Eanswythe, Westgate, Faversham and the Black Prince - another busy week
- This has marked another busy week for the Centre, but before I come to that I thought I would let ...more
Smoke and mirrors - is sport investment harming public health?
- Professor Mike Weed, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise discusses if sport investment is harming public health. Hot on the heels of #WorldObesityDay ...more
Boxit: remapping the Shetland Islands
- Dr Alexander Kent comments on a new law stipulating how the Shetland Islands are depicted on official maps of Scotland. A ...more
Academic Development Week 22-26 October
- Academic Development week is on 22-26 October for undergraduates who follow the semester academic calendar. This formal week is dedicated to ...more
Fireworks Evening Discounts
- Kent County Cricket Club is offering University staff and students discounted tickets for its Fireworks Night on Monday 5th November. The ...more
Academic English Service for students whose first language is not English
- If English is not your first language, we offer individual tutorials, workshops and study groups. Select from a wide range ...more
A flipped classroom approach to teaching first year students
- In the video below, Tim Jones, Senior Lecturer in TV Production, explains why he has chosen the flipped classroom approach ...more
World Mental Health Day 2018
- Today is World Mental Health Day! There was once a time when talking about your mental health was a taboo subject, ...more
Use of online discussion boards within assessments to encourage deep learning
- In this case study, Sara Wolfson, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History (School of Humanities), and winner of the Times ...more
Mental health crisis in schools - a need for system change
- Wendy Cobb, Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Development and Bea Stevenson, Head of Emotional Health at ...more
Strategies to embed graduate skills in an undergraduate programme
- Dr Sara Wolfson, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History (School of Humanities) has been using several strategies to engage students ...more
How we can tackle loneliness
- In light of a recent BBC survey, Professor of Mental Health, Doug MacInnes, explores different approaches to combat loneliness As World ...more
A case study on student retention on a Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities.
- In this 6 minute video, Martin discusses how programme design and delivery is tailored to the needs of Foundation Year ...more
#DiscoverYourLibrary - Finding the best study zone for you
- During periods where you have a large amount of work to do for your course, you may find the library ...more
Discussion Boards for Learning, Teaching and Assessment
- This case study explores the use of online discussion boards as part of a module's Learning, Teaching and Assessment strategy. ...more
Exciting Teaching Career Opportunities in Further Education
- FIND YOUR PASSION IN 2018 Further Education (FE) is a diverse and passionate sector with exciting and wide ranging teaching opportunities ...more
The librarian’s tale of openness
- Back in February, a call went out on Twitter to share poems as part of something called #poeticnursingheart. I’m not ...more
A day in the life of a Librarian at the Canterbury Public Library: Orange is the New Black
- “Librarians took me in. They gave me stories. I discovered Mirkwood and climbed an Oak Tree with Bilbo Baggins and ...more
Children's Carnival 1937
- Filmed in the Dane John Garden by Sydney Bligh who was a keen amateur filmmaker, who produced a 90 minute ...more
Exploring place and space in Faversham and Canterbury
- Now that we are into October, it is great to report that the School of Humanities’ taught Masters degrees in ...more
Information on Careers Advice Appointments
- Careers advice appointments are currently unavailable to book. If you feel as though you need to book a place, here ...more
Using Live Client Briefs to Develop Graduate Employability Skills
- The case study consists in using live client briefs across several modules on the Media and Communications programme. The project was ...more
Sustaining a Career in Teaching
- There is a lot in the media about the alarming numbers of teachers who leave the profession, particularly within the ...more
Developing alumni relations to embed and enhance employability and enterprise.
- This case study explores how the development of relations with former students, particularly through social medial platforms and alumni video ...more
My experience as a student with dyslexia
- After completing a music degree at Canterbury Christ Church University, Eleanor decided to do a PGCE Secondary (Music) at the ...more
Black History Month 2018
- This October we are proud to support Black History Month; the annual commemoration of the history, achievements and contributions of black ...more
#DiscoverYourLibrary - Borrowing items
- Now you know how to find a book, the next step is borrowing it from the Library. But how do you ...more
#DiscoverYourLibrary - How to find your Library books
- You have been given your module handbooks of this semester, and you have been told that you can find many ...more
Meet our User Experience Team
- We at the User Experience Team have a motto. It’s quite simple… you may have seen it on signs in our ...more
Meet our Resources & Digital Discovery (RDD) Team
- Hello, and welcome to the RDD team. You’ll find us working behind the scenes in Augustine House, where our main ...more
Meet our Learning and Research Support (LRS) Team
- The Library LRS team are mostly based in Canterbury Augustine House library, but you might spot us out and about ...more
University Placements: My Experience
- Committing to extra-curricular experience alongside university can be a daunting decision to make. Studying seems to take up 99.9% of ...more
Celebrating our award winning teachers
- The Faculty of Education is really proud of our KM Charity Teacher of the Year Award winners. This year saw a ...more
From Retail to Primary Education
- On Friday it is World Teacher's Day and we are celebrating our wonderful teachers and trainees this week. First up is ...more
Ian Coulson Awards and Nightingale Lecture
- Before I come to the Nightingale Lecture, I just thought I would pass on several news items, and perhaps from ...more
Police Parade
- An inspection of police in Roper Road by the Mayor, Catherine Williamson. It was filmed by Sydney Bligh who was ...more
One thousand headteachers march on Downing Street – it's time to listen
- Dr Alison Body discusses today's headteachers rally in central London to demand extra funding for schools. Friday 28 September 2018 is a ...more
A very bookish summer: the English Literature team look back on great reads, the conference circuit, heatwaves and chewable books
- Stefania Ciocia: I’ve had a feminist summer, and a very good one it has been too. These are the four ...more
CANTERBURY AMATEUR FILM ARCHIVE SCREENING 14
- Screening No.14 will take place on Saturday 27 April 2019 at 2pm, repeated at the same time on Saturday 18 ...more
COUNT ZBOROWSKI SCREENING
- The screening on Saturday 30 March 2019 at 2pm in Pg09 focusses on the Hollywood-style silent films starring Count Zborowski, ...more
ARCHIVE FILM OF CANTERBURY & DISTRICT - SCREENING 8
- This screening includes film of the Archbishop’s Enthronement in 1928, the ‘Flying Flea’ at Bekesbourne aerodrome and unique behind the ...more
CANTERBURY AMATEUR FILM ARCHIVE SCREENING 13
- This screening includes rare footage taken of Lord Baden-Powell in Canterbury in 1930, steam trains operating at Snowdown Colliery in ...more
CANTERBURY AMATEUR FILM ARCHIVE SCREENING 13
- This screening included rare footage taken of Lord Baden-Powell in Canterbury in 1930, steam trains operating at Snowdown Colliery in ...more
Canterbury Festival of Britain 1951
- This 16mm film of the Festival of Britain celebrations in Canterbury was made by the Canterbury Amateur Cine Society Film ...more
Young medievalists and medieval animals in Canterbury
- Before I come to the Medieval Education Day report, I thought I would just mention one or two other events ...more
Dr P. O'Connor: a Doctorate in Education
- Philip O’Connor, graduating as Doctor in Education. Philip followed the CCCU Christianity and Faith in Education pathway, one of the ‘Jubilee ...more
Faculty Project Shortlisted for an International Impact Award in the Times Higher Education Awards 2018
- The Faculty of Education's collaborative project with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Teacher Education Improvement Projects ...more
What Future for Religious Education in Schools?
- Professor Trevor Cooling, Chair of the Religious Education Council at the launch of the Commission for Religious Education Final Report in the ...more
Every child deserves an opportunity at school to discover the language for making sense of their world
- By Dr Robert A Bowie Director of the National Institute for Christian Education Research The Final Report of the Commission on Religious ...more
Pigs, Place-Names and more Young Medievalists in Canterbury
- This week has been a case of looking forward to the new academic year and the School of Humanities’ first ...more
STAY INSIDE THE LINES
- I want to paint a picture and it’s going to be messy. Paint card, sticky back plastic, feathers and thoughts ...more
Regional Policy in Britain: from Barlow to Brexit
- Dr Daniel O’Donoghue examines what will become of regional planning policy after Brexit Since WWII British Regional Policy and Planning has ...more
Augmented Reality Trail to Promote Student Engagement with the Sustainability Agenda
- The case study consists of an Augmented Reality Trail which aimed to raise student awareness of issues of sustainability and ...more
Showcasing medieval Canterbury - more TV coverage
- I’m delighted to say that the ‘Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend 2019’ website is almost there and all being well ...more
A moment in English Religious Education history
- The final report of the Commission for Religious Education is about to be published. The independent commission was established by ...more
Is Parliament Fit for Purpose?
- From Mark Bennister - Reader in Politics. This blog was originally posted on the PSA Parliaments Group blogsite (You can ...more
Banking on Banksy: The Celebrity Bias Within Political Art
- From Katarina Hill - Intern in Politics and International Relations. You know how fashion designers and celebrities get away with selling ...more
Full time approaches, Brexit remains Brexit
- From Dr Sarah Lieberman - Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations Understanding the events of this week may be key ...more
A Tale of (Two…?) Borises
- From Max Stafford - PhD Candidate in Politics Other than Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn, it is quite likely that no ...more
What makes you middle class?
- From Katarina Hill - Intern in Politics and International Relations What does it actually mean to be middle class? Since moving to ...more
The Irish Border and Brexit
- From Fennel Wellings - CEFEUS Undergraduate Research Assistant The Good Friday Agreement signed in April 1998 has achieved ‘twenty years of ...more
“Terveisiä Helsingistä”: What happened in Finland during the Helsinki Summit?
- From Noora Virtanen - CEFEUS Postgraduate Analyst It has been a bit over a week now since the 16th July summit when American ...more
The July 2018 White Paper: Carte Blanche or Tabula Rasa?
- From Amelia Hadfield (Professor in European and International Relations) and Christian Turner (CEFEUS Research Assistant) It finally came. The day prior ...more
LONG READ: Trudeau vs. Trump: A Two-Fold Tale of Tantrums and Tariffs
- From Amelia Hadfield - Professor of European and International Relations. I admit it. I’m a foreign policy junkie. I admit to ...more
Too much short-termism, too much reacting to events…
- From Mark Bennister (Reader in Politics, CCCU) and Ben Worthy (Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London). This commentary was ...more
Autumn events - welcoming Michael Wood, Rachel Koopmans and Paul Cullen
- It won’t be long before we are into the Centre’s autumn events, and, as well as the Nightingale Lecture mentioned ...more
Growing language skills gaps in inbound tourism
- With recent media interest on both the record growth of inbound tourism and the fall in popularity of modern languages ...more
Polar Bear and Pilgrims visiting Canterbury
- This week I thought I would start with Paula the Polar Bear’s visit to Canterbury Cathedral precincts on Wednesday. She ...more
Win T20 Tickets!
- Christ Church Sport is giving you the chance to win tickets to T20 cricket this Thursday. 3 pairs of tickets are ...more
Richborough and Canterbury - TV spotlight
- To a degree this follows on from last time in that again there is a maritime theme to this short ...more
Film Tourism: Overtourism?
- Dr Jane Lovell looks at the effect film and TV series can have upon tourism for cities and regions. In the ...more
Public Lectures for September – We Welcome Prof. Sube Banerjee (13th Sept) and Prof. Peter Kinderman (20th Sept)
- As the next in our new series of public talks at the new Salomons Centre in Tunbridge Wells, we are delighted to ...more
The White Paper’s chequered past
- Professor Amelia Hadfield looks at how the question of EU membership continues to divide the Conservative Party and how these ...more
Leah Thorn -Older Women Rock!! - valuing, highlighting, empowering and uniting early-old-age women
- I am an old age, all age woman, no way past my use-by date. Walking in ancestral women’s footsteps, I am an archive ...more
Regional and local history at Durham and Canterbury
- This is just a short piece before the Centre’s blog has a fortnight’s break for the summer. Consequently, I thought ...more
Inspiring students to make global connections
- Cath, a student nurse at Canterbury Christ Church University, discusses how involvement with #poeticnursingheart inspired her to reach out and ...more
Don’t ignore your partial swing if you want to improve your golf
- Dr Mathew Brown and Sam Todd explain how golfers need to work on their partial swing shots if they want ...more
Roundtable discussing domestic abuse
- The first Psychology and Criminal Justice Round Table, funded by the Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR) was run on ...more
Are people conscious of Scopaesthesia? Do the number of starers and the introduction of Acoustathesia effect hit rates? - A pilot investigation
- (Image from Shutterstock) Hello, my name is Rebecca O’Connell and I am a third year combined honours psychology student and this ...more
Striking the right chord on environmental messages
- (Image from Shutterstock) The need to address the impact humans are having on the environment is becoming more pressing with each ...more
UK Creativity Researchers Conference 2018 - Conference Report: Creative Sides
- Senior Lecturer and creativity researcher Dr. Ian Hocking reflects on the 2nd UK Creativity Researchers Conference, hosted here at CCCU. ...more
Helen Stanley Blogs- A Realist Evaluation of the Impact of Learning and Development Strategies in a Clinical Leadership Programme
- Since leaving full-time work, I am privileged to have become embedded in the world of a doctoral research student and ...more
Summer News from the English Literature team
- Staff News Andrew Palmer: my big news this summer is the publication of a book about First World War poetry, which ...more
Reflections on The Addams Family
- Testimonials from some of the student cast and crew Principal Cast "I love musical theatre and being a transfer student here this ...more
Augustine House Yoga Classes
- Yoga courses on campus are back for summer 2018. The aim of each course is to ease you into yoga, learning ...more
Dr Jude Graham- Championing Mental Health Research, Practice Development and Innovation
- In April 2017 I completed my Doctorate studies, my research explored the ways in which repeated exposure to traumatic workplaces, ...more
Tristi Brownett talks about Community-Centred Approaches for Health: The Case for Arts Festivals
- My name is Tristi Brownett and I am a specialist community public health nurse, and I am employed as a ...more
Dr Gaia Del Negro – Professional creativity and learning in health and education
- I had forgotten how to play imaginatively with my physical body/being, using it as an instrument of expression. The movement ...more
The trouble with penalties
- With England having a rare penalty win in the World Cup, John McGowan considers what shoot-outs tells us about national ...more
Award for our own Sue Holttum and her paper on mental health in the military
- Dr Sue Holttum, senior lecturer in research at the Salomons Centre, has won an award for Outstanding Paper from the ...more
48 Hours in Canterbury: Returning to CCCU
- Written by Music Alumni: Ugne Dailidonyte When you graduate from University all the stress and anxiety connected with all the deadlines ...more
The ADDAMS FAMILY Musical: Blog Series
- Final Post: The Producers Reflect Now that the emotional and physical rollercoaster that is the annual musical is over, there is ...more
Joyce Armstrong - Creative Identity
- My most recent work was commissioned by Live Well Kent/Shaw Trust, providing the art studio model of sessions I have ...more
Strengthening Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership across the four countries of the UK- Burdett Trust Funded initiative
- This four UK country collaborative project which runs over 12 months until January 2019, aims to identify the processes and indicators ...more
Podcast: Understanding Your Teenagers
- This week Alex Hassett discusses how brain research may help us understand the teenagers in our lives In this podcast we ...more
What happens when you put 3000 medievalists in the same place?
- The International Medieval Congress at University of Leeds is the biggest gathering of medievalists in Europe. Every year in early ...more
Review of 'The Addams Family' MPA Musical 2018
- By student writer, Callum Foad On the night of Wednesday 13th June, Canterbury Christ Church University was proud to host the ...more
In education, is religion exclusively a matter of RE? Are RE debates being crippled by the assumption that it is?
- (a partly developed set of thoughts on a hot afternoon) The blogosphere is filled with debate about religious education in the ...more
James Newton on Ocean's 8
- James Newton looks at the latest in a line of female reboots. Ocean's 8 Ocean’s 8 is a sequel to the earlier ...more
Wimbledon Week 2018
- To help celebrate the start of Wimbledon 2018, Christ Church Sport are offering staff the chance to get involved with ...more
We must value women's views of STEM to create changes
- For International Women in Engineering Day Professor Gillian Youngs looks at how, as a society, we can attract more women ...more
Engineering the Difference
- As part of our support for International Women in Engineering Day 2018 Dr Anne Nortcliffe looks at how changing the ...more
New film released about service user and carer involvement in trainee placements
- The clinical psychology programme team are proud of our pioneering ‘Placement Advising Scheme’ which we run in collaboration with our partner Trusts. For ...more
PhD student success in International Choir Competition
- Written by Michael Henein, Director of the St Kyrel Choir Following St Kyrel Choir's annual performances in various European Countries, including ...more
Places of Worship: An Introduction from Bob Bowie
- A 'few' years ago RE Online made a series of videos about places of worship which are available to watch ...more
What If Learning (a sample lesson)
- Watch a primary school lesson were this innovative approach to teaching Christianly is ...more
What If Learning - Braunston Church of England Primary School
- An example of a What If Learning Approach in a Church of England Primary ...more
What if Learning? (The approach)
- TransformLivesTeach made this video about What If ...more
A Humanist and a Christian debate education
- Professor Trevor Cooling in debate with Andrew Copson, CEO of the British Humanist Association, about Christian involvement in ...more
I am not a label, I am capable and I can – my navigations through finding a job when dealing with visible and invisible disabilities
- The Employability and Skills team is interested in hearing student voices! We put a call out on our CCCU Careers ...more
Book launch and poetry reading at Salomons: Thursday 12th July
- For our next public event, we're thrilled to host the launch of 'The Ward' by poet (& mental health nurse ...more
On Campus Yoga!
- Yoga courses on campus are back for summer 2018. The aim of each course is to ease you into yoga, learning ...more
CISA Research Unit: 12 Fragments for Transverse Flute
- A new composition by Dr Lauren Redhead On the evening of Thursday 7th June, 12 Fragments for Transverse Flute, a new ...more
The ADDAMS FAMILY Musical: Blog Series
- Post 4: Stage Management Interviews Written by Producers: Lucy Steward and Ania Kapsza Once again we’re back behind the scenes with The ...more
Big Bang Event at Discovery Park
- Over 1,000 school and college-aged students attended the Big Bang event that took place on Friday 9 March, at Discovery ...more
University to Host the Kent Festival of Science
- The University is excited to be hosting the Kent Festival of Science this Easter. On Thursday 5 and Friday 6 April ...more
Christ Church Engage With Over 200 Students at GEEK Lab Event
- Christ Church engaged with over 200 key stage 3 students at the recent GEEK Lab event at Dreamland, Margate. The GEEK ...more
Apprenticeships and mentoring are key to getting more women into engineering
- We’re all familiar with the stats: fewer than 9% of the engineering workforce is female and only 6% of registered ...more
An important occasion in the STEM calendar
- International Women in Engineering Day is an important occasion in the STEM calendar. There are many different types of engineering ...more
The ADDAMS FAMILY Musical: Blog Series
- Post 3: Choreographer Interviews Written by Producers: Lucy Steward and Ania Kapsza This week we’re back behind the scenes with The Addams ...more
Make Like a Spaceman and LAUNCH into your career on 6th June! 👨🚀
- This event, taking place 10am-4pm on 6th June 2018, is chock-full of workshops and opportunities designed to help you bag ...more
Graduate Success Story - Luke Olney
- Broadstairs Special Interviews (6) 2018 means the opening of our exciting new Arts Building, which completes construction this summer. Its advent ...more
Sorry, can you repeat that?
- The Employability and Skills team is interested in hearing student voices! We put a call out on our CCCU Careers ...more
Competition Time! Win the chance to create your own video CV as part of LAUNCH 📹📜
- LAUNCH is just a few weeks away and it's great to see workshops being booked onto! For further details on ...more
What did I get out of the Creative Careers Festival 2018?
- This year’s Creative Careers Festival held on the 25th April was excellent. There were a mix of businesses there doing ...more
‘Words of learned length and thundering sound’: Learning, Teaching and The Poetic Nursing Heart
- Phil, a member of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement team at the University, explores the relationship between the poetic nursing ...more
Oscillate Festival 2018
- Oscillate 2018 at Turner Contemporary Date: 2nd June, 2018 Location: Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG Day: 12:00-18:00 (free) Evening: 20:00-0:00 (£5 Adv.) All enquiries: ...more
Callum Foad Column: Helsinki Chamber Choir
- Looking back at the visit of the Finnish choir on 23rd March On this day Canterbury Christ Church University was honoured ...more
Podcast: Race and Mental Health
- Rachel Terry, Laura Lea, John McGowan and guests discuss two recent high profile publications on the subject of race in mental health Though ...more
Guest Post: Fewer Conferences, More Conversations
- Photo: Pushing Up Daisies Festival. Skull cake: Thyme for Tiffin Akiko Hart makes a plea for mental health to go outside ...more
Disabled to Enabled: Anxiety; my weakness and my strength
- The Employability and Skills team is interested in hearing student voices! We put a call out on our CCCU Careers ...more
Keynote Talk: Dr Lisa Busby
- Dr Lisa Busby (Goldsmiths, University of London) will give a keynote on the second day of our conference (1 June). De-skilling ...more
Multimodality in the Arts: interdisciplinary practices and hybrid forms
- We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts Conference will take place on ...more
Approaches to Postmemory Analysis
- Ruth Sanz Sabido has organised a conference, Postmemory Analysis, to take place at Canterbury Christ Church University on 3 July ...more
Conference Announcement: Multimodality in the Arts: interdisciplinary practices and hybrid forms
- Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts Conference Canterbury Christ Church University 31 May – 1 June 2018 Multimodality in the Arts: ...more
Heather Roche: Visiting Performer
- On 1 June, Heather Roche will be visiting CCCU to present at the centre's conference as part of an RMA ...more
CCCU Conference Presenters
- On 31 May and 1 June, students and staff of Music and Performing Arts and Media, Arts and Design will ...more
Power, Splendour, and Diplomacy – Understanding the Early Modern Royal Court through Objects: Part III
- Dr Sara Wolfson’s students ask what we can learn about the Renaissance court through art, architecture and material objects. In ...more
Conference Schedule: Day 1
- Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts Conference Canterbury Christ Church University Schedule: Thursday 31 May 2018 Multimodality in the Arts: interdisciplinary ...more
An insight into the EuroHockey from Sport Scholar Jack Rolfe
- There is something very special about heading into mainland Europe for hockey. The world’s best players showcase their talents here, ...more
Keynote Talk: Prof Roberta Mock
- Prof Roberta Mock (University of Plymouth) will give a keynote talk on 31 May on the first day of our ...more
Tasos Stamou: Visiting Composer and Performer
- Tasos Stamou will be visiting Canterbury Christ Church University to present at our conference 'Multimodality in the Arts: interdisciplinary practices ...more
Conference Schedule: Day 2
- Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts Conference Canterbury Christ Church University Schedule: Friday 1 June 2018 Multimodality in the Arts: interdisciplinary ...more
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: Visiting Independent Composer
- On 1 June, composer Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian will be visiting CCCU to present at our conference for the training sessions supported ...more
A Secondary Hobby
- Short documentary by Tim Jones about the ambitious amateur films made by Canterbury Archers in the 1960s. Canterbury Archers were ...more
Walking Seminars
- Geography Research Group in association with the Sustainability Research Network is proud to present the 'Sense of Place' Walking Seminars Thurs 19 April 2018 Michael ...more
O what we ben!
- Discovering Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes in Andreas and Riddley Walker a project by Mike Bintley and Sonia Overall - supported by Being Human 2017 'O what we ...more
Arts and Humanities Faculty Conference
- Landscape, Space, and Place Keynote: Dr Phil Smith, Plymouth University 30th May 2018 Work on landscapes, spaces and places occupies a prominent position ...more
Poetry is truth, beauty, freedom and love.
- Nicole reflects on how she became involved in the #poeticnursingheart and how the symposia had a deep effect on both ...more
Why choose poetry?
- In the first of a new series of blogs, Tom explores concepts around creativity and the creative process and how ...more
A First Year Students Perspective of #poeticnursingheart
- Catherine, a first year student, reflects on the powerful experience of being involved with #poeticnursingheart A First Year Students Perspective of ...more
Nurturing the butterfly flame
- Tom explores the often fragile nature of new ideas and concepts and how the #poeticnursingheart grew organically from the shared ...more
#poeticnursingheart – Augmented Reality.
- Tom describes how new technologies helped bring some of the poems to life at the symposia, and invites you to ...more
Research Seminar: Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido
- Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido of the School of MAD will present work in progress. Canterbury Christ Church University School of Media Art ...more
Public Talk, Thurs 17th May: Understanding Your Teenagers
- A talk by Dr Alex Hassett - The first of an exciting new series of public talks at the new ...more
The Publication Cycle
- Dr Chris Pallant of the School of MAD will reflect upon the publication lifecycle of one of his publications. Canterbury Christ ...more
Higham Railway 1
- Part of the 'lost' Count Zborowski home movie shot in the summer of 1924 by Sydney Bligh. This is an ...more
To Design or Not To Design
- James Frost has designed and built the set for a production of Tom Stoppard's classic play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whitstable ...more
Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres
- Jennie Bristow argues that government plans for ‘Mental Health First Aid’ risk pathologising ordinary childhood while doing little for those with more serious ...more
Overview of blended learning - March 2018
- This short video gives an overview of some of the blended learning activities and strategies within the Faculty of Education. ...more
Padlet: Collaborative learning and dissemination
- Padlet is an online tool that easily facilitates collaborative learning, discussion and the sharing of resources. Information that is added ...more
Staff Football and Golf
- Staff Football In April, a new 11-a-side football league will run every Wednesday evening for staff. Held at the University of ...more
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Ágnes Gulyás
- Professor Ágnes Gulyás of the School of Media, Art and Design is to deliver her inaugural lecture, titled 'What is ...more
Announcement: SMAD Student Research Award 2018
- We are pleased to announce the call for the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures SMAD Student Research Award ...more
My TV Debut on Question Time
- It was my partner’s idea to go on Question Time. We watch it regularly because politics is of interest to ...more
Film screening "One Team"
- Free film screening "One Team" Monday 19th March 2018, 16.00-18.00, Ng03 "The way they play together, the way they get along, that’s ...more
Research Seminar: CoomberSewell on Joyce Grenfell
- PhD student Jane CoomberSewell will be looking at the representation of World War 2 in the work of Joyce Grenfell ...more
"Simply Marvellous" - Free screening of BAFTA award winning film
- Wednesday 11 April 2018 13.30-16.30, Old Sessions House Free screening of "Marvellous" followed by Q&A with Neil Baldwin and Malcolm Clark, co-authors ...more
CFP: MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference 2018
- PhD candidates Nick Furze, Emma Graves and Aurora Patera in the School of Media Art and Design are organising this ...more
Power, Splendour, and Diplomacy – Understanding the Early Modern Royal Court through Objects: Part II
- Wolfson's students ask what we can learn about the Renaissance court through art, architecture and material objects. In Part I, ...more
The inspiring women of Canterbury and the Cathedral: Queens, courtiers, nurses and suffragettes
- Canterbury Cathedral has a very rich history, but who comes first to your mind when you think of the Cathedral? ...more
Power, Splendour, and Diplomacy – Understanding the Early Modern Royal Court through Objects: Part I
- As my third year special subject, ‘Power, Splendour and Diplomacy’ ends with the start of semester two, early modern court ...more
Sport Shirt Friday!
- Christ Church Sport would like you to get involved in Sport Relief this year, by joining in with our SPORT ...more
Sport Relief 2018
- Sport Relief 2018 at Canterbury Christ Church University will feature some fantastic opportunities to get involved, raise money and try ...more
Paws for thought: How ‘man’s best friend’ can support domestic violence victims
- Senior Lecturer, Dr Elizabeth Spruin explains how the American practice of using court facility dogs can alleviate stress for victims ...more
Open lecture - "The work of Wonder" (Patrick Curry)
- Patrick will be discussing the work of wonder in three senses: the work we must do to make a place ...more
Beyond the View: Reframing the Sunbeam Photographic Collection
- Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK. July 10th – August 23rd 2014 This significant exhibition at the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury ...more
Identity and Pedagogy Research Theme conference
- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Following the runaway success of last year’s Identity in Education mini conference we are delighted to send you ...more
Remembering the Romantics: What We Learned from Our 'Romantic Novels 1817' Seminar Series
- In our Romantic Novels 1817 seminar series, held in 2017, we chose six novels published in 1817, and invited an ...more
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships
- Markus Hunt is a Sports Scholar, Canterbury Christ Church Sport and Exercise Science student and Sports Centre Fitness Coach. He ...more
Research and Employability Fair 2018
- The Section of Life Sciences hosted its fourth annual Life Sciences Research and Employability Fair at Canterbury Christ Church University. ...more
Joy of Illinois: American Studies Abroad
- In the first in a series of posts that explores the various stages of theStudy Abroad experience, final-year American Studies ...more
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- This is an Event Title 3 Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been ...more
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- This is an Event Title 2 Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been ...more
First results are in!
- The team has been working on a number of projects with collaborators across the University and the first results are ...more
ruinous landscapes in a modern city
- O what we ben! is an interactive walking and mapping project exploring the landscapes of and correspondences between two texts: ...more
Parliamentary roundtable discussing music and mental health
- Senior lecturer, Dr. Kate Gee, describes her experience after being invited to speak at a parliamentary roundtable. Late last month I ...more
Trump and the Thucydides Trap
- Professor Peter Vujakovic, Professor of Geography in School of Human and Life Sciences explores the Thucydides Trap following the historic US election victory ...more
Virtual reality – A Brief History, Current Trends and Future Directions
- Technological advances mean virtual reality has gone from a clunky gimmick to the next stage of human-computer interaction and social ...more
I’m no Mo Farah, but …
- Dr. James Cane, Senior Lecturer at CCCU, discusses his personal reflections on mental barriers to both starting a run and ...more
Mike and Sonia on BBC Radio 3
- On the eve of the project launch, BBC Radio 3 aired a special edition of Free Thinking featuring three projects from ...more
So I guess it's goodbye...
- So this is it…after a year and a half I am saying goodbye to Partners in Learning. I’m feeling a ...more
International Symposium on Performance Science 2017 (or What I did with my summer)
- Dr. Kate Gee, Senior Lecturer at CCCU, describes her recent experience of presenting at the renowned symposium on Performance Science, ...more
Heritage rice in Bali: Comparing the effects of two rice varieties on paddy soil quality
- Rice is an important global crop, with half of the world’s population dependant on it. In Bali, rice farming traditionally ...more
Soil quality and mycorrhizal fungi populations associated with local varieties of banana in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
- Over 20 million east Africans rely on bananas for subsistence and income generation, as well as a range of other ...more
Outreach, with a Bang!
- Last Friday a team of lecturers and instructors from Canterbury Christ Church School of Life Sciences headed to Discovery Park ...more
Struggling to choose a University? You cannot possibly do a worse job than I did.
- University Instructor for the Life Sciences Beth Gawthorpe tells us her experience in choosing a university, how everything doesn't always go ...more
Erasmus International Exchange- Difficult but worth it?
- PhD student and Instructor in the Life Sciences Chris Hobbs takes us on his Erasmus year journey, and throws in ...more
First Annual Technicians' Symposium
- On the 8th May 2017, and with panoramic views of Canterbury cricket grounds, CCCU hosted a meeting of technicians from ...more
The Vice Chancellor's Challenge - Sports Day 2017
- On the 23rd of June Team IMS went on tour to Polo Farm to compete in the first "Vice Chancellor's ...more
Traffic Lights team attends HEFCE Catalyst project workshop in Birmingham
- Marian McCormick and Chris Harvey joined colleagues from across the UK who have been awarded funding from HEFCE via the ...more
CCCU team wins HEFCE Catalyst Fund grant for 'Traffic Lights Tool' student toolkit
- Rayya Ghul, Head of Academic Professional Development, Marian McCormick, Principal Lecturer (Learning and Teaching), and Chris Harvey, Senior Lecturer in ...more
Apprenticeships and mentoring are key to getting more women into engineering
- We’re all familiar with the stats: fewer than 9% of the engineering workforce is female and only 6% of registered ...more
Unexpected Item in Bagging Area
- If you have ever tried to use the automated checkout facility in a supermarket you will probably know why it ...more
An important occasion in the STEM calendar
- International Women in Engineering Day is an important occasion in the STEM calendar. There are many different types of engineering ...more
Vibrant Health Summit: Building Sustainable Healthy Futures Together
- The Vibrant Health Summit 2017 20th - 21st July Augustine House, Canterbury Book now ...Carrie Jackson and I am delighted to let you know ...more
March 2017 - forget the Garden of England, this is the LAB of England
- Spring is sproinging and this month I (Emily the Lab Technician) have been visiting our science friends at the Canterbury ...more
February 2017
- This month we have been working with a group of students from the University's computing department who will be visiting ...more
First Annual Technicians Symposium
- Calling any event the "first annual" is always a bit scary, but having been down to the Technicians symposium I ...more
Cancer research and treatment; past, present and future
- “Cancer is not a new disease”, said Professor Michelle Garrett, while speaking at a lecture organised by Kent Cancer Trust ...more
Cancer and Height
- By Simon Harvey, Director of Life Sciences There's recently been a lot of media coverage of work that has identified height ...more
Skirting Science: Inspiring the Next Generation of Female Scientists
- Naomi Rintoul and Beth Gawthorpe took part in ‘Skirting Science’ on earlier this month as part of Folkestone’s celebrations of WOW-2016 ...more
Life Sciences Applicant Day
- Saturday 18th March saw Canterbury Christ Church’s invite-only open day, and the Life Sciences team jumped at the chance to ...more
FLUX Sustainable Business Challenge 2017
- On 7th March 2017, Broadstairs students joined students from the Canterbury Campus at the annual FLUX Sustainable Business Challenge, held ...more
January 2017
- SCRABEL has been feeling lonely this month as our wonderful PhD student Neha Shetty jetted off to India to visit the ...more
December 2016
- At the start of the month we welcomed Dr Emily Billinge to the team as our new laboratory technician for ...more
A Month of prayer for the University
- Did you know that the University has a monthly cycle of prayer for all departments across the University. take a ...more
A week of Prayer for the Campus
- Next week we will begin a week of prayer for the (Canterbury) Campus. This is the first of four such ...more
Introduction to the Appreciative Inquiry Summit: a story about methods
- Vibrant Health: Building Sustainable Healthy Futures Together #VibrantHealth17 20-21 July 2017 - book now “It is instructive to consider that the word ‘health’ ...more
Business Futures Finale Week 2017
- Business Futures programme has been running across the year and concluded in the week commencing 30th January. We saw a number ...more
Life After Graduation - Matt Warner from Sainsbury's
- Matt Warner, a recent Christ Church Business School graduate, came to speak to Retail Strategy students on Monday 23rd January. Matt ...more
Malta, shooting birds and democracy
- By Jim Butcher, Principal Lecturer in Sociology of Tourism, School of Human and Life Sciences On the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, ...more
The Mw 7.8 Earthquake, Central Nepal
- By Dr Julia Maxted, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Human and Life Sciences At lunchtime on Saturday 25th April, a ...more
Tourism Management student designs Kent Guild logo
- By Dr Karen Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Tourism, School of Human and Life Sciences A Canterbury Christ Church University Tourism and Management ...more
Environmental Hazards and the El Niño climatic perturbation
- By Dr Julia Maxted, Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Human and Life Sciences How does an apparently local event in the ...more
Meet the Team part 2
- Major Chris Sands Associate Chaplain Overview I'm known in the family as the fixer. From my childhood I've always want to make things ...more
Meet the Employers - #ccbizschool Careers Fair
- Join us in Augustine House library in Canterbury for a Christ Church Business School Careers Fair on Tuesday 25th October ...more
Graduate Opportunity - FX Sales
- Congratulations to Scott Ridley, a recent graduate from Christ Church Business School (Accounting and Finance) on his new career in the foreign ...more
International Study Week - Heidelberg, Germany
- Any student who studies in the Business School is invited to take part in an International study week in Heidelberg, ...more
Become a Business School Ambassador!
- Become a Business School Ambassador and enhance your CV by doing paid work for your school. You will be representing ...more
About the Multi Professions Shared Practice Group
- The Multi Professions Shared Practice Group is a group of academics at Canterbury Christ Church University who are dedicated to ...more
Case Study - Iain Hawthorn
- In our latest alumni case study we spoke to Iain Hawthorn about his time at CCCU Business School and how his ...more
Alexandra Hurton nominated for UK Blog Awards
- One of our very own Business School students has been nominated for the UK Blog Awards! Alexandra Hurton with her ...more
Case Study - Stephanie Hayman
- Studied Advanced Certificate In Management Practice. Class of 2002 I went into the field of social enterprise, firstly creating a school meals ...more
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 ...more
Results workshop
- Thank you to everyone who attended The Talk about Thoughts and Feelings project results workshop. It was great to see our ...more
Two Summer Internships for 2015 - Apply Now!
- We are very please to announce that the Learning and Development Lab have successfully bid for not one but two ...more
Hello world!
- Welcome to The CCCU Psychology Programme Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start ...more
Hello world!
- Welcome to The CCCU Psychology Programme Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start ...more
