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No 57 04 / NEWS Events, developments and milestones at Sussex. 14 / PEOPLE Product designer Lucy Hughes, community change-maker Réjane Woodroffe, social entrepreneur Mamunur Rahman, actor Bertie Carvel. 26 / FEATURES A closer look at cancer care, new uses for an ancient enzyme and transitioning to the new normal. 40 / FORWARD AND BACK Collaborative projects and mentoring with students and alumni, arts centre memories, recent books and podcasts. Falmer Magazine Welcome

EDITOR Sally Atkinson In the past year the changes and challenges have come thick COPY EDITOR Julia Zaltzman and fast and, along with the rest of the world, our Sussex community has CONTRIBUTORS Jacqui Bealing, Rachel Dyson, been adapting to working in different ways. Dame Lesley Fallowfield, Laura McDermott, Rachael Miller, Ruby Moore, Tony Moore, Overleaf, Vice- Professor Adam Tickell sends you a heartfelt message Peter Newell, Joshua Valters, Molly Whyte of thanks and emphasises the significance of the University’s civic responsibilities DESIGN Chimney in contributing to local and global efforts against the pandemic.

Cover image: Award-winning product designer Lucy Hughes Our research features focus on improved care and quality-of-life for cancer patients, opportunities for a sustainable new normal, and ‘ skies’ biochemistry that is now The University would like to thank and credit the following for the use of photographs and illustrations: translating into potential treatments for a number of deadly diseases. 23 Marc Brenner (Bertie Carvel in Ink), 42 Matthew Andrews (Doris Lessing) 43 Rosie Powell (Jaamil Olawale Kosoko), Maurice Foxall (Jonathan Harvey) Shutterstock 10–11, 26–29, 31, 32, 37, 48, iStock 19, 33, 34–36, 38–39 Sussex students share their views on taking part in a pioneering placement programme in and, in the UK, our Role Models are engaging secondary school pupils in Other images have been supplied by University conversations around difficult topics. partners, staff and alumni or their representatives. All other photography by Stuart Robinson, . Before and during lockdown, we talked to award-winning alumni about their work Every effort has been made to trace the holders of copyright. The University regrets any unwitting infringements of copyright and their passions: Réjane Woodroffe discusses setting – and scaling up – the Bulungula and would be pleased to hear from copyright holders. Incubator in rural South Africa, and Bertie Carvel reveals all about his acting career, including the small part played by Sussex. Read how Lucy Hughes has developed a For each alumnus mentioned in Falmer, we publish either their School or subject studied, sustainable alternative to plastic packaging, and find out how Mamunur Rahman flexed plus their year of entry. For more information, visit www.sussex.ac.uk/falmer his garment factory alliance to produce face masks in Bangladesh.

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04 / UNIVERSITY NEWS Keeping you 26 / CANCER CARE How psycho-oncology up-to-date with the latest events and initiatives. helps cancer patients and health professionals to 08 / SUSSEX FIRSTS Seven highlights demonstrate work together on key decisions around treatments the University’s of taking bold new steps. and quality-of-life. 30 / RESEARCH NEWS 10 / TIME WELL SPENT How a pioneering Rewilding and , Parkinson’s placement scheme in Malaysia is giving students breakthrough, a nuclear waste solution and more. an immersive, international work experience. 34 / PLAYING THE LONG GAME How decades of blue-skies research on the alternative oxidase is now being applied to potential therapies for deadly diseases. 37 / THE NEW NORMAL Why the Covid-19 pandemic could present an opportunity to build a more ecologically minded and fairer world. SUSSEX PEOPLE From the

BACK PAGES Vice-Chancellor 14 / LUCY HUGHES Creating sustainable packaging from fish waste. 16 / RÉJANE WOODROFFE Making a difference in rural South Africa. 19 / MAMUNUR RAHMAN Social entrepreneur The world has endured so much in the past few months. Our lives have At Sussex, our civic responsibility has never had greater significance. been profoundly changed in ways that seemed unimaginable not long Testament to our long tradition of experimentation and innovation – and responding to Covid-19. 22 / BERTIE CARVEL ago. My thoughts go out to those members of the extended Sussex underpinned by our deep commitment to social justice – Sussex is Award-winning actor and activist. 40 / A LITTLE MORE CONVERSATION An alumna family who have been directly affected by Covid-19. contributing to local, national and global efforts against the pandemic. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus the fragility of our daily For instance, our Business School is advising on food security and the 24 / ALUMNI NEWS Career milestones, and student share their experience of being lives and the paramount importance of community. Amid the constant impacts on supply chains, and our Life academics are community heroes, new ventures and awards. Role Model volunteers and helping young people in stream of devastating headlines, we have also seen extraordinary acts contributing to Covid-19 international drug development research. In turn, of kindness and care that have given us reasons for hope. Many of these colleagues in Mathematics have been modelling options for controlling schools. 42 / ARTS CENTRE MEMORIES Highlights examples have come from our very own Sussex community – our staff, the spread of coronavirus and researchers in Psychology are advising the and memories to celebrate 50 years of the Gardner students, alumni and supporters – who have responded with government to ensure any interventions take into account latest characteristic compassion. advances in social and crowd psychology. Arts Centre and Attenborough Centre for the I was particularly heartened by the generous response from alumni While we are yet to understand the full impact of the pandemic in the Creative Arts. 44 / MENTORING MATTERS Sussex around the world to the Emergency Sussex Fund Hardship Appeal, which Higher sector, and we still have difficult decisions and we launched in response to a sharp rise in the number of students facing challenges ahead, the Sussex ethos, values and commitment to making Connect members share their mentoring stories and genuine hardship. I am grateful to everyone who has already donated. the world a better place will be our guiding principles and continue to motivations for getting involved in volunteering. You have helped us increase the level of financial support we are able to everything we do. provide to students, just when their need is greatest. We look forward to welcoming you back to our beautiful campus and 47 / ALUMNI A selection of alumni- As vital sources of new intellectual knowledge and creative solutions, to resuming our in-person alumni engagement activities around the world have been at the forefront of global efforts to develop new as soon as is feasible. In the meantime, the safety and wellbeing of our authored books and broadcasts from the past year. treatments and vaccines, and are the source of the evidence-based Sussex community – our staff, students, alumni and supporters – will 48 / HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU Nearly 12,000 of research that policymakers and the public. remain our utmost priority. Thank you for your continued support and interest in Sussex. you responded to our 2019 alumni survey. Find out more about your alumni community.

PROFESSOR ADAM TICKELL

2 CONTENTS FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR 3 News in brief HONORARY AWARD EMERGENCY SUPPORT Celebrating our Our values in practice: the kindness Alumna returns as visiting Professor Chancellor: a of the Sussex community Sussex is delighted to welcome AWARD-WINNING BROADCASTER AND AUTHOR, Claudia Hammond (Psychology 1990), to the new role surprise for At the height of the Covid-19 unspent funds from their earlier gift of Visiting Professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology. Sanjeev lockdown, Sussex alumni and to support student mental health This appointment builds on Claudia’s reputation for championing friends came forward with and wellbeing. They have also made the public understanding of psychology and neuroscience. During the 2019 summer characteristic kindness and an additional donation to create paid graduation ceremonies, we compassion to offer help to those summer internships in local celebrated the tenth year of students most affected by the businesses for students. Alumni discount for online Masters courses actor and comedian Sanjeev pandemic. The full impact of the pandemic Bhaskar OBE serving as our The Emergency Sussex Fund on our students will not be known We’re happy to announce that we’re now offering our alumni Chancellor. To Sanjeev’s surprise, Hardship Appeal received for some time but the kindness 20% OFF OUR ONLINE MASTERS COURSES. Start at a time after shaking the hands of donations from more than 400 shown to them by the wider that suits you. Learn at your own pace. This is your chance to embrace thousands of 2019 graduates, on people in the Sussex community Sussex community has already within the first month, offering a made a difference to hundreds new ways of learning and broaden your career options. the final day of ceremonies he also received an honorary . lifeline to more than 100 students of students in their hour of need. Find out more at www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/community After a decade of congratulating, facing financial crisis. To lend your support, visit hugging and dancing with new Moreover, Santander Universities www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/ Law clinic success Sussex graduates, it was Sanjeev’s UK has allowed us to redirect covidresponsefund turn. As a part of the celebrations, Under the supervision of qualified solicitor Rustom Tata we asked alumni who had crossed (Law 1984), law students Deirdre Tinney and Monique Wagner, the stage with Sanjeev over the from Sussex’s free Employment Law Clinic, HELPED A LOCAL past decade to send in their memories and photos, which can MOTHER WHO WAS UNLAWFULLY SACKED whilst on maternity now be found on the alumni The kindness shown by the wider leave. The mother won her case at tribunal and was awarded web pages. £30,000 in compensation. Receiving his honorary doctorate, Sussex community has already made Sanjeev said: “This experience of a difference to hundreds of students. being Chancellor, and particularly at We are international Sussex, is the gift that keeps giving because it’s one of the greatest Furthering our COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONALISATION, privileges of my life.” Sussex, in partnership with Zhejiang Gongshang University, is establishing the first joint institution in China and delivering AI degrees. The Sussex Artificial Intelligence Institute, Zhejiang Gongshang University will deliver collaborative teaching programmes for both SOCIAL JUSTICE undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. I am a person because you are a person: learning from a South African Coming together for 60 years September 2021 marks the launch of freedom fighter U NIVE R S IT Y OF SU S SE X’S 60T H - ANNIVE R SARY REU NION . We’re inviting all alumni to get involved in this weekend of events, Justice Albie Sachs (Sociology In his Draper Lecture, which was 1967) returned to campus for introduced with a moving speech celebrations and reminiscences. Further details will be shared in due our 11th annual Draper Lecture from South African MA student course, so make sure your details are up-to-date on alumni.sussex.ac.uk and got involved in numerous Mpinane Puleng Senkhane, Albie activities, including a moot with traced his remarkable journey and law students, a student podcast, explained how his experience at attending the launch of the Society Sussex shaped his thinking on for Southern & East African social justice. He also spoke about Students, and hosting a benefit the South African concept of dinner for Sussex’s Mandela Ubuntu: “I am a person because Scholarship Fund. you are a person. I consecrate my Albie Sachs first came to humanity from acknowledging your Sussex after being exiled from humanity, embracing human South Africa due to his interdependence.” involvement in the freedom movement. He continued to champion human rights and social justice globally and, following the end of apartheid, returned to South Africa in 1990.

4 UP FRONT | UNIVERSITY NEWS UP FRONT | UNIVERSITY NEWS 5 NEW STUDENT CENTRE ENDOWMENT Learn to Becoming global citizens: transform: the a tribute to Andrew

future of the Andrew Pickup was a Global future generations of Global student experience Studies PhD student who sadly Studies students and will have passed away whilst undertaking a transformative impact, funding East Slope contractors Balfour fieldwork in South Africa. A popular several bursaries of up to £500 Beatty have been working on the member of the Global Studies for Global Studies postgraduate shell of a landmark new Student community and a highly regarded students every year who are Centre for Sussex, which was researcher, Andrew’s passing has undertaking a dissertation with handed over to the University in had a profound effect on the placement. March 2020. School. Andrew’s parents explained that The Student Centre forms part As a tribute to their son’s this award aims to enable more of our initiatives to transform the memory, Andrew’s parents have students to embrace international Sussex student experience. endowed in perpetuity the Andrew opportunities, helping them to Opening in spring 2021, the Francis Pickup Global Citizens become truly global citizens, Student Centre will be the go-to Award. This award ensures that regardless of their financial place for students to access Andrew’s memory will live on in circumstances. face-to-face services, information, advice and guidance. Now that the shell has been NEW STRUCTURE handed over, we are hard at work on the internal fit-out, the design A new of which is taking student input into account as the project team interdisciplinary continues canvassing student feedback on the use of the School building. So far, facilities in the new Student Centre will include multi-purpose learning spaces for individual and group study, a double-height performance and events space, rooms for confidential meetings and access to an outdoor courtyard.

FALMER MOAT INCLUSIVITY Assessors commended Sussex’s Returning to our scholarships for asylum seekers; A refuge for our world-leading research on In August, we launched a new sanctuary-related matters; our 1960s heritage combined School of Music, Film sanctuary seekers sector-leading Migration Law Clinic; and Media, English, History, Art When Falmer House opened in and our close links with student, In recognition of its efforts to History and Philosophy, and the 1962 – just a year after the first community and charity groups. welcome and support forced Sussex Centre for Language 50 students enrolled at the new Vice-Chancellor Professor Adam migrants, Sussex has been Studies. The new combined School University of Sussex – the moat Tickell welcomed the award: “It awarded the title of University is called the School of Media, Arts was filled with water, designed to reflects the Sussex tradition of of Sanctuary. and Humanities and is led by reflect the sharp contrasts of light being a place of both physical and This award, conferred by Professor Kate O’Riordan as its and dark in the vaults above it. intellectual refuge and an institution charitable organisation City of first . Over the years, students have that strives to make the world a Sanctuary UK, recognises and Previously the Head of the used the Falmer House moat in better place for those who flee celebrates the good practice of School of Media, Film and Music, some unusual ways but by 2015 persecution. In turn, we are greatly UK universities receiving sanctuary Kate O’Riordan and other Heads of the moat was dry and in need of enriched by the students and seekers into their communities School led an extensive substantial work. scholars from migrant communities and fostering a culture of welcome consultation and engagement Last year, thanks to a huge who make Sussex their home.” effort by our Estates team, water and inclusion for all. process with students and staff to was pumped into the moat, explore the concept of a combined enlivening the quad and returning School and its possible structure. it to its former glory. Kate says: “I am particularly excited about the potential our new We are greatly enriched by the students School will unlock and the and scholars from migrant communities opportunities to bring together academics from across many fields. who make Sussex their home. This will help make our commitment to interdisciplinarity even stronger, one of the core values that Sussex was founded upon.”

6 UP FRONT | UNIVERSITY NEWS UP FRONT | UNIVERSITY NEWS 7 From opening the first campus-based arts centre to publishing the first blueprint for a quantum computer, the University of Sussex has a proud history of taking bold new steps.

FIRST DISCOVERY OF AN FIRST CENTRE FOR THE STUDY FIRST SUSSEX Seven UNKNOWN FORM OF CARBON OF CORRUPTION LEGACY DONOR In 1985, Sussex chemist Professor Sir Harry The Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) In 2017, Sussex launched the first Helena Kroto discovered a previously unknown form was set up in 2012 to tackle one of ’s Normanton International Postdoctoral of carbon that would lead to groundbreaking biggest global challenges. From ways in which Fellowships, named after the first woman research in nanotechnology. new technologies create opportunities for to practise as a barrister in in 1922. Sussex firsts The football-shaped molecule, named the corruption to whether corruption negatively Helena was also the first woman to lead the C60 Buckminsterfullerene or ‘buckyball’, has affects women’s access to human rights, prosecution in a murder trial and, significantly inspired a new generation of scientists to researchers in CSC are looking at the impacts for Sussex, she was also the first person to explore its potential for a multitude of on society and coming up with solutions to help leave a legacy in her will (in 1957) to the applications, from super-strong yet ultra-light governments and organisations. University. materials to miniaturised drug delivery devices. The Centre also teaches undergraduates Born in in 1882, Helena grew up in The discovery led to Sir (along and postgraduates (with three Masters Brighton and won a scholarship to York Place BRITAIN’S FIRST FIRST TRANSATLANTIC with his US collaborators, and programmes) and trains PhD students on a School (now Varndean High School). She Richard Smalley) being awarded the Nobel Prize wide array of corruption-related areas. eventually went on to and work as a CAMPUS-BASED UNIVERSITY E M A I L in Chemistry in 1996, and a knighthood in the teacher. A champion of women’s suffrage, she ARTS CENTRE same year. FIRST QUANTUM pursued a legal career when a law was brought The first transatlantic email was received in the COMPUTER BLUEPRINT in to allow women to train as barristers. She In 1969, the Gardner Arts Centre opened its Richmond Building on campus in 1973, during FIRST ENGLISH UNIVERSITY continued throughout her life to campaign for doors. From the outset, the - a conference on computer communication. women’s equality, helping to bring about TO HOST AN EVENT FOR In 2017, an international team led by Winfried designed series of circular studios was It was sent from scientists in the United change in matrimonial law. Hensinger, Professor of Quantum Technologies intended to give cultural nourishment to States to , a Professor of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY at the University of Sussex, published the first audiences from campus and beyond. Electrical Engineering whose research focused practical blueprint to build an ultra-powerful Five decades on, with a new name on computer networking. In 2001, Sussex hosted a special day of quantum computer that could solve problems (Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts) and Professor Grimsdale, who joined the remembrance to mark the UK’s first Holocaust beyond the capability of machines based on following an £8 million refit and renovation, the University in 1967 and continued running labs Memorial Day. The free event, open to all, was conventional electronics. Centre continues to be a space for innovation and supervising students beyond his organised by The Sussex Weidenfeld Institute- The team currently plans to build a prototype and creativity. retirement, is also credited with building the Centre of German and included quantum computer at a cost of £1-2 million With a programme that includes world’s first fully transistorised computer. His shows and discussions on the theme of based on this design. contemporary dance, edgy and political years at Sussex involved developing computer Holocaust Education Through Film. dramas, experimental music, international and graphics technology, now widely used in video The University has continued with the annual arthouse film and other events that defy and filmmaking. event, to remind current generations that the boundaries, it is fulfilling its early promise of tragic mistakes of the past should never be being ‘the yeast in life’s solid dough.’ repeated or forgotten. The event continues to focus on testaments from many Holocaust survivors and their families, alongside films, workshops and discussions.

8 UP FRONT | SEVEN SUSSEX FIRSTS UP FRONT | SEVEN SUSSEX FIRSTS 9 Hosted by Afzal Abdul Rahim (ENGG 1994), a pioneering placement scheme in Malaysia is shaping careers and leading the way in immersive, international work experience for business and engineering and informatics students from Sussex. WORDS BY RUBY MOORE Time well spent

THE VISION AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

The idea for an innovative student placement Having agreed with Afzal that it was important scheme in Malaysia was hatched over a lunch for TIME to create an “intense holistic journey, conversation between the CEO of telecoms firm rather than pigeonholing [the students] into one TIME dotCom, Afzal Abdul Rahim (ENGG 1994), division,” Mizi worked with colleagues across Professor Steven McGuire, Dean of the the organisation to ensure the students spent a University of Sussex Business School, and Cliff significant amount of time in each rotation and Tapp from the University’s Development and really learnt about the functions of the different Alumni Relations team. They were discussing departments. what could be done to better equip graduates From researching new areas for broadband with an understanding of the jobs – and the provision and speaking to prospective industry – that they were applying for. customers, to working on marketing campaigns, Afzal was passionate about giving Sussex creating presentations and going out in hard students a chance to experience every aspect hats to help lay cables, students were fully of how an organisation works and they all immersed in the work of the broadband agreed that working “in the thick of the action” provider for the duration of their stay. in every division would best demonstrate the Will Fennelly (Mechanical Engineering 2016) end-to-end value chain. This would also allow and Amie Slattery (Business and Management students to discover their passions and skills, Studies 2016) were two of the students who took enabling them to begin their career journey with part in the scheme. They both acknowledged the a clear sense of direction. time spent planning the detailed schedule. “[TIME Having worked at a power station when he dotCom] made sure that every day was a real and was a student, Afzal wanted to ensure that unique learning experience. Some of us have students would gain real-world context for their been on internships in England where we’ve been theoretical studies. As well as nurturing a stuck in a room doing menial tasks on Excel all collaborative approach to working with day. But in Malaysia there wasn’t a single colleagues in different areas of the company – moment where we were bored, they were always “it leads to better teamwork and a more pushing us.” cohesive culture” – Afzal was sure that, in Outside work, Mizi also arranged for the Malaysia, Sussex students would get the students to explore Malaysia, including the Southeast Asian experience while finding it nearby elephant sanctuary, and during the relatively easy to get around as English is working week, students quickly picked up on spoken in much of the country. the culture and love of food, acquiring Afzal’s ambitious vision for the month-long recommendations for the best places to eat placement scheme became a reality in 2018, and joining TIME colleagues for lunch. when twelve second-year students secured a Once the students had settled into the place through a competitive process and programme, Mizi observed that it wasn’t just headed off to Kuala Lumpur. Academics from the students who benefited, but that there was the Business School and the School of “a real knowledge exchange between the Engineering and Informatics also visited TIME students and employees.” to assess the new programme and work with The Business School’s Director of TIME’s management team, including Head of International Affairs, Dr Ödül Bozkurt, sees Human Resources Sharif-Sharmizi Shahimi the placement scheme as a “life-changing, (known as Mizi), the man tasked with turning perspective-changing opportunity” that gives Afzal’s vision into a reality. the students the security of being in a group and receiving structured training alongside their hands-on experience: “They bring out their top guns: top marketing person, top engineer etc, and they deliver really well-put-together presentations.” »

10 UP FRONT | TIME WELL SPENT UP FRONT | TIME WELL SPENT 11 EXPANDING HORIZONS

Afzal Abdul Rahim’s ambitions started young – wanting to enter This definitely the workforce as quickly as possible, he secured a place at Sussex aged just 16, having completed a foundation course in Malaysia. isn’t selfless. At university, the diversity of personalities and nationalities were memorable and he’s still in touch with around 40-50 friends from Training built for the Class of 1997 who keep in touch via WhatsApp. Academically, he appreciated the lack of pressure early on. “We had some the placement scheme phenomenal lecturers who, on day one, told us, ‘I’m not going to get you a first-class degree. I’m here to make sure you have a first- has been re-used class love for engineering.’ That makes all the difference.” for new hires and After achieving his degree in Mechanical Engineering with Electronics, Afzal worked for car manufacturer Lotus in Norfolk we’ve had some good before returning to Malaysia where, in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting, he took a leap of and plunged into the eureka moments with communications industry. Together with a core management team, he steered the AIMS Asia Group to its position as the region’s the students! leading network-neutral data centre operator, before establishing the international bandwidth firm Global Transit. At the age of 31, Afzal was appointed Commander-in-Chief at TIME dotCom, tasked with turning the company around and taking it back into profit. He attributes the courage to take on this massive task to being fortunate in finding his passion and calling in life very early on. “In my 20s, I matched what I really loved to do with my work. When things align, then I ’t think you think about fear. You just see the opportunity,” he says. “As entrepreneurs, we look for the GLOBAL CITIZENS CHALLENGES AND W H AT N E X T ? opportunity in things. While I saw that it would be a gargantuan OPPORTUNITIES task, I was fortunate to have a phenomenal team to pull it off. And Helping students to develop as global citizens This programme requires a huge investment, I saw the prospect of owning an infrastructure company.” – connected, civically and politically engaged, Whilst our students gained immense value both from the University and from TIME. Both The team made the company profitable within a year with entrepreneurial and creative – is a key part of from the programme, Afzal says that TIME also parties, however, believe that this is a valuable Afzal embedding his values into the culture and structure of the Sussex’s strategy to create a better university opportunity for everyone involved. Afzal is keen benefited. “This definitely isn’t selfless. We get company. “We have three corporate values: fun, bold and quick.” for a better world. Dr Ralitsa Hiteva, the quite a lot out of it. We’ve found [the scheme] to develop the placement by integrating it with Afzal is also passionate about investing in the future of Malaysia. Engagement Lead for the Business School’s injects a sense of passion for teaching and the schemes they offer local students, in order Policy Research Unit (SPRU), visited some of the training built for the placement has to make TIME “a magnet for local graduates to He provides training programmes for Malaysian graduates, is the TIME with the students. She highlights the been re-used for new hires. We’ve also had a interface with international graduates.” He is Chairman of the start-up accelerator Endeavour (supporting young importance of being exposed to global ideas, couple of good eureka moments with the also keen to expand the programme founders in Malaysia), and he founded the non-profit Malaysia concepts and trends whilst studying. “There geographically to include their other sites in students!” Internet Exchange. isn’t a better way to do that than to experience It wasn’t all smooth sailing though. Before Thailand and . it for yourself,” she says, adding that the value Due to Covid-19, last year’s placement ABOVE: Students receiving the programme began, Mizi had to overcome training at the TIME dotCom of the programme also lies in teaching the bureaucratic hurdles, such as getting the plans were postponed. Sussex is keen to offer headquarters. students “about the work ethic and the culture students visas to be able to work in Malaysia. students valuable overseas work experience BELOW: Students visiting of a completely different environment.” Afzal’s top tip for companies thinking of opportunities and will recommence planning as the elephant sanctuary. In blogs about their placement experience, offering similar programmes is to, “think big; soon as it's feasible and safe to do so. students explain how they learned things that think long term. Plan for it well, make sure that will benefit them every day. These include the there is buy-in [across the company] and get transferable skills they acquired which have personally involved.” improved their problem-solving, Meanwhile, Mizi also warns not to get too communications and team working abilities. distracted by the planning. “Sometimes the Umar Akram (Business and Management best thing to do is to just do it, [because] you Studies 2015) also found the experience hugely learn from your mistakes.” beneficial for job hunting. “Having spent a Umar wants to reassure future placement month abroad, with a company where we had students, revealing that he’d initially worried done numerous rotations, was definitely a key about getting along with others or being good GET INVOLVED differentiator going into interviews.” enough at the work but, having completed the If your organisation already has placements Lecturer in Informatics Dr George Parisis scheme, he advises them to “go for it.” “It to offer, they can be advertised to our was impressed with the students’ approach to sounds clichéd, but it’s a once-in-a-lifetime students via our Careers and Employability the placement. “They all appeared very excited opportunity!” to meet and work with employees at TIME. They Amie and Will agree that the experience has Centre at www.sussex.ac.uk/careers formed bonds with each other, worked very encouraged them to be more open to hard and collaboratively.” Both he and Senior opportunities and advise others to “say yes to If you are interested in developing an Lecturer in Engineering Dr Niko Munzenrieder more things in general because you may find innovative overseas placement programme also found mutual benefits in liaising with that the next new experience you try might be within your organisation, please contact colleagues at TIME, from insights into the one of the best things you ever did.” needs of international industry to the possibility Cliff Tapp for an initial conversation at of future research partnerships. [email protected]

12 UP FRONT | TIME WELL SPENT UP FRONT | TIME WELL SPENT 13 Sussex graduate Lucy Hughes (Product Design 2015) Our oceans are filling up with plastic; more than After visiting MCB Seafoods Ltd, a Newhaven- 150 million tonnes of it is reportedly floating based sustainable fish processing plant and has won international recognition for her packaging material around the world. By 2050, weight for weight, wholesaler, and being shown their waste it’s predicted that our seas will contain more stream of fish offcuts and skin, as well as made from fish waste. Now she is working on bringing it to market. plastic than fish. shells and crustacean skeletons, she began It’s about closing It was this alarming forecast that inspired experimenting – mostly in her student kitchen WORDS BY JACQUI BEALING Lucy Hughes to create a biodegradable – with adding this waste to the basic algae the loop, making alternative to plastic as part of her University of formula. Initially she tried grinding shells and Sussex product design degree course. The skeletons with a Nutribullet food blender and a us rethink how we most apt feature of her product – a clear film pestle and mortar to add to her formula. When that can be used for packaging, among other this proved unsuccessful, she moved on to uses – is that it’s actually made from fish working with fish skin and scales. consume and use waste. “There were a lot of times at the beginning In 2019 Lucy’s invention, which she has when things were going mouldy and I was products, and From sea to store named MarinaTex, landed her the prestigious wondering what the hell I was doing,” she says. 2019 James Dyson Award, beating more than “My friends and family thought I was crazy. I what we waste. 1,000 other entries from young engineers went between the kitchens in my student home worldwide. and my family home in London and everyone Awarding her the £30,000 prize, Sir James had to put up with the smell of fish. Even when Dyson said, “Ultimately, we decided to pick the you store fish in the freezer, you can smell it idea the world could least do without. because fish are cold-blooded and their MarinaTex elegantly solves two problems: the enzymes are still active.” ubiquity of single-use plastic and fish waste.” Finally, because fish skin contains protein Lucy, who graduated in 2019, also won the structures that are strong and flexible, she was University’s StartUp Sussex Social Impact Prize able to produce a translucent yet durable film which is generously sponsored by Simon that could replace plastic film to wrap food with. Segars (Electronics Engineering 1987) and It would also biodegrade within six weeks, worth £10,000. which is faster than many other bioplastics. In the past year, the 24-year-old from In addition, MarinaTex is economical – one Twickenham has been working with government- Atlantic cod could generate the organic waste funded laboratories to explore the full required to make 1,400 bags of MarinaTex. properties and potential of MarinaTex, as well Production of the bioplastic is also relatively as having conversations with supermarkets low-tech, requiring temperatures below 100 and businesses interested in following its degrees Celsius. development. Now, with industrial production on the She is thrilled that, even though horizon, Lucy is excited about what the future sustainability may have been moved down holds for her product. “I didn’t know much the agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic, about the business side, so the support and there is still commercial interest in her product. funding from Dyson and from the University has But her motivation has never been about been really useful,” she says. “I’ve been making money. analysing the market, researching potential “I wanted to find the place where the people that I can work with, and trying to material could make the most amount of understand consumer behaviour – all the difference,” she says. “I was an avid viewer of preliminary work that has to be done before the BBC’s Blue Planet, which showed the putting a product on the market. amount of pollution caused by non- “What has surprised me is that, even during biodegradable plastic in the oceans. It makes the pandemic, people still want to talk to me no sense to me that we are using plastic, an about the product,” she adds. “As we have incredibly durable material, for products that seen, particularly with the need for disposable often have a lifecycle of less than a day.” PPE [personal protective equipment], plastic Lucy chose to study product design at Sussex still outshines all other materials in the medical because of the course’s strong reputation for sphere. But it doesn’t have to be used for being environmentally conscious. “Sussex everything.” teaches how we can move from a linear model – in which we take from the earth, make something from it and then dispose of it – to a circular model that is restorative and regenerative by design,” she explains. “It’s about closing the loop, making us rethink how we consume and use products, and what we waste.” With this in , she set about exploring the possibility of making a biodegradable material from fish waste. In the early stage of her research, she came across algae bioplastics, which are made from red algae. But her attempts to produce it resulted in material that was too crinkled to be of practical use.

LEFT: Lucy Hughes at Newhaven Harbour holding a sheet of MarinaTex.

RIGHT: Lucy holds materials used in her experiments – fish scales and seaweed.

14 SUSSEX PEOPLE | LUCY HUGHES SUSSEX PEOPLE | LUCY HUGHES 15 Réjane Woodroffe ( 2004) left a career in high finance to help South Africa’s poorest rural community get on its feet. After receiving a British Council award for social impact, she describes why she finds her role today so richly rewarding. WORDS BY JACQUI BEALING A change for good

The Wild Coast in South Africa is a stretch of stunning Their project, the Bulungula Incubator, which they set up in natural beauty in the country’s Eastern Cape province. 2007, is having notable success. For example, an e-learning It is also an incredibly poor region, where decades of programme developed to teach good-quality English and underinvestment have left the largely illiterate farming maths to primary school children (through using energy- communities struggling to survive. efficient computer tablets and training classroom For Réjane Woodroffe, a South African who experienced facilitators) is now being piloted in other deprived parts some of the worst inequities of the apartheid regime, it was of the country. the perfect environment to put to good use her background Réjane calculates that their projects have more than as an economist and her MSc in Development Economics 10,000 direct beneficiaries, while their broader programmes from the University of Sussex. impact thousands more through sharing and collaborative Moreover, after a decade of working in the lucrative but partnerships with other organisations and government. for her ultimately unfulfilling world of high finance, she “A lot of things we have tried haven’t worked,” admits realised that here she could return to her activist roots and Réjane, “but because we are embedded in the community, make a change for good. we can adapt to its needs. We are focused on the ground Her plan is working. In April 2019, Réjane received the and, in that way, we are starting to have a national impact.” British Council’s Study UK Alumni Award for Social Impact Réjane left behind a luxury lifestyle, with a flat in Cape in recognition of the work she and her husband Dave Martin Town and a high-salaried role in asset management, to do have done to create sustainable systems to support the “something more fulfilling” with her life. education, employment and welfare needs of a community “At the beginning, I really enjoyed my job,” she says. of 6,000 people. “I’d gone from studying business at Cape Town University straight to becoming an assistant economist at Merrill Lynch. I was totally sucked into the finance sector and my Children in one of the Bulungula Incubator Early Childcare career carried on developing.” » Development programmes.

16 SUSSEX PEOPLE | RÉJANE WOODROFFE SUSSEX PEOPLE | RÉJANE WOODROFFE 17 But after eight years, she was becoming increasingly miserable. “I started to think back to when I was happy, and I realised that it was during the 1980s, when I had been part of the community organisation in the struggle against Bulungula Incubator apartheid,” she says. Réjane was born during apartheid in the projects have more 1970s. With her family, she experienced the terror of being forcibly removed from her Cape than 10,000 direct Town home when the area became designated The fabric of ‘white’. They were relocated to the impoverished townships in the Cape Flats. beneficiaries, Although ’s presidency, which began in 1994, gave hope to many that the fight while their broader was over, the emotional pull of her past was too our lives strong for Réjane. “I knew I wanted to do programmes impact something – I just didn’t know what,” she says. She took time out to think and, in 2003, thousands more successfully applied for a Ford Foundation Scholarship. “It gave me the opportunity to study through sharing at any university in the world,” says Réjane. “I When the coronavirus pandemic began its lethal chose Sussex because it had a reputation for spread across the world, Mamunur Rahman (Gender being strong on economics and also the and collaborative development side. It just seemed like a really and Development 2006) took action, mobilising his good combo for me.” partnerships with At around the same time, she met Dave contacts and resources to help people in Bangladesh. Martin, a Cape Town University graduate other organisations WORDS BY JACQUI BEALING and “a back-packer at heart,” who had set up Bulungula Lodge, a community-owned eco-hostel and government. for travellers in Nqileni village. Through donations from and seed funding from organisations, he had already begun to help develop the local economy. Réjane could see that they were both on the same journey. Her time at Sussex helped build her confidence to frame that ambition and take One of the first projects was to raise money for the next steps. water tanks, in order to supply 400 households “I was not a development professional and at with running water. This led to education around first I felt quite insecure,” she recalls. “I didn’t water and then to education more generally, know what to do. But at Sussex I was able to from setting up pre-school groups to holding meet those who were professionals, to get their regular health clinics and arranging practical advice, to tap into resources and to feel skills training, such as carpentry. confident about what I needed to do.” “I can’t say we started off with a vision,” Réjane and Dave were married in 2005. For says Réjane. “We began with one thing, and the next three years, Réjane split her time then something else became urgent and we did between working in Cape Town and travelling to the next thing. It’s only in the last three or four the coast. “I had tried to resign from my job, but years that it has started to look like a holistic continuum.” BELOW: Réjane speaking they offered me the opportunity to work half the to students and staff at week from home. It meant that we had some For every step, she and Dave have worked Sussex during her 2019 money and could start to do bits and pieces.” with the community to ensure that whatever Study UK Global Winners structures and systems they have introduced visit to the UK. are sustainable. This has meant helping to train individuals in the community to run their own schools and businesses, even when their levels of literacy and numeracy have been very low. They’re also mindful that any new initiatives need to be complementary to the local culture and farming traditions. “Decisions are made by consensus,” says Réjane. “Every project has a community committee from the start, so we are under the will of the community. You often have to demonstrate why it’s good.” They’re seeing now how their integrated approach is benefiting the community. The birth rate has dropped, due to better health education around contraception, but also because children are more likely to survive. “As a way of life, it’s incredibly challenging,” admits Réjane. “It’s stretching me in a way that the financial industry could never have done. But when we have success, it is so rewarding.”

For more information, visit www.bulungula.org

18 SUSSEX PEOPLE | RÉJANE WOODROFFE SUSSEX PEOPLE | MAMUNUR RAHMAN 19 Mamunur’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic “This is the first generation of women who are is the second example of how he has combined working in factories and they are very shy,” says compassion and industry to benefit the health Mamunur. “Menstruation is such a taboo of his . This time, he had to convince the subject that they cannot talk to management highest levels of policymakers to bring both the about it.” public and private sectors together to help He recognised the same issues among solve the national crisis. And he credits schoolgirls, who were dropping out of education Sussex’s rich seam of research in sustainability, because of the prohibitive cost of menstrual as well as the network of Sussex communities hygiene products. “My own sister didn’t finish he is in touch with, for giving him the strength her education,” he says. to take this action. Realising the potential to make washable Born into a poor community in Bangladesh, and eco-friendly sanitary napkins from some Mamunur was the only one from his family to of the billion bales of waste textiles produced graduate from high school. He went on to study by the garment industry, he set about raising for a Masters in Gender and Development at awareness and funds for his Ella Pad initiative, Sussex in 2006. eventually receiving a grant from the US State Mamunur’s Ella When he applied for a Department. Scholarship to study for the Masters, taught Through working with factory owners, the jointly by the Institute of Ella Alliance has enabled women involved with Pad initiative has (IDS) and the University of Sussex, he was napkin manufacturing to become entrepreneurs. working in the development sector in Mamunur’s initiative has so far improved the so far improved Bangladesh. He believed further education health, hygiene and employment opportunities would lead to a career in development in the for 100,000 Bangladeshi women. The ambition the health, hygiene UK. Instead, through a raised awareness of is to reach the four million women working in how he could do something to help the health the garment industry and the 10 million girls and employment and social inequalities in his own country, he in education. returned to Bangladesh after leaving Sussex. “We also want to scale-up the project in opportunities for “We always used to think that, to solve our other developing countries where female problems, we needed resources from Western factory workers face similar challenges,” he countries,” he says. “We thought that, if we says. “At the same time, we want to encourage 100,000 Bangladeshi didn’t have the resources, we couldn’t do it. a shift in global culture, away from plastic- But being at Sussex showed me that we have based disposable sanitary napkins towards an women. resources that we are not using. So it built my eco-friendly sustainable solution of washable confidence to do something about it. The sanitary napkins.” Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) With the napkins – and now also the masks programme at Sussex has helped us to solve – meeting an urgent need, Mamunur’s greatest our own problems.” satisfaction is seeing how he has been able to After graduating from Sussex, he joined the make a difference to people’s health and Ministry of Industries in Bangladesh, which welfare in his country. serves eight million small- and medium-sized “Coming from a poor, rural background, enterprises. His role was to lead the research where I was the only one from my family who and policy advocacy teams promoting women has been able to do a Masters in the UK, entrepreneurs. In 2012, he carried out a survey I know I have been super lucky,” he says. of factory workers and found that women had “I think my responsibility is to give something very little access to toilets, which meant they back to society.” were taking up to three days off work every month because of menstruation. This equated to 200 million workdays lost every year across the industry.

Early on in the Covid-19 crisis, social “The situation compelled us to come up with a entrepreneur Mamunur Rahman quickly realised solution. Our partner factories responded C O U L D YO U B E O N E O F he had access to the resources to manufacture quickly and many more joined with us to make N E X T Y E AR ’S G LO BAL up to 160 million general-use free face masks the washable masks using their available ALU MNI AWARD S WINNE R S? We had to for his country’s poorest communities. scraps of material. To distribute these The Study UK Alumni Awards are The masks were initially produced by nationwide, we involved the government.” launched each autumn. For more respond, to save workers in nine factories that form part of the The Alliance researched sources, including Ella Alliance, a garment factory partnership the World Health Organization and the Centers information, visit the people and previously set up by Mamunur, for which he was for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to study-uk.britishcouncil.org/alumni- awarded the British Council’s Entrepreneurial understand how the masks should be tailored awards Award in 2019. The factories also make to cover the essential parts of the face. The save the planet washable, low-cost and eco-friendly sanitary design was then shared across the factories. napkins from surplus textile materials. “We had to respond, to save the people as well. “Once the virus spread, people rushed to and save the planet as well,” explains the buy plastic-based masks at high prices. Many entrepreneur. “By replacing plastic-based couldn’t afford them,” says Mamunur. masks, we were going to save billions of litres of “Moreover, we also observed that people were water and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.” indiscriminately throwing away the non- degradable masks in the street, causing not RIGHT: Mamunur with only the quick spread of the disease but also Ella Alliance face masks at one of the free distribution polluting the environment. points in Bangladesh.

20 SUSSEX PEOPLE | MAMUNUR RAHMAN SUSSEX PEOPLE | MAMUNUR RAHMAN 21 The simple truth is that the baddies are the All through my teenage years, my hobby was Doing that play, I realised I’d found a vocation. It best parts. What excites me about [a new] live role-playing. Every weekend I would go to was like falling off a horse. I knew how to do it character is complexity, depth and richness, Chislehurst Caves with my mates. We all because I’d been doing it all these years [with but also variety. In any part, you have to ask agreed ‘rules’: “In this space we are going to be role-playing] without thinking that that was what yourself, “What would it feel like to be going who we say we are for a weekend. You can call I was doing. By the end of my time at Sussex, I through this?” yourself Jonas the Warrior, and we’ll believe was in SUDS (Sussex University Drama Society) I don’t have a favourite part – I’m proud of that you are a brilliant swordsman.” and doing all the plays, but I still had an awful them all. I get very consumed by whatever I’m I was young for my year when I started at lot to learn and I’m really pleased I had the doing at any given time. Afterwards, once it’s Sussex and it was challenging. It took me right opportunity to go on to RADA for three years. done, because of the intensity of that up to the end of my degree to kind of crack it. I I haven’t been an overnight success, but I’ve involvement and the obsessive attention to just remember that sensation of finally getting been very fortunate. I’ve had a really consistent detail, you have to kind of let things go. it, and thinking, “Oh, I can do this.” You know, career and done lots of good work that I’m For me, the enjoyment of acting really is to “I have to work hard, and I have to know what really proud of. Awards are very flattering but get to try on different sets of clothes, role-play I’m trying to say, but I also just need to allow it’s the work that counts. different situations and emotions, some of myself to have flair.” Before, I was trying to I have some fairly way-out ideas: that feeling which feel very close, some of which might feel write good essays, but it was so obvious I of invention and inspiration, and slightly further away, but all of which are connected by didn’t know what I was talking about. I’d arrived slapdash outsider art, really thrills. In Rope our common humanity and experience. I like at a place where people were professionally there was a wonderful page-long getting in the dressing-up box and I like finding writing about this stuff. I think I felt kind of characterisation for my character, Rupert out who I am in a different set of trousers. crushed by that early on. Cadell, which described him as lame in one leg When playing real people, there’s a greater I think what I really learned at Sussex was and holding his head and body perfectly still as sense of duty to do your research properly. But thought and to think particularly if articulation causes him some definite you can be pinioned, bound and restricted by critically. It was a profound experience to take physical pain that he is trying to circumvent. that research, and you have to liberate your those instincts that I already had but were So, I decided he had a wooden leg, his real one imagination and think, “Well, why are we really sharpened at Sussex, to do it shot off in the war, and I built this kind of leg making a play of this and not simply watching a independently and to challenge yourself, to not contraption. documentary?” Drama and fiction and accept the orthodoxy lying down. The director looked at me as if to say, “What imaginative endeavour can reveal something In the spring term of my second year, my the f*** are you putting to me? You want a that journalism can’t – and vice versa. mother had a stroke and it really knocked me wooden leg?” Then says, “Okay. Let’s try it.” My dad is a good journalist and believes in sideways. I’m forever grateful for the pastoral Then you do it, and he nods – it’s good, and reporting on the truth. And in a way, I suppose I care at Sussex and for being allowed to take nobody knew it was good before you tried it. I approach acting a bit like journalism – you start time out. I was in a real spin and they gave me love those moments. Good acting very often with the facts, present the character without a chance to come back and complete the comes out of taking risks. judgement and then allow your audience to following year. Activism and contributing towards a fairer Acting up make up their own minds. [It] doesn’t mean I discovered acting while I was at Sussex. society are important to me. Serving on ’s that you don’t have a view but that you are When I came back from intermitting, I had this council and subcommittees, I do my best to there to empower your audience. confidence – I’d cut my long hair for the first ask uncomfortable questions of those in power. In Parade I played a man convicted of time in 10 years and was doing lots of Kung Fu. Theatre is facing an existential crisis post-Covid Award-winning actor Bertie Carvel murder. So, there’s also this real duty to the I thought, “I’m going to go and take up some and we need radical strategic intervention from person, because you are dealing with a new interests,” and signed up for an audition government if our cultural powerhouse is to (English 1996) is known for hugely varied question of innocence or guilt. He certainly had for Murder in the Cathedral. remain standing. stage and screen roles, including bullying a very unfair trial, but may have been a I am really excited about being a dad. I feel murderer – we’ll never know. The key to me was my life pivoting around this moment, from headmistress Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, media to investigate the elements of his character losing my mother last year and then becoming that made him seem guilty or innocent, likeable a parent myself. It has put a lot of things into mogul in Ink and a cheating or unlikeable, without judging him either way. perspective. My mother always told me that I could do anything I set my mind to. I don’t know husband in Dr Foster. Here, he lifts the curtain if that’s true, but to be told that consistently is the most incredible gift. I couldn’t want for on his career and reveals the part played ABOVE: Bertie Carvel in his award-winning portrayal of more loving, more supportive parents. I’ll try by his time at Sussex. Rupert Murdoch in Ink. and be that.

22 SUSSEX PEOPLE | BERTIE CARVEL 23 Sussex alumni around the world have been active in starting new projects, making an impact at local and national level, New ventures Awards UK honours achieving new career milestones and gaining recognition. In 2019, MATILDA LAWRENCE-JUBB S O S A N A Z I Z (I D S 2 0 0 8) has won a Here is a brief selection of their news. (ENGLISH LITERATURE 2017) prestigious British Council Alumni Award in co-founded Split Banana, a ’s Social Impact Category for her work delivering inclusive relationship advice and sex tackling gender inequality as a member of the education both inside and outside of schools. National Commission on the Status of Women Read more about Matilda on pages 40-41. in Pakistan. YOKO INAGAKI (GLOBALISATION, EMMANUEL ALHASSAN (EDUCATION H L ANG AN I S O M ATANG AIDZ E BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT 2019), 1995) was recently honoured by the Ghanaian Community (ECONOMI C S AND FINAN C E 2016) currently completing an MA in Globalisation, of Education for being one of the has been named as one of 2019’s Top 10 Rare Business and Development, intends to provide longest-serving tutors in the northern sector. Rising Stars for founding RED, which aims to heroes the first reliable laundry facility in Madagascar. KATIE SILCOX (ENGLISH LANGUAGE build low-cost, vertical wind turbines and She received an £8,000 prize for her social 2004) has begun working for GQ Middle East distribute them across rural and MARCUS HAYES (LAW 1984) has been enterprise, Manasa Mora, in the StartUp magazine, alongside her volunteering work with Malawi. awarded an MBE for services to education and Sussex 2020 awards. refugees in Greece and setting up her online LU CY H U GH E S (PRODU C T D E S I GN the law. He is the Managing Director of the MARÍA FERNANDA SIERRA PEREA travel magazine, Contemporary Class, which 2 01 5), founder of MarinaTex, has won both commercial law firm Mason Hayes and an (IDS 2012) manages VIVE, a Trust for the aims to reflect underrepresented global issues. the James Dyson Award and the StartUp Alumni Fellow of the University of Sussex. Americas project that empowers women with Sussex Social Impact Prize for her sustainable the tools they need to become financially packaging fabricated from fish waste. Read SARA WAJID (ENGLISH 1991) has been independent, recognise and prevent gender- MAGGIE GROUT (BUSINESS AND more about Lucy on pages 14-15. awarded an MBE for services to culture and based violence and transform their lives. MANAGEMENT 2019) has started the DR ANDREW MORG AN (B IOL S diversity. Sara is Head of Engagement at the non-profit Thinking Huts, with the vision of 1 973) received DuPont’s Lavoisier Medal for of London. building the first 3D-printed school. Thinking Lifetime Technical Achievement in 2019. The JOANNA BAKER (FRENCH 1979) has Huts is partnering with SEED, a non-profit in award is given to scientists and engineers who been awarded a CBE for services to the arts. DR ANDREA BROCK (INTERNATIONAL Milestones Madagascar, which hopes to launch the project have made outstanding contributions to DuPont Joanna is the former Managing Director of the RELATIONS 2013) and D A N I E L next year. and their scientific fields throughout their Edinburgh International Festival and Chair of THERKELSEN (ENVIRONMENTAL careers. the National Youth Choir of Scotland. DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY 2016) LOUISE BEVERIDGE (POLITICS/ PROFE S SOR S G AIL CARDEW (B I O L S SHOBANA JEYASINGH (ENGLISH 1981) 1 9 8 6) and KE N T B E RRIDGE (B IOL S 1970) has been awarded a CBE for services set up the first Covid-19 mutual aid group in JOANNA HILL (MEDIA STUDIES 1993), founded JUSTE – Maison de talents in 2020 to 1 977 ) were both recognised for their to dance. She is a choreographer and the Brighton, enabling the 17,000+ members to the former CEO of the government’s Start Up match the needs of business for experienced contributions to science with honorary founder of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance. connect and support each other through the Loans, which supported 50,000 start-ups communication and corporate social awarded at the Sussex winter DR HILARY COTTAM (DEVELOPMENT struggles that the pandemic has presented. during her time there, has been appointed to a responsibility professionals working on short graduation ceremonies in January 2020. STUDIES 1991) has been awarded an OBE new role at AskIf, helping businesses to access HE LE N CAMMOC K (SO C IOLOGY SUE EPPS (EDUCATION 1975) has assignments. for services to the British Welfare State. She is Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans. 1 9 8 9) made history with fellow Turner created Table Talk, a project that has recruited a social entrepreneur and designer, and the Prize-winning nominees by requesting to be author of Radical Help. 40 cafés across Brighton to allocate tables as MORAKOT SRISWASDI (ECONOMICS judged as a collective, in order to make a JANE GOLDINGHAM (PUBLIC a place to sit to talk to other customers in order 1990) is the new Permanent Representative statement “in the name of commonality, SERVICE MANAGEMENT 1996) has been to combat . of Thailand to the United Nations (Vienna). ALEX BRUCE (BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE multiplicity and solidarity – in art as in society.” awarded an MBE for services to the social work JAMES BOYLE (DEVELOPMENT This follows an extensive history of working in 2010) has sold two million drinking straws profession. Jane is a former Head of STUDIES 2004) is working to turn old, international diplomatic roles on the behalf made from wheat straw in over 35 countries, Operational Development and Social disused urban areas into hubs for local, of Thailand. making a significant contribution to global efforts Worker at County Council. independent businesses through his work as a RODRIGO FRÍAS RIVAS to cut down on non-biodegradable waste. SUE SAMSON (EDUCATION 1985) community investment manager at Make Shift in (TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIVE has been awarded an MBE for services to London. MANAGEMENT 2014) is Deputy Director education. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Entrepreneurship Division at the Chilean at the University of Multi- Economic Development Agency (CORFO), PORTIA CRONJE (FINANCE AND Trust. helping start-ups to access public funding and BUSINESS 2014) founded Beauty By Me, a generating over 1,000 new jobs with combined hair and beauty booking platform that bridges annual sales of £40 million. the gap between self-employed beauticians and their clients and provides them with a community to support one another. JAMES BOWYER (EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2019) has won the 2020 CRISTOBAL MATTE (STRATEGIC StartUp Sussex competition. Responding to INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 2019), Covid-19, his business Reviso.ai brings BETH PEARCE (CONTEMPORARY currently completing his Strategic Innovation students’ dearly-missed library study sessions SARA CHITAMBO (MEDIA STUDIES HISTORY AND POLITICS 2006) has Management MSc, is co-founder and general online, through gamification and Artificial 2008) works as a project manager at Johns become one of only 396 global Masters of director of Airkeep, an online platform that Intelligence. See more Alumni News at Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa, Wine. As a buyer for Majestic Wine, she passed connects travellers with hosts who will store www.sussex.ac.uk/falmer promoting sexual and reproductive health in the the notoriously difficult testing to achieve the their belongings. and send your latest news to highest qualification in the wine trade. community through her award-winning TV shows. [email protected]

24 SUSSEX PEOPLE | ALUMNI NEWS SUSSEX PEOPLE | ALUMNI NEWS 25 Traditionally, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has been shaped by scientists and clinicians, but at what cost to patients and their families? Professor of Psycho-oncology Dame Lesley Fallowfield is putting patients at the heart of decision-making, helping health professionals work with them to make informed choices about treatments and their quality of life. WORDS BY RACHAEL MILLER

Cancer care – making it better

PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY: THE START OF A NEW The work of breast cancer surgeon Professor PSYCHO-WHAT? APPROACH TO CANCER CARE Michael Baum particularly stood out for Dame Lesley. He thought the psychological aspects of When Professor Lesley Fallowfield was awarded a Having completed a BSc in Experimental breast cancer were poorly understood and was Ensuring that DBE by the Queen in 2016, she became a Dame Psychology at Sussex in 1981, Dame Lesley interested in psychosocial aspects of care, Commander of the Order of the British Empire for embarked on a DPhil, looking into visual specifically measuring quality of life and people aren’t fatigued, services to psycho-oncology. As she gave Lesley disturbances in neurological disorders. But the improving communication skills. Fallowfield the award, Her Majesty mused, “What traumatic experience of a close friend with In fact, Michael Baum’s ideas had such a depressed or feeling you do sounds a bit sinister. What exactly is the cancer became the catalyst that set her on a profound influence on Dame Lesley that she ‘psycho’ part of oncology?” It’s a question Lesley very different path. went to work with him at King’s London, hears often, and one that she and her colleagues Her friend had acute myeloid leukaemia, a determined to improve the experience of cancer sick shouldn’t be a at SHORE-C (Sussex Health Outcomes Research type of blood cancer. “She was given one of the patients after her promise to her friend. and Education in Cancer) are dedicated to early bone marrow transplants,” remembers In 2001, Dame Lesley came back to Sussex luxurious add-on – it exploring in order to improve cancer care. Dame Lesley, “but experienced horrible side as the Director of SHORE-C. The research Psycho-oncology is research that combines effects and died very miserably. When she was centre’s work is multi-layered. It measures the should be part of the behavioural, psychological, social and dying, she asked me, ‘Why does the medical impact that a cancer diagnosis, its treatment emotional with the physical aspects of cancer profession do this kind of thing to you without and side effects have on patients’ lives; good cancer care. and explores how together these impact patients, really telling you what the consequences might development of psychosocial interventions to their families and the health professionals who be?’ I promised her then that I would start to help patients cope with these; and improving diagnose, treat and support them. It covers all make things better for patients with cancer. I the ways in which health professionals stages of the disease, from prevention right didn’t want anyone to have to witness their communicate, to ensure that patients have through to end of life considerations. loved ones dying in the way my friend did.” better information to enable more educated “For too long,” Dame Lesley says, “the way Changes in approaches to cancer had decision-making about treatment options. » benefits or effectiveness of cancer treatments begun to emerge in the 1970s, with some were measured was slanted towards clinicians’ studies looking at the types of anxiety and and scientists’ views of how different drugs or depression experienced by cancer patients, but surgery might affect the cancer, forgetting that it wasn’t until the 1980s that psycho-oncology all cancers inhabit people. I wanted to put really began to gain traction as a subspecialty patients at the centre of the way treatment of oncology. decisions are made.”

26 FEATURES | CANCER CARE – MAKING IT BETTER FEATURES | CANCER CARE – MAKING IT BETTER 27 QUALITY OF LIFE – GETTING HEALTH “Our evidence-based communication skills MEASURING THE PROFESSIONALS ON BOARD training is being rolled out on a global scale,” IMMEASURABLE says Dame Lesley. “It’s encouraging to know If a patient is going to make wise decisions that our work is reaching so far and helping to improve life for people with cancer around the One research challenge is that the many side about the treatment options available to them, or follow the recommendations they’re given world.” effects of cancer therapies are under-recognised The team has also produced user-friendly and therefore under-treated. Dame Lesley’s about diet or how to take medication, health professionals need to understand the information to give to patients contemplating team has developed patient-reported outcome entry into a clinical trial (where a new therapy measures to determine symptoms and side importance of getting communication with them right. The challenge for those who work in this is being tested). “We’ve produced DVDs for effects via quality-of-life questionnaires. patients to take home to discuss with family “We’re not just looking at the psychological highly complex field, with its own specialist terminology, is to consider the very different and friends. We want them to be able to play 9.6 consequences associated with different the DVDs over and over again so that they are treatments but the treatment-related harms that levels of knowledge that patients may have. Coupled with an often-extreme degree of fear really sure about what’s involved and know affect people profoundly,” she explains. “If the which questions to ask when they next see their MILLION extra weeks of life gained from a new treatment and worry about their diagnosis, this can have a huge impact on what someone actually takes .” are spent in hospital or confined to your house And the work doesn’t stop there. Recently, ESTIMATED NUMBER or bed because of overwhelming problems like away from a consultation with their doctor, as OF DEATHS GLOBALLY opposed to what the doctor thinks they’ve responding to the particular challenges and fatigue, vomiting or chronic diarrhoea, what have disruption that the Covid-19 pandemic has FROM CANCER IN 2018 you actually gained? communicated. Dame Lesley is particularly focused on brought for cancer patients, Dame Lesley has WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION “It’s important to remember that, although been presenting a variety of podcasts to help quality-of-life broadly covers physical, emotional, improving the postgraduate communication skills training of senior doctors and nurses in the UK patients manage their stress and anxiety. psychological and social wellbeing, in practice SHORE-C’s web pages also offer yoga videos – that will mean very different things for different and abroad. “There’s no point in just targeting young medical students if they then enter a and exercise apps. It’s all part of keeping SHORE-C – a three-pronged approach patients,” she adds. “For a young person who patients at the centre of what they do. has had an entirely curable cancer, it might culture that fails its patients further along the line. If we’re really going to change things, we “In time,” concludes Dame Lesley, “I’d like mean, ‘Can I still do my job after treatment, go to see every cancer centre providing upfront, Current research is focused on bladder, prostate and breast cancer, but the 1 IN 2 travelling, go on to have children?’ For an older need top-down education, not just bottom-up. “We’ve had to be quite canny,” she reflects, tailored, supportive care alongside treatment. Centre’s aim is to improve patients’ experiences of all types of cancer, via three person, maybe in the last phase of their life, it Ensuring that people aren’t fatigued, depressed PEOPLE IN THE UK might be a question of, ‘Will I be able to see my “explaining to senior health professionals how different routes: WILL GET CANCER acquiring better communication skills will or feeling sick shouldn’t be a luxurious add-on grandchildren or enjoy a meal with friends and – it should be part of good cancer care.” IN THEIR LIFETIME family?’ You can’t just measure a few standard enhance their own job satisfaction and wellbeing, as well as benefiting the patient.” NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL CANCER TREATMENT TRIALS: CANCER RESEARCH UK things. You have to tailor your questions so that they’re appropriate for the patient’s age, stage The team has also tackled potential including development of reliable, validated patient-reported outcome and lifestyle. resistance from more senior individuals by measures and the coordination of the psychosocial/quality-of-life sub-studies “My team has developed ways to assess what running courses to help them teach junior within the trials. many thought was immeasurable, so that doctors colleagues. That way, they are learning together can present more even-handed information about and issues of professional pride are reduced. treatment, and patients can weigh up what’s right From training courses and workshops to SUPPORTIVE INTERVENTIONS: commissions to produce DVDs and web-based for them,” explains Dame Lesley. “I think we’ve development and evaluation of interventions to improve side effects and the increased recognition of the importance of materials around certain topics, such as how to impact of a cancer diagnosis and its treatment on patients and their families. My team has involving patients in evaluating the harms and talk to patients who have advanced cancer, benefits of treatment enormously.” SHORE-C’s work is in huge demand. developed ways COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING: to assess what via a well-established, evidence-based suite of programmes and materials that are used worldwide and have been shown to enhance the professional many thought was effectiveness and personal satisfaction of healthcare professionals. This in turn improves interactions with patients and healthcare professional colleagues, immeasurable, so patients’ understanding of their diagnoses, management plans and clinical trial recruitment. that doctors can

present more SHORE-C’s work is made possible by research grant income and charitable donations. If you are interested in supporting transformational cancer research even-handed at Sussex, please contact [email protected] information about treatment, and patients can weigh up what’s right CANCER RESEARCH AT SUSSEX for them.” Research at Sussex is tackling cancer on many fronts, from the epidemiology and genetic basis of cancers to the diagnosis and imaging of disease, new cancer chemotherapeutic agents, and public health aspects, such as improving

LEFT: Dame Lesley cancer awareness. Fallowfield.

RIGHT: The SHORE-C team. For more information, visit www.sussex.ac.uk/falmer

28 FEATURES | CANCER CARE – MAKING IT BETTER FEATURES | CANCER CARE – MAKING IT BETTER 29 Research news in brief DIGITAL Research news £8 million Digital Leading the development of Covid-19 Futures at Work forecasting reports Research with impact is at Research Centre the heart of Sussex’s strategic Dr Pierre Nouvellet, from the School of Life Sciences, has been LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF COVID-19 launches framework. Our interdisciplinary FORECASTING REPORTS used by public health organisations to guide public policy and better understand how the disease Thanks to a flagship investment and collaborative approach brings totalling £8 million from the affects countries around the world. Dr Nouvellet’s group has Economic and Social Research creative and innovative solutions been producing weekly reports that forecast the reported Council (ESRC), the Digital Futures number of Covid-19-related deaths in the week ahead. at Work Research Centre (Digit) to local, national and global issues. has launched, aiming to advance Here, we profile some of the latest the understanding of how digital Fifth state of matter created from home technologies are reshaping the future of work. developments and findings to Whilst working from home, Dr Amruta Gadge, a physicist The Centre is run jointly by Over the next five years, the Centre come out of Sussex. from the Quantum Systems and Devices Laboratory, Professor Jacqueline O’Reilly from seeks to answer questions about SUCCESSFULLY CREATED THE FIFTH STATE OF MATTER the University of Sussex Business the impact of new digital USING QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY. It’s believed that this is the School and Leeds University technologies on people and first time a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has been created Business School’s Professor Mark countries, in a bid to understand Stuart, along with partners from what needs to be done to make remotely in a lab that did not have one before, and it could Aberdeen, and digital transformation more provide a blueprint for operating quantum technology in Manchester Universities and a inclusive. inaccessible environments such as space. wide range of business and not-for-profit organisations. Promoting the use of the arts to rise against fanaticism HEALTH Professor Raminder Kaur’s play Terror, BASED ON THE BRAVE STAND OF FARAAZ AYAAZ HOSSAIN against violent Possible Parkinson’s treatment insurgents in a Dhaka cafe in July 2016, was performed in London in November 2019. Professor Kaur says, “I wanted successfully targets two to explore what it takes for someone to stand up against major nerve systems extremism. Lecturing to change someone’s views does not have as much impact as does the subliminal and visceral potential of According to the Parkinson’s Sussex, along with colleagues recreated immersive worlds as happens in theatre.” Foundation, more than 10 million at and people worldwide are living with Invicro, a precision medicine Parkinson’s disease. company, reveal a clear Sussex and Rowse Honey celebrate While the disease can currently communication pathway between be managed by drugs, these tend cholinergic neurons and 11-year research partnership to become ineffective after five dopaminergic neurons. Since 2009, Rowse Honey has been generously funding the years and present a number of side Dopaminergic neurons produce effects. An alternative is an dopamine, but in Parkinson’s Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects’ research on invasive surgical procedure called disease these levels are reduced projects under the Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health and deep brain stimulation (DBS) which as neurons deactivate and Wellbeing. It facilitates WORK ON DI SE A SE C ON T ROL AND uses electrodes to send pulses into eventually die. FOR AGING , which is valuable for beekeepers and those the brain. However, this treatment Dr Pienaar says, “When we used trying to help bees both in the UK and worldwide. produces mixed results and brain imaging, we found that, as we researchers believe this is because activated cholinergic neurons, they it stimulates every cell type, rather then interacted directly with than just the specific cells affected dopaminergic neurons. This seems by Parkinson’s disease. to be a knock-on effect, so by In 2015, scientists demonstrated targeting this one set of neurons, that a form of gene therapy could we now know that we are also We now know target and stimulate a group of able to stimulate dopaminergic nerve cells affected by the disease, neurons, effectively restarting the that we are also called cholinergic neurons. These production of dopamine and able to stimulate cells degenerate as the disease reducing symptoms. progresses. “This is really important as it dopaminergic neurons, Now, thanks to brain imaging reveals more about how nerve effectively restarting technology, they have discovered systems in the brain interact, but that their method, which targets also that we can successfully the production cells that produce specific brain target two major systems that are of dopamine and chemicals, can also successfully affected by Parkinson’s disease in stimulate another type of neuron a more precise manner.” reducing symptoms. through cell-to-cell interactions. The technique could, in the Findings from a recent study by future, provide a less invasive and Dr Ilse Pienaar, Lecturer in more effective way to treat Pharmacology at the University of Parkinson’s patients.

30 FEATURES | RESEARCH NEWS FEATURES | RESEARCH NEWS 31 ENVIRONMENT Dr Sandom says, “The key thing to PSYCHOLOGY All the volunteers performed remember here is that nature is simple hippocampal-dependent Rewilding can help complex and it needs to be The damaging tests to assess their memory, complex. Trophic rewilding aims to learning and appetite control. The to mitigate climate restore nature, including its effects of eating scientists observed a rapid decline change complexity, and then to allow it to junk food regularly in the fast-food group’s learning take its own path. This path will be and memory abilities, together with Research led by Dr Chris Sandom, different depending on time, place New research by psychologists a loss of appetite control. founder of the Sandom Lab which and chance. The good news is this in Australia, the USA and the Professor Martin Yeomans, who studies palaeo, community and will also bring with it a diversity of University of Sussex shows that researches appetite and nutrition behavioural ecology, has provided outcomes. Diversity is good regularly eating junk food can impair at the Sussex Ingestive Behaviour a global assessment of the because the needs of people and memory and appetite control. Group and helped structure the potential for trophic rewilding – nature are diverse too.” The research team tested the study, says, “Our new study adds reintroducing lost species that are In the study, Dr Sandom and effect of a ‘Western-style’ diet rich weight to growing evidence that known to have cascading effects colleagues from Australia, in sugar and fat on tests of habitual consumption of an on the food web – to help mitigate America, Denmark and Sweden memory and appetite sensitivity unhealthy diet has a knock-on change and deliver a diverse range assessed scenarios in various that involve the hippocampus – a effect on the brain. This change of benefits to the environment with regions across the globe to small area of the brain which is leads to a vicious cycle which varied regional impacts. ascertain where restoring species key for normal memory function. might explain why people find it This typically means which still exist today could help to The researchers asked lean and progressively harder to switch to a reintroducing large herbivores and mitigate climate change. fit volunteers who normally ate a healthy diet even when they are top predators, or species known to In some parts of the world, balanced diet to eat one meal that aware that their diet is leading to engineer more diverse and such as Europe and North was high in sugar and saturated weight gain and consequent health complex habitats and benefit America, most of the large fat every day for a week and problems.” . predators () and herbivores compared them with other (elephants) have become extinct. volunteers who continued to eat a However, by returning healthy wolf healthy, balanced diet all week. populations, the number of any remaining large herbivores, such as deer, could be reduced, allowing a greater opportunity for vegetation to grow and provide mitigating effects on climate change.

CHEMISTRY By using a catalyst that contains Professor Richard Layfield says, SOCIAL JUSTICE depleted uranium, a team of “The ability to convert alkenes into New use for researchers at Sussex have alkanes is an important chemical Injustices faced by managed to convert ethylene (an reaction that means we may be stockpiles of alkene used to make plastic) into able to take simple molecules and LGBTIQ+ nuclear waste ethane (an alkane used to produce upgrade them into valuable asylum claimants a number of other compounds commodity chemicals, like Depleted uranium (DU) is a including ethanol). hydrogenated oils and New research from the School radioactive by-product from the Working in collaboration with petrochemicals that can be used of Law, Politics and Sociology’s process used to create nuclear researchers at the University of as an energy source.” Professor SOGICA team (Sexual Orientation energy. With many fearing the Toulouse and Humboldt University Geoff Cloke adds, “Nobody has and Gender Identity Claims of health risks from DU, it is either of Berlin, the Sussex chemists thought to use DU in this way Asylum) is reporting on the often stored in expensive facilities or discovered that an organometallic before. While converting ethylene harrowing experiences of people used to manufacture controversial molecule based on depleted into ethane is nothing new, the use who claim asylum in the UK, armour-piercing missiles. uranium could catalyse the of uranium is a significant Germany and Italy for reasons addition of a molecule of milestone.” of sexual orientation or gender hydrogen to the carbon-carbon Their work is a breakthrough identity. To help illustrate the double bond in ethylene – the that could help reduce the heavy team’s research, the University simplest member of the alkene burden of large-scale storage of of Sussex is producing films family – to create ethane. DU, and lead to the transformation with asylum claimants, all tied of more complicated alkenes. together with the theme of #IAmWhoISayIam, reflecting individuals’ struggles to prove their identity.

Nobody has thought to use depleted uranium in this way before.

32 FEATURES | RESEARCH NEWS FEATURES | RESEARCH NEWS 33 Playing the We had a couple of breakthroughs in the 1970s. It was still blue-skies long game research, but I began to see the potential for [AOX’s] application in increasing crop production.

In 1969, while on a student placement, about how we have come up with AOX inhibitors Professor Tony Moore came across an enzyme that will lead to new treatments for disease. in plant cells that was to determine the course People think they’re not going to understand a of his scientific career. word I say, but they do, and they seem to like At the time, very little was known about the that I can put it into context.” alternative oxidase (AOX) except that it was Tony was an undergraduate in biology at found in the cells of heat-generating plants Hatfield Polytechnic when he took a year’s such as titan arum, whose magnificent blooms placement at Shell’s former agrochemical unfortunately smell like rotting meat. research lab in Sittingbourne, Kent. Following decades of remarkable research, “They were interested in herbicides and got so much is now understood about the AOX’s me involved in trying to isolate mitochondria crucial role in plant cell respiration that Tony [the part of the cell that produces energy] from Moore is currently working with scientists plant tissue to characterise the respiratory From treating crop blights to potential therapies across the globe, testing compounds to combat chain,” he says. “We know that mitochondria in crop and human fungal diseases. He’s also animal cells are sensitive to cyanide: it stops for neurological diseases, Professor of Biochemistry looking at the therapeutic implications for AOX their respiratory chain. But plant mitochondria in treating human infections and illnesses, aren’t so sensitive to cyanide. We wanted to Tony Moore explains why decades of research including sepsis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. know what that was all about. That’s when I It’s testament to how blue-skies research can first came across this enzyme.” on the alternative oxidase, a mitochondrial lead to real-world practical applications, and to During the next few years, as he progressed enzyme, is now flourishing. Tony’s endless enthusiasm for his science. through a PhD, research placements and “I always felt like research should have a fellowships in the UK and the US, Tony WORDS BY JACQUI BEALING Illustration of Trypanosoma degree of applicability,” he says. “I spend a lot was among a band of scientists pursuing brucei, the parasite that of time at the Eden Project in Cornwall when the answers to fundamental questions causes African sleeping sickness. they have new titan arum in flower, giving talks about AOX. »

34 FEATURES | PLAYING THE LONG GAME FEATURES | PLAYING THE LONG GAME 35 Working with other biochemists enabled Tony “We thought we could share our expertise, Amid the despair and uncertainty induced by the Covid-19 to devise ever more accurate techniques to and that has continued,” he says. “Together, isolate and study the enzyme, and to work out we were able to crystallise the structure for pandemic, is there an opportunity to build a more ecologically that its role involved providing an alternative the first time, which allowed us to design respiratory pathway (hence its name) when a specific inhibitors.” minded world? Professor Peter Newell, Co-founder and Research plant is under stress. Now, Tony’s collaborations with universities “We had a couple of breakthroughs in the and industry has led to a string of compounds Director at the Rapid Transition Alliance, believes there could 1970s when we found that AOX was present in patented by the University of Sussex, with be, and he is generating ‘evidence-based hope’ for a rapid and all plant mitochondria,” he recalls. “It was still a spin-out company to develop these blue-skies research, but I began to see the compounds into agrochemical and socially just transition to sustainability. potential for its application in increasing crop pharmaceutical treatments. production. Then we also found AOX in fungi He is currently working with: the University of WORDS BY PETER NEWELL and some parasites.” Kent to evaluate new inhibitors for the highly By the time he arrived at Sussex in 1979 as drug-resistant human fungal infection Candida a lecturer in biochemistry, Tony was receiving auris; the University of Campinas in Brazil to Research Council grants and funding from test compounds to treat blights that are major players in industry, including Unilever, devastating crops of bananas and cocoa; and Dow AgroScience and Syngenta, to help Finnish researchers to see if AOX could help support his research and PhD students. protect against septic shock. “It opened up a whole new side when we AOX also has potential for gene therapy began looking at how we could control plant for neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s fungal pathogens, potentially through making and Alzheimer’s, and Tony is working on this new compounds that were targeted to stop the with medical researchers in Newcastle, Finland function of AOX,” he says. “We now think that and Germany. the enzyme is more than two billion years old. With so many exciting and promising It dates from when there was no oxygen in the applications, investors have tried to lure Tony atmosphere and bacteria were anaerobic. When away from his labs in the University of Sussex. oxygen came into the atmosphere, organisms But he is staying put for very good reason. needed a mechanism to get rid of it, because “I have a lot of loyalty to Sussex,” he says. oxygen itself is incredibly harmful, so the “It has been very good to me. It has offered me enzyme was formed.” management and supported my work and In 2007, after eight years in the University’s opened up new avenues to me. If this company senior leadership team, Tony returned “to the is going to become successful, then Sussex coalface” and began working with scientists at should reap the benefit.” the Universities of and Nagasaki who As for his career, he shows no sign of were looking at Trypanosoma brucei, the slowing down. “My wife keeps asking me when parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, I’m going to retire, but I’m as enthusiastic as that also has an AOX. ever, and I‘m surrounded by young, motivated and highly intelligent students and postdocs who want to carry on with the work.” To see more of Professor Tony Moore’s work, visit our Collaborate case studies web page.

AOX also has potential for gene therapy for neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Making sustainability the ‘new normal’

36 FEATURES | PLAYING THE LONG GAME FEATURES | MAKING SUSTAINABILITY THE ‘NEW NORMAL’ 37 The University of Sussex is home to the Rapid Transition Alliance, whose Precedents exist for a Green New Deal. It has been estimated that, between Co-founder and Research Director is Professor Peter Newell from the January 1933 and December 1940, $21.1 billion was spent on public relief University’s department of International Relations. With over 90 civil society and federal works programmes under President Roosevelt’s New Deal (a organisations as members, the Rapid Transition Alliance seeks to show that, If we are to build series of public works projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted when societies and governments put their minds to it, dramatic and positive during the recovery from the Great Depression). This amounted to around change is possible. Crucially, many of the lessons learned from historical back better and 3.5% of US GDP at that time and would have been the equivalent of examples of rapid change, apply to the current Covid-19-induced crisis. £50 billion a year in the UK in the 2008 post-financial crisis period. The pandemic has exposed the frailties of our food systems. Just-in-time greener, we need to Although it might feel as though we are in unchartered territory, production and complex global supply chains don’t respond well to shocks, we actually know quite a lot about when change happens and how to whatever the cause, and are reliant on the widespread use of fossil fuels. In do things differently accelerate it. Firstly, we need bold leadership. There is a key role for the vacuum left by recently disrupted supply chains, many regions are governments in setting targets, building ownership, convening key actors and experimenting with sourcing more goods from local producers. It is both a way and to challenge using all levers of state power to support positive change. of boosting local economies and improving the sustainability of food systems. business-as-usual. Bold At the time of writing, Spain is proposing an impressive draft climate law We need bold In the Belgian city of Liège, for example, local groups have developed a which includes a proposed timetable for the administration ‘to divest from any food-earth belt named the Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise (CATL) to source ideas often emerge holdings in companies or organisations whose activities include the leadership. There local food from across the Southern region of Wallonia. Once put in place, extraction, refining or processing of energy products of fossil origin.’ This it could create 44,000 jobs and generate €3.9 billion by feeding 3.5 million in crisis settings. comes on the back of other countries agreeing to leave fossil fuels in the is a key role for people with food grown on one-third of the area’s agricultural land. ground, from New Zealand and France to Costa Rica and Belize. We have also learned that working from home, online meetings and Secondly, we need different entry points. It’s not all about climate change. governments in setting webinars mean we can successfully reduce unnecessary travel. This forced Job security, health, wellbeing and community resilience offer ways to experiment in remote working could help us chart ways to reduce our highlight and deliver on the co-benefits of action for sustainability. Climate targets, building emissions in the battle against climate change, as some cities are doing by change wasn’t the main driver for ’s solar mission; neither was it for implementing cycle lanes and car-free zones. retrofitting homes, which was about bringing down energy bills and creating ownership, convening The oil economy has been shaken to its foundations, if only temporarily. jobs, or going for car-free city centres which is mainly about reducing chronic But the necessity to reduce our use of fossil fuels – if we are to hit the Paris levels of air pollution. key actors and using Climate Agreement targets and keep the world below 1.5 degrees Celcius Thirdly, perceptions of a fair share are key. These were crucial to the all levers of state warming – makes the argument for capitalising on the plummeting prices of success of war-time rationing. Transitions need to be just if they are to be renewable energy stack up even more. This could boost our energy security socially acceptable. In the current context, think of frequent flying and the power to support and the sustainability of our energy systems, as well as underpin measures to need to target the 15% of the UK population who are collectively responsible help tackle energy poverty through better insulation and retrofits of houses. for 80% of aviation emissions. positive change. But sustainability is not just about the environment. It also has social and So, if we are to build back better and greener, we need to do things economic dimensions. We know that one of the reasons the coronavirus was differently and to challenge business-as-usual. Bold ideas often emerge in able to spread so rapidly is because people on insecure contracts with no job crisis settings. The Green New Deal first emerged after the financial crisis of security felt the need to keep working, even when unwell and without proper 2007-8 and the original New Deal was a post-war economic solution. Can the protection. We know poorer and more marginalised black and ethnic minority current climate emergency become a mobilising moment to build a more groups have been harder hit with ill-health and deaths. They need to be the sustainable future? In a way, it has to – for all our sakes. first beneficiaries of any concerted efforts to build back better and greener. As supporters of the Green New Deal (a proposed package of US legislation that aims to address climate change and economic inequality) argue, programmes for re-training workers for jobs in the green economy and targeted support for local businesses paid for through taxes on pollution, could transform the economy for the better. It would also redirect the $10 million that gets spent every minute on fossil fuel subsidies.

38 FEATURES | MAKING SUSTAINABILITY THE ‘NEW NORMAL’ 39 We asked, ‘What would you do if a girl came into school with bruises?’ The interpretations of that situation were so different amongst a group of young people.

What do you wish you’d known when you were about the awkwardness of asking to put one Matilda saw bravery in the pupils too. “When younger? That’s the question at the heart of on – the conversations and the feelings that you break into small groups, they let their guard the Role Models project. Set up at the surround the situation, not just the biological down a little bit and show real courage in front Students’ Union in 2015, the initiative brings side,” explains Matilda. of their peers, saying things they might normally University of Sussex students and secondary Learning how to express thoughts and feelings feel are taboo.” school pupils together to discuss and reflect on on challenging subjects can have a wider impact In 2019, the practical skills Matilda gained topics such as healthy relationships, media on resilience from adolescence into adulthood. influenced her to co-found Split Banana with literacy and mental health. With the support of Niranjan sees how “these skills that you pick up Anna Alexander, a 2018 Fellow on the Year project coordinator (Sociology – healthy dialogue and relationships – are critical Here programme. The social enterprise delivers 2015) and assistant Al Casey (Psychology to how you cope with setbacks.” inclusive and relevant relationship and sex 2012), the trained student volunteers plan and Niranjan is excited to be working education to young people, as well as teacher facilitate in-school sessions, working in both collaboratively with the project on his training and co-creation workshops with adults. small groups and one-to-one. The project also dissertation research. “We’ll be looking to Thinking back to her most memorable runs elective modules with the School of unpack the journey of the volunteers on this conversation during the project, Matilda recalls Education and Social Work. programme, from understanding what a discussion with four year-nine boys, in which For Matilda Lawrence-Jubb, who grew up in motivated them to what this experience means they used emoji cards to identify their feelings London, the social pressures of being a for their personal development and how they in response to given situations. “We asked, teenager made for a tricky time. “Being a see this within the broader context of their role ‘What would you do if a girl came into school teenager is tough! You’re coming face-to-face as agents of social change,” he says. with bruises?’ The interpretations of that with so many experiences for the first time and Both Niranjan and Matilda recognise how situation were so different amongst a group of you feel totally inadequate,” she says. the university years can bring their own young people who were growing up in very After university, Matilda spent time working challenges, such as adjusting to the academic different contexts. That was really powerful A little more in a sixth-form college as part of the action- workload and making friends in a new place. because, if you’re not having these oriented postgraduate programme Year Here. Though “learning lots” while taking modules in conversations, then who is?” Although returning to a school setting felt like a areas like postcolonial literature and big deal to start with, she embraced the experimental writing, Matilda found being a opportunity, thinking at the time, “This is my Role Models volunteer “a breath of fresh air.” conversation responsibility, to go back in to share what I She says, “It made me feel more like a member know now and to help give young people the of the Brighton community than I did before.” tools and skills they need to get through Niranjan, who completed his undergraduate difficult situations.” studies in India, experienced a transition from Niranjanraj Ramasundaram, known as the start-up space he worked in as a recent Niranjan, is a Masters student from Mumbai. graduate to the development sector. He’s Through the Role Models project, Sussex students are opening up He initially worried that he wouldn’t have bringing this thinking to the project, by first discussions about difficult topics with young people in local schools. enough in common with fellow Role Models “understanding the context of people’s lived volunteers or pupils. He soon realised that experiences, recognising them as the experts Alumna Matilda Lawrence-Jubb (English Literature 2017) and shared experiences across India and the UK of their life, and then looking to co-create were plentiful. “There’s this crucial period from knowledge and/or interventions with them.” current student Niranjanraj Ramasundaram (Development ages 14 to 18 where there’s a sense that this For him as well, Role Models is a meaningful In 2019/20, the Role Models volunteer is your make or break period – there’s a lot way to engage with young people – through a programme was funded by the Office for Studies MA 2019) share their experiences as Role Models volunteers. of pressure.” tried and tested participatory approach – and to Students through the Sussex Learning WORDS BY MOLLY WHYTE Both especially see the value in talking more forge connections with other volunteers. Putting about sex and relationships, including gender this into practice takes courage. “You’ve Network as part of the Uni Connect expression and sexuality. “It’s like you’re taught studied something but now it’s about going out programme, the Blagrave Trust and the how to use a condom, but you’re not taught there and executing it,” Niranjan says. University of Sussex.

40 BACK PAGES | A LITTLE MORE CONVERSATION BACK PAGES | A LITTLE MORE CONVERSATION 41 After years of fundraising and construction, THE SOUNDS OF SUSSEX ALUMNI MEMORIES OUR BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PARTNERSHIP the Gardner Arts Centre opened with a concert In October 2019, a new music recording studio A wonderful place. Apart from attending various opened at Attenborough Centre for the Creative productions over the years, it was here that I Looking to the future, we will continue our by the London Mozart Players on 12 November, Arts for use by students, researchers, visiting had my first photographic exhibition. As a young partnership with Brighton Festival – University 1969. Here, we share some 50th anniversary artists and eventually the local community. It undergraduate, the support I received from the of Sussex is a major sponsor of the festival – was named the Jonathan Harvey Electronic team there was invaluable in kick-starting my alongside many other festivals and highlights and a selection of alumni memories. Music Studio after Jonathan Harvey (pictured, passion. organisations in the city. Artists featured in working in his office), who was Professor of DAVID BIDDLECOMBE (ENGG 1978) past editions of Brighton Festival include Doris Music at University of Sussex from 1977 to Lessing who appeared in the literature 1993. Jonathan Harvey was a pioneer in the The first entirely student production was programme in 2004 and Jaamil Olawale field of electronic music, and it is a fitting Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden. Kosoko, who performed in Séancers in 2019. testament to his legacy that the room he used Michael Attenborough and were Presented in association with The Marlborough as a studio during his tenure has been amongst the leading lights. Jim was the model Pub & Theatre as part of a project called Black MARKING 50 YEARS refurbished and named in his honour. for the poster I produced which, sort of Joy, Séancers was conceived, convened by and The launch event was organised by Dr Evelyn flatteringly, disappeared from quite a lot of centred Black artists in a series of Curated by Laura McDermott, Creative Director Ficarra (ENGAM 1982) and included sound sites before the performances even started. performances, workshops, residencies and a Flights of at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, installations, compositions, DJ sets and a FRITZ CURZON (EURO 1966) three-day gathering held at Attenborough the autumn 2019 season included To the Moon, concert featuring (CCS 1992) Centre for the Creative Arts. a virtual reality piece created by Laurie and the punk band Squid. [I remember] a Macbeth in 1977/78. All the Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang that Squid band member Arthur Leadbetter characters wore identical tracksuits with a responded to the 50th anniversary of the moon (Music 2013) said, “I’m so happy this building little embroidered crown logo depending who historic fancy is in its best action ever, and that the music was king. It was my first Macbeth and I was landing in 1969; a concert and film screening on World Kindness Day by New Note Orchestra department here is flourishing. Long live so confused! (a local addiction recovery orchestra) organised Sussex.” JESSICA NORRIE (EURO 1977) by Professor Robin Banerjee; and a 48-hour film challenge for University of Sussex students, ORCHESTRAL FINALE I performed here as a visiting third year student organised by Dr Joanna Callaghan in in 1971/72. A wonderful production written by collaboration with the CINECITY film festival. The 50th anniversary season concluded with a Amit Sen called Coral/West… Very avant-garde Return visits by seminal performance special performance by the University of to say the least! Does anyone remember Ubu companies who have performed in the building Sussex Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Roi performed in the courtyard, where we sailed over the years included Forced Entertainment Professor Ed Hughes and featuring Shin off in a boat in the moat? The most fun! and Stan’s Café, who brought a special Suzuma (Music Informatics 2008) playing the ROBIN KRIEGER (ENGAM 1971) 1969-2019 version of their legendary piano. The orchestra recreated the repertoire of performance installation Of All The People In All a concert given by the University of Sussex The World. orchestra in 1969: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Stravinsky’s Symphony in C. The programme notes for the original concert were written by the author Ian McEwan CBE (English 1967), when he was an undergraduate student. Ian joined us for the evening and read some of his work aloud – also sharing anecdotes from his memory of the concert 50 years previously where, dramatically, a timpani drum unbalanced 1 and bounced across the stage.

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42 BACK PAGES | FLIGHTS OF HISTORIC FANCY 43 Mentoring matters

We are enormously grateful to the hundreds of dedicated and inspirational alumni who volunteer their time for Sussex, sharing their wealth of expertise and skills with our students and alumni community. Here, we focus on mentoring and introduce you to some of our committed volunteers. WORDS BY RACHEL DYSON

Alumni volunteers contribute a huge amount While studying at Sussex, Aydan was not to Sussex. Overseas, our alumni consuls act part of an official mentoring programme. as ambassadors for the University, wherever However, he is grateful to two of his tutors in they live, and are a contact point for alumni, particular – one from his BA and another from students and prospective students. Closer his MA – with whom he organically developed a It is a great to home, many alumni return to campus to mentor/mentee-like relationship. He has also give talks and help students as they approach seen the immediate benefit of these sorts of the start of their careers. Online, on Sussex relationships through the ‘buddy’ programme way to give Connect, thousands of alumni have indicated at Capgemini, in which new members of the that they are willing to help students and other graduate scheme are linked with someone something back alumni by acting as mentors, opening doors ahead of them on a similar path. Having been at their place of work or providing industry- matched from day one with a buddy who also and benefit too. specific advice. graduated from Sussex, Aydan has now in turn One such volunteer is Aydan Richards. Aydan become a buddy to a new graduate, and sees left Sussex in 2018, with a BA in Languages the value of these partnerships from both and Linguistics and an MA in International sides. Marketing, to take up his place as an SAP When asked what motivates him to Applications Consultant at Capgemini. volunteer for Sussex, he says that he wants to In February 2020, Aydan returned to Sussex maintain his connection to the University. to appear on a panel at our Make It Happen Aydan formed solid friendships here and has talk for students interested in a career in enjoyed having opportunities to come back to business, marketing and finance, where he campus regularly. shared his experience of being on a graduate To anyone considering becoming a Sussex scheme and some tips for those thinking of alumni volunteer, he says “Do it! One hundred applying. Aydan has also undertaken training for per cent. It is a great way to give something the Business School’s alumni-student back and benefit too.” » mentoring scheme and is looking forward to working with a student mentee once they have been matched. In addition, through Sussex Connect, Aydan has volunteered to answer questions specific to his industry and make introductions to people in his network.

ABOVE: (L-R) Alumni speakers Polly Gilbert, Yiheng Yu, Molly Masters, Aydan Richards and Nikhill Gopal at Make it Happen, February 2020.

LEFT: Aydan and students in the networking session of Make it Happen, February 2020.

44 BACK PAGES | MENTORING MATTERS BACK PAGES | MENTORING MATTERS 45 A MATCH MADE ON affects the mentee. One can form a life-long SUSSEX CONNECT relationship through the mentoring process. To anyone considering volunteering as a Sussex Prateek Sureka (Technology and Innovation Connect mentor, I say, do it.” Policy 2008) and Sandi Gendi (Law 2017) For Sandi, “often, students want someone became mentor and mentee through using already in the field of work to help them Sussex Connect, our exclusive online transition from student life to their professional professional development platform for Sussex life. Since meeting Prateek and working with students and alumni. him as his mentee, I have landed interviews in Having been a Law Student Mentor in her policy-focused, development-driven positions and I’m now an Intern with Friendship final year, Sandi knew how valuable the Age of Plastic Trade Bites experience can be for both parties and what Ambassadors Foundation, a global NGO she was looking for in a mentor. Sandi associated with the United Nations Department searched the directory to find suitable alumni of Global Communications, ECOSOC and who were “willing to help” and approached a UNESCO. I would not have been able to land few people before finding the right match in this position without his help and guidance. Prateek. They both feel that they have benefited “Mentors really can help students change greatly from their partnership. their lives, as I have found with my current “The experience as a mentor has been mentor. More than that, mentors can become Books that Matter Nudge extremely rewarding, and I cannot think of a dear friends as they continue to help you.” better way to pay it forward,” says Prateek. Sandi graduated from University of Sussex “Becoming a mentor has helped me to expand in 2019 with a Bachelor of Law with Business my horizon. I have been inspired by the capacity and Management. that the mentees have for taking risks. The Prateek is the Political-Economic Specialist relationships have prompted me to remember at the US Consulate General in Toronto. He holds an MSc in Technology and Innovation that every person’s story has many hidden COVID-19: Borderscapes layers around perseverance, success and Policy from the University of Sussex and a joint Business in Focus failure. The idea that we get to be part of from the London School of someone else’s life and help them to succeed Economics and the University of in early on should be considered a privilege. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy. “My biggest take away from my mentoring experience is that everyone has their own stories of trials and triumphs of the job-hunting process. Like peeling the layers off an onion, there are some tears along the way. The mentoring relationship is not just about the job Expand your network, seek a mentor search, but about understanding the isolation or offer to help others by joining that comes from starting anew and how it Sussex Connect at www.sussexconnect.org Alumni library

PODCASTS BOOKS

ANDREA FOX (ENGLISH AND MEDIA HANDE ÇAYIR (JOURNALISM AND DEAN ATTA (PHILOSOPHY AND STUDIES 2003), Age of Plastic. This podcast DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE 2018), ENGLISH 2003), The Black Flamingo, is for people who care about the planet. Each Documentary as Autoethnography: A Case Study Hachette UK. Partly written whilst in residence episode tackles a specific issue on how we can Based on the Changing Surnames of Women, on campus in 2019, Dean’s second book uses live more sustainably. Vernon Press. Women in Turkey are legally verse to tell the story of a boy who comes to MOLLY MASTERS (ENGLISH 2015), required to change their surnames when they terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen Books That Matter. An offshoot of Molly’s marry. If they divorce, and wish to continue and then finds his wings as a drag artist. award-winning feminist box subscription service, using their ex-husband’s surname, they must LIAM HACKETT (BUSINESS the Books That Matter podcast discusses seek permission from both him and the state. MARKETING 2009), Fearless! How to be women and literature, featuring interviews with Hande explores how such policies affect Your True, Confident Self, Scholastic. Founder of diverse authors and feminist icons. women and their rights. anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label, Liam Mentors really can PHILLIP AGNEW (MARKETING AND HILARY COTTAM (DEVELOPMENT Hackett draws on interviews with inspirational MANAGEMENT 2002), Nudge. Phillip’s STUDIES 1991), Radical Help: How We Can people who have gone against the grain. psychology podcast explores what a 1960s Remake the Relationships Between Us and Fearless! explores how the stereotypes we hold help students change murder can teach us about marketing today, Revolutionise the Welfare State, Virago Books. influence everything, from how we feel about and why marketers pay more to show you ads Bringing welfare reform into the modern era, our bodies to our career aspirations. their lives, as I have when you’re happy. Radical Help argues that our 20th century JULIAN SAYARER (INTERNATIONAL ROWENA MORRIS (PRODUCT system is beyond reform and suggests that we RELATIONS 2004), Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling found with my DESIGN 2007), COVID-19: Business in need to think differently about how we support Through Israel and Palestine, Arcadia Books. Focus. Rowena hosts PwC UK’s podcast series, the young, the old, the unwell and those Ten years after breaking a world record for current mentor. inviting industry experts to look at the steps seeking work. cycling around the world, award-winning travel businesses can take to stay resilient as the GILL HASSON (SOCIAL writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels world responds and adapts to the virus. ANTHROPOLOGY 1997), Put Your Worries and takes to the roads of Israel and occupied Trade Bites. A podcast series from the UK Away (Kids Can Cope series), Free Spirit Palestine. Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Publishing. All children worry sometimes and Sussex about global trade policy, including they often need help learning how to deal with and the world trading system. anxiety. In this picture book, young readers Borderscapes. Produced by students on the learn ways to help themselves when they feel Sussex’s MA podcasting module, Borderscapes anxious, nervous or fearful. looks at issues of crossing lines, starting with See more podcasts and publications ABOVE: Sandi Gendi stories from three women in self-isolation. authored by alumni in the past year at LEFT: Prateek Sureka www.sussex.ac.uk/falmer

46 BACK PAGES | MENTORING MATTERS BACK PAGES | ALUMNI LIBRARY 47 In 2019, nearly 12,000 of you responded to our Alumni Survey, telling us how you’d like to stay connected with us – and with each other. Your views will continue to inform our engagement planning into the future. Thank you to everyone who took part. Here are some highlights… Here’s looking at you

You can update your details at any time in the alumni portal at alumni.sussex.ac.uk and send your views to [email protected]

Figures indicate the proportion of respondents to postal and email survey, October 2019.

46 BACK PAGES | HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU Sussex teaches how we can move from a linear model – in which we take from the earth, make something from it and then dispose of it – to a circular model that is restorative and regenerative by design.

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