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Building resilience and how it can help you thrive

Tejal Mistry – HOST Finance Lead, Global Finance Business Partner at HSBC – tells us how she has built resilience and gives her take on what can help us through the current challenges. Tejal is an alumni of University of Brighton and studied Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons). I look back at my past and think…

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Arts for community development – curating art in support of La, Ghana

On Saturday 12 December, Lorenzelli Gallery (Milan, Italy) presented ‘Exit through the gift of life’, by Serge Attukwei Clottey’s (1985 – Accra, Ghana). The collection, curated by Professor Marina Novelli, our Professor of Tourism and International Development and Academic Lead for Responsible Futures Research and Enterprise Agenda, was Clottey’s first photographic exhibition. ‘Exit through the gift of life’ addresses two…

Adapting final year modules for online study

Final year students on our Business Management BSc(Hons) courses are expected to design and manage Development Centres as part of their module: Managing and Developing People. This acitvity usually takes place face to face in our Cockcroft Hall on our Moulsecoomb campus but this year, due to the pandemic and the need to move all…

Welcome to the new faces of Brighton Business School

We have two new members of teaching staff who have joined the school in December we welcome them to the school and hopefully will meet them in person as soon as is possible. Chantal Frindall joined our Law School in December 2020 as a Lecturer in Law. Previously, Chantal worked as Law tutor in Land,…

Join hospitality students online at the Student EXPO Hospitality 2030

On Friday 15 January, our Hospitality students are taking part in an online Expo looking into the future of the hospitality industry. As part of one of their final year modules, our students have developed concepts and solutions to aid growth within the hospitality industry. One of the teams, Employeorium, have developed an on-demand employment…

Student shares fantastic insights into his internship

Final year Business Management student Georges Nikolic shared some fantastic insights into his internship with Dr. Hasan Gilani. George’s internship is at The Borgen Project that focuses on global poverty and hunger and he is one of 5% of people who got through the recruitment process. The scope of the internship ranges from HR, journalism,…

University of Brighton student work placements continue to shine in the face of COVID-19

Employers are continuing to benefit from successful work placements with University of Brighton students, despite the huge disruption caused by COVID-19. Over 300 employers across the region have approached the university regarding placements for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying at its highly-regarded Brighton Business School – ranked in the UK’s Top 5 for the impact…

Creative teaching and teaching creativity

As we continue to offer blended-learning to our students, two of our undergraduate lecturers, Midgie Thompson and Paul Levy have introduced an innovative approach to engaging students studying our second-year optional module, Creativity in Enterprise. Pre-Covid, this module was delivered in the traditional way of the lecturers sharing knowledge and experience in the classroom. With reduced…

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The Business School pro bono Law Clinic provides successful advice

In November, our pro bono legal clinic was asked to give emergency legal advice to a northern city-based Tree Defenders Residents Group. The group were peacefully gathering, with Covid safe measures in place, around mature trees in the city. The residents were knitting, exercising and trying to stop the council contractors from felling the trees…

Dr Ioannis Pantelidis joins Be Inclusive Hospitality advisory board

Dr Ioannis Pantelidis, Principal Lecturer on our International Events and Tourism courses, was recently invited to join the Advisory Board of Be Inclusive Hospitality. Be Inclusive Hospitality is a not-for-profit organisation founded by Lorraine Copes in November 2019 and incorporated in July 2020. The organisation promotes Inclusivity in one of the largest industries of the service…