Category: research

It’s estimated that 45% of root crops, fruit and vegetables produced globally is lost or wasted every year. To help change this, Kent researchers have … Read more

Kent academics Professor Mark Smales and Professor Kathy Kotiadis are set to lead an £8.2 million project supported by a £3.8m Research England grant which will unite England’s world-class diagnostics expertise … Read more

Dr Becky Hall’s scientific career began when she first set foot in the Kent teaching laboratories as an undergraduate Biochemistry student. Back then, she had … Read more

Kent has partnered with Imperial College London to secure $30 million in funding from the Bezos Earth Fund to launch a Centre for Sustainable Protein which will … Read more

Plastic waste, soil health and marketing of UK hops are just some of the challenges that academics in the School of Biosciences and School of Chemistry and Forensic … Read more

Cryptosporidium has been discovered in pre-washed vegetables from major supermarkets in Kent by researchers in the School of Biosciences. The water-borne and food-borne parasite Cryptosporidium, which … Read more

A collaboration between Dr Helen Cockerton from the University’s School of Biosciences and local hop breeder Dr Klara Hajdu (Wye Hops) is beginning to attract media attention for what … Read more

The Academy of Medical Sciences has awarded over £6.6 million to 54 ‘exceptional’ biomedical and health researchers through the Springboard scheme and one of these recipients is … Read more

The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a global threat to human health, and the development of new antibiotics from scratch is an extremely expensive and … Read more

As a Right to Food university, Kent is committed to supporting food systems that advance human health and environmental sustainability in society. This starts with … Read more