PhD Forum
Extended workshop for postgraduate researchers.
Research events
Find out about the conferences, workshops and talks you could attend. We also run seminars and flagship lectures.
Research Seminars: Spring 2026
Bookings are now open for our Spring 2026 seminars. Register your place below.
- Economics Departmental Seminar
Wednesday 4 February: Zahra Siddique – University of Bristol
Extreme weather events and child marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
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Wednesday 11 February: Sarah Cattan – IFS
Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale
(Co-authored with Gabriella Conti and Christine Farquharson)
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Wednesday 18 February: Mei Dong – University of Melbourne
Product Cycles and the Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidence
(Co-authored with Toshiaki Shoji and Yuki Teranishi)Register via
Wednesday 25 February: Tusher Bharati – University of Western Australia
Choosing When to Work: The Productivity Effects of Flexible Scheduling
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Wednesday 4 March: Brigitte Roth Tran – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Flooding the Market? How hurricanes impact home listings
(Co-authored with Brian Seok)
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Wednesday 11 March: Marion Leroutier - ENSAE
The Local Effects of Coal Plant Closures: Evidence from the UK
(Co-authored with Lucie Gadenne, Rodrigo Toneto and Bobbie Upton)Register via
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 21 January: Laurence Dessart – HEC, Liege, Belgium
Too much of a good thing: Immersion, Interactivity, and Decision Fatigue in Virtual Reality
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Wednesday 4 February: Johann Fortwengel - King's College London
Recategorisation as a competitive tool: Lessons from African law firms
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Wednesday 25 February: Frank Wijen - KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business
The impact of trade associations on climate change adaptation in the wine industry
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics (SAFE)
Monday 16 February: Javier Husillos – University of Navarra
When Contribution Matters
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Research Seminars: Autumn 2025
- Business Finance
Wednesday 26 November: Kevin Amess – Nottingham University Business School
Property Rights, Government Expropriation, and Incentives to Innovate
(Co-authored with Kun Jiang and Xiyi Yang)Register via
- Circular Economy
Tuesday 25 November: Samuli Patala - Aalto School of Business
Governing Circular Resource Use: How Institutions Shape Collective Action for Circular Economy Across Systems
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- Creative and Digital Industries
Wednesday 19 November: Organised by: The Mobiliser in Creative and Digital Economy at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ Business School in collaboration with the Sussex School for Progressive Futures. Supported by
Creative Futures: Harnessing Sustainability in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Panellists:
- Prof. Elisa Salvador, ESSCA, Paris (Book Co-editor)
- Prof. Ilaria Pappalepore, Westminster Business School (Book Co-editor)
- Prof. Caroline Lucas, Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability, Sussex School for Progressive Futures; former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
- Jon Linstrum, Senior Relationship Manager and Environmental Responsibility South East lead, Arts Council England
- Angus Light, Co-Founder and Exec Producer at Locate Productions; member of Creatives for Climate
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- Economics
Wednesday 1 October: Siwan Anderson - University of British Columbia
The persistence of female political power in Africa
(Co-authored with Sophia Du Plessis, Sahar Parsa and James Robinson)Register via
Wednesday 8 October: Evan Friedman – Paris School of Economics
Deception Aversion
(Co-authored with Bela Elmshauser and Yoon Joo Jo)Register via
Wednesday 15 October: Shengmao Cao – Kellogg School of Management
Price Controls with Imperfect Competition and Choice Frictions: Evidence from Indian Pharmaceuticals
(Co-authored with Harsh Gupta)Register via
Wednesday 22 October: Suleyman Gozen – University of Bristol
Intangible Capital Meets Skilled Labor: The Implications for Productivity Dynamics
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Wednesday 29 October: Pia Pinger – University of Cologne
How to attract talent? Field-experimental evidence on emphasizing flexibility and career opportunities in job advertisements
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Wednesday 5 November: Torsten Figueiredo Walter – New York University Abu Dhabi
Endogenous Sample Selection
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Wednesday 12 November: Alex Bryson – UCL
Unions in Developing Countries
(Co-authored with Mari Tanaka, University of Tokyo/Hitotsubashi University)Register via
Wednesday 3 December: Marie-Louise Vierø – Aarhus University
Measurements of Attitudes toward Unawareness
(Co-authored with Edi Karni)Register via
Wednesday 10 December: Frikk Nesje – University of Copenhagen
Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality
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- Energy
- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 15 October: James M Crick – University of Leicester
Managing Export Coopetition Activities: Evidence from the Global Wine Industry
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Wednesday 19 November: S. Tamer Cavusgil – Georgia State University
Missteps in Executive Decision Making: Why Do Business Leaders Repeat Mistakes?
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Wednesday 10 December: Noemi Sinkovics – Newcastle University Business School
Applications of Multi-Stage Pattern Matching in Qualitative Research
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- SPRU
Friday 10 October: Erik Millstone – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Understanding how science and politics interact: in theory and in practice
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Friday 17 October: Kevin Mulligan - Queens University Belfast
To repeat or not to repeat R&D grants to firms: That is the question
(Co-authored with Helena Lenihan, Mauricio Perez-Alaniz, Christian Rammer and Alexander Ehrlich)Register via
Friday 7 November: Aldo Geuna – University of Turin
Opening the R&D network: Global academic knowledge sourcing at AstraZeneca
(Co-authored with Claudio Fassio, Pauline Mattsson and Ioana Igna)Register via
Friday 14 November: Philip Cohen – University of Maryland
Authoritarian Pronatalism and the Pyrrhic Defeat
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Friday 21 November: Michael E Rose – Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition
Tracing the Flow of Knowledge from Science to Technology Using Deep Learning
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- Strategy and Marketing
Wednesday 5 November: Mario Campana – University of Bath School of Management and Thomas Derek Robinson, Bayes Business School
Consumer culture, identity and the marketplace
Mario Campana will present: The Value of Transgender Consumers in the Marketplace
Thomas Anderson will present: Had It Happened Otherwise: Imagined Consumer Identities in Male Midlife CrisisRegister via
- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics (SAFE)
Friday 4 September: Yang Ding – Carlos III University
Between Transparency and Privacy: Investor Identity Verification and the Demand for Crypto Tokens
(Co-authored with Vedran Capkun & Pepa Kraft)Register via
Tuesday 14 October: Niclas Meyer – Hanken School of Economics
Insider Trading Around Environmental Lawsuits
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Tuesday 27 November: Giray Gozgor – University of Bradford
Firm-Level Geopolitical Risk and the Temporal Dynamics of Bank Debt: Global Evidence
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Research Seminars: Spring 2025
- Accounting & Society
Friday 23 May: Trevor Hopper – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Sorting the Wood from the Trees: Corruption in a Forestry Department in Pakistan
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Thursday 5 June: Pawan Adhikari – University of Essex
Social Equity in the Absence of Social Equity Budgeting: Women Empowerment in Developing Countries
(Co-authored with Md Salah Uddin Rajib, Khandakar Shahadat, and Ileana Steccolini)
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Monday 9 June: Ataur Belal – University of Birmingham
Translation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the organisational level: some empirical evidence
In-person in Jub-G32 and onlineRegister via
Monday 9 June: Ataur Belal – University of Birmingham
Are Green Bonds Special?
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Tuesday 17 June: Lisa Jack – University of Portsmouth
No longer marginal: persuasive accounting communication and the growing cost of returns from online shopping
(Co-authored with Regina Frei,Sally-Ann Kryzaniakand Princely Dibia)
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Thursday 10 July: Teerooven Soobaroyen – Aston University
Investigating IFRS adoption in the Francophone African Region: Who benefits?
(Co-authored with Cédrick Nzokouo Mouafo and Vincent Tawiah)Register via
- Business Finance
Thursday 10 April: Chandra Thapa – University of Strathclyde
Financial Market Perception and Climate Political Leadership
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Thursday 22 May: Yassine Bakkar – Queen’s University Belfast
Heterogeneous macroprudential policies and corporate financing decisions
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Tuesday 29 April: David Greenfield - Chartered Institution of Waste Management and the Circular Economy Institute
The Circular Economy Strategy for England – Implications for Research and Practice
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Tuesday 3 June: Shova Thapa Karki, Sung Kyu Kim, Paul Poornan, and Andrew Godley – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ, Andre Viljoen - University of Brighton and Ali Ghanimi - Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
Shova Thapa Karki and Andre Viljoen - Circular food initiatives and continuous productive urban landscapes - A critical reflection on the potential to scale circular initiatives for systemic change in city regionAli Ghanimi - Food Strategy and the circular economy: The context of Brighton and Hove  
Sung Kyu Kim - Rwanda's agri-food sector and circular economy: A case study of circular business model innovation
Paul Poornan and Andrew Godley - The antecedents of circular economy thinking in successive restructuring of the British animal feeds sector, 1860-1914.
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- Consumer Wellbeing
Friday 9 May: Wellbeing@Sussex Mini-Conference, 3rd edition
(In-person only in Jub-G32)
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Thursday 13 March: Danilo Correa-Dantas & Fei Gao; Renaud Legoux & Chloe Vanasse – HEC Montreal
The Posthumous Completion of Artworks; Beyond discounts: The effect of symbolic special-day promotions on product sales
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- Economics
Wednesday 15 January: Eric French – University of Cambridge
Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings: Understanding the Mechanisms
(Co-authored with Uta Bolt, Varun Warrier, Qianyu Yang, and Weilong Zhang)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 22 January: Lucie Gadenne – Queen Mary University, London
When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending
(Co-authored with Noemie Pinardon-Touati and Kim Fe Cramer)
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Wednesday 29 January: Abu Siddique – Royal Holloway University of London
Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony
(Co-authored with Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou)
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Wednesday 26 February: Anirban Mitra – University of Kent
Political Dynasties and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from India
(Co-authored with Anders Kjelsrud and Arnab Mukherji)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 5 March: Andrew Clark – PSE
Return-to-Office Mandates, Health and Well-being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Monday 17 March: Adam Soliman – Clemson University
What Fueled the Illicit Opioid Epidemic?
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Wednesday 19 March: Anna Bindler – DIW Berlin & University of Potsdam
Labor Demand and Workforce Diversity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Co-authored with Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys and Luisa Santiago Wolf)
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Wednesday 26 March: Mirabelle Muuls – Imperial
Building virtual power plants to reduce emissions and increase economic efficiency
(Co-authored with Shefali Khanna and Ralf Martin)Register via
Wednesday 2 April: Michela Tincani – UCL
How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions
(Co-authored with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino)Register via
Wednesday 21 May: Ludovica Gazze – University of Warwick
Is traffic bad for business? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge Zone
(Co-authored with Marta Santamaria)Register via
Wednesday 28 May: Tim Obermeier – University of Leicester
The Marriage Market, Wage Risk and Tax Progressivity
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 4 June: Paul Sharp – University of Southern Denmark
When London Burned to Sticks: The Economic Impact of the Great Fire of 1666
(Co-authored with Ager, Philipp & Pedersen, Maja U. & Tsoukli, Xanthi)in-person in G32 and online
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- Energy
- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 22 January: Nicole Coviello – Wilfrid Laurier University
A Nested View of Firm Internationalization
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Wednesday 5 February: Ari Van Assche – HEC Montréal
Impact Investing as a Safeguard against Institutional Hazards
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Wednesday 19 March: Prof Ursula F. Ott - Nottingham Trent University and Prof Stewart Miller - Durham University
International Business Research and Configurational Analysis
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Wednesday 2 April: Michael Mol - Copenhagen Business School and Selorm Agbleze - University of Leeds
Navigating Alternative Sources of Legitimacy in Times of Extreme Uncertainty: How Multiple Aspirations Interact to Influence Firm Formalization
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- Management
Friday 11 July: Séverine Louvel – Sciences Po Grenoble – Université Grenoble Alpes
Automating medical diagnosis? The Genomics of Rare Diseases in France
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- SPRU
Friday 21 February: Paula Kivimaa – Finnish Environment Institute
Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions Interplay between Energy, Security, and Defence Policies in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Scotland
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 14 March: Benjamin Sovacool – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
The drivers, barriers, and benefits of geoengineering technologies for net-zero transitions
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Tuesday 18 March: Rodrigo Frias – Durham University Business School
Entrepreneurship Policies: Rethinking Growth and Inclusion
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 21 March: Michael Hopkins – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Supporting and evaluating early-stage translational research in the life sciences
(Co-authored withMoon, JR; Ibanez, FI; Jones, KM; Moore DA and James Bates)In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 28 March: Adrian Ely – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
50 years after Asilomar: the past, present and potential futures of GMOs in the environment
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 4 April: Jin Ding and Paul Martin – University of Sheffield
From Blockbuster to Nichebuster: Changing Markets and Firm Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry
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Friday 11 April: Juliane Schwarz – University of Birmingham
Net Zero Innovation in Business Support: The UK Catapult Network
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 9 May: Matthew Agarwala - ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Environmentally-adjusted productivity measures for the UK
(Co-authored with J. Martin)
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Friday 16 May: Marie Claire Brisbois - ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Energy security through demand reduction: shifting the security paradigm
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Wednesday 28 May: Madhulika Banerjee - University of Delhi
Pluriversal Knowledges and the Planetary Polycrisis: Balancing the Cognitive and the Material
Inperson in Jub-G32 and online
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Friday 30 May: Jingyuan Zeng – LSE
The making of high-tech clusters: Evidence from corporate R&D labs in America
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Wednesday 18 June: Rajesh Gopalakrishnan Nair - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
How do major shifts in STI policy take place: the making and breaking of STI narrative
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- Strategy and Marketing
Wednesday 9 April: Yu-Shan Huang and Xin He - University of Central Florida
When Green Companies Cultivate Non-Green Consumers: The Role of Delegability in Pro- Environmental Behavior
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Wednesday 14 May: Luigi De Luca – University of Cardiff Business School
Public Value Innovation: Key Features and Research Directions
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Wednesday 21 May: Andrew Crane – University of Bath
Corporate socio-political (in)activism on the issue of immigration
(Co-authored with Zena Al-Esia, Kostas Iatridis, and Ayse Yorgancioglu)
In-person in Jub-G32 and online
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Wednesday 19 March: Shoaib Ahmed – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
Silence of accountability in the age of ‘Doliocracy’
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Thursday 27 March: John Ferguson – University of St Andrews
Field Structuration and the Emergence of the ‘Due Diligence’ Professional
(Co-authored with Marisa McVey and Beata Faracik)Register via
Wednesday 9 April: Chandana Alawattage – University of Glasgow
Epistemological politics: the case of accounting research
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Thursday 8 May: Tracy Wang – Australian National University
The Impact of Corporate Takeover Activities on Analyst Optimism: Evidence from International Mergers and Acquisitions Laws
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Wednesday 21 May: Matthew Agarwala - ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Ó°ÊÓ
New Perspectives in Global Carbon Accounting
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Tuesday 3 June: Jiaying Li – Norwegian School of Economics
Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains: Evidence from Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Tuesday 17 June: Wali Ullah – Flinders University
Regional Social Capital, Environmental Management Control Systems and Firm-level Environmental Outcomes: Cross-country Evidence
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