Paul Levy

BBS undergraduates get creative with a local business

As part of their Creativity in Enterprise module, Brighton Business School first year undergraduates took on the role of business consultants with David Sewell, owner of Pavilion Gardens Cafe, a local business that has an eighty-year history in the city. Located at the west end of the Royal Pavilion Gardens Estate in the centre…

Celebrating Six Years of The Conversation

Six years ago, The Conversation was potentially a good idea and was set up as a six month pilot. Six years later it attracts an international readership of over 12 million views a month. Writing for The Conversation The Conversation is an online, global newspaper that offers a platform for academics to write articles collaboratively…

The Startup Cruise Report: Back in Home Harbour

The Startups begin their journey… The first Startup Cruise has arrived back in Newhaven with the Business School’s Paul Levy on board. Paul co-designed and facilitated this event, accompany over 40 startup business from Newhaven across the sea to Dieppe where they were joined by nearly 100 French startups who climbed aboard, after some refreshments,…

All Aboard for the Startup Cruise

On April 4th 2019, I will be stepping aboard a boat from Newhaven to Dieppe and co-facilitating the Startup Cruise. An idea inspired by our award-winning DIAL (Drop-in Action Learning) Project, thirty startups from the UK will explore the innovation and growth potential of their small businesses through a journey of discovery. Arriving in Dieppe…

Ten ways to get on top of your overloaded email inbox that actually work

Most of us are addicted to email, some estimates say we spend nearly five and a half hours each weekday checking it. Despite the explosion of social media in recent years, email is not on the decline. Surveys estimate that the number of emails sent out each day will have grown to 246 billion…