Professor Richard Black, the founding Director of the Migration Research Centre, which received funding in 2002. Photo published in the Bulletin 15 November 2002.

This week in 2002 Sussex received £2.5m to set up the Migration Research Centre. 

Now one of the key research centres into the links between migration, globalisation and poverty, it was this year funded for a further five years. 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published 15 November 2002:

New £2.5 million research centre into migration, globalisation and poverty

A multi-million pound government-funded research centre to explore the links between migration, globalisation and poverty is to be based on campus.

The £2.5 million award from the Department for International Development (DfID) will fund a five-year Development Research Centre to be directed by Dr Richard Black.  Out of 102 submissions, only two were successful, including the one from Sussex. The project is currently in its inception phase... 

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