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.
Upcoming Events
- EurOMA 2021
5-7 July 2021
The 28th international annual EurOMA conference will be on the theme of 'Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times'.
Past Events
- 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.
Autumn 2020 Research Seminars
- Accounting & Society
Thursday 18 March 2021: Ileana Steccolini - University of Essex
Moral sentiments and collective action: performing accountability at the time of a crisis (co-authored with Claudio Columbano and Daniela Pianezzi)
Wednesday 13 January 2021: Tobias Polzer, University of Vienna & Galina Goncharenko, University of Sussex
The Legitimation of Digital Innovations and Accountability Relationships between Government and Citizens: A Case of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the UK
Thursday 12 November 2020: Dennis De Widt – Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
Small is beautiful? A study of small firms in local public audit in England and the Netherlands
Thursday, 22 October 2020: Lane Matthews – Queen University, Belfast
Exploration vs. Exploitation Disclosure and the Cost of Equity Capital: UK-based Evidence
Wednesday, 16 September 2020: Sarada Krishnan – University of Sussex
IFRS Convergence in India - Two-way Interactive Dynamics of the Decision-Making Process
Wednesday, 2 September 2020: Sumohon Matilal – University of Sussex
Representative Democracy and Disaster: Insights from Bhopal
- Business Finance
Thursday 25 March 2021: Barbara Casu – Cass Business School
Offshore wholesale funding and liquidity shocks: evidence from the Euro sovereign debt crisis (co-authored with A. Gallo, A. Kontonikas and S. Maiani)
Thursday 18 March 2021: Elisabeth Kempf – University of Chicago Booth, School of Business
The Political Polarization of U.S. Firms (co-authored with Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College, ECGI, CEPR & Margarita Tsoutsoura Cornell University, CEPR, ECGI, and NBER)
Thursday 25 February 2021: Giorgia Barboni – Warwick Business School
Cultural Proximity and the Formation of Lending Relationships (co-authored with A. Accetturo, M. Cascarano and Emilia Garcia-Appendini)
Thursday 18 February 2021: Richard Fairchild – University of Bath
Patterns of Corporate Fraud: reputations, superegos and emotions - a manager-regulator game analysis
Thursday 4 February 2021: Izidin El Kalak – University of Cardiff
Unconventional monetary policy and stock liquidity
Thursday 10 December 2020: Isha Agarwal - British Columbia
Inflation and Disintermediation (Co-authored with Matthew Baron)
Thursday 3 December 2020: Asaf Manela - Washington University
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators
Thursday 19 November 2020: Sean Higgins - Northwestern University
Increasing Financial Inclusion and Attracting Deposits through Prize-Linked Savings
Wednesday 18 November 2020: Laura Bonacorsi - Bermuda financial authorities/Visiting professor at Sussex
The role of equivalence in the Brexit negotiation. The good, the bed and the ugly. Quo vadis the UK?
Thursday 12 November 2020: Diana Bonfim – Bank of Portugal
Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop: The Government Procurement Channel (Co-authored with Miguel Ferreira, Francisco Queiró and Sujiao (Emma) Zhao)
Thursday, 29 October 2020: Thanos Verousis – Essex University
The Road to Economic Recovery: Pandemics and Innovation
Wednesday, 14 October 2020: Nicolo Limodio – Bocconi University
High-Speed Internet, Financial Technology and Banking
- Consumer Wellbeing
Wednesday 18 November 2020: Peter Zubcsek – Tel Aviv University
Social Media Use and Psychological Well-Being
- Creative & Digital Economy
Tuesday 8 December 2020: Josh Siepel – University of Sussex
Exploring the UK's Creative Microclusters: Insights from the Creative Radar Study
- Digital Technology
Thursday 10 December 2020: Stan Karanasios - University of Queensland
An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: How Institutional Logics Shape the Enactment of Platforms in the Emergency Sector
Thursday 3 December 2020: Francesco Grillo - Vision
The Innovation paradox in a post-covid world
Thursday 5 November 2020: Valentina Lichtner – UCL
A journey into collective mindfulness and health IT in oncology, beyond a standardisation/resilience dichotomy
Thursday 1 October 2020: Peter Kawalek – Loughborough University
Eating the World? The Digital Economy, 2020 and beyond
- Economics
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Hamish Low – Oxford University
Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences (co-authored with Luigi Pistaferri)
Wednesday 17 March 2021: Jan Eckhout – BGSE/UPF
Market Power and Wage Inequality (co-authored with Shubhdeep Deb, Aseem Patel, Larry Warren)
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Clemens Puppe - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Resource Allocation by Frugal Majority Rule (co-authored with Klaus Nehring)
Wednesday 3 March 2021: Mary-Ann Bronson – Georgetown University
The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Kareen Rozen – Brown University
Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation (co-authored with Geoffroy de Clippel)
Wednesday 17 February 2021: Gerelt Tserenjigmid – Virginia Tech
Behavioral Foundations of Nested Stochastic Choice and Nested Logit (co-authored with Matthew Kovach)
Wednesday 10 February 2021: Paula Gobbi – Université Libre de Bruxelles
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility Cycles: Baby Boom and Busts in Twentieth Century America (co-authored with Bastien Chabé-Ferret)
Wednesday 3 February 2021: Rahul Deb – University of Toronto
Choice Consistency with Learning from Common Information
Wednesday 2 December 2020: Ben Groom – LSE
Mean-Spirited Growth (co-authored with Zachary Turk and Eli Fenichel)
Wednesday 25 November 2020: Willemien Kets – University of Oxford
How (Not) to Eat a Hot Potato
Wednesday 18 November 2020: Alex Teytelboym– University of Oxford
An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan
Monday, 16 November 2020: Andis Sofianos - Heidelberg University
Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Wednesday 11 November 2020: Pietro Ortoleva – Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Caution and Reference Effects (co-authored with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger)
Monday, 9 November 2020: Francis Dennig - Yale-NUS College
Differential fertility and the dynamics of inequality
Friday 6 November 2020: Maurizio Mazzocco – UCLA
Taxation and Household Decisions: an Intertemporal Analysis (co-authored with Mary Ann Bronson)
Wednesday 28 October 2020: Bruno Strulovici - Northwestern (Kellog)
Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective
Wednesday 21 October 2020: Costas Cavounidis – University of Warwick
When Does Information Determine Market Size? Search and Rational Inattention
Wednesday 14 October 2020: Alessandra Voena – Stanford University
Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in Desired Fertility (co-authored with Nava Ashrafy, Erica Fieldz, Roberta Ziparo)
Wednesday 7 October 2020: Arthur Lewbel – Boston College
Inefficient Collective Households: Cooperation and Consumption (co-authored with Krishna Pendakur)
Wednesday 30 September 2020: Pierre-André Chiappori – Columbia University
Changes in Assortative Matching: Theory and Evidence for the US (co authored with Mónica Costa Diasz and Costas Meghir)
- Economics (internal research)
Monday 22 March 2021: Peter Dolton – University of Sussex
Econometric Challenges of Modelling Covid-19
Monday 15 March 2021: Gio Mion – University of Sussex
The UK's great demand and supply recession
Monday 8 March 2021: Rocco D’Este – University of Sussex
Universal Credit and Crime
Monday 1 March 2021: Gabriella Cagliesi – University of Sussex
Are We All in This Together? Alleviating the Childcare Constraint for Women in Economic Crises (co-authored with Denise Hawkes)
Monday 22 February 2021: Pawel Dziewulski – University of Sussex
A comprehensive method for studying non-transitive indifferences and approximate utility maximisation with limited data
Monday 15 February 2021: Tom Potoms – University of Sussex
What can we learn from a menu card? Rationalisable menu design (co-authored with Thomas Demuynck)
Monday 8 February 2021: Luca Rondina – University of Sussex
Imperfect Credibility, Sticky Wages, and Welfare
Monday, 30 November 2020: Miguel Ortiz Serrano – University of Sussex
Fake news and corruption in late 19th century France: The case of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama
Monday, 23 November 2020: Kai Wang – University of Sussex
Dual Heuristics System in Stochastic Choice
Monday 2 November 2020: Illia Pasichnichenko – University of Sussex
Decision-making with partial information
Monday 26 October 2020: Matteo Madotto - University of Sussex
Heterogeneous awareness in financial markets
Monday 19 October 2020: Myrna Hennequin - University of Sussex
Experiences and expectations in asset markets: an experimental study
Monday 12 October 2020: Richard Tol - University of Sussex
Testing the Dismal Theorem (co-authored with David Anthoff)
- FAST (Finance and Stochastics)
Wednesday 17 March 2021: Markus Leippold – University of Zurich
Ask BERT: How Regulatory Disclosure of Transition and Physical Climate Risks affects the CDS Term Structure
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Menelaos Tasiou – Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth
CISEF: A composite index of social, environmental and financial performance
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Wese Simen –University of Liverpool
The Index Effect: Evidence from the Option Market
Wednesday 2 December 2020: Ryan Riordan – Queens University
How to Measure the Liquidity of Cryptocurrency Markets? (co-authored with Alexander Brauneis, Roland Mestel, Erik Theissen)
Wednesday 25 November 2020: Natalie Packham – Berlin School of Economics and Law
Correlation stress testing of stock and credit portfolios
Wednesday 11 November 2020: Michael Baumann – University of Bayreuth
Improving Heterogeneous Agents Models by Avoiding Explicit Discretizations of Stiff Equations
Wednesday 4 November 2020: Radu Tunaru – University of Sussex
Multi-asset option pricing and calibration under a three factor Lévy model (joint work with Catalin Cantia from ING Amsterdam)
Wednesday 28 October 2020: Thomas Dimpfl – University of Tübingen
Noise in Cryptocurrencies - Price Discovery and Liquidity
- Future of Work
Thursday 18 March 2021: Nada Endrissat - Bern University of Applied Sciences, New Work Institute
From Sites to Vibes. Practices of Technology and the Navigation of Space
Wednesday 3 March 2021: Janine Berg, Senior Economist, International Labour Office, Geneva (Joint Seminar with Digit (Digital Futures at Work Research Centre))
Protecting workers in the digital age
Thursday 18 February 2021: Simel Eşim Head – Cooperatives Unit, ILO
Cooperatives and the Wider Social Economy Response to the Future of Work
Thursday 4 February 2021: Eli Revelle Yano Wilson – University of New Mexico
Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers
Thursday 10 December 2020: Zahira Jaser – University of Sussex
Democratising leadership by studying connecting leaders: serving concurrently as a leader and a follower
Thursday 26 November 2020: Adrian Smith – SPRU/Future of Work
Technology, Human Capabilities and Work in UK Makerspaces
Thursday 12 November 2020: Paul Thompson – University of Stirling
Work Futures: Before, during and after the pandemic
Thursday 29 October 2020: Joke Dufourmont & Esther Goodwin Brown – Circle Economy, Amsterdam
Putting people at the heart of the circular economy: An Introduction to the Circular Jobs Initiative by Circle Economy (Co-hosted with the Circular Economy Research Mobilisation Group and Circular Brighton and Hove as part of Circular Economy Club Circular Cities Week)
Thursday 15 October 2020: Aaron Gain – University of Sussex.
Employee Ownership as Magic Bullet of Alternative Organizing? Insights from UK Health and Social Care and Social Care
Thursday 1 October 2020: Fransizka Gasmann - Professor of Social Protection and Development at Maastricht University and Professor of Poverty and Social Protection at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science.
Do we need a new social contract? Social protection and the future of work
- Innovation & Project Management
Tuesday 24 November 2020: Paul Mansell - Nathu Puri Institute for Engineering and Enterprise
Think Global – Act Local: Measuring Infrastructure projects’ Sustainable Development Goals Impact’ (MISI)
- International Business & Development
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Vicky Bamiatzi – University of Sussex; Roger Strange, Taz Rajwani, Stephan Manning, John Luiz.
Publishing in International Business Journals (Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar)
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar chaired by John Da Silva Luiz – University of Sussex
International Business in Africa
Pamela Mreji, GIBS, University of Pretoria and University of Johannesburg & Helena Barnard, GIBS, University of Pretoria presented: The micro-foundations of returnee liability: The interpersonal challenges of returnee entrepreneurs in Kenya
Helena Barnard, GIBS, University of Pretoria,; Prof Anastacia Mamabolo, GIBS, University of Pretoria presented: On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experiences in four African countries
Wednesday 10 February 2021: Prof Mike Peng - University of Texas (Dallas)
Post-covid debates in global strategy and business (Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar)
Wednesday 2 December 2020: Antonello Zanfei – University of Urbino; Discussant: Simone Vannuccini – University of Sussex
Digitalization and Global Technological Hierarchies
Wednesday, 25 November 2020: Vittoria Scalera – University of Amsterdam
The managerial responses to post-pandemic world: The new role of connectivity in global value chains
Wednesday 4 November 2020: Hadi Fariborzi, - CIBD & University of Sussex; Piers Steel, University of Calgary
Wednesday, 21 October 2020: Business Responses to Change: An ethical perspective (Joint with Responsible Business Research Group)
Panel Discussants:
Vikrant Shirodkar - (CIBD): Impact of Voluntary environmental certifications (ISO 14001) on pollution reduction
Vasiliki Bamiatzi - (CIBD): CSR as insurance against cyber threats in consumer-sensitive industries
Terri Herron from College of Business, University of Montana: An Ethical Perspective of Business CSR and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Responsible Business
Thursday 18 March 2021: Ozgu Karakulak– University of Sussex
The effect of framing the idea of refugees in shaping social partnerships’ activities
Thursday 11 March 2021: Bobby Bannerjee – Cass Business School
Stakeholder Management in International Business: Interculturality and the Decolonial Project
Thursday 4 March 2021: Madeleine Rauch – Copenhagen Business School
From 'Publish or Perish' to societal impact: Organisational repurposing towards responsible innovation through creating a medical platform
Thursday 25 February 2021: Pablo Munoz - University of Liverpool Management School; Discussant: Stephan Manning – University of Sussex
Social impact measurement: A governance and accountability mechanism in social entrepreneurship (joint seminar with international Business & Development Research Group)
Thursday 4 February 2021: Elizabeth David-Barrett – University of Sussex
Private-sector collective action against corruption in international business
Thursday 10 December 2020: Tanusree Jain– Trinity Business School
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries
Thursday 26 November 2020: Andy Crane – University of Bath
Hybrid freedom: Worker hostels and the problem of freedom and unfreedom in garment supply chains
Thursday 19 November 2020: Serra Cremer lyi – University of Geneva
Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization projects in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Co-author: Prof. Dorothee Baumann - Pauly (NYU))
Thursday 12 November 2020: Andreas Rasche – Copenhagen Business School
Which firms leave multi-stakeholder initiatives? An analysis of de-listings from the United Nations Global Compact
Monday 26 October 2020: Daniel Kinderman – University of Delaware
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Substitute for Institutionalized Social Solidarity
- SPRU
Friday 26 March 2021: Mercedes Delgado – Copenhagen Business School
Clusters and the Great Recession: Implications for the COVID-19 Crisis
Friday 19 March 2021: Andrea Brock, Lecturer in International Relations and International Development, Global Studies; Dr Saurabh Arora, Senior Lecturer in Technology and Innovation for Development at SPRU; Dr Amber Huff, social anthropologist and political ecologist, research fellow at IDS; Dr Adrian Smith, Research Professor in Technology & Society at SPRU
The Case for Degrowth, followed by a panel discussion
Friday 12 March 2021: Matthew Agarwala – University of Cambridge, Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Investments for a sustainable future: the wealth economy approach
Friday 5 March 2021: Marco Grazzi – Universita' Cattolica di Milano
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Effects of Automation on Wage and Gender Inequality Within Firms
Friday 26 February 2021: Grazia Cecere – Institut Mines Telecom, Business School
Trade-offs in Automated Political Advertising Regulation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Friday 19 February 2021: Igor Asanov – University of Kassel, Institute of Economics
Showing Life Opportunities: Increasing Opportunity-Driven Entrepreneurship and STEM Careers Through Online Courses In Schools.
Friday 18 December 2020: Paola Tubaro – Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
Remote listeners and virtual assistants: data labor and privacy issues in the production of smart technologies
Friday 11 December 2020: Marianna Marra - University of Sussex
Do research assessment exercises bias research innovation?
Friday 4 December 2020: Ljubica Nedelkoska - Harvard University
Lessons from 80 years of change in occupational tasks in the U.S. (1939-2018)
Friday 27 November 2020: Giovanni Marin - University of Urbino
The Employment Impact of Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery Act
Friday 20 November 2020: Maarten Derksen – University of Groningen
Tact and technology in psychological praxis
Friday 13 November 2020: Kevin Bryan – University of Toronto
Entrepreneurial Migration
Friday 6 November 2020: Marie Claire Brisbois – University of Sussex
Power shifts: Political power and democracy in an era of electricity decentralisation
Friday 30 October 2020: Ed Steinmueller – University of Sussex
Imagining Artificial Intelligence in Business, the Laboratory and Fiction
- Strategy & Marketing
Thursday 28 January 2021: Marina Puzakova & Amir Grinstein - Lehigh Business & D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northwestern University
Are Robots in Service of Brands’ Socially Responsible Image?
Thursday 3 December 2020: Werner Kunz - UMass Boston
Service Robots
Thursday 29 October 2020: Benedetta Crisafulli – Birkbeck, University of London
“Just look the other way”: Job seekers’ reactions to the irresponsibility of market-dominant employers