The
University of Sussex is a public research university situated next to
the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove.
Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university
received its Royal Charter in August 1961. The university was
shortlisted for 'University of the Year' in the 2011 Times Higher
Education Awards. Sussex is a founding member of the 1994 Group of
research-intensive universities promoting excellence in research and
teaching.
Sussex is a research-intensive university. It counts
three Nobel Prize winners, 14 Fellows of the Royal Society, six Fellows
of the British Academy and a winner of the prestigious Crafoord Prize
among its faculty. In the UK's most recent Research Assessment Exercise
(RAE), 18 departments were ranked in the UK's top 20, with over 90% of
research activity rated as 'world-leading', 'internationally excellent'
or 'internationally recognised'. The quality of research is reflected in
the funding Sussex receives from industry, research agencies, and
government, which represents around 20% of the income. Sussex also has
important academic partnerships with, for example, American Express and
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The university is highly placed in UK, European, and
global rankings. The university is currently ranked 11th in the UK, 31st
in Europe, and 99th in the world by the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings. The Guardian university guide 2013 placed Sussex
joint 27th, and the Times Good University Guide 2012 ranks Sussex 14th.
The 2012/13 Academic Ranking of World Universities placed The University
within the top 14 in the United Kingdom and in the top 150
internationally.
Since the university was founded it has maintained a
strong commitment to engage with the world and have a diverse student
body. Sussex receives students from 120 countries and maintains links
with research universities including Georgetown University, University
of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Paris-Sorbonne
University, and University of Toronto.
Schools of Studies
The university was founded with the unusual structure of "Schools of Study" (ubiquitously abbreviated to
"schools") rather than traditional university departments within arts and science faculties. The
Schools were intended to promote high-quality teaching and research.
The 12 schools of studies form the academic heart of the
University, driving forward academic development in research and
teaching and fostering an interdisciplinary approach to study. Each
school provides a stimulating and supportive environment in which you
will flourish taught by staff at the forefront of their fields.
Additionally, many schools of studies bring together related
departments, capitalising on the connections between subjects to deliver
new and exciting opportunities for students and faculty. Student
representatives ensure there is a strong connection between student
opinion and how each department is run.
In the early 1990s, the University promoted the system
by claiming, "Clusters of faculty [come] together within schools to
pursue new areas of intellectual enquiry. The schools also foster
broader intellectual links. Physics with Management Studies, Science and
Engineering with European Studies, Economics with Mathematics all reach
beyond conventional Arts/Science divisions." By this time, the original
schools had been developed somewhat and were:
African and Asian Studies (abbreviated to AFRAS)
Biological Sciences (BIOLS)
Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (MOLS)
Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS)
Cultural and Community Studies (CCS)
Engineering and Applied Sciences (ENGG, formerly EAPS)
English and American Studies (ENGAM or EAM)
European Studies (EURO)
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS)
Social Sciences (SOC)
There was also the Institute for Development Studies(IDS).
In
2001, as the university was celebrating its 40th anniversary, the then
Vice Chancellor Alasdair Smith proposed
major changes to the curriculum across the 'Arts
schools', and structural changes were agreed by the senate which would
create two Arts schools and a "Sussex Institute" in place of the five
schools then in place. Corresponding changes would be made in Sciences.
The changes were finally implemented in September 2003.
After discussion in senate and the schools, disciplinary departments
which had been located across the different schools, were located firmly
within one school, and undergraduates were offered straightforward
degree subjects. The multi-disciplinarity provided by the school courses
was now to be achieved through elective courses from other departments
and schools.
The new schools were:
Humanities (HUMS)
Life Sciences (LIFESCI)
Science and Technology (SCITECH)
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies (SOCCUL)
Sussex Institute (SI)
In 2009 the university adopted a new organisational
structure. The term "Schools of Studies" was retained, but each was
headed by a "Head of School" rather than the traditional "Dean". Many of
these new heads were appointed from outside Sussex rather than from
existing faculty. The schools as of 2009 are listed below. The term
"department" has been retained in some cases, where a school contains
separate disciplines.
Engineering and Informatics (two separate schools before 2011)
Life Sciences (Includes: Biology, Environmental Science,
Chemistry and Biochemistry and houses the Centre for Genome Damage and
Stability)
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Includes: Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy)
Psychology
Business, Management and Economics
Education and Social Work
Global Studies (Includes: Anthropology, Geography and
International Relations, as well as interdisciplinary programmes in
Development Studies)
Law, Politics and Sociology
English
History, Art History and Philosophy
Media, Film and Music
The changes did not affect the Brighton and Sussex Medical School
(BSMS).
Notable faculty
In the sciences Sussex counts among its past and present faculty five
Nobel Prize
winners: Sir Anthony
Leggett, Sir Paul Nurse, Archer Martin, Sir John
Cornforth and Professor Harry Kroto. Sir Harry, the first Briton to win
the chemistry prize in over ten years, received the prize in 1996 for
the discovery of a new class of carbon compounds known as the fullerenes.
John Maynard Smith, FRS, founding father of Sussex Biology was honoured with the Crafoord Prize and the Kyoto
Prize for his contributions to Evolutionary
Biology.
The University has 15 Fellows of the Royal Society - the
highest number per science student of any British university other than
Cambridge.
In the arts, there are six members of faculty - an
unusually high proportion - who have the distinction of being Fellows of
the British Academy. Faculty publish around 3,000 papers, journal
articles and books each year, as well as being involved in consultative
work across the world.
Other prominent academics associated with the University
include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern
French Thought (Derrida, Lyotard); Homi K. Bhabha (postcolonialism);
Rachel Bowlby (feminism, Woolf, Freud); Geoff Cloke FRS (Inorganic
Chemistry); Jonathan Dollimore (Renaissance literature, gender and queer
studies); Katy Gardner (social anthropology); Gabriel Josipovici
(Dante, the Bible); Michael Land FRS (Animal Vision - Frink Medal);
Michael Lappert FRS (Inorganic Chemistry); Alan Lehmann FRS (Genetics
and Genome Stability); (Laura Marcus (Woolf); John Murrell FRS
(Theoretical Chemistry); Peter Nicholls (Pound, modernism); John Nixon
FRS (Inorganic Chemistry)); Laurence Pearl FRS (Structural Biology); Guy
Richardson FRS (Neuroscience); Jacqueline Rose (feminism,
psychoanalysis); Nicholas Royle (modern literature and theory;
deconstruction); Alan Sinfield
(Shakespeare,
sexuality, queer theory); Norman Vance (Victorian, classical
reception); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen (intellectual
historians); Gavin Ashenden (Senior Lecturer in English, University
Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II); Cedric Watts
(Conrad, Greene); Marcus Wood (postcolonialism).
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SURVIVING TIMBER BUILDING - When
Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's
tomb in 1922, the dig was not much to look at. A lot of sand and a small
entrance, amongst a desert of dunes. But once inside, the small chamber, the Egyptologist realised
that the monument was intact. Hence was a treasure trove.
The old
Generating
Station in Lime
Park, at Herstmonceux, is not of outstanding architectural design or construction (except for the use of
redwood and extensive architrave). What is astonishing is that it remains extant, where
other early electricity
stations have been demolished by property
developers, or rotted away.
Indeed, many former residents in
Lime
Park, and two recent newcomers, have not
grasped that this is all that is left as evidence of our transition from
coal, to electricity. It is believed to be the only example surviving anywhere on the planet
of its kind, including load levelling via a giant battery store, comprising roughly half of the building,
with substantial shelves where weighty lead-acid batteries were stored
in glass containers, to power the whole village of Herstmonceux, and Lime
Park
estate, overnight.
The
Trust that occupies the buildings, needs help to maintain this interesting industrial complex. The
buildings have no reasonable or beneficial use, the local authority
doing all they can to prevent conservation. Placing manifold obstacles
in the way, where they should be helping those interested in restoring
the historic asset, to achieve that ideal.
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