The event will bring together 150 key people across the region including clinicians, commissioners, patients, medical students, business innovators and academics to help tackle health … Read more
Category: Research Strengths
Social media algorithms amplify misogynistic content to teens
Social media algorithms amplify extreme content, such as misogynistic posts, which normalises harmful ideologies for young people, finds a new report co-authored by Professor Nicola Shaughnessy from … Read more
Five ways Kent research is improving our food systems
As a Right to Food university, Kent is committed to supporting food systems that advance human health and environmental sustainability in society. This starts with Kent … Read more
Stand-up comedy workshops can aid eating disorder recovery
Kent-led research has broken new ground by showing that stand-up comedy workshops can complement conventional approaches to eating disorder recovery. Comedy For Coping, a six-week … Read more
Major boost for UK hops industry
A pioneering collaborative project between University of Kent researchers and Wye Hops alongside National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), the British Hop Association, The Hop Plant Company and LGC genomics has been awarded … Read more
Kent joins Space East
Kent is to become part of Space East, the rapidly growing cluster group for the space sector in the East of England, which has recently expanded … Read more
£14m for Kent-led project to advance recycling of rare metals
Kent bioscientist Professor Martin Warren is set to lead a national consortia which aims to use biology to recover and recycle rare earth elements after securing funding … Read more
Homo sapiens reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago
An international research project has discovered the arrival of Homo sapiens in cold northern latitudes took place several thousand years before Neanderthals disappeared in southwest Europe. The … Read more
International enrichment drama workshops launched for UK secondary schools
An in-person enrichment drama and language workshop scheme using international plays to educate UK secondary school students about local cultures and histories has been launched. … Read more
Green light for groundbreaking new creative digital hub in Chatham
The Docking Station, the University’s groundbreaking hub for digital creative industries, has moved a step closer to reality as Medway Council planning committee has approved … Read more