Events Management

Events management is the professional discipline concerned with planning, organising, and delivering events of every type, from corporate conferences and product launches to music festivals, sporting fixtures, trade exhibitions, and charitable fundraisers. It draws on project management, marketing, logistics, financial planning, risk management, and people management, requiring practitioners to hold multiple complex processes together simultaneously and to respond calmly and effectively when things do not go to plan. The events industry is large, globally distributed, and highly varied, and its practitioners work in contexts ranging from major stadium concerts to intimate gala dinners.

At the University of Chester, this three-year full-time programme in events management includes a sandwich year with work placement and a year abroad, giving you substantial professional experience within the industry before you complete your degree, as well as exposure to events management in an international context. Through your studies you will learn to project-manage events from initial concept through budgeting, supplier management, venue selection, marketing, staffing, and post-event evaluation. You will also develop understanding of the regulatory and risk frameworks that govern events, including health and safety, crowd management, licensing, and emergency planning, all of which are essential to professional events management practice.

Graduates move into roles across a diverse industry. Event coordinators, project managers, venue managers, conference and exhibition organisers, festival operations staff, and corporate hospitality managers are all natural destinations. Hotels, venues, festival organisations, sports bodies, charities, agencies, and in-house corporate events teams all employ events management graduates.

As your career develops, leadership roles in operations, business development, and account management become accessible. The project management and communication skills developed through the degree are also valued in broader roles in marketing, public relations, and business administration.