University of Salford Energy Strategy

The Energy theme at the University of Salford sits alongside three other key areas of expertise: the Built and Human Environment, Health and Wellbeing and Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy.

The organising themes have been chosen to reflect the University’s consolidated areas of strength and the opportunities derived from change and challenge in the national and global economies.

Here’s what the Strategic Plan has to say about Energy:
 
There is little doubt that an energy crisis is looming and that the world faces many challenges associated with an over-production of carbon dioxide. In order to address some of these challenges, the University of Salford has developed an interdisciplinary Energy Theme encompassing the University’s activities in research and innovation; and in teaching, especially at the graduate level; and will include community engagement in driving demand reduction.

Building upon the internationally recognised strengths at Salford in this area, three sub-themes will be developed:

• Energy generation (nuclear, renewable energy and advanced materials)
• Energy conversion and demand reduction
• Socio-economic aspects of a low-carbon lifestyle.
  

An important focus of the nuclear energy area will be on nuclear safety where our objective is to create an internationally leading activity which will be particularly attractive to government sponsored international students.

All areas of energy research will be predicated on the development of partnering arrangements with industry, government and international agencies.