Sport Journalism BA(Hons)

Owen Evans, Course Leader
Owen is a sports business academic and ex-professional sports journalist. He was editor for SportBusiness International magazine, the oldest magazine covering the business of sport, and covered major events including the 2012 London Olympics and the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Before that he was a news reporter for three years with Northcliffe Media, reporting mainly for the Surrey Mirror. He holds a MSc in Sport Management and the Business of Football from Birkbeck College, University of London, and also completed his NCTJ pre-entry certificate from News Associates. Previously he has been a returning guest speaker on postgraduate programmes such as CIES (Centre for International Sports Studies) Fifa Master, The MESGO (Master of European Sport Governance) and Vrije Universiteit’s Master in Sport, Economics and Communication.

Owen is the Sport Journalism BA(Hons) course leader and lectures on the Multimedia Journalism, Introduction to Sport Journalism, Public Administration, Journalism in Practice, Research Methods for Journalists, Digital Journalism, Critical Investigation, Cross-platform Journalism and Advanced Sports Journalism modules.

Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer
Rob Steen is an award-winning sports journalist and one of the world’s leading cricket writers. For 30 years he has worked extensively for the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times among others.

Winner of the 2005 EU Journalism Award (UK section) ‘for diversity, against discrimination’, a long-time columnist for Cricinfo and blogger at rocksbackpages.com, he has also written more than a dozen sports books including David Gower – A Man Out of Time (winner of the 1995 Cricket Society Literary award), Spring Summer Autumn (1991 William Hill Sports Book of the Year runner-up) and an acclaimed textbook, Sports Journalism – A Multimedia Primer (second edition published in December 2014).

Rob has peer-reviewed articles for journals such as African and Asian Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Convergence, and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. He is currently working on a PhD.

Jed Novick, Senior Lecturer
Jed Novick has vast newspaper and magazine experience that encompasses the likes of the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer and the Daily Express.

A contributor to Sport and Society, Jed has written a number of football books in addition to acclaimed studies of Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, Michael Palin, and Morecambe and Wise. He has set up four national magazines and a publishing company.

Jed’s most recent work is The Cambridge Companion to Football, which he co-edited and wrote with Rob Steen. They are both now working on The Rutledge Handbook of Sports Journalism as Jed studies for a masters in creative writing.

About Eastbourne

Sunny, friendly and relaxed, there’s lots to do and enjoy in Eastbourne – music and arts festivals, theatre, galleries and sports – and all against the backdrop of the beach and the beautiful South Downs.

Eastbourne hosts some major sporting events, from Eastbourne Extreme – one of the biggest extreme sports festivals in the UK – to Eastbourne International, an annual tennis tournament where some of the world’s finest players prepare for Wimbledon.

Eastbourne has a close-knit community feel. From where ever you are on campus every place you need to go is around 15 minutes away on foot – the beach, the town centre and the South Downs. There is a great selection of clubs, pubs, restaurants and shops and always plenty of student-friendly deals on offer.

Eastbourne campus

Located in one of the sunniest towns in the UK, our Eastbourne campus sits between the hills of the South Downs National Park and the south coast.

The campus has extensive sporting facilities, including a sports hall, fitness suite, climbing wall, swimming pool, three gyms, a dance studio and an artificial training pitch. For sport and exercise students, there are also exercise physiology labs, a human movement laboratory and an environmental chamber.

Podiatry students gain real-life experience in the Leaf Hospital clinic, with its comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, while physiotherapy students are taught in specialist practical skills rooms. The Culinary Arts Studio allows hospitality students to engage in workplace simulations and consumer research.

Eastbourne

Our Eastbourne hall of residence, Welkin Halls, is in the residential Meads area, next to the Hillbrow and Welkin site and within walking distance of Darley Road. The train station is about 20 minutes away on foot.

Aside from halls, you have the option of Unihomes, which we let out to our students on behalf of private landlords. 

You can also choose to join the many students who live away from campus in private rented accommodation. We have a list of high-quality, university-endorsed private sector accommodation and can help you find housemates to move in with.

Find out more on our Eastbourne accommodation webpages, and if you have any questions, our accommodation team will be happy to help. You can contact them by email at accomeastbourne@brighton.ac.uk or by telephone on 01273 643810.