Salford Authors
Salford Authors identifies, collects, and showcases Salford-authored works to make them accessible and celebrate staff achievements.
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Collecting, disseminating, celebrating
Salford Authors was created for three major reasons:
- Collecting: to provide a framework to identify Salford-authored works and add these resources to Library collections. In doing this we hope to create a rich repository of Salford-authored materials.
- Disseminating: to ensure Salford-authored works are easily accessible and discoverable via Library Search and the Library's website.
- Celebrating: to support and empower our researchers and professional staff. Through Salford Authors, we hope to celebrate academic and professional staff by showcasing their published works.
Become a Salford Author
To be a Salford Author you need to publish a monograph whilst working at the institution and deposit that work into The University of Salford Institutional Repository (USIR). If you want to learn more about depositing research into USIR and Worktribe this webpage can assist you: USIR - University of Salford Institutional Repository | University of Salford.
If you're working to become a Salford Author, the Library's Open Research team is here to help. They offer a wide range of workshops which can help you choose where to publish, develop your academic profile, and manage your research data. These can all be found here: Open Research Workshops. Additionally, the Open Research team can help you to publish your book open access and comply with funder requirements. You can find more about our support for Open Access Monographs or get in touch via library-research@Salford.ac.uk.
Trailblazers 2025 - open to current PGRs and ECRs in Health & Society and Arts, Media & Creative Technology
Trailblazers combines open access publication, to maximise the opportunity for impact from early career research, with a series of author boot camps, which will equip Early Career Researchers with the knowledge and skills to support the publication of their work throughout their careers.
It is a joint initiative between the Universities of Salford, Liverpool, Lancaster, Liverpool John Moores, Reading and Wolverhampton with the humanities and social sciences publisher, Liverpool University Press (LUP). In January 2025, LUP was announced as the publishing partner of the British Academy's publishing programme. LUP publishes around 200 books a year, 50 journals, and more than a dozen digital collections. All books published through Trailblazers will go through the same rigorous editorial and peer review process as non-Open Access publications and will also be sold as print copies and authors will receive royalties.
Selected Early Career Researchers will experience a transparent publication process, undergoing proposal and manuscript peer review, editorial guidance from senior commissioning LUP editors, as well as professional copy-editing, typesetting, and marketing, concluding in the publication of an open access edition of their work. A series of masterclasses by publishing and library professionals will cover everything from how to write a proposal and turn a dissertation into a book, right through to how to index and what alt-text means, plus invaluable guidance on marketing, library collection management, research metrics, and how an open access monograph will benefit your research career.
The scheme is open for expressions of interest from current University of Salford PGRs and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in SHAS and SAMCT. LUP will work with chosen authors over summer to develop their proposal for review and commissioning in Autumn 2025. The first workshop will be held in June 2025 to welcome authors and introduce the publishing process.
For information on the eligibility criteria and form to express your interest go to Open Access Monographs | University of Salford
Find Salford Authors
Books written by Salford Authors are showcased in this collection on Library Search: Salford Authors.
Additionally, this reading list highlights the books and authors who spoke at our ‘Love Your Salford Authors’ launch event on 14th February: Salford Authors Event.
Launch Event
The Library launched the new Salford Authors initiative in February with a week of in-person and online events. The launch was hugely successful with more than 150 attendees across the week, over 8,000 views across social media, and positive attendee feedback asking for similar events in the future.
The main event, 'Love Your Salford Authors', held on 14 February, featured a lineup of Salford Authors speakers including Gordon Fletcher, Claire Mercer, Peter Hogg, Judith Kelly, Angela Tait, Adam Farrer, Anna Kruglova, Anthony Smith, Alicia Rouverol, Hazel Price, and Mohammed Banu Ali. Each speaker shared insights into their publishing journeys and research areas, fostering a sense of community and potential collaboration within the University.
Attendees provided brilliant feedback, describing the events as ‘inspiring’ and expressing appreciation for the diverse perspectives shared by researchers at various stages of their careers. One staff member even commented that it could convince them to finally write a book.
Throughout the week we also had two notable talks. The first being ‘Running a Student-led Publication: Bioscientist’, delivered by Sara Kassam and Wiktoria Wisniewska, the student editors of Bioscientist. They provided valuable insights into the operation of a student publication.
The second talk we hosted was ‘Publishing an Open Access Book: More than just Policy Compliance’, led by Eileen Fradenburg Joy from Punctum Books and Lucy Barnes from Open Book Publishing. Their presentations shed light on the significance of Open Access publishing in today’s publishing landscape. If you’re interested in Open Access then the Library’s Open Research team can support you: Open Access.
The week featured workshops such as a ‘Power Hour of Writing’ and ‘Choosing a Journal for Publication’, which were aimed to support staff looking to get published. The workshops were well-received by participants and if you’re interested in similar workshops, our Open Research team offers ongoing sessions.
Encouraged by the positive responses, the Library plan to organise similar events in the future, to further support and celebrate our Salford Authors.
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Power hour of writing
Starts: 24 Apr 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 24 Apr 2025, 11:00 amRemaining places: 194Empowering researchers to protect time for their writing – one hour at a timePower hour of reading
Starts: 29 Apr 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 29 Apr 2025, 11:00 amRemaining places: 49Empowering researchers to protect time for their reading – one hour at a timePower hour of writing
Starts: 22 May 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 22 May 2025, 11:00 amRemaining places: 47Empowering researchers to protect time for their writing – one hour at a timePower hour of writing
Starts: 19 Jun 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 19 Jun 2025, 11:00 amRemaining places: 47Empowering researchers to protect time for their writing – one hour at a timePower hour of writing
Starts: 17 Jul 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 17 Jul 2025, 11:00 amRemaining places: 48Empowering researchers to protect time for their writing – one hour at a time