Research News

CBiS hosts first network event on comparative Policy approaches in the Regional Development of the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) Sector

Centre for Business in Society

Led by Dr Jason Begley (SURGE) this Regional Studies Association funded research network is tasked with comparing and contrasting the development of the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) sector in three regions in which the participating partner institutions are located – Piedmont, Italy, Upper Silesia & Małopolska, Poland and the West Midlands, UK. 

The Big Question: Can we build communities of trust and peace?

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

On Tuesday 3^rd February 2015, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations played host to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, launching a new series of public talks at Coventry University entitled ‘The Big Question.’ 

7/7 Reflections

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Ten years on from devastating events of 7/7, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University take a look at where we are now. A decade in reflection.

A new kind of doctoral programme for the 21st Century

We've joined forces with twelve other University Alliance universities to launch a new kind of doctoral training programme.

ALERT and the Human Wildlife Conflict Update

Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience | Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

Over a year and a half into ALERT and CU’s program to reduce human-lion conflict within Zimbabwe’s Matetsi Conservancy, the database of images captured on specially-installed camera traps outside selected homesteads is growing steadily. Among pictures of smaller predators, such as genets, civets, servals and bush cats, several clear images of lions - along with black-backed jackals and hyenas - have been captured.

Alpaslan Özerdem to be honoured with International Peace Medal

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Alpaslan Özerdem, Co-Director for the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, is to be honoured with the International Peace Medal of the Peace Corps of Nigeria. 

Ankara bombs: Turkey is being torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Turkey: torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours. Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem investigates.

BAM Sustainability and Ethical Consumption Keynote University of Surrey

Centre for Business in Society

Professor Marylyn Carrigan was an invited keynote speaker at the BAM Marketing and Retail special interest group workshop on Sustainability and Ethical Consumption held at the University of Surrey, May 28^th, 2016.

Benchmarking innovation diffusion in the Intelligent Transport Systems sector in Europe and the US. A focus on Sharing Mobility, Mobility-as-a-Service and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Within the framework of the EU-funded NEWBITS project, a benchmark analysis of ITS innovation diffusion has been performed for three specific areas of ITS innovation: 1) Sharing Mobility, 2) Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), and 3) Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV’s).

Between conflict and survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

On 17^th January 2017, Professor Heaven Crawley she gave a seminar at London’s Refugee Law Initiative entitled Between conflict and survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015 which explored the use of categories to include and include certain group of migrants, and certain types of migration experiences, from the framework for international protection.

Blog: G20 Meets in the Shadow of Paris Attacks – and with Turkey on the Brink

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Guest post by Professor Alpaslan Özerdem | At an incredibly sensitive moment, following the recent Paris Attacks, the world's leaders are gathering in an incredibly sensitive country.

Breakfast Briefing on “The Mediterranean Migration Crisis and Refugee Resettlement"

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

On the 16^th of September 2015, the Migration, Displacement and Belonging Research Group at the CTPSR joined forces with the Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (CRMC) to host the first in a series of Breakfast Briefings which provide a forum for discussing key debates in international migration and understanding its national and local implications.

Breakfast Briefing: Refugee resettlement: global dynamics and local challenges

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

On 30^th January, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations and Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre held the latest of their Breakfast Briefings to discuss the global dynamics and local challenges of refugee resettlement. 

BT Tower Talk

From ethical hackers to the Dark Net: cyber security today.

Building an Urban Serving University: a social relations programme for Coventry

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Urban universities are a huge asset for their home cities. They are catalysts for social mobility, investors in infrastructure and providers of extensive employment opportunities.

Building Partnerships for Indonesian Maritime Security

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) convened a two-day workshop in Jakarta (Sep. 9-10) entitled ‘Building partnerships for Indonesian maritime security’, with a diverse range of high profile participants.

C-DaRE E-Book

Centre for Dance Research

A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance.
*A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance* is an e-book exploring contemporary ideas and themes in the research and practice of dance. It contains 23 chapters written by researchers at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, and is divided into six sections: Spaces of Practice, Philosophy, Communities, Politics, Data and Thinking, and Epistemology.

C-DaRE Seeking Researchers

This message is an effort to reach thinkers, scholars and artists whose ideas and work do not, at first glance, seem to intersect with our work. To seek surprising connections; to build new relationships that are mutually beneficial, and that might lead to unlikely collaborations. 

Call for Papers

Centre for Post-Digital Cultures

This interdisciplinary event invites papers that consider how media images and narratives of violence provide spaces of care, wish-fulfilment, and escapism for violated communities, and how trauma and survival are modelled in the stories we tell. 

Call for papers: Arend Lijphart Symposium

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, at Coventry University, is delighted to present the symposium, Arend Lijphart Power-Sharing and the Politics of Intercultural Dialogue.