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Exploring ‘Wicked Sustainability Problems’ at Sussex

15 January 2024

This research workshop series explores key sustainability challenges through 'wicked problems,' piloting a potential cross-campus module.

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Turner Prize-winner unveils brand new artwork at AV��Ƶ

23 November 2023

The artwork by Turner Prize-winning artist, Helen Cammock is the first new piece of permanent public art on the Sussex campus in decades.

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From local to global: SSRP backs five new projects for 2023/2024

9 November 2023

Five interdisciplinary research projects receive SSRP seed funds this academic year, driving sustainability along the South Coast and further afield

Climate Change and Migration in focus at Sussex Migration Centre’s 10th Annual Conference

24 October 2023

The Sussex migration community engaged in a lively debate on the relationship between migrants and climate change, at the 10th SCMR Annual Conference

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Helen Cammock returns to campus for special event

24 October 2023

Join Turner Prize-winning Sussex alumna, artist Helen Cammock at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.

The ideal river How control of nature shaped the international order (2022) by Joanne Yao

CAIT Announces the Winner of the 2023 Sussex International Theory Prize

17 July 2023

Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) announces the 2023 Sussex International Theory Prize winner and honourable mention.

SSRP Round 8 funding opportunity is now open!

21 June 2023

Sussex & IDS researchers here's your chance to apply for funding to help tackle sustainability challenges as we approach the mid-point of Agenda 2030

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“The award helped me realise that everything I did, big or small, mattered and made a difference”

14 December 2022

Spirit of Sussex Award in conversation with Mahima Mehra.

Sussex exhibition marks culmination of Sustainable Futures project

3 October 2022

Sussex project focused on inspiring students from diverse backgrounds to engage with sustainability issues reaches climax with exhibition on campus.

"The richness and originality that comes from working with students" via the Connector Programme

22 November 2021

Meet Carli Rowell, Lecturer in Sociology, and Mystique Charles, Sociology Student as they share their experience of co-creating a new Sociology module

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CIE Views on the Sewell Report

20 May 2021

Why we reject the report authored by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

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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High five: AV��Ƶ named best in the world for development studies for fifth year running

4 March 2021

The University has been number one in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for development studies for six out of the past seven years.

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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 AV��Ƶ, pulls back the curtain on the #MeToo movement.