Light For Life (Light4Life)

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Light for Life brings together teams working on the technology, applications and understanding of light. The theme’s research areas each have potential to be distinctive markers in the UK research landscape, capitalising on Kent’s unique strengths and ambitions such as intellectual property in optical coherence tomography, leading forensic training, and unique capabilities in embryology, reproduction, and cancer. It builds on existing links with Kent NHS Trusts, as well as a network of external collaborators. By encompassing scientific, technological and humanities disciplines, it will enable Kent to respond to the needs of society with a versatile team of experts collaborating across disciplinary boundaries.

Light for Life will create a new hub for inter-disciplinary research on light for the University of Kent and the surrounding region. Its research activities will span across a range of disciplines and domains of human knowledge. It will include the development of novel, light-based technologies and the use of light to gain new understanding and capabilities in applications such as forensics, biosciences, psychology and medicine. It will encompass the role of light in everyday human life, from how built environments are illuminated to the way light affects moods and perception. As a critical factor in the way many forms of art and heritage are created and interpreted, light will be the common thread that can help forge new links between the humanities and the sciences. Light for Life will stimulate development of new research teams from across the three faculties, challenging them to generate and develop radically new ideas of how light can be used to impact human lives.

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University of Kent
Canterbury