Sussex and IDS alumna Fumani Mthembi talks about her life as founder and director of South African renewable energy and development company, Knowledge Pele, and an exciting new connection with the band Coldplay. I came to Sussex in 2008 as a Mandela scholar when I was 24. I’d always known…

Sussex and IDS alumna Fumani Mthembi talks about her life as founder and director of South African renewable energy and development company, Knowledge Pele, and an exciting new connection with the band Coldplay. I came to Sussex in 2008 as a Mandela scholar when I was 24. I’d always known…

University of Sussex astronomer Dr Stephen Wilkins is among scientists around the world who will be analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is due to be launched from South America in the next few weeks. The James Webb Telescope will show us almost the entire history of…

University of Sussex alumna Ann Grant remembers her student days in the 1960s, and how being non-privileged gave her the edge in the coolness stakes. I came to Sussex in 1967 after a year of being a Voluntary Services Overseas cadet in Uganda. I’d had an amazing experience being a…

Syed Jazib Ali has just completed a Masters in Journalism and Documentary Practice and is co-director of ActNowFilm, which is being shown at COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow on 11 November. I got this great opportunity to be involved in making this film hearing about it from a couple…

University of Sussex alumna Sara Osterholzer, co-founder of The Good Business Club, is one of the University’s Entrepreneurs in Residence. There’s something about Sussex that connects so much to who I am. I was born in Berlin and grew up in India and loved that I had a very international…

Biology undergraduate Stella Saunders has been surveying kelp fields off the Sussex coast as part of her University of Sussex Junior Research Associate project. I saw a request for applicants for the Junior Research Associate (JRA)scheme and I thought it would be a good experience to write a proposal. …

Professor James Hirschfeld has been a member of the University of Sussex maths department since 1966. I was grew up in Sydney, Australia. My parents left Germany in 1938 and I was born in 1940. In the Jewish community education was the most important thing; so I went to the…

Sam Waugh, Sustainability Manager at the University of Sussex, talks about her love of strategy and comedy, and her vision to create one of the world’s greenest universities. I joined the University in March 2020 a week before lockdown and it was all a bit crazy. I was sent home…