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Robotic behaviour
When I first visited our robotics group, just after I arrived in Salford, I was captivated by two teams of knee-high football players. When I first visited our robotics group, just after I arrived in...
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Universities as Publishers?
“The relationship between the zombie status of the scholarly book and the perilous state of the profession isn’t causal, but nor is it unrelated, and until we develop the individual and institutional...
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Open Access Week
Everything has its week and last week was Open Access Week. While not yet as significant as Christmas, open access is producing growing quantities of kinetic energy. This has included, in recent...
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Design for Dementia
The International Design Group logo (c) John Rooney. The concave fold in the acrylic glass represents the two hemispheres of the brain and the holes represent the dementia related changes in the brain....
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Creative Engineering: Engineering Creativity
One of our Robotics research students with a lower limb exoskeleton There’s widespread recognition of the opportunities in interdisciplinary research and innovation. But it’s also acknowledged that...
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Beating the Binary
The diversity of provision, research and innovation and student mix epitomises the qualities that the International Association of Universities espouses The International Association of Universities,...
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Running for KidsCan
Click here to visit the website to find out more at www.kidscan.org.uk/ This year, I’ll be joining our staff and students who will be taking part in the Great Manchester Run on 26 May. Along with many...
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Reputation Metrics
Along with 12 other universities, we are backing the launch of The Conversation in Britain later this year. The Conversation – founded in Australia – sources news, commentary and the latest research...
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Six Technologies to Watch
Helen Keegan, Senior Lecturer in Acoustics, Digital Media and Audio Engineering, has been part of the international advisory panel for the New Media Consortium’s recently published Horizon Report on...
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Neither Green nor Gold
Text mining, open data and open access publishing all hang together as the emerging future for research across a wide range of disciplines – the “Fourth Paradigm”. At our recent “Facing Forwards”...
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Back on Course
When prospective students think about university, they take account of academic reputation, location and other defining characteristics of the institution as a whole. When prospective students think...
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Rise Up
RISE has now reached its first anniversary. This, our Research, Innovation and Internationalisation Newsletter, communicates our expertise in these areas, both in Salford and across the world. This is...
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Dare to be Different
Social enterprise means different things to different people. For some, it is the recognition of the importance of the “third sector” that thrives between private enterprise and the state. For others,...
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