 The University of Kent was granted its Royal Charter in 1965 and the first students arrived in the October of that year.
The main campus covers 300 acres and is just over a mile from Canterbury's city centre.
In 1997 the University opened a new centre, the Bridge Wardens' College (BWC), in Chatham's Historic Dockyard. In spring 2000 the University signed an agreement with Mid-Kent College to form the University of Kent at Medway, based at Horsted in Chatham and also at BWC. Kent also has centres in Tonbridge, London and Brussels.
The University has three associate colleges: Canterbury College, Mid-Kent College and South Kent College.
The Applied Optics group within the School of Physical Sciences within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medical studies will be contributing to the work on use of fibre optics for down hole sensing. More details of the University are to be found at:- http://www.kent.ac.uk
More details of the work of the Applied Optics Group can be found at http://www.kent.ac.uk/physical-sciences/aog/
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