Food waste seminar
04
Jun

Food waste seminar

This year’s seminar series continued with a seminar delivered by Kirsten Sims, a sustainability professional from Woolworths Supermarkets in South Africa.

Sustainable society through Tokyo 2020
31
May

Sustainable society through Tokyo 2020

Dr Ian Brittain recently visited Tokyo, Japan supporting a variety of discussions about disability sports in the run up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics....

Aluminum Forum Poland
24
May

Aluminum Forum Poland

Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez is a member of the Future Aluminium Forum’s advisory board, and was invited to run a workshop at their two-day conference on cyber security...

dance
17
May

Call For Papers: Dance and The Archive

Dance has long been regarded as an art form that is challenging to archive because the “time-based phenomenology of dance is a challenge for dance archivists” (Oke 2017,...

Coventry University spin-out Company wins contract with UK Ministry of Defence
16
May

Coventry University spin-out Company wins contract...

Coventry University’s cyber-security spin-out CyberOwl has won a prestigious contract with the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator.

Without chaplains, universities would be £4.5m ‘poorer’
01
May

Without chaplains, universities would be £4.5m...

A new report ‘Chaplains on Campus: Understanding Chaplaincy in UK Universities’ which examines the work that chaplains do, how that is resourced and the impact that...

Aalsmeer flower workshop
06
Apr

Aalsmeer flower workshop

Dr Jill Timms, Dr David Bek and CBiS’s PhD Candidate Nora Lanari led a workshop with stakeholders from the cut-flower industry hosted by Fleurametz in Aalsmeer, Holland...

ESRC
02
Apr

ESRC Japan visit

This month, Dr Ian Brittain, as Principal Investigator for an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK-Japan Social Science and Humanities Connections Grant,...

Sustainable drainage systems project may address surface water management issues for refugees worldwide.
25
Mar

Sustainable drainage systems project may address...

Coventry University’s project to manage stormwater and greywater in refugee camps has successfully completed a pilot in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Work is taking...

H2020 NEWBITS
22
Mar

Newbits project

Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez reflects on the activities of the NEWBITS project which produced science knowledge to support the development of the European ITS industry and...

Whose book is it anyway - book cover.
19
Mar

The Ethics of Emergent Creativity

A new chapter by Dr Janneke Adema, Research Fellow Digital Media (Centre for Postdigital Cultures) is out on ‘The Ethics of Emergent Creativity: Can We Move Beyond...

Belief in God or science does not help to alleviate acute stress, new study finds
08
Mar

Belief in God or science does not help to alleviate...

Relying on a strong belief system – in either religion or science – cannot help alleviate acute, in-the-moment stress, a new study has found.