Since 2002, HSP Sussex has convened a series of meetings known as ‘Sussex Days’. These informal gatherings take advantage of the increasing number of CBW researchers, academics and NGOs in south-east England as well as the proximity of Brighton to London.
Since 2002, HSP Sussex has convened a series of meetings known as ‘Sussex Days’. These informal gatherings take advantage of the increasing number of CBW researchers, academics and NGOs in south-east England as well as the proximity of Brighton to London.
A ‘Sussex Day’ normally involves a lead presentation then discussion of issues raised in that presentation. Sussex Days are by invitation only and invitees may include researchers, academics, students and government officials. Topics discussed at these meetings since 2002 include:
6 March 2020 - Responses to allegations of CW use.
29 March 2019 - Deconstructing the 4th CWC Review Conference.
15 February 2017 - Deconstructing the Final Document of the BWC Eighth Review Conference.
8 March 2012 - Deconstructing the Final Document of the BWC Seventh Review Conference.
23 July 2010 - International criminalisation of CBW.
15 May 2009 - The OPCW Past, Present and Future: A Seminar in Memory of Ian R Kenyon.
30 May 2008 - Deconstructing the Final Report of the Second CWC Review Conference.
4 December 2007 - Painting the Big Picture and Attending to Detail: Assessing and Communicating Threats, Hazards and Consequences.
13 November 2007 - British Attitudes to Chemical and Biological Weapons 1970 - 2000: An Insider’s View.
14 July 2006 - Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism threat.
13 March 2006 - Nuclear Blindness and the silent rise of BW.
14 December 2005 - 20 Years in 40 Minutes: A Brief History of the Australia Group. Bob Mathews, Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law.
30 November 2005 - Biological ‘Weapons of Mass Disappearance’ - Lessons from German History. [In conjunction with Freeman Centre Seminar Series].
16 March 2005 - The impact of dual use controls on UK science: results from a pilot project, Caitríona McLeish and Paul Nightingale, University of Sussex.
12 January 2004 - Global Civil Society and Biological and Chemical Weapons. Daniel Feakes, University of Sussex.
17 November 2003 - War, Words and WMD.
27 February 2003 - Biological Weapons and Anglo-American-Canadian Cooperation 1940-2003: The Canadian Perspective.
9 December 2002 - The 5th BWC Review Conference and the ‘New Process’.
4 July 2002 - Tracy Vanderbeek, Lancaster University, and Iris Hunger, Technical University Darmstadt and Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Research in Progress.
20 February 2002 - Filippa Corneliussen, University of Nottingham, Research in Progress.