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50 unusual facts about University of Kent


Actuarial credentialing and exams

At the undergraduate level the only locally accredited programmes are currently at University of Manchester, University College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast, Heriot-Watt University, University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, University of Southampton, City University, London and the University of Kent.

Alfred P. Smyth

Earlier, he was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Kent, when he was Master of Keynes College.

Alice Wheeldon

In January 2012 the BBC reported on a campaign to clear Alice Wheeldon's name, quoting Dr Nicholas Hiley of the University of Kent who said the case against her was "shaky".

Alixe Bovey

Alixe Bovey is a Canadian lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Ann Hercus

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Auckland and a law degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Anthony Thirlwall

In 1966 he joined the new University of Kent and was appointed as Professor of Applied Economics in 1976.

Tony Thirlwall (born 1941) is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Kent.

Anthropological Index Online

It is a collaboration between the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Anthropology Department at the University of Kent.

BlueJ

BlueJ is currently being maintained by a joint team at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England – where Kölling now lectures, and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Canterbury and Whitstable Railway

Part of the Tyler Hill tunnel collapsed at the beginning of July 1974, causing severe subsidence to some buildings at the University of Kent at Canterbury that had been built on the hill above.

Canterbury Cathedral

The library's holdings are included in the online catalogue of the library of the University of Kent.

Caste system among Muslims

Stephen M. Lyon of University of Kent has written about what he calls "Gujarism", the act of Gurjars in Pakistan seeking out other Gurjars to form associations, and consolidate ties with them, based strictly on caste affiliation.

Central School of Ballet

From 2004 Central started to offer degree courses accredited by the University of Kent.

Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard is a reader in the Film Studies Department and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Kent.

Cyril Isenberg

Cyril Isenberg MBE is an English physicist at the University of Kent, where he is an Honorary Lecturer.

David Horsey

Horsey's first job was as a reporter for the Bellevue Journal-American, but in 1979 he was hired to be the editorial cartoonist of the Post-Intelligencer. In 1986, he earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Kent in England.

David Seabrook

Seabrook studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury gaining an MA with a dissertation on Marcel Proust.

Deborah Bull

She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by University of Derby (1998), Sheffield Hallam University (2001), Kent University (2010) and the Open University (2005) and was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Dickens Fellowship

The current editor is Professor Malcolm Andrews of the University of Kent.

Edinburgh Multiple Access System

The University of Kent system went live in December 1979, and ran on the least powerful machine in the ICL 2900 range - an ICL 2960, with 2MB of memory, executing about 290k instructions per second.

Near the end of its life, the refactored version was back-ported (as EMAS-3) to the Amdahl 470 mainframe clone, and thence to the IBM System/370-XA architecture (the latter with help from the University of Kent, although they never actually ran EMAS-3).

EMAS was a powerful and efficient general purpose multi-user system which supplied all the computing needs of Edinburgh University and the University of Kent (the only other site outside Edinburgh to adopt the operating system).

Elizabeth Buchan

In 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Ellie Lee

Dr. Ellie Lee is a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent in Kent, United Kingdom.

Greenfoot

Greenfoot is being developed and maintained at the University of Kent and La Trobe University, with support from Oracle.

John Zarnecki

In 1981, he moved to the University of Kent in Canterbury and became the project manager for the Dust Impact Detection System on board the Giotto probe that visited Halley's Comet.

Since 2000, he has worked at the Open University, having previously been a professor and researcher at the University of Kent.

Jonathan Simons

Before entering medical school, Simons studied as a Rotary International Postgraduate Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and a Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Karen Boswall

She is a part-time lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Kent.

Kent University

The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury) in the United Kingdom

Leon McCarron

He studied Film at the University of Kent, and subsequently set off on a 14,000 mile bicycle ride from New York to Hong Kong.

Marilynne Robinson

She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Kent, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst' MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

Meena Kandasamy

She has also represented India at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

Michael J. L. Kirby

In the 1960s Kirby was a professor of Business Administration and Public Administration at Dalhousie and also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Kent.

Michael Kölling

Michael Kölling is a professor and software developer with the School of Computing at the University of Kent.

Nancy Hazel

Nancy Hazel was a Research Fellow with the School of Social Work at the University of Kent.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade

They met each other while they were going to school at the University of Kent, when they were assigned as room-mates.

Patrice Pavis

Patrice Pavis is Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

Paul Sutcliffe

Paul Sutcliffe is professor of mathematics, formerly at the University of Kent, now at Durham University.

Richard Sakwa

Sakwa is currently Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent.

Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent.

Roger Cardinal

Roger Cardinal is the author of the book Outsider Art, published in 1972, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.

Ruth Abbey

Since 2003 she has managed an extensive online resource, supported by the University of Kent and the British Academy, for the works by and about Charles Taylor.

Rxvt

rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey of the University of Kent.

Shanghai marriage market

The University of Kent predicts that by the year 2020, 24 million men will be unmarried and unable to find a wife.

Shumei University

Prior to the establishment, the Chaucer College Canterbury, also called as the Shumei Canterbury College, was established by Hiroshi Kawashima in 1992 in the area of the University of Kent in Kent, England.

St Augustine's Hospital, Chartham

In 1972, when the hospital was under the leadership of medical superintendent John Ainslie, a post-doctorate researcher in chemistry called William Ankers (from the nearby University of Kent) obtained a temporary job as a nursing assistant.

Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

The university is fully accredited to National Assessment and Accreditation Council and has tied with major international universities such as University of Vienna, the University of Bristol, the University of Kent, University of Lyon, University of Notre Dame, etc.

Zameer Choudrey

Zameer Choudrey graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury and is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.


Bryan Keith-Lucas

In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent.

David Say

Say supported the city of Rochester, Chatham, Kent County Cricket Club, the University of Kent (serving as Pro Chancellor for several years) and, more recently, Canterbury itself.

Jerrold Levinson

He has also held visiting appointments in other countries, such as England (University of London and University of Kent), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), France (Université de Rennes), Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Portugal (Universidade de Lisboa) and Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana).

Kazuo Ishiguro

Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.

Kent Family Placement Project

The Kent Family Placement Project (also known as the "Kent Project") was initiated in 1975 by Nancy Hazel, noted author and previous Research Fellow with the University of Kent department of Social Work.

Matt Preston

Preston is the son of well respected British Naval historian/journalist Antony Preston and was educated in Sussex at Worth School and graduated from the University of Kent with a BA Hons in Politics and Government.

Universities at Medway

The Universities at Medway is a tri-partite collaboration of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University on a single campus in Chatham, Medway, South East England.