For the fourth successive year the University of Kent has, with one of its longstanding international partners, Ghent University, Belgium, supported a number of collaborative projects across a range of disciplines from funding offered by Kent’s Dean for Internationalisation, Dr Anthony Manning.

The following projects have been funded for 2016:

• Advancing the Acquisition and Use of UAV Data on Architectural Heritage (Classical and Archaeological Studies, led by Benjamin Vis)
• Political psychology research collaboration on ideology and intergroup relations (School of Psychology, led by Kristof Dhont)
• Researching Nineteenth-Century Periodicals: European Networks of Print (School of English, led, by Catherine Waters)
• Shaping Religious Cultures in the Medieval West: An Exploratory Workshop (School of History led by Barbara Bombi and Helen Gittos)
• Kent-Ghent Film Partnership (Film Studies, led by Mattias Frey)
• Structural Modelling and Estimation of Job Search Models (School of Economics, led by Andrey Launov)
• High-throughput imaging and pattern recognition for label-free cell screening (School of Engineering and Digital Arts, led by Chao Wang).

Since 2009, the Universities of Kent and Ghent have enjoyed a strategic international partnership covering activities in student exchange, Erasmus Mundus, co-supervision of research, joint research and the exchange of knowledge and best practice between staff in professional services.

In order to stimulate further cooperation, funding has been offered since 2013 to support projects involving short-term staff/student exchange, seminars, workshops, preparatory meetings to establish longer-term collaboration (eg double degrees, joint research, joint Erasmus bids).

To date, 31 projects have been funded in: Anthropology and Conservation, Arts, Economics, Engineering and Digital Arts, English, European Culture and Languages, History, Kent Business School, Kent Law School, Medway School of Pharmacy, Physical Sciences, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Sport and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Journalism, and Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image.