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Top up degree programme reaches major milestone

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

An innovative training solution from Siemens and Â׸£ÀûƬ has achieved a major milestone by upskilling its 100th engineer. The one year ‘top up’ degree programme gives young and experienced engineers a BEng Hons (Bachelor of Engineering)...

Siemens graduates
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Salford graduate off to Hollywood after short film nominated for international prize

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

A Salford graduate is off to Hollywood after his short film about thousands of Puffins descending on a Welsh island was nominated for a new, highly-regarded international student filmmaker award.

Image shows Salford graduate Ishan Vaidya filming in Skokholm
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Salford academic named in list of top 10 most influential Muslims

School of Health and Society

Criminology lecturer Dr Fahid Qurashi has been named as one of the most influential Muslims in the UK.

Dr Fahid Qurashi
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Expert comment: Will German decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine lead to an escalation in the Ukraine-Russian conflict?

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

Alaric Searle, Professor of Modern European History at the Â׸£ÀûƬ and researcher in German military history comments on the announcement that the Federal German Government will be sending 14 Leopard II main battle tanks to support the...

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Professor to address prestigious international conference in USA

School of Health and Society

A Salford Professor will be taking to the stage in Las Vegas this July to address the world’s largest conference on strength and conditioning.

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Salford team meet Chhouk, the elephant with a prosthetic leg, on Cambodia visit

School of Health and Society

Academics and students from the Â׸£ÀûƬ have returned from an outreach trip to Cambodia where they met with a number of prosthetic users, including an elephant.

Chhouk the elephant, wearing his prosthetic leg
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Casting The Traitors - Salford alumna reveals how she picked the stars of the BBC's reality TV hit

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

A Â׸£ÀûƬ alumna has pulled back the curtain on how she cast the stars of the BBC’s biggest new reality TV show The Traitors and says the sleeper hit is the future of reality TV.

Image is a promo of the 2022 series of the BBC's The Traitors
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Expert comment: Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Salford Business School

Dr Jonathan Lord, Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management and Employment Law, Â׸£ÀûƬ Business School, comments on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23 and what it could mean for UK legislation, as well as HR...

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How food deprivation in childhood may be linked to obesity

School of Health and Society

As energy prices rise and the cost of living goes up, it is estimated that there are 4 million children from poorer households who have limited or uncertain access to healthy food.

A child eating cereal from a bowl
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Student conference is huge success in ‘first of its kind’ placement for the university

School of Health and Society

The first Occupational Therapy (OT) placement of its kind for the Â׸£ÀûƬ saw a hugely successful student-run conference take place on campus this week.

Sarah Mitchell
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