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Research events
Find out about the conferences, workshops and talks you could attend. We also run seminars and flagship lectures.
PhD Forum
Extended workshop for postgraduate researchers.
Sussex Energy Group Keynote Lecture
Yearly event featuring leading voices in the energy transition.
Research Seminars: Spring 2025
- Accounting & Society
Friday 23 May: Trevor Hopper – University of Sussex
Sorting the Wood from the Trees: Corruption in a Forestry Department in Pakistan
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Monday 9 June: Ataur Belal – University of Birmingham
Translation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the organisational level: some empirical evidence
In-person in Jub-G32 and onlineRegister via Eventbrite
Monday 9 June: Ataur Belal – University of Birmingham
Are Green Bonds Special?
In-person in Jub-G32 and onlineRegister via Eventbrite
- Business Finance
Thursday 10 April: Chandra Thapa – University of Strathclyde
Financial Market Perception and Climate Political Leadership
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Thursday 22 May: Yassine Bakkar – Queen’s University Belfast
Heterogeneous macroprudential policies and corporate financing decisions
Register via Eventbrite - Circular Economy
Tuesday 29 April: David Greenfield - Chartered Institution of Waste Management and the Circular Economy Institute
The Circular Economy Strategy for England – Implications for Research and Practice
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Tuesday 3 June: Shova Thapa Karki, Sung Kyu Kim, Paul Poornan & Andrew Godley – University of Sussex
Shova Thapa Karki - Circular food initiatives and continuous productive urban landscapes - A critical reflection on the potential to scale circular initiatives for systemic change in city region
Sung Kyu Kim - Rwanda's agri-food sector and circular economy: A case study of circular business model innovation
Paul Poornan and Andrew Godley - The antecedents of circular economy thinking in successive restructuring of the British animal feeds sector, 1860-1914.Further information to follow for this event.
- Consumer Wellbeing
Friday 9 May: Wellbeing@Sussex Mini-Conference, 3rd edition
In-person only in Jub-G32
Register via Eventbrite - Creative and Digital Industries
Thursday 13 March: Danilo Correa-Dantas & Fei Gao; Renaud Legoux & Chloe Vanasse – HEC Montreal
The Posthumous Completion of Artworks; Beyond discounts: The effect of symbolic special-day promotions on product sales
Register via Eventbrite - Digit Debates
- Economics
Wednesday 15 January: Eric French – University of Cambridge
Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings: Understanding the Mechanisms
(Co-authored with Uta Bolt, Varun Warrier, Qianyu Yang, and Weilong Zhang)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 22 January: Lucie Gadenne – Queen Mary University, London
When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending
(Co-authored with Noemie Pinardon-Touati and Kim Fe Cramer)
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Wednesday 29 January: Abu Siddique – Royal Holloway University of London
Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony
(Co-authored with Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou)
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Wednesday 26 February: Anirban Mitra – University of Kent
Political Dynasties and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from India
(Co-authored with Anders Kjelsrud and Arnab Mukherji)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 5 March: Andrew Clark – PSE
Return-to-Office Mandates, Health and Well-being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Monday 17 March: Adam Soliman – Clemson University
What Fueled the Illicit Opioid Epidemic?
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Wednesday 19 March: Anna Bindler – DIW Berlin & University of Potsdam
Labor Demand and Workforce Diversity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Co-authored with Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys and Luisa Santiago Wolf)
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Wednesday 26 March: Mirabelle Muuls – Imperial
Building virtual power plants to reduce emissions and increase economic efficiency
(Co-authored with Shefali Khanna and Ralf Martin)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 2 April: Michela Tincani – UCL
How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions
(Co-authored with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 21 May: Ludovica Gazze – University of Warwick
Is traffic bad for business? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge Zone
(Co-authored with Marta Santamaria)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 28 May: Tim Obermeier – University of Leicester
The Marriage Market, Wage Risk and Tax Progressivity
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 4 June: Paul Sharp – University of Southern Denmark
When London Burned to Sticks: The Economic Impact of the Great Fire of 1666
(Co-authored with Ager, Philipp & Pedersen, Maja U. & Tsoukli, Xanthi)in-person in G32 and online
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- Energy
- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 22 January: Nicole Coviello – Wilfrid Laurier University
A Nested View of Firm Internationalization
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Wednesday 5 February: Ari Van Assche – HEC Montréal
Impact Investing as a Safeguard against Institutional Hazards
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Wednesday 19 March: Prof Ursula F. Ott - Nottingham Trent University and Prof Stewart Miller Durham University
International Business Research and Configurational Analysis
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Wednesday 2 April: Michael Mol - Copenhagen Business School and Selorm Agbleze - University of Leeds
Navigating Alternative Sources of Legitimacy in Times of Extreme Uncertainty: How Multiple Aspirations Interact to Influence Firm Formalization
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Friday 21 February: Paula Kivimaa – Finnish Environment Institute
Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions Interplay between Energy, Security, and Defence Policies in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Scotland
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 14 March: Benjamin Sovacool – University of Sussex
The drivers, barriers, and benefits of geoengineering technologies for net-zero transitionsRegister in advance for this seminar
Tuesday 18 March: Rodrigo Frias – Durham University Business School
Entrepreneurship Policies: Rethinking Growth and Inclusion
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 21 March: Michael Hopkins – University of Sussex
Supporting and evaluating early-stage translational research in the life sciences
(Co-authored withMoon, JR; Ibanez, FI; Jones, KM; Moore DA and James Bates)In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 28 March: Adrian Ely – University of Sussex
50 years after Asilomar: the past, present and potential futures of GMOs in the environment
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 4 April: Jin Ding and Paul Martin – University of Sheffield
From Blockbuster to Nichebuster: Changing Markets and Firm Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry
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Friday 11 April: Juliane Schwarz – University of Birmingham
Net Zero Innovation in Business Support: The UK Catapult Network
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 9 May: Matthew Agarwala - University of Sussex
Environmentally-adjusted productivity measures for the UK
(Co-authored with J. Martin)
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Friday 16 May: Marie Claire Brisbois - University of Sussex
Energy security through demand reduction: shifting the security paradigm
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Wednesday 28 May: Madhulika Banerjee - University of Delhi
Pluriversal Knowledges and the Planetary Polycrisis: Balancing the Cognitive and the Material
Inperson in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 30 May: Jingyuan Zeng – LSE
The making of high-tech clusters: Evidence from corporate R&D labs in America
In-person in Jub-G32 and onlineRegister via Eventbrite
- Strategy and Marketing
Wednesday 9 April: Yu-Shan Huang and Xin He - University of Central Florida
When Green Companies Cultivate Non-Green Consumers: The Role of Delegability in Pro- Environmental Behavior
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Wednesday 14 May: Luigi De Luca – University of Cardiff Business School
Public Value Innovation: Key Features and Research Directions
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Wednesday 21 May: Andrew Crane – University of Bath
Corporate socio-political (in)activism on the issue of immigration
(Co-authored with Zena Al-Esia, Kostas Iatridis, and Ayse Yorgancioglu)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 19 March: Shoaib Ahmed – University of Sussex
Silence of accountability in the age of ‘Doliocracy’
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Thursday 27 March: John Ferguson – University of St Andrews
Field Structuration and the Emergence of the ‘Due Diligence’ Professional
(Co-authored with Marisa McVey and Beata Faracik)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 9 April: Chandana Alawattage – University of Glasgow
Epistemological politics: the case of accounting research
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Thursday 8 May: Tracy Wang – Australian National University
The Impact of Corporate Takeover Activities on Analyst Optimism: Evidence from International Mergers and Acquisitions Laws
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link to join the seminar.
Wednesday 21 May: Matthew Agarwala - University of Sussex
New Perspectives in Global Carbon Accounting
In-person in Jub-144 and onlineRegister via Eventbrite
Tuesday 3 June: Jiaying Li – Norwegian School of Economics
Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains: Evidence from Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Tuesday 17 June: Wali Ullah – Flinders University
Regional Social Capital, Environmental Management Control Systems and Firm-level Environmental Outcomes: Cross-country EvidenceRegister via Eventbrite
Research Seminars: Autumn 2024
- Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration
Thursday 3 October: Benjamin Sovacool, Matthew Agarwala and Felix Creutzig – University of Sussex
Come and meet the new Bennett Institute for Innovation & Policy Acceleration
In-person in Gardner Tower, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) and online
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Wednesday 23 October: Felix Creutzig – University of Sussex
A geospatialized approach to urban climate solutions
In-person in Jub-G22
Register via TicketTailor - Business Finance
Thursday 17 October: Andi Duqi – University of Bologna
Capital structure decisions: does firm sustainability matter?
In-person in Jub-G32 and onlineRegister via TicketTailor
Friday 1 November: Raghavendra Rau – University of Cambridge
Tainted beginnings, risky endings: The effect of inadvertent prenatal pollution exposure on CEO risk-taking
(Co-authored with YiLin Wu and Lok-Si Leong)Register via TicketTailor
- Consumer Wellbeing
Tuesday 12 November: Ada Maria Barone – Goldsmiths, University of London
Inclusive Message Framing: How to Promote Consumption of Plant-based Foods
In-person only in Jub-G32
Register via TicketTailor - Creative and Digital Industries
Wednesday 13 November: Martha Bloom - OECD
International policy for culture and the creative industries: The OECD’s work on cultural and creative sectors
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Wednesday 20 November: Massimiliano Nuccio – Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Impact evaluation in the CCI. A Systematic Literature Review
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- Economics
Wednesday 25 September: Simon Lodato – Middlesex University
The Unelected Hand? Bureaucratic Influence and Electoral Accountability
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 2 October: Spyros Galanis – Durham University
Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition (Co-authored with Sergei Mikhalishchev)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 9 October: Kalina Manova – UCL
Multinational Firms and Global Innovation
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Wednesday 16 October: Ceren Ozgen – University of Birmingham
Robots and Workers (Co-authored with Daron Acemoglu and Hans R.A. Koster)
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Wednesday 23 October: Piotr Denderski – University of Leicester
The Job Ladder, Unemployment Risk and Incomplete Markets
(Joint work with Alex Clymo, Yusuf Mercan and Benjamin Schoefer)
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Wednesday 13 November: Ling Zhong – Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 20 November: Isabelle Mejean – SciencesPo
Firms’ Supply Chain Adaptation to Carbon Taxes
(Co-authored with Pierre Coster & Julian di Giovanni)
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Wednesday 27 November: Christine Valente – University of Bristol
How big does a big push need to be? Evidence from experimental variation in the size of asset transfers
(Co-authored with Ragui Assaad, Adam Osman and William Parienté)
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Wednesday 4 December: Imran Rasul – UCL/IFS
Workplace Climate and Innovation in Bureaucracies: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Qualitative Data
(Co-authored with Michel Azulai, Margherita Fornasari, Daniel Rogger and Martin J.Williams)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
Register via TicketTailor - Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 9 October: Filip De Beule – KU Leuven
Impact of war on dis(investments) in Russia
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Wednesday 13 November: Peter Gabrielsson – University of Vaasa
Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms
Register via TicketTailor - Responsible Business
Friday 11 October: André Spicer – Bayes Business School, Zahira Jaser & Stephan Manning, University of Sussex
The Happy Worker
In-person in Jub-144
Register for the film screening via TicketTailor - SPRU
Friday 4 October: Dieter Kogler – University College Dublin
Evolution in Regional Knowledge Spaces – Theoretical and Methodological Insights for STI Policy Interventions
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Friday 25 October: Eugenia Cacciatori – Bayes Business School
Beyond Cross-Sectoral Partnerships in Grand Challenges: Lesson from the Swiss Disaster Insurance System
(Co-authored with Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, and Konstantinos Chalkias)
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Friday 1 November: Jens Roehrich, University of Bath and Minhao Zhang, University of Bristol
A Longitudinal Study of Scaling Up Healthcare Technology: Managing Nested Paradoxical Tensions
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Friday 8 November: Abhishek Nagaraj – University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
The Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration
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Friday 22 November: Maria Abreu – University Cambridge
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 29 November: Jane Calvert – University of Edinburgh
Social science in the policy room (revisited)
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Friday 6 December: Chiara Franzoni – Polimi-Milan
Addressing conservatism in funding decisions via enhanced selection mechanisms
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- Strategy and Marketing
Monday 11 November: Tom Harris, Sustainability Manager at Premier League football club Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club's Sustainability Strategy
(Part of Steven Brieger’s MSc Business Activity & Sustainable Development module)
In-person in Jub-G22
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- Sustainability
Wednesday 9 October: Marja Helena Sivonen – Finnish Environment Institute
Petroholism, competitiveness, and looking to the West: the construction of security in energy transitions in Estonia, Finland, and Norway (2006–2023)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online via Zoom
If you would like to attend this seminar via Zoom, please contact Yvonne Barnes for joining details.
Monday 14 October: Peter Newell and Phil Johnstone, University of Sussex and Anabel Marin, IDS
Critical minerals, sustainability and developmentIn-person in IDS Convening space and online via Teams
If you would like to attend this seminar via Teams, please contact Yvonne Barnes for joining details. - Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Friday 20 September: Charles Cho - Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Shared imaginaries of sustainable development: The SDGs, their interconnectedness, and materiality assessment
In-person in Jub-143 and online
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Friday 20 September: Charles Cho - Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Meet the Editor Seminar
In-person in Jub-143 and online
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Thursday 26 September: Andrew Grant – University of Sydney Business School
Information Spillovers and Firm Geographic Dispersion: Evidence from Local Stock Return Comovement
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Monday 16 December: Daisy Liu – University of Sydney
Knowledge Protection and Strategic Alliances
(Co-authored with: Iftekhar Hasan, Joon Ho Kong, Buhui Qiu, Teng Wang)
In-person in Jub-G22 and online
Register via TicketTailor - Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium Open Learning
Tuesday 3 December: Patience Mguni – University of Copenhagen and Jane Wardani – Monash University
Breaking entrenched structures: Alternative frames for transformative outcomes in decolonising urban sustainability practice and research
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Research Seminars: Spring 2024
- Accounting & Finance
Wednesday 7 February: Florian Kiesel – Free University of Bolzano
Credit Ratings and Abnormal Investment Behavior
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Wednesday 20 March: Jian Chen – University of Sussex
Jump Clustering, Information Flows and Stock Price Efficiency
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Wednesday 20 March: Siyang Tian – University of Sussex
Politically Connected Independent Directors and Corporate Litigation Risk
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Monday 20 May: Kostas Koufopoulos – University of York
Can Information Imprecision Be Valuable? The Case Of Credit Ratings
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Thursday 23 May: Frontiers of Time Series Econometrics and Volatility Models Workshop
An in-person time series econometrics workshop including a keynote session and presentations from esteemed speakers in the field.
For registration details, visit the event website.
Tuesday 4 June: Steven Ongena – University of Zurich
Climate change and bank deposits
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Thursday 20 June: Summer Research Update Day
A one-day workshop with the specific aim of encouraging scholarly interaction, engagement and dialogue between all colleagues in the Accounting & Finance department.
- Accounting & Society
Thursday 15 February: Mahmoud Elmarzouky – St Andrew’s University
The boardroom battle: Examining the relationship between CEO power, gender diversity and modern slavery disclosures
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Thursday 21 March: Shahzad Uddin – University of Essex
Accounting Scholarship and the Majority World: A Case of Epistemic Injustices
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Wednesday 22 May: Jacky Pfennig & Raluca Stroe – AICPA & CIMA
Research collaboration and funding opportunities with AICPA & CIMA
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 4 June: John Boulton & Tosin Akande – ICAEW
Research collaboration and funding opportunities with the ICAEW
Online via Zoom
Wednesday 5 June: Elena Giovannoni – University of Birmingham
Science, accounting, and organizing for carbon emissions
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Thursday 11 July: Farzana Tanima – University of Wollongong
Dialogism-in-Action: Unpacking Student Experiences in Decolonizing Accounting Curriculum
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- Business Finance
Thursday 1 February: Abdul Mohamed – University of Leeds
What drives private-equity performance persistence? New deal-level evidence
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Thursday 15 February: Jia Li – University of Sussex
CEO network centrality and IPO performance:Evidence from China
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Thursday 7 March: Malgorzata Sulimierska – University of Sussex & Manto Rakgoale – RisCura
Digital and Financial Literacy in South Africa: The Key to Improving Financial Inclusion?
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Thursday 14 March: Xingchen Zhu – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Do paid sick leave mandates increase productivity?
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Thursday 21 March: Bert Scholtens – St Andrews and University of Groningen
Bank Risk and Climate System
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Thursday 18 April: Marc Goergen – IE Business School
Insider Trading in Connected Firms During Trading Bans
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Thursday 16 May: Carlos Madeira – Bank for International Settlements
The impact of macroprudential policies on industrial growth
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Thursday 6 June: Louisa Chen – University of Sussex
The Road to Net-zero: A Mutual Fund Flow Investigation
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- Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
- Consumer Wellbeing
Friday 10 May: "Wellbeing@Sussex” Mini-Conference, Second edition
An in-person event that serves as a platform for interdisciplinary dialogues focusing on various facets of well-being, ranging from mental and physical health to economic and social welfare.
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- Creative & Digital Industries
Wednesday 20 March: Alessandro Gerosa – University of Birmingham
Taste, authenticity and class in late modern capitalism: insights from the Hipster Economy
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Tuesday 13 May: Maria Restuccia – University of Sussex and Kelly Vero
A Journey to the Centre of the Metaverse: Past, Present and Future of Virtual Products
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Thursday 6 June: Sawan Rathi, Monica Masucci, Roberto Camerani & Josh Siepel – University of Sussex
The Resilience of Creative Microclusters During Crises
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- Digit Debates
- Distinguished Scholars
Monday 24 June: Robert M. Davison – City University of Hong Kong
The Cultural Values of Scholarly Journals and Their Implications for Various Stakeholders
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Tuesday 25 June: Robert M. Davison – City University of Hong Kong
How to publish in good research journals
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Knowledge Sharing in a Global Logistics Provider: An Action Research Project
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- Economics
Wednesday 31 January: Mariia Kovaleva – Université Libre de Bruxelles
Subjective Expectations and Family Decisions: How individuals decide on fertility and careers over the life cycle.
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Wednesday 7 February: Zihan Hu – Singapore Management University
GDP or Life? Promotion Incentives of City Leaders and Workplace Accidents
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Wednesday 21 February: Sam Cosaert – University of Antwerp
Temperature and Joint Time Use
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Monday 26 February: Adrien Montalbo – University of Sussex
The Economic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century France
In-person in Jub-G32 and online via Zoom
Wednesday 28 February: Cheti Nicoletti – University of York
Gender stereotypes in the family: the role of information
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Wednesday 6 March: Colin Green – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Foreign Language Acquisition and Exposure to Mother Tongue Speakers
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Wednesday 13 March: Valentin Bolotnyy – Stanford University
A Danger to Self and Others? The Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization
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Wednesday 20 March: Sang Yoon Tim Lee – Queen Mary University of London
New Golden Rule
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Wednesday 17 April: Melanie Meng Xue – London School of Economics
British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence From the Use of Proverbs
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Wednesday 1 May: Clare Leaver – University of Oxford
Scaling teacher performance pay contracts in Rwanda
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- Energy
- Future of Work
Thursday 13 June: Philippa Simmonds – University of Gloucestershire
What are green skills and why do they matter?
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- Information Systems
Wednesday 21 February: Roberta Bernardi – University of Bristol
A story of change from the periphery: How members of an Online Health Community challenge the legitimacy of professional elites
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- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 31 January: Mona Bahl – Illinois State University
Efficiencies as Drivers of Renewable Energy Projects in Emerging Economies: Does Foreign Participation Help?
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Wednesday 7 February: Exequiel Hernandez – University of Pennsylvania
Global Palette: The Impact of Immigrant Talent on Multinational Product Strategy
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Wednesday 21 February: Jay Barney – University of Utah
The Secret of Culture Change: How to Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization
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Wednesday 27 March: Agnieszka Chidlow – University of Birmingham
Responsible Research: Scientific Responsibility and Integrity
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Wednesday 1 May: Grazia Santangelo – Copenhagen Business School
The nature of import competition and firms’ environmental engagement in emerging markets
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Wednesday 29 May: Angels Dasi – University of Valencia
Digital transformation and Innovative SMEs' performance: the mediating role of Business Model Innovation
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- Management
Wednesday 1 May: Dennis Tourish and Zahira Jaser – University of Sussex
Hegemonic surveillance at work: Fabricating the cyberized, totalized and thespianized employee
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- Responsible Business
Thursday 29 February: Responsible and Sustainable Business Seminar
An in-person event with a series of sessions on responsible and sustainable business.
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Thursday 14 March: Janina Klein – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Jane Lancashire, Rabab Al Awadhi – The Launchpad Collective
Panel session:Tackling grand societal challenges: Framing and responding to the "refugee crisis”
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- SPRU
Friday 26 January: Tilman Altenburg – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
New Perspectives on Industrial Policy in an Era of Climate Change and Geopolitical Tensions
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Friday 2 February: Nilanjana Dutt – Bocconi University
Managing with Autonomy: How to Develop Intangible Assets in Multi-Unit Firms
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Wednesday 7 February: Josh Moon & Andy Stirling – University of Sussex
Technology Reliability and Responsibility in the post office case: SPRU's collective insights
Online via Zoom
Friday 9 February: Britta Glennon – University of Pennsylvania
Building a Wall Around Science: The Effect of US-China Tensions on International Scientific Research
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Friday 16 February: Ivan Png – National University of Singapore & En Qi Teo – Toulouse School of Economics
Editor’s gatekeeping of economics journals – favouritism, activism, or clientele?
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Friday 23 February: John Morrow – Kings College London
Firms in Product Space: Adoption, Growth, and Competition
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Friday 1 March: Neil D Lee – London School of Economics
What would a pro-worker innovation policy look like?
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Friday 8 March: Lourdes Sosa – London School of Economics
Multi-Core-Component Innovation and the Redistribution of Bargaining Power across the Industry: The Case of Nanomedicine
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Friday 15 March: Mimansa Bairathi – UCL
Gender Disparity in Online Reputation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Platform
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Friday 22 March: Dietmar Harhoff – Max Planck Institute
Scientific Paradigms, Graphics Processing Units and the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
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Friday 19 April: Elisa Operti – ESSEC Business School
From Me to We: The Evolution of Innovation Networks in times of downturns
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Monday 22 April: David Eggleton – University of Sussex
The contribution of Diamond Light Source to a novel Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine
In-person in Jub-G32 and online via Zoom
Friday 26 April: José Mata – Copenhagen Business School
Cognitive Skills and Productivity in Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of the Technological and Knowledge Regimes
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Wednesday 1 May: Alberto Marzucchi – Gran Sasso Science Institute
Robot Adoption and Product Innovation
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Friday 3 May: Giovanni Valentini – LUISS
Meet me halfway: Financial analysts and strategic change
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Friday 17 May: Adam Lucas – University of Wollongong
'Away from the water': the first energy transition, British textiles 1770-1890 – Research Methodology & Archival Research
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Friday 24 May: Daniel Armanios – University of Oxford
Stability without Certainties: Firm R&D Choices in the Midst of Military Coups: The Case of Thailand
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Tuesday 28 May: Nonhlanhla Dube – Lancaster University Management School, Aline Seepma – University of Groningen & Isabell Storsjö – University of Turku
The policy-operations interface of the refugee service supply chain
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Friday 7 June: Molly Morgan Jones – British Academy
What is the future SHAPE of science policy?
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Tuesday 18 June: Laura Zinke – Nature Reviews Clean Energy & Lulia Georgescu
Publishing in Nature Journals
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- Strategy & Marketing
Wednesday 28 February: James M Crick – University of Leicester
Cooperating with competitors in turbulent export markets: Evidence from seventeen countries
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Wednesday 13 March: Olivier Sibai – Birkbeck, University of London
Why online consumption communities brutalize?
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Wednesday 24 April: Various Internal Speakers & Mihaela Kelemen – University of Nottingham
Cultivating Opportunities: Navigating the Grant Landscape
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Wednesday 24 April: Dennis Tourish & Zahira Jaser – University of Sussex
Hegemonic surveillance at work: Fabricating the cyberized, totalized and thespianized employee
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Wednesday 22 May: Robin Canniford – University of Galway
Rhythm Machines: Embodied Conviviality in South-West England
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- Sussex Education Festival
Wednesday 10 July: Sussex Education Festival 2024
A festival (10th July in-person and 11th July online) bringing together colleagues and students to discuss the core themes of the upcoming Sussex 2035 strategy: Human Flourishing, Environmental Sustainability and Digital and Data Futures.
If you have any questions, please contact the team.
- Sustainability
Wednesday 24 April: Phil Johnstone – University of Sussex
Deep transitions and digitalisation: the military and counter-cultural roots of our digital present
In-person in Jub-G32 and online via Zoom
Wednesday 29 May: John Giordanengo – Economic Restoration Services
Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a sustainable state)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online via Zoom
- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Friday 26 January: Thomas Noe – University of Oxford
Making sure your vote does not count: ESG activism and insincere proxy voting
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Monday 19 February: Lee Parker – University of Glasgow
Third Sector Crisis Management and Resilience: Reflections and Directions
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Tuesday 20 February: Lee Parker – University of Glasgow
Developing and Managing Academic Career
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Wednesday 28 February: Dimitrios Gounopoulos – University of Bath
The Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Real Estate Market
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Wednesday 6 March: Bin Xu – University of Leeds
Does Segment Disclosure Constrain Corporate Pollution?
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Wednesday 13 March: Viet Dang – University of Manchester
Labor Mobility and Corporate Environmental Performance
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Wednesday 20 March: Siyang Tian – University of Sussex
Politically Connected Independent Directors and Corporate Litigation Risk
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Wednesday 27 March: Quan Nguyen – University of Sussex
Ethical Funds and Return Manipulation
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Monday 22 April: John Y. Campbell – Harvard Business School
Sustainability in a Risky World
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Thursday 2 May: Martin McGregor – Charles University
Board Compensation and Investment Efficiency
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Research Seminars: Autumn 2023
- Business Finance
Thursday 23 November: Mostek Ahamed & Ranko Jelic – University of Sussex
Inclusive financial policy and bank lending
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Thursday 30 November: Hien Dinh – University of Sussex
Unintended effects of weaker patent protections?
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Thursday 7 December: Louis Burgess – University of Sussex
When does bad news cause mispricing? A historical view.
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- Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
Wednesday 27 September: Peter Foster – Financial Times
What Went Wrong with Brexit and what we can do about it: A conversation
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Tuesday 3 October: Emily Lydgate, University of Sussex & Tim Figures, Boston Consulting Group
Carbon Border Adjustments: Consequences and Complications
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Wednesday 8 November: Valeria Rueda – University of Nottingham
Gender Stereotypes in academia
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- Digit Debates
- Economics
Wednesday 11 October: Paweł Bukowski – UCL
Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019
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Wednesday 18 October: Mauricio Ribeiro – University of Bristol
Designing Contracts To Compete For Time: An Experimental Study
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Wednesday 25 October: Deepshikha Batheja – One Health
Gender Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Field Experiment in Indian Call Centers
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Wednesday 1 November: Damian Clarke – University of Exeter
Health and Labour Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy
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Wednesday 15 November: Victor Aguiar – Simon Fraser University
Dynamic and Stochastic Rational Behavior
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Wednesday 22 November: Edoardo Ciscato – KU Leuven
Assessing racial and educational segmentation in large marriage markets
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Wednesday 6 December: Sunil Kumar – Kings College London
Driving while black and other stories: Racial patterns in stop and search actions by the London Met
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- Energy
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Thursday 28 September: Dirk de Clercq – Brock University
Workplace bullying and change-oriented citizenship behaviour
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- Future of Work
Friday 3 November: Benjamin Neimark – Queen Mary University of London
The rise of eco-precarious conservation labour: Green extractives, biodiversity offsets and the ‘license to trash’ – A book talk.
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- Information Systems
Monday 6 November: Carol Hsu – University of Sydney Business School
Supporting Community First Responders in Aging in Place: An Action Design for a Community-Based Smart Activity Monitoring System
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Monday 13 November: Anushri Gupta – LSE
A soft ecosystems perspective of digital innovation through a case study of the insurance industry’s response to connected cars
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Monday 20 November: Tobias Mettler – University of Lausanne
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence
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- International Business & Development
Wednesday 8 November: Rob van Tulder – Erasmus University
Book talk: How to teach and integrate sustainability education into the academic environment
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Researching Sustainability: Doing societally relevant research on international business and Grand Challenges – what about the SDGs?
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- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Tuesday 17 October: John Amis – University of Edinburgh
Crafting and publishing theory papers
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Thursday 16 November: Ivana Katic – Yale University
Product over Politics: Entrepreneurial Firms and Lobbying
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Thursday 30 November: Abraham Newman – Georgetown University
Underground Empire: How America weaponized the world economy
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Wednesday 6 December: Marlous van Waijenberg – Harvard University
(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
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- Management
Thursday 12 October: Ellen Kossek – Purdue University
Flexible working, Work-Life Boundaries and Career Equality in the Hybrid Age
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Monday 20 November: Emma Russell – University of Sussex
Why do people send rude emails?
In-person in Jub-155 & online via Zoom
- SPRU
Friday 22 September: Jochen Markard – Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Multi-system transition dynamics and the role of meta-rules
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Friday 13 October: Yuhang Pan – Peking University
Unlocking Resilience: Mitigating the Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure Effects via Postnatal Micronutrient Powders
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Friday 20 October: Francisco Sagasti – Former President of Peru
Science and Technology Policy and Politics: from ideas to action
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Friday 3 November: Nina Yin – Central University of Finance and Economics
Has the Shortened Drug Distribution Chain Cut Drug Prices? Evidence from the Implementation of Two-Invoice System in China
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Friday 10 November: Matthew Higgins – University of Utah
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Firm response to downstream product shocks
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Friday 1 December: D. Daniel Sokol – USC
Antitrust Platform Tech Regulation and Competition: Evidence from China
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- Strategy & Marketing
Wednesday 1 November: Robert Cluley – University of Birmingham
Marketing Science or Marketing Science Fiction: An Ethnographic Account of Marketing Analytics
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Wednesday 29 November: Kerry Hudson and Robert Morgan – Cardiff University
Disaggregating the Nature and Value-Relevance of Capabilities: The Differential Effects of Marketing Differentiation, Persistence, and Advancement on Firm Value
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Wednesday 13 December: Selin Atalay – Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Task Dependency of Location Effects in Product Displays
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- Sussex Sustainability Research Programme
Wednesday 29 November: 6th Annual SSRP Symposium
An in-person SSRP annual symposium of key updates from SSRP fellows and their latest projects.
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Wednesday 20 September: Research Capacity Workshop co-hosted by Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics (SAFE) Research Mobilisation Group and CSEAR-Italy
Workshop hosted by Massimo Contrafatto, University of Sussex Business School & Director of CSEAR-Italy with Plenary Speaker, Dr Fergus Neville, University of St Andrews, presenting "Understanding decision-making": a psy-sociological perspective.
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Wednesday 4 October: Susana Martins – Oxford University
What are the events that shake our world? From geopolitical to climate risks
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Wednesday 8 November: Mahbub Zaman – University of Hull
CEO Leadership and ESG Performance: Boardroom Diversity and Critical Mass
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Past Events
- Chris Freeman Annual Lecture
Thursday 19 October (18:30 - 20:00 BST), Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex
The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School was delighted to host the 2023 Chris Freeman Annual Lecture in-person. This year's lecture 'Science and Technology Policy and Politics: from ideas to action' was delivered by Francisco Sagasti, Former President of Peru. More information on the Annual Lecture.
The lecture was followed by a seminar aimed at Postgraduate Researchers on Friday 20 October (13:00 - 14:30 BST). The discussion focused on how to make things happen in complex political settings. Register via EventBrite.
- BAM 2023 Conference
1 September (virtual day) and 5-6 September 2023 (in-person), University of Sussex Falmer Campus
The University of Sussex Business was delighted to host the British Academy of Management's 37th Annual Conference exploring the theme, ‘Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges’. Learn more about BAM 2023.
- Eu-SPRI 2023
14-16 June 2023, University of Sussex Falmer Campus
The European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI) summer conference is the leading, annual European event on science, technology and innovation policy. The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) was delighted to host this year's conference on the theme: Research with Impact.
Ahead of the conference, an Early Career Researcher Event was held on June 13th, aiming to support early career scholars in developing their research profile and professional career.
For more information visit the EuSPRI 2023 conference website.
- Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture
27 March 2023, University of Sussex Campus
The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School was delighted to host the 2022 Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture in-person. This annual event celebrates the outstanding contributions that Professor Marie Jahoda CBE made to SPRU.
This year's lecture was delivered by Sir James Bevan, CEO of the Environment Agency, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
- 20th International Studying Leadership Conference
11-13 December, Brighton
This year's conference, hosted by the University of Sussex Business School, seeks papers that ask big questions about important issues that connect in multiple forms to the conference theme of Leadership for the Future of Humanity.
- Seminar: In conversation with James Bacchus
21 September, 4-5 pm
Can the international trade system be reformed? In this seminar, Professor James Bacchus discussed his new book and the challenges and reform prospects for the multilateral trading system, and responded to audience questions.
- 29th International Annual EurOMA Conference
1 - 6 July 2022 | Estrel Hotel & Conference Centre in Berlin
The University of Sussex Business School recently hosted the 29th Annual EurOMA Conference in Berlin. Over 500 participants from 39 countries attended with many presenting research towards the conference theme of 'Brilliance in resilience: operations and supply chain management’s role in achieving a sustainable future'.
- University of Sussex Business School AI Lecture 2021
14 December 2021 | Jubilee Building and Online
This year's annual AI Lecture was given by Sara Hooker, Research Scientist at Google Brain. The lecture was followed by a fireside chat with Melissa Heikkilä, POLITICO Europe's AI Correspondent.
- Storying food: gendered, racialised and classed politics and possibilites
This two-day online symposium explored the politics of how food stories are encouraged or required in different organisational contexts such as fancy restaurants, food charities, museums and community food organisations. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological traditions, including feminist food studies, the symposium brought together scholars from organisation studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, food studies and geography. Presented by the University of Sussex Business School and the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities), in conjunction with Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network, the symposium included a work in progress stream, reading groups, international keynotes, and panel of scholar-activists.
- Climate Finance: Challenges and Lessons for the Future
15 - 16 November 2021 | Online
This two-day conference, co-organised by the University of Nottingham and the University of Sussex, explored the key developments within the financial and capital markets industry, and provided participants with unique insights into the current processes in leading institutions, strategic considerations, product development and regulatory challenges that will be central in governing climate finance over the next decade
- Project X Conference: Sustainable Futures for Project Delivery
Wednesday 6 October 2021 | Online
This one-day conference organised by Project X explored how aspirations for improved project delivery can be achieved whilst addressing commitments for Levelling-Up, Net Zero and the Plan for Growth.
- Launching Sustainable Futures: A Manifesto for Transformative Investment
Wednesday 15 September 2021 | Online 1-2pm BST
The official launch of the Deep Transitions Futures Global Investors Panel. The Panel, along with a prominent research team, is creating a manifesto for 'Transformative Investment' which looks at steering investments towards decarbonisation, the 'race to net zero' and a sustainable future.
- Freeman Centenary/Research Policy 50th Anniversary Conference
Friday 10 September 2021 | Hybrid (both physical and online attendance will be available)
To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chris Freeman, and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Research Policy, the journal that he founded, SPRU is organising a one-day conference.
- EurOMA 2021
5-7 July 2021 | Online
The 28th international annual EurOMA conference was held on the theme of 'Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times'.
- Virtual CineClub Special: In the Meantime Midday Comes Round...
Wednesday 28 April | Online
This screening of the film adaptation of Marie Jahoda's and Paul F. Lazersfeld's revolutionary Marienthal study was held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of Marie Jahoda, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum.
- The Atom: A Love Affair - Virtual screening & Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 5 May | Online
This screening of ‘The Atom: A Love Affair' explored the West's relationship with nuclear power since the end of World War 2, and included a discussion with the director Vicki Lesley and Professor Andy Stirling and Dr Phil Johnstone about their research on nuclear.
- NGO Research Day 2021
Wednesday 17 March | Online
The NGO Research Day 2021 discussed to what extent and how technology shapes the modern perceptions of the sector, its performance, governance and accountability and NGO identities. This event was connected to a Special Issue of The British Accounting Review that calls for reassessing NGO performance, governance and accountability in the new settings and contexts of digitalisation, but also the concerns, ambiguities and threats posed by technology.
- Sussex Innovation Forum: Scaling Up Innovations and Pilots
Friday 12 March | Online
The Sussex Innovation Forum is an inclusive and informal series of events for businesses, local authorities and community groups to work together on driving decarbonisation in Sussex. This Forum focused on scaling up innovations and pilots.
- Climate Finance and Economics Workshop
Friday 12 March | Online
Climate change is creating new opportunities in modern finance and economics. This one-day workshop on climate finance and economics delved into the economics of green finance, environmental finance, climate risk, hedging climate change, climate finance assets, and the impact of weather changes on the economy.
- Eu-SPRI Mini Course 2020
3 December 2020 | Online
Co-organised with the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation, this Mini Course provided doctoral students, early-career researchers and professionals with an intensive training, focused on the intersection between innovation theory and scenario analysis.