Welcome
Professor Sasha Roseneil, Vice-Chancellor, welcomes readers from the global Sussex community and shares some key highlights from the University year.
Features
Q and A with the Vice-Chancellor
Professor Sasha Roseneil has developed an international reputation for her pioneering research on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships, as well as on citizenship and social movements. Learn more in this in-depth interview.
A heartfelt thank you
Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends, the University provides international and home students with the opportunity to come and study at Sussex on a scholarship programme. Brittany Schultz is one such student. Here is her letter to alumni.
A new future
In 2021, Naimat Zafary and his family fled war in Afghanistan. Naimat arrived at Sussex as a Chevening scholar and a refugee. Violetta Korbina was already a final-year Physics undergraduate when Russia invaded her homeland of Ukraine in 2022. Read their stories.
First light
After more than 30 years of development, the James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day 2021. The astonishingly sharp pictures captured by the telescope reveal previously invisible areas of star birth, shattering astronomers’ preconceptions about the early Universe.
Silent earth
Founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Professor of Biology at Sussex Dave Goulson is on a mission to avert the insect apocalypse. Here he explains why, and how.
My breasts, my story
Professor Joanna Callaghan’s transdisciplinary autoethnographic project, ‘My Breasts, My Story’, investigates the much needed yet underexplored field of creative research into lived experiences of breast cancer.
60 years of Sussex
Sussex’s 60th anniversary year in 2021-22 had something wonderful for everyone. We celebrated our past, our present and our future. And we looked inside our community and outwards globally as we acknowledged everything that’s great about Sussex.
Opinion: In equal measure
Britain has had equality law for nearly 60 years but arguably we are some way from achieving a fully inclusive society. Professor David Ruebain questions why this is, and whether the law alone can achieve inclusion?
Opinion: The science of staying well
Are we stuck with the immune systems that we’re born with or are there choices that we can make to optimise and maintain a healthy balanced system? Immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi tells us more.
Opinion: The politics of energy
As millions of citizens struggle with rising energy bills, and large oil companies post record-breaking profits, Dr Marie Claire Brisbois discusses the current landscape and looks at what is changing in the energy sector.
A passion for education
Sussex has always actively encouraged non-traditional groups of students to apply to study with us. Now, students who have been in care are set to benefit through a generous new scholarships programme.
Sussex people
Fly me to the moon
One small step for the UK, one giant leap for Dr Rosemary Coogan (Astrophysics 2015), who was recruited to be the European Space Agency’s first female UK astronaut in November 2022.
Alumni library
Books and podcasts authored by Sussex alumni and academics in the past year.
Alumni news
Career milestones, community heroes, new ventures and awards
The pursuit of justice
Human rights champion Justice Albie Sachs (Sociology 1967) talks to recent graduate and Mandela Scholar Mpogi Mafoko (Conflict, Security and Development 2021) about his Sussex experience and what the future holds for their home country of South Africa.
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At the cutting edge
Sussex alumnus Darren Tenkorang (Business and Management 2012) founded TRIM-IT, a mobile barbering service with franchises across the UK. He has recently become an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University.
Here's looking at you...
In 2022, more than 8,000 of you responded to our Alumni Survey, telling us how you'd like to stay connected with us and with each other.
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