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Press Centre

Welcome to our Press centre. Here you will find information on how to contact our Press team, read our press releases, and learn about some of key facts and inspirational people that have helped make Kent the great University it is. 

For all press or media enquiries, please contact our Press team

If you work in the media and would like to learn more about any aspect of Kent, including our world-leading research, or speak with any of our academic experts, our team will be happy to help.  

Kent is known regionally, nationally and internationally for our research strengths, with particular excellence and expertise in:

  • Creativity, Culture and Heritage
  • Cyber Security, Digital Technology and Communication
  • Health, Social Care and Wellbeing
  • Social Justice, Inequalities and Conflict
  • Sustainability, Environment and Natural Resources

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Contact our Press team

To contact our Press Office for general enquiries please email pressoffice@kent.ac.uk

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    Gary Hughes

    Press & PR Manager
    Email: g.m.hughes@kent.ac.uk 
    Tel: + 44 (0) 7713 087982

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    Katherine Moss

    Senior Press & PR Officer
    Email: k.e.moss@kent.ac.uk
    Tel: + 44 (0) 7514 318356

    Press enquiries for divisions of Arts & Humanities; Kent Business School; Natural Sciences

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    Olivia Miller

    Press & PR Officer 
    Email: o.miller@kent.ac.uk 
    Tel:+ 44 (0) 7834 808437  

      Press enquiries for divisions of Computing, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences; Human & Social Sciences; Law, Society & Social Justice  

    Working Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri 0800-1700 

Get in touch with us if:

  • You would like to speak to one of our many experts or learn more about their research.
  • You want to record or film at any of our campuses. We are happy to work with you on this but please note that permission must be requested in advance.
  • You want more information about Kent or have any queries about the University.

Dr Chris Shepherd

School of Chemistry and Forensic Science

Ballistics, forensics

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Professor Zoe Davies

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology

Professor Zoe Davies has diverse research interests, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries but focusing on the use of empirical data to address questions of importance to conservation management and policy.

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Professor Nikhil Sengupta

School of Psychology

Dr Nikhil Sengupta is known for his use of large-scale longitudinal surveys in several countries to investigate people’s attitudes towards the society in which they live.

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Dr Anna Jordanous

School of Computing

Dr Anna Jordanous is working within the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) research group to help us navigate the widespread adoption of AI in society and bring us closer to answering these fundamental questions.

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Lisa Walsh

School of Sports and Exercise Science

Lecturer in Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and Chartered Physiotherapist, Lisa Walsh, aspires to tackle the distinct lack of research in, and understanding of, women’s needs in sport.

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Sheona York

Kent Law School

Sheona York focusses on issues arising from recent and current UK immigration policies such as the aim to reduce net migration, to discourage unlawful migrants through the ‘hostile environment’ and to deport foreign criminals.

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Dr Rubrick Biegon

Dr Rubrick Biegon

Dr Rubrick Biegon from the School of Politics and International Relations, specialises in the political violence and political economy of US power in international relations.

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Lisa Dikomitis profile

Professor Lisa Dikomitis

As a Belgian-Cypriot anthropologist and Director of the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) at Kent, Professor Lisa Dikomitis brings a unique perspective to global health research. 

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Dr Silvio Caputo

Dr Silvio Caputo

Architect Dr Silvio Caputo has extensively researched how reconnecting with our food through urban farming – the practice of cultivating crops and livestock in urban environments – can help us, our food systems, and the planet.

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We are immensely proud of our alumni, many of whom remain keen ambassadors for Kent around the world. Here are just some of our alumni that have gone on to achieve great things. 

Since we opened in 1965, we have had many outstanding and influential academics teach and research at the University. This includes Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Emeritus Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah. 

Emeritus Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He is the author of ten highly acclaimed novels including Paradise, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. Until his recent retirement, he was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the School of English. Professor Gurnah was a member of the Man Booker Prize judging panel in 2016. 

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.’ 

Essential Kent

 Want to know things about our University? Here's some key facts about Kent...  

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Kent at a glance

  • We have links with over 400 institutions around the world
  • We've been designated a Fair Trade university since 2006
  • We're located in Canterbury, Medway, Brussels and Paris - find out more about our locations
  • We have eight colleges: Eliot, Rutherford, Keynes, Darwin, Woolf, Medway, Turing and Park Wood College.
  • For the history of Kent visit our Pride in our Past page.   
  • We have two libraries containing over 1.1 million books and journals, thousands of e-books, e-journals and databases with over 2,700  study spaces 
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Students

  • Total number of students - 18,865
  • Number of students on Canterbury campus - 15,645
  • Number of students on Medway campus - 2,000
  • Number of Undergraduate full-time students - 14,530
  • Number of Postgraduate full-time students - 2,510
  • Student population - 54% women, 46% men
  • Students from 152 countries are represented at Kent, 80% (UK), 13% (overseas), 8% (Europe)
  • Student accommodation - over 5,300 bedrooms at Canterbury, 1,100 at Pier Quays in Medway 
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Staff and Alumni

  • Total number of staff - 4,592 - 1,243 of these are academic staff 
  • Staff population - 57% women, 43% men
  • Staff profile - 77% (UK), 23% from Europe and overseas
  • Total number of alumni - 181,000 from over 180 countries