Politics and Contemporary European Studies

Welcome to the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies (PolCES). The department offers a wide range of high quality research and teaching in both Politics and in interdisciplinary Contemporary European Studies. PolCES hosts the Sussex European Institute, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the study of European Integration. In the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, the Department was ranked second out of 27 European Studies units in British universities. For all postgraduate study and European research in the Department follow the link above to our postgraduate and research institute (SEI).

Politics at Sussex has a long tradition and has a broad focus from Europe to North America, Asia, Latin America and Australasia, taking in a range of topics spanning comparative politics, European integration, political economy, British politics and migration. In the National Student Survey 2009, 96% of Politics students at Sussex expressed satisfaction with their course, placing it 3rd out of 73 Politics departments in the UK.

The Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies runs its own Politics blog and discussion forum, which offers academic staff, researchers, visitors and students a chance to post comments on any aspect of the contemporary political scene.