{"id":41285,"date":"2015-06-03T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41285"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:40:30","slug":"university-of-salford-officially-appoints-renowned-poet-professor-jackie-kay-as-their-new-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41285","title":{"rendered":"University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/university-salford-officially-appoints-renowned-9222760\" target=\"_blank\">University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Evening News<\/a><br \/>\nManchester, England<br \/>\n2015-05-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dobsonmen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Charlotte Dobson<\/strong><\/a>, Social Affairs Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/university-salford-officially-appoints-renowned-9222760\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/incoming\/article9222790.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/JS63060392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Kay\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Jackie Kay MBE<\/a> was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanette_Winterson\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A celebrated poet has been appointed as the Chancellor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salford.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">University of Salford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Jackie Kay MBE, an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, said it was an honour to be chosen for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Kay will also take up the position of university writer in residence.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Kay said: \u201cI feel honoured to have been chosen as the new chancellor for the University of Salford and look forward to being a hands-on chancellor, as well as a \u2018shaking hands\u2019 chancellor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/university-salford-officially-appoints-renowned-9222760\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,10],"tags":[20140,1587,18232,18235],"class_list":["post-41285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-charlotte-dobson","tag-jackie-kay","tag-manchester-evening-news","tag-university-of-salford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}