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SPRING 2017 Salford Successes Salford Stories: Supporting Care Leavers Introducing: New Patient Simulation Suites Sport at Salford Work with US Salford student becomes double gold medallist at Rio Paralympics Salford Successes A round up of our achievements throughout the past semester... more detailed information about the zone’s animal life. Their findings have contributed to high-level debate about the potential creation of a Chernobyl nature reserve and garnered a huge amount of press coverage. The judges said that the research project was impressive in the way that it used “ground-breaking radiological methods to explore the impact of nuclear radiation on wildlife in the Chernobyl area”. On collecting the award, Dr Wood said: “I am absolutely delighted. What a journey this has been. To have the opportunity to undertake ecological research in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is an amazing privilege. To have the excellence of that research recognised through such a prestigious award is just fantastic. To undertake such work requires excellent Salford wins Research collaboration, with colleagues in the Ukraine, France and in Salford, I clearly accept this Project of the Year award on behalf of all of them. I also want to back of an ambulance transporting patients thank the University of Salford for providing Salford launches new between hospitals to a nightclub in which a such a fantastic environment in which research patient has collapsed. In November, academics from Salford collected the can truly flourish.” Patient Simulation Suites Special ‘touch spots’ on the wall and floor Research Project of the Year award at the esteemed Huge congratulations to Dr Wood can enable patients to interact with the Times Higher Education Awards in London. The awards, and the team! Students training to become a Nurse, Midwife or Health environment – such as by leaving footprints on Care Professional at Salford, will have the opportunity the floor in a simulated outdoor scene or being now in their twelfth year, are widely recognised as able to operate equipment in a simulated the Oscars of the sector, shining a spotlight on the to face real-life scenarios in the safe and supportive hospital ward. As well as providing state of environment of our new Patient Simulation Suite. the art training for students entering health outstanding achievements of those working in UK care professions, the room can be used to higher education. The simulation suite, which opened in 2016, Students are able to learn how to perform simulate a huge range of other environments, features a series of rooms designed to vital procedures that they’ll use throughout such as replicating a prison cell for Criminology Dr Mike Wood from the School of Environment on the international collaboration project. look exactly like hospital wards containing their career, whilst under the supervision of students or the home of a distressed family for and Life Sciences collected the Research Project Together they used the area around the realistic human patient simulators – high trained practitioners. those training to become Social Workers. of the Year Award for his work around the Chernobyl accident site as a laboratory to tech electronic manikins operated remotely Chernobyl disaster. His research has hugely study the continuing effect of the disaster on by technicians. These manikins can ‘speak’ We have also recently launched a new Read more about the suites at increased understanding of how nuclear wildlife. Cameras that they set up provided via a microphone, blink and even sweat, and immersive simulation room. The room - one of www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/facilities/ radiation affects animal life, and used a more than 45,000 images, allowing the come complete with pulses and moveable only a handful of its kind in a UK university – patient-simulation-lab ground-breaking technique to provide new researchers to answer fundamental questions chest plates to enable students to respond to will enable students training for occupations evidence about what happens to the diversity about the relationship between radiation scenarios, from dressing a wound to carrying such as Nursing, Midwifery or Counselling to and abundance of large and medium-sized exposure and biodiversity. out cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on practice dealing with any kind of incident in mammals after radiation exposure. someone experiencing cardiac arrest. Another a virtual setting. A series of cameras project Dr Paul Kendrick from Salford’s Acoustics area is designed to look like a maternity unit realistic images onto three walls of the room He worked with Honorary Prof Nick Beresford Research Centre also collaborated on the and features patient simulators representing as well as onto the floor, while sounds can be from the NERC Centre for Ecology & project by placing special bio-acoustic birthing women and newborn babies. piped into the room by specialist technicians Hydrology and Ukraine’s Chernobyl Center recording devices across the area, providing working from a separate control room. The room can be turned into anything from the Hat-trick of industry collaboration wins Colleagues in the school of Computing, Science and Engineering are providing their expertise to boost growth and jobs at three UK-based manufacturers. Experts in Civil Engineering, Acoustics and Spray Research have won Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) with Farrat Salford formally launches Isolevel Ltd, Technocover Ltd and the Carlisle Fluid Technologies Group. The three KTPs are a clear demonstration first Chartered Surveyor of our university-wide drive towards initiating industry collaboration. Degree Apprenticeships Partially funded by the government, the KTP programme is an innovative scheme, which for the past 40 years Apprentices and employers gathered at the start of during the apprenticeship. When I graduate has helped companies to improve their this term to formally sign the contracts for the first I’m interested in working overseas, and in competitiveness and productivity through Chartered Surveyor Degree Apprenticeships being order to do this you really need the RICS a three-way partnership between a chartership. I think the biggest benefits are business, a university and a recent offered by the University of Salford. the kind of relationship that it will create; I graduate (also known as a KTP Associate). will be able to see how what I am studying at From next September, our School of the Built our School, but also for employers, because University relates to the job.” Prof Sunil Vadera, Dean of the School of Environment will offer students the chance to it allows them to engage fully with the Computing, Science and Engineering said: complete a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying, development of their people. There is more to One of the companies signing up to the “To win not one but three bids is a huge whilst gaining valuable industry experience. it than just a degree; here the relationship is a scheme is Morgan Sindall, a construction and vote of confidence in the industry-focussed The degree apprenticeships will be paid for by lot deeper and employers can show us what regeneration group based at Salford Quays. Research success for Pathways credentials of academics in the School.” the employer and the government, meaning skills they want from our students”. Gill Roberts, of Morgan Sindall added: “This apprentices will be able to earn whilst working really is a fantastic opportunity for us especially The University welcomes new KTP and studying. The degree apprenticeships will work on a day because being based in Salford - it’s taking to Excellence student initiatives as they can often nurture long- release basis and after finishing their degrees, place at our local University. Because we are term relationships with big business. Janet Professor Will Swan, Acting Associate Head students will take their end point assessments investing in our future employees, it might PhD student Natasha Hadgraft recently had her work Morana, KTP Manager, added: “We are for Enterprise & Engagement says of the new through the Royal Institution of Chartered help us to retain them. I would encourage delighted to have been able to announce programmes: “Degree apprenticeships are all Surveyors (RICS) in order to become chartered other employers to buy into this scheme”. published in Nature Communications, a respected these three KTPs at a time when the about bringing universities and companies Quantity Surveyors. journal of high-quality research. University is setting out a clear strategy closer together, in order to train people to For more information on our Degree to strengthen partnerships and create be the best and most rounded person for New apprentice Jonathon Simpson said: Apprenticeship visit www.salford.ac.uk/ Natasha is part of Salford’s Pathways to Excellence programme, which offers a valuable Industry Collaboration Zones (ICZs).” that industry. It is a fantastic opportunity for “I’m most looking forward to gaining contacts built-environment opportunity to study for a PhD while being supported to produce high quality research papers in collaboration with supervisors and other colleagues. She is also part of the University Alliance Doctoral Training Alliance scheme, bringing together researchers and promoting cross-institution collaboration at a national level. Business School student plays the role As part of her research, Natasha has developed expertise in techniques that help to understand of judge at MOBO Awards ceremony heart physiology and dysfunction in disease. This led to her being asked to contribute to a major scientific study which was published in Nature Communications. Under the supervision of Biomedical Science Lecturer, Dr David Greensmith, Natasha used specialised on-site equipment A Salford Business School student was way that encourages us that we are moving in for the study, revealing important findings which were published. Upon seeing her research in the a judge at the prestigious MOBO Awards the right direction”. journal, Natasha was understandably excited. She said: ceremony held in Glasgow in November.