How will a Quantum Silicon Valley shape the UK’s future?
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Secretary of State praises impact and innovation of Sussex’s quantum department |
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| Peter Kyle (left) with Professor Winfried Hensinger (right).
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During his visit, Mr Kyle learned about Sussex’s plans to construct the world’s most powerful computer, capable of solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges, and its world-record-breaking discoveries.
He praised the centre for creating high-value jobs and investment in Greater Brighton’s emerging ‘Quantum Silicon Valley’. Mr Kyle said such work was crucial for building the talent, companies and technology that the UK needs to turn breakthrough science into national economic prosperity.
“The amazing work I have seen at the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum is exactly the kind of regional innovation our Industrial Strategy is designed to support and encourage,” said Mr Kyle.
The visit comes a month after a world-record discovery in quantum sensing by Sussex researchers, and after the Government’s industrial strategy dedicated £670 million to accelerating the application of this revolutionary technology to enable the construction of quantum computers by 2035. With spin-out Universal Quantum already securing £100 million in investment, Sussex is set to be a driving force in the UK’s technological future.
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What Sussex researchers learned from refugees livingin a world without aid |
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Aid is drying up worldwide. But the reality is most people affected by protracted displacement, forced to leave their homes for many years due to armed conflict, persecution or disasters, have had to survive without aid for decades, reports a new publication by Sussex researchers.
Refugees in a World Without Aid is a new open-access book edited by researchers in the School of Global Studies. It asks how people cope, what kinds of economies emerge where people have been displaced for years, and how they care for themselves and each other. |
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Photograph: Chrispin Mvano |
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Sussex researchers worked with partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar and Pakistan to include over 70,000 participants in the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded research that led to this book, and co-produced short films with members of communities affected by displacement, in workshops facilitated by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Yasmin Fedda.
Published by the Open Press at the University of Sussex, the book offers evidence for policymakers, practitioners and other researchers, and is available to all.
Dr Ceri Oeppen, Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, said:
“We’re so pleased to be able to publish the findings of this research in a form available to anyone with an internet connection. The research that led to this book is the result of Sussex’s brilliant international research partnerships; it simply wouldn’t have been possible without them”. |
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How Virginia Woolf’s work speaks to today’s global crises |
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More than 350 scholars, writers, readers and artists from around the globe visited the University of Sussex this summer to celebrate the writings of Virginia Woolf.
For the first time, Sussex, together with King’s College London, hosted the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which this year explored the theme of ‘Woolf and Dissidence’. |
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Artist credit: Eleanor Crook, ‘Wax Virginia’ |
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Co-organiser Dr Helen Tyson said: “Through both traditional academic papers and creative responses to Woolf’s work, Woolf emerged as a writer whose reckoning with the historical crises of her own era speaks powerfully, even urgently, to our own global crises today.”
A performance of Between the Acts, at the University of Sussex’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, relocated Woolf’s 1941 novel to an immigration detention centre in 2039. In the post-performance Q&A with Refugee Tales and the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID), the audience heard a moving testimony, shared through the storytelling project, about the power of creative advocacy work in the effort to end indefinite immigration detention in the UK.
During the conference, participants contributed to Pressing Matters: Printing with Virginia Woolf, an evolving exhibition that brings together contemporary art that engages with the work of Virginia Woolf as both a modernist writer and publisher. Curated by the Centre for Modernist Studies, and featuring a life-sized waxwork of Virginia Woolf, the exhibition remains on display at the University of Sussex Library Exchange until Monday 29 September. |
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ITV News and LBC Radio covered the Secretary of State’s visit to Sussex, with Professor Winfried Hensinger highlighting the potential of ultra-fast quantum systems to solve major global challenges.
Professor John Drury featured in The Conversation and The Bristol Cable, reflecting on last year’s riots, following the murder of three schoolgirls in Southport. He shared findings from his study into how shared identity, long-standing grievances and perceptions of policing can drive unrest.
Professor Matthew Agarwala appeared on Channel 4 News discussing the growing economic and environmental risks of wildfires.
PhD student Ben Kelly featured in BBC News Online, sharing his work recording an album with the Wampís Nation in Peru to raise awareness of the threats to their rainforest territory from illegal gold mining.
Professor Chirantan Chatterjee wrote an op-ed for The Hindu. |
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