Specialist facilities

Our Kent and Medway campuses are home to a vast range of specialist facilities and spaces for teaching and research and innovation projects, many of which are available for industry to use and hire. Use this page to explore what we have to offer.

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  • Biosciences Science Facility
  • Biomolecular NMR facility
  • Cell image analysis facility
  • Animal cell culture facilities
  • Animal cell and bacterial fermentation 
  • Cell sorting
  • Anaerobic sample handling
  • Fast reaction kinetics
  • Parallel computing cluster
  • Laser trap rig
  • Automated sample handling
  • Level 3 containment.  

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  • Beacon Observatory
  • Light gas gun
  • CEM microwave reactor
  • Ovens and furnaces
  • Double-stage adiabatic demagnetisation refrigerator (dADR)
  • Photonics Centre
  • Applied optics research lab

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  • Crime Scene House
  • Experimental ballistics chamber
  • Comparison microscope
  • Scanning electron microscope
  • Synthetic laboratories
  • CEM microwave reactor
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility
  • X-ray diffraction suite  

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  • Physiology, biomechanics, and psychobiology labratories
  • Two large therapy clinics and two rehabilitation gyms
  • 3D motion capture
  • Heat and altitude environment chamber
  • Exercise testing (ergometers, isokinetic dynamometer, brain and muscle stimulators, blood testing, gait analysis)
  • Anti-gravity treadmill 
  • Neuromuscular laboratory
  • Strength and conditioning suite
  • Kent Sports Clinic.

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  • Over the Counter (OTC) room
  • Dispensing lab
  • Pharmaceutical technology lab
  • Simulation Laboratory
  • Viral Pseudotype Unit
  • Mock aseptic unit.

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Teaching and training labs and rooms.

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  • Conservation laboratories
  • Ecology laboratory
  • Animal postcranial evolution laboratory 
  • Ethnobiology laboratory
  • Human osteology research laboratory
  • Virtual palaeoanthropology laboratory

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  • Archaeology laboratory
  • Geophysical survey equipment
  • Land survey equipment
  • Laser scanner
  • PXRF analyser.

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  • Aphra Theatre (113 seat)
  • Forest Studio
  • 1000msq construction workshop
  • 3D printer
  • Film production studio
  • Lupino cinema
  • Editing suite
  • The Drilling Shed, Fire Station, and The Smitheries music studios
  • Music and audio technology equipment.

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  • Linguistics Laboratory
  • FSR Research Eyelink 1000 eye-tracker
  • Recording and perception software
  • Acoustic/speech analysis software.

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  • Digital Crit Space
  • Digital Design studios and workshop

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  • Anechoic Chamber
  • Speech workstation
  • Robotics/wheelchair laboratory
  • Gait analysis system
  • Biometrics facilities
  • Mechanical workshop
  • Antenna test facility
  • Millimetre-wave network analyser 
  • Optical/optoelectronic test and measurement equipment
  • Clean air suite
  • Digital media hub.
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  • Bloomberg suite
  • ASPIRE Lab Space
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  • Virtual reality (VR) lab
  • Visual cognition laboratories
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation
  • Social cognition laboratory 
  • Physiological measurement laboratories
  • Galvanic vestibular stimulation laboratory 
  • Eye-tracking 
  • ERP/EEG labs
  • Observational suite
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  • Kennedy Wong Moot Court
  • Kent Law Clinic
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  • Three newsrooms
  • Two radio studios.
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