Appointment of a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sport Journalism
The schoolThe School of Sport and Service Management is one of the largest in the UK, encompassing the spectrum of subject areas defined by REF Unit 26 and the QAA benchmark statements. The school has a rich history of over 110 years with dynamic growth and refreshment. We have one of the most long-standing physical education teacher training programmes in the UK from our foundation in 1898 and this course contributes to the university’s “outstanding” grade in initial teacher education. Our programmes in Hospitality, Events Travel and Tourism have gained a significant reputation, both in the industry sector and among academics for the quality of applied research and the graduates. We established one of the UK’s first Sport Sciences degrees in the 1980s, adding one of the first Leisure programmes in the 1990’s, and more recently the first specialist degree in Sport Journalism. Wherever available we seek external accreditation and currently carry awards from the British Association of Sport & Exercise Sciences (course and laboratory awards), Chartered Marketeer, Institute for Travel and Meetings, National Council for Training of Journalists, and the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) for qualified teacher status. The school has around 1,500 undergraduate students.
Our research and graduate centre supports staff activity as well as co-ordinating a suite of masters degrees and in association with the university’s doctoral college, around 30 PhD students.In the 2014 REF the submission in UoA C26 returned an overall profile with 78% at 4*/3*.
The school has approximately 80 lecturing and research staff supported by 40 administrative, technical and other support staff.
Courses
We offer courses in the following areas:
At undergraduate
International Event Management
International Event Management with Marketing
International Event Management with Sport
International Hospitality Management
International Tourism Management
International Tourism with Travel Business
Journalism
Sport Business Management
Physical Education
Physical Education (with qualified teacher status)
Retail Management
Retail Marketing
Sports Coaching
Sport and Exercise Science
Sport and Exercise Science with PE
Sports Journalism
Sports Science
Sports Studies
At postgraduate
PGCE (Qualified teacher status) Physical Education
PGCE (Qualified teacher status) Dance
MA and MSc degrees including:
Applied Exercise Physiology
Exercise and Health Science
International Event Management
International Hospitality Management
International Tourism Management
Retail Management
Retail Marketing
Sport, Culture and Media
Sport and Exercise Science
Sport and International Development
Sport and Society
Some programmes at Masters level are also jointly delivered at partner institutions in the Netherlands (Wittenborg) and Germany (Angell Business School, Freiburg).
Our school website provides full details about all our courses, our facilities, our research activity, and our news and events. Please visit our website at:
The main part of the School is located in the pleasant surroundings of the Meads area in Eastbourne which has excellent schools, housing and leisure facilities, is adjacent to the sea and within a few minutes of the South Downs National Park. The university campus in Eastbourne includes the School of Sport and Service Management and the School of Health Professions.
The Journalism courses are located at the University’s Hastings campus. This is a vibrant, rapidly developing campus and home to over 800 studentsstudying subjects including digital and broadcast media, education, design and illustration, journalism, literature, health, biology, business, computing, mathematics and social science. The School has joined together with two other University Schools (Art, Design, Media and Computing, Engineering, Mathematics) and the Hastings campus to create an innovative and dynamic Hub for Journalism and Digital Media. The hub benefits from a range of facilities such as a T.V. studio, sound studios and Journalism newsrooms. It brings together academic minds and vocational experienceto provide students and staff with a stimulating cross-disciplinary environment. Courses include the print-based Journalism and Sport Journalism from SaSM. They also include Digital Graphic Design, Illustration for Screen Arts, Multimedia Broadcast Journalism, Digital Film, Digital Games, TV & Digital Production, and Internet Computing,An outline of the hub is provided here:
Further information on the Hastings site of the University is provided here:
Resources
University facilities provide numerous teaching spaces, computer pool rooms, an extensive library, the Eastbourne campus doctoral college, a student services centre, Students’ Union offices and student residencies.
The school is housed in six main buildings on the Eastbourne campus, providing staff offices, teaching rooms and specialist facilities as follows:
Sport and Exercise Science
The sport and exercise science laboratories are accredited by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and have Reference Laboratory status from the International Sports Medicine Federation. The laboratory complex contains seven main laboratories and a seminar room. There is a range of equipment for measuring behavioural aspects human performance and extensively equipment for biomechanics, physiology, and biochemistry including two environmental chambers – one for hot/cold and one for altitude. The school has invested in a 3D immersion system which is currently being installed. The school’s website includes photographs and a fuller description of the laboratories.
Sports Medicine
The laboratory complex also houses Sportswise, The Sussex Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, run in co-operation with the school which provides a physiotherapy service to students as well as running a commercial sports medicine service. The centre is headed by Dr Nick Webborn who was Chief Medical Officer for the London 2012 paralympic games and is a part-time member of academic staff in the school.
Culinary arts studio
The studio offers a creative and contemporary environment for learning and development. It includes a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen and an eating area with interactive mood lighting, data projection, and PA system. The Culinary Arts Studio has been used for product launches, menu development, food and equipment demonstrations, wine tasting, contemporary meals, training, teambuilding, seminars and any culinary events. Of particular note has been the £2.8m euro EU Hotpot project with partners Institute Polytechnic La Salle Beauvais and the Institute of Food Research.
Practical sports facilities
The school has access to a range of specialist sports facilities. These include a large sports hall, indoor swimming pool, two dance studios, two gymnasia, a fitness suite and a climbing wall. A recent investment of £750,000 refurbished a gymnasium into a strength and well-being centre, featuring a wide range of strength and conditioning equipment. Outdoors there is an artificial turf pitch and tennis courts. In Eastbourne there is an all-weather athletic track and grass pitches. There is a vibrant programme of activity across the wide range from competitive sport to healthy recreation with students, staff, external individual members, along with schools and sports clubs. We have strong links with the university’s Sport & Recreation provision and full details of the sports facilities and activity can be seen at
Research and Graduate Centre
Staff offices, graduate student space and a computer room are clustered to form our School Research and Graduate Centre. The Centre supports all research activity in the school as well as the suite of masters courses. The centre houses our Professoriate, Research Fellows, and administrative support staff.
Partnerships
Partnerships are important in all areas of our work. We work closely with many public sector, sports and commercial organisations. We have strong relationships with numerous schools in the South East for our Physical Education and Dance work, part of the faculty-wide ITE partnerships with some 450 schools and colleges in the region. We have many external and overseas partnerships, including extensive links in Europe under the Erasmus scheme, as well as further afield in Australia, Malaysia and Japan. Of particular note are a European BA and MA featuring joint teaching, organisation and student mobility with partners across Europe.
To provide students with extended opportunities, the school has a very extensive programme of social engagement activities running across our entire provision and ranging in scope from links in the local town to the esteemed trans-national Football4Peace programme. In a typical year we have dozens of projects involving hundreds of students engaged in curricular, research, business and enrichment activities. The news section of our webpages gives examples of these activities.
Staff Development Opportunities
In accordance with the university’s Staff Development Policy, a wide range of development opportunities, which are continuously reviewed to meet new demands, are available to all staff. These include, computing short courses, management training, learning and teaching qualifications and research supervision.
Academic staff are encouraged to attend conferences where appropriate, and all staff are able to attend part-time courses at the Universities of Brighton and Sussex and City College Brighton amd Hove for which application for fee waiver is available. We promote policies that encourage and support staff development in research and there is a range of very experienced staff to mentor every stage of an individual’s development.
Research
The School of Sport and Service Management has a long-standing commitment to research excellence. The school has made a submission to all previous research assessment exercises and for REF2014 submitted 22 staff to UoA C26. The overall profile returned 23% (4*), 55% (3*), 21% (2*), 1% (1*). Our impact case studies and environment were rated 25% (4*) and 75% (3*). Nationally, the submission rated 14th out of 51 universities in UoA C26.
The University of Brighton’s strategic plan identifies a continued increase in research activity and this is mirrored by the school. We have established a dedicated Research and Graduate Centre, led by Professor John Nauright, to provide the environment, culture and infrastructure necessary for research to flourish. Our activity embraces the range of basic and applied research that falls within the REF Unit of assessment 26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism.
Many members of staff are active researchers at the forefront of their respective areas of specialisation.
The school has an excellent track record of investment in both the research infrastructure and the development of research active staff. There are two main research groups in the school, SESEME (Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine) and CoSTALS (Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies).
The Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine (SESAME) is a joint venture linking Life Sciences, Social Sciences and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, thus providing a single multidisciplinary research-based unit with a specific focus on sport, exercise, and health. SESAME comprises of three major research themes: (i) Sports Performance (with a particular focus on the elite athlete, anti-doping research and exercise in extreme environments; (ii) Exercise and Health (focus on physical activity health and wellbeing; healthy aging; and (iii) Sport and Exercise Medicine (focus on injury and illness surveillance; injury biomarkers; musculoskeletal injury. The area has received over £400,000 of capital investment in the last three years equipping it with state of the art facilities for research into human performance, in particular a genetics laboratory, two environmental chambers and a 3D immersion screen as well as a host of further equipment.
The mission of the Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies (CoSTALS) at the University of Brighton is to encourage, support and help develop sustainable futures through economic regeneration, ecological sensitivity, cultural awareness and preservation through the creation and analysis of sporting and cultural events, through the implementation and evaluation of programmes in sport, tourism and leisure, and through conscious promotion of social justice, youth development and inclusivity within economically viable contexts. The group believes in research led action to generate global transformation for sustainable futures arguing that the tourism, sport and leisure, and cultural industries play vital roles in this process. There are a number of core units to deliver on this research, consultancy and economic engagement mission: Sport, tourism, Events and Venues Hospitality; Food and Retail Management; Sport, Tourism and Recreation For Peace-Building and Economic Sustainability; Tourism Policy, Practice and Performance; Bodies, Spaces and Places; Adventure Tourism, The Outdoors and Lifestyle; Sports Political Activism and Fan Cultures (PAFC).
There is an established research support and development programme designed to assist active researchers and develop new researchers for the future including a sabbatical scheme, ECR and Rising Stars awards, conference support, research leadership development, and workshops on specific topics.
Economic engagement and impact
The school has a good record in translating research to the benefit of economic and social communities, and the taught curriculum. A business unit within the school supports commercial work and in a typical year turns-over around £450,000. Recent projects include working with the Siemens plc, the Institute of Customer Service and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. A specialist Sport and Exercise Science Consultancy Unit run projects with businesses, the English Institute of Sport, schools, colleges, and individual athletes.
The school has received 6 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) funded by the Technology Strategy Board and ESRC, 4 of which have a retail focus including the retail activities of Rick and Jill Stein’s Company in Padstow, and the Charity Shop/ e commerce capability of St Wilfrid’s Hospice in East Sussex.
The School has a highly active programme of activities designed to engage with the community, to disseminate knowledge nationally and internationally, and to provide enrichment of the teaching programmes. The School places great importance on this activity. Its nature, extent and flavour is best seen by looking at the news section of the School website
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The JobWe are seeking an experienced and versatile sport journalist with up-to-date digital expertise, to join our team of staff. The successful candidate will join lecturers teaching on our well-established BA (Hons) degree in Sport Journalism and also contribute to a new degree of BA (Hons) Journalism that launches in September 2015.The BA (Hons) Sport Journalism degree is NCTJ-accredited and we expect the new Journalism degree to acquire soon the same accreditation. Both Journalism degrees comprise a core - media law, news reporting, public affairs and shorthand - associated with the NCTJ syllabus as well as subject-specific modules and more general honours degree modules..
You will be required to deliver aspects of the NCTJ syllabus, teach practical, general sports-based journalism, contribute to the wider teaching of the Journalism honours degree, contribute modules in your own specialist areas of interest, contribute to social and economic engagement activity, and undertake personal research and scholarly work.