Research News

Salford data-mining knowledge helps not-for-profit lending company



Tuesday 23 October 2012

The University of Salford has been working with East Lancashire Moneyline to help people on low incomes who find it impossible to secure affordable loans access finance more readily.

Salford data-mining knowledge helps not-for-profit lending company



Tuesday 23 October 2012

The University of Salford has been working with East Lancashire Moneyline to help people on low incomes who find it impossible to secure affordable loans access finance more readily.

Government minister opens leading European research lab



Friday 19 October 2012

Business and Enterprise Minister Michael Fallon, has opened Europe’s most advanced facility for creating energy efficient glass and met with leaders of businesses working on low carbon technology during a visit to the University of Salford today (19 October).

University hosts major Youth Justice conference



Tuesday 16 October 2012

The University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus today (Tuesday 16 October) is host to a major youth justice conference. More than 90 senior practitioners and policy makers from across the country are there to discuss what can help to stop young people reoffending after they leave prison.

University hosts major Youth Justice conference



Tuesday 16 October 2012

The University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus today (Tuesday 16 October) is host to a major youth justice conference. More than 90 senior practitioners and policy makers from across the country are there to discuss what can help to stop young people reoffending after they leave prison.

Bird’s Nest stadium engineer joins Salford as visiting professor



Wednesday 10 October 2012

An engineer who took technology from the aerospace industry and applied it to the construction of the iconic Beijing Olympic stadium has been appointed as a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Innovation at the University of Salford.

Deputy PM hails ‘novel and exciting’ public policy research



Friday 28 September 2012 4.24pm

Deputy Prime Minister the Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP was among a range of high-profile visitors to the University’s stand at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference this week as academics profiled Salford’s wide-ranging research relevant to policy-making.

Volunteers needed to excavate home of divided Civil War family



Friday 28 September 2012

The University of Salford is looking for people in the Stockport area to excavate a stately home belonging to two brothers who fought on opposite sides during the English Civil War.

Salford project to bring almost 1,000 empty homes back into use



Tuesday 25 September 2012

The University of Salford is to work with the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities on a project which will find new ways to trace and communicate with the owners of 930 empty homes across the region.

Flooded small businesses relying too much on insurance cover



Monday 24 September 2012

New University of Salford research carried out among businesses in Cockermouth in Cumbria following catastrophic floods in 2009 has found that only a very few have taken flood-protection measures – despite an average 1,750% rise in insurance excesses being reported among the businesses surveyed.