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What does the Academy for Sustainable Futures do to be more sustainable in their everyday lives?
“I just don’t have time for sustainability!” Unfortunately, there is a big misconception that living more sustainably is time consuming, costly, and unattainable in the usual hustle and bustle of […]

Falling Upwards
By Tom Delahunt, the #Hobopoet and Leann Nyamande “The familiar and the comfortable are not always your friends. Sometimes, what seems like falling is actually flying in disguise.” – The […]

Breaking records and inspiring future scientists
Discovery Park opened its doors for the East Kent Science Jamboree, hosting a record-breaking 1,500 children from 51 Kent schools for a two-day science spectacular. This year’s 30th anniversary celebration […]

PDS Website Launches
🎉 We’re Live! Welcome to Psychology Data Science (PDS) We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of the Psychology Data Science (PDS) website — a new hub for researchers, students, […]

Alumni Equity and Inclusion Impact Award Winner: Nicola Carey-Shine
On Saturday 7 June, Canterbury Christ Church University proudly welcomed back over a hundred distinguished alumni and guests for our 10th annual Alumni Gala Dinner. The milestone celebration honoured their […]

Local authors and what they mean to us
Over the past eighteen months the library has featured local Kent authors in its book displays on floor 3. This initiative was the brilliant idea of Nick Berbiers, a PhD […]

Driving change: creating inclusive campuses for commuter students
Dr Susan Kenyon reflects on the recent Wonkhe commuter student series and asks how can we make universities more inclusive for commuter students. The student population has changed, not just […]

Exciting news – for Kent history and heritage
To a large extent this has been a week of meetings and preparations for events next week in Canterbury, not least because for much of the Middle Ages and under […]

International Day of Living Together in Peace
The UN declared 16 May as the International Day of Living Together in Peace, as a means of regularly mobilizing the efforts of the international community to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, […]
Student Opportunity: 3D Production Intern Roles
The Visualising Canterbury Castle project is recruiting two 3D production interns to support the development of the project over the coming months. The project will reconstruct Canterbury Castle’s Norman keep […]

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 […]

Self-care as a Medical Student
Tolani, a second year KMMS student and your MedSoc Social Secretary for 2024-25 sat with the SLG team to talk to us about how self-care sits with her as a […]
Wishing You Well This Assessment Period
Wishing all our students the very best for the upcoming assessment period! We know this time can feel intense, but please remember: you’re not alone. Your tutors, course teams, and […]

Jess Wilton – The Race Walker Taking the Sport in her Stride
Jess Wilton, a CCCU Sports Scholar specialising in Race Walking has recently come 5th in the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Tour. Jess competed in the under 20 Women’s 10km […]
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. […]
Human Factors – January 29th ’25
Canterbury – 16:00 to 18:00

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 […]

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 […]
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 […]

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. […]
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 […]