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Student-led marketing agency: Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things (BYT) is a student-led marketing agency offering consultancy and operational marketing support to local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and non-profit organisations. Carrying out work in the agency forms the basis for the assessment across several modules including The Professional Marketing Practitioner; Content, Copy and Creative; and Public Relations. As part of…

Uni of Brighton and Uni of Sussex intervarsity mooting final

The intervarsity moot finale took place on Tuesday 7 March at the University of Brighton. Our mooting competition allows Brighton Law School students to compete against other law students in a mock trial, where two sides argue a point of law in front of an acting judge who decides which side wins. Our mock judge…

Invest in Your Future: Advice for final-year students from our industry panel

On Tuesday 7 March we held an event for final-year undergraduate students to connect with alumni, postgraduate course leaders and local businesses. We were joined by an expert industry panel for a discussion about the current skills shortage and how this is impacting the workplace. Our panel was made up of: Alex Winter – Human…

Dan Bennett, Gladis Araujo and Kamila Walters in front of Elm House

Guest lecture from Vice President at leading global toy company, Mattel Inc

As part of the University of Brighton’s employability week, we were joined by Global Quality Systems and Supply Chain Vice President – Gladis Araujo – from leading global toy company Mattel Inc. Gladis is responsible for driving digital transformation within the company, and this was a fantastic opportunity for our students to hear from a…

Meet marketing grad Ollie who now works for the Uni of Brighton

Meet Ollie, one of our Marketing Management BSc(Hons) graduates who now works in the marketing and communications department here at the University of Brighton. Ollie is the Marketing Campaigns Officer in the Careers and Employability team. We sat down with Ollie to find out more about what his course was like, his current job and…

Organic Kitchen pitching at The Tiger's Pen

Business students pitch to local entrepreneurs at The Tiger’s Pen

The Tiger’s Pen is a unique opportunity for students to practise their pitches and get valuable feedback from local business leaders about their business ideas. The concept was founded by Sonny Cutting from the Sussex Business Show, who each year dedicates his time to hosting the event with the School of Business and Law. This…

Law students and lecturer Gillian Keenan

Congratulations to our winning law student negotiators

Our Brighton Law School students took part in the negotiations competition final on Tuesday 10 January. Four teams of law students competed against each other and our judges were solicitors Jay Barnett and Lydia Goodward from DMH Stallard. Congratulations to our winner – Tom McCanlis, and our runners up – Laura Verity and Irina Do…

Emma Thurlow, Business and Sales Manager at the Brighton Centre

Guest lecture on business tourism and events in Brighton

Business and Sales Manager at the Brighton Centre, Emma Thurlow, visited Elm House to speak to our postgraduate tourism and events students. She spoke to master’s students on our Globalisation, Society and Culture module about the value of business tourism and events to Brighton’s economy. The Brighton Centre is the oldest purpose-built convention centre in…

Tourism and events students visit market-leading international travel event

Our tourism and event students recently visited the World Travel Market (WTM) at ExCel London on a field trip. WTM is the market-leading international travel event that unlocks business opportunities for inbound and outbound tourism professionals. The annual event is one of the largest corporate business events of its kind. Students were joined by Jamie…

Fourth-year law student leads mindfulness session as part of wellbeing week

LLB Law student Sara recently finished an internship at London law firm – Universa Law, so understands all about having a busy schedule and needing to unwind. As part of wellbeing week, Sara led a mindfulness session for students and staff. The session started with breathing exercises and then moved on to colour therapy, both…