Graduates from the Faculty of Science and Engineering are often featured in the Brighton Graduate magazine, as well as occasionally in local and national press. Here’s a selection of featured graduates from the faculty:
Sarah Purnell - Environmental Hazards BSc(Hons)
School of Environment and Technology
Sarah graduated in 2007 with a first class honours degree and received the School of the Environment’s prize for achievement in Environmental Hazards.
For her final year research project Sarah applied a novel ‘source tracking’ method to investigate the problem of water pollution for a Sussex harbour over a period of six months. The method was developed by university researchers, who hope it will lead to better ways of predicting the impact of future storms on drinking and bathing water quality. Sarah explains the process:
“It was a very effective technique and produced accurate results. The method was very time dependent so it involved a lot of travelling back and forth from the harbour to the laboratory to incubate the bacteria within a four hour time period.
“It’s been great to be working on something that I am interested in and really enjoyed. The degree has been very practical and the experience I have gained from this project and field trips to Sicily and Greece have been invaluable.”
Following her success, Sarah is now looking forward to taking the work further during her postgraduate research studies at the university.
Richard Bartlett - Civil Engineering
School of Environment and Technology
Since graduating in 1990, Richard’s engineering career has taken him all over the
world. He’s followed projects from cities in the west (London, Paris and Turin) to the Far East (Japan, Singapore and Thailand).
Jonathan Farr - Sports Technology BSc(Hons)
School of Environment and Technology
A new football boot prototype, the RF5, will encourage players to consider injury
protection as highly as performance when choosing footwear.
If you would like to be included in a next edition of The Brighton Effect or have recently been featured in the news, please do contact us and let us know. We are always looking for graduate stories, both big and small.
