General Counsel, Governance and Compliance
Director: Bridget Edminson
Visit the Division of the General Counsel, Governance and Compliance website
- Governance Services
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Provides Secretariat and support services to Council, the Executive, the Committees of Council, Senate and ULT.
Phone: 01273 876912
Email: governance@sussex.ac.uk
For more information visit General Counsel, Governance and Compliance
- General Counsel Legal Advisers
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Provides in-house legal advice to the University.
Phone: 01273 876912
Email: generalcounsel@sussex.ac.uk
- Information Management & Compliance
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Provides data protection advice and ensures compliance with data protection legislation, handles Freedom of Information and data subject requests (e.g. subject access requests, requests for erasure of records, etc) and third party requests for personal data, and responds to other organisational information management requests. The Head of Information Management & Compliance is also the University’s Data Protection Officer.
Phone: 01273 678472
Email: dpo@sussex.ac.uk (for data subject requests, third party requests for personal data, or to report data breaches); ) and gdpr@sussex.ac.uk (for general data protection/GDPR queries or GDPR e-learning queries); and FOI@sussex.ac.uk (for Freedom of Information requests)
- Health & Safety
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Provides expert advice, training, monitoring, investigation, risk assessment, inspections, reporting and safety auditing.
Phone: 01273 872561
Email: healthsafety@sussex.ac.uk
For more information visit Health and Safety
- Risk & Business Continuity management
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Provides institutional risk assessments and maintains the University’s Risk Register; supports organisational resilience, emergency incident planning and business continuity planning.
Phone: 01273 678734
Email: B.P.Toogood@sussex.ac.uk
- Prevent Compliance
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Provides guidance on compliance with the Prevent Duty, approval of external speakers and a point of contact for community liaison.
Phone: 01273 873855
Email: l.spenceley@sussex.ac.uk
- Office for Students (OfS) Compliance
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Coordinates responses to the OfS, maintains the OfS Compliance Matrix for the University’s conditions of registration, reports Reportable Events to the University.
Phone: 01273 876912
Email: governance@sussex.ac.uk
- Vice-Chancellor’s Office
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Provides administrative and secretarial support to the Vice-Chancellor, Provost and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Phone: 01273 678028
Email addresses:
For Vice-Chancellor: z.h.varney-burch@sussex.ac.uk
For Provost: L.D.Rolf@sussex.ac.uk
For Chief Operating Officer: coo@sussex.ac.uk