🎉 This week the Building a Secure And Resilient World: Research and Coordination Hub (SALIENT) marks its 2nd birthday!
Established to build a more secure and resilient world, SALIENT has grown rapidly into a trusted national platform connecting government, academia, industry, and civil society.
Over the past two years, we’ve focused on impact through collaboration, funding innovation, and strengthening national resilience. Here are some highlights 👇
Through our devolved funding calls, we are supporting a diverse portfolio of projects addressing some of the UK’s most complex risks and resilience challenges.
These projects span national security, critical infrastructure, societal resilience, environmental change and more, with strong engagement from researchers and practitioners across the country.
🔗 Explore the portfolio: DF Funding Portfolio
Throughout 2024–26, SALIENT has:
- Convened cross government and academic partners to align research with national resilience priorities, whilst maintaining a human-centred systems approach.
- Had representation at major conferences including; Supergen ORE Hub, Cyber UK, and the Security & Policing UK.
- Supported workshops such as; AI and Information Disorder, and community events such as; Brunswick Tenants and Residents Association
- Expanded relationships across HEIs, UKRI councils, the Home Office, ONR, Dstl, and many more.
📣 Our network is engaged in themes ranging from security governance and complex systems to community resilience and digital trust.
Newsroom: SALIENT News
A major milestone this year was the integration of the Network for Security Excellence & Collaboration (NSEC) into the SALIENT ecosystem.
This partnership strengthens the UK’s national security research landscape, bringing together excellence in security research, futures, and innovation.
🔗 More here: NSEC joins SALIENT
We were delighted to welcome Natalie Poole, Project Manager for NSEC — strengthening our programme delivery and stakeholder engagement.
Read More: Introducing new NSEC PM – Natalie Poole
And we’re excited to appoint a new SALIENT/NSEC Senior Administrator, starting later this month, further expanding the operational capacity behind the Hub’s growing portfolio.
A big thank you to our community who have engaged with us this year. Stakeholders we’ve worked with include:
- Home Office
- Cabinet Office
- Office for Nuclear Regulation
- MoJ
- Greater Manchester Civic University Citizens’ Panel
- Dstl, GCHQ
- SPRITE+
- RBOC
- Cranfield
- RISC+
Your expertise and collaboration continue to shape SALIENT’s direction and impact.
🎂 Thank You
To everyone who has partnered with us, sat on our boards and committees, shared insights, applied for funding, taken part in workshops, or contributed expertise; thank you!
Here’s to an impactful year ahead and continued progress towards a more secure and resilient future.