Congratulations to Dr Lee Herrington, who has been selected to work with Team GB in the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil this summer. Dr Lee Herrington, senior lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation for the School of Health Sciences, will be joining the Team’s physiotherapy department, where he will be responsible for the health and wellbeing of […]
‘HIGH-FLYING’ biomedical undergraduate Louise Foster has won a prestigious award to join a laboratory research team looking at the causes of heart disease. The 27-year-old from Wigan is excelling in her second year of the University of Salford BSc in Biomedical Science. And she came a step closer to her ambition of studying for a […]
The Research Centres Support Team worked with each of the Research Centres to develop a brochure that showcases the innovative and varied research being conducted at the University of Salford. The University of Salford has 9 Research Centres, each sitting within one of the 7 Schools: Arts, Media and Communications Research Centre; Centre for Built Environment, […]
Dunhill Medical Trust: £74,907 University of Salford: 1,2Thies SB, 2Granat M, 1Kenney L, 1Howard D, Webb J Oxford Brookes University: Dawes H Research programmes: 1Rehabilitation Technologies and Biomedical Engineering 2Measurement and Quantification of Physical Behaviour Walking aids are prescribed to older people to help improve their stability and mobility. However, somewhat paradoxically, […]
With the figures in England and Wales showing that there are around six million carers (White, 2013), which equates to approximately one in ten of the UK population being in an unpaid carer supporting a friend or family member (ONS, 2011) and given that we know these figures are forever growing, Dr Julie Wray’s ‘Involving […]
The English research group is delighted to welcome Stephen Hornby as a new postgraduate researcher under the graduate teaching studentship scheme. New PhD Research – Writing Inter-male Sex/uality History Plays Stephens starting point is Marlowe’s Edward II (1594), arguably the first gay historical drama, and currently he finishes with Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg (2015). […]
Despite changes in social attitudes in many other areas, there remains a deeply engrained stigma attached to suicide. Ian Cummins has been involved in working with a range of local agencies in the Stockport area to tackle some of these issues. Stockport Suicide Prevention Leadership Committee is a collaboration of Stockport and Manchester organisations working together […]
In collaboration with UPRISE, the second Architecture Matters guest lecture (in a series of three this semester) continues next Thursday 28th April at 16:00 in Peel lecture hall G09, with a talk by renowned design critic, Tim Abrahams.
Seamus Simpson, Manuel Puppis and Hilde Van den Bulck (2016) (Eds) European Media Policy for the Twenty First Century – Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future. New York and London: Routledge. 252pp. Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book […]
The second occurrence of this conference, organised by Dr Gill James, took place on 9 April 2016 on the third floor of our building at MediaCityUK. The aim of the conference was to look closely at the young adult novel: Who are its readers? What is its nature? Which are its themes? What […]