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 …

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 …

From Anthropology to Zoology – will you be part of our Living Library?

Would you like an opportunity to talk about your research and share conversations?  The library is looking for some researchers, at any stage of their research careers,  to be part of our Living Library event.  In our Living Library, researchers are both the readers and the books! Just like a normal library, you can borrow …

Call for Adam Weiler Doctoral Impact Award nominees

Nominations for the 2023 Adam Weiler Award are now open, offering £1,000 towards research for PhD researchers who show the potential to make an outstanding impact with their work. Following the continued success of the award in 2022, we are pleased to offer a main prize of £1,000 towards research and a runner-up prize of £500 in each of the three academic disciplines plus a new, fourth …

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 …

Up for a challenge? Join the 3MT competition and deliver your research in just 3 minutes!

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is back at Sussex for 2023! The final will take place on Thursday 08 June, as part of the Doctoral School’s Festival of Doctoral Research. 3MT is an academic competition developed by the University of Queensland that challenges doctoral researchers to describe their research in only three minutes to a …

Festival Spotlight: Watch our 3MT Finalists present their thesis in just 3 minutes!

This year’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, held on Thursday 9 June as part of the Doctoral School’s Festival of Doctoral Research, gave a fascinating insight into the diverse areas of doctoral research being conducted at Sussex. With each speaker delivering their presentations to a high quality and in a range of different styles, the judges had some …

Festival Spotlight: Could you condense your thesis into just three minutes? Our 3MT finalists did just that!

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition returned to Sussex last month after an enforced two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic. The star of the Festival of Doctoral Research programme, presenters from very different academic fields gathered in the Student Centre on Thursday 9 June to share their research with an enthusiastic audience. Delivering their talks …

Festival Spotlight: What star sign is the Festival of Doctoral Research?

Anthony McCoubrey is an Academic Services Supervisor (Research) at the University of Sussex Library. The Festival of Doctoral Research takes place in June and is a celebration of all things research at Sussex. As part of the celebrations, the Library Research Support team organised a research-related pub quiz for the PhD community, at Room 76 …

Festival Spotlight: Framing PhD research – Image Competition winners revealed

The Festival of Doctoral Research Image Competition showcases the variety and global reach of PhD research at Sussex. Entries were exhibited at the Student Centre during the festival, and the winners announced following the Three Minute Thesis final on Thursday 9 June. This year's images were judged by University photographer Stuart Robinson, Prof Geert De Neve …