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Sussex students receive SAGE scholarships

Three first-year Sussex students have been chosen to receive a new scholarship funded by the publishing company SAGE.

Recipients of SAGE bursariesSAGE scholarship recipients (from left to right) Lenart Celar, Eva Brittin-Snell and Lucy Hensher 

Eva Brittin-Snell (International Relations), Lenart Celar (Psychology) and Lucy Hensher (Geography) will each receive £1,000 a year from the academic and professional publisher for the duration of their three-year degrees.

They will write blog posts throughout their time at Sussex, starting with their first impressions of university life. You can read their updates on SPLASH, the University’s blogging platform.

Staff from the Library and SAGE will track the progress of the students and, by monitoring changes in how they seek information, hope to enhance the value of the services and collections that they offer.

The three students, introducing their blogs, said:

“Our blogs will hopefully share with others the positives and difficulties most students face in order to improve facilities. It is important that we write truthfully; there are no right and wrong answers and if we, or our fellow students, are not happy with an aspect of the course, we will be honest.

“We each pursue different interests and so we will cover a wide range of blog topics. As we begin our blogging with SAGE and our confidence grows, we look forward to visiting relevant conferences and putting on student-based events.”

SAGE has since 2010 funded the Sussex Research Hive, a dedicated space in the Library where researchers and academics can meet and discuss their work. This new bursary scheme is an extension of that partnership.

First-year undergraduates from across the subject areas were invited to apply for the scholarships.

Jane Harvell, Head of the Library's Academic Services and Special Collections, said: “We are delighted that SAGE, one of the world's most respected publishers, has extended its gift to Sussex to include working with and supporting undergraduate students.

“The three students we have chosen are all strong communicators, which is key as one of their roles will be to reach out to their friends and fellow students. Also they are representative - as far as is possible with three students - of our first-year cohort.

“The scholarships will provide SAGE, the Library and the higher education sector with valuable data by means of a reflective blog and will capture the evidence of the development of an undergraduate during their three years starting from their induction into academic life at university.

“We also hope the initiative will demonstrate the empirical value of what both the Library and an academic publisher like SAGE offer to undergraduates.”