International
Partnerships update
May 2015
Victoria Shaw
Assistant Head of
International (Strategic
Partnerships)
Purpose of session
• To introduce University’s
partnership strategy
• To update agents on current
partnerships worldwide
• To share information and gather
feedback on best practice across
sector
Why is Sussex investing in
international partnerships?
To recruit high quality international
students
Recruitment partnerships
To internationalise the student
experience
Study Abroad and exchange
partnerships
To enhance research quality
Research partnerships
To position the University globally and
develop strategic alliances
Institutional partnerships
Recruitment partnerships
• Current recruitment partners
include Renmin (China),
Mahidol (Thailand), Bellerby’s
College (UK), Langara College
(Canada)
• New fund to support
recruitment partnerships
• Strategic approach, working
with each school/cluster
• Aim to develop large-scale
partnerships in a small number
of international markets
• Models include 1+3, 2+2, 1+1,
double/joint programmes and
fee-paying Study Abroad
Research partnerships
Aim is to enhance research quality
by:
• Encouraging international
collaboration
• Developing critical mass
• Access new sources of funding
• Promoting the work of the
centre globally
• Providing access to policy
makers, international
organisations and industry
• Developing early career
researchers
Research partnerships
New International Research Partnerships and
Networks Fund launched in 2014, funding two
three-year programmes:
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
• ‘European / South East Asian Research
Network on Migration’
• Partners: Mahidol (Thailand), with potential
to include National University of Singapore
and Humboldt University (Germany)
Sussex Centre for America Studies
• ‘Paris as an American City’
• Seven international partners, including
Stanford and the University of Chicago
Study Abroad and exchange
partnerships
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Sussex pioneered Study Abroad in
the 1960s
Now a target for 25% of Sussex
students to study abroad
Around 130 exchange partnerships
globally, including:
Hong Kong University
National Taiwan University
Georgetown University
University of California
University of Amsterdam
Bocconi University
Waseda University
University of British Columbia
Monash University
Study Abroad and exchange
partnerships
Our Asian summer school
programme will this year place
50 Sussex students at:
• Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
• Chinese University of Hong
Kong
• Renmin University of China
• Pusan University
• Korea University
Institutional partners
Target in the University’s Strategic Plan
to develop ten strategic institutional
partners by 2018
Emerging alliances partnerships for
research and student/staff mobility
with:
• Mahidol University, Thailand
• University of Ghana
• University of Lagos
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
• Renmin University of China
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• Cornell University
• Bocconi University, Italy
Mahidol University
• Undergraduate exchange and
summer placement
• Articulation agreements and
research collaboration in Life
Sciences
• Joint research programme in
migration
University of Ghana
Memorandum of Understanding
underpinning initiatives including:
• Research and academic exchange
between School of Education and
Social Work and newly established
College of Education
• Summer School scholarship
programme
• Visiting lectures, most recently on
strengthening African universities
for economic transformation
University of Ghana
Sussex-Ghana partnership cited by
Kofi Annan, former UN secretary
general, at the African Higher
Education Summit
‘I have long been a believer in the
transformative power of education.
Education is one of the most effective
forms of peace building, a source of
hope for each individual, and the
premise of development and progress
for society’
University of Lagos
• Undergraduate researcher
placement
• Research and academic
exchange between School
of Education and Social
Work and newly
established College of
Education
• Summer School
scholarship programme
• Visiting lectures, most
recently on strengthening
African universities for
economic transformation
Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Student exchange and summer placements
• Agreement with new Shenzhen campus
• Undergraduate researcher
placements
• Strategic research
collaboration in
neuroscience and
cancer science
Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
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Exchange agreements in science, engineering and business
HKUST hosting 24 Sussex students at 2015 summer school
Genome Damage and Stability Centre collaboration and joint conference
Discussions on drug discovery
Renmin University of China
• Student students visiting Renmin summer school, with Renmin students
coming to Sussex in term time
• Research collaboration and faculty exchange in Global Studies, Law and
Corruption Studies
• President of Renmin
will bring delegation
to Sussex in June
University of California Santa Cruz
• Summer School and
exchange agreements
• Staff and doctoral student
exchange in digital media
• Plans for flagship summer
school and integrated
doctoral programmes
Cornell University
• MoU (School of Global Studies and
IDS)
• Staff exchange
• Two-year joint research project:
‘Rethinking the Global Crisis’
• Planning PhD student exchange and
joint funding bids
• Opportunity to work together on an
international Consortium of Global
Development Studies
Bocconi University
• Student exchange in business and
law
• Developing joint observatory on
‘intrapreneurship’ and corporate
innovation
• Inaugural conference at Sussex
attracted over 50 academics and
industry leaders from the UK and
Europe
Next steps for international
partnerships
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Increased investment in
recruitment partnerships
Building strategic institutional
partnerships in Europe, South
Asia and South and Central
America
New schemes:
Undergraduate mobility
Early career researchers
JRA International
Doubling Asian summer school
placements
Pursuit of high-profile double
degree partnerships
Conference to bring together
representatives from institutional
partners
Agent insights
• Examples of leading international
partnership initiatives in your
markets
• How should we use our
international partnerships to
position Sussex strategically and
attract the best students?
International
Partnerships update
May 2015
Victoria Shaw
Assistant Head of
International (Strategic
Partnerships)