The conference will be held in the Jubilee Building at the University of Sussex. The campus is a few miles north of the city of Brighton on the south coast of England, and Brighton is about 50 miles south of London.
The campus is surrounded by the South Downs National Park, and combines award-winning architecture with green open spaces. The buildings that make up the heart of the campus were designed by Sir Basil Spence, and were given ‘listed building’ status in 1993.
The University of Sussex was the first of the new wave of UK universities founded in the 1960s, receiving its Royal Charter in August 1961. The School of Business, Management & Economics (BMEc) has a rather shorter history, having been established in August 2009, and includes three departments:
- The Department of Business & Management was set up in August 2009 when the new School was established, but has quickly increased its size to over 40 research-active faculty. Its core research activities lie in the areas of international business, marketing, entrepreneurship, accounting & finance, and business & innovation.
- The Department of Economics specialises in research on the economics of developing countries, issues of international trade and labour economics. Much of its research is linked to the needs of policy-making bodies inEurope and internationally.
- SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research has over 40 years' experience in the analysis of science, technology and innovation. Its current focus includes innovation management in firms, technological competition in industries, societal impacts of technologies and their regulation, and the positive contributions of innovation to solving societal and economic policy problems.
In addition,Sussex also hosts the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). The Institute was founded in 1966 and enjoys an international reputation based on its com mitment to applying academic skills to real world challenges. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it – to influence as well as to inform. The research programmes at IDS are organised in six closely-linked multidisciplinary teams: globalisation; governance; climate change; knowledge, technology and society; participation, power and social change; and vulnerability and poverty reduction