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Eastern ARC conference poster - Sanctuary Solidarities

Registration is open for Eastern ARC's Sanctuary Solidarities Conference at Sussex

14 July 2025

Sussex joined the Eastern Academic Research Consortium in 2024 and is delighted to be hosting its annual conference on 10 September 2025.


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Sussex helps shape UN Charter for transformative innovation

9 July 2025

Policy framework adopted by UN-ECE member states outlines new ways of collaborating and learning to help governments address complex challenges.


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Voices of Gaza in Sussex

20 June 2025

  On 9 June 2025, the University of Sussex hosted a powerful and thought-provoking event as part of the Palestinian Interdisciplinary Dialogues...


Southern Water colleagues discuss storm overflow system currently in place.

University and Southern Water explore how transformative innovation can address challenges facing water industry

20 June 2025

University and Southern Water team explore how transformative innovation can address major challenges facing the water industry Earlier this month,...


Attendees engage in conversation at the SSRP 'Food for Thought' workshop

Summer of Research workshop is a nourishing feast of food research

20 June 2025

The event hosted by SSRP and the Sustainable Healthcare Group provided food for thought on a range of issues around human and environmental health.


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The AHRC-Funded First International Conference of the Syrian Academics and Researchers’ Network in the UK (SARN UK)

16 May 2025

CFP The AHRC-Funded First International Conference of the Syrian Academics and Researchers’ Network in the UK (SARN UK) 18-19 September 2025


Dr Matias Ramirez takes questions from attendees

SPRU researchers co-develop funding call to address complex development challenges in Panama

13 May 2025

Researchers from the Business School’s Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), working alongside the National Secretariat of Science and T


This photo from the exhibition depicts researchers inspecting biodiversity off the Sussex coast

New exhibition visualises South Coast Sustainability research

13 February 2025

The exhibition illustrates the ways that SSRP research is protecting our beautiful South Coast home and imagining sustainable futures for the region.


Prizewinner Thokozani Nokuzola Anne Makuyana

Outstanding Business School Masters graduates celebrated at annual prizegiving dinner

30 January 2025

120 guests attended the annual Business School prizegiving ceremony, which recognises exceptional academic achievements.


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Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures

17 December 2024

Roundtable considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.


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SSRP research showcased in new video

11 December 2024

Watch a video documenting the SSRP Symposium 2024, featuring interviews with some of our brilliant researchers.


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Digital Pioneers: Recoding our Future

15 November 2024

SHL Digital has taken part in ‘Digital Pioneers: Recoding our Future’, a documentary series created for BCS The Chartered Institute for IT.


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Student Spaces Survey: tell us your views about campus to win a prize

14 November 2024

From the campus supermarket to your favourite study spot – tell us about how you use campus


Representatives from researches institutions and policy partners discuss plans for the European hub

Sussex rallies policy and finance leaders to tackle the world’s toughest challenges

4 October 2024

In a bold effort to drive meaningful change, the University of Sussex Business School gathered 150 leaders in Barcelona in September to explore...


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Time for action: SSRP Week kickstarts new phase for sustainability research with impact

20 October 2022

Coinciding with COP27, the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme is hosting an exciting week of events in November celebrating its Phase II launch


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Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems – major new study

20 October 2022

A major new research study led by the University of Sussex shows that global science research is not addressing the SDGs.


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Business School engages with Nordic innovation agencies on ‘transformative missions’

12 October 2022

Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium teams up with Research Council of Norway, Vinnova and Business Finland to shape benchmarking of missions


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UKRI appoints duo energy research ‘champions’ from Sussex and Newcastle universities

30 September 2022

Academics at the University of Sussex and Newcastle University have been appointed to lead the next phase of energy demand research in the UK.


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New paper calls for coherent rights-based approach to tackling malnutrition

22 September 2022

Joint University of Zambia, Sussex and IDS research explores the ‘right to nutrition’ in its social, legal and political context


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Business School researchers introduce new Lab for learning and engagement on transformative innovation

5 July 2022

Policy makers, funders and researchers from 35 countries test out new tools, actions and learnings for societal change.


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