Meet Liz De Cort, who has joined the University within the Commercial Services team as Senior Catering Services Manager.

Liz will work collaboratively with all our catering providers in the future to ensure our catering colleagues’ offering aligns with both their contractual obligations and the needs of our community. Part of her remit will be to carry out regular reviews to ensure key milestones are met, particularly around sustainability and student and staff experience, along with agreed targets on cost, value, agility, innovation and service standards. 

Highlights of our new catering contract include a £25,000 Student Innovation Fund to be spent to enhance the catering offering on campus each year.

Liz will be working to introduce fresh ways to gather feedback from the community and will also work closely with the University of Sussex Students’ Union (USSU) and the team at IDS Bar & Kitchen to bring together all our food providers on campus.

And she will oversee the new £25,000 Sustainability Fund that will be spent in agreement with the University each year to help drive a more sustainable service at each outlet and reduce the carbon impact of the service across the campus as a whole.

We want your views

Would you like to be involved in our new foodie forums? We may ask you to take a quick survey from time to time to share your views, and you will be invited to join monthly in-person sessions to give us your feedback. If you would like to take part, please email bettercampus@sussex.ac.uk to join our list.

We really want to know what you think about these changes and our future service: you can email bettercampus@sussex.ac.uk with your views, or join the conversation on our dedicated food group on staff social network Viva Engage.