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School of Business and Law student on placement

Applications now open for the School of Business and Law placement scholarships

Are you finding it difficult to fund a year-long placement in industry? Maybe you think a placement isn’t the right option for you due to financial barriers? A year’s placement in industry helps our students to graduate with confidence, experience and contacts. Importantly, it demonstrates employability skills and readiness for work. Placements also give you…

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AI industry panel event

How to use AI in higher education and the workplace 

Technology is forever changing and artificial intelligence (AI) is central to the conversation around what’s next. Earlier this month our Marketing Management BSc course leader Liz Hawkins organised an industry panel event for a discussion on AI, titled ‘How to use AI and get away with it’. “AI will fundamentally change the world for marketing,…

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Panel event

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…

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Veronica Povey gives keynote speech to students and staff in Elm House

Women in Leadership: Finance Director at Ministry of Defence inspires students and staff

On Wednesday 29 June our students and staff were joined by Veronica Povey, Finance Director (Head Office and Strategic Programmes) at the Ministry of Defence, as part of our Women in Leadership Series. The event was hosted in Elm House, the School of Business and Law’s new home on our Moulsecoomb campus, and kicked off with…

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Spotlighting potential consumer risks from new energy retail companies

Earlier this month it was announced that two UK energy suppliers, PfP Energy and MoneyPlus Energy, were ceasing to trade, leaving 100,000 homes without an energy supplier. Ofgem, the industry regulator, will choose a new supplier for all the customers affected, but Dr Lawrence Haar argues that flaws in the business model of many new…

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Placement hunting, the ups and the downs

As the quest for graduate jobs begin, I’m left reflecting on my placement year and how I ever managed to secure such an amazing role. I should probably introduce myself, I’m Paige, a final year Marketing Management student at the University of Brighton. Let’s rewind back to second-year, it’s November 2016 and placements are the…

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Greg Allum

Guest Lecturer, Greg Allum shares his social media industry knowledge

Throughout his career, Greg has challenged paradigms by delivering ambitious visions and robust strategies. He has worked in-house at market-leading brands including Sony, British Gas, Toyota and Lexus. At the heart of his journey is the passion to lead high performing teams, develop individuals through coaching and in turn delivering meaningful business outcomes. Social media…

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Leon Deakin, Coffin Mew LLP

Client Interviewing: A Professional Insight from Coffin Mew

Our Law LLB students were recently joined by Leon Deakin of Coffin Mew LLP for their second client interviewing workshop. Having studied History as an undergraduate Leon took the Law conversion route to being a solicitor via the PGDL and then LPC at the College of Law London. After some work experience in the larger London firms…

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Accelerating innovation and insights for the digital future

University of Brighton’s Business School is proud to be one of five UK universities chosen as the first of SAP’s Next-Gen Chapters in the EMEA region. We will be working closely with the SAP University Competence Center based in Technische Universität München to support other SAP University Alliances members in the UK to equip students…

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Brighton Business School Partners with MTD for a 2nd Year

We’re delighted to announce that multi-award winning training company MTD will be sponsoring our prize giving for the second year running. Like last year, they have kindly offered to provide two student prizes in the form of public training courses for the 2018/2019 academic year. The 2 prizes consist of a 2-day Essential Management Skills…

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