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  • When AI Meets Faith: Forging Cultural Resilience in Uncertain Times

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    Angel Harper

    How will AI impact religious beliefs and cultural resilience? Generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a step-change in digital technology and is facilitating transformative change in contemporary cultures and approaches to knowledge and communication across the globe and across the world of faith. Led by Dr Adam James Fenton [linkedin.com] and the Co-Investigator Dr Chris Shannahan [linkedin.com], the SALIENT Hub [salient-hub.org] research

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  • Harwell: From constraints to commons

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    Helen Kreissl

    In a reflection by Professor Mike Lewis, SALIENT Work Package Lead, Harwell Campus emerges as a powerful example of how constraint can foster innovation. Originally farmland, then an RAF base, and later the heart of Britain’s atomic energy research, Harwell has continually adapted to shifting national priorities. Its legacy of contamination and complex infrastructure made

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  • Brunswick Comes Together: A Day of Community, Conversation, and Creativity

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    Helen Kreissl

    Written by Vicky Turner, SALIENT Hub and Programme Manager On Tuesday 29th July, Gartside Gardens in Brunswick, Manchester came alive with the buzz of over 200 local residents gathering for a vibrant community event. Organised by the Brunswick Tenants and Residents Association (BTARA) and supported by S4B (the Specialists for Brunswick consortium, a partnership formed

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  • The Manufactory: Samuel Colt’s Three Years in London

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    Angel Harper

    By SALIENT co-investigator Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath I have finally read Priya Satia’s prize-winning history, Empire of Guns, which firmly connects Britain’s industrial revolution to the state’s demand for weapons. Showing how the military as much as markets drove industrial experimentation. It also includes a fascinating nineteenth-century manufacturing story with

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  • Drones and the UK Strategic Defence Review 2025

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    Angel Harper

    written by SALIENT Academic Lead and Deputy Director of TAI Richard Kirkham and SALIENT co-investigator Prof Mike Lewis , University of Bath The 2025 Strategic Defence Review [1] (SDR) emphasised the integration of autonomous and semi-autonomous drone systems into the UK’s future force structure. References to “swarms”, “uncrewed targeting networks”, “Digital Targeting Web”, etc. underscored a vision of defence transformation by

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  • Prosperous and resilient futures

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    Helen Kreissl

    SALIENT’s Richard Kirkham joined a small delegation of UK academics on a 3-day visit to Delhi where he participated in a workshop being held in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) to discuss priority areas within the overarching theme of ‘Prosperous and Resilient Futures.

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  • Life on the edge 

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    Helen Kreissl

    SALIENT’s Richard Kirkham visited The Snaith School in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the 9th December 2024, where he spoke to Year 9 students as part of their studies exploring ‘Life on the Edge’ and wider issues associated with crime and punishment

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