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UK businesses facing increased costs and supply chain issues in post-Brexit system – new from UKTPO

15 March 2023

The post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) poses significant difficulties and disadvantages for many businesses.

All aboard the Sussex Brain Bus!

13 March 2023

Locals invited to the official launch of the Sussex Brain Bus at Hove Lawns on Friday 24 March. Event aims to raise awareness about dementia research.

Dr Conor Boland and Adel Aljarid discuss their seaweed-based health sensor development in the lab at the University of Sussex

Edible electronics: how a seaweed second skin could transform health and fitness sensor tech

2 March 2023

University of Sussex scientists have used seaweed to develop new, biodegradable health sensors, which could be applied like a second skin.

Professor Winfried Hensinger and Dr Sebastian Weidt behind a prototype of a quantum computer in the University of Sussex quantum lab

Sussex scientists make breakthrough in developing quantum computers that can solve big challenges of our time

8 February 2023

Sussex scientists have, for the first time, connected quantum microchips together, like a jigsaw puzzle, and with record-breaking speed and accuracy

Public back bolder policies to reduce fuel and transport poverty

7 February 2023

Study finds there is wide public support for more ambitious UK policies to tackle fuel and transport poverty

Investors who make decisions with others are half as likely to bet on falling stock prices – new research

6 February 2023

University of Sussex study finds that consulting others reduces financial overconfidence and improves the quality of investment decisions

Sussex researchers find pesticide use is linked to garden bird decline

6 February 2023

House sparrows (down 70% since the 1970s) especially affected by herbicides containing glyphosate

Illustration of part of the human protein-protein interaction network. Proteins are shown as circles and the lines connecting them represent a physical interaction. The connections between these proteins change in cancer cells and the network is rewired.

Sussex researchers use Artificial Intelligence to personalise cancer patient treatments

4 February 2023

University of Sussex develop novel method of identifying the genes that are critical to a cancer cell’s survival using AI

Conflicts of interest in UK food regulation “puts public health at risk” – new research

31 January 2023

Food regulatory institutions in the UK should have robust mechanisms for addressing commercial conflicts of interest, argues a new research paper

Dissection documentary provides invaluable cancer education

20 November 2022

Prof Claire Smith led the anatomists and clinicians who dissected the body of Toni Crews over 12 educational workshops for around 1000 students.

Transformative Investment Philosophy Report cover

Climate crisis calls for systemic change to finance: new report

16 November 2022

Sussex and Utrecht researchers from the Deep Transitions project urge a new approach to investing.

Why the queue to see the Queen was "like a pilgrimage"

15 November 2022

Sussex psychologist Professor John Drury advised the UK government on what to expect during the Queen's funeral and lying-in-state.

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WEF and Humboldt Institute publication calls for Transformative approach to building “BiodiverCities” of the future

25 October 2022

New publication draws on Transformative Innovation Policy in its call for cities globally to embrace and harness biodiversity to transform urban life.

bright colourful SSRP graphics designed in the SDG colours on white background with a blue centred caption reading 'SSRP Week' and the date and location of this series of events below: 7th -11th November 2022, University of Sussex

Time for action: SSRP Week kickstarts new phase for sustainability research with impact

20 October 2022

Coinciding with COP27, the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme is hosting an exciting week of events in November celebrating its Phase II launch

Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems – major new study

20 October 2022

A major new research study led by the University of Sussex shows that global science research is not addressing the SDGs.

UKRI appoints duo energy research ‘champions’ from Sussex and Newcastle universities

30 September 2022

Academics at the University of Sussex and Newcastle University have been appointed to lead the next phase of energy demand research in the UK.

1st in the UK for Business and Management research income

University of Sussex Business School tops the charts for research income

22 September 2022

The University of Sussex Business School now ranks number one in the UK for Business and Management research income.

A close up of a bumblebee on wild clary, which is purple in colour

New online resource can help users ‘bee’ friendly when it comes to planting for pollinators

10 August 2022

An online database developed at the University of Sussex could help the public understand how to plant for pollinators and support biodiversity.

People lying down with eyes closed and each covered in a blanket in the Dreamachine

Public invited to take part in largest ever scientific study into perception

6 July 2022

Sussex neuroscientists from the team behind the Dreamachine launch The Perception Census, a study into the unique ways we each experience the world.

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New study reveals impact of plastic on small mammals, as four out of seven species identified as ‘plastic positive’

1 July 2022

Researchers investigating the exposure of small mammals to plastics found traces in the faeces of more than half of the species examined.