Research and enterprise events

The University of Brighton hosts regular events to bring academics together with new and established audiences. We welcome anyone interested in how the university's diverse work helps reimagine and develop the world we live in.

At our campuses you can engage with our own academics and invited visitors, many with world-leading reputations. Events range from public lectures and informative exhibitions to welcoming seminars on all our disciplines. We also organise and host numerous networking events for the public, students, industry and academic guests.

Our forthcoming research and enterprise events

13 November 2019 Inaugural lecture: How psycho-oncology research helps patients with cancer Chowen Lecture Theatre
6.30pm - 8.30pm

Valerie Jenkins, Professor of Psycho-oncology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School presents her inaugural lecture:

How psycho-oncology research helps patients with cancer

'Psycho-oncology is concerned with the impact that cancer has on the emotional, psychological and social well-being of patients and their families at all stages of disease, from diagnosis, during survival and at the end of life. Research within this area is broad and ranges from understanding patients’ experiences of cancer, side effects of treatment and what can be done to help, through to improving communication and information about new treatments and trials.

In this talk, Professor Valerie Jenkins will present some of her research that involves communication about clinical trials, and other studies exploring the phenomenon of “brain fog” - a treatment related side effect?'

Chowen lecture theatre, University of Sussex Campus 6.30pm

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15 November 2019 DRIVA arts DRIVA - Smart Cities : Microbit coding Freedom Works - Gatwick, Manor Royal, Crawley. RH10 9AD
10.30am - 11.30am

DRIVA arts DRIVA Smart Cities: Microbit coding


As the world changes rapidly around us, how can the foot print of information we leave behind impact on the way new products, services and cities are designed?
Accessing data sets on transport usage, library attendance or even rainfall can help us design and create new ways to solve old problems and in this hands on focus session, we'll explore the concept of smart cities through coding.
No experience in coding is necessary - all welcome.
This session will use Microbits and will require participants to bring along a laptop that supports Chromium/Firefox and will enable downloads to a USB drive.
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20 November 2019 Inaugural lecture: Embracing the Mess Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade
6.30pm - 7.30pm

Rob Morgan, Professor of Thermal Propulsion Systems at the University of Brighton, presents his inaugural lecture

Embracing the Mess

'Engineers are clever people who create igneous solutions to practical problems.  We deal with remarkable complexity every day but don’t like a mess.  But the world is often messy and quite ill behaved.  Despite years of effort, we still face multiple crisis in protecting our health, climate, and prosperity.  By ignoring the ill-ordered nature of the world are we over-simplifying the problem and missing the obvious solutions? Good engineering alone cannot solve the world problems, but can certainly help.  Perhaps it is time for engineers to ‘embrace the mess’ to find new solutions to old problems?

Drawing from his experiences in industry and current research, Professor Robert Morgan will illustrate how tackling messy complexity can lead to unexpected solutions. Examples will include how a tank of liquid nitrogen can be turned into electricity to balance the electricity grid and how a combustion engine help solve climate change'.

Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade 6.30pm

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27 November 2019 Brains at the Bevy: Flora Merrifield and the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society Bevendean Cooperative Pub
6.00pm - 7.00pm

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Wednesday 27 November 2019 at 6pm, Frances Stenlake

This talk tells the little-known story of Flora Merrifield of 14 Clifton Terrace, Brighton. Her parents were Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s earliest supporters in the town, and Flora devoted her entire life to campaigning for women’s equality. As honorary secretary of the non-militant Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, she led the Brighton Road contingent in the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage to London in 1913, acted as secretary of the local War Relief Committee and of the 1916 Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition, then chaired the Brighton and Hove Union of Women’s Local Government and Equal Citizenship.
 
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4 December 2019 Inaugural lecture: Juliet Wright, Professor in Elderly Medicine (BSMS) tbc
6.30pm - 7.30pm

​Professor Juliet Wright's research studies focus on the assessment of frailty in the elderly HIV population and she is currently supervising two PhD students in this area. Alongside the clinical team at BSUH she has supported the development of the Silver clinic for older patients with HIV. Frailty assessment is an emerging field in elderly medicine and she has recently started working alongside Professor Malcolm Reed in a joint medicine and surgical clinic assessing older patients with breast cancer.

Professor Wright also has a research interest in the management of hypertension in the elderly with respect to cognition and the accurate assessment and management of depression. She is collaborating with King College London in a study assessing palliative care needs in the elderly population and has received grants from the NIHR as well as from industry.

Details of this event will be confirmed nearer the time.
13 January 2020 Intro to DRIVA arts DRIVA Colonnade House 47 Warwick Street Worthing BN11 3DH
1.30pm - 2.30pm

Introduction to DRIVA arts DRIVA​


Come and meet the team and find out more about the opportunity of DRIVA arts DRIVA: what support and resource is on offer and how it can benefit you commercially, creatively or both.
What could you do with access to data from one of the busiest airports in the world?
The DRIVA arts DRIVA project is unlocking sets of unique, real-time big data and helping tech innovators to build from it and arts practitioners to create experiences from it.
This free event is for anyone with an interest in the future of digital data-driven innovation, creative and immersive experiences for audiences - and the superfusion between the two. Hear from the University of Brighton team and other project partners about how DRIVA arts DRIVA can help you open up unprecedented opportunities.

Speakers:

Donna Close FRSA
Donna Close is a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Brighton School of Media specialising in projects, partnerships and research that investigates the role that creativity and cultural production processes have in cultural, social and economic impact and in amplifying value. Current projects include: CLEVER, Arts DRIVA and XR Circus.
In practice, Donna is a creative producer and cultural strategist with 25 years’ experience as an arts and culture leader working across the private and public, commercial and cultural sectors. She has held senior roles in local government, higher education, large cultural organisations, creative SMEs and community and voluntary groups.
Stuart Hedley
Stuart Hedley is the Knowledge Exchange Manager (Creative Futures) at the University of Brighton. He leads on specialist academic, practitioner and industry-based knowledge relating to Creative Futures, including but not limited to art, architecture, design, media and humanities. Stuart has a strong track record of initiating and delivering successful cross-discipline, innovative, pan-institutional initiatives and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in higher education.


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