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Women in Acoustics

9 April 2024

Listen to an special episode of the award winning podcast 'The Rest is Just Noise' featuring SHL Digital co-director Professor Alice Eldridge.

Photograph of double winner of Startup Sussex 2024, Shuaib Karmani, pitching at the grand final

Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Systems MSc student receives double award in annual Startup Sussex competition

27 March 2024

Startup Sussex 2024 saw the first ever live pitches and awards ceremony

two wheels or 'sprays' pictured in the top right and bottowm left hand corner mimicking the colours of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. On a light blue background the words 'Round 9 Scaling up Sustainability Research' in dark blue are to be seen.

SSRP devotes annual funding call to support platform grants for innovative sustainability research

26 March 2024

Sussex researchers: Apply by 5 June for seed-funding between £20-30k and develop platform grants for scaling up cutting-edge sustainability research

What exactly are equitable partnerships for sustainability research?

22 February 2024

Join SSRP for a deep dive into Equitable Research Partnerships at their event on 29 Feb chaired by Pro-VC for Global & Civic Engagement Robin Banerjee

Professor Judy Wajcman to deliver SHL Digital Annual Keynote 2024

16 February 2024

The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is delighted to announce Professor Judy Wajcman as this years’ Annual Keynote which will take place on the 28th June

Apply to be a PhD Community Advocate at SHL Digital

21 November 2023

This year's call for PhD Community Advocates is focused on developing connections between and beyond the University with a thematic focus around AI.

A menstrual pad can be seen in the centre with the words Environmenstrual Week written in red on it

Breaking the silence: citizen science project breaks period stigma and promotes sustainable menstrual health

17 October 2023

This Environmenstrual Week we are spotlighting an SSRP project which uses citizen science to advance sustainable menstrual health amongst adolescents

Adam Weiler Award: PhD researchers awarded for excellence in impact

15 June 2022

The annual Adam Weiler Doctoral Impact Awards recognise outstanding PhD students across the disciplines enacting real-world change in their research

Women's Safety and Street Harassment

29 March 2021

Dr Hannah Mason-Bish speaks to Allison Ferns from BBC Radio Sussex on the subject of women's safety and street harassment.

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Mainstream feminism is broken, says Sussex expert in new book

26 March 2020

A new book by Alison Phipps, Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, pulls back the curtain on the #MeToo movement.

Sussex research reveals injustices faced by LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants

28 February 2020

Sussex researchers are working on a project to report the experiences of people who claim asylum for reasons of sexual orientation or gender identity.

LPS doctoral researchers discuss professional developments challenges

11 July 2019

Twenty students took part in the seventh School of Law, Politics and Sociology (LPS) annual away day for postgraduate doctoral researchers

Dr Hannah Mason-Bish has been invited to participate in an Expert Roundtable event on Gender-Based ‎Hate Crime‎

10 June 2019

Dr Hannah Mason-Bish has been invited to participate in an Expert Roundtable event on Gender-Based Hate Crime, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal on...

Dr Kimberley Brayson to guest edit a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies

5 June 2019

Dr Kimberley Brayson to guest edit a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies: Islamophobia, Islamic ‎dress and precarious bodies. ‎