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:
To contact our Press Office for general enquiries please email pressoffice@kent.ac.uk
Our academics have expertise across multiple topics driving today's news agenda
School of Chemistry and Forensic Science
Ballistics, forensics
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Journalist and author Gavin Esler is the sixth Chancellor at Kent. He studied English and American Literature and was an awarded an honorary MA in 1995.
Singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is an alumna of Kent who studied drama and theatre studies. She received an honorary degree in 2019.
Comedian, actor and author Alan Davies was a student at Kent in the 1980s. Watch our YouTube video as he sits down with our Chancellor Gavin Esler in our 'In Conversation series' back in 2019.
Susannah is an Olympic winning field-hockey player who studied Sports and Exercise Science at Medway and still regular trains on our campus.
Award-winning author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro studied English and Philosophy at Kent.
Double MOBO Award Winning Saxophonist YolanDa Brown studied European Management Science at Kent.
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.
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.’
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