Channel magazine

March/April 2009

Channel, the University of Brighton magazine.

Estates programme takes shape

Over £60m is planned to improve the university's estate, and two major building projects are now well underway.

League tables uncovered

League tables should come with a health warning says Deborah Smith, the university Planning and Data Analyst from the Strategic Planning department. Channel finds out why things are not always what they seem.

A class act

A PhD student who survived a devastating earthquake in this native Taiwan and two university laboratory technicians working in the same department who graduated with the same masters are just some of the many success stories from this year's winter award ceremonies

The student experience

A Samaritans-style, out of hours telephone service for students and a scheme which encourages students to get fit outdoors – these are just some of the Students' Union projects which are financially supported by the university's segregated fees awards. Students' Union president, Phil Gilks, tells Channel how the union is improving the lot of students.

Virus 'triggers child diabetes'

A major breakthrough in identifying the causes of childhood diabetes would not have been possible without the collaboration of UK universities and academics according to one of the chief researchers on the project, Professor Adrian Bone.