Kent Business School has been awarded £180k funding to work on a project with The Port of Dover and other academic and industrial partners within the Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS) consortium to … Read more
Category: Academic Divisions
‘New Philosophical Foundations for Evidence Based Law’ project receives Leverhulme Trust research funding
Professor Jon Williamson, Department of Philosophy, has recently received a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust for his project ‘EBL+: new philosophical foundations for evidence-based … Read more
Be inspired for the year ahead at the Kent and Medway Business Summit
The New Year is often a time for businesses to reflect on past challenges and set goals for the coming months – and understanding the … Read more
Kent team create material that can stop supersonic impacts
A Kent team, led by Professors Ben Goult and Jen Hiscock, has created and patented a ground-breaking new shock-absorbing material that could revolutionise both the defence and planetary … Read more
KEF2 Roadshow coming to an Academic Division near you
The second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) was published in September, providing us, businesses and other users with a clearer understanding of how … Read more
Kent researchers to co-investigate public perceptions of administrative fairness in the digital welfare state
Two academics from the Division of Human and Social Sciences, Dr Ben Seyd (School of Politics and International Relations) and Professor Aleksandra Cichocka (School of … Read more
University of Kent partnership to improve IVF success rates awarded ‘Outstanding’ by Innovate UK
A second Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Kent and London Women’s Clinic (LWC) has been awarded an ‘A’ for Outstanding by Innovate … Read more
International ‘New Doctoral’ biotechnology research funding opportunity
Professor Colin Robinson (PI) and Professor Mark Smales (Co-I) from the School of Biosciences have been awarded a £530,000 grant from the EU for their … Read more
CEMS lecturer wins EPSRC New Investigator Award
Dr Lijuan Wang, (Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, CEMS) has won the EPSRC New Investigator Award for the project “Automatic quality assessment of waste plastic bales … Read more
Same-sex dance pairings on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing: A means to promote inclusive participation in ballroom dancing?
BBC’s move on Strictly Come Dancing leads us to question: To what extent has BBC’s featuring of same-sex dance couples encouraged increased societal acceptance of … Read more