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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.

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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.

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.

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

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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

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.

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

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

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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Thirty years of climate research funding has overlooked the potential of experimental transformative technologies

3 May 2022

New study reveals the technologies and academic disciplines that are being overlooked by research funders in the global fight against climate change

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The threat posed to climate change policies by the rise of the populist right

14 April 2022

Authoritarian nationalist populists have a systemic tendency to create significant negative effect on climate policies when in government

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Energy security strategy analysis: Huge missed opportunity not to put energy efficiency at heart of strategy

7 April 2022

University of Sussex Business School experts on why the most impactful policies have been overlooked in the British Energy Security Strategy

New research casts doubt on environmental benefits of hybrid working

7 April 2022

New study reveals most remote workers in England before the pandemic travelled further each week than office-based workers despite taking fewer trips

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Sun shines on the richest: New study explores how to make solar PV viable for all

4 April 2022

More government support with greater flexibility is needed to make solar panels viable option for elderly homeowners, student renters and the disabled

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The Sussex Energy Group Research Showcase: March 8 – May 3

28 February 2022

The Sussex Energy Group Research Showcase outlines research projects on industrial decarbonisation and energy transition and justice in the Artic

TIP Conference 2022 builds action on transformations towards sustainability & a just transition

4 February 2022

Transformative Innovation Policy Conference 2022 gathers researchers & policymakers for action on TIP research & policy.

A doctor gives a Covid-19 vaccine injection to a young man wearing a black shirt in a clinical setting

New study reveals why public health messaging should focus on naked self-interest to tackle vaccine hesitancy

2 February 2022

Promoting the benefits of vaccine to an individual is a more effective means of overcoming vaccine hesitancy than extolling broader societal benefits

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