Why it pays to invest in societal resilience
This blog explores how a whole-of-society approach to resilience offers extraordinary value – ethically, socially, and financially.
Blogs
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SALIENTcast launches – November 2026
Introducing SALIENTcast, a podcast series exploring community practice and perspectives related to security, resilience and risk.
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“Pinch, punch, first of the month – no returns” (to prison).
This blog explores UK prison system reviews and reports, and the lessons learned, touching on notable examples such as the Woolf and Woodcock reports.
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“Not another PowerPoint, please”
Announcing our new creative arts partnership with Odd Arts, a charity using theatre to challenge inequalities & increase opportunities for people facing discrimination & disadvantage
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The UK wants a cleaner steel industry – but its plan rests on a supply chain that doesn’t exist yet
Steel is still one of the most widely used materials – but producing it is one of the largest industrial sources of carbon emissions worldwide.
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When AI Meets Faith: Forging Cultural Resilience in Uncertain Times
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 and the Co-Investigator Dr Chris Shannahan,, the devolved funding research…
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Harwell: From constraints to commons
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
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
By SALIENT co-investigator Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bristol 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…