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Change must be accelerated for women to be successful in the workplace

Salford Business School

To mark International Women’s Day 2023, Â׸£ÀûƬ Business School welcomed inspiring women from the Greater Manchester business community to a roundtable conversation to tackle this year’s theme – embrace equity. The roundtable debated...

International Women's Day
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Women in Construction Week 2023: Celebrating inspiring and successful alumni

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

The Â׸£ÀûƬ has seen a huge increase in the number of women taking degrees in the field of civil engineering and construction in the past few years. What better time than Women in Construction Week to celebrate their success?

Group of surveying students wearing high-visibility jackets on a construction site
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MA Journalism graduates named best in the country

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

Two Salford Journalism alumni have been acclaimed as some of the best student journalists in the country.

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Honorary Professor appointed as the next Officer for Child Protection at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

School of Health and Society

Dr Andrew Rowland, Honorary Professor (Children’s Rights, Law, and Advocacy) at the Â׸£ÀûƬ, has been appointed to the role of Officer for Child Protection at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) for an initial...

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ChatGPT: five uses for businesses and the ethical considerations that must be front of mind

Salford Business School

As OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues to make waves, with the world becoming somewhat obsessed with the AI (artificial intelligence) program, experts from Â׸£ÀûƬ Business School are calling on business leaders looking to capitalise on the...

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Salford students named North West Young Enterprise Start-Up finalists

Salford Business School

Three Â׸£ÀûƬ Business School students have been crowned North West finalists and will now progress to the Young Enterprise UK Start-Up Final 2023 with their business Making Sense, which provides sensory toys for adults with...

Young Enterprise - Making Sense team
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University alumna named ‘One to Watch’ at prestigious sports journalism awards

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

BA Broadcast Journalism graduate and freelance sports journalist Pien Meulensteen has been awarded with the ‘One to Watch - On Air’ award at the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards.

Pien Meulensteen stood by a sports stadium
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FEATURE: How Salford has embraced motion capture technology and how our students are revelling in it

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

“Once the capabilities of the technology became clear, I could see that the writing was on the wall.â€

Image is a screenshot taken from Katherine Jarema's motion capture video
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University led initiative helping to support students in Ukraine

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Academics from the Â׸£ÀûƬ are helping support students in war-torn Ukraine with the creation of virtual field trips (VFTs) because across the country, the war has made fieldwork impossible.

Ukraine virtual field trips
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Ofgem’s default tariff cap cannot be relied upon to protect people from fuel poverty, say experts

School of Health and Society

As Ofgem issues an update on its energy price cap, experts from the Fuel Poverty Evidence project, an academic collaboration conducting research into the topic, give their views.

Gas hob
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