Sussex European Institute
The Sussex European Institute (SEI) is the leading research and postgraduate training centre on contemporary European issues. SEI has a distinctive philosophy built on interdisciplinarity, a broad and inclusive approach to Europe, policy-relevance at the academic cutting edge, and integrating the European and the domestic levels of analysis.
The Institute was designated a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in 1998 and works in close collaboration with pre-eminent research centres in Europe and the wider world. As well as delivering internationally renowned Masters and doctoral programmes, and providing tailored programmes for practioners, SEI is also one of the foremost centres of cutting edge academic research on contemporary European studies.
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Teaching and research in The Sussex European Institute
The Sussex European Institute serves as the postgraduate focus for all students undertaking research degrees in Contemporary European Studies and in the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, as well as for the taught Masters degrees. The Institute has four key strategic objectives: to foster internationally excellent research on Europe that benefits both policy practitioners and the academic community; to facilitate this through external funding, publications, seminars, workshops, conferences, and consultancy on behalf of the European governance community; to recruit and train a vibrant community of research students who will become integral to the next generation of scholars and practitioners; and to thereby contribute to the political, economic and social well-being of Europe. SEI's three broad research fields are European integration, representative politics and the politics of ethnicity, citizenship and migration.
SEI was rated joint second for European studies research in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 90 per cent of our research output was ranked as internationally recognised or above, within which 15 per cent was ranked as world leading.
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T: +44 (0)1273 678578
E: sei@sussex.ac.uk