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September news
Salford staff member awarded for use of technology in learning Salford staff member Cristina Costa has been named Learning Technologist of the Year by the Association for Learning Technology. Manchester Big Screen shows how virtual world Environmental scientists and digital media experts from the University of Salford and BBC 21CC (an initiative that encourages young people to learn and create through technology) have worked with Year 9 pupils from St Ambrose Barlow School in Salford to design a virtual world that links them to schools in London and Shanghai. The students used both video conferencing and the virtual world to discuss climate change issues and share the results of the weather data they collected.
October news
Transforming guns to goods at Stretford High School Guns to Goods, an anti-violence project run by the University of Salford and the charity Community Alliance for Renewal, Inner South Manchester Area (CARISMA), was taken to Stretford High School as part of Manchester Science Festival. The event builds on ‘Wearpeace’ which uses art and design to tackle gun ownership and gun-related crime in the Inner south Manchester area. The project is run in schools and involves melting down guns seized by the police and refashioning them into peace badges.
Partnership between the University of Salford and two of the UK’s largest further education colleges The University of Salford has signed agreements with The Manchester College and Salford City College to offer seamless progression from further to higher education. Resources will be shared between the two institutions, including research facilities in key areas such as construction, media and health, and both staff and students from the college will have the opportunity to visit the Salford campus on a regular basis to experience university life. It is envisaged that these new initiatives will help people from deprived areas and with little family history of attending university make an easier transition into higher education.
Scheme has potential to halve reoffending and save £80m The University of Salford has evaluated a project looking at young offenders who continue to commit crimes and has concluded that the adoption of new methods could cut reoffending rates and save almost £12,000 per offender. The RESET (Resettlement, Education, Support, Employment and Training) programme looked at ways in which young people could be found work, housing, training and education; and studied the impact of factors such as mental health issues on reoffending. Recommendations include that education, training and employment should be in place prior to release from custody and that housing provision should be immediate to avoid the young person living with offending peers.
December news
Sports stars take part in LGBT History Month official northern launch Sports stars from the world of rugby, cricket and basketball headlined the official northern launch of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month at the University of Salford - with a focus on reducing the levels of homophobia in schools.
January news
Greg Barker MP officially opens University of Salford’s Energy Hub Facility
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker visited Salford to officially open the University of Salford’s new Energy Hub and tour the Energy House, known as Number One Joule Terrace. The house is a full-size and fully functioning Coronation Street-style terraced house that has been reconstructed in a sealed environmental chamber to monitor domestic energy consumption within aged housing stock.
Salford researcher’s US trip to improve dementia care Natalie Yates-Bolton, a nursing lecturer from the University of Salford has won a prestigious Florence Nightingale Foundation Travel Scholarship to travel to the USA and look at how people with dementia are cared for. Natalie will study the ways in which non- pharmacological methods, such as improved relationships with carers and building design are used to benefit the lives of people who have dementia. She will then report back to the Florence Nightingale Foundation so that care in the UK can be improved.
February news
University and BT partnership opens up MediaCityUK opportunities
The University of Salford has signed an agreement with BT to collaborate on research and student placements. The three-year collaboration will include reciprocal visits between research teams to the University and BT’s Communications Innovation Centre to develop
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