Academic networking in the 21st century – A two-part interactive programme on 03 & 10 May

Are you getting ready to apply for your first faculty position?  Start your first academic job?  Attend a conference?  Teach a new course?   Would you like to find collaborators for projects?  Get ideas for career planning?  Feel more connected with peers in your field or local university community?  Have a clearer sense of career purpose? …

Belong at Sussex: activities and events for managing your stress (25–27 April 2023)

Our university community experiences lots of different stressors, from the prospect of upcoming deadlines, to concerns about the cost-of-living crisis and climate anxiety.  As part of National Stress Awareness Month, the Student Centre will be hosting free activities to support you in managing your stress and maintaining good health and wellbeing in difficult times. There will be …

Invite: ‘How to Survive Academia as a Person of Colour’ Reading Group

Date: Friday 28th April Time: 4pm-5pm Location: Hybrid event in Arts C333 As part of a series promoting anti-racist spaces and communities of radical care on campus, this reading group will engage texts that guide us through the challenges of building these spaces in the classroom, on campus, and help us navigate the University as a site …

British Library Doctoral Open Day: ‘Asian and African Collections’ (Friday 21st April 2023)

The British Library would like to invite all Sussex PhD researchers to the next Doctoral Open Day onsite at St Pancras, London. Their annual series of Doctoral Open Days offer PhD students the chance to discover our research resources and explore the practicalities of using the Library. This hybrid programme of online and in-person events …

The Brilliant Club – PhD and ECR opportunities – 2023-24

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.  The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically …

Take part in the 2023 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey and enter to win a prize draw of £1000

Please tell us about your experience as a postgraduate researcher. The 2023 survey runs from 27 March to 7 May.  Questions cover the following areas: supervision resources research culture and community progress and assessment responsibilities and support research skills and professional development. The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is run by AdvanceHE. How to take part Eligible students …

The Brilliant Club webinar: Becoming a tutor – Webinar on Tuesday 04 April

The Brilliant Club works with schools and universities across the UK. We mobilise the Masters and PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. In this information webinar, you will learn about what we do at The Brilliant Club, why we exist and how …

Dr Belinda Zakrzewska, 2022 Three Minute Thesis Winner – Reflections

Belinda Zakrzewska is a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Sussex Business School. Belinda won first place at the 2022 3MT competition for her talk on the appropriation of indigenous cultural elements by local elite chefs for the creation of the new Peruvian cuisine and won £500 towards her research. We recently sat down …