University of Kent Natural Sciences

27/02/2025

27/01/2025

Team Row4Cancer are the winners of the World’s Toughest Row 2024! 🎉🎉

After 37 days, 13 hours and 20 minutes at sea – a new world record almost two days ahead of the second placed crew – the four-man Dutch team arrived at Nelson’s Dockyard on 17 January, having produced an estimated 1.5 million oar strokes, with the individual members burning in excess of 5000 calories per day.

Congratulations to the team, and well done to SERS staff John, James, Megan, Chris, Alastair and Harry!

For more details on the race: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/uncategorized/36022

20/01/2025

We're thrilled to announce that our brilliant academics, Professor Mark Smales and Professor Kathy Kotiadis, are leading an incredible £8.2 million project to fast-track innovative tools for better and faster disease diagnosis 🩺

Backed by a £3.8m Research England grant, this initiative will unite England’s top diagnostic experts and launch the Centre for Advanced Diagnostics Development and Application (CADDA) here at Kent.

In collaboration with the University of Manchester (led by Professor Alan Dickson) and University College London (UCL) (led by Professor Jolene Skordis), the project will bridge the gap between academia, industry, and end users, driving cutting-edge diagnostic solutions forward.

Find out more about why this matters at www.kent.ac.uk/news/health-social-care-and-wellbeing/35995/diagnostics-development-centre-announced

14/01/2025

Music Performance Scholar Heather is a unique student, balancing her studies with performing and teaching folk music, as well as excelling in hockey and other sports 🎵 🏑

A perhaps unlikely pairing of passions, but she makes it work harmoniously! Hear from Stand-out Scholar Heather: https://bit.ly/4fTIZ4H

05/11/2024

Our leading experts on the science of ageing will be inspiring the local community to embrace their inner scientist in a series of free, interactive workshops in Ramsgate this weekend 👴 🔬

The workshops, hosted in collaboration with Discovery Planet, will see Biogerontologist, Dr Jennifer Tullet, and Microbiologist, Dr Emma Hargreaves, run a series of family-friendly activities to introduce the wonderful world of scientific worms, what they can teach us about our own bodies and ways to keep it healthy.

Supported by a number of students and researchers from Dr Tullet’s lab, participants will have the chance to view the worm, C.elegans, under the microscope and examine how the different stages of the worm’s development relate to those of the human lifecycle.

Read more at https://bit.ly/4hw2WAw

05/11/2024

Ever wondered wondered what it's like to work with elite football players? 🤔 ⚽

Meet Kent PhD Student in Sport and Exercise Science, Zacharias (Zachi) Flore, who has spent the last few years of his PhD working with Bundesliga clubs Werder Bremen Frauenfußball and Hamburg1887.

Driven by a passion for athlete recovery, Zachi noticed a gap in evidence-based rehab protocols for players with lateral ankle sprains. So, he developed his own rehabilitation algorithm for use in professional clubs, which needed to be tested on a large scale, which is where his PhD comes in!

Read as Zachi shares more about his time in elite football so far ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fqkDiX

📸 Physiotherapist Zacharias Flore (left), helps Hamburg SV football player Stephan Ambrosius (centre) off the pitch alongside Physiotherapist Mario Reichert (right) - Wittens GbmH

10/09/2024

Are you joining us for our Postgraduate Open Event tomorrow? 🤔

Come along and discover what it's like to be a PG student at Kent! You'll be able to:

➡️ Chat to current students and staff
➡️ Get all the information you need on fees and funding your study
➡️ Talk through the application process with our admission experts
➡️ Meet our academic staff to discuss your project

For more information visit 👉 www.kent.ac.uk/courses/visit/postgraduate-events -now