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Football 4 Peace and Sustainable Tourism Development in The Gambia

In December, a group of 27 students and staff on the Niche Tourism module at the School of Sport & Service Management returned to the Gambia to work alongside 12 local stakeholders from the Village of Kartong. The aim was to produce a series of sustainable development plans for the community. One was to develop…

New publication: Values in Youth Sport and Physical Education

Values in Youth Sport and Physical Education, published December 2013, was co-edited by Jean Whitehead (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Brighton School of Sport and Service Management), John Lambert (Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Education, School of Sport and Service Management and Hamish Telfer (ex-University of Cumbria). As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialised so…

School of Sport and Service Management lecturer leads England’s Triathletes at Glasgow 2014

Glenn Cook, part of the sports coaching staff at the School of Sport and Service Management, has been appointed as the England Triathlon Team Head Coach at the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow. This will be Glenn’s third Commonwealth Games following on from his work in this role at the Manchester 2002 and Melbourne 2006…

Retail Trends Exhibition

As part of their final year assessment retail students held a ‘Retail Trends’ exhibition which was attended by members of the public and the university. Each stand focussed on a different key trend which included the growth of the counterfeit goods market, the use of technology in retail, fast fashion, cause related marketing and the growth of home baking…

Student successes

We are helping final year student Harira to access £10,000 from UnLtd; the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK. Harira will use the start up funds to realise her ambition of becoming an independent retailer. Our congratulations also go to another final year student Ben who has landed his dream job as Retail…

Retail Placements

The returning placement students have been working hard on their portfolios to demonstrate their learning, after spending 48-weeks in the retail industry. They have had some fantastic placements at organisations including Majestic Wines, Walt Disney in Florida, Aldi, Harrods, MIH Jeans and Sainsbury. Some have been offered jobs with the organisations and will be heading back to…

Guest speakers

Guest speakers are just one of the ways we help students put learning into practice and we invite a huge variation of influential figures to the school to talk to our students. Filip Jikinsky, a former graduate and Operations Executive for Lidl in the Czech Republic flew in to give a talk and some handy tips on success in the job market. He…

Fieldtrip to Clothes Show Live

In December retail students took a fieldtrip to Clothes Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham. On route the coach stopped off at Bicester Shopping Village which is home to more than 130 top-name boutiques. Miranda Markham, the Shopping Village’s Community Relations Director, gave a presentation to the retail students and everyone was given a VIP card with an extra 10% off their shopping. The voucher was put to…

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