Month: May 2016

Undergraduate joins heart disease researchers

‘HIGH-FLYING’ biomedical undergraduate Louise Foster has won a prestigious award to join a laboratory research team looking at the causes of heart disease. The 27-year-old from Wigan is excelling in her second year of the University of Salford BSc in Biomedical Science. And she came a step closer to her ambition of studying for a […]

Research Centres Brochure

  The Research Centres Support Team worked with each of the Research Centres to develop a brochure that showcases the innovative and varied research being conducted at the University of Salford. The University of Salford has 9 Research Centres, each sitting within one of the 7 Schools:  Arts, Media and Communications Research Centre; Centre for Built Environment, […]

Are older people putting themselves at risk of falling when using a walking frame?

  Dunhill Medical Trust: £74,907 University of Salford: 1,2Thies SB, 2Granat M, 1Kenney L, 1Howard D, Webb J Oxford Brookes University:  Dawes H   Research programmes: 1Rehabilitation Technologies and Biomedical Engineering 2Measurement and Quantification of Physical Behaviour   Walking aids are prescribed to older people to help improve their stability and mobility. However, somewhat paradoxically, […]