Kent'S Q-Step Centre

We still have places available on the Q-Step summer school that runs from Monday 17th June for 2 weeks. Students in POLIR, SSPSSR and Law are eligible to apply. Please email t.sundberg@kent.ac.uk for more details, or look on our website at: https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/summerschool .html

Introducing the 2019 Kent Q-Step Summer School!
The Q-Step Summer School is a two-week residential course providing an introduction to quantitative methods for the social sciences. This year’s topic is Race and Ethnicity.
It is open to first year students in SSPSSR, POLIR and KLS and is a pre-requisite for any student wishing to transfer to a “with Quantitative Research” minor degree, such as BA (Hons) Sociology with Quantitative Research and LLB ( Hons) Law with Quantitati...ve Research.
It is a fun and challenging course and will boost your employability. You will be working intensively alongside other students from a range of disciplines to complete a real piece of social scientific research.
The course will run for two weeks from Monday 17 June to Friday 28 June 2019.
To register for the course, please visit https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/summerschool .html
Any questions, please email Dr Trude Sundberg T.Sundberg@kent.ac.uk
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For our Q-Step 2018 graduates, have a look at this job ad if you're still looking for something: https://www.renaisi.com/job/quantitative- research-analyst/ And do get in touch if you'd like to speak for 5 minutes at our Showcase event celebrating 5 years of Q-Step at Kent on the 27th June.

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our pubTALK scheduled for the 8th April but we hope to welcome Keli Jenner back later in the year. Watch this space for further announcements!

We have the next of our 2019 pubTALKs on Monday 11th March, 7 for 7.30 pm at the Old Buttermarket. Do come and share a drink and a few questions! Topic this month is 'Secular Muslim Women’s Activism in the Age of ISIS' and is given by University of Kent associate lecturer, Hind Elhinnawy. It promises to be a fascinating event!

Really interesting and thought provoking pubTALK on Monday night - thank you so much David Oliver. Next one is Monday 11th March - Hind Elhinnawy - hope to see you there!

We have the first Kent Q-Step pubTALK of 2019 on Monday 11th February at the Old Buttermarket, Canterbury, 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Professor David Oliver from the Tizard Centre will speak about, 'Palliative care - not just for cancer?'. Do come and join us - entry is free and we would love to see you there!

Q-Step podcast Series 2 is now available on our website: https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/Podcast.html . Please do take a look!

Come and celebrate 5 years of Q-Step at Kent - more details to follow!

Experiencing abuse, harassment, and sometimes death threats from ‘radical Islamists’, and accused of collaborating with Western imperialism by importing alien ideas and practices, secular Muslim women activists challenge discriminatory laws within Islamic texts, reject and condemn the jihadist political message, and assert that human rights laws have precedence over religious and cultural considerations.
In this presentation, Hind Elhinnawy will focus on two organizations ru...n by two secular Muslim women activists; “Inspire” a counter-extremism and women’s rights organization; and “Mother’s Brigade” a French organization that provides support for traumatized mothers of foreign fighters working to save children from recruitment in extremist and jihadist groups. In doing so, she hopes to unravel many of the tensions, conflicts and ambiguities that mark the nature of activism of Muslim women in the West opposing what they define as “violent Islamist Extremism”.
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Please see our website for more information - https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/pubtalk.html
Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
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Palliative care is the active support of people with life threatening illness, considering all aspects of care – physical, psychological, social and spiritual. It is often associated with the care of people with advanced cancer, although when St Christopher’s Hospice was opened in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders patients with other diagnoses were admitted.
Professor David Oliver's interest has been in the development of palliative care of people with neurological disease and my... research and publications has been on this developing field, particularly for people with motor neurone disease. This pubTALK will look at this area and how palliative care, in hospices, hospitals and the community, is developing to care for people with any disease.
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Please see our website for more information - https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/pubtalk.html
Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
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Browse your social media feed, turn on the TV, or open your news website of choice - chances are it won't be long before you come across a story based on a statistic. Maybe it's that '70% of married women have cheated on their partners' (The Washington Post) or that '32,000 people in the US die from gun violence every year' (tweet by US Senator Tammy Baldwin) or that 'One in five British Muslims sympathise with Jihadis' (The Sun).
The news is full of numbers for a good reason...: numbers and statistics are vital to understanding what's really going on in the world. But they can also be deceptive. In the wrong hands, they can easily end up giving us a distorted picture of reality. In this talk, based on his new book Critical Statistics: Behind the Headlines, Robert de Vries will show how understanding a few simple tricks and some basic statistical concepts can help us see the truth behind the numbers in the news.
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Please see our website for more information - https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/pubtalk.html
Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
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In 2008, the UK government’s Bercow Report stated that “Communication is a fundamental human right.” But in a current landscape where 60% of young people in youth justice services have communication needs, compared to 5-14% of the general population, what’s going wrong?
In this talk, Speech & Language Therapist and Kent Alumni, Cara Drury will explore why this discrepancy exists, what it means for these young people, and what the evidence says we can do to help.
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Please see our website for more information - https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/pubtalk.html
Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
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Citizens preferences on the Irish border after Brexit: evidence from a survey experiment - Dr Laura Sudulich
Details TBC shortly
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Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
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Make sure you join us on tomorrow at The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury for the last pubTALK of the school year. We are looking forward to welcoming Professor Alex Stevens who will be discussing 'Countering drug deaths'.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and entry is free of charge. Looking forward to a great evening of drinks, discussion and debates! See you there:)
https://www.facebook.com/events/496261687 442541/

Join us for the last pubTALK of the school year where we are looking forward to welcoming Professor Alex Stevens who will be discussing 'Countering drug deaths'.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and entry is free of charge.Looking forward to a great evening of drinks, discussion and debates! See you there:)
https://www.facebook.com/events/496261687 442541/

Please join us for the last pubTALK of the school year where we are very happy to welcome Professor Alex Stevens who will be discussing 'Countering drug deaths'.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and entry is free of charge. Everyone is encouraged to stay behind after the talks to continue the discussions for a drink or two. Please see our website for more information - https://www.kent.ac.uk/qstep/pubtalk.html
Looking forward to seeing you there! :)
... ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- Concern is mounting about the rising tide of drug-related deaths, both nationally and in Canterbury. Professor Alex Stevens will present evidence collected for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs’ report on Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK. He will show what’s behind this worrying trend, followed by a discussion of two crucial questions. What steps could we take to reduce these deaths? And do we care enough to take them?
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Join us at The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury tonight to hear all about the secrets of the teenage brain! Doors open at 7pm and entry is free!

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Focus Group for 3rd year Q-Step students - TODAY!
Cornwallis East, 3rd floor - 2-4pm Free pizza available from 1pm
... Please come along and give us your views on the Q-Step programme – what has worked, what hasn't and what can we do to improve things
All participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher!
Please RSVP to Victoria on v.schoen@kent.ac.uk
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