Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture
Yearly event celebrating the work of a famed SPRU professor.
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: Autumn 2023
- Business Finance
Thursday 9 November: Hien Dinh – University of Sussex
Unintended effects of weaker patent protections?
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Thursday 23 November: Mostek Ahamed & Ranko Jelic – University of Sussex
Inclusive financial policy and bank lending
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Thursday 7 December: Jia Li – University of Sussex
The performance of the CEO centrality in IPO in the Chinese stock market
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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
- 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
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Wednesday 25 October: Deepshikha Batheja – One Health
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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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- Energy
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Thursday 28 September: Dirk de Clercq – Brock University
Workplace bullying and change-oriented citizenship behaviour
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- Information Systems
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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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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- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Tuesday 17 October: John Amis – University of Edinburgh
Crafting and publishing theory papers
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Wednesday 8 November: Rob van Tulder – Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
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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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- 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
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Friday 27 October: Simon Johnson – MIT
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Friday 3 November: Nina Yin – Central University of Finance and Economics
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Friday 10 November: Matthew Higgins – University of Utah
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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: Robert Morgan – Cardiff University
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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 11 October: Mahbub Zaman – University of Hull
CEO Leadership and ESG Performance: Boardroom Diversity and Critical Mass
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Research Seminars: Spring 2023
- Accounting & Finance
Wednesday 8 March: Matej Nevrla – Charles University
Common Idiosyncratic Quantile Risk
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Tuesday 14 March: Panos Tzouvanas – University of Sussex
Climatic Conditions, Financial and Subjective Wellbeing Evaluations
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Wednesday 26 April: Iftekhar Hasan – Fordham University
Climate-related Disclosure Commitment of the Lenders, Credit Rationing, and Borrower Environmental Performance
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- Accounting & Society
In collaboration with Business Finance
Wednesday 26 April: Igor Goncharov – Lancaster University
Accounting Quality and Organizational Form Choice: Evidence from Open-End and Closed-End Firms
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Wednesday 14 June: Stewart J Smyth – Sheffield University
Accounting vs. Economic Inequality – two case studies in critical accounting praxis
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- Business Finance
Thursday 9 February: Koji Takahashi – BIS, Basel
Bank of Japan's ETF Purchase Program and Equity Risk Premium: A CAPM Interpretation
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Thursday 23 February: Anh Tran – City, University of London
When and How Are Rule 10b5-1 Plans Used for Insider Stock Sales?
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Thursday 2 March: Quan Pham Minh Nguyen – University of Sussex
Satellite Launches, Investor Attention, and Stock Return Comovement
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Thursday 16 March: Christian Conrad – Heidelberg University
Macroeconomic Announcements and the Volatility Feedback Effect
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Thursday 23 March: David Buckle – INQUIRE
When a dearth of active management affects market performance either the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox is explained, or the asset management industry needs a levy
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Thursday 30 March: Marianna Marra – University of Sussex
Research assessment exercises and research innovation: An empirical investigation for the UK case
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- Digit Debates
- Economics
Wednesday 1 February: David de la Croix – UC Louvain
The Emergence of the Child Quantity - Quality Tradeoff - insights from early modern
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Wednesday 8 February: Phillip McCalman – University of Melbourne
e-Globalization and Trade Agreements
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Wednesday 15 February: Yujung Hwang – John Hopkins University
Structural Analysis of Xenophobia
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Wednesday 1 March: Travis Lybbert – UCDavis
Testing the Limits of Cellphone Metadata for Poverty Measurement and Impact Evaluation in Haiti
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Wednesday 29 March: Lukasz Wozny
On efficient mechanisms for rewarding academic publications
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Wednesday 26 April: Neil Cummins – LSE
The Irish in England
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Wednesday 3 May: Marco Manacorda – Queen Mary University of London
Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe
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- Energy
- Future of Work
Thursday 25 May: Adrian Smith – University of Sussex
Automation, ‘AgTech’ and Agrifood Labour Regimes: the future of work and the barriers to transformation in the UK glasshouse industry
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Wednesday 21 June: Helin Kardelen Kavuş – Middle East Technical University
A New Wave of “High-Skilled” Migration from Turkey: Call Centre Workers in Athens
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Thursday 29 June: Ekaterina Prytkova – University of Sussex
Revealing Semantics: Exposure of Industries and Occupations to Emerging STI Areas
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- Information Systems
Friday 24 February: Will Venters – LSE
The breakdown of process in Customer Relationships Management (CRM) infrastructure: Examining coupling in the coordination of customer and advisor
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Monday 26 June: Morteza Namvar – University of Queensland
From Health Texts to Theoretical Constructs: A Mixed Text Mining and Qualitative Content Analysis Method
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- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 25 January: Pádraig Carmody – University of Dublin
A Global Digital Reversal? Interrogating the Potential of Digital Technology in the Global South
Thursday 23 March: Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki
Two sides of the Coin: Methodological Pluralism and Fit in Qualitative Research
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Wednesday 10 May: Adam D. Dixon – Edinburgh Business School and Javier Capapé – IE University
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Between the State and Markets
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Monday 22 May: Rebecca Piekkari – Aalto University
Comparing apples with apples - or with oranges? The theorizing potential of comparative reasoning
- QFIN (Quantitative FinTech)
Wednesday 1 February: Sam Rosen – Temple University
Investor Experience Matters: Evidence from Generative Art Collections on the Blockchain
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Wednesday 8 February: Marc-Oliver Pohle – Goethe University, Frankfurt
Generalised Correlation
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Wednesday 15 February: Grigory Vilkov – Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Media Narratives and Price Informativeness
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Wednesday 22 February: Jie Cao – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Forecasting Option Returns with News
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Wednesday 8 March: Bing Han – University of Toronto
Idiosyncratic Volatility and the ICAPM
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Wednesday 22 March: Carole Bernard – Grenoble Ecole de Management
Option-Implied Dependence and Correlation Risk Premium
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Wednesday 29 March: Raman Uppal – EDHEC Business School
What is Missing in Asset-Pricing Factor Models
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- SPRU
Thursday 26 January: Nonhlanhla Dube – Lancaster University
Resourcing by Humanitarian Organisations in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: The Quest for Sustained and Sustainable Outcomes
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Friday 24 February: Mark Dodgson – Oxford University
Innovation ecosystems and research in times of crisis: the cases of fusion power and the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
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Wednesday 8 March: Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling – University of Sussex
Let the pluriverse grow
Friday 24 March: Gary Dushnitsky – LBS
Where is Shopify Valley? Mapping Neighborhood Inclusion in Low-Code Entrepreneurship
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Wednesday 29 March: Anindya Chakrabarti – IIMA
Technology Replacement in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Electronic Medical Records
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Tuesday 2 May: Professor Elizabeth Cobbs – Texas A&M University
Book Talk: Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
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Friday 5 May: Patrick Gaulé – University of Bristol & IZA
Why has Science Become an Old Man’s Game?
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Friday 12 May: Ina Ganguli – University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Effect of Minimum Wage Changes on Scientific Production
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Friday 26 May: Ramana Nanda – Imperial
Are Transformational Ideas Harder to Fund? Resource Allocation to R&D Projects at a Global Pharmaceutical Firm
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Wednesday 7 June: Donal Brown
Public ownership in sustainable energy transitions
Friday 9 June: Sukhun Kang – University of California, Santa Barbara
Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear: The Impact of a Public Scientific Map on Organizational Search
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Wednesday 21 June: Rachael Durrant – University of Sussex
Women back to the land: an exploration of women’s journeys into land-based work in contemporary Britain
Friday 30 June: Nilam Kaushik – Imperial
Disambiguating Effects of Knowledge versus Demographic “Diversity” in the Innovation Process – Field Experimental Evidence from a Collaborative Product Development Platform
South Korea Summer Program 2023: University of Sussex Business School & Seoul National University – organised by SPRU
Wednesday 5 July: Sangook Park – Seoul National University
Comeback of the Hydrogen Economy as a National Agenda in South Korea: Comparative Analysis of 2005 and 2019 Hydrogen Strategies from the Multi-level Perspective
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Friday 28 July: Daniele Rotolo – University of Sussex
Introductory Bibliometrics
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- Strategy & Marketing
Wednesday 27 April: Consumer Culture Theory and Transformative Consumer Research Event
Giana Eckhardt – King’s College London and Dr Aleksandrina Atanosova – Bayes Business School
Liquid Consumer Security
Bernardo Figueiredo – RMIT University, Australia
Codesign strategies to mitigate perceived risks associated with technology use among older adults
Mike Beverland – University of Sussex
Consumer Work: The Serious Leisure of the Analog Revival
Nicole Ye Yang – University of Sussex
How Consumers Mobilize Cultural Scripts to Navigate Novel Experiences
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Friday 12 May: Wellbeing@Sussex – hosted by the Consumer Wellbeing Mobiliser Research Group
Praveetha Patalay – UCL
Mental health: Who, When and Where
Faith Matcham – University of Sussex
Digital Sensing in Depressive Disorders – Long-term engagement with remote measurement technologies and early indicators of relapse prediction
Dorina Cadard – Centre for Dementia Studies at Brighton, Sussex Medical School and Cognitive Epidemiology, Dementia, and Ageing Research (CEDAR) lab
Wellbeing of people with dementia and their carers
Stefan Zeisberger – Radboud University
Why do people (not) invest in the stock market?
Ozgu Karakulak – University of Sussex Business School
The Societal Wellbeing Implications of Creating Value for Refugees through Social Partnerships: A Frames Perspective
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Tuesday 16 May: Joya Kemper – University of Canterbury
"You shouldn't be having an existential crisis when you're out shopping": Navigating plastic-free shopping in Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Wednesday 15 March: Professor Chris Chapman – University of Bristol
Materiality as boundary object: Accretion of significance for sustainability (online)
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Wednesday 22 March: Professor Abraham Lioui – EDHEC Business School
Understanding the Carbon Price(s) of Risk
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Tuesday 2 May: Professor Stavros Zenios – University of Cyprus
The risks from climate change to sovereign debt
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Wednesday 10 May: Professor Tom Chemmanur – Boston College
The Entrepreneurial Finance of Fintech Firms and the Effect of Fintech Investments on the Performance of Corporate Investors
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Tuesday 6 June: Enrique Mesa Pérez – Universidad Loyola
Making things different: The influence of sub-politics on the construction of water reuse risk
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Friday 21 July: Buhui Qiu – University of Sydney Business School
Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure
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- Visiting Leading Scholar
Friday 31 March: Paul Hibbert – University of St Andrews Visiting Leading Scholar
Reflexivity and Reflexive Practice Workshop
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Academy of Management Learning & Education Paper Development Workshop
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Monday 22 May: Judy Brown – Victoria University
Democratising accounting and accountability practices
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Tuesday 27 June: James Bacchus – University of Central Florida
Rowing the Triremes: Participation as Cooperation
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Research Seminars: Autumn 2022
- Accounting and Society
Wednesday 28 September: Turan Bali – Georgetown University
A Factor Model for Stock Options
Thursday 29 September: Turan Bali – Georgetown University
Publishing in top journals: What we need to know
Monday 3 October: Accounting workshop
Accountability & Finance for Crisis workshop
Thursday 8 December: Panagiotis Koutroumpis – University of Sussex
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Survival: Evidence from the Climate and Pandemic Crises
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- Business Finance
Thursday 27 October: Jack Downey & Kwame Ababio – Prequin
Preqin Pro - Alternative Assets Data Platform
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Thursday 17 November: Bo Wang – University of Southampton
Do Tournament Incentives Influence Labor Investment Efficiency?
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Wednesday 30 November: Samuel Fosu – University of Sussex
Credit information sharing and cost of debt in developing countries
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- Digit Debates
Wednesday 12 October: Fang Lee Cooke - (Monash University), University of Sussex Leading Visiting Scholar
Can we talk about strategic Human Resource Management in the gig economy?
Wednesday 2 November: Becky Faith – Institute of Development Studies and Digital Futures at Work Research Centre
Digital Levelling up in Sussex
Wednesday 16 November: Tomas Kochan – MIT
Shaping the future of work: an activist research agenda
Wednesday 23 November: Pawel Adrjan – Director of EMEA Economic Research at the Indeed Hiring Lab & Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Working from home after Covid-19
- Economics
Monday 10 October: Subrato Bannerjee – Indian Institute of Technology
Fairness is flexible: A study of competing focal points
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Wednesday 12 October: Pawel Doligalski – University of Bristol
Redistribution with Performance Pay
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Wednesday 26 October: Meredith Crowley– University of Cambridge
The Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Agreements
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Wednesday 2 November: Carlo Pizzinelli – IMF
Job Polarization and the Declining Wages of Young Female Workers in the United Kingdom
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Wednesday 9 November: Somdeep Chatterjee – IIM
Sweet Cash: Is Healthcare a Normal Good for Women in Developing Countries?
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Wednesday 16 November: Pawel Gola – University of Edinburgh
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting
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Wednesday 21 November: Matthias Doepke – Northwestern University
The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
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Wednesday 30 November: Ilse Lindenlaub – Yale University
Firm Sorting and Spatial Inequality
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Monday 5 December: Akanksha Marphatia – UCL
A biosocial perspective on women’s early marriage in rural India and Nepal
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Wednesday 7 December: Severine Toussaert – University of Oxford
Stochastic dominance and preference for randomization
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- Energy
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 19 October: George O White III – University Michigan-Flint
Laying down the law: Assessing the effects of ethical codes and legalism on MNE monitoring of foreign subsidiary supply chain partners in emerging markets
Wednesday 23 November: Zaheer Kan – University of Aberdeen Business School
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Wednesday 7 December: Mirko Benischke – Erasmus University
Emerging Multinationals and Pro-Market Reversals: Escape OFDI In Response to Institutional Change
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- QFIN (Quantitative FinTech)
- Responsible Business
Thursday 1 December: Yvette Sterbenk, Ithaca College; Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Brunel Business School; Emma Cleary, Flexibility Matters; Gülsünay Uysal Kaba, Teklas
New Approaches to Addressing Gender Inequality in Business and Society
- SPRU
Wednesday 28 September: Tony Golding – Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
Cambridge Mechatronics Limited – A Case Study in Technological Innovation
Wednesday 12 October: Ann Light – University of Sussex
Abundant creativity
Wednesday 2 November: Mahmood Bhutta – BSMS
Sustainable Supply Chains for Healthcare Equipment
Wednesday 9 November: Max Lacey Barnacle – University of Sussex
Community Wealth Building in an age of just transitions: exploring civil society approaches to net zero and future research synergies
Thursday 10 November: Inga Ulnicane – De Montfort University
Bad Governance? Critical perspectives on governance of Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday 16 November: Laur Kanger – University of Sussex
Should we (still) rethink science, technology and innovation? Evidence from the Deep Transitions framework?
Wednesday 30 November: Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling – University of Sussex
Let the pluriverse grow
Thursday 8 December: Allison Loconto – INRA France
Governing agroecological transitions: Standards as institutional innovations
- Strategy & Marketing
Monday 10 October: Marina Biniari – Aalto University
How employees’ Time Valuations Influence Innovation Implementation
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Thursday 13 October: Mansoor Afzali – Hanken School of Economics
Climate Change Denial and Corporate Environmental Performance
Tuesday 8 November: Jiří Witzany – University of Economics, Prague
Machine learning applications to valuation of options on non-liquid markets; carbon derivatives
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Wednesday 16 November: Xian Gu – Durham University
Friends in High Places: Political Ties and SEC Oversight of Foreign Firms
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- Visiting Leading Scholar
Wednesday 19 October: Fang Lee Cooke – Monash University
Publishing in top human resource management journals
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Research Seminars: Spring 2022
- Accounting and Society
Wednesday 25 May: Jill Atkins – Sheffield University Management School
Exploring the Historical Roots of Environmental and Ecological Accounting
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Wednesday 27 April: Susan O’Leary – Royal Holloway University of London
Misadventures in participatory accountability? Nomadic subjects and affirmative otherness in a humanitarian NGO
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Wednesday 23 March: Steven Young – Lancaster University
Mandatory annual report descriptions of business model and strategy, investor uncertainty, and disclosure cascade effects
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Wednesday 16 February: Ebba Sjögren – Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Maintaining a measurement apparatus: The calibration of robust internal measurement of a public sustainability target
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Wednesday 19 January: Jill Atkins – Sheffield University Management School
Exploring the Historical Roots of Environmental and Ecological Accounting
- Business Finance
Thursday 19 May: Meziane Lasfer – Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Tournament incentives and insider trading
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Thursday 28 April: Armin Schwienbacher – SKEMA Business School
Private Equity Debt Funds: Who Wins, Who Loses?
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Wednesday 16 March: David Elliott – Bank of England
Nonbank Lenders as Global Shock Absorbers: Evidence from US Monetary Policy Spillovers
Thursday 10 March: Richard Fairchild – University of Bath
Patterns of Corporate Fraud: reputations, superegos and emotions - a manager-regulator game analysis
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Thursday 17 February: Dilyara Salakhova – ECB
Are ethical and green investment funds more resilient?
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- Circular Economy
Monday 25 April: Nur Gizem Yalçın - ECR for C-PlaNeT
A systemic approach to transitions towards circular economy: the case of Brighton and Hove
Monday 14 March: Antonius Schröder - Technische Universitat Dortmund Social Research Centre
European Skills Alliances: Skills for the Digital, Green, and Social Transition
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- Creative and Digital Economy
Wednesday 4 May: James M Crick – University of Leicester
Coopetition Strategies in the Canadian Wine Industry
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Thursday 17 March: Greg Richards – Tilburg University
The role of the creative industries in placemaking
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- Digit Debates
Wednesday 30 March: Helen Milner OBE, Group Chief Executive, Good Things Foundation and Al Mathers, Director of Research, The RSA
How fixing the digital divide will help the country level up
Wednesday 23 March RESCHEDULED: Zlatko Bodrožić, Associate Professor in Technology, Organisation and Sustainability, University of Leeds
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, localism or democracy? Alternative Futures for the Digital Transformation
Wednesday 16 March: Wil Hunt, Research Fellow, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre & University of Sussex Business School; Sudipa Sarkar, Senior Research Fellow, IER, University of Warwick; Chris Warhurst, Director, IER and Professor of Work & Employment, University of Warwick
Is AI taking our jobs? Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders
Wednesday 9 March: Derya Guer-Seker, Research Associate, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Threat or opportunity? (Social) media perspectives on AI and the future of work
- Economics
Wednesday 11 May: Pieter Serneels – University of East Anglia
The collective action mechanism in community-based monitoring of public services
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Wednesday 4 May: Andrea Goldstein – OECD
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Wednesday 27 April: Bart Golsteyn – Maastricht University
Educational outcomes of migrant children in a tracked system: lessons from a policy change
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Wednesday 6 April: Swati Dhingra – LSE
Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation
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Wednesday 16 March Ben Etheridge – University of Essex
Working from Home and Worker Productivity Through the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Wednesday 9 March: David Jaeger
Sheepskin Effects and Heterogeneous Wage-Setting Behavior: Evidence from Mozambique
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Wednesday 2 March: Stefan Hubner – University of Bristol
It's complicated: A Nonparametric Test of Preference Stability between Singles and Couples
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- Energy
- Food Research Methodologies
Thursday 7 April: Abby Lopes - School of Design, University Technology Sydney
Social Design Research Methods that Co-evolve ‘Solutions’ with Partners/Stakeholders
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 6 April: Ajai Gaur - Rutgers University
Deal Completion in Cross Border Acquisitions: The Role of Wave Timing, Acquisition Pace and Linguistic Distance
Wednesday 9 March: Jonathan Doh – University of Villanova
Climate Change and Innovation: The Role of Climate Risk and Institutional Context
Wednesday 2 March: Heather Berry, George Washington University and Róisín Donnelly, Tilburg University
Defending knowledge abroad
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Wednesday 16 February: Keith Brouthers – KCL
Charting New Courses to Enter Foreign Markets:Conceptualization, Theoretical Framework, & Research Directions on Non-traditional Entry Modes
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Wednesday 16 February: Ebba Sjögren – Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Maintaining a measurement apparatus: The calibration of robust internal measurement of a public sustainability target
Wednesday 19 January: Shameen Prashantham – CEIBS
Gorillas can dance: Lessons from Microsoft and other corporations on partnering with start-ups
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- QFIN (Quantitative Fintech)
Wednesday 27 April: Junlei Hu – Essex University
Pareto-optimal insurance contracts with premium budget and minimum charge constraints
Wednesday 30 March: Christian Conrad – Heidelberg University
Modelling Volatility Cycles: The MF2 GARCH Model
Wednesday 9 March: Richard Gerlach – University of Sydney
Improving the accuracy of tail risk forecasts by combining several realized volatility estimators
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Wednesday 2 February: Igor Makarov – LSE
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
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Wednesday 26 January: Dexin Zhou – Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business
Anomalies, Management Expectations, and Stock Returns
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- Responsible Business
Thursday 26 May: Hari Bapuji (University of Melbourne), Gokhan Ertug (Singapore Management University)
Implications of caste for MNEs and international business research
Thursday 19 May: Adam Greene - International Labour Organization
The State Duty to Protect as a prerequisite for the Corporate Responsibility to Respect
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Thursday 12 May: Inés Alegre and Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Mission statements: So important and so overlooked
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Thursday 28 April: Armando Castro – UCL
Irresponsible Businesses and the Paradox of Governance and Trust in Construction Cartels
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Thursday 31 March: Helen Beney – University of Sussex
Ecological entrepreneurial orientation and sustainable supply chain management
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Thursday 24 March: Stephan Manning & Ana Suarez Lopez – University of Sussex
Uncovering corporate scandals: The role of impact film production
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Thursday 10 March: Haya Al-Dajani – Mohammed Bin Salman College for Business and Entrepreneurship
Women Entrepreneurship and (Dis)Empowerment?
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Thursday 3 March: Eva Selenko – Loughborough University
On the political consequences of job insecurity: Empirical findings and theoretical explanations
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Thursday 24 February: Patrick Velte – Leuphana University
Sustainable Corporate Governance - What it is and why it matters
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- SPRU
Friday 6 May: Colleen Cunningham – London Business School
Keeping Invention Confidential
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Friday 29 April: Patrizia Casadei – LSE CANCELLED
Friday 8 April: Nicola Lacetera - Rotman School, University of Toronto
Is the price right? The role of morals, ideology and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges
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Friday 1 April: Cosmas Ochieng – World Resources Institute CANCELLED
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Friday 18 March: Lea Fünfschilling - CIRCLE, Lund
Knowledge in transition
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Friday 11 March: Arianna Martinelli - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
The direction of technical change in AI and the trajectory effects of government funding
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Friday 4 March: Paola Criscuolo - Imperial College Business School
Organization Structure of Development and Firm Innovation
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Friday 25 February: W. Brian Arthur – External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Complexity Economics: a Different Approach to Economic Thinking?
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Wednesday 23 February: Adrian Ely & Adrian Smith – University of Sussex
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Friday 11 February: Arvids Ziedonis – KU Leuven
State Government Innovation Programs and the Retention of Science and Technology Start-Ups: Evidence from the Great Lakes Region
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Friday 4 February: Georg von Graevenitz – QMUL
The Importance of Quality in Austere Times: University Competitiveness and Grant Income
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Wednesday 12 January: Jan Kinne – ISTARI AI
ISTARI.AI: Near-time economic data from large-scale web scraping and AI analyses
- Visiting Leading Scholar
Wednesday 9 March: Mats Alvesson – Lund University
Reimagining the Research Process
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Friday 4 March: Mats Alvesson, Lund University
Building an academic career
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Past Events
- 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
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.