School of Sport and Health Sciences

Green impact – gold award

Green Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme from the National Union of Students and a Falmer based team within the School of Health Sciences have participated for 3 years now. Initially, the bronze criteria was achieved, last year the Silver award and this year the Falmer team was given the Green Impact Gold! There were…

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Student successes

A Santander ‘Volunteering and Community Engagement Award’ and £500 were given to Physiotherapy student LUKE MORRISON, now in his third year. The award was for Luke’s volunteering as a second year student through active Student in the ‘Gig Buddy’ scheme co-ordinated by the local charity ‘Stay Up Late.’ Luke shared his experiences at an award…

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Staff successes

Professor ANN MOORE was awarded a CBE for services to physiotherapy. Ann retired from the School of Health Sciences (formerly School of Health Professions) last year. She is currently Emeritus Professor with the University of Brighton. She has been research lead for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy since December 2007. Ann has published extensively in…

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Ensuring a quality learning experience

Under the auspices of the European Academy of Hospitality Management, led by the University of Brighton’s School of Sport and Service Management, over 170 students are currently studying the curriculum of the school’s International Hospitality Management BA(Hons) across five different institutions.

Lecturer receives Honary Fellowship

School of Sport and Service Management Principal Lecturer, Helen Atkinson, has received an Honorary Fellowship from the Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME).

Behind the scenes at Gatwick

Students were given a unique opportunity to experience Gatwick Airport airside on a recent field trip – the trip was linked to the International Transportation module. The trip was organised by the Manager of Airside Control, Ian Hamilton, and both staff and students had to go through security checks beforehand as well as on the…

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Students win grant to make their project a reality

Four first year Sport and Exercise Science BSc(Hons) students have won an ECHO Grant to make their Fitness Fights Falls project a reality. The project is to design and implement a falls prevention programme to help the local Eastbourne community where their course is based. In the UK, falls are the most common cause of…

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Greece trip to EKO refugee camp

LESLEY WHITE (Senior Lecturer in Acute Clinical Practice) recently used annual leave to work with refugees in North Greece in a military run camp with refugees cleared from a more inclusive and organised EKO camp. The military camps are large disused barns containing rows of tents housing thousands of refugees. Conditions in hot weather can…

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Department of Health visit

HELEN WALKER, Deputy Director, Equity and Community Development, Department of Health (DoH) visited on 17th June. The visit was co-hosted by School of Health Science (SHS) researchers and colleagues from Sussex Recovery College with a focus on resilience. This included the Building Resilience and Wellness Recovery course and resilience projects linked to boingboing resilience research and…

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Starters and leavers – June 2016

CHARLENE TANTON joined us on 6th June 2016 in the post of Timetabling Officer. She joins us from Coventry University where she has had a number of years of timetabling experience. She is based in Westlain House in the admin area. Charlene will be initially focussing on West Nursing but in the fullness of time…

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