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Tackling the climate crisis through innovation and policy acceleration.
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 2026
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 21 January: Laurence Dessart – HEC, Liege, Belgium
Too much of a good thing: Immersion, Interactivity, and Decision Fatigue in Virtual Reality
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Tuesday 27 January: Paul Matthews - University of Sussex
Climate and energy policy analysis and decision making: some reflections on working inside HM Treasury
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- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 4 February: Johann Fortwengel - King's College London
Recategorisation as a competitive tool: Lessons from African law firms
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- Economics Departmental Seminar
Wednesday 4 February: Zahra Siddique – University of Bristol
Extreme weather events and child marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
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Wednesday 11 February: Sarah Cattan – IFS
Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale
(Co-authored with Gabriella Conti and Christine Farquharson)
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Monday 16 February: Javier Husillos – University of Navarra
When Contribution Matters
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- Economics Departmental Seminar
Wednesday 18 February: Mei Dong – University of Melbourne
Product Cycles and the Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidence
(Co-authored with Toshiaki Shoji and Yuki Teranishi)Register via Eventbrite
Research Seminars: Autumn 2025
- Business Finance
Wednesday 26 November: Kevin Amess – Nottingham University Business School
Property Rights, Government Expropriation, and Incentives to Innovate
(Co-authored with Kun Jiang and Xiyi Yang)Register via Eventbrite
- Circular Economy
Tuesday 25 November: Samuli Patala - Aalto School of Business
Governing Circular Resource Use: How Institutions Shape Collective Action for Circular Economy Across Systems
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- Creative and Digital Industries
Wednesday 19 November: Organised by: The Mobiliser in Creative and Digital Economy at the University of Sussex Business School in collaboration with the Sussex School for Progressive Futures. Supported by BIMA (British Interactive Media Association)
Creative Futures: Harnessing Sustainability in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Panellists:
- Prof. Elisa Salvador, ESSCA, Paris (Book Co-editor)
- Prof. Ilaria Pappalepore, Westminster Business School (Book Co-editor)
- Prof. Caroline Lucas, Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability, Sussex School for Progressive Futures; former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
- Jon Linstrum, Senior Relationship Manager and Environmental Responsibility South East lead, Arts Council England
- Angus Light, Co-Founder and Exec Producer at Locate Productions; member of Creatives for Climate
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- Digit Debates
- Economics
Wednesday 1 October: Siwan Anderson - University of British Columbia
The persistence of female political power in Africa
(Co-authored with Sophia Du Plessis, Sahar Parsa and James Robinson)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 8 October: Evan Friedman – Paris School of Economics
Deception Aversion
(Co-authored with Bela Elmshauser and Yoon Joo Jo)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 15 October: Shengmao Cao – Kellogg School of Management
Price Controls with Imperfect Competition and Choice Frictions: Evidence from Indian Pharmaceuticals
(Co-authored with Harsh Gupta)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 22 October: Suleyman Gozen – University of Bristol
Intangible Capital Meets Skilled Labor: The Implications for Productivity Dynamics
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Wednesday 29 October: Pia Pinger – University of Cologne
How to attract talent? Field-experimental evidence on emphasizing flexibility and career opportunities in job advertisements
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Wednesday 5 November: Torsten Figueiredo Walter – New York University Abu Dhabi
Endogenous Sample Selection
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Wednesday 12 November: Alex Bryson – UCL
Unions in Developing Countries
(Co-authored with Mari Tanaka, University of Tokyo/Hitotsubashi University)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 3 December: Marie-Louise Vierø – Aarhus University
Measurements of Attitudes toward Unawareness
(Co-authored with Edi Karni)Register via Eventbrite
Wednesday 10 December: Frikk Nesje – University of Copenhagen
Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality
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- Energy
- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 15 October: James M Crick – University of Leicester
Managing Export Coopetition Activities: Evidence from the Global Wine Industry
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Wednesday 19 November: S. Tamer Cavusgil – Georgia State University
Missteps in Executive Decision Making: Why Do Business Leaders Repeat Mistakes?
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Wednesday 10 December: Noemi Sinkovics – Newcastle University Business School
Applications of Multi-Stage Pattern Matching in Qualitative Research
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- SPRU
Friday 10 October: Erik Millstone – University of Sussex
Understanding how science and politics interact: in theory and in practice
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Friday 17 October: Kevin Mulligan - Queens University Belfast
To repeat or not to repeat R&D grants to firms: That is the question
(Co-authored with Helena Lenihan, Mauricio Perez-Alaniz, Christian Rammer and Alexander Ehrlich)Register via Eventbrite
Friday 7 November: Aldo Geuna – University of Turin
Opening the R&D network: Global academic knowledge sourcing at AstraZeneca
(Co-authored with Claudio Fassio, Pauline Mattsson and Ioana Igna)Register via Eventbrite
Friday 14 November: Philip Cohen – University of Maryland
Authoritarian Pronatalism and the Pyrrhic Defeat
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Friday 21 November: Michael E Rose – Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition
Tracing the Flow of Knowledge from Science to Technology Using Deep Learning
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- Strategy and Marketing
Wednesday 5 November: Mario Campana – University of Bath School of Management and Thomas Derek Robinson, Bayes Business School
Consumer culture, identity and the marketplace
Mario Campana will present: The Value of Transgender Consumers in the Marketplace
Thomas Anderson will present: Had It Happened Otherwise: Imagined Consumer Identities in Male Midlife CrisisRegister via Eventbrite
- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics (SAFE)
Friday 4 September: Yang Ding – Carlos III University
Between Transparency and Privacy: Investor Identity Verification and the Demand for Crypto Tokens
(Co-authored with Vedran Capkun & Pepa Kraft)Register via Eventbrite
Tuesday 14 October: Niclas Meyer – Hanken School of Economics
Insider Trading Around Environmental Lawsuits
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Tuesday 27 November: Giray Gozgor – University of Bradford
Firm-Level Geopolitical Risk and the Temporal Dynamics of Bank Debt: Global Evidence
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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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Thursday 5 June: Pawan Adhikari – University of Essex
Social Equity in the Absence of Social Equity Budgeting: Women Empowerment in Developing Countries
(Co-authored with Md Salah Uddin Rajib, Khandakar Shahadat, and Ileana Steccolini)
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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
Tuesday 17 June: Lisa Jack – University of Portsmouth
No longer marginal: persuasive accounting communication and the growing cost of returns from online shopping
(Co-authored with Regina Frei,Sally-Ann Kryzaniakand Princely Dibia)
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Thursday 10 July: Teerooven Soobaroyen – Aston University
Investigating IFRS adoption in the Francophone African Region: Who benefits?
(Co-authored with Cédrick Nzokouo Mouafo and Vincent Tawiah)Register 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
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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, and Andrew Godley – University of Sussex, Andre Viljoen - University of Brighton and Ali Ghanimi - Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
Shova Thapa Karki and Andre Viljoen - Circular food initiatives and continuous productive urban landscapes - A critical reflection on the potential to scale circular initiatives for systemic change in city regionAli Ghanimi - Food Strategy and the circular economy: The context of Brighton and Hove
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.
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- Consumer Wellbeing
Friday 9 May: Wellbeing@Sussex Mini-Conference, 3rd edition
(In-person only in Jub-G32)
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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
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- 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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- Management
Friday 11 July: Séverine Louvel – Sciences Po Grenoble – Université Grenoble Alpes
Automating medical diagnosis? The Genomics of Rare Diseases in France
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- SPRU
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 transitions
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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
Wednesday 18 June: Rajesh Gopalakrishnan Nair - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
How do major shifts in STI policy take place: the making and breaking of STI narrative
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- 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-Room144 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 Evidence
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