School of Business and Law

The Annual Law Careers Question Time: 28/02/16 @ 17:30

Don’t miss this year’s BBS Law Careers Question Time! Similar to BBC’s Question Time, each year we hold an event for all Law students, providing them with the opportunity to question Barristers, Solicitors, Judges and other professionals who work within a law-related career. Panel members will answer a range of questions from the audience. This is…

Best publication prize for Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

On 10 February, Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour received the Best Publication prize awarded by the Odysseus Academic Network which recognises outstanding academic research in the area of European Immigration or Asylum Law. The Best Publication Prize recognises an outstanding contribution to the field by a more experienced researcher or professor. Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour was a joint winner…

Robin Pickering on Rolls Royce and the placements office

Robin Pickering graduated from Brighton Business School with a degree in Business Studies in 2013 after completing a years placement with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. “I am so proud to be a Brighton University graduate because with the first class education I received, and overwhelming support I had from the placements office, I am now enjoying…

MBA Marketing Masterclass: the benefits of using the case study method

Dr Véronique Boulocher-Passet, Senior Lecturer in Marketing In teaching marketing to the MBA students, my choice naturally heads towards using the case method, which has endured as an effective teaching tool in business education for more than a century. A case study, or case, describes an actual situation and involves a decision, a challenge, an opportunity,…

Kunlasab on Public Services Management at Brighton

We recently caught up with Kunlasab Sailabada, who graduated from our MSc Management (Public Services) in 2014. Why did you choose to do a Masters at Brighton? “I had been working as a Human Resource Management officer in the Ministry of Finance in Thailand. I won a scholarship to do a Masters degree. I searched a lot…

Stephanie Barkway on being a successful manager and putting it into practice

Stephanie Barkway graduated from Brighton Business School in 2014 with a degree in Business Management and is now working for an Asset Management company in London as a Development and Marketing Manager. “There are so many reasons why I am proud to be a University of Brighton Business School student but it is mainly because…

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Students’ Passion for Success

We are very proud of our students, they come from a diverse background but they all share a passion for success. Hear are some stories from just a few of our students. Altan Isik (Turkey) and Matthew Levett (UK)

Sam’s career is full of eastern promise

Our Alumni team recently interviewed Sam Duckett, who studied International Finance and Capital Markets with us in 2009, to talk about how he has successfully carved out a career as a radio presenter in China.

Computercentre run mock assessment centre for students

On 18 January, Computacentre ran a mock assessment centre for Business School students to help them understand recruitment processes for placements.

Young Eritreans are victims of poor decision making by British asylum officials

Jo Wilding, University of Brighton The Home Office has been criticised for a policy which excluded Eritrean children evicted from the Calais Jungle camp from resettlement in the UK. Documents obtained by the Public Law Project show how asylum decisions for Eritreans have been based on questionable information about conditions in the country.