Start Date: 29 November 2023 1:30 pm
End Date: 29 November 2023 2:30 pm
Location: Teams
Feeling stressed? Finding it difficult to sleep?
Join the first of our series of relaxation sessions. In this session the wellbeing teamkl will look at how breathing exercises can be helpful in managing stress, releasing tension in the body and improving sleep.
Start Date: 6 December 2023 2:00 pm
End Date: 6 December 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Seaborne Library Exhibition Space
Passionate about sustainability? Interested in making a difference through climate action? Or simply want to discover new ways to network? Come along and meet the University’s Sustainability team!
Whether you wish to find out what activities you can get involved with within the local community, determine how you can enter the sustainability field, and/or learn what actions you can take to help the world we live in, please do come along and say hello!
Start Date: 21 November 2023 2:00 pm
End Date: 21 November 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Seaborne Library Exhibition Space
Passionate about sustainability? Interested in making a difference through climate action? Or simply want to discover new ways to network? Come along and meet the University’s Sustainability team!
Whether you wish to find out what activities you can get involved with within the local community, determine how you can enter the sustainability field, and/or learn what actions you can take to help the world we live in, please do come along and say hello!
Start Date: 4 December 2023 2:00 pm
End Date: 4 December 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Seaborne Library Exhibition Space.
The Pop-Up Patch Challenge team will be back on Monday 4 December, 2pm – 4pm, in Seaborne Library Exhibition Space.
Bring your lost buttons, dropped hems, holey jumpers, worn jeans and unravelled cuffs, and let the Patch Challenge team show you how you can bring your unworn clothing back to life and back into use.
Both students and staff are welcome to come along for some help with garment repair. Also in the Exhibition Space is a visiting exhibition, Fashion Fictions, which showcases a wide range of imagined futures for the fashion industry, all of which illustrate more sustainable garment systems. Fashion Fictions is open to visit from 20th November to the end of term.
Start Date: 7 December 2023 6:00 pm
End Date:
Location: Teams
The next SERKEI public event brings together two of the most influential people in sustainable design, writer and stylist Aja Barber, and founder of Save Your Wardrobe fashion app, Hasna Kourda. Aja and Hasna will be ‘in conversation’ from 6pm, Thursday 7 December, via an MS Teams Live online event. .
Drawing on their respective expertise in trying to create systemic change in the fashion and garment sectors, Aja and Hasna will reflect on how the unsustainability of consumer culture in the Global North might be unpicked and tackled through a range of industry-led and consumer-led changes.
To join on 7 December, please book via the link here. A link to the MS Teams Live event will be circulated 48 hours before the event.
Start Date: 30 November 2023 1:30 pm
End Date: 30 November 2023 3:30 pm
Location: Queen's Park
The North West is a region of forward-thinking companies that are always looking for new ways to reduce our planet’s damaging impact.
Hynet is the perfect example of how collaboration can lead to high impact solutions that will improve the future of our planet.
We’re excited to host this fast-paced gathering that will allow everyone the chance to learn about, appreciate, and embrace the future possibilities that projects like Hynet will bring to our regional communities and economy.
This event is powered by Agent Academy, in partnership with Progressive Energy and hosted by Chester Business School.
During this super interactive event we will:
We’ve got an exciting programme of activity:
1pm – Arrivals
1.30pm – Welcome Speech
Opening talks by Agent Academy.
1.40pm – Early Career Lightning Talks:
A series of lightning talks, where early careers talent share their insight and experience into, what skills they needed for their role and how technical the role is.
2.15pm – Future Vision – Leadership Q&A:
A panel discussion, facilitated by young people, with questions from the audience about what leaders are doing to drive change.
2.55pm – Innovation Lightning Talks:
A series of lightning talks, sharing insight into innovation and the potential of tech to make a difference on our journey to Net Zero.
3.20pm – Final Words
Final words from organisers and thank you.
Start Date: 27 October 2023 3:00 pm
End Date: 27 October 2023 4:00 pm
Location: Teams
This session follows on from National Coming Out Day. We will discuss the ‘coming out continuum’ and how this might affect you and others. We will also look language, reactions, and managing emotions around this topic. To attend this session, please join our LGBTQ+ Student Support Network, which is live on Teams – click here to join or email studentservices@chester.ac.uk for more information
Start Date: 2 November 2023 6:00 pm
End Date: 2 November 2023 7:15 pm
Location: Wheeler, CRV139
Jackie Kay is an internationally renowned poet and novelist and from 2014-2022, Chancellor of the University of Salford. She has written widely on themes of identity, including race, gender and sexuality. In recognition of her wide-ranging literary achievements, Jackie was appointed in 2016 to the prestigious position of Makar or National Poet of Scotland. In this talk, Jackie will discuss her own work and experiences under the title of: ‘Full Fig: Many Writers a Writer Makes’
Start Date: 29 November 2023 1:00 pm
End Date: 29 November 2023 1:40 pm
Location: Online
You will develop an understanding of what bibliographic software is and how it can be used.
The session will include the following:
Aimed at all staff and students Level 6 and above.
Start Date: 29 November 2023 1:00 pm
End Date: 29 November 2023 1:40 pm
Location: Online
This Word session aims to provide the skills necessary to produce a suitably formatted dissertation containing styles, section breaks, captions, table of contents, using Word to reference with the new APA 7 style, different headers and footers plus time at the end for any Q&A’s
