Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (SCCS)

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The Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (SCCS) is a vibrant, inter-disciplinary research centre housed within the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex.

It is committed to interdisciplinarity in the study of new cultural formations within and beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Centre encompasses expertise from many disciplines including: Media, Sociology, English, History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Film Studies and has established its reputation both nationally and internationally.

Broadly, the Centre’s approach to cultural studies:

• has a historical dimension, not only looking at contemporary culture but also at culture from a historical perspective;
• is global in outlook, looking at culture in the Global South as well as in the Global North and the relationship between them;
• is concerned with both 'popular’ culture - film and television, pop music, fashion and food etc. and 'high' culture - the arts, literature, etc.

The aims of the Centre are:

• to foster a strong intellectual environment for scholars working in Cultural Studies internationally and nationally in order to support robust research in the discipline and to enhance collegiality more broadly;
• to bring together a range of faculty across, and beyond, the University, to work within the interdisciplinary framework exemplified in Cultural Studies research;
• to consolidate undergraduate and postgraduate recruitment in the subject, particularly postgraduate researchers, providing a thorough institutional pathway in the discipline;
• to collectively foster research in Cultural Studies by providing focus and increasing the visibility and reputation of SCCS's existing expertise on a national and international scale and facilitating intellectual collaboration;
• to provide research support and mentoring in order to improve research activity in Cultural Studies, particularly in the supervision and mentoring of research students and early career scholars;
• to augment disciplinary expertise for curricular development in order to deliver informed course teaching at the highest level.

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University of Sussex
Brighton

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