Category: Staff news

Reading with interest, a somewhat critical commentary in the national press on the University of Exeter (9th June 2022). The article referred to warnings given … Read more

What is the REF? The REF is undertaken by the four UK higher education funding bodies: Research England, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher … Read more

Meet Dr Jill Shepherd, programme director for Biomedical Sciences. Dr Shepherd studied Biology at the University of Georgia (USA), where she developed interests in cell … Read more

Meet Dr Jenny Tullet, programme director for Biology. Dr Tullet joined the University of Kent in September 2014 after conducting research into the Biology of … Read more

The University and Discovery Park have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see them work together in a number of strategic areas including Industrial Biotechnology, Neurosciences … Read more

Meet Dr Wei-Feng Xue, programme director of Biochemistry. Dr Xue received his PhD degree at the department of Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University in Sweden in … Read more

Boris Johnson announced that all formal Covid-19 measures, including the obligation to self-isolate when positive, may be removed this month (February 2022). Independently of the … Read more

Researchers from the School of Biosciences have designed and built equipment that can be used to investigate bacterial biofuel production at a fraction of the cost of … Read more

Collaborative research led by Kent’s School of Biosciences has found the prevalence of the parasite Cryptosporidium to be greater than presumed, equating to a serious threat to the dairy … Read more

Researchers from Kent’s School of Biosciences and the Francis Crick Institute have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100% efficiency. This proof of principle … Read more