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Service details
Claire Potter is Director of Research & Innovation.
- Research Development
Supports academics applying for external research funding, including grants and commercial funding: liaison with funders, dissemination of funding opportunities, project costing and application review, internal demand management and peer review, institutional approvals, interview preparation, negotiation of awards.
Visit the Research Development website. - Sussex Research Initiatives
Provides support and manages Sussex internal funding schemes, including the Strategic Development Fund relating to research programmes.
Find out more about Sussex Research. - Research Contracts
Drafts, reviews and negotiate Research Contracts and collaboration agreements, including sub-contracts for funded research.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 873753
- Email: contracts.instructions@sussex.ac.uk
- Research Finance
Manages post award grants and contracts including funder reporting and audit.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 872992
- Email: research-finance@sussex.ac.uk
- Research Quality and Impact
Co-ordinates Research Excellence Framework (REF) preparations and supports the development and promotion of research impact.
- Phone: +44(0)1273 678363
- Email: rqi@sussex.ac.uk
- Research Integrity, Ethics and Governance
Co-ordinates ethical approval processes, research governance and research integrity policies. Also supports investigations into allegations of research misconduct.
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 872748
- Email: rgoffice@sussex.ac.uk
Browse Research, Integrity, Ethics and Governance. - Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRO)
Provides professional research management support from grant application to set up for clinical research studies within the NHS, across the Universities of Sussex and Brighton, Brighton and Sussex Universty Hospitals Trust (BSUH) and Sussex Partnerships Foundation Trust (SPFT).
- Phone: +44 (0)1273 873758
- Email: jcro@sussex.ac.uk
- Research Information Systems
Responsible for the provision of management information about the University’s research, including bibliometrics and alternative metrics, as well as support for our research systems.
Find out more about Research Information and Systems. - Innovation & Business Partnerships
Facilitates the transfer of University knowledge to benefit all types of organisations, from multinational non-governmental organisations to local small and medium enterprises.
The team supports the development of partnerships, contract research, consultancy and knowledge exchange initiatives, and student entrepreneurship (with the Division of Student Experience).
The team also works closely with the Sussex Innovation Centre on commercialisation and local economic development initiatives.
Find out more about Innovation and Business Partnerships. - Sussex Researcher School
Collaborates with faculties, schools and professional services divisions across the University to enable the progression and development of emerging researchers. Encompasses undergraduate junior research associates (JRAs), postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs), providing support, structure, and connection.