School of Education and Social Work

For staff

Useful forms are available to download at:Bronze Athena Swan award

ESW Staff Handbook cover 2021View/download the Staff Handbook:
ESW Staff Handbook: 2023/24 [PDF 10.45MB]

See also our helpful Glossary of Terms & Acronyms: May 2022 [PDF 692.61KB]

Staff Wellbeing: Where to go for help and support

If you need support in relation to your job, your first port of call might be your line manager. You might also want to refer to any of the following online resources for advice and links to support:

  • Report + Support is a tool for staff, students and even visitors to our campus and can be used to:
    - find information about and get access to University and specialist support services 
    - have an advisor talk you through options for support or further action
    - make the University aware of an experience you have had, anonymously if you choose
    *NOTE: We can act on anonymous reports only rarely. See FAQs for more information.

  • ESW's internal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) web pages have information and links to helpful resources, such as union websites, the Chaplaincy & Meeting House, Human Resources for the School, and reporting lines for the reporting of bullying or harrassment at work - directed at you or that you have witnessed.

  • ESW's internal bullying and harrassment web page has helpful advice and relevant links for accessing support.
  • BAME staff might also be interested in our Race Equality web page and what the School of Education and Social Work is providing by way of opportunities to discuss and reflect on individual and collective experiences of inequality and racism and ways to decolonise the curriculum.
  • Human Resources have a wealth of advice on the Staff Wellbeing Hub, including advice on mental, physical and financial wellbeing, and also managers' responsibilities regarding supporting their staff
  • Spectrum.Life (use code BeWell) runs the University's Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). Their helpline is available 24hrs 365 days of the year. As well as a confidential counselling helpline offering up to eight structured counselling sessions, they offer a medical helpline, legal support and help with day-to-day issues such as career coaching, consumer advice or relationship mediation.
  • The Organisational Development department has a web page for Mentoring which is a University scheme whereby mentees are matched with suitable mentors from across the University - usually from a different School or division and who is slightly ahead of the mentee in their career- to aid them in their professional development. You can engage with the scheme by requesting to be a mentor or a mentee. 
School of Education and Social Work Strategic Plan 2019-25

ESW Strategic Plan 2019-25

Workload Planning Guidance *faculty only

ESW Workload Guidance for 2023/24 academic year

Health & Safety

The School of Education and Social Work's Safety Coordinator is Ana Pereira (School Administrator), supported by Paula Burr.

For all other information related to health and safety at Sussex, visit the University's Health & Safety web pages where you can:

Information reported can be accessed by the School's Safety Coordinator as well as members of the University's Health & Safety team. This system does not replace the service offered by the SEF Service Centre (servicecentre@mitie.com), which should be used to report issues with facilities within Schools/buildings and around campus. 

See also information related to COVID-19 specifically.

University Policies

Risk Assessment

Look under 'R' for risk assessments on the University's Health and Safety A-Z web page for risk assessment forms, strategies, ratings and training course information.

Human Resources

For HR and Recruitment Operations:
Email: hradmin.esw@sussex.ac.uk

For HR related advice or support on strategic and organisational objectives:

Assistant HR Business Partner in the first instance: Liz Carlsson [L.Carlsson@sussex.ac.uk]
ESW HR Business Partner: Sarah-Jane Pocock [S.J.Pocock@sussex.ac.uk]

For payroll queries:

Email: Payroll.SocialSciences@sussex.ac.uk
Tel: 01273 876618

Casual employment and pay claims are now dealt with by Reed Talent Solutions. See our web page on Employing Casual Workers.

University & School Policies
FORMS: General 

VISITORS

FORMS: Financial

Claiming Expenses
For the latest expense claim forms, go to Payments Management - Forms (A-Z) (Travel and Working Away From Base, Hospitality and Out of Pocket Expenses)

FORMS: Courses/Modules

For the latest forms regarding course transfers/withdrawals, new module requests, module changes and pathways and electives, visit the Academic Quality and Partnerships (AQP) web pages. Specifically

FORMS: Travel
FORMS: Student related
Sussex templates

Powerpoint templates

Letterheads & business cards

If you would like design help/support in using the above templates, contact the Communications Officer, Heather Stanley: h.stanley@sussex.ac.uk

ESW Events Calendar

Click on the relevant month to expand and view significant School meetings, events and committees.

See also the ESW Committee Timetable: 2023/24 [PDF 91.56KB] for the dates of committee meetings taking place across the academic year.

April 2024
DATE: 1st-5th
Monday

EASTER MONDAYBANK HOLIDAY
Tuesday 

MINIMUM SERVICE DAY
Wednesday

 
Thursday

 
Friday

 
DATE: 8th-12th
Monday

1-2pm: CSWIR Event: Members with Children & Families Research Areas - via Teams
Tuesday

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

1-5pm: CSWIR Symposium: Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) by conflicts and violence - Seminar Room 18, Essex House + Zoom

2-3.30pm: REF outputs assessor training
Thursday

9.30am-3pm: SocSci PS Spring Open Meeting for Professional Services staff - Room 115, Jubilee Building

10am-1pm: CSWIR Symposium: Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) by conflicts and violence - Seminar Room 18, Essex House + Zoom

Friday

 
DATE: 15th-19th
Monday

 
Tuesday

12.30-1.30pm: Follow up to 2023 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey PRES - Room 208, Fulton + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/96327764426]

Wednesday

 
Thursday

 

Friday

 
DATE: 22nd-26th
Monday

2-4pm: Convenor Workshop on Writing for Publication: Part 2 - Room G16, Freeman Building + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/99793280457]

4-6pm: 3MT - Room 39, Freeman Building
Tuesday

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

9.30-11.30am: School Leadership Team (SLT) - Zoom link [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/99167055521?pwd=RUJPUWtQT3JFRTNZUzIzMTk2VUVmdz09]

10am-12pm: Social Work Board of Study - The Conolly Room, Essex House

1-3pm: SocSci Researcher Induction - Impact and Knowledge Exchange - Arts A05 Lecture Theatre
Thursday

5-6.30pm: CIE Research Café: Parents in education: Holistic and indigenous perspectives around schooling and learning in Northcentral Nigeria with Bukola Oyinloye - Education Teaching Lab 19 + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/93375685140?pwd=SUJ0a2dnVFZOZHJGS3NheXEyTW9Ddz09]
Friday

 
DATE: 29th-30th
Monday  
Tuesday  
May 2024
DATE: 1st-3rd
Wednesday

10am-12pm: Social Work & Social Care Department Meeting
Thursday

9am-5pm: Festival of Multi-Cultural Research: Workshop One (Listening to the story)

5-6.30pm: CIE Research Café: Derron Wallace 'The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth' - Education Teaching Lab 19, Essex House + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98367527148?pwd=TXRLaFF4SHVHVmdMWUlncSt1TkZqUT09]
Friday

2-3.30pm: CSWIR Event: Emotional Labour in Child and Family Social Work Teams: A Hybrid Ethnography with Dr Sara Carder - Room 212, Fulton Building + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/91448801824?pwd=bjlobmZZNkpZT0pJQ3M1MW9kWTdFZz09]
DATE: 6th-10th
Monday

 
Tuesday

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

10-11am: SocSci Researcher Induction - Consultancy + Collaboration - venue tbc

10am-12pm: ESW SEC - The Sissay Room, Essex House
Thursday  
Friday

 

DATE: 13th-17th
Monday

 

Tuesday

 
Wednesday

9.30-11am: School Leadership Team (SLT) - The Conolly Room + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/99167055521?pwd=RUJPUWtQT3JFRTNZUzIzMTk2VUVmdz09]

Thursday

 

Friday

 
DATE: 20th-24th
Monday

 
Tuesday

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

11am-12.30pm: ESW Supervisory Forum - Seminar Room 18, Essex House + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/91846837817]

Thursday

11am-1pm: ESW School Research Committee
Friday

 
DATE: 27th-31st
Monday

 
Tuesday

 
Wednesday

 
Thursday  
Friday  
June 2024
DATE: 3rd-7th
Monday

SUSSEX DOC FEST
Tuesday

SUSSEX DOC FEST

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

SUSSEX DOC FEST
Thursday

SUSSEX DOC FEST
Friday

SUSSEX DOC FEST
DATE: 10th-14th
Monday

UG Finalist MAB time tbd

9am-5pm: Festival of Multi-Cultural Research: Workshop Two ("Hear The Beat")
Tuesday

Finalist pre PABs times tbd
Wednesday

Finalist pre PABs times tbd

11am-1pm: School Leadership Team (SLT) - The Sissay Room + Zoom [https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/99167055521?pwd=RUJPUWtQT3JFRTNZUzIzMTk2VUVmdz09]
Thursday

2-4pm: Finalist PAB BA PEYE BACY
Friday

 
DATE: 17th-21st
Monday

 
Tuesday

9.30-11am: ESW Research Assistance Drop In - via Teams
Wednesday

 
Thursday

 
Friday

ITE AWAYDAY
DATE: 24th-28th
Monday

Progression MABs BA SW finalists and year 1 and 2, MA PG Dip SW finalists and year 1, BACY year 1 and 2, BA PEYE year 1 and 2, electives times tbd
Tuesday

Progression pre-PABs BA SW finalists and year 1 and 2, MA PG Dip SW finalists and year 1, BACY year 1 and 2, BA PEYE year 1 and 2, ime tbd
Wednesday

Progression pre-PABs BA SW finalists and year 1 and 2, MA PG Dip SW finalists and year 1, BACY year 1 and 2, BA PEYE year 1 and 2, ime tbd

Thursday

2-4pm: Progression PAB BA SW finalists and year 1 and 2, MA PG Dip SW finalists and year 1, BACY year 1 and 2, BA PEYE year 1 and 2
Friday ITE Annual Partnership Conference