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Immigration and innovation – what history has to offer

Firstly, thanks very much to those who came to the Canterbury Historical Association Lyle Lecture last night (Thursday), which honours Marjorie and Lawrence Lyle, absolute stalwarts of so many organisations […]

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Finding and using information – a new book

Learning and Research Librarian, David Bedford, celebrates the publication of “Finding and using information: a guide for nursing, health and social care”

Roses Are Red – But Are They Green? The Environmental Cost of Valentine’s Blooms

Let’s be honest: Valentine’s Day feels incomplete without a bouquet of roses. They’re romantic, they’re classic, and they smell amazing. But have you ever stopped to think about what it […]

Alumni Community Hero Award 2025

This award recognises and celebrates our alumni who have gone above and beyond to make a positive impact in the local community and who have contributed their time and talents for […]

Feathers, Glue, and Rebellion: Arts in Academia and the Dance of Freedom

by Tom Delahunt (the #hobopoet), and Carrie Jackson (Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Health Sciences) #HOBOPOET The arts have often been treated as the playful outlier of academia—a collection of […]

University launch new co-funded programme: Impact Accelerator

What is the Impact Accelerator scheme? Impact Accelerator is a new co-founded programme to support businesses with innovation projects. Projects will be a collaboration between CCCU and the business to […]

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow – A Review

Thahmina Begum Thaniya reviews Zoulfa Katouh’s debut novel and reflects on how literature can offer insights that strengthen our political analysis.

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Whose responsibility is it anyway to make sure school transport is available to all?

Dr Susan Kenyon argues that local authorities need to bring back accessibility planning for transport to better understand how accessible their services are and to ensure all young people can […]

Meet the 2024-25 Arts & Culture Interns: Halle Mills

This academic year, the Arts and Culture team have six brand new interns, and we’re also welcoming back two of last year’s team.

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]