Press Centre - University of Kent
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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
Latest news
Filter
Contact our Press team
To contact our Press
Office for general enquiries please email
pressoffice@kent.ac.uk
Katherine Moss
External Communications Lead
Tel: + 44 (0) 7514 318356
Georgina Mear
Media Relations Manager
Tel: + 44 (0) 7713087982
Grace Shore-Banks
Public Relations Manager
Tel: + 44 (0) 7834808437
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.
Meet our experts
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.
Spotlight on notable alumni
Gavin Esler (Rutherford 1971)
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.
Ellie Goulding (Rutherford 2006)
Singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is an alumna of Kent who studied drama and theatre studies. She received an honorary degree in 2019.
Read more
Alan Davies (Keynes 1984)
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.
Read more
Susannah Townsend MBE (Medway 2008)
Susannah is an Olympic winning field-hockey player who studied Sports and Exercise Science at Medway and still regular trains on our campus.
Read more
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Darwin 1974)
Award-winning author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro studied English and Philosophy at Kent.
Read more
Dr YolanDa Brown (Keynes 2001)
Double MOBO Award Winning Saxophonist YolanDa Brown studied European Management Science at Kent and is now our Chancellor of the university.
Read more
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
s
hortlisted 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
.’
Find out more about Abdulrazak Gurnah
Essential Kent
Want to know things about our University? Here's some key facts about Kent...
Key links and information
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
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
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
Jump to content
Press Centre page
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
Latest news
Filter
Contact our Press team
To contact our Press
Office for general enquiries please email
pressoffice@kent.ac.uk
Katherine Moss
External Communications Lead
Tel: + 44 (0) 7514 318356
Georgina Mear
Media Relations Manager
Tel: + 44 (0) 7713087982
Grace Shore-Banks
Public Relations Manager
Tel: + 44 (0) 7834808437
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.
Meet our experts
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.
Spotlight on notable alumni
Gavin Esler (Rutherford 1971)
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.
Ellie Goulding (Rutherford 2006)
Singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is an alumna of Kent who studied drama and theatre studies. She received an honorary degree in 2019.
Read more
Alan Davies (Keynes 1984)
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.
Read more
Susannah Townsend MBE (Medway 2008)
Susannah is an Olympic winning field-hockey player who studied Sports and Exercise Science at Medway and still regular trains on our campus.
Read more
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Darwin 1974)
Award-winning author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro studied English and Philosophy at Kent.
Read more
Dr YolanDa Brown (Keynes 2001)
Double MOBO Award Winning Saxophonist YolanDa Brown studied European Management Science at Kent and is now our Chancellor of the university.
Read more
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
s
hortlisted 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
.’
Find out more about Abdulrazak Gurnah
Essential Kent
Want to know things about our University? Here's some key facts about Kent...
Key links and information
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
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
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