Foreword
Associate Dean of Research
I’m delighted to write the first ever foreword for Boundless, our newly relaunched research magazine.
I really feel that Boundless is a fitting word to capture the Business School’s research. As you leaf through these pages, you’ll find almost no limit to our scope and ambition. We tackle the world’s greatest challenges – climate change and environmental sustainability, trade and global development, innovation, and the key problems and opportunities faced by managers in the world of work, finance, education, and healthcare.
A hallmark of our research at Sussex is that it traverses traditional academic boundaries to bring together expertise from multiple disciplines, mirroring how problems are solved outside academia. The central theme of our recent modern slavery research conference, ‘alternative paths’, illustrates the value we place on bringing together knowledge from diverse places to collectively make a difference to our society.
On a day-to-day basis, our researchers are imagining the future and striving to make it a place where we want to live. You’ll see in the following pages that this is a place where women and men are paid equally for their work, and where international trade strengthens public health rather than weakens it.
Indeed, ensuring research is integrated into practice and policy is integral to our jobs. This means that we regularly engage with industry and government to carve out a better future locally, nationally and internationally. A key part of that involves providing world-leading training for the next generation so they can move into good jobs and progress quickly into positions of responsibility.
We adapt and integrate our extensive research into our teaching, which is something that sets studying at Sussex apart. Our students are taught by passionate and enthusiastic lecturers: some are world leaders in their fields, and many are at the cutting-edge of the new ideas and concepts they are teaching. You’ll read about the power of storytelling for our students’ learning in this magazine, and the great impact that research translated into relatable, emotionally touching stories can have on the world.
Whether at your desk, on the train, or in the comfort of a favourite armchair, I hope you are energised by our latest work. In the meantime, we will continue to achieve our research goals, as always, with collaboration, courage, inclusion, integrity, kindness, openness – and boundless enthusiasm.