‘Talk about Thoughts and Feelings’ and […]