Our mission is to keep you connected to the University through the alumni network. We’re the Alumni Relations Team at the University of Sussex. That’s us!
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You know that e-newsletter that appears in your inbox once a month and the lovely Falmer magazine which pops through your letterbox? We try to keep in touch with as many Sussex alumni as possible, making sure that you still feel part of the Sussex community. We want to let you know what’s happening in and around the University and make you aware of events in Brighton, London and many other parts o
f the world. It’s also important to us that we know what you want to hear about and what we can do to make being a Sussex alumni rewarding, fun and stimulating. So keep an eye out for surveys and competitions and other interesting things. We also raise money to support current students who find themselves in hardship and to help improve the student experience. Anyway, that’s enough about us. Stay in touch!
The Paralympics are now underway in Paris, France! We are proud to count numerous Paralympians among our Sussex alumni including Louis Sanders, International Development alum and Boccia player who competed in the 2020 Paralympic Games!
Louis graduated in our recent summer ceremonies and speaks about the value of a Sports Scholarship, made possible through the Sussex Fund:
How to support the University of Sussex, through donations, to make a real difference in the world.
There's nothing like summer days by the sea (while the weather lasts!) 🏖
What was your favourite part about living by the sea?
📸 Photograph sent in to our Alumni Yearbook 2024.
Did you recently graduate in our Summer Graduation ceremonies?
If so, make sure you are signed up to our online networking and mentoring platform Sussex Connect to stay connected with your Sussex community and to be notified about our upcoming mentoring opportunities launching next month: www.sussexconnect.org
On behalf of the Development and Alumni Relations team welcome to your alumni community ❤
The University of Sussex and nanotechnology company Advanced Material Development Ltd (AMD) have this summer sealed a new 10-year strategic partnership, which will see the development and commercialisation of nanomaterial inks and coatings for both consumer and industry products.
The coatings being developed at Sussex have novel electrical, thermal or optical properties, enabling new designs of electric vehicles, wind turbines and ‘smart windows’, among other applications:
AMD's 10-year investment cements a long-term partnership with the University seeing the development and commercialisation of nanomaterial coatings.
Summertime on Brighton Beach is simply magical. ✨
We hope you all have had the opportunity to relax this bank holiday weekend.
We love hearing from our alumni about their 'must visits' when they come back to campus.
Some common favourites include the Library, Falmer Bar, the iconic Arts A and B buildings.. where would be on your list?
Image of the Library from 1967. Image of Falmer Bar from 1982. Image of Arts and B from 1970. Image of students sat on the grass on campus from the 1990s.
Every year, August 21 is World Entrepreneurs’ Day – a day to celebrate entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership.
We're proud to count many entrepreneurs amongst our Sussex alumni, including alum Theo Maloney, the founder of Just Add Rum (JAR).
His London-based startup creates and sells a fruit-based mixer to which, as the company’s name cleverly communicates, customers need only to add their favourite rum to enjoy: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/people/spotlighton/theo-maloney
"A scholarship can make the difference between a student completing their degree or not."
Meet Cymone, a recipient of the Mrs Emily O Akinluyi Scholarship, who graduated with an Economics BSc in our recent Summer Graduation ceremonies. She explains how the scholarship helped her.
“I am deeply grateful for the support I have received and look forward to giving back to a community that has given me so much.”
We are excited to announce that Sussex is taking part in the shared-reading scheme, the Big Read! 📚
Award-winning TV anchor and Sussex alumnus Clive Myrie is the author featured in the scheme with his Sunday Times best-selling memoir Everything is Everything.
The Big Read brings students, staff and alumni together through the shared experience of reading, providing a common talking point for the whole Sussex community.
As part of the Big Read a series of seminars are taking place that draw on the themes of Clive’s book. The seminars are taking place every Wednesday, starting tomorrow, 21 August – 18 September and can be enjoyed even by those who have not yet read Everything is Everything.
Join in the discussions and share the experience with your Sussex community by picking up a copy of Everything is Everything from your local bookseller: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/clive-myrie/everything-is-everything/9781399715003/
And find out more information about each of the seminars and how to book your place here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/news-events-workshops/big-read
University of Sussex Library
Today on we're looking back at this exhibition of portraits of 12 female academics at the University of Sussex that was created by fine-art photographer Miss Aniela in celebration of women working in higher education.
The collection is now permanently housed on the first floor of the University of Sussex Library.
Find out more and view the photographs for yourself here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/features/twelve-women
"The world should redouble its efforts on the SDGs, not abandon them."
With 2030 around the corner, what's next for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Director of the Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration at Sussex, alongside colleagues at other institutions, has written in Nature about how to progress the United Nations’ agenda towards 2050:
The world should redouble its efforts on the SDGs, not abandon them. Here’s how to progress the United Nations’ agenda towards 2050.
We were saddened to hear that Dr Sabina Avdagic passed away earlier this year.
In 2006, Sabina came to Sussex as a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Fellow which converted into a full lectureship in the Department of Politics. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Politics at Sussex in 2014 and then to Reader in Political Economy in 2021.
While at Sussex, Sabina taught across a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and was widely respected by her students.
Read more about Sabina:
Sabina Avdagic was born and grew up in Bosanska Dubica in Bosnia-Herzegovina (which, during her childhood, was part of Yugoslavia) in 1973.
Did you know that as a new graduate that you have access to University of Sussex Careers and Entrepreneurship services for three years after graduation?
This includes careers events and workshops, online resources and one-to-one careers consultations. Find out more about Careers services and the other benefits available to you as a new graduate: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/community/new-graduates
Wishing all the best to all the students receiving their results tomorrow!
We're here to support you and your loved ones tomorrow online and through our call centre: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/clearing/
What words of advice do you have to share with students for tomorrow?
📸 Photograph sent in to our Alumni Yearbook 2024.
"The ongoing challenge is how to involve children when finding ways to navigate a rapidly evolving digital landscape.”
It's and we wanted to highlight this article from the latest issue of Falmer magazine that looks at the work of Sussex’s Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY).
Find out more about how young people are interacting online and how that effects their wellbeing in our interview with Dr Liam Berriman, the Director of CIRCY:
Feature on Professor Margaretta Jolly, whose work changes perceptions of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement and shows how oral history connects and humanises.
We know that so many of our alumni love University of Sussex Library! 📚
It's today so we wanted to ask what book do you remember the most from Sussex?
Meet Sussex alumna Sarah Egbo, a gender and development expert with a strong passion for sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality education, as well as youth development.
Her current role is Policy Lead at the Gender Mobile Initiative, a non-profit that leverages technology to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
In her Spotlight On interview she discusses her work creating safer educational spaces: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/people/spotlighton/sarah-egbo
Content creators are moving beyond mainstream social media channels in favour of emerging platforms, according to a new study by the University of Sussex Business School.
Lost revenue, censorship and breaches of privacy are leading popular content creators to lose faith in channels, such as TikTok and Instagram.
Read more about this research:
Content creators are moving beyond mainstream social media channels in favour of emerging platforms, according to a new Sussex study.
If you recently graduated in our Summer ceremonies make sure to check out our photo albums on Sussex Connect: www.sussexconnect.org
Signing up to Sussex Connect is also a great way to network with your fellow alumni and to learn more about our mentoring opportunities launching in the Autumn term!
It's Brighton & Hove Pride this weekend, here's hoping the weather is sunnier than last year! ☀
This year the University of Sussex is once again an official partner of Brighton & Hove Pride, and will be entering the Pride Community Parade with a walking party. 🌈
[Alt Text: Photo 1 - Looking down at volunteers in the Brighton Pride Parade, wearing pink University of Sussex t-shirts and smiling, holding up flags. Photo 2 - Looking down at a rainbow umbrella in the Brighton Pride Parade.]
"After this long, hard process, it is extremely rewarding to get results and answers to questions that no one could answer before."
Meet post-doctoral researchers Dr April Cridland and Dr Alberto Jesús Uribe Jiménez who are both working in the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, Geneva.
🔭Find out about their groundbreaking research on antimatter, what's exciting about working at CERN and what they gained from their Sussex PhDs: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/people/spotlighton/april-cridland_alberto-jimenez
The sun has been shining in Brighton! ☀🏖
What were some of your favourite summertime activities while you were at Sussex?
📸 Photographs sent in to our Alumni Yearbook 2024.
It was great to celebrate with our Sussex Community last week at our Summer ceremonies.
Here’s some of our photos from our University photographer on the final day of celebrations on Friday.
Our Sussex graduates truly are what make our ceremonies such a heart-warming occasion! 🎉
Thank you for letting us be a part of your journey and welcome to your alumni community!
Do stay in touch (you’ll be hearing from us in the Autumn) and in the meantime make sure you check out what’s available to you as a new grad: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/community/new-graduates
"From day one till forever, friends that became family." - Loice Okuru (Law with International Relations 2018)
It's today and we're reflecting on all the beautiful friendships that begun at Sussex. ❤
Are you still in touch with the friends you made? In the latest issue of Falmer magazine we talked to alumni who kept in touch/ reconnected after their time at Sussex: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/falmer-magazine/memories
The Olympic Games are well and truly underway in Paris, France! We are proud to count numerous Olympians amongst our Sussex alumni, including Laurence Halsted, a two-time Olympic British Fencer.
Laurence was a sports scholar during his time at Sussex and said it made him feel like he " had an extra connection to the University".
You can read more about Laurence's time at Sussex here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/news-events/news?id=54585 and hear him speak at a celebration event for Scholars in 2020 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jEy1DQkPL0
Alumnus and two-time Olympic British Fencer, Laurence Halsted (Psychology 2003), talks about self-compassion, mindfulness and being a mentor.
We love seeing our graduates sporting their graduation gifts around Brighton.
We’d love to see where our Sussex tote bags have been spotted, whether that is in Brighton or beyond!
Comment below if you still have your grad bag and what colour it is.
Today is the last day of our Summer Graduation ceremonies - a big congratulations to all our graduates.
Here’s some highlights from yesterday’s ceremonies and please do join me in welcoming our new grads to the alumni community.
Remember, you can network with your fellow alumni for industry insights + advice through Sussex Connect: www.sussexconnect.org
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the photos students have submitted to the 2024 Alumni Yearbook!
• Already registered for the yearbook? You will need to set up a password (your username is your email address) using this link: https://digital.gradfinale.co.uk/set-password
• Not registered yet? To gain access you will need to create a profile using this link: https://www.gradfinale.co.uk/join/sussex-2024
For those of you who have ordered a physical copy of your Yearbook it will be available in the next few months after your Graduation ceremony.
It’s been great to see Sussex friends come together at our graduation ceremonies this week.
We love this to a birthday picnic at Sussex in the 2000’s that makes us think of more special moments with friends.
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Can you explain the mystery of consciousness? 🧠 How can we listen to the health of our ecosystems – or help children navigate wellbeing in a digital context? 📱 Find the answers and also meet Sussex alumni at the forefront of contemporary art, climate education and international affairs in the latest edition of the University of Sussex magazine, Falmer – out now! Read here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/falmer-magazine/
The sun is starting to shine in Brighton ☀️ - now is the perfect time to explore the beautiful landscapes that surround our stunning campus. 🌿 To make the most of the weather, we partially followed the campus Boundary Walk waymarked route (the great part of the walk is that you can always customise it!) and explored the wonders of nature. The Boundary Walk is also the perfect addition to a visit back to campus (and perhaps a reunion of your uni friends) - contact us at [email protected] for further advice and assistance on organising your own alumni reunion!
Wishing all our alumni and friends a Happy Lunar New Year, as we begin the Year of the Dragon 🐉 #L#LunarNewYear2024 #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
"I think it's very important to choose a mentor. I was very lucky because my mentor is industry expert." Last Winter Graduation University of Sussex Business School graduate Yawen Liu discussed her journey at Sussex and how mentoring helped her professional development. #MentoringMonth We can't wait to see more of our graduates take to the stage next week at this year's ceremonies🎓 #SussexAlumni #ForeverSussex #SussexGrad
Sussex campus at nighttime is full of atmospheric lights at the moment! ✨ What’s your favourite? #FeelingFestive #SussexUni #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
The Study UK Alumni Awards 2024 are now open for applications! The Awards celebrate the inspirational individuals – entrepreneurs, community leaders, business people and artists – who are making incredible contributions around the world. Sound like you or someone you know? Find out more and apply: https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org/after-your-studies/alumni-awards
"I think it's very important to choose a mentor. I was very lucky because my mentor is an industry expert, so he told me very useful business experience." University of Sussex Business School graduate Yawen Liu discusses how mentoring helped her career journey at her graduation during our winter ceremonies this year. If you are interested in starting your own mentoring relationship or mentoring a Sussex student make sure to sign up to our exclusive platform Sussex Connect to get started: www.sussexconnect.org
It’s fantastic to see these findings from the university’s latest impact report, highlighting the huge social and economic benefits the University of Sussex brings to the region and across the UK. Watch our animation to see the key findings and how we are supporting #IdeasWithImpact 👇 Find out more: https://ow.ly/m8zC50OTynA
It’s International Women In Engineering Day – a chance to celebrate and inspire girls and women in engineering, and their achievements. Sussex alumna Sana Sibghatullah, recipient of the John Kinghorn Scholarship is now working at Hoare Lea as a Electrical Engineer. Here she challenges some misconceptions and gives her top tips for those looking for a career in engineering. #STEM #WomeninSTEM #INWED #INWED23
Falmer is out now! 🎉 Have you read this year’s edition of your alumni magazine yet? However, you like to read it 📖📱💻 You don’t want to miss catching up on all things Sussex to meeting our new Vice-Chancellor, to a look into deep space! Read Falmer here: https://bit.ly/3NbNyL1
On #WorldQuantumDay, learn about the recent breakthrough of Sussex's Prof Winfried Hensinger and his team, who are working to build the world's first quantum computer, capable of addressing many of today's biggest societal challenges: http://ow.ly/CO0U50NI2eU Find out more about our quantum research: http://ow.ly/81gq50NI2mr #ResearchWithImpact 🔁 Reposted from University of Sussex
"What I loved the most about Sussex is that this course connected academic knowledge to industrial practices. It has helped me a lot to start my career. " Here University of Sussex Business School recent graduate Yawen discusses her journey at Sussex and how mentoring helped her career development. Yawen currently works as an Inter-Market Supply Coordinator at Nestlé UK. We were delighted to catch up with some of our amazing alumni at our winter graduation ceremonies to discuss what they gained from their Sussex experience. This is the second of their stories. #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
This Mothering Sunday we wanted to give a big shout out to all the mother's who have graduated from Sussex. Happy #MothersDay! #MothersDay2023 #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
"When you are here you learn of an even bigger network – there are so many South Africans who come to Sussex and are in such different fields. " Here our two Mandela scholars, Litha and Mpogi discuss the history of the University's relationship with South Africa and what that looks like in the present day. We were delighted to catch up with some of our amazing alumni at our winter graduation ceremonies to discuss what they gained from their Sussex experience. This is the first of their stories. #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
Wishing our alumni and friends a Happy Valentine's Day! ❤ Husband and wife Mayas and Rama were amongst our graduates in our recent Winter Ceremonies. After graduating on the same day, in the same ceremony, they took a moment to tell us how the support from Sussex helped them balance their studies with family life. Did you find love at Sussex? #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
"AFRAS and Global Studies have always supported emancipatory struggles in countries around the world." In a TedX-style talk delivered as part of the University's 60th anniversary celebrations; Professor Anke Schwittay discusses activism in Arts C. Watch the full talk here: https://vimeo.com/759457724 #ResearchWithImpact
We loved seeing all the unique looks that our recent graduates brought to the Brighton Centre in our Winter Graduation ceremonies. #SussexStyle is not just a look, it’s a state of mind. 🎓 Do you remember what you wore to your ceremony? #GradStyle #ForeverSussex
Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE, Chancellor of the University of Sussex, talks about how you can use Sussex Connect to build links, mentor and support your Sussex community. Exclusive to Sussex alumni and students, Sussex Connect is an online platform that allows access to an incredible, international network of people who all have the University of Sussex in common! Sign up to Sussex Connect: www.sussexconnect.org #SussexGrad #ForeverSussex #SussexAlumni
"We are all living in the panopticon." In a TedX-style talk delivered as part of the University's 60th anniversary celebrations; Professor Richard Vogler discusses Policing in the Digital Age. Watch the full talk here: https://vimeo.com/760329326 #ResearchWithImpact
Wishing all our alumni and friends a Happy Lunar New Year, as we begin the Year of the Rabbit 🐰🎉
We’re the Alumni Relations Team at the University of Sussex. You know that e-newsletter that appears in your inbox once a month and the lovely Falmer magazine which pops through your letterbox? That’s us! We try to keep in touch with as many Sussex alumni as possible, making sure that you still feel part of the Sussex community. We want to let you know what’s happening in and around the University and make you aware of events in Brighton, London and many other parts of the world. It’s also important to us that we know what you want to hear about and what we can do to make being a Sussex alumni rewarding, fun and stimulating. So keep an eye out for surveys and competitions and other interesting things. We also raise money to support current students who find themselves in hardship and to help improve the student experience. Anyway, that’s enough about us. Stay in touch!
