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Welcome to the Salford Business School blog, a place where business and the community meets academia. It is a supportive environment of academic curiosity and exploration, which embraces innovation and business collaboration. Together we can exploit and explore new opportunities by delivering innovation through research and knowledge exchange.
We post items in three main categories: news, expert comment and our meet the expert series, through which we profile our expert voices within the School, plus collaborate with businesses on joint content, demonstrating how we work in partnership for success. Content also encompasses our growing portfolio of podcasts which includes:
- Business Disrupted
- HR Unpacked
- Innovation in Financial Inclusion
- Talking COP
- Spotlight: In Conversation with…
- Belonging in a Business School: Life at Salford
- Knowledge Exchange: Deep Dive
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Latest posts
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Salford student lands coveted BNY graduate role a year before graduation
After excelling on her summer internship with global financial services firm BNY, Business Management student Nailah Khan has secured a place on their highly competitive graduate scheme, a full year before graduating.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Global AI in Business and Economics Conference comes to Salford
Salford Business School is set to welcome researchers from around the world as it hosts the 3rd International Conference on The Economic Perspective on Artificial Intelligence (EPEAI) on 16 and 17 June 2026. Submissions are now invited.
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University of Salford at ICBFS 2025: Advancing AI-driven portfolio management
At the International Conference in Banking and Financial Studies (ICBFS) 2025, held 11–12 September at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy, Salford Business School’s Dr Zeeshan Ali Syed, Programme Director for Financial Technology (FinTech) and Lecturer in Finance, presented new research on unsupervised machine learning for portfolio management.

