Raymond Briggs, creator of masterpieces of illustration as diverse as The Snowman and When The Wind Blows, has passed away, aged 88.
Category Archives: Staff
University of Brighton professor shaping plans for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine
Professor Robert Mull is working with Ukrainians on future post-war reconstruction plans, drawing on lessons learned after 1990s war in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Read More
Podcast: Dr Holly Chard talks about John Hughes and Christmas
Getting in the festive spirit for this week’s pod – Dr Holly Chard from the School of Media focuses her research on the films of John Hughes including Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street remake, National Lampoon. Read More
School of Art lecturer is part of UoB team delivering pioneering research into sanitation crisis
Alice Fox from the School of Art is among an interdisciplinary team of University of Brighton academics delivering pioneering research to help address the sanitation crisis across Asia and Africa. Read More
Design lecturer’s work highlighted in Grayson Perry show
The University of Brighton’s Vanessa Marr says it was a surprise when her work was featured on Channel 4’s Grayson’s Art Club – a self-portrait stitched into a duster. Read More
Photography lecturers exhibit in London
Dr Asa Johannesson and Martin Seeds both Lecturers, and practicing artists, on the BA(Hons) Photography course are exhibiting their work in a group exhibition at the Borough Road Gallery, London.
What is podcasting? Find out tonight
Join Lance Dann, course leader for Media Production and Dario Llinares course leader Digital Film among other noteworthy speakers for a discussion. Read More
Bring young voices into climate change discussions
News outlets should give more voice to young people to help tackle climate change, according to a Brighton media professor. Read More
School of Media professor joins national innovation network
Karen Cham has been appointed to one of six working groups under the UK5G initiative, the national innovation network promoting research, collaboration and the commercial application of 5G in the UK. Read More
Alice Fox speaks about encouraging arts diversity
Alice was interviewed by Turkish World News this week as an international expert on ‘encouraging diversity on the artworld’. Read More
Showcase for talented media staff
Salon is a project showcasing the artistic practice of professional services and technical staff across the School of Media. Read More
Local schools and youth organisations become printmakers for a day
Seventy young people from schools and community organisations in Crawley, Seaford, Seahaven and Brighton have taken part in another successful series of workshops at the University of Brighton. Read More
New podcast: Catalina Mejia Moreno, senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design
Catalina talks about the Graduate Show, her move from Columbia and her forthcoming symposium Fielding Architecture: Feminist Practices for a Decolonised Pedagogy. Read More
New Architecture podcast from Ben Sweeting.
Listen to Ben talking about his role as course leader of Architecture and his interest in cybernetics. Read More
School of Architecture and Design success
School of Art and Design lecturers Duncan Baker Brown and Nick Gant and colleagues have had their application to become a member of the British Council Crafting Futures Network accepted. Read More
Tracing Brighton’s forgotten slave-owners
Research by University of Brighton academics has revealed that Brighton and Hove residents received significant financial compensation after the end of British colonial slavery in the Caribbean. Read More
New Note Orchestra highlighted on BBC news
The work of the New Note Orchestra, whose members are people in recovery from drug and alcohol addition, has been highlighted in a feature on the BBC News website. Read More
Textiles make Scabies child’s play
Brighton primary school children have recycled fabric remnants from University of Brighton textile students to create bean bags in the shape of mites to fight the stigma surrounding scabies, an increasingly common skin disease. Read More
Triple recognition for lecturer who explores grief and loss
A University of Brighton lecturer’s evocative artwork is to be exhibited in three prestigious shows. Read More
Social design agency designs a better future for care home
A team of students and staff are helping to shape ideas around creativity and its role in adult social care. Read More
Media lecturer wins international award
Course leader of Media and Environmental Communication and senior lecturer in Visual Media Practice, Patricia Prieto Blanco has won the IVSA Rieger Award 2018 for exceptional work in visual sociology. Read More
Lecturers involved in campaign to make HIV-Stigma History
The drive involve Dr Carlos Peralta from the University of Brighton’s School of Architecture and Design, HIV experts Dr Gillian Dean, Dr Jaime Vera, Dr Eileen Nixon from Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and Dr Mary Darking from the University of Brighton’s School of Applied Social Science .
Tom Hammick joins prestigious line up selected to celebrate NHS 70
Lecturer Tom Hammick, who teaches on BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, joins Peter Blake, Jeremy Deller, Mona Hartoum, Chris Orr, Elizabeth Magill and David Mach as one of the seven artists chosen to celebrate the NHS at 70. Read More
Award-winning professor’s plea to protect the arts
A renowned Brighton illustrator protested against cutbacks in the arts in schools as he collected a top V&A award.
Brighton marks Martin Luther King’s murder
The 50thanniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr is being marked with an exhibition at the University of Brighton. Read More
Helen Kennedy on Lara Croft reboot
Our Head of the School of Media is quoted in a Hollywood Reporter article on feminist critics’ response to the new Tomb Raider movie. Read More
No Longer the ManMADE Object
Come along to hear from women leaders, makers and creatives in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics at Grand Parade on Wednesday 28 March at 4.30pm. Read More
Fashion and Textiles at Brighton profiled in Viva magazine
Staff Craig Higgins and Caterina Radvan are interviewed as part of a profile in this months’s issue. Read More
Women of Impact
To mark International Women’s Day in 2018 we are celebrating the achievements of just some of the academics working here at Brighton. Read More
Women of Impact: Course leader contributes to celebration of feminist spatial practice
Feminist approaches to spacial practice including work by Interior Architecture course leader and author Gemma Barton will be discussed this Friday at the Becoming We Forum. Read More
Brighton chosen for sustainable house build
The University of Brighton has been chosen to compete in a global competition to design and build a house using new technologies and reclaimed materials. Read More
Wastezone at EcoBUILD
Staff members Nick Gant and Duncan Baker-Brown (School of Architecture & Design) are in London this week at the Wastezone, a symposium and exhibition showing that waste is a valuable resource and opportunity, not a problem. Read More
Professor joins India trade mission
School of Media professor Karen Cham is joining a top-level trade mission to India. Read More
Lecturer Alice Fox wins THE award
Alice Fox, course leader, Deputy Head of the School of Art and founder of the University of Brighton’s pioneering MA Inclusive Arts Practice, has won the prestigious Excellence and Innovation in the Arts title at the Times Higher Education (THE) awards 2017. Read More
Media staff win prestigious UK Audio Production Awards
Huge congratulations to Senior Lecturer Dr Lance Dann who won the Gold award for Best Drama Producer and Marley Cole, Workshop Media Manager, who won the Bronze award for Best Sound Designer. Read More
Village Voice reviews lecturer’s NY exhibition
The New York exhibition of the work of Fine Art senior lecturer Tom Hammick is currently reviewed in the bible of all things NY-based The Village Voice.
Graduate and professor in Imperial War Museum exhibition alongside major art names
Work of photography graduate Indrė Šerpytytė and Professor David Cotterrell features alongside pieces by Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Holzer, and Jake & Dinos Chapman in Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11 show. Read More
3D alumni nominated for prestigious award
Maisie Broadhead and Phoebe Cummings (also shortlisted for the Woman’s Hour Craft Award) have been shortlisted for the prestigious 25th Arts Foundation Anniversary Awards. Read More
Film and Screen Studies lecturer introduces Wallace and Gromit at Dukes
Dr Ewan Kirkland will be giving an introduction to the famous Nick Park movie during half term at Brighton’s beloved Duke of York’s cinema on Fri 20 Oct, 11am. Read More
International summer school success for SoAD head Robert Mull
Professor Robert Mull, Head of the School of Architecture & Design curated an International summer school in Russia entitled ‘Art as Labour: Build & Design’ this summer. Read More
National honour for photography professor
Professor Francis Hodgson, the University of Brighton’s Professor of the Culture of Photography has received the Dudley Johnston medal of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) as recognition for his “major achievement in the field of photographic criticism”. Read More
University recognised for Art of Inclusion
The University of Brighton has been shortlisted for a national award for bringing together people with learning disabilities and non-disabled collaborators to work together on creative arts projects. Read More
Technician focus: Becky Lu
Becky is integral to the Textiles teaching team, advising and assisting students in traditional screen printing processes and dyeing for printed textiles. Read More
Tonight! Jonathan Chapman and Duncan Baker-Brown book launch
Two esteemed members of staff launch their respective books at Grand Parade tonight, 5.30-8.30pm. Drinks provided. Book your place now. Read More
Staff and students to take part in British Council Going Global conference
Illustration course staff and students will be drawing, painting and collaging on a large scroll of white paper onto which you can also draw simultaneously via Skype on 23-24 May. Read More
Luke Pendrell show ‘Vacant Seasons’ at London gallery
The Visual Communication Research & Academic Program Leader is the first of three artists showing at The Chopping Block – Luke’s exhibition runs 25 – 27 May. Read More
