Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, our placement students are excelling and making the most of their experience, under the current circumstances. On Friday … Read more
BIGD’s WEE-DiFine Initiative Awards Grant for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance Research
“Empowering Poor Urban Women in Bangladesh through Digital Financial Services: Does Wage Payment via Mobile Money translate into Economic Empowerment?” Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in … Read more
Spring into 2022!
Spring term 2022 is fast approaching and hopefully we’ve all enjoyed a well-deserved break. Emily Perridge, now in her last year shares how she is … Read more
True independence: Learning To Reach Out For Help
Tapasya Bhandari graduated from Kent in 2021, studying through the pandemic. Here she looks back at her experience of studying with us, and the support … Read more
Three Reasons Why I’m happy For Things To Be Back To “Normal”, And Why You Should Be Too!
Lewis Powell, a Stage 3 Economics with Econometrics student and President of Kent Poker Society, blogs about his experience of studying through a pandemic. Three … Read more
A society for anyone with aspirations of working in finance.
Beyond lectures, and the journeys to and from them, your ultimate university experience isn’t at all ultimate without the immersion in at least one of … Read more
2021 News RoundUp
It’s been another bumper year responding to this new economic landscape, how we adapt to it, its impact on our health, the environment and at … Read more
Increased religious competition worsens armed conflict in Colombia
New research by Dr Guy Tchuente, has found that religious competition substantially increases the probability of conflict-related violence in Colombia. The study, published by the Journal of … Read more
November News RoundUp
November saw us release new research, launch an exciting exchange programme and look forward to welcoming back our alumni. Oh, and Kennedy got a Christmas … Read more
What are the social and ethical issues raised by genome editing in farmed animal breeding?
Professor Rob Fraser is part of the multi-disciplinary research group at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics that have carried out this inquiry as to whether … Read more