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The world’s largest underground skate park

A disused Victorian swimming bath complex has been turned into the world’s largest underground skate park – with help from the University of Brighton. Source: The world’s largest underground skate park

Sport Business Master Class Challenge Mentoring

On Wednesday 3 February Albion in the Community, the Community Trust for Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, invited four local colleges to attend a business master class day at the University of Brighton’s Falmer Campus. The colleges included Albion in the Community Scholars, Sussex Coast College Hastings, Worthing College and City College. Second year…

Joint initiative to develop educational podcasts for older people

Tracy Szekely, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy and Sarah-Jane Ryan, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy have been involved with a Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex funded project which is developing educational podcasts for members of the multidisciplinary team (MDTea!) who work with older people. The podcasts will cover a wide range of topics for example…

Top award for disability campaigner

Award-winning actor, presenter and campaigner Adam Pearson has received the university’s Alumnus Award for 2016. Source: Top award for disability campaigner

PE on wheels…

PGCE and School Direct PE students were introduced to the relatively new concept of physical education on wheels. Many young people are physically active out of school and engaged in mountain biking, BMX biking, skateboarding, in-line skating, street surfing and scootering and yet very few schools have recognised this as a means to increase pupils…

Helping to market East African countries as a single tourist destination

In February 2016, Professor Marina Novelli was invited by the East Affrica Tourism Platform (EATP) to facilitate a discussion on ‘Steering East Africa as a Single and Competitive Destination’ at Kigali, Rwanda. The forum addressed questions on the feasibility and viability of East Africa as one tourism destination and the sense it makes to key…

Graduation success for Occupational Therapy

On February 11th students from both our pre-registration courses who completed their studies in the summer received their degrees at the University of Brighton Winter Awards Ceremony. Staff attended too and were delighted to hear how well they were all doing. From the information that we have we know that for the graduates from…

Sarah Brown honoured

Sarah Brown was awarded an honorary degree for her campaigning on global youth education and healthcare. Source: Sarah Brown honoured

Martial Arts Studies: Gender Issues in Theory and Practice Seminar

On the 5th of February, the Centre of Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton hosted the first event in a series of seminars run by the new, AHRC-funded Martial Arts Studies Research Network, entitled Martial Arts Studies: Gender Issues in Theory and Practice. Dr Alex Channon and Dr Christopher R. Matthews, both…

Trainee PE Teachers engage in post-16 PE conference

PGCE and School Direct PE students attended a one day conference on 5 February that addressed the teaching of post-16 accredited PE courses. Attempts to establish the academic credentials of physical education have existed in debates amongst professionals for well over 20 years but it has now become standard practice for teachers to teach theoretical principals through…