Who We Are

Faculty PGR Lead

Sara Crangle, Professor of Modernism & the Avant-Garde (Literature)

Email: S.Crangle@sussex.ac.uk 

Office Location: Arts B 233

As Faculty PGR Lead, Sara oversees strategic and operational plans for postgraduate researchers in the Faculty. She chairs the Faculty’s PGR Committee and represents the faculty at the university’s PGR Board.

Sara is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde in the Department of English Literature. In her research, she explores transnational, post-1850 avant-garde politics and aesthetics; the quotidian or everyday (the body, affect, sexuality); and satire and sacrifice. Decolonization and feminism inform her thinking and teaching. Archives and textual scholarship are also key to her work. You can visit  for more information.

PGR Convenors

The Director for Postgraduate Researchers oversees a team of people whose roles are designed to provide support and guidance for you throughout your time at Sussex. The Faculty has ten PGR Convenors, who have oversight of Media, Arts and Humanities PhD courses. Convenors of the different PhD courses are on hand if you need advice about your PhD and you think it would be helpful to talk to someone outside your supervisory team. They have oversight of PhD courses, PhD supervision and the development and well-being of our PGR community. The PGR Convenors will also need to sign off most request forms throughout your PhD.

If you would like to contact them, please contact the relevant Convenor for your PhD course (see below):

Senior CHASE EDI Coordinator

Tendai Lewis – tl389@sussex.ac.uk

Tendai is currently a postgraduate researcher in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities. As the Senior CHASE EDI Coordinator, Tendai’s role focuses on ensuring that postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and other underrepresented backgrounds are supported and advocated for as well as signposting resources and opportunities with EDI being a central priority.

Tendai’s research explores the relationship between theory and material reality, investigating how identity, society, and culture shape embodied experiences, with a particular focus on how race influences these experiences.

Tendai works both remotely and on campus. For more information or inquiries, you can reach her at tl389@sussex.ac.uk. You can also find relevant information about .  

MAH Senior PGR Events Officer

Georgia Wetherall, PhD in English Literature – G.Wetherall@sussex.ac.uk

Now in its fifth year this post was introduced to the faculty to facilitate the conceptualisation, planning and organisation of events by and for PGRs as part of an overall events programme contributing to our research culture. The Officer works closely with PGRs and the Faculty PGR Lead, PGR Convenors, and the Research Support team in relation to queries and requests relating to an annual PGR events programme.  The post is recruited annually from our current postgraduate researchers.  If you have an idea for an event, you can contact the PGR Events Officer directly for support. The Officer for 2025-26 is Georgia Wetherall.  

Research Support Team

There is a small team of support staff in Media, Arts and Humanities who provide administrative support and advice for postgraduate researchers in the School. They will be your first port-of-call for any queries about your studies and will be happy to help or point you in the right direction. The team can be contacted by email at MAH-PGR@sussex.ac.uk and are located in the Silverstone building in the Research Office SB220.

Medeni Fordham, Senior Research Manager

M.Fordham@sussex.ac.uk

Silverstone SB226

Medeni works with the team to develop and support the research environment for all researchers in the Faculty.

PGR Rep

Becky Hunt, Linguistics PhD – rrh23@sussex.ac.uk

The Student Rep scheme is run jointly by the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú and the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú Students’ Union

Student Reps are Undergraduate and Postgraduate students elected by Sussex students to represent the views and interests of students in their subject, department or school cohort. They are elected to post and to membership of committees and meetings by their peers through fair and transparent elections processes.

Reps find out about issues affecting students' studies and experience and represent these issues to the University and to the Students’ Union both informally, and formally at committees and meetings.