Boosting facilities for students

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Kerry Burnett

A new gym, learning space and seminar room have been unveiled at the University’s Eastbourne campus.

The Queenwood Seminar Room and Social Learning Spaces feature state-of-the-art furniture and technology to facilitate student collaboration. Key additions include two edit suit rooms, USB power chargers throughout and fixed and flexible furniture, including coffee tables and collaboration desks.

The Queenwood G30 seminar room has capacity for 54 people. The space is highly flexible and features bespoke desks that can be folded and stacked away. A height-adjustable lectern provides increased flexibility during lectures. Continue reading →

Catching up with Professor Nick Webborn

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Kerry Burnett

How sport boosts international development

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Kerry Burnett

The University of Brighton has joined forces with a charity to study how sport is boosting international development and improving lives.

It is partnering with the Brighton-based charity TackleAfrica in funding a PhD student for three years to focus on the politics and production of evidential knowledge in sport-for-development.

The student, Arthur Gaillard, is researching how sport-for-development initiatives are monitored and evaluated, and will identify ways of demonstrating programme effectiveness and impact. Continue reading →

Marina speaks to the BBC One on overtourism

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Kerry Burnett

Professor Marina Novelli, Professor of Tourism and International Development and Academic Lead for the University’s Responsible Futures, appeared on BBC One’s Rip Off Britain programme as expert on the subject of overtourism.

Professor Novelli, who is globally renowned for her research on the impact of tourism, told the BBC: “The problem of overtourism is in need of much attention and research. The problem with tourism is primarily rooted in the lack of innovative planning strategies and sustainable management approaches.

“Much of the success of tourism is measured according to the number of visitors arriving at a destination, rather than the short, medium and long term positive and negative impacts that the sector brings to a destination. The currently widely used tourism growth paradigm does not work anymore. Continue reading →

The Spectacle of Fashion

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Kerry Burnett

Image of a fashion model from the 1920s Senior Lecturer, Susan Bishop, has an exhibition and talk taking place titled ‘The Spectacle of Fashion at Barkers Department Store 1928-1930‘.

In addition to teaching at the university Susan is a Fashion Historian and Curator with research interests which include historical department store fashion shows, marketing and consumer shopping habits.

In the 1920s Barkers department store Kensington, London, was a monument to Art Deco design and radical new thinking about retail as entertainment for the leisure classes.
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University of Brighton launches cancer rehabilitation programme in Eastbourne

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Kerry Burnett

The University of Brighton has launched an exercise-based cancer rehabilitation programme in Eastbourne.

Designed to help individuals with or recovering from cancer, the scheme, entitled Active Recovery, has been developed by experts from the University and Freedom Leisure in consultation with Cancer United’s CU Fitter™ initiative. Funding has been generously supplied by the cancer charity Macmillan via Albion in the Community and a University of Brighton ECHO grant.

Harrison helping Active Recovery client David with his exercises in the university's gym

Harrison with Active Recovery client David

Classes are run weekly by Stephanie Wadlow from Freedom Leisure and Harrison Collier-Bain, an Applied Exercise Physiology MSc student at the University. The programme aims to help cancer patients lead more active, healthier and happier lives during every stage of their treatment by improving physical fitness, psychological well-being and quality of life, maintaining a healthy weight, managing side effects of cancer treatment and reducing risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases. Continue reading →

Peak Performance without Doping: Fact or Fiction?

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Kerry Burnett

In the first of this year’s sport and exercise science seminar series Professor Yannis Pitsiladis delivered a lecture entitled Peak Performance without Doping: Fact or Fiction?

Over the course of his talk to a mixed audience of students, academics and practitioners Professor Pitsiladis updated the attendees on his global collaborations centred on aspects of doping detection and the three pillars of anti-doping in top level sport. Continue reading →

Playing For Peace

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Kerry Burnett

Secondary school children from across Sussex and Kent joined international coaches from around the world for a festival for peace.

They joined the University of Brighton’s pioneering Football 4 Peace (F4P) programme to celebrate World Peace Day which took place Continue reading →

Olympics role for professor

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Kerry Burnett

A University of Brighton academic has been appointed to the International Olympic Committee Medical and Scientific Commission for next year.

It’s the fourth consecutive time Professor Yannis Pitsiladis of the School of Sport and Service Management has been selected for the role.

The Commission provides a “guiding reference for all other sports organisations on matters relating to the protection of the health of athletes”.

Yannis said: “Being part of this commission allows impactful research to be expedited from laboratory to application in the field and at the highest level – the Olympic Games.

“It also allows the participation as an expert at all Olympic Games including the Youth Olympic Games to evaluate and implement changes to safeguard the health of the doping free athlete.”

Yannis added that he was excited about the opportunity to “set and oversee the agenda for positive change in sport and exercise medicine”.

The next Commission meetings will take place from 6 to 8 December 2018.

University backs first Africa Tourism Leadership Forum

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Kerry Burnett

The University of Brighton is supporting the first Africa Tourism Leadership Forum and Awards.

As a Pan-African event, this is the first Africa travel and tourism industry gathering designed by Africans, for Africans and being hosted in Africa. The forum will convene global and African travel and tourism business leaders, ministers, policymakers, tourism authorities, investors, destination marketing organisations, academics, travel trade and media to deliberate on initiatives to enhance intra-Africa travel and sustainable development of tourism across the continent. Continue reading →