Events

Grow your creative business

28 November 2022
Monday
5.30–7.30pm
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill

An evening of accelerator techniques and opportunities to help grow your business in the current difficult economic climate. Join the University of Brighton’s Help to Grow team and others to network and learn more. To find our more about the Help to Grow programme visit: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/business-services/help-to-grow.aspx

Enhancing customer experiences with immersive experiences

1 December 2022
Thursday
10am–1pm
Worthing

This masterclass will explore what we really mean by the term immersive experience and how it relates across the tourism and hospitality industries. It will also look at how visual and sound technologies are adding new dimensions and sensorial layers that enhance visitor and customer experience. Delivered by Karina Rodriguez Echavarria

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for small businesses and organisations

7 December 2022
Wednesday
10am–12pm
Online (Zoom)

In this short but practical and interactive conversation, full of real examples and stories, we will explore what AI is and how some of its tools are ready for use now in our businesses and organisations. From chatbots to sentiment analysis, from augmented reality to metaverses, you will hear real stories from how businesses in the UK and beyond are taking the first steps in artificial intelligence to enhance and innovate their product and service offerings. Many owners and leaders in small businesses think Artificial Intelligence (AI) is somewhere around the corner. But AI is already here, and many businesses are already making use of it. Not the science fiction version with robots walking the streets and flying through the air, but tangible tools that can help a business become more effective. It is early days for AI, so perhaps it is time for you to get up-to-date and maybe slightly ahead of the curve. This is an important workshop to attend if you want to find out more about artificial intelligence and its uses in the business world.

Help to Grow: Future-proofing your business - embracing sustainability and rediscovering your purpose

7 December 2022
Wednesday
2–5pm
Moulsecoomb campus

Build a more sustainable future for your business. Find out how to future-proof your business with ecopreneur and climate coach, Laura Gelder Robertson, and sustainability author and lecturer, Andrew Grantham.

Creative Pause! – lived menopause experiences

7 December 2022
Wednesday
6–7.30pm
The Bevy Pub, Brighton

Menopause is a major part of the life course, yet its wellbeing implications remain poorly understood and this leads to negative impacts on lives across the world. There is a lack of understanding of lived experience and a lack of visible stories about menopause in literary texts and the arts and so menopause as a stage in the life course remains obscured. This talk responds to a growing body of evidence that suggests that enabling people to engage in the creative arts, including storytelling, may have beneficial impacts on health and wellbeing and reports on a project at the University of Brighton that evaluated the wellbeing of women who took part in creative workshops where they were supported to tell stories about their lived experiences of menopause.

Understanding inequalities in healthcare and the hidden populations

8 December 2022
Thursday
9.30–11.30am
The Bridge Leisure Centre, Horsham

This workshop explores the stark inequalities which exist in the health service and how unconscious patterns which drive human behaviour affect health outcomes. It will look at recent research on how a range of social factors affect adult health behaviours, and how biases we all hold, including those of healthcare professionals can impact on health outcomes. Delivered by Dr Shanu Sadhawi, University of Brighton

Enhancing your customer offer: water, wellbeing and the great outdoors

9 December 2022
Friday
10am–1pm
Littlehampton

This masterclass will help you to consider new ideas and developments to your offer to existing and new customers. It will help you to maximise your unique selling points, new ideas and collaborations. This session will be most useful for those running hotels, campsites and other accommodation providers as well as those involved in organising tours and experiences, it addition to businesses located on or near the coast. Delivered by Dr Catherine Kelly

Meaningful encounters with technology in the home

16 December 2022
Friday
10am–12pm
The Rooms, Worthing, West Sussex

This workshop explores how we live with technology in the home, particularly in relation to assisted technologies. Using findings and recommendations from a recent project which monitored older peoples use in sheltered accommodation, the session will further explore the wider issue about the success of technology being dependant on human and social elements. Delivered by Dr Ralitsa Hetiva Ralitsa, University of Sussex and Dr David Harley, University of Brighton

Equality, diversity and inclusivity

19 January 2023
Thursday
10am–12pm
Aldingbourne

This masterclass will explore the business benefits to understanding and appealing to a truly diverse audience in your customers, suppliers, partners and other stakeholders. Looking at this both from within an organisation and the people you recruit and work with, and the many other business relationships you have, this masterclass will support you in understanding the links between diversity and inclusion, innovation and business growth. Delivered by Diversity and Ability

Becoming a more sustainable business

19 January 2023
Thursday
1–4pm
Aldingbourne

This masterclass will unpack the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and consider how these can improve your business operations, efficiency and enhance your brand. It will also explore the challenges and practical actions you can take towards embedding sustainability in your business, including managing waste and resources. Delivered by Dr Ryan Woodard

New technologies to enhance business operations

25 January 2023
Wednesday
10am–12pm
Worthing

This masterclass will explore how some of the latest Internet of Things (IoT) and User Experience (UX) technologies are changing how visitors and customers interact, engage with, and use businesses in the sector through innovations that make the customer experience easier and more convenient. Delivered by Dr Rageshree Sinha