º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors
º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors identifies, collects, and showcases º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-authored works to make them accessible and celebrate staff achievements.
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Collecting, disseminating, celebrating
º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors was created for three major reasons:
- Collecting: to provide a framework to identify º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-authored works and add these resources to Library collections. In doing this we hope to create a rich repository of º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-authored materials.
- Disseminating: to ensure º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-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 º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors, we hope to celebrate academic and professional staff by showcasing their published works.
Become a º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Author
To be a º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Author you need to publish a monograph whilst working at the institution and deposit that work into . If you want to learn more about depositing research into USIR and Worktribe see: USIR - º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Institutional Repository | º£½ÇÂÒÂ×.
If you're working to become a º£½ÇÂÒÂ× 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
- 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
Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
Lecturer in Film Production and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, holding a PhD in Film awarded in 2010. Her research specialises in Brechtian cinema, the Greek Weird Wave, European civil war film, film and history, and cultural memory, with a particular emphasis on questions of realism, ideology, and cinematic representation.
Dr Gordon Fletcher
Associate Dean: Research and Innovation at º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School. In this role, Gordon leads the development of the School's research presence and profile as well as guiding bidding activities, staff development and impact activities.
Annette Williams
A Lymm-based Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, confidence specialist, speaker and Associate Lecturer at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×. She spent 38 years at the BBC, producing and leading award-winning programmes and working with some of the UK's best-known presenters and performers.
Dr Chedza Simon
Lecturer in Public Relations and Digital Communications at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×. He worked as a Private Secretary to the Minister in the Government of the Republic of Botswana. He also has a career in media and communication spanning over 15 years working for Botswana’s biggest tabloid newspaper, The Voice.
Find º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors
Books written by º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Authors are showcased in this collection on Library Search: .
Trailblazers
Trailblazers is an open access initiative providing early career researchers with the support and open access funding to publish their first monograph with .
The scheme is delivered on an annual basis, with a new cohort recruited each year. See Open Access Monographs for more information or contact library-research@salford.ac.uk
Trailblazers titles coming soon from º£½ÇÂÒÂ× authors:
- A degree of modernism: the building and buildings of the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×, 1954-1976 by Simon James Hadfield
- Rewriting the Irish mother figure: dismantling stereotypes of motherhood and maternity in contemporary Irish literature by Katie Barnes
- Invalidated grief: exploring responses to loss at the intersection of intellectual disability and minoritised identities by Patience Udonsi
- Deconstructing the Poverty Industry by David Beck
- Playing Together: Interacting with the non-human through video games by Charlotte Gislam
Contact Us
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- Starts: 20 Oct 2026, 10:00 amFinishes: 20 Oct 2026, 11:00 amRemaining places: 47Empowering researchers to protect time for their reading – one hour at a time
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- Starts: 5 Nov 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 5 Nov 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 34This session will guide you through the commissioning and publishing process at an academic press, offer advice on selecting the right publisher for your work, and provide practical tips for completing a book proposal submission form.
- Starts: 12 Nov 2026, 11:00 amFinishes: 12 Nov 2026, 11:30 amRemaining places: 35This introduction to open access (OA) for books will explore the practicalities of publishing a book OA, with a particular focus on community-led (i.e. institutional or scholar-led) options.