Information Management
The Information Management team provides advice, training, and services across the University in relation to data protection matters (e.g. contract reviews, privacy notices, consent forms, data sharing and retention, etc), University policies, records management, information classification and handling, personal data breach reporting, and responsds to Freedom of Information requests & third party requests for personal data on behalf of the University.
Please see below for further information and contact details.
- The team - who we are
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The team consists of:
- Alexandra Elliott (Head of Information Management & Compliance and the University's Data Protection Officer)
- Karen Blackman (Information Manager)
- Kay Steward (Senior Information Officer)
- Lucy Pattenden (Senior Information Officer
- Naomi Alder (Senior Information Officer)
- Contact us
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Much of our work is handled via shared inboxes due to working patterns and shared workload across the team; this is the best way to contact us for most queries - please see below for further details:
- For general data protection and records management queries: GDPR@sussex.ac.uk
- For queries relating to personal data breaches, data subject requests, or requests from third parties for personal data held by the University: dpo@sussex.ac.uk
- For queries relating to Freedom of Information requests: foi@sussex.ac.uk
- For queries relating to University policies: K.Blackman@sussex.ac.uk & Alex.Elliott@sussex.ac.uk
Last updated July 2026