The Brighton Business School wins School of the Year

At the Student Union Awards held on the 15th May at The Komedia, Brighton Business School was presented with the School of the Year award!! 

The School was commended for developing new and innovative ways to get feedback from students, and for holding events throughout the year that successfully recorded student course level feedback. The School has also offered huge support for students looking to run events like the end-of-year ball. Professor Toni Hilton, the new Head of School, said she was absolutely thrilled and wants to pass on her congratulations to you all on your achievement. 

We also had two staff members and two students nominated for individual awards.  Ya Gao (Angela) for her innovative teaching methodologies, Julie Fowlie for her inspirational teaching, Jessica Akinboyewa, Brighton SU volunteer of the year, and Shile Gbelee, Volunteer Officer of the year. While they did not win their category, each received an outstanding citation of which they should be justly proud.

We did have another win though – the Law Society won Society of the Year for their outstanding performance which included raising £6000 for charity

Staff with the award at the ceremony

Full details can be found here  

Bright ideas can net cash rewardsA new baby changing bag, a global penfriend scheme and turning plastic waste into new consumer products are just some of the ideas vying for cash prizes.

The competition, managed by the University of Brighton’s Enterprise (Beepurple) team, within the Careers Service, aims to reward innovation and turn good ideas into reality. The first three winners will collect prizes of £2000, £1000 and £500 from Santander Universities plus packages of support from local entrepreneurs and specialist businesses.

Debbie Wright, finalist in the Santander University of Brighton Ideas Competition

Debbie Wright, studying an MBA in Leadership, is one of five finalists in the Santander University of Brighton Ideas Competition and pitched her business concept to judges on 10 May. We are delighted to announce that Debbie was one of the successful winners of the competition.

Debbie said: “The Ideas competition is a great opportunity for students and graduates. I can’t believe I’ve made the final and looking forward to pitching my idea.” She thanked her lecturers in the University’s Brighton Business School, Tove Sorensen-Bentham and Graham Clifford for their support.

Winning Business School students show Downing Street how we can use wasted food

Pictured left to right, students Harry Kimberley-Bowen, Tom Meades and Debbie Wright

Finalists in a University of Brighton ‘bright ideas’ contest visited 10 Downing Street to discuss student entrepreneurship. One explained his idea of turning the seven million tonnes of food thrown away each year into nutritious juices.

The students met Government business advisor Jimmy McLoughlin on the invitation of Enterprise Nation, the business support tool available free to all student and graduate entrepreneurs from the University.

The students discussed their product/business ideas which qualified them as finalists in the competition, managed by the University’s Enterprise Team within the Careers Service and which aims to reward innovation and turn good ideas into reality.

The five finalists later pitched their business ideas to a panel of judges from the local business community. First prize of £2000 went to Brighton Business School’s Harry Kimberley-Bowen with his ‘Frugly’, which aims to tackle food waste by creating healthy, nutritious and affordable juices.

His research showed that in the UK, seven million tonnes of food is thrown away each year with up to 40 per cent of fruit and veg’ not making it from farms to supermarket shelves due to its ‘ugly’ appearance –1.4 million bananas are binned because they are bruised. He said: “I want to turn this rescued fruit and ‘veg into juice”.

Harry, studying Business Management with Marketing BSc(Hons), and other winners received cash prizes from Santander Universities plus packages of support from local entrepreneurs and specialist businesses.

Angela Gao presents paper at BAFA national conferenceAngela Gao presented a paper on executive compensation and political connection in Chinese listed firms, co-authored with Professor Marc Cowling, in Westminster Central Hall, London, on BAFA 50th Anniversary Annual Conference in April. The conference is a well-established and recognised national Conference in Accounting and Finance. 

It is highly selective to be accepted to present on this conference. Speakers from many leading UK universities presented on this conference, including University of Oxford, LSE, University of Manchester, etc.

Full details about the conference can be found here: http://bafa.conferencespot.org , http://bafa.ac.uk

Angela presenting her paper and with fellow presenters at the BAFA conference

3rd Annual BBS Learning and Teaching Conference 2018 on 6th July: Registration Now Available

This year the conference will be take place at Grand Parade on Friday 6th July. It will be another all day affair followed by a BBQ in the gardens, the conference is open to all staff.

The theme of this year’s conference will be “the future of the Business School”. If anyone would like to make any contribution either around this theme, or beyond then please email Julie Fowlie (copying in Chris Matthews).

We are delighted to confirm the following Key Note presentations

Professor Toni Hilton – Head of Brighton Business School – Welcoming Key Note Katie Piatt  – e-Learning Services Manager, Jason Bailey & Marion Curdy– Learning

Technologies Advisors – Learning Analytics the next steps for BBS

Also at the conference we will make the presentations for the 2017/2018 awards to:  

Learning & Teaching Awards Winners: Rob HaywardBobby KahlonCath MatthewsMona RashidiradAsher RospigliosiPascal Stiefenhofer

Professional Support Staff Awards Winners: Stuart BullenRachel CarverDonna ClarkeLucy Fullbrook

You can Register Here for the conference.

BBS Showcase 2018The DB150 Business Project culminates in a presentation of work developed through the year with the very best presentations selected for a showcase of excellence. This year’s showcase event was held on Tuesday 24 April, and Clare Millington said a very special thank you to all staff, students and invited guests for making the DB150 Showcase such a success.

The presentation panel members included Kurt Henderson of Kompass and Susan Trapp of Hubble who travelled down from London and Jaspreet Paul, who is busy completing coursework and preparing for his finals.

Each student that presented received a letter of commendation from the Head of School. Congratulations go to all of the students on their successful projects and presentations.

The presentation panel

2 of the business project groups that presented

BBS staff nominated for Excellence in Facilitating and Empowering Learning Awards 2018

We are delighted to announce that 4 members of our academic staff have been nominated for an Excellence in Facilitating and Empowering Learning Award 2018. Students and colleagues made the nominations and our nominees are:

Dan BennettRachael CardenAJ CilliersDavid Foster

All nominees across the University will be judged by a panel and 10 prizes of £250.00 will be awarded to the winners.

Winners will be presented with certificates at the University’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference on Friday 13 July 2018, which provides the institution with an opportunity to formally congratulate them on this achievement.

GOOD LUCK to all of our nominees.

Exciting new research award

Pascal Stiefenhofer has been awarded “The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Award 2018” which allows him to conduct international collaborative research on a project entitled:

“Financing Education for the Children of the Working Poor; A Comparative Analysis between Japan and the UK.”

 This project aims to establish a theoretical framework in which to study an economic scenario where the economic agents are endowed with unstable economic and social conditions. In our scenario, we consider the children of the working poor to satisfy these conditions. Very little is known about these members of society, in fact no official statistics about this group exist, and their economic and social circumstances are poorly documented. At the case of a comparative analysis between Japan and the UK, Principal Investigator Pascal Stiefenhofer and Co- Principal Investigator Professor Kaori Suetomi from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan, aim at establishing path-breaking results.

Congratulations to Pascal.

Charles Barrow – new text book published!

Charles Barrow has recently had published by Routledge (with Ann Lyon from Plymouth University) a new undergraduate textbook Modern Employment Law. The aim of the text is to provide the inquisitive undergraduate with a more detailed and analytical analysis of employment law than is currently available in the textbook market. Charles has used his published research on the contract of employment and on the collective aspects of employment to develop a more thought-provoking approach to contemporary issues in employment law. Charles has now published 5 books on employment law and is currently working on a new edition of his text Industrial Relations Law.

Professor Andros Gregoriou joins the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge

Professor Andros Gregoriou at Brighton Business School has been invited to join the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. The research centre is a world leading network of leading academics and practitioners who specialise in policy implications of academic research. Professor Gregoriou joins as a leading expert on financial markets. This will enhance the research profile of Brighton Business School and will hopefully bring exciting research and enterprise opportunities.

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