1. What is your current role at nats? Senior Tutor, looking after all nats students (undergraduate and postgraduate). 2. What does this role entail/ mean … Read more
Join Us For Space School 2019, 20 Years After It’s First Launch
This is a very important year for Space: not only is it 50 years since the first human set foot on the moon, but it … Read more
SPARK Project at Kent Provides Unique Experience for Local Students and Teachers
The SPARK project From planning observations, data reduction and data processing, the participants took part in the full observational astronomy experience. Devised and run by … Read more
Staff join forces with Discovery Planet to offer a vision for a future without plastic pollution
Dr Rob Barker from SPS, is leading a team researching the potential of cellulose – a natural polymer – to create “plastic-like” materials. In a … Read more
Staff and students take part in Plastic Unwrapped
388 bottle caps. 154 shopping bags. 217 straws. 251 food packets. 600 pieces of unidentifiable plastic. What do these all have in common? They were … Read more
Physics student Alejandra enjoys research internship at the University of Tokyo
The UTRIP program (the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program), is an intensive summer internship designed for undergraduate students to receive intensive guidance on conducting research. … Read more
Your Societies
Societies are a fantastic opportunity to meet other students and enjoy fun sociable events throughout the academic year. Our SPS societies are open to all … Read more
Department help local pupils engage with observational astronomy thanks to STFC funded SPARK project
SPS welcomed A-level students and teachers from three local schools to the campus on 13th, 14th and 15th June to take part in an exciting … Read more
Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz shortlisted for experiment with the international space station
Dr Wozniakiewicz is developing a project for a new type of dust particle collector that would sit outside the space station and collect orbital debris. … Read more
Kent’s Applied Optics Group hosts Image Guided Therapies Network Meeting
Last month, Prof Adrian Podoleanu and other members of the Applied Optics Group (AOG) hosted around 50 participants in Darwin Conference Centre for an Image Guided … Read more