Find contact details for services in General Counsel, Governance and Compliance.
- Governance Services
Provides secretariat and support services to Council, the Executive, the Committees of Council, Senate and ULT.
- Phone:+44 (0)1273 876912
- Email: l.spenceley@sussex.ac.uk
- General Counsel Legal Advisers
Provides in-house legal advice to the University.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 876912
- Email: generalcounsel@sussex.ac.uk
- Information Management and Compliance
Provides data protection advice and ensures compliance with data protection legislation, handles Freedom of Information and data subject requests (e.g. subject access requests, requests for erasure of records, etc) and third party requests for personal data, and responds to other organisational information management requests.
The Head of Information Management & Compliance is also the University's Data Protection Officer.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 678472
- Email: dpo@sussex.ac.uk for data subject requests, third party requests for personal data, or to report data breaches.
- Email: gdpr@sussex.ac.uk for general data protection/GDPR queries or GDPR e-learning queries.
- Email: FOI@sussex.ac.uk for Freedom of Information requests.
- Risk and Business Continuity Management
Provides institutional risk assessments and maintains the University's Risk Register; supports organisational resilience, emergency incident planning and business continuity planning.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 678734
- Email: B.P.Toogood@sussex.ac.uk
- Prevent Compliance
Provides guidance on compliance with the Prevent Duty, approval of external speakers and a point of contact for community liaison.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 873855
- Email: l.spenceley@sussex.ac.uk
- Office for Students (OfS) Compliance
Manages all responses to the OfS including consultations, data returns and reportable events. Additionally, maintains oversight of the compliance matrix to ensure continued institutional compliance with the OfS Conditions of registration.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 873855
- Email: l.spenceley@sussex.ac.uk