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Published Surrealist Collaborative Novel is ‘Everyday Marvelous’

Prof. Ursula Hurley and Dr Stephen Sunderland came together last month with Salford Loaves and Fishes to celebrate having a new collaborative novel published. ‘Alsdorf is an adventure from Salford’s dream-other where queens hide and a fly morphs into a supernova’. The new book is the output of the ‘Everyday Marvelous’ project. This project was […]

Being Human Festival 2023: The Anthropozine, Being Human in the Age of Zines.

Lecturers in English Prof. Jade Munslow Ong and Dr Emma Barnes, and Associate Dean Sam Ingleson were successful in receiving a total of £3,000 to run four events as part of the Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the Humanities. To respond to this year’s theme, ‘Rhyme and Reason’, the team turned to […]

The 2023 Festival of Social Science

We would like to invite you to attend the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023! The festival explores the world of social science, giving researchers the opportunity to share their research with non-academic audiences and to make new and long-lasting connections. The Festival includes wide-ranging topics, from how society has shaped our local areas to […]

Microcosmic gave the public a deep dive into science research at University of Salford

A mesmerising, immersive installation commissioned by University of Salford took pride of place in our Media City campus building this week attracting a public audience of over 2500 people as part of Lightwaves 2022, a contemporary light festival produced by Quays Culture. This inspiring sci/art collaboration between artist Paul Miller and Professor Chloe James with […]

AHRC Being Human Festival gets underway this week!

Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities and this year takes place from 10 – 19 November 2022. Here at Salford we are excited to be part of the festival for the first time this year and have a number of events taking place across the festival period. The festival seeks to […]

Celebrating the Success of the Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry Project 

The £6m Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry (GMCF) initiative reached its three-year and 9 months milestone at the end of June 2022, when project delivery was completed. The GMCF was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and was launched in 2018. The University of Salford (UoS) worked alongside three other institutions in the region […]

REF2021 results now publicly available

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), with the most recent REF exercise being completed by HEIs in March 2021. The main purpose of the REF is to: provide accountability for public investment in research provide benchmarking information and establish reputational […]

Build-up to REF2021 results month!

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), with the most recent REF exercise being completed and submitted by HEIs across the UK in March 2021. Exactly four weeks from today, institutions will find out (under embargo) how they fared in this latest […]