Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: Architectural Research Quarterly; Architectural Review; Building and Environment; The World of Interiors. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests.

The School has excellent contacts with businesses and culture in the local area, including regional organisations such as the Kent Architecture Centre, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Kent County Council and Kent Design Initiative. The Sustainable Communities Plan is particularly strong in south-east England, making the region the ideal place in which to debate innovative solutions to architectural issues.

Kent also has excellent links with schools of architecture in Lille, Bruges, Rome, Bauhaus-Dessau, and, in the USA, Virginia and California.

Academic study is complemented by a mentoring scheme organised in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and involving students in events with local practices.

Kent also has excellent links with schools of architecture in Lille, Bruges, Rome, Bauhaus- Dessau, and, in the USA, Virginia and California.

The School of Architecture has an enthusiastic team of academic staff with many years of teaching experience at degree level, and particular strengths in historical, environmental, technical and digital aspects of the subject. Many of our lecturers are highly active within contemporary debates and also draw on their experience as practitioners within the field. Academic study is complemented by a mentoring scheme organised in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and involving students in events with local practices.

AHRA Scale Conference In November 2010, the Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte) at the Kent School of Architecture hosted the 7^th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference on the subject of ‘scale'. Speakers and delegates came from throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, and from as far as the Middle East, the Americas and the Antipodes.

Papers were presented by leading academics and professionals in their fields which addressed scale in the post-humanist age, in design practice, technology, psychology, sociology, literature and the arts.

The opening address was given by Sir David Chipperfield CBE (of David Chipperfield Architects), who was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Kent in November 2010.

Keynote speakers included Nathalie de Vries of MVRDV, based in the Netherlands; Hannah Higgins, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois; Robert Tavernor of the London School of Economics and architect Nathalie Rozencwajg of RARE, London and Paris.

Papers from the conference are due to be published by Routledge in Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture in Autumn 2011.