Awards made from the RLI Fund
Autumn 2023
- Jinjin Wang (Engineering and Informatics) - Drusillas Park Day Out: Refresh and Connect for Parent PhD Students
- Mercy Mhindurwa (Business School) - Business School Cake Club
- Tiffany Murphy (MAH) - Close to My Heart: PhD perspectives
- Caroline Ackley (BSMS) - Intersecting Stigmas: addressing stigma through public engagement
- Ioannis Papadakis (Business School) - Reading Group
- Kat Addis (MAH) - Turn Your Thesis Into a Book: Storytelling Techniques from A Screenwriter
- Kiersten Simmons (BSMS) - 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 (ESW) - 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 (LPS) - Project Management techniques for overcoming procrastination and perfectionism
Autumn 2022
- Ramona Saraoru (ESW) - 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 (BSMS) - Academic Networking in the 21st Century that works wll and feels right
- Elif Demirbas (LPS) - One Day PGR & 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 & Jo Williams (ESW) - 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/Samwel Grima (Psychology) - Work-in-PGRess
Spring 2022
- Sean Moore (MPS) - MPS PGR Student led Conference 2022
- Jilan Wei (MAH) -
Autumn 2021
- Hanna Randall (MAH) -
- Merve Arslan (MAH) - Researchers' Nature Club
- Jamie Chan (Psychology) -
- Catherine Donaldson (Global Studies) -
- Katharina Hendrickx (MAH) -
- Alena Roth (MAH) - 'On the Use and Abuse of the Language of Evil Today: Contemporary Critical Perspectives', Philosophy & Literature conference
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar & Katharina Hendrickx (MAH) - PhD Creative Outlets (2021-22)
Academic year 2020/21
- Jamie Chan (Psychology) -
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar & Katharina Hendrickx (MAH) - PhD Creative Outlets
- Catherine Donaldson (Global Studies) -
- Gabriel Popham (Global Studies) - Portrait of a Man-Made Valley public engagement and photographic exhibition
- Devyn Glass (Psychology), Louise Elali (MAH) & Aanchal Vij (MAH) -
- Richard Thornton (Global Studies) - Feeling with Teaching: Making Pedagogy Personal video resources for doctoral tutors
- Marusa Levstek (Psychology) -
Academic year 2019/20
- Aanchal Vij (English) -
- Andrea Brock (Global Studies) - deCOALonise Europe! Tracing the supply chain of coal and anti-coal resistance
- Devyn Glass (Psychology), Louise Elali (MFM) & Aanchal Vij (English) -
- Fabrizio Trovato, Hannah Wood & James van Yperen (MPS) - MPS One-Day PGR Conference
- Julia Jackiewicz (MPS) -
- Kamillia Kasbi (Life Sciences) - BAME Role Models in Science
- Kate Meakin, Manuela Salazar & Katharina Hendrickx (MFM) - Media, Arts & Humanities PhD Creative Outlets
- Saba Karim Khan (Global Studies) - Unsilencing Pakistan’s #metoo Survivors: A Delayed Coming Out
- Violet Wei (English) - 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, BSMS: Sussex Sexual Health Research Network (SHARE) Inaugural Symposium
- Frazer Coomber, Life Sciences: Mammal-Based Citizen Science Project Engagement
- Jillienne Sellner, Media, Film and Music: 2 Day Symposium - The Discomfort of Praxis - Creative Practice Based Research
- Johnbosco Nwogbo, History, Art History and Philosophy: Through News Stories
- Julia Winstone (Law, Politics and Sociology) & Abigail Rieley (History, Art History and Philosophy): Thesis to Monograph
- Katharina Hendrickx, Media, Film and Music: Female Reading Groups of Domestic Noir Novels and Local Library Collaboration
- Madhushala Senaratne, Media, Film and Music: 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 & Georgia Hennessy, Life Sciences:
- Liza Weber, History, Art History and Philosophy:
- Natasha Maru, IDS: Training Workshop in Mobile and Affective Research Methods
Mental health and wellbeing RLIs 2019 (part of the U-DOC Project)
- Claire Durrant, Education and Social Work: Monthly Video Call Support Groups for PhD students
- Kate Meakin, Media, Film and Music:
- Gemma Houldey, Global Studies:
- Alexandra Kempton, English: Researching Difficult Data peer support group
- Karolina Szpyrko (Media, Film and Music), Thabani Mutambasere (Global Studies) & Abigail Rieley (History, Art History & Philosophy):
Spring 2018
- Mark Bason, Mathematical and Physical Sciences: Career Development Forum - Navigating Academia
- Smita Yadav, Global Studies: Conference - Global North-South Precarity: Search for Global Solidarity
- Reese Wilkinson, Mathematical and Physical Sciences: MPS Early Careers PGR Conference
- Eleanor Whitcroft, School of English: Graphic Brighton - Academic Comics Conference
Autumn 2017
- Senaratne Madhushala, Media, Film and Music: Opportunities for research: Humanitarian narratives, representational strategies, and I/NGOs
- Edward Briggs, Media, Film and Music: Creative and Critical Practice Symposium
- Gizem Guney, Law, Politics & Sociology: Towards Gender Equality: Clashes in Law
- Sara Balouch, BSMS: Non-Pharmacological Dementia Research Symposium
Spring 2017
- Cecile Chevalier, Media, Film and Music: Forum for Immersive Augmented Reality Instruments
- Jonny Lee, History, Art History & Philosophy: Computation and Representation in Cognitive Science – Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Cybernetics
- Valerie Whittington, History, Art History & Philosophy: Jews and Quakers: on the borders of acceptability
Autumn 2016
- Rebecca Harding, English: Failure Interdisciplinary Symposium
- Fatma Karaoglu, Mathematical and Physical Sciences: Summer School on Finite Geometry
- Katherine Kruger and Charlotte Terrell; English: 'Reading and its Objects' two day conference with seminar
- Charlotte Rae, BSMS: 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
- Manuel Alejandro Cruz Martínez, Education and Social Work: Researching Video Games: A medium for critical academia
Spring 2016
- Allan Debelle; Life Sciences for 'Using Social Media in Academia' workshop
- Eva Hillberg; Business, Management and Economics for 'Patient Activism and Digital Technology' workshop
- Gemma Farrell; Media, Film and Music for 'Musedelica Symposium'
- Joy Stacey; Media, Film and Music for 'MFM Doctoral Day'
- Yeyang Su; Global Studies for 'Global Studies Thesis Writing Group'
- Zahid Khalid; History, Art History & Philosophy for 'Environmental History of South Asia Workshop & Networking Event'
- Robert Dunphy; History, Art History & Philosophy for 'Phenomenology, Science, and Consciousness: The Transcendental and the Naturalistic' Graduate Conference
- Rachael Taylor; Business, Management and Economics for 'Contemporary Food Issues – Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network Symposium'
- Smita Yadav; Global Studies: Pilgrimages: Ontologies, and Subjectivities in Neoliberal Economies
Summer 2015
- Marie Rogers; Psychology for '5 Minute Thesis: Cognition in brains, animals and machines' (Symposium)
Spring 2015
- Shanyn Altman; English for 'Literature and Philosophy' annual postgraduate conference (Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies)
- Zoe Strimpel; History, Art History & Philosophy for 'Cupid's digital lives: gender, dating and the internet' - one-day workshop/conference
- Rebecca Harding; English for 'The State of Fiction: Don DeLillo in the Twenty-First Century' interdisciplinary conference, and Colloquium Masterclass
- Robert Dunphy; History, Art History & Philosophy for 'The Work of Phenomenology and the Work of Art - Graduate Conference in Phenomenology 2015'
Autumn 2015
- Joe Watson; Media, Film and Music for ‘Doctoral colloquium as part of the International Conference on Live Interfaces
- Jackson Nash; Media, Film and Music for ‘Critical Perspectives on ''The Transgender Tipping Point' - Half-day panel event with breakout discussion sessions.’
- Chelsea Olsen and Laura Cofield; English & HAHP for ‘NGender 2016 - Activity 1: Feminist Film and Talk Series, Activity 2: Conference’
- Nicolas Farina; Brighton & Sussex Medical School for ‘The Postdoctoral Network - a regular networking forum’
- Paul Fisher Davies; English for ‘British Consortium of Comics Scholars: Graphic Scholarship Day’
- Martin Jung; Life Science for ‘Interdisciplinary quantitative analysis group’
- Sofia Kesidou; Business, Management and Economics for ‘21st SPRU Dphil Day’
- Paul Gilbert; Global for ‘Workshop: 'Confronting Elite Anthropology: Collaboration, Hostility & Critique'
- Lidia Cabral; Institute of Development Studies for ‘Rising Powers Young Researchers Network Conference’
Spring 2014
- Edward Morrow; Life Sciences, and Dr Sarah Newbury, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, for 'Herstmonceux Retreat' - a multi-day workshop that provides a forum for diverse research groups to interact, build links and discuss research
- Richard Elliott; MFM, for ''
- Charlotte Morris; Law, Politics & Sociology, for 'Researching Sex and Intimacy in Contemporary Life: an interdisciplinary symposium'
- Treena Warren; English, for 'Sights and Frights Conference' - a one-day interdisciplinary conference
- Kourosh Kouchakpour; Education & Social Work for '7th Annual Doctoral Research Conference' - open to all Social Sciences doctoral researchers
- Aanand Venkatramanan; Business, Management and Economics - Finance Group, for 'Young Finance Scholars' Conference and Quantitative Finance Workshop'
Autumn 2014
- Michael Lawrence & Rachel Tavernor; Media, Film and Music for 'Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture' conference
- Michael Guida; Media, Film and Music for 'Media, Film and Music Doctoral Day'
- Emma Doubt; History, Art History & Philosophy for 'Making a Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Domestic Interior'
- Andrea Brock; Global Studies for 'Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature - Theory, Politics and Practice' - workshop
- Nicola Plowman; Media, Film and Music for 'Symposium of British Consortium of Comics Scholars & Comics Tea Party'
- Ruth Segal; Business, Management and Economics for 'Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network Symposium: The Diversity of Food Research'
- Ngender; Media, Film & Music/Global Studies for 'Ngender 2015'
- Miguel Otaola; Law, Politics and Sociology for 'Democracy and Participation in Latin America' - conference
- Daniel Hignell and Danny Bright; Media, Film and Music for 'Impact in Creative Practice' - symposium
- Jack Miller; Business, Management and Economics for '21st SPRU Dphil Day: STI and (Un)certainty'
2013
- ESW Conference Committee; Education & Social Work for doctoral conference- open to all Schools & Departments
- Sarah Newbury; Brighton & Sussex Medical School for South Coast RNA network and conference, bringing together research groups working in RNA Biology on the South Coast.
- MFM Conference Committee; Media, Film & Music for annual MFM doctoral day- open to all Schools & Department
- Jon Sward; Global Studies for 'Migration Researchers in the Field: A Doctoral Student Conference'.
- Rose Holmes & Paul Weir; History, Art History and Philosophy for 'Civilians and War, 1914-1945', a one-day postgraduate conference.
- Laura Joyce, Anneke Newman and Rachel Wood; Media, Film and Music for '' seminar series, film screening and panel discussion.
- Cecile Chevalier; Media, Film and Music for '', symposium and exhibition.
- Althea Rivas; Global Studies for 'Critical Debates With(in) Development: Power, Resilience and Change', a two-day conference.
- Carina Westling; Media, Film and Music for '', 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 for 'South Asian Anthropologists Group (SAAG) Annual Conference'.
- Rachael Durrant & Bex White; SPRU - School of Business, Management and Economics for 'Food and the Public Good', an symposium organised by the Brighton-Sussex Food Research Network (BSFRN)
- Alexa Neale, History, Art History and Philosophy for 'The History Forum', a series of 15 workshops held over the winter
- Khalid Ali; Brighton & Sussex Medical School for '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 for 'Creating theatre with young people on the margins', theatre performance and conference