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Category: Sustainability, Environment and Natural Resources

£14m for Kent-led project to advance recycling of rare metals

By Emily Collins | 09 February 2024

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

Kent research set to play pivotal role in bringing robot technology to UK orchards

By Emily Collins | 18 January 2024

Kent research is set to play a pivotal role in a groundbreaking new project which could revolutionise fruit production in the UK. Professor of Agri-Environmental … Read more

World-leading researchers at Kent to drive radical shift in conservation science

By Emily Collins | 17 January 2024

Kent has won a prestigious Research England grant, worth £8.3 million, which will enable the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology (DICE) to answer urgent environmental questions of … Read more

What can be done to tackle the global food crisis?

By Emily Collins | 27 September 2023

On Wednesday 20 September the University played host to the annual Eastern Arc conference. Eastern Arc is the regional research consortium that brings together the … Read more

Helping the Port of Dover achieve a brighter and greener future

By Emily Collins | 26 September 2023

Kent has been named as one of four universities selected by the Port of Dover to help develop next-generation technological solutions for its future strategic … Read more

Kent KTP partner set to deliver Net Zero primary schools in the South East

By Emily Collins | 21 August 2023

Baxall Construction, a Kent-based construction solutions contractor currently working with the University of Kent through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), has secured Department for Education … Read more

UKRI-funded partnership between Kent Business School and B-Corp Priory Direct

By Emily Collins | 11 August 2023

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership will improve efficiency and service levels in sustainable packaging provision in ecommerce. A new partnership between Kent Business School at the University … Read more

Horizon Europe funding for GreenME (green prescribing) project

By Lyle Young | 02 August 2023

Dr Silvio Caputo, Kent School of Architecture and Planning, has recently received awards funding from Horizon Europe for GreenME – a project focusing on green … Read more

New research reveals the impact of different species and their traits on human wellbeing

By Lyle Young | 11 July 2023

New research has revealed for the first time that well-functioning ecosystems are crucial to human health and wellbeing, with human-biodiversity interactions delivering wellbeing gains equating … Read more

Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Kent and NatureMetrics to optimise eDNA services

By Emily Collins | 14 June 2023

When researchers Dr Kat Bruce, Prof. Doug Yu and Prof. Alfried Vogler realised the potential molecular methods for species and ecosystem monitoring had to revolutionise the world … Read more

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