Festival preview: HIVE Holding Space – What’s in it for PGRs?

PhD is a lonely process, they say, and rightly so. You're often left alone at your desk staring at your screen waiting for ideas, words, and sentences to emerge. Quite like the bees - searching for flowers alone. Holding space is a HIVE researcher-hosted space to connect you to other bees at work but mostly …

Festival preview: Excursions 10-Year Anniversary Art Exhibition

Monday 05 June (17.00 - 20.00, University of Sussex Library) Join a special event commemorating the 10-year anniversary of Excursions Journal, a University of Sussex-based peer-reviewed journal designed to showcase high quality, innovative, and inventive postgraduate research. As part of this grand celebration, the team have commissioned 13 local artists to create extraordinary artworks representing diverse …

Sussex Doc Fest 2023, 5-9 June – celebrating and showcasing PhDs at Sussex!

The Sussex Doc Fest returns next week (5-9 June), showcasing the incredible PhD research going on at Sussex with a mix of workshops, panels, competitions and social events. See the Festival website to view the daily schedule and register for events – The full programme is below but these are our highlights – register now to avoid disappointment! The 3MT Sussex …

British Library Doctoral Open Day: British & European Collections 1600-1950 (26th June 2023)

Come and explore the Library and its services, as well as the amazing Western Heritage collections alongside curators and reference specialists. Learn more about modern archives and manuscripts, and explore the Library’s rich printed and digital collections. This day will appeal to all researchers undertaking PhDs with a particular focus on British and European history, …

Deadline extended! Win up to £300 in the #SussexDocFest Research Image and Poster comps

Do you want to share your research with the world (or at least with Sussex)? Enter an image or poster (or both) into our #SussexDocFest competitions and get your PhD research on the map. Shortlisted entries will be exhibited on our website and at the Student Centre on Thursday 8 June. The deadline for both …

Afternoon on ‘Early Career Impact’ with the Science Cluster and Sussex Sustainability Research Programme – Thursday 23 May (2-4pm)

Are you keen to kickstart your independent research career but don’t know where to start? Do you want to find out more about different support and funding opportunities that are available to you at the start of your research career? Would you like to enhance your current project’s impact, or learn how to grow research …

The Brilliant Club webinar – Engaging and Effective Online Delivery (Tuesday 16 May)

Tue 16 May 2023, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm on zoom https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/93220742702 The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They mobilise the PhD community to work with schools and universities across the UK through our various programmes to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get …

Get involved for a chance to win! Sussex Doc Fest, 5-9 June

SussexDocFest, the annual Doctoral Festival, returns this June, bringing together the doctoral community to showcase and celebrate the diversity, depth, and importance of your work. Taking place over five days (Monday 05 - Friday 09 June), there will be a range of online and in-person events on offer and lots of opportunities to take part.We'll be sharing the full …

One-to-one careers appointments for PhD researchers

Did you know that the university offers all PhD researchers one-to-one careers appointments, which can be used for: career exploration and planning CV feedback and application review applying for work opportunities and further study interview preparation, including mock interviews You can make an appointment directly with the careers consultant for your School by emailing them. …

Researcher Development Programme – May and June workshops and events

The Researcher Development Programme (RDP) have opened for registration a number of workshops and events taking place over May and June, see below some of the upcoming workshops and view the full schedule and details via our webpages. Please note that workshops are added on a rolling basis so do keep checking our webpages for new …