Research Active The Newsletter of University of Kent Research Services, Vol 12, Issue 1, Oct 2017
‘WE NEED TO LOOK TO THE HORIZON’ Prof Karen Cox arrived at Kent in August as the University’s sixth Vice Chancellor, succeeding Dame Julia Goodfellow. Since then she’s been meeting colleagues across the University, and getting a sense of what makes Kent tick. Here she talks about coming to Kent, and what her vision is for the future of research at the University. I read your blog post, which I thought was a useful insight into your first impressions of the University. What did you know about Kent before you arrived? To be honest I didn’t know much. I knew about its health service research [Cox’s background is in nursing, and she was professor of cancer and palliative care at Nottingham before coming to Kent]. More broadly I was aware of its reputation in the social sciences, and was vaguely aware of the European dimension. But I didn’t know much more. Continued on page 2
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