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Month: April 2025

Stop Food Waste Day: helping businesses turn food waste into profit

By Emily Collins | 30 April 2025

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

Business leaders gather on campus to mark renewed support for local area

By Emily Collins | 30 April 2025

Kent recently joined local business leaders on its Canterbury campus to celebrate the start of another year as Patrons of the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce. … Read more

AI-powered virtual humans set to boost NHS care in Kent and Medway

By Emily Collins | 29 April 2025

A half a million-pound collaboration between Kent researchers and NHS professionals will explore how AI-powered ‘virtual humans’ can be used by regional healthcare providers to … Read more

Supporting the national effort to create fairer food systems

By Emily Collins | 23 April 2025

Professor Ben Lowe from Kent Business School is contributing to a major UKRI-funded research project aimed at tackling food inequality across the UK. The Food Systems … Read more

Netwalking event highlights Canterbury campus open for business

By Emily Collins | 15 April 2025

On Thursday 10 April, the University of Kent welcomed over 40 members of the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce to its 300-acre Canterbury campus for a tour … Read more

Sanctuary Solidarities: Call for proposals for EARC Conference 2025 now open

By Emily Collins | 15 April 2025

This year our conference will focus on ‘Sanctuary Solidarities’, and the call for proposals is now open. The Eastern Arc region has been shaped by migration … Read more

Ankle injury study with Bundesliga teams highlights pressures of returning to play

By Olivia Miller | 11 April 2025

New research undertaken with football teams in the Bundesliga has shown a trend between ankle injury recurrences and the speed of returning to play after … Read more

New guidance making STEMM more inclusive

By Emily Collins | 09 April 2025

Professor Jennifer Leigh has co-authored a White Paper raising awareness of the needs of disabled people working in STEMM areas (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) … Read more

World-leading collection reaches 3,000 drug-resistant cancer cell line milestone

By Emily Collins | 09 April 2025

The Resistant Cancer Cell Line (RCCL) collection at Kent and the Dr Petra Joh Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has reached a new milestone and … Read more

New study proves pets increase human life satisfaction and wellbeing

By Olivia Miller | 08 April 2025

Having a cat or a dog as a companion can increase human life satisfaction and wellbeing as much as family and friends do, according to … Read more

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