Mr Martin Wingfield
| Location: | ARTS C C129 |
| Email: | M.A.Wingfield@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
BA (Open 1992) PG Cert Computing (Open 2006)
I came to Geography at Sussex back in the days of VAX terminals and Apple II Europlus microcomputers and my job has evolved with the advance of computing from using BBC Basic on the BBC Bs and Acorn Archimedes in the 1980s through to setting up one of the first university web sites for Geography on a Sun SPARCStation back in the 1990s and then on to the present day working as chief website editor for a large number of Sussex sites.
Role
I manage the following websites:
School
- Global Studies external site
- Global Studies internal site for current students and staff
- Global Studies intranet
Departments
Research Centres
- Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)
- Centre for Coastal Research (CCR)
- Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH)
- Centre for Global Political Economy
- Centre for World Environmental History
- Climate@Sussex
- Migrating out of Poverty International Research Programme Consortium
- Sussex Africa Centre
- Sussex Asia Centre
- Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research (SCSR)
- Sussex Centre for Migration Research
- Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre
Recent Research Projects
- Raising Labour Standards in Bangladesh’s Global Garment Industry: What Role for Compensation Rights?
- Forecasting with fishers - Co-producing knowledge for early warning of extreme weather events on the coast of South India
- Inter-Asian Dynamics Research Network
- Son preference in the UK
- Yiwu: Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International City
Sussex Blogs
Other Sites
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Geomorphology ~ courses currently not running
I am Broadcast editor for many of the school channels. I manage the Geography department's Twitter account - @SussexGeog and the Los Angeles field class Twitter account - @SussexGeogLA.
I also maintain a number of Geography staff and student email groups and the Postcolonial email group.
I assist on the Los Angeles field class for second year geographers and help produce our LA Blog.