Want to understand more about the REF?

This session will look at how you can develop research outputs for REF 2029. With a specific focus on REF criteria and how to create practice-research outputs and their supporting documentation (portfolios), this session is essential for those new to research/REF and for those currently engaged in output preparation.

Open to all staff, this event is in person. Booking essential.

Showcasing the amazing work being carried out by UCA’s Early Career Researcher Network, the summer symposium creates space for ECRs to share their ideas, and collaborate with fellow researchers in a creative and inspiring environment.

Open to all, this event is in person. Please register to let us know you're coming.

Join us for an inspiring afternoon of Publication Talks and a Creative Publishing Workshop at our Epsom Campus, designed for PhD researchers, early career academics and established scholars interested in developing their publishing futures.

In a rapidly changing publishing landscape, the event explores how ideas become influential books, journals and lasting scholarly contributions, and how publishing shapes disciplines, cultural debate and research impact.

Hear from distinguished scholars Pamela Church Gibson and Professor Dominic Janes as they reflect on their experiences as authors, editors and international academics, sharing insights into writing, journal development and building enduring intellectual careers. Representatives from Intellect Books will offer practical guidance on publishing proposals, what publishers seek, and how emerging ideas become impactful publications.

The afternoon concludes with an interactive workshop where participants can develop publication ideas, test concepts, receive feedback and explore possibilities for monographs, articles, edited collections and new publishing projects.

Combining practical advice, creative exchange and networking opportunities with publishers and peers, this event offers fresh inspiration, valuable connections and new perspectives on turning research into meaningful and influential publications.

Open to all, this event is in person. Please book to let us know you're coming.

Please join us for the launch event of AROUND HERE, our UCA Canterbury summer research week.

We will be presenting HARVEST MOON, a design research project led by Professors of Architecture Charles Holland and Cat Rossi, in collaboration with Local Works design studio and UCA researchers Steffi Klenz and Stephen Knott.

The event will consist of our inaugural Harvest Gathering, where we will collectively assemble a table made from materials harvested in Kent, and explore what we collect, gather, and give thanks for today.

The event will be accompanied by a reception featuring local and seasonal food and refreshments.

Please join us for a talk and workshop led by John Hartley, Deputy Director of Cement Fields.

Cement Fields works with the people of North Kent, using art practices as a means to explore the shifting estuarine landscapes from Dartford to Whitstable.
Acting as a site of enquiry and experimentation, our work engages with urban expansion, industrial retreat, and social and environmental injustices to share generative alternatives.

Our projects have at times worked with groups over extended periods, convened communities of interest and used artist-led commissions to inform identity, location and possibility.

This presentation will look at examples of our recent activity, discuss some of the creative principles that the organisation uses or aspires to and invite discussion about situating creative practice in regional contexts.

Please come prepared to discuss or listen to these ideas in relation to your own research.
If possible, please bring an image, artefact or idea to share.

Designed to support UCA's Mid-Career Researchers, this session will create space for participants to share their research, talk through challenges, and roadmap next steps.

The session will also include an exciting external speaker on theme of 'bringing your research into teaching'.

Panel discussion
Led by Steve Dixon Smith

A panel discussion on the places we make with the spaces we’re located in and by.
A partner discussion to the SCHOOL salon held in March 2026, the discussion focuses on UCA researchers who are conducting pedagogy and art school-focused research in, through and around the Canterbury campus.