English Language for Academic Study: improve your Academic English

A member of the ELAS team helps a student with her work English Language for Academic Study (ELAS), within the Sussex Centre for Language Studies (SCLS), offers workshops which cover aspects of Academic English, including culture and practice (study skills); Drop-in Hours; Time to Write Sessions and 1:1 tutorials. They aim to help students who have …

Doctoral Conferences: A delegate’s eye view

Ian Hadden is a PhD researcher in Psychology. His trip to the ISPP conference was part-funded by the Sussex Fund Doctoral Overseas Conference Grant. See the Doctoral School website for more information and to apply for funding. In July, I attended the 2022 annual conference of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). This took …

Become a paid Brilliant Club PhD tutor this Spring – deadline 25 September

The Brilliant Club’s Researcher Development Programme offers PhD and Early Career Researchers a meaningful, paid, professional development opportunity. The Brilliant Club's mission is to support less advantaged pupils to have fair access to university. The Brilliant Club do this by training PhDs and ECRs as tutors to deliver two programmes in non-selective state schools. The Scholars …

Welcome to Sussex! Induction events for new researchers this September

**Please note: The date of the online induction has changed to Thursday 29 September.** If you're starting a PhD at Sussex this month - congratulations! We're looking forward to welcoming you at various events and helping you settle in over the next few weeks. The whole University community is saddened at the death of Her …

Studying for a doctorate in Chinese studies? Up to three major bursaries now available for UK home students

The Universities’ China Committee in London is offering 4th year bursarships for Home Status PhDs who have been studying, or undertaking research on, China-related topics; this to enable writing up or the completion of studies in the period from September 2023. These competitive awards will provide up to £10,000 (major) and £3,000 (lesser) bursaries, each …