There is a need for the creation of a worldwide monitoring centre to address the growing threat of corruption in sport linked to betting.

BT has joined other leading international communications and technology organisations and universities, including the University of Salford, to drive forward research into and development of new technologies and practices to benefit the digital creative media industry and the community, through membership of the Framework for Innovation & Research in MediaCityUK (FIRM).

A Salford academic’s research has challenged traditional notions of widowhood through a study of independent, busy and fulfilled older widows.

A wide-ranging study undertaken by the University of Salford and Nottingham Trent University, has highlighted the causes and potential solutions to the social exclusion experienced by many multiply excluded homeless people.

The first of a series of unique education sessions on building information modelling (BIM) for Balfour Beatty’s managers was organised at the MediaCityUK campus of the University of Salford recently.

Asian gamblers are significantly more likely to have a gambling problem than their white counterparts, and are less able to access support and advice to help them, according to research by academics from the University of Salford and NatCen Social Research.

The University of Salford Retrofit 2012 conference concluded today (26 Jan) with a detailed focus on the challenges of the large-scale behaviour change needed in the UK if the government is to achieve its carbon reduction targets.

A study led by The University of Cambridge in collaboration with the University of Salford has uncovered serious flaws in the process of building for the arts.

A Salford academic’s research has revealed that it takes a year to recover from childbirth – as opposed to the official view of six weeks – and significant dissatisfaction amongst new mothers with postnatal services.

It survived two world wars, a fire and mining subsidence, but met its match when it was demolished by a scrap metal merchant from Wigan. But now Worsley New Hall is going to be brought back to life by a University of Salford researcher.

Work on making objects disappear from vision by the University of Salford’s Professor Allan Boardman has been named the third biggest physics breakthrough in 2011.

The British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS) has recognised a Salford student’s postgraduate research skills at its 2012 awards.

A University of Salford student has won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives’ (RCM) Annual Awards held in London yesterday (Wednesday 25, January).

The University of Salford is set to launch an exhibition of archaeological finds dating from the Stone Age with a talk on one of the most important engineering projects ever carried out in Greater Manchester – the 350-year-old Bridgewater canal.

The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG), chaired by University of Salford Vice-Chancellor Professor Martin Hall, has released a report detailing the significant risks to industry and the national economy of a lack of access to research findings.