Research News

New train technology will save time, energy and money



Tuesday 20 September 2011 9.53am

Research at the University of Salford is on track to solve the age-old problem of leaves on the line delaying trains.

World first course brings animation to medicine



Monday 12 September 2011 3.40pm

The University of Salford has secured £300,000 from the European Union to take technology widely used in the games and movie industries to the health care professions, by developing an MSc in Clinical Gait Analysis.

Three nominations for Salford in higher education awards



Monday 12 September 2011

A pioneering scheme to combat gun crime, a research centre dedicated to helping countries recover from natural disaster, and a terraced house in a lab have all been nominated for honours at the prestigious Times Higher Education Awards today (1 September).

Salford academic helps to preserve threatened language



Monday 12 September 2011 3.08pm

A linguistics expert from the University of Salford is using her research skills to document a language of Southern Arabia which is threatened with extinction.

Andrew Stunell MP visits ground-breaking Energy House



Sunday 11 September 2011 11.38am

The Department of Communities and Local Government's Andrew Stunell MP yesterday (18 July) paid a visit to the University of Salford's pioneering Energy House - Europe's only full size and fully functioning Coronation Street-style terraced property built within a sealed environmental chamber to monitor domestic energy consumption.