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 …

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 …

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 …

Looking back on the Festival of Doctoral Research

Last week Sussex hosted its first Festival of Doctoral Research; over three busy days, visitors were inspired, engaged and challenged in a series of events celebrating Sussex’s doctoral research. So much happened, it was hard to keep track of it all but for those of you that could’t make it, we’ve put together a brief …

An insider guide to the upcoming Festival of Doctoral Research

It’s finally here - The Festival of Doctoral Research is upon us! The three-day programme of events runs from 26-28 June; whether you're a professor or an undergraduate, we've got something in store for you, and everyone's welcome. To help you find your way around, we’ve put together this handy insider guide. Just follow our …

Sussex Library comes to life for ‘Living Library’ event

Get ready! The shelves of Sussex’s Library are coming to life! It’s all part of the Doctoral School’s ‘Living Library’, a reading experience like no other. Here’s how it works: Visitors to the ‘Living Library’ play the role of ‘readers’. Readers are able to check out a ‘Living Book’. These ‘living books’ are in fact …