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Our technical staff

The University of Brighton has a highly skilled technical workforce, and our technical community is essential to the success of the university and underpin both our learning and teaching activities as well as our research endeavours. They are experts in their areas of work, providing support and training to both students and staff in learning, teaching and research as well as ensuring the daily upkeep of school specialist skills equipment and facilities.

The technical staff make up almost 10% of the staff base in schools and encompass a diverse range of technical expertise from weaving to robotics to clinical skills. There are over 130 members of technical staff distributed within five of the seven academic schools in the University of Brighton.

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Technical staff by school

School of Applied Sciences

Technicians in the School of Applied Sciences support teaching, research, and enterprise across a diverse range of fields including biology, biomedical science, chemistry, ecology and conservation, geography, the Earth, environment, and pharmacy.

They ensure the continuing upkeep of the schools’ facilities and provide expertise and demonstration in areas such as HPLC, Tissue Culture, Flow Cytometry, Mass Spectrophotometry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Electron microscopy, microbiology XRF and ICP.

School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering

The technical staff within the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering manage a range of specialist facilities on the Moulsecoomb campus.

They support a broad range of activities which include: building and land surveying, mechanical, electrical and electronic design and manufacture, materials testing (civil and mechanical), product design, rapid prototyping, interior and architectural design.

They also provide technical support and demonstration of specialist skills for our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes alongside research and enterprise.

School of Art and Media

The School of Art and Media technical team provide technical support across four subject areas: fashion textiles and 3D, fine art, media and visual communications. Providing specialist inductions, demonstrations and skill sessions to our undergraduate, postgraduate students and support to our research and enterprise.

They manage and support a wide range of specialist technical facilities which include: film and photographic studios, digital manufacturing, wood metal and ceramics workshops, printmaking, painting studios, weaving knitting workshops including industrial machinery, fashion workshops, book arts letter press and digital typography.

School of Education

The School of Education technical staff provide ancillary technical support for a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate and apprenticeship courses for training teachers. They are also involved in the health and safety, and compliance aspects of our workshops and laboratories. Their specialist areas are science, maths art, design and technology and computer science.

School of Sport and Health Sciences

The technical staff within the School of Sport and Health Sciences provide support for teaching, research, consultancy and enterprise across five subject areas nursing sciences, sport and physical activity, health and rehabilitation, acute care, and health wellbeing and resilience.

They manage a range of specialist facilities on the Eastbourne and Falmer sites, including the Welkin sport science laboratories, Ward Hall strength and conditioning gym, nutrition suite, clinical skills rooms, simulation suites and Leaf Hospital. They ensure the continual upkeep of all the equipment across these facilities and provide technical support and demonstration of specialist skills for our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes alongside research and enterprise.

Technician Commitment

What is it?

The Technician Commitment is a university and research institution initiative, led by a steering board of sector bodies, with support from the Science Council and the Technicians Make It Happen campaign. The commitment aims to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.

The University of Brighton recognises that it has a highly skilled technical workforce that is essential to its success, which is why the university become a signatory to the Technician Commitment in 2019.

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Find out more information about the Technician Commitment (technicians.org.uk).

University aim and action plan

The development of the technical community at the University of Brighton is a fundamental part of the university’s strategy for developing our staff talent and has been embedded in both the previous university strategy and forms part of the strategic goals for the next five years.

Following the production of a self-assessment document which included consultation with all its technical staff, the university has produced an action plan detailing how it plans to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability of all technical staff at the university.

Download our action plan (pdf)

Progress

2019

  • December - the University of Brighton became a signatory of the Technicians Commitment.

2020

  • March - a steering group for the Technicians Commitment is set up, chaired by Dr Kirsty Smallbone, with technical representation from every school at a variety of grades. Work also commences on the self assessment process and action plan.
  • December - the Technician Awards was created and went live as part of the universities award cycle.

2021

  • May - the self assessment document and action plan was approved by the University Executive Board and the Technicians Commitment Steering Board.
  • August - the Technical Staff Network website was created to allow for the sharing of information, opportunities, and best practice between technical staff across the university.
  • November - the university was presented with an award of submission at the Technician Commitment signatory event.

Contacts

For more information about our technical staff please feel free to contact them directly.

School of Applied Sciences

Technical Manager

Cathy Peters

Please email: c.f.peters@brighton.ac.uk

School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering

Laboratory Services Manager

Peter Mathers
Please email: p.mathers@brighton.ac.uk

Principal Technician (Network Manager)

David Stansbury
Please email: d.stansbury@brighton.ac.uk

Technical Manager

Simon Vincent
Please email: s.vincent@brighton.ac.uk

School of Art and Media

Technical Manager

Tim Lane

Please email: t.r.lane@brighton.ac.uk

School of Education

Technical Manager

Kayleigh Morley

Please email: k.morley2@brighton.ac.uk

School of Sport and Health Sciences

Technical Manager

Rob Jefford

Please email: r.jefford@brighton.ac.uk

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