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Clionadh Raleigh, Professor of Political Geography and Conflict at the University of Sussex, has spent the past eight years collecting data related to violent incidents in order to re-shape the way we understand political violence and conflict.
Dr Sarah Scuzzarello is a member of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), and works to better understand why people choose to leave their home countries, and how they navigate identities and communities in new lands.
A collaboration between Sussex researchers, Kenyan national agencies and non-governmental organisations aims to improve drought predictions through the use of machine learning techniques to analyse satellite-based Earth observations.
Sussex researchers venture to some of the coldest places on Earth to examine permafrost, which is a geological manifestation of climate. They also conduct experiments simulating permafrost conditions in our specialised laboratory on campus.
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