Meet Aimee-Leigh Youngson, Lecturer in People Management and Programme Leader of Business Management at Salford Business School. It wasn’t until studying at Salford when Aimee became interested in pursuing academia as a career path, finding a passion in business management and how artificial intelligence (AI) can help support academic and professional development.
At this year’s European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), Dr Angel Jimenez-Aranda from Salford Business School presented his latest research at the edu4AI workshop. His talk, titled “A Framework for Building a Secure, Resilient and AI-based Digital Future for SMEs”, explored how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can embrace artificial intelligence (AI) while staying secure, resilient, and inclusive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
PhD researcher Aishatu Mohammed has delivered a high-impact workshop for over 130 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and 20 policymakers in Nigeria, focused on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to drive inclusive innovation and sustainable growth.
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.
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.
The British Academy of Management (BAM) Management Knowledge and Education (MKE) Teaching Practice Conference 2025 brought together educators, practitioners and thought leaders from across the UK to explore how management education must evolve in response to global challenges.
Dr Angel Jimenez-Aranda, Associate Professor of Digital Transformation at Salford Business School, recently presented his research on intelligent manufacturing systems at the 9th International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing and Materials (ICAMM 2025) in Oxford.
At the recent Academic Practice and Technology Conference 2025, Salford Business School’s Lecturer in Law, Craig Smith, presented a case study that explored the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in legal education.
Recently, Salford Business School Lecturer in Law, Dr Nicky Gillibrand, took part in the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Graduate and Early Career Researcher Forum, hosted this year at Panteion University, Athens.
Artificial intelligence is fast becoming integral to legal and commercial practice, and Salford Business School’s Lecturer in Law, Craig Smith, has been at the centre of two high profile conversations this month.