Alice Eldridge is working with Nick Gant and James Tooze of University of Brighton and long-term collaborators, Sound Camp on The Wild House. Funded by Ecological Citizens this 12-month project is creating a pioneering ‘regenerative retrofit’ and social house show home built using ‘Nature-net-gain’ design and making methods that help support wild habitats whilst creating built environments that are restorative for human users. 

Dr Ployjai Pintobtang (Chiang Mai University, Thailand) joined the Faculty as a Visiting Fellow between March and June 2025. Funded by a prestigious British Academy Visiting Fellowship award, Dr Pintobtang’s project will explore the global story of British utilitarianism through a study of Anglo-Siamese intellectual encounters during the nineteenth century. Affiliated with the Centre for Social & Political Thought and Intellectual History, Dr Pintobtang’s fellowship will strengthen Sussex’s links with scholars in Asia working on global intellectual history. 

Francesca Sylph (MA Gender & Media, 2023-24), has been awarded the prize for Best Student Essay from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). The essay, “Growing and Grieving Sideways: Queer Girlhood and Grief in Petite Maman, Aftersun and Scrapper” was developed from Francesca's MA Dissertation, supervised by Frances Smith.   

Vinita Damodaran’s article ‘The art of medicine: Adivasis of eastern India and the global planetary health crisis’ has been published in medical journal The Lancet. 

Curated by Alice Eldridge, a limited-edition vinyl LP of Knepp Estate’s nature sounds has been created to raise awareness of the effects of rewilding and sustainability in the music industry. 

Jill Kirby’s recent article 'Silent Women Sufferers: Experiences of Menopause in 1970s Britain' has been published in the has been published in the Journal of Women’s History, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2025.  

Mahon O’Brien’s ‘New Cambridge Element - Heidegger on Ethics’ has been published online by Cambridge University Press. Heidegger is often understood to have forsaken the very possibility of ethics. And yet, in Letter on Humanism, Heidegger stresses the importance of ethics (thought anew as originary ethics) in the context of the dangers posed by the technological age. In this Element, the author will try to unpack what Heidegger might have meant by this.  

Luke Robinson’s co-edited book Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future has been published by Amsterdam University Press. This is one of the final outputs of the AHRC grant ‘Independent Cinema in China 1990–2017: State, Market, and Film Culture’ (2019–2024), on which Luke was a Co-Investigator. 

Martin Spinelli and Mirela Barbu have created two Syria-focused podcasts: ‘Heart to Hearth’ (host Sarah Karkour, a young Syrian woman seeking to reconnect with her culture after years of exile) focuses on Syrian cooking and personal stories from the Syrian diaspora; ‘Phoenix Stories’ (hosted by Martin and edited by third year BA student Ruth Holroyd) is a knowledge exchange, speaking to people building a post-conflict Syria with real-life case studies. Read more about the podcast. 

Clive Webb spoke about his new book, Vietdamned at an event at Chapter 34, an independent book store in Shoreham-by-Sea. The book tells the untold story of the writers and philosophers who took on the United States government over its war in Vietnam. The event began with a wide-ranging interview about Clive's book before he took questions from a packed audience.