What to Expect from the Social Work Interviews: Hear from our Students

Your journey to starting the Social Work course here at Brighton begins with an interview. This is a chance to go beyond your grades on paper and helps us find out more about your motivations and readiness to work in the field. But that’s not all, the interview is also for you. It’s an opportunity for you to find out more about what the course is all about and allows you to get more of a feel for studying here at Brighton.    Continue reading “What to Expect from the Social Work Interviews: Hear from our Students” →

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The Welcome Week Experience for Brighton’s Social Work BSc Students

Starting university is a big step and here at Brighton we aim to make sure that every student feels supported and excited about starting this journey with us.  

Our Welcome Week helps form a sense of belonging, giving you opportunities to get to know your fellow peers on the Social Work BSc course and ease the transition into university life.   Continue reading “The Welcome Week Experience for Brighton’s Social Work BSc Students” →

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University of Brighton researcher part of team examining transformative justice for women

An arts-based approach to Transformative Justice can improve social cohesion and shows promise for reintegrating women with convictions into their communities, according to new report.

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Women with convictions, including those who have served custodial sentences, have complex needs. They account for 13% of deaths of people on post-release supervision yet women represent under 5% of the prison population. Community responses are identified as the most effective to prevent reoffending, but community provision is inconsistent.
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Podcast guest spot for lecturer

Principal lecturer, Dr Anthony Leaker, recently appeared as a guest on a Heterodox Academy podcast.

Anthony is the author of Against Free Speech and for the podcast was in conversation with John Tomasi.

Anthony and John explore how free speech and reason, historically viewed as pillars of liberal democracy, can sometimes obscure deep-seated structural inequalities.
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Counselling PGDips online event

Join us at our online event on 30 October between 2pm and 4pm to learn more about:

During the event you will be able to:

  • watch live presentations
  • have the opportunity to ask your questions.
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Accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, our PGDips prepare you to work as a professional counsellor.

Learn more and book your place. 

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How Brighton’s Creative Writing MA inspired Harry Hillery’s ongoing work

“My favourite part of the course was the Writer in Residence module because this established that there was an appetite for remembrance work around the HIV / AIDS epidemic in the Brighton area, which became the basis for my dissertation and led me to create an archive and remembrance page for Brighton.”

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Criminology lecturer looks at undercover policing in new book

Dr Raphael Schlembach has published a new book Spycops, written from the perspective of the ‘policed’ and in it he draws on his first-hand experience of police infiltration through his participation in climate campaigns. Join him and author and trade union activist Donna McLean at the launch on 17 May.

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Brighton Fringe exhibition showcases psychology lecturer’s eye-opening work on Pavlov’s Dogs

Dr Matt Adams’ work is being shown as part of this year’s festival in the exhibition Pavlov and the Kingdom of Dogs that tells an untold story from the history of science and psychology (9 May – 7 June at 35 North Gallery).

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“Whether it’s discussing feminism, sustainable development, or the intricacies of human rights systems, every lesson felt like a revelation”

We spoke to current Globalisation: Politics, Conflict and Human Rights MA student Rochel Canagasabey about how he’s finding the course, and he says that from day one it has been a profound exploration.

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Politics at Brighton presents Meet the Candidate: James MacCleary, Liberal Democrat

The University of Brighton’s Politics course team and the student-led European Political Affairs Society introduce the second candidate in their series ahead of the general election – and this time it’s local Liberal Democrat James MacCleary.

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“My lecturers are some of the most interesting people I have ever met…the topics we study are so up my street I want to be doing further reading!”

Lily is in the first year of a Politics, Sexuality and Gender degree and tells us why she chose it and how it’s going living and studying in Brighton.

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Lecturer Jo Kellond leads conversation between authors on queer psychoanalysis

Course leader of our Politics, Gender and Sexuality degree, Dr Jo Kellond, recently facilitated an event with psychoanalysts and authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini on their new book Gender without Identity, which calls for an overturning of what they describe as psychoanalysis’s history of homotransphobia.

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Student Amy Egan asks, how is the University of Brighton managing its approach to AI?

English Literature and Creative Writing student Amy has written an article for her Citizen Journalism module on how the institution is responding to artificial intelligence, speaking to Dr David Walker, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Education and Students and fellow English student Angelica.

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