Communication, Cultural & Media Studies (CCM)

The work of CCM is characterised by an engagement with the social operations of culture and media, organised into groups focusing on 'screen media and media practice', 'cultural politics and social communication' and 'community, audience, and place'. Read more...

Centre for Media, Art & Design Research and Engagement (MADRE)

The Centre for Media, Art & Design Research and Engagement (MADRE) is hosted by the School of Art & Design and brings together over 30 research-active members of staff from across the School, including both embryonic and early career researchers engaged in theory and practice based creative investigations. Read more...

Salford Centre of Music Research

The Centre takes the term "popular" in its widest sense. Research interests incorporate work which explores music's social meanings and contexts, especially in the form with which it reaches a mass audience; compositions which operate within the stylistic frameworks of musical genres that have, until recently, been excluded from academic investigation (pop, rock, rhythm and blues, country, brass and wind band music); work which focuses on the histories and accompanying theories of the various genres affiliated under the rubric of popular music - hip hop, trance, heavy metal, mass improvisation. Read more...

Performance Research Centre

The research focus of the centre is predominantly driven by interest and activities in contemporary performance practice. Research interests centre largely on multimedia and new media performance modes including digital performance, site specific, networked performance and dance and screen as well as pedagogic research interests in the teaching of performance practice in the 21st century. Read more...

Centre for Democracy and Human Rights

The centre brings together researchers on human rights, democracy, the state, social democracy, political corruption, gender equality, post-Communist parties, radical social theory, Islamism, globalization, labour markets, international political economy and political communications. Read more...

Centre for English Literature and Language

Researchers at the Centre engage with English language literatures written in all major periods from the Medieval to the present day. The Centre has particular strengths in popular print media, Holocaust poetry, literature and science, women's writing, Irish studies and creative writing. Read more...

Centre for European Security

Building upon existing strengths within history, contemporary security, terrorism and intelligence studies, the Centre acts as a focal point for research into the past and present of European security, aiming to transcend disciplinary boundaries in order to examine security, terrorism and intelligence issues together, in both their historical and contemporary dimensions. Read more...

Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

The Centre provides a stimulating environment for research in a wide range of subjects, including the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition; corpus linguistics; descriptive linguistics (particularly English, French and Arabic), corpus linguistics, language pedagogy and lexicography. Read more...

Centre for Social Research

The Centre's work is characterised by a close engagement with policy makers, practitioners and the wider community to produce relevant and influential research. The Centre aims to build "positive partnerships" with outside agencies that focus on revealing and disseminating important messages for tackling problems and challenges faced by contemporary society. Read more...

Centre for Translation and Interpreting

The Centre includes one of the largest clusters of translation and interpreting specialists in the UK and brings together the language expertise and scholarship of experts in literary, social and political theory to foster an interdisciplinary approach to translation and interpreting. Read more...

Finance, Accounting and Economics

Research in Finance, Accounting and Economics generates insight into the economic impact of changes in real and financial markets, in financial reporting, and in society as a whole. Read more...
 

Information Systems and Digital Business Technology

Research in Information Systems brings together a community of scholars who share an interest in the social and organisational aspects of information systems and information and communications technologies. Read more...

Marketing and Services Management

Marketing and Services Management research is organised around a number of thematic areas, in both the private and public sectors - tourism, agriculture and food, international business markets and the branding of political parties. Read more...

Strategic Management and Leadership Development

Research in Strategic Management and Leadership Development embraces the work of a diverse set of established and emerging scholars in the broad area of management of organisations and institutions. Read more...

Operations and Global Logistics Management

Particular themes include: models of quality management, agile operations, lean organizations, and business excellence; global supply chain management; risk and crisis management; integrated service solutions for complex technical systems; automation and cognition in manufacturing and factories of the future. Read more...

Management Science and Statistics

Particular interests include: models of maintenance and reliability of technical systems; inventory and supply chain modelling; the modelling of strategic decisions using System Dynamics; and statistical and operational research modelling in medicine and health care management. Read more...

Centre for Sports Busines

The Centre for Sports Business promotes research and consultancy in sports statistics and analytics, sport finance, sport law and the economics of sport. It boasts a continued record of world-renowned research with its members publishing their work in top-rated academic journals. Read more...

Salford Centre of Legal Research

The Salford Centre of Legal Research (SCoLR) was created in the summer of 2007 to act as a focal point for legal and socio-legal work being undertaken throughout the University. Within six months, its members were returned to RAE 2008 where over half of their published work was graded as being either of international excellence or international significance. Read more...

Centre for Health, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences Research

Research is organised through nine research programmes linked directly to health, health care and to the practice of health, sport and exercise professionals.

The Centre is a highly multidisciplinary environment with members drawn from the health professions, including physiotherapy, podiatry, sports rehabilitation, prosthetics and orthotics and occupational therapy, as well as engineering, sport science, and computing science. Read more...

Centre for Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work Research

The School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work has a strong reputation of research excellence. We advance nursing, midwifery and social work education and practice, and we inform social policy, through a wide range of real world research. This is achieved through collaboration on funded research with a range of partners, publication of high quality reports, papers and conference presentations and a range of postgraduate research programmes. The Centre’s research benefits health and social care service users and carers, educators, practitioners and policy-makers. Our commitment to public involvement adds relevance to our work. Read more...

Centre for Applied Archaeology

The Centre for Applied Archaeology has three aims - to undertake undergraduate and post graduate teaching and research, especially within industrial archaeology and the built environment; to undertake, promote and research access to heritage and community archaeology; and to undertake archaeological consultancy work and professional development courses. The Centre is the only University-based archaeology organisation to be housed within the School of the Built Environment. It has already established multi-year landscape research and community archaeology projects, and is developing a range of professional seminars and post-graduate courses with an emphasis on industrial archaeology and the built environment. Read more...

Centre for Disaster Resilience

The Centre works with communities around the world to increase their resilience to the threat posed by natural and human induced hazards.

The Centre for Disaster Resilience promotes research and scholarly activity that examines the role of building and construction to anticipate and respond to disasters that damage or destroy the built environment. The Centre is a focal point of excellence for promoting the understanding the University of Salford, UK, within its Built and Human Environment Research. The Centre undertakes a full range of research styles, from fundamental theory building to highly applied and widely disseminated. Holistic solutions to real world problems are facilitated by the flow, interaction and creation of knowledge across multi-disciplinary groups and networks. Read more...

Construction Information Technology Research Centre

The Centre is at the forefront of developing Construction IT and has made significant contributions in communication, visualisation, integration, and intelligent systems research, process protocols, product models, knowledge-based systems and numerous integrated computing environments. Current efforts focus on developing modelling and simulation environments for the virtual prototyping of sustainable buildings and cities. Read more...

Research Centre for Construction & Property Management and Economics (CCPME)

The Centre promotes research in construction management at strategic, tactical and operational levels from local, national and international perspectives. The activities of the centre are underpinned by both theory and practice. In addition to promoting a community of practice, the centre also networks internationally with different stakeholder communities (individuals, organisations, policy makers and government bodies). Read more...

Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI)

The Centre's mission is "to be recognised as one of the leading multidisciplinary centres in the built and human environment nationally and internationally, in order to deliver a construction industry that is valued by society". Recent examples of the Centre's activities include an Optimal Learning Spaces for Schools project, the integration of a lean production management system with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and a major contribution to the development of the Energy House and Energy Hub initiatives. Read more...

SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre

SURFACE is a multi-disciplinary centre forging a joined-up approach to teaching, research and consultancy in inclusive design. Committed to tackling 'real world' challenges, the Centre explores design using the social model of disability, from the planning of the public realm to the detailing of the home, its products and technologies. Part of the highest-rated built environment research institute in the UK, SURFACE is supported by a worldwide network of partners, including experts from policy and industry. The Centre thrives on an international reputation for excellence, especially in the provision of award winning distance learning. Read more...

Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF)

SURF's research aims to generate understanding about how political, economic, social, technological and environmental changes interact to affect urban and regional futures. Addressing these challenges requires analysis of developing governance frameworks, as well as policy-specific and crosscutting issues. In so doing, this agenda seeks to research both the 'what' and the 'how' of contemporary urban and regional challenges. Read more...

Acoustics Research Centre

The University has been carrying out acoustics research for over 30 years. Our research has fed into products that companies make and sell worldwide, as well as regulations and standards used in the UK, Europe and beyond. We also carry out much public engagement - getting more people aware and interested in acoustic science and engineering. Key areas of research include building and architectural acoustics, environmental noise, soundscapes, outdoor sound propagation, remote acoustic sensing of metrological conditions, human response to sound and vibration, audio signal processing and transducer design. Read more...

Autonomous Systems and Advanced Robotics Research Centre

The centre is part of the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford. The centre houses a multidisciplinary group lead by Prof Samia Nefti-Meziani with interests in autonomous systems and robotics and their constituent technologies. The group has strong national and international links with both industry and other research institutes. The core group of researchers in the laboratory includes over a dozen graduate students and three senior academic research members. This centre holds the academic (national and international) Master programmes in Robotics and Automation and Embedded systems and the projects are primarily associated with Aerospace industries in France and England. Read more...

CASE Control and Systems Engineering Research Centre

Our philosophy for research is to seek not only theoretical advances in the related subjects, but also to explore innovative concepts and novel ideas for practical applications. The total research grant at the CASE centre is well over £1million. Research themes include Control Engineering, Railway/Automotive Research, Computational Intelligence and Robotics, Biomedical Research, and Energy and Electrical Engineering. Read more...

Civil Engineering Research Centre

Research is focussed into four main themes, aligned with the core elements of the civil engineering curriculum: Structural Engineering, Transport Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Hydraulics. Our aim is to provide leading edge sustainable research that is both fundamental and relevant in today's changing society and environment, that is underpinned by strong links with academics from throughout Europe and with industrial partners, such as Network Rail, GMPTE, Atkins, Veolia and UIC. Read more...

Computer Networking and Telecommunications Research Centre

The Centre undertakes both pure and applied research in the general field of telecommunications and computer networking including computer networking technologies, wireless systems, networked multimedia applications, quality of service, mobile networking, intelligent buildings, context driven information systems and communication protocols. Members of the group are actively involved in a range of public engagement programmes, which aim to raise the awareness of these subjects for the general public, and in schools. Read more...

Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Research Centre

The Centre is developing novel methods and systems for the analysis and recognition of images and other data, learning behaviours and causal models that have a wide range of potential applications including prediction of credit ratings, restoration of historical documents, medical diagnosis, programme ratings, semantic tagging, segmentation of types of viewers and their behaviours, text mining and retrieval, intelligent scheduling, user modelling, and as embedded self-learning components in intelligent agents. Read more...

Materials and Physics Research Centre

Centre members are drawn from applied, computational and theoretical areas of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. Research areas include 'Complexity: applied nonlinear science', 'Atomistic materials modelling', 'Lasers and photonics theory', 'Atomic collisions in solids and ion beam physics', 'Chemical physics and biomaterials', 'Structural analysis and functional material properties', 'Magnetism and nanomaterials', 'Experimental applied optics', 'Stellar physics and space technology' and 'Theoretical solid mechanics'. Read more...

Virtual Environments and Future Media Research Centre

The Centre has been at the cutting edge of Virtual Reality (VR) for over ten years. It has an excellent research rating and its balanced emphasis on teaching, research and enterprise is unique. The Centre's vision is to lead research in virtual environment technology and fuel its take up through a focused program of research, teaching and technology transfer, maintaining its excellent research rating by being a centre of excellence, unique in Europe, able to meet diverse application needs through the widest range of collaborative, intelligent, immersive, pervasive and augmented reality technologies, and the deepest knowledge of how to apply them. Read more...

Biomedical Research Centre

Biomedical Sciences Research represents the research activities of the University in the areas of Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry and Health-related topics. Members of the Institute undertake leading edge research in real-world areas, including the detection and treatment of parasitic diseases, and the development of new forms of cancer chemotherapy. Read more...

Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre

The Ecosystem & Environment Research Centre comprises around thirty researchers working on interdisciplinary projects concerned with disease ecology, biodiversity, socio-ecological systems, and landscape dynamics. Read more...