Get involved
Learn how you can join us as a CIRCY member, Doctoral Researcher or Visiting Research Fellow, and sign up to our mailing list.
How to join us
Find out how to:
- become a member of CIRCY
- join us as a Doctoral Researcher
- join us as a Visiting Research Fellow
- sign up to our mailing list.
Become a member of CIRCY
All Sussex staff and students are warmly invited to become a member of our Centre.
CIRCY members are encouraged to join our meetings twice a term, which provide an opportunity to share work-in-progress and supportive feedback and advice.
There are no set requirements for being a CIRCY member, although we hope that you will actively engage with our events and member meetings.
To register your interest in becoming a CIRCY member, email circyadmin@sussex.ac.uk with your name and a brief summary of your research interests.
You can also sign up to our mailing list to recieve regular updates about our research and events as well as funding opportunities.
Join us as a Doctoral Researcher
We welcome applications for doctoral study.
PhD projects in the interdisciplinary area of childhood and youth in the School of Education and Social Work are often attached to CIRCY. Doctoral projects in other Schools can also be linked to us.
Doctoral researchers play a central role in our research culture, contributing to teaching, research projects and the organisation of academic events.
Identify potential supervisors by browsing the list of CIRCY members. We particularly welcome applications linked to our research themes:
- children’s participation
- digital childhoods
- emotional lives
- good childhoods and (extra)ordinary children
- methodological innovation.
Join us as a Visiting Research Fellow
We invite Visiting Research Fellows to contribute to the intellectual life of the Centre.
Fellowships are available to all scholars who wish to spend time in the Centre and establish connections with our members.
There is no deadline for applications and fellowships can run for any timespan between two weeks and three years.
Applicants should contact our Director, Dr Liam Berriman, for more information.
Visiting Fellows and centre management will agree in advance what is expected of them during the fellowship. Responsibilities would usually include one or more of the following:
- giving seminars to faculty and students of the University of Sussex, or guest lectures for CIRCY-related taught courses
- producing working papers or the equivalent
- engaging in knowledge exchange with students and academic and professional services staff working with childhood and youth
- drafting a collaborative research proposal with our members.
We offer Visiting Fellows a vibrant, interdisciplinary context to undertake a programme of study or activities.
In each term, the Centre will host a variety of research-related events, including open papers and lectures by internal and external academics, workshops and lunchtime seminars.
Visiting Fellows will be appointed to a sponsor within CIRCY who will help integrate them into the Centre and the School of Education and Social Work.
Visiting Fellows have access to the University library, postal facilities and stationery and their own email account.
Depending on individual requirements and the availability of resources, you may also have office space and the use of a PC.
Visiting Fellowships must pay a fee to cover administration and resource costs. This fee is subject to change depending on the funding available to, and the expected contribution of, the applicant. Email the CIRCY director Dr Liam Berriman for more details.