Sport and health science courses at Brighton news

Poirot finds clues to fitness

David Suchet CBE spent a day at the University Eastbourne campus gathering tips before a charity trek to Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel in the Andes Mountains. The award-winning actor, best known for playing Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, joined other members of his family including newsreader John Suchet at the University’s Environmental Extremes Lab…

Live events from our events students!

Our second year International Event Management BA(Hons) students are putting on a range of events in Eastbourne this week as part of their studies: Jazz Up Your Night at the Towner Art Gallery Thursday 26 April 7pm-10pm

Best ever WSET results

School of Sport and Service Management hospitality students who took the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Level One awards got the best results our students have achieved for many years. The award was led by Helen Evans from Enjoy Discovering Wine and took place on the Eastbourne campus. Students across all levels of the Hospitality courses took part and…

Football for Peace professor to join UN

A Brighton professor who co-founded a global programme using football to bring peace has been invited to advise the United Nations. John Sugden, the University of Brighton’s Emeritus Professor of the Sociology of Sport, will be part of an expert group supporting the Division for Social Policy and Development of the UN’s Department of Economic…

Theo named as one of the top 50 healthcare IT leaders in Europe

Congratulations to Dr Theo Fotis, Principal Lecturer and Course leader of our Health and Management MSc who has been named as one of the top 50 healthcare leaders in Europe. You can read the full article here.

Appeal for parents with babies under three-months to volunteer for research

We are appealing to parents with babies under three-months to volunteer for research which is aimed at improving our understanding of the development of children’s feet. Volunteers will each receive £20 Love2Shop gift vouchers each time they visit our baby space at the Eastbourne campus where their feet will be looked at using state-of-the-art technology…

Football for Peace on the BBC

Professor John Sugden and Dr Gary Stidder were interviewed on At the Foot of the Cross; a BBC show broadcast on Good Friday. They spoke about the university’s Football for Peace programme. To listen to the interview scroll to 59 minutes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wgd2c

Photo of people cooling down in a river on a hot day

How can we cope with the UK’s extreme weather?

As the country reflects on a cold start to the year, scientists at the University of Brighton are looking to the summer and researching ways older people can avoid heat-related illnesses which claim 2,000 lives in the UK each year. The University is appealing to healthy volunteers aged 65 and over to volunteer for exercise…

Latest research newsletter

The January to March 2018 edition of the School of Sport and Service Management research newsletter has just been published. Features include: Hercule Poirot visits the sport and exercise science labs as part of a Para-Monte Altitude Awareness Day the launch of the Environmental Extremes Lab Blog Optimising Preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Environment Negotiating Gender…

Primary School Sports Festival

350 Eastbourne primary school pupils came to The School of Sport and Service Management to participate in a sports festival organised by Football 4 Peace International. The focus of the day’s activities was to develop an awareness of team work and personal responsibility. The children took part in a in a series of related activities including problem solving, physical…