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Spatial Audio Festival ’23,

22nd June, Media City In the Heart of Media City UK, this event will be a platform for industry experts to share their insights through talks, demonstrations, panel discussions, and workshops. Attendees will also have the opportunity to experience product demonstrations, performances, and more. Spatial audio is an innovative technology that spans various sectors such […]

Vera’s Not Alone – A Nested Cinema experience

MediaCity University of Salford Campus, 27-30 June 2023 A world-first cinematic experience that seeks to fully immerse its participants in its story through an audio visual installation, will premiere at the our MediaCity campus in June. Vera’s Not Alone is a new ground-breaking immersive film installation from the University’s own Dr Pavel Prokopic that uses […]

Voicing Silence by Lou Chapelle

Lou Chapelle’s artwork Voicing Silence responds to these questions, engaging with artists and Global Majority groups through a series of model making, poetry, dance and singing sessions contributing to the final collective video piece. The double holographic video installation is presented within a structure inspired by a Thai village house, a place of shelter and protection. In the […]

Return of the Microbial Puppet Masters

A series of public engagement activities to create knowledge transfer between researchers and the community in a fun and friendly environment accompanied immersive sci/art installation Microcosmic as part of Lightwaves 2022 at our Media City Campus recently. Microbial Puppet Masters was first exhibited at the prestigious The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in July 2022. […]

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 […]

KEF2 Results: Salford Celebrates Success in the Knowledge Exchange Framework 

Today, the results of the second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) have been made publicly available and we would like to share some of the key areas of activity (known as ‘perspectives’) where Salford places in the top quintile across the sector. Recognition of our very high levels of engagement in the ‘IP […]

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 […]