Canterbury Campus Answers Day
We think Open Days are really about finding answers to all your university questions. Come and visit our Answers Day and ask us anything you want to know.
9am - 3pm
Canterbury Campus
Historical, cultural and social practices shape our understanding of who we are, how we function as a collective, and where we may be heading.
The Social Sciences focus on a wide range of topics from Psychology to Politics, and strive to shed light on the behaviours and systems that underpin all human endeavour. Our range of Social Science courses will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue careers in numerous disciplines.
To allow enough time for us to put everything in place for these events we ask for a minimum of 5 weeks notice from receiving the booking request to your 1st preference date of activity.
Taster sessions, talks and activities
Psychology:
Explore the human mind and the fascinating field of psychology through this fun, interactive event. You will get to walk through our state-of-the-art research facilities while partaking in hands-on demonstrations of popular areas of psychology. Get a feel for what it is like to be a participant in a psychology experiment while also learning about the research and teaching we do at the university. This will be led by both our students and staff members to whom you will have a chance to talk and ask any questions!
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 | |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration: | 2 hours or as part of a 4 hour campus taster day |
| Location: | University campus |
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How does the criminal justice system work?
What impact has forensic psychology had on how the police, courts and prisons work?
Find out in this fun, interactive and curriculum-related event taking place on prison grounds where your group will be involved in a live mock arrest police interview and trial.
Tour the mock police station (Justice Suite), the old Court Room and the prison grounds while learning in a fun, hands-on manner how forensic psychology facilitates the process of an arrest, police interview and trial.
You will even get the chance to role-play key parts such as a criminal, lawyer, juror and judge!
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year Group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration: | 4 hour Subject workshop |
| Location: | University campus |
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Learn about forensic psychology via a live mock hostage situation. In this event, you will find out how psychology could influence the negotiation process of a hostage situation and partake in reflections and discussions on this topic. A very educational and fascinating event while keeping it fun and safe!
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year Group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20 |
| Duration: | 2 hours or as part of a 4 hour taster day with wraparound activity like Campus tours |
| Location: | University campus |
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Sociology:
Our interactive and engaging taster days provide an opportunity for visiting students to get 'their feet under the desk' in terms of studying Sociology at CCCU. During your taster day you will spend some time with our current students, explore what it means to study Sociology at university, engage in a curriculum focused session, and have a tour of our North Holmes Road campus. What you study in the curriculum focused session is up to your class and can be negotiated between visiting students and teachers , and our sociology lecturers. The range of expertise in our team allows for a wide range of choice (please see interactive workshops below). Taster days are at least four hours, so come prepared to have lunch at the University. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 | |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 4 hour campus taster day |
| Location: | University campus |
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Shorter than our taster days, our interactive workshops are curriculum focused sessions that are run at our Canterbury campus or your school or college. During your interactive workshop you will get a clear sense of what it is like to study sociology with us at CCCU. This will be done via an informative, engaging and interactive session where our student-focused ethos will be clear to see. The content of your workshop will reflect current A-Level curricula, and can, among other things, include the Sociology of Education, Crime, the Family, Health, and Work, as well as Theory, Politics and Research Methods. The choice of content can be negotiated between the visiting students and teachers, and our sociology lecturers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 | |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: | University campus, in school or college |
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Our two-hour masterclasses provide you with an opportunity to hear about the research and writing of the sociology lecturers at CCCU. Among other things, our research focuses on aspects of health and medicine, community inequality and regeneration, COVID, parenting, higher education, generational dynamics, law and ethics, sport, the end of life, biography construction, work, self-actualisation, race, postcolonialism, decolonialism, politics, protest, identity, popular culture, comedy and the environment. In addition to our many research-focused publications, our lecturers have also written a number of popular books for the broader reader. These include Sarah Cant’s and Jennifer Hardes’ How to be a Sociologist, and Jennie Bristow’s The Corona Generation: Coming of Age in a Crisis. If you would like to visit CCCU for a masterclass, or you would like one of our lecturers to come to your school or college to talk about their work, please book a session.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 | |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: | University campus, in school or college |
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Typically occurring in March, our 'Year-12 Sixth Form Sociology Conference' is designed to help students revise the sociology of education part of the sociology syllabus and to hear about research not covered in the standard textbooks. Other parts of the conference include 'Studying Sociology at University', and 'How to Write a Personal Statement' for UCAS applications. Attended by schools and colleges from around Kent and beyond, our conference continues to remain a popular part of our engagement activities. Please get in touch to book a place.
| Date: | 8th May 2024 |
| Year group: | Year 12, FE Level 3 yr 1 |
| Group size: | 100+ |
| Duration: | 4 hours |
| Location: | University campus |
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If you have any queries regarding this event please contact sce@canterbury.ac.uk
Politics:
These vibrant, engaging and interactive workshops use the visual arts to explore the political issues which matter most to young people. We will work together with participants to identify key political issues, and to start to think about how such issues might be represented visually and activated politically.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 | |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration: | 4 hour campus taster day |
| Location: | University campus |
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When policies conflict, how do we decide who wins? In this hands-on, interactive workshop, you will consider the need to increase travel to tackle social exclusion, v. the need to decrease travel to tackle climate change. You will learn about the key issues, before considering the benefits and disbenefits of policy solutions. You will then present your case to a key decision maker, who will decide – who wins?
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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Research informs every aspect of politics. Whether your political actor relies on evidence-based policy or dog-whistle politics, they need to know what will work, with whom, when and why, if they are to succeed. In this hands-on, interactive workshop, you will learn how to tell if research is trustworthy, by conducting a small piece of research. You will present this to your classmates, who will decide whether or not you should be trusted…
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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This session will focus on how colonialism and race shape our understanding of contemporary national and global politics. We will discuss those key themes relating to historic colonialism and its legacy, that is, the imprint that colonialism has left around the world. We will also discuss how “race”, although a social construct, has created a hierarchy between the “white race” and other “races” as well as how racism still determine the reality of national and international politics today.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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In a recent essay for The New Statesman, Russel Brand expressed his disaffection with democratic politics and its practitioners: ‘Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people, I regard politicians as frauds and liars’. Brand’s declaration reflects a familiar current of modern thought and feeling, often characterised as a kind of ‘disenchantment’. The disagreements on the magnitude and symptoms of disenchantment aside, scholars, commentators and politicians of all stripes agree on this much: our democratic politicians lack integrity; our politics is in extraordinary crisis and in need of renewal. The aim of this interactive session is to explore what we might mean by political morality and political integrity. By engaging with various case studies, thought experiments, and role-playing exercises, the session will provide you with an introduction to theories of political morality, with specific focus on the problem of dirty hands: the paradoxical insight that, in certain unenviable circumstances, democratic politicians might have to do something morally wrong for important political reasons.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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States interact on all sorts of issues: geopolitical issues, regulatory issues, policy issues and resource use. In space, they need to cooperate on ALL of these. This session will discuss political and international relations issues, using outer space as a case study for geopolitical relationships. Cooperation on the International Space Station will take centre stage, allowing students to understand how issues are inter-related, and how earth based politics can impact on outerspace initiatives.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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Fast fashion may be a cheap and fun way to keep up with trends or improve our mood but at what cost? And who truly pays? In this interactive session we will explore how the fast fashion industry operates and consider its impact on workers, the environment and shoppers themselves, revealing patterns of 21st century global inequality.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 40 |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: |
University campus, in School or College |
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The EPQ dissertation provides a fantastic opportunity to engage your students with the exciting world of research in the social sciences. In this hands-on workshop, your students will be introduced to the fundamentals of research design, methods and/or analysis. We can tailor the session to your specific topic, supporting your students to achieve key EPQ assessment outcomes: designing and planning their own project; collecting evidence; interpreting this evidence; and drawing conclusions. The workshop focuses on supporting your students in their decision-making and problem solving, to become critical, independent, reflective learners, with a strong link to higher education and future employability.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
| Year group: | Year 12 / Year 13 / FE Level 3 yr 1 / FE Level 3 yr 2 |
| Group size: | Any |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Location: | University campus |
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