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Zeeshan Syed at ICBFS 2025

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.

Reframing entrepreneurship: Reflections from IEEC 2025 

The International Enterprise Educators Conference (IEEC) 2025, hosted this year at Manchester Metropolitan University, brought together educators, practitioners, and innovators from across the UK and beyond to explore fresh perspectives on enterprise and entrepreneurship education. This year theme was “Disruptions, Futures and Enterprise Education.” 

Evelyn Oginni and Divya Patel at the Gender, Work & Organization Conference 2025

Shaping fairer futures at the Gender, Work and Organisation Conference 2025

The Gender, Work and Organisation (GWO) Conference 2025 took place from 21 to 23 July 2025 at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France. Across four days, academics and practitioners from around the world explored the theme "World in crisis and the future of work: gender, work and organisation and bodies on the move."

Meet the expert: Sean Ell, Lecturer in Law at Salford Business School

Meet the expert: Sean Ell

Salford Business School’s Law Lecturer, Sean Ell, has enjoyed a highly successful legal career. Specialising in immigration law, he headed the immigration team at Keoghs, Nicholls, Lindsell & Harris Solicitors before progressing to become a barrister at Garden Court North Chambers in Manchester.