Previous RLI and Seed Fund Awards
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Awards made from the RLI and Research Culture Seed Funds before academic year 2024-25
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RLI awards made before 2024-25
Academic year 2023-24
- Jinjin Wang (Engineering and Informatics) - Drusillas Park Day Out: Refresh and Connect for Parent PhD Students
- Mercy Mhindurwa and Louis Burgess (Business School) - Business School Cake Club
- Tiffany Murphy (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Close to My Heart: PhD perspectives
- Caroline Ackley (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Intersecting Stigmas: addressing stigma through public engagement
- Ioannis Papadakis (Business School) - Reading Group
- Kat Addis (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Turn Your Thesis Into a Book: Storytelling Techniques from A Screenwriter
- Kiersten Simmons (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Improving Access to Women's Healthcare Research and Services in Under-resourced Coastal Communities in the UK
- Nick Souter (Psychology) - WORKSHOP: How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing
- Mia Cheng (Business School) - Wellbeing Research at Sussex, Second Edition
- Phoebe Gray (Psychology) - Mind and Movement: sharing psychological research on fitness and wellbeing with the local community
- Fezile Sibanda (Education and Social Work) - Who is Sussex for? An exploration of belonging within our university community
- Carla Douglas González (Business School) - Doctoral Connections: Building Bonds Beyond Research
- Jo Renaut (Life Sciences) - Programming: From Beginner to Machine Learning Coding Club
- Aram Simonyan (Law, Politics and Sociology) - Project Management techniques for overcoming procrastination and perfectionism
Academic year 2022-23
- Ramona Saraoru (Education and Social Work) - Great knowledge, good vibes, true belonging
- Carla Douglas Gonzalez (Business School) - 100 Words PhD Story
- Alex Fusco (Global Studies) - Sounding the Camp
- Saba Karim Khan (Global Studies) - Podcast the Gender Norms in South Asian storytelling
- Karen Patterson (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Academic Networking in the 21st Century that works wll and feels right
- Elif Demirbas (Law, Politics and Sociology) - One Day PGR and ECR Conference: Violence, Identity and Borders
- Marianela Barrios Aquino (Global Studies) - Write your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
- Emanuela Stagno (Business School) - Wellbeing Research at Sussex
- Marianne Glascott (Life Sciences) - Coding Club
- Amy Lynch and Jo Williams (Education and Social Work) - Guided writing workshop for doctoral reseachers
- Chia-Yu Liang (Global Studies) - How we Learn to Live with Worries over and Experiences of War: Support-Learning Group Sessions for Students from War-Torn or War-Threatened Regions
- Harry Lewis and Samwel Grima (Psychology) - Work-in-PGRess
Academic year 2021-22
- Sean Moore (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - MPS PGR Student led Conference 2022
- Jilan Wei (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Talk on tea: Tea poems, tea rituals, tea making and tasting
- Hanna Randall (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Neurodivergent Art Jam" sessions and exhibition
- Merve Arslan (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Researchers' Nature Club
- Jamie Chan (Psychology) - TEDx ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Studio
- Catherine Donaldson (Global Studies) - "Between" the (film) trailer
- Katharina Hendrickx (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Reimagining 'Rebecca' one-day symposium
- Alena Roth (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "On the Use and Abuse of the Language of Evil Today: Contemporary Critical Perspectives" Philosophy and Literature conference
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar and Katharina Hendrickx (Media, Arts and Humanities) - PhD Creative Outlets(2021-22)
Academic year 2020-21
- Jamie Chan (Psychology) - TEDx ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡: Together Apart
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar and Katharina Hendrickx (Media, Arts and Humanities) - PhD Creative Outlets
- Catherine Donaldson (Global Studies) - "Between: Neither Inside Nor Out" a screenback reading
- Gabriel Popham (Global Studies) - Portrait of a Man-Made Valley public engagement and photographic exhibition
- Devyn Glass (Psychology), Louise Elali (Media, Arts and Humanities) and Aanchal Vij (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Goodbye to a difficult year: celebrating PGRs/PhD on a Postcard
- Richard Thornton (Global Studies) - Feeling with Teaching: Making Pedagogy Personal video resources for doctoral tutors
- Marusa Levstek (Psychology) - Excursions Journal 10th anniversary art exhibition
Academic year 2019-20
- Aanchal Vij (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Zoom(ing) in on Nostalgia: The Way-Back Weekender
- Andrea Brock (Global Studies) - deCOALonise Europe! Tracing the supply chain of coal and anti-coal resistance
- Devyn Glass (Psychology), Louise Elali (Media, Arts and Humanities) and Aanchal Vij (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Tea and Talk in the Time of Covid-19
- Fabrizio Trovato, Hannah Wood and James van Yperen (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - MPS One-Day PGR Conference
- Julia Jackiewicz (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - Teaching Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking Through Coding and Programming
- Kamillia Kasbi (Life Sciences) - BAME Role Models in Science
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar and Katharina Hendrickx (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Media, Arts and Humanities PhD Creative Outlets
- Saba Karim Khan (Global Studies) - Unsilencing Pakistan's #metoo Survivors: A Delayed Coming Out
- Violet Wei (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Chinese Acupressure Massage for Sedentary Researchers
Academic year 2018-19
- Ali Kassem (Law, Politics and Sociology) - Research/ing the Global South: Views from Beirut on Problematics, Challenges and Prospects
- Daire Cantillon (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Sussex Sexual Health Research Network (SHARE) Inaugural Symposium
- Frazer Coomber (Life Sciences) - Mammal-Based Citizen Science Project Engagement
- Jillienne Sellner (Media, Arts and Humanities) - 2 Day Symposium - The Discomfort of Praxis - Creative Practice Based Research
- Johnbosco Nwogbo (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Podcast for Philosophical Engagement with the Public Through News Stories
- Julia Winstone (Law, Politics and Sociology) and Abigail Rieley (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Book Proposal Design Workshop "Thesis to Monograph"
- Katharina Hendrickx (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Female Reading Groups of Domestic Noir Novels and Local Library Collaboration
- Madhushala Senaratne (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "The Humanitarian Storyteller" Interactive Exhibition
- Sean Higgins (Education and Social Work) - Enhancing Global Citizenship and Lifeskills Curriculum in the UK Through Sharing Insights on Promoting Peace and Social Justice in Sierra Leone
- Veronica Wignall and Georgia Hennessy (Life Sciences) - Planet PhD Podcast
- Liza Weber (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Recollecting documenta Collectively
- Natasha Maru (Institute of Development Studies) - Training Workshop in Mobile and Affective Research Methods
- Claire Durrant (Education and Social Work) - Monthly Video Call Support Groups for PhD students
- Kate Meakin (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Peer Support for the Doctoral MFM Community
- Gemma Houldey (Global Studies) - Global Studies Wellbeing Workshops
- Alexandra Kempton (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Researching Difficult Data peer support group
- Karolina Szpyrko (Media, Arts and Humanities), Thabani Mutambasere (Global Studies) and Abigail Rieley (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Doctoral Researcher Game Night
Academic year 2017-18
- Mark Bason (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - Career Development Forum - Navigating Academia
- Smita Yadav (Global Studies) - Conference - Global North-South Precarity: Search for Global Solidarity
- Reese Wilkinson (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - MPS Early Careers PGR Conference
- Eleanor Whitcroft (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Graphic Brighton - Academic Comics Conference
- Senaratne Madhushala (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Opportunities for research: Humanitarian narratives, representational strategies, and I/NGOs
- Edward Briggs (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Creative and Critical Practice Symposium
- Gizem Guney (Law, Politics and Sociology) - Towards Gender Equality: Clashes in Law
- Sara Balouch (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Non-Pharmacological Dementia Research Symposium
Academic year 2016-17
- Cecile Chevalier (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Forum for Immersive Augmented Reality Instruments
- Jonny Lee (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Computation and Representation in Cognitive Science and Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Cybernetics
- Valerie Whittington (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Jews and Quakers: on the borders of acceptability
- Rebecca Harding (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Failure Interdisciplinary Symposium
- Fatma Karaoglu (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - Summer School on Finite Geometry
- Katherine Kruger and Charlotte Terrell (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Reading and its Objects" two day conference with seminar
- Charlotte Rae (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - Postdocs and Phd students In Neuroimaging at Sussex (POPINS) day
- Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani (Education and Social Work) - Be/com/ing academic
- Leanne Harris (Life Sciences) - Diversity of Career Pathways in Science symposium
- Ronald Grau (Engineering and Infomatics) - The Postdoctoral Network: Continuing Success
Academic year 2015-16
- Allan Debelle (Life Sciences) - "Using Social Media in Academia" workshop
- Eva Hillberg (Business School) - "Patient Activism and Digital Technology" workshop
- Gemma Farrell (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Musedelica" Symposium
- Joy Stacey (Media, Arts and Humanities) - MFM Doctoral Day
- Yeyang Su (Global Studies) - 'Global Studies Thesis Writing Group'
- Zahid Khalid (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Environmental History of South Asia Workshop and Networking Event
- Robert Dunphy (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Phenomenology, Science, and Consciousness: The Transcendental and the Naturalistic" Graduate Conference
- Rachael Taylor (Business School) - "Contemporary Food Issues" Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network Symposium
- Smita Yadav (Global Studies) - Pilgrimages: Ontologies, and Subjectivities in Neoliberal Economies
- Joe Watson (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Doctoral colloquium as part of the International Conference on Live Interfaces
- Jackson Nash (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Critical Perspectives on ''The Transgender Tipping Point' - Half-day panel event with breakout discussion sessions
- Chelsea Olsen and Laura Cofield (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "NGender 2016" - Activity 1: Feminist Film and Talk Series, Activity 2: Conference
- Nicolas Farina (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - The Postdoctoral Network - a regular networking forum
- Paul Fisher Davies (Media, Arts and Humanities) - British Consortium of Comics Scholars: Graphic Scholarship Day
- Martin Jung (Life Sciences) - Interdisciplinary quantitative analysis group
- Sofia Kesidou (Business School) - 21st SPRU Dphil Day
- Paul Gilbert (Global Studies) - Workshop: "Confronting Elite Anthropology: Collaboration, Hostility and Critique"
- Lidia Cabral (Institute of Development Studies) - "Rising Powers" Young Researchers Network Conference
Academic year 2014-15
- Shanyn Altman (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Literature and Philosophy" annual postgraduate conference (Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies)
- Zoe Strimpel (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Cupid's digital lives: gender, dating and the internet" one-day workshop/conference
- Rebecca Harding (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "The State of Fiction: Don DeLillo in the Twenty-First Century" interdisciplinary conference, and Colloquium Masterclass
- Robert Dunphy (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "The Work of Phenomenology and the Work of Art" Graduate Conference in Phenomenology 2015
- Michael Lawrence and Rachel Tavernor (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture" conference
- Michael Guida (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Media, Film and Music Doctoral Day
- Emma Doubt (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Making a ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Domestic Interior
- Andrea Brock (Global Studies) - 'Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature - Theory, Politics and Practice' workshop
- Nicola Plowman (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Symposium of British Consortium of Comics Scholars and Comics Tea Party
- Ruth Segal (Business School) - Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network Symposium: The Diversity of Food Research
- Ngender (group from Media, Arts and Humanities and Global Studies) - "Ngender 2015"
- Miguel Otaola (Law, Politics and Sociology) - "Democracy and Participation in Latin America" Conference
- Daniel Hignell and Danny Bright (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Impact in Creative Practice" Symposium
- Jack Miller (Business School) - "21st SPRU Dphil Day: STI and (Un)certainty"
- Marie Rogers (Psychology) - "5 Minute Thesis: Cognition in brains, animals and machines" Symposium
Academic year 2013-14
- Edward Morrow (Life Sciences) and Dr Sarah Newbury (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - "Herstmonceux Retreat" a multi-day workshop that provides a forum for diverse research groups to interact, build links and discuss research
- Richard Elliott (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Musical Materialities in the Digital Age
- Charlotte Morris (Law, Politics and Sociology) -Researching Sex and Intimacy in Contemporary Life: an interdisciplinary symposium
- Treena Warren (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Sights and Frights Conference" a one-day interdisciplinary conference
- Kourosh Kouchakpour (Education and Social Work) - 7th Annual Doctoral Research Conference
- Aanand Venkatramanan (Business School) - "Finance Group, for Young Finance Scholars" Conference and Quantitative Finance Workshop
Academic year 2012-13
- ESW Conference Committee (Education and Social Work) - Doctoral conference
- Sarah Newbury (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) - South Coast RNA network and conference
- MFM Conference Committee (Media, Arts and Humanities) - Aannual Media Film Music doctoral day
- Jon Sward (Global Studies) - Migration Researchers in the Field: A Doctoral Student Conference
- Rose Holmes and Paul Weir (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Civilians and War, 1914-1945" a one-day postgraduate conference.
- Laura Joyce, Anneke Newman and Rachel Wood (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Ngender" seminar series, film screening and panel discussion.
- Cecile Chevalier (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "Mediamorphosis" symposium and exhibition.
- Althea Rivas (Global Studies) - "Critical Debates With(in) Development: Power, Resilience and Change" a two-day conference.
- Carina Westling (Media, Arts and Humanities)- "Inputs/Outputs" an interdisciplinary conference. Interdisciplinary approaches to causality in engagement, immersion, and presence in performance and human-computer interaction.
- Thomas Chambers, Sufyan Abid, and Titksha Shukla (Global Studies) - South Asian Anthropologists Group (SAAG) Annual Conference.
- Rachael Durrant and Bex White (Business School) - "Food and the Public Good" a symposium organised by the Brighton-Sussex Food Research Network (BSFRN)
- Alexa Neale (Media, Arts and Humanities) - "The History Forum" a series of 15 workshops held over the winter
- Khalid Ali (Brightonand Sussex Medical School) - "Women in art, science and research" a one-day conference celebrating the achievements of women in Sussex in science, art and research with a focus on an ageing environment and the interface between science and the arts.
- Fidelma Hanrahan (Psychology) - "Creating theatre with young people on the margins" theatre performance and conference