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Posted on August 31, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Curiosity, Pirates & Tea

Written by Digby Killick, Insights & Analytics Executive at Beyond, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I came to Brighton when I joined the University of Sussex to study Neuroscience. An unusual choice of degree which I had chosen from a variety of biology based courses I had applied for, purely because I could. All I knew at that point in time was that I was curious, was capable of University, and I most certainly wasn’t ready for the real world. So I spent three years learning …

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Posted on August 30, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Meet Laurence, a man of many (actually two) hats

Written by Laurence Hill, our Festival Manager of Brighton Digital Festival, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I’m currently wearing two hats, juggling two jobs, plate spinning, running around like a mad man and all in all a tiny bit stressed but I couldn’t be happier. Professionally, I couldn’t imagine myself in a better place (unless there was, you know, more money). Let me explain. I have two part time jobs – one that I’ve had for a while and one that is relatively new and I’m passionate about …

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Posted on August 29, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Brighton Digital Festival creates careers opportunities too!

Written by Kelly Alyse, PR intern for Fugu PR, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I’ve always been quite proactive when it comes to looking for work experience and jobs. If I’m bored you can guarantee I’m looking at jobs (or pictures of Ryan Gosling), usually just out of interest, but when my degree in Film Studies at the University of Sussex in May this year was coming to an end, it was time for me to apply and figure out what I wanted to do with my life after Sussex. I’ve had quite …

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Posted on August 28, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Can we narrow the digital divide?

Written by Max St John, Consultant for Nixon McInnes, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I don’t know about you, but I definitely take the internet for granted. I pretty much grew up with it and it’s become a big part of how I make a living. It’s become ingrained into my daily routine and my life would be very different, and much poorer, without it. This year the United Nations’ Human Rights Council unanimously backed a resolution that stated internet access and online freedom of expression as …

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Posted on August 21, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Young Rewired State 2012

Written by Emma O’Sullivan, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I spent last week running the Brighton outpost of Young Rewired State – a nationwide hackweek for young people, where under-19-year-olds have four days to put together a digital product that utilises open data with a focus on creating applications that will change the country for the better. My co-organiser and partner in crime was Edd Parris of NixonMcInnes, and Cogapp and NixonMcInnes kindly sponsored the event. We were based at the Lighthouse for our four days of coding, and they were incredibly supportive and sympathetic about …

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Posted on August 17, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – ‘Common Room’ comes to Brighton

Written by Ivan Tennant, from Plan Projects as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month In June, Plan Projects won the Lively Cities (LiCi) competition to deliver a pilot project designed to explore ideas for how to transform Providence Place Gardens from its present condition as a unwelcoming, poorly used space, used predominantly by street drinkers, to one that is valued by the community. Our approach, called ‘Common Room,’ has been not only to address the environmental factors within the space, creating a greater sense of access and legibility, but also look at but the wider socio- economic issues. …

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Posted on August 8, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – The talented other joint University of Brighton digital project winner tells us of how she came to build Brandwatch’s mobile app!

Written by Alena Ruprecht, a joint winner of the Wired Sussex prize for ‘best final year digital media project’ as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month Seizing the great opportunity that globalisation has presented, eight years ago I set off to explore the world. After an awe-inspiring and incredible journey that took me across 30 countries in 6 continents, I finally decided to settle into a more stable life, enrolling at the University of Brighton to study Digital Media Development in 2009. Like so many of my peers, managing my budget as I worked through my first year was something …

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Posted on August 6, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Words from joint University of Brighton winner of the Wired Sussex prize for ‘best final year digital media project’

Written by Danny Daley, one of the student winners of the Wired Sussex prize for ‘best final year digital media project’ as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month Danny on the left alongside his ‘business brother‘ How I came to be part of the project During the third year of my degree I was given the opportunity to undertake a placement year in London. I was placed within the marketing team of Axis Europe and one of my responsibilities was to liaise with digital agencies. One of the problems that I discovered when seeking digital agencies was finding …

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Posted on August 3, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – I came to Brighton to try and change the world

Written by Fiona Martin, co-founding Director and Head of Employment Law at martin searle solicitors as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month My decision to enter the legal world was influenced both by my love of Brighton and radical student politics. I arrived at Sussex University in 1985, aged 22, with two children aged one and three, a very unflattering spiky haircut and high ideals. I was supporting the miners during the strike and had spent time at Greenham Common protesting against nuclear weapons. In my first week at Sussex, hundreds of us occupied Barclays Bank to …