Education

The Culinary Arts Studio provides a rich and exciting learning environment for our students studying hospitality and culinary arts. We offer a range of industry courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

To find out more about studying hospitality and culinary arts with us:

Undergraduate Courses

- BA (Hons) International Hospitality Management
- BA (Hons) International Hospitality Management (Final year top-up)

Postgraduate Courses

- MSc International Hospitality Management
- MA Culinary Arts

Food and Drink Operations

Students studying hospitality at level one are responsible, for planning and managing a restaurant facility This is open to customers and offers a traditional three course lunch on Thursdays and Fridays in their first semester.

The students have also hosted local events such as Eastbourne Hospitality Association Executive Lunch and the Chamber of Commerce Networking Lunch where the student group will liaise with the clients to plan all aspects of the meal experience.

Management in Action

This live case study approach enables students to work in small teams and experience first hand the issues of managing a business enterprise. They design the restaurant concept, menu and deliver the service from start to finish.

Education News

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Culinary Arts Studio Prizes awarded at this years graduation

Alice Noel Fabi was presented with the prize for the most outstanding literature review paper in a level 6 module called Food, Society and Culture. Alice analysed and wrote about the links between food, territory and national identity: from antiquity to modernity. The prize was an engraved shield and book about ‘slow food’.

The Gastronomy prize for the best 3,000 word paper in the Gastronomy module with a grade of 77% was presented to Anya Harris (pictured above). Anya carried out a critical investigation into the issues surrounding the industrial revolution during the 19th Century using the adulteration of food as a prism to our culinary past. The prize was a book about the 500 best places to eat at around the world.

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Andy Lynes teaches Food Media and Creative Writing in the Culinary Arts Studio

Andy Lynes the editor of the Metro newspaper’s Good Taste food and drink pages which appear every Tuesday has been guest lecturing to the Masters of Culinary Arts Students in the Culinary Arts Studio on the subject of Food Media and Creative writing. He is a Glenfiddich Award nominated freelance writer specialising in food, drink and travel. His work has appeared in The Times, Sainsbury’s magazine, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Independent on Sunday Review magazine and many other publications.

He has contributed travel and restaurant features in the BBC’s Olive magazine. Andy is a judge on the Channel 4 series Iron Chef UK and has appeared as a food pundit on the BBC’s Breakfast news programme and UK Food TV.

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Creative food art

At first glance the pictures above don’t look like food, but upon closer inspection you’ll see that these sculptures are made of pastry fat a high water content commercial product used by many chefs in the preparation of puff pastry.

With a creative eye sculptor and chef Ken Woodward introduced Alis Anipai an undergraduate in her final year of an International Bachelors Degree in Hospitality Management to the finer points of sculpting commercially in the medium of fat. The task set for the pair is to produce a rooster to represent the national bird of France and a white swan to represent the United Kingdom.

Alis chose to create the Rooster and decided to use colour in her sculpture as this would help enhance the theme of France. Alis is an accomplished painter in her spare time, but this is the first 3 dimensional sculpture she has ever undertaken.

The two sculptures were placed in the Culinary Arts Studio of the University of Brighton for the launch of the HOTPOT project which is a joint project between Institut Polytechnique La Salle Beauvais (LSB), France, The Institute of Food Research (IFR), Norwich and the University of Brighton, School of Service Management (SSM).

The Culinary Art Studio can be used for a variety of purposes: