Welcome
Professor Rachel Mills, Provost, welcomes readers from the Sussex community and outlines our key priorities for the 60th anniversary year.
Features
Sussex at 60
From bold beginnings to the highlights
of the University’s diamond anniversary year.
Challenging the status quo
How a prestigious scholarship has been providing life-changing education to tomorrow’s leaders.
Beneath the canopy
From the mighty oaks to the rare elms, we celebrate some of the beautiful and significant trees on campus.
A formula for life
Sustainable Sussex, how mathematical modelling is boosting Ukraine’s crop yields and how podcasts are helping farmers in conflict zones.
Digital futures
Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly explains how technological advances are shaping the
way we live and work.
History lessons
Oral history from members of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement offers lessons in respectful listening and the power of coalitions for today’s activists.
Treasures of the Keep
From a 15th century version of a Benedictine monk’s chronicle to hundreds of people’s diaries documenting what they did on 12 May 2021, we take a glimpse into the archives of the University’s Special Collections.
The kindness of strangers
Opinion piece: Professor Robin Banerjee explores what it means to be kind and explains why, particularly at the moment, kindness matters.
Would you believe it?
Opinion piece: Professor Ivor Gaber on the rise of fake news and the future of political journalism.
The fight against cronyism
Opinion piece: Professor Liz David-Barrett discusses how her research helps policy-makers to pinpoint the risk of corruption in public procurement.
Together we’re stronger
The Sussex Connector Programme has seen students, staff and alumni work together to enhance life experiences on campus and beyond.
Sussex people
Let's talk about death
Meet Louise Harman (Literature and Philosophy 2020) who has set up Louise on Death, a movement and enterprise that aims to encourage curiosity over recovery and open conversation about death.
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
Young, gifted and black
Michael Fuller (AFRAS 1978) was the UK’s first black Chief Constable. Now a criminal justice consultant advising the Home Office
on race issues, he reflects on growing
up in care, his Sussex education and the racism he experienced throughout his 34-year police career.
Share your news
If you have a story to tell
you can share your news, memories
and photos with us here.
Genetic disposition
Inventor of a rapid PCR testing machine for SARS CoV-2, Jonathan O’Halloran (BIOLS 1994) is passionate about creating diagnostics that work anywhere in the world and supporting the next generation
of biotech entrepreneurs.
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