We explore the mechanisms driving the success and wellbeing of individuals, organisations and society by drawing on our long history of working with local, national and international businesses and policymakers on issues around economic development.
Alongside the Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? exhibition tour, the Our Time, Our Place engagement programme has connected young people, local to each exhibition venue to explore the exhibition themes. In Salford, the programme has successfully engaged 12 local young people aged 11-16 years through Salford Youth Service since June 2023. Guided by socially-engaged photographer […]
At a series of events between 4 – 29 March 2024, AI UK Fringe brings together leaders in academia from across the UK’s AI ecosystem to demonstrate, exhibit and update on their ground-breaking work. University of Salford is hosting a taking part in a range of events across the festival. Teach AI is the launch of a […]
Join us this Sunday as we launch Manchester’s first Greek Film Club at the intimate space of The King’s Arms in Salford. Our first screening is Dogtooth, a Greek Weird Wave classic directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things). The film is in Greek with English […]
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 […]
The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) – an independent body which seeks to inspire and support the UK higher education sector in engaging with the public – describes an ‘engaged’ university as being one that ‘does not treat public engagement as an ‘add on’ or fringe activity. It embeds public engagement into the way it approaches its work. Typically, engaged universities will have […]
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 […]
We are excited to be partnering once again with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University to host the ESRC Festival of Social Science from 22 October to 13 November 2022. The main theme for this year’s Festival is ‘My Local Area’ and will be a celebration […]
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 […]
The School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology, proudly announces that the first ever degree of Doctor of Philosophy, PhD by published works in the field of Cultural Diplomacy is conferred to Dr. Mosi Dorbayani, a Canadian practitioner in the field. According to Salford’s Doctoral School, this PhD is the first ever practice-based research degree […]
The University of Salford is partnering again with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University to host the ESRC Festival of Social Science from 22 October to 13 November 2022. This is a national event and is now in its 20th year. The main theme for this […]