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Established 2006 (1987 origins of departments) Address Clifford Whitworth Building (Library), Salford M5 4NT, UK Motto Altiora Petamus; "Let us seek higher things" Similar University of Salford, Birmingham Business School, Coventry University Business, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aston Business School Profiles | ||
Salford Business School is located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. As a business school it offers business management courses, business services and business focused research. It is one of the university's ten constituent schools and part of the College of Business & Law.
Contents
- History
- Undergraduate programmes
- Postgraduate programmes
- The Salford MBA
- Research
- Notable staff
- Notable Alumni and Former Staff
- References
The range of business and management studies degrees includes pre-masters courses, undergraduate programmes, postgraduate taught and research degrees up to PhD level. It places equal emphasis on teaching, research and academic enterprise measured by National Student Survey and Research Assessment Exercise results.
Teaching and research expertise falls within the areas of:
The Students' Union clubs and societies include a Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) group which works closely with the school delivering events including business games for local schools and colleges.
History
The school was formed in 2006 by the merger of four academic units, the School of Management, School of Accounting, Economics and Management Science, School of Leisure, Hospitality and Food Management and the Information Systems Institute. The University of Salford received its Royal Charter in 1967 but has a long tradition of higher education dating back to 1896 when two Workings Men's Institutes merged to form the Salford Technical Institute.
Undergraduate programmes
The School offers 18 honours degrees including Business and Management Studies, Finance and Accounting, Business Information Technology and Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism Studies. All of these are full-time courses. The honours degrees courses last three years with an option for students on all courses to take a placement year between the second and final year of academic work.
The School also delivers a one-year full-time honours degree intended for students who have completed their studies to the equivalent level of a Diploma of Higher Education and a full-time Graduate Certificate for students who do not have the required academic or language standards required by the School's master's degrees. There are also two part-time programmes (Certificate of Higher Education and Graduate Certificate) intended for individuals who have work experience but no formal higher education qualifications.
Postgraduate programmes
Most master's degrees have intermediate awards and students can choose to complete a Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) or Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip). Areas of specialism currently available include International Business, Information Systems, Tourism Management, Human Resource Management and Marketing. All full-time masters courses last for one year or longer if the optional professional placement is selected.
Since September 2012 students enrolling on all of the masters programmes have had the option to do a Business Innovation Project which could include :
The Salford MBA
In September 2009 the Salford MBA gained accreditation from Association of MBAs (AMBA). There is a consultancy component within the taught programme where students work with an external organisation to assist in solving a specific organisational issue. The MBA lectures are based at MediaCityUK.
Research
Research in the School is based in a number of centres including:
Statistics and Operational Research had 35% of its work rated as internationally excellent and 55% rated as recognised internationally in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Current research interests include Maintenance and Asset Management, Condition based maintenance modelling, Warranty Risk, Operations Management, System Dynamics, Player performance measurement and ranking, Forecasting results in golf and football and Modelling long-shot bias in betting markets.
The School's Business and Management Studies submission had 65% of its activity judged to be of international standard and 5% was categorised as 'world leading'.
The Information Systems, Organisations and Society research centre was ranked second in Research Fortnight's Power Table for its RAE2008 result in the Library and Information Management panel and current research interests include ICTs and social inclusion, the rise of social networking sites such as Myspace, On-line Gaming, information fulfilment, the diffusion of innovations, ICTs and call centre working, mobile and ubiquitous computing, system work-arounds, knowledge work, learning technologies, Web 2.0 technologies, gender and technology, web accessibility, search and social media marketing. and the philosophy of technology.
On 31 March 2009, and partially in response to the Institution's RAE2008 results, the University of Salford announced significant changes to its internal research structures. The most important change is that research is now be managed at a School level rather than through semi-autonomous Research Institutes. This change most affected the Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre which had members in four of the University's schools.
Notable staff
Notable Alumni and Former Staff
Salford Business School Alumni group on LinkdIn