Doctoral School blog

Want to find out more about the REF and what it means for you as a Sussex researcher? Concerned about your own intellectual property and how it’s affected by the move to digital? Keen to engage the public with your research but not sure where to start? The lunchtime seminars will take place fortnightly from … Continue reading »

Places are limited and booking is essential, so for more information or to book your place on any of these workshops, take a look at our event listings. The New Year sees many of us making resolutions about things we want to do, often surrounding our health, such as start a diet, be more healthy … Continue reading »

All Seminars are to be held in Pevensey 1 Room 1B3, and start at 16:00 (except where indicated otherwise) ALL WELCOME! 19/01/12 Week 2  - Host: Prof Pete Clifton Dr Aldo Badiani, Sapienza University of Rome “Choice of heroin versus cocaine: it is all about the location” 26/01/12 Week 3 Host:  - Dr David Reby Prof … Continue reading »

More information Book your place Did you know social media can be used to enliven your career and not just your social life? Do you blog & tweet and would like to know more about online tools which can help with your research? Whether you’re social media savvy or social media shy this one day workshop will give you an … Continue reading »

The alumni travel grants support study visits and conference attendance in the China, India or the USA, for doctoral students at Sussex. Funding will be limited to £1,000 for any one student. The Doctoral School may use its discretion to award less than the maximum amount. The Alumni Travel grants are administered by the Doctoral … Continue reading »

The Digital and Social Media Research Theme is currently running a year-long programme of events exploring issues in the Digital Humanities. The next workshop in the series will be given by Kirk Woolford from the School of Media, Film and Music.  The workshop “Moving Humans: Motion, Place and the Digital Humanities” will cover different forms … Continue reading »

Open to all Sussex doctoral researchers and research staff For full details of events and to book online: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/researcherdev/events/all.php January: Using Scopus and Web of Science for Literature Searching. Writing Tips for Humanities Researchers Personal Effectiveness Creativity in Academic Writing (for the Sciences) Protecting Your Assets: never lose your data again February: Keeping up to … Continue reading »

BSMS PhD researcher, Natasha Agabalyan, has written a feature article for the New Scientist. Published this week, the article ‘The disease that turns you to stone‘ discusses abnormal bone growth and how understanding the causes could help with aches and pains associated with ageing. You can read a preview of the article on the New … Continue reading »

Doctoral researchers in the School of Global Studies will be taking the brave and admirable step of giving lectures on their research on most Wednesdays from 11th January 2012. The lectures are open to all, and will be held in Arts C133 from 13:00 to 14:00. Here’s the schedule, or download the PDF - Global Lecture … Continue reading »

Doctoral researchers at the University of Sussex whose research involves translation, broadly understood, are invited to become affiliates of the British Centre for Literary Translation. The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is housed at the University of East Anglia (UEA), within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. Founded in 1989 by the … Continue reading »