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 World-leading researchers in key areas, such as systems security, communications
and computing education, and interdisciplinary work with biosciences and psychology all contribute to an extensive support framework for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
World-class teaching
An internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, the School of Computing is a leader in computer science
teaching and home to two National Teaching Fellows, authors of widely used textbooks and award-winning teaching systems such as BlueJ and Greenfoot.
Latest news
National diary project requires HE teaching professionals
A project funded by the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme and led by the University of Kent's Sally Fincher is asking teaching
professionals involved in Higher Education to keep an anonymous diary on the 15th of every month for one year, starting 15 September 2010.
Royal Society award for Kent computing lecturer
Dr. Peter Rodgers has been awarded a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship to work on real-time schematics with Trafficlink and ITIS Holdings. The award provides £117,272 to fund Dr. Rodgers for
three years and began on 1 August 2010.
NXT Generation Robotics in Science Extravaganza
As part of the recent Science Extravaganza event, organised by the
Faculty of Sciences at Kent, groups of year 9 school students attended "NXT Generation Robotics" workshops, where they learned about computer programming through the use of the LEGO®
Mindstorms NXT robots and Mindstorms programming software.
Google Summer of Code for Kent computing postgraduate
Laurence Hellyer, a PhD student in the School of Computing, has
won a $5000 studentship from Google for the 2010 Summer of Code. Laurence will be developing an On the fly copying garbage collector for the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (Jikes RVM) project.
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