Salford Business School

Salford Business School
Motto	Altiora Petamus "Let us seek higher things"
Established	2006 (through departmental merger)
Type	public university business school
Dean	Amanda Broderick
Students	over 3,000
Location	Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Campus	Urban, Parkland
Colours	Navy, Black, White and Gold
Affiliations	University of Salford
Website	http://www.business.salford.ac.uk/

Salford Business School is a business school located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. It is one of the University's twelve constituent academic departments. The School offers a range of business and management studies degrees including Foundation Degree study, undergraduate programmes and postgraduate taught and research degrees up to PhD level. The School places equal emphasis upon Teaching, Research and Academic Enterprise activities. This commitment is measured by its National Student Survey (NSS) results and its Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008) result

Teaching and research expertise falls within the five broad areas of:

• Finance, Accounting and Banking
• Business and Management
• Economics
• Leisure Management
• Information Systems and Technology

The Students' Union has a range of clubs and societies including a Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) group who among their activities work closely with the School delivering events including business games for local schools and colleges.

History

The School was formed in 2006^{[citation needed]} through the merger of four former academic units, namely 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 received its Royal Charter in 1967^{[citation needed]} but has a long tradition of higher education dating back prior to 1896 when two Workings Men's Institutes merged to form the Salford Technical Institute.^{[citation needed]}

School structure

As a part of the University of Salford the School reflects the wider institutional structure by being part of a College (the College of Arts and Social Sciences) and having a Head of School (rather than Dean). This is a somewhat unusual structure for a UK business school.^{[citation needed]}

The management of the School is directed by the Head of School and the School Executive. Key operational activities of the School are dealt with through a committee structure that includes a Research and Enterprise Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee and a Marketing and Recruitment Committee. As a result of a School Review conducted in early 2009 the School has also established an Undergraduate Programme Leaders group and a Postgraduate Programme Leaders group.^{[citation needed]} Each group deals with common teaching and learning issues.

Each programme also conducts regular Student-Staff committee meetings.

Internally the School has three academic directorates: Business Management, Business Operations and Business Strategy. Day-to-day staffing and resource issues are dealt with at a directorate level.

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 course 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 masters 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

There are 18 full-time masters degrees including the Salford MBA and 11 part-time masters degrees (with intermediate awards). Areas of specialism currently available include International Business, Tourism Management, Human Resource Management and Marketing. All full-time masters courses last for one year.

Since September 2009 students enrolling on four of the masters programme have had the option to do a paid placement year with a UK based organisation instead of undertaking the more conventional final dissertation.

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.

Research

Research in the School is based in a number of centres including:

• Centre for Operations Management, Management Science and Statistics (COMMSS)
• Enterprise and Innovation Research Centre
• Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre (ISOS)
• Marketing and Strategy Research Centre
• Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Research Centre

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.^{[citation needed]} This change most affected the Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre which had members in four of the University's schools.^{[citation needed]}

Notable staff

• Ralph Darlington (Employment Relations)
• David Forrest (Economics)
• Phil Scarf (Applied Statistics)

Notable Alumni and Former Staff

• Colin Cramphorn, former Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police^{[citation needed]}
• Stuart Drummond, The first directly elected mayor of Hartlepool
• Howard Graham, Entrepreneur
• Rob James-Collier, Actor
• Professor Heinz Klein, Invited Chair and a pioneer in the philosophical foundations of the field of Information Systems
• Tony Lloyd, MP, Manchester Central
• M. Hashem Pesaran, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
• Su Maozhen, Assistant Manager, Chinese Olympic football team, Beijing Olympics; Chinese Football Association Footballer of the Year (1996); Current head coach of U-20 national team

See also

• List of business schools in Europe
• University of Salford

External links

• Salford Business School Official website