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º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s inspiring role in new 'Powering The UK's Future' campaign

Vice-Chancellor Debra Humphris will launch a wide-ranging campaign on 31 March, highlighting the University Alliance's key boosting of the country's future.

31 March 2021

The campaign will inform and build recognition of – a that are globally connected but locally rooted. Case studies will bring to life the University Alliance's (UA) impact across six areas central to the national social, economic and cultural recovery post COVID-19: NHS, community, jobs, business and growth, public services, plus research and innovation.

Professor Humphris, Chair of the Alliance, said: “Universities are central to the national renewal we all strive for as we recover from COVID-19 and beyond, and the work of University Alliance members will provide many of the answers to the challenges we will face – changing and improving lives day in, day out across the country.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Debra Humphris

Vice-Chancellor Professor Debra Humphris

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As well as being part of a wider Alliance, the º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× remains deeply rooted in the community it has been part of since its creative beginnings as an art school within the city's Royal Pavilion in 1859. Today, the university's activities are as energetic and diverse as º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× itself: working with the NHS and the broader public sector; supporting businesses to innovate and flourish; engaging in world-class research and job creation; and widening access to study. As community players with far-sighted visions, universities like º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× can power our economic, social and cultural futures.”

Alliance universities play a key role in . In 2019–20, they trained 18% of all social work students and 15% of teacher trainees, while around 30% of UA research was healthcare-related. º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× alone provided over 1,200 graduates into these vital community areas, including 558 students qualified to enter teaching, and around 700 graduates in nursing, midwifery and pharmacy.

The º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×’s School of Health Sciences has successfully developed a number of apprenticeship programmes in close collaboration with NHS employers, providing routes into higher education and the healthcare sector for students from a wider participation background.

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One wellbeing partnership commended by professional and regulatory bodies as excellent innovative practice, meanwhile, is Time for Dementia, collaborating with Sussex Partnership NHS trust, Health Education England and the Alzheimer’s Society. This project connects pre-registration nursing and physiotherapy students with local families where someone is living with dementia, allowing students to gain invaluable experience in communication and understanding of the condition before they encounter someone with dementia in an emergency or clinical setting.

The º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× is also showing ways forward in reaching out to local communities. Its pioneering Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, for example, has widened cultural engagement by giving disadvantaged local people access to creative technologies and expert inspiration. Working with a leading º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×-based mental health charity, meanwhile, the university will this year provide pioneering postgraduate counselling training for QTIPoC and LGBTQ BAME candidates.

Responding to climate change, º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s Green Growth Platform is an award-winning business-innovation network supporting businesses to develop green products and services – with a 1,000-plus membership that has already created 300 green economy jobs and 70 new products/services.

As South East Regional Hub of Clean Growth UK, the platform also supports thousands of businesses across the UK to innovate and grow in an environmentally-aware manner. º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× is also playing an important role in the newly-launched Hydrogen Sussex initiative, a key plank of the city and wider region's move toward a low emission circular economy.

The university works with local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help drive innovation and growth through a range of programmes, the most recent being its º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× Research Innovation Technology Exchange (BRITE) project, a collaborative project delivered in partnership with Plus X º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×. Collaborations are encouraged via the state-of-the-art , which supports SMEs through programmes created by the university and based on its world-leading research.

Noel Sesto, Director of Control Freq Ltd, has taken part in one of these programmes as part of the BRITE programme, and said: "The university's INSPIRE programme has helped enormously in our transition, pivoting from a web-based company, to a solutions focused company. We were able to apply the methodology learned in our workshops, and with the support of our INSPIRE Coach, create an open innovation Action Plan. It has made the previously intangible possible - a focused growth plan to help realise our ambitions.“

º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× also undertakes a raft of world-class science and engineering research to enable a more positive future. The Dolphin N2 engine developed by the university's renowned Advanced Engineering Centre is one example. Considered one of the world's most significant recent advances in engine design, it combines high-efficiency with near-zero emissions of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx), while using sustainable fuels made from everyday wastes.

Speaking to the University Alliance, Simon Brewster, CEO of Dolphin N2, said: “We knew the technology had world-leading efficiency, but it was the research at º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× that also showed incredibly low levels of NOx emissions. Without this discovery, the technology could still be seen as a dirty engine – with it, it can compete side-by-side with so-called zero emission power - except our engine is cheaper.”

An ideal exemplar of the benefits of bringing together innovation, expertise and a commitment to drive a better future.

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