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Do I stay or do I go? The impact of COVID-19 on an International Student

In our first guest blog of our series on “The Impact of COVID-19 on Kent and Medway”, Sara Versace, an international student at CCCU tells her story:

I am a second year student studying International Relations at CCCU. I’m also from America, and when I made the decision to study at CCCU in 2018, I never thought that in two years time I would be virtually stuck in the UK. My parents live in North Carolina and I normally go back to America once or twice a year. We had made plans for my family to come visit Canterbury at the end of March and then I would go back home with them for the Easter break. However, all of those plans fell apart within a matter of days.

Territorial Politics, Coronavirus and The UK: Cooperation amidst Crisis

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to dominate political debate, Dr Paul Anderson examines the intergovernmental interaction between the different governments in the UK, and argues that while tensions may now be appearing concerning lock-down strategies, intergovernmental relations have generally proceeded in the spirit of cooperation with the governments closely working together. 

Teaching from a distance

Dr Laura Cashman reflects on our first month of online delivery

Exactly a month ago, on 17 March, the Politics and IR team met for one last hurried lunch-meeting in the Priory Cottages. Then we packed up what we hoped (wrongly!) would be our most useful belongings before the lock down began. Since then we have been grappling with the demands of delivering our teaching alongside the other challenges of living in isolation. Some of us have been ill. Most of us have been simultaneously ‘homeschooling’ our children and caring for vulnerable family members. All of us have faced a steep learning curve as we become familiar with the new forms of technology required to work remotely, teach remotely and communicate with each other.