University of Brighton

Five students from the School of Architecture and Design discuss their online End of Year Graduate Show and reflect on their time at the university.  

Visit the online exhibition from 4pm Fri 3 July: https://architecture-design.brighton.ac.uk/

Dr Rob Hayward, Senior Lecturer in the university's Brighton Business School, reacts to the government's announcement this week of lockdown easing from the point of view of businesses and the UK economy, and discusses the state of the world's finances and recession.

In the latest podcast, we're joined by Psychology with Counselling Studies lecturer Dr Zoe Boden to talk about relationships and mental health during COVID-19.

To coincide with Graduate Show 2020, which has moved online this year due to COVID-19, we caught up with three students involved in the virtual exhibition: Sophie Walker (Illustration), Sarahlouise Newman (Visual Culture and History of Art and Design) and Josh Bell (Digital Music and Sound Arts) to discuss the show itself, their work and to reflect on their time at the University of Brighton.

Take a look around the virtual Graduate Show.

Find out more about Sophie's work on Instagram and visit her website.

Find out more about Sarahlouise's work on Instagram, Twitter and her website.

Find out more about Josh's work on Instagram, YouTube, Spotify and his website.

Dr Nigel Jarvis, Tourism, Hospitality and Events Course Leader, talks about the impact the coronavirus pandemic will have on the UK tourism industry and the financial impact it will have.

As mentioned in the intro, take a look at the Online Events and Virtual Tours.

In the latest podcast, we spoke to 3D Design and Craft BA(Hons) second year student Jim Kernott about his course and appearing on Netflix show The Big Flower Fight.

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, we spoke to Head of Counselling and Wellbeing Jo Tomlinson, Brighton Students’ Union Vice-President for Welfare Onyinye Okonkwo and Eastbourne campus Practice Nurse Antonia Berelson to discuss this year’s theme - kindness - and the Covid-19 Positivity Challenge.

Find out more about getting support from the university and the Big White Wall.

In the latest podcast, Ravina Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, discusses the use of existing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic and the politics which could come with it.

Ravina is currently volunteering as a medical research ethicist for the health research authority, which provides ethical approval for all coronavirus studies in the UK.

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The Principal Lecturer in Atmospheric Science talks about the changes in air quality during the coronavirus pandemic and reveals some surprising results.

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Microbiologist and virologist Dr Sarah Pitt, who’s also Chief Examiner Virology at the Institute of Biomedical Science answers your questions on COVID-19.