Inside Aston

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Three-minute lectures

Find out about a range of exciting subjects in our three-minute lectures brought to you by our renowned academics. Check back soon for more videos.

Personalised Pricing: Are you getting ripped off?

Jon Guest, Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics explains how firms can change different prices for the same product.

Finance and Accounting: How dodgy are you?

Peter Keeling, Teaching Fellow explains how you can be fair, fraud or shades of grey when it comes to accounting decisions.

Media and Privacy Law: The right to be forgotten

Dr Edina Harbinja, Senior Lecturer in Law explores what rights you have over your digital identity.

Business Strategy: Analysing business for today's environment

Dr Uche Ogwunde, Teaching Fellow explains how to develop strategy by analysing the business environment.

Is English Language a killer language?

Professor Sue Garton speaks about pros and cons of English language.

How literally is 'literally' changing?

Dr. Robbie Love discusses how the change in the usage of language is tracked and measured. Find out how Aston University can teach you to conduct this research.

The history of our future

Dr Brian Sudlow speaks about the importance of learning about our history, whether it be the history of technology or the history of society.

Talks

We’ve recorded a number of talks from our live virtual presentations so that you can watch them at your leisure.

Careers and Employability

Road mapping your global career

Iwan Griffiths, Postgraduate Careers Consultant introduces the idea of road mapping your global career and outlines the support available to students.

Partnerships and employability: Inviting companies into the classroom

Elsa Zenatti-Daniels explains how students gain real world experience through exposure to companies in the classroom.

Working with local businesses in the UK - putting theory into practice

Nathalie Ormrod, Senior Lecturer in Marketing explains how companies are working with postgraduate students through module partnerships.

Real business projects - working with Philips on marketing smart phone technology

Julius Stephan, Lecturer in Marketing explains how Phillips have been working with students by providing a real life business case.

Entrepreneurship

BSEEN – for future entrepreneurs

Carolyn Keenan, Project Lead for Aston Enterprise explains how students and graduates can start their own business at Aston.

Enterprise Development: Real word business, real world learning

Simon Finley, Senior Teaching Fellow introduces our Enterprise Development degrees, a new way of learning entrepreneurial skills by working in teams on real life business challenges.

Entrepreneurship at Aston

Dr Bochra Idris, Course Director for the MSc Entrepreneurship explains why Aston is a great place to study entrepreneurship and realise your business start-up ambitions.

A dream turned to reality: The Aston Enterprise Scholarship

Monique Farquharson is the 2020 winner of the Aston Enterprise Scholarship. Hear her story about her journey onto the Aston MBA.

Engineering

Data Science: What is it and where is it used?

Dr Felipe Campelo, Lecturer in Computer Science discusses what data science is, where it’s used, the courses available and why you may want to study data science at Aston University.

Employing engineering principles to change the world

Dr Kiran Tota-Maharaj, Reader in Civil and Environmental Engineering explains how construction engineering can create better living conditions for refugees.

Innovation by design

Senior lecturer, Dr Wei Liu, discusses the Design programmes available at Aston explaining teaching styles, facilities, industry experience and course modules.

Health and Life Sciences

Neuroscience research

Dr Douglas Caruana explores the research, which is carried out by the Aston Neuroscience Institute.

Villa Vision

Villa Vision sees the Aston Villa Foundation team up with Aston University's Optometry School and optical lens supplier Essilor Vision For Life.

Aston MBA

Meet some of our inspiring MBA academics

Some of our inspiring MBA academics explain what modules they teach on the Aston MBA, how they can enhance your business knowledge and discuss what they love about teaching.

The Aston MBA Business Challenge

Full time MBA Programme Director Kirit Vaidya, explains what the Business Challenge is and current MBA students discuss what knowledge they have gained from taking part in it.

Gain the Aston Edge

Yasmin Ansari, MBA Careers Consultant explains what ‘The Aston Edge’ module is and how it can boost your employability.

Podcasts

Aston means business

Aston means business is a podcast from Aston Business School, where top academics provide essential advice to business owners and managers, entrepreneurs and students. In March 2020 we turned this podcast’s attention to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) and how they are responding to the challenges brought on by COVID-19.

Listen to more episodes of Aston means business.

Society matters

Society matters is a podcast from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at Aston University. The podcast series explores some of the fascinating work of academics within the School on current societal matters that shape our world and the way that people live.

Listen to more episodes of Society matters.

Pint of Aston

Aston has collaborated with Pint of Science, a global science festival which shares contemporary scientific developments from scientists, to create an exciting mini-series of podcasts discussing the latest research changing the world we live in.

Listen to more episodes of Pint of Science.

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