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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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.
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.
Meet the expert: Sandra Donnelly
Whilst travelling the world working for an international bank, Sandra Donnelly realised her true ambition was to help inspire the next generation of ethically conscious business leaders. After spending several years teaching in a secondary school, she returned to university to further her own research and hasn’t looked back since.
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."