by Alan Lester
A bit of a departure from our standard project blog, this essay responds to the latest rehashing of the British Empire in the media (The Rhodes statue debate and a YouGov poll have both made the British Empire topical again). The Independent has called for the empire to be taught ‘warts and all’ so that the 44% of Britons who are proud of it have a little more to think about.
By Zoe Gilchrist
The refugee crisis headlined the news all of last summer. I read article after article describing the conditions and the difficulties that refugees were facing in their attempt to escape war and/ or search for the opportunity of a better life. After reading all of this, I decided it was time for me to do something.
by Maya Unnithan, Hayley MacGregor & Jackie Cassell
The lightning emergence of Zika virus as a World Health Organization (WHO) designated global emergency comes just as the Ebola crisis in West Africa appears finally to be under control. There is no doubt that re-emerging infectious diseases are here to stay on the global health priority list.
Will Hood is the creative mind behind the innovative new audio documentary series, The Glass Bead Game, funded in part by the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. A Sussex alum and a seasoned documentary film maker, Will gives an overview of the motivations behind, and vision for, this ground-breaking new series:
In all honesty I think I’ve always struggled with telling the truth…
The idea for The Glass Bead Game podcast series came from an amalgamation of my professional life with a decision to undertake an MA in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. The challenging and revelatory nature of the course led me to think more about the similarities between ethnography and the type of documentaries I had always aspired to make.
