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A bubble-licious hospitality evening!

Students and staff from the School of Sport and Service management were treated with what was probably the largest Champagne tasting session ever to be held at the school, courtesy of the Champagne Bureau and organised by Dr Ioannis S Pantelidis FIH, with the help of seven hospitality management student volunteers. Over 90 postgraduate and undergraduate…

Using football to help refugees

Representatives from UEFA, the governing body of European football, will be taking part in a University of Brighton event focusing on how football can help the refugee crisis. The workshop event will take place at the Amex Stadium, the home of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, on November 25 and is being supported by the…

Visit from Sky Sports’ Senior PR Manager

The University of Brighton welcomed guest speaker Stuart Mawhinney, Senior PR Manager for Sky Sports last week. Mawhinney has led multi-million pound marketing campaigns, as well as managing internal and external relationships with famous footballers such as John Terry.

Inaugural Hospitality Lecture

The School of Sport and Service Management in collaboration with the Institute of Hospitality (IoH) Sussex Branch, held its first hospitality lecture on the Eastbourne campus. Speakers included Trisha Bennet from Hospitality Assured, Karren Fewell from Digital Blonde, and Bob Cotton OBE who transformed hospitality through his work with the British Hospitality Association and holds…

PE and Dance PGCE students learn that ‘writing is like fighting’

This week’s lesson on writing skills saw the university’s PE and Dance PGCE students learning several principles of essay writing in an unusual, but in some ways fitting environment. Playing to the strengths of the students’ ability to think about and reflect on physical movement, Drs Alex Channon, Christopher Matthews and Anastasiya Khomutova took the students…

Behind the scenes at Source Park

On Wednesday 19 October 2016 first year Sport Management students had a trip to Source BMX Park which is located in the seaside town of Hastings. The purpose of the visit was to put the stakeholder theory learnt in lectures into a practical example to develop understanding of the different ways organisations are run. The visit…

Football, Corruption and Lies

World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology…

Harold should have won the Battle of Hastings

On the day of the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, The Head of the School of Sport & Service Management, Professor Jonathan Doust, has been wondering how King Harold might have fared if he had the science and nutritional support now commonplace in the 21st century. Harold had to march his army…

Royal honour for Nick

Professor Nick Webborn has been honoured with an OBE at Buckingham Palace. The award was presented by the Duke of Cambridge for services to Paralympic Sports Medicine and the British Paralympic Association. Prince William thanked him for his work and commented “and so all these medals are down to you!”

Day visitors to Brighton and Hove fall by a million

School of Sport and Service Management Senior Lecturer, Dr Nigel Jarvis, tells The Argus why! Read the story