Meet the Expert: Dr Cecilia Diaz Ordonez
Dr Cecila Diaz Ordonez has always been a curious person. After 15 years of working in casinos, she became fascinated by the relationship between digital brand engagement and consumer behaviour.
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Exploring widening participation, regional collaboration, and global engagement at the NERUPI Convention 2025
The 2025 Network for Evaluating and Researching University Participation Interventions (NERUPI) Convention, held in London in September, brought together universities, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how higher education can expand access, strengthen regional collaboration, and align with the Office for Students’ (OfS) new partnership-driven agenda for widening participation.
Reimagining corporate leadership: Dr David Beech advocates for a public interest duty
Dr David Beech, an organisational psychologist and Lecturer at Salford Business School, recently presented his research on corporate leadership and governance at the tenth Worldwide Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference in Prague, Czechia.
Attending BERA 2025: Sharing research and building connections
In September 2025, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Dr Lisa Rees O’Donnell represented the University of Salford at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2025 at the University of Sussex. The annual conference brings together educational researchers, practitioners and policymakers to exchange knowledge and debate some of the most pressing issues in education.
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.
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.
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.”
Enhancing circularity in construction through standardised waste information exchange and digital innovation
At this year’s International Conference on Building Science, Technology and Sustainability (ICBSTS25) in Nagoya, Japan, Dr Angel Jimenez-Aranda, Associate Professor in Digital Transformation at the University of Salford, played a central role as Programme Chair of the conference.
Meet the expert: Dr Ayesha Chowdhury
Meet Dr Ayesha Chowdhury, Lecturer in Law here at Salford Business School, and a keen academic who has spent years researching a series of complex legal fields, including Terrorism Law, Human Rights Law, and Legal Ethics and Concepts. Inspired by her family’s own passion for education, she decided early in her career to leave her prestigious Barrister role and pursue a role in academia.