Centre for Business in Society

Autumn Newsletter

This edition of the CBiS Newsletter offers an insight to our plans and aspirations for our research teams, the PhD and DBA programmes, our support and infrastructure resourcing, and for our global footprint.

Mind the Understanding Gap: The Value of Creative Freelancer

Creative United, a support organisation for the cultural sector, has published a report ‘Mind the Understanding Gap: The Value of Creative Freelancers’ based on timely research led by Coventry University's Centre for Business in Society.

Research News

2021

Visiting Fellow in the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021

Dr Cristiana Pace, a Coventry University Visiting Fellow who successfully completed her PhD within the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), has been awarded a place in the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) for 2021 by The Women’s Engineering Society, in association with The Guardian newspaper and Assystem.

Spring Newsletter

In a year that marks the end of the Research Excellence Framework (REF21) cycle and the beginning of Coventry City of Culture 2021, we reflect on the transformational activities and impactful research that is helping navigate the challenges of the ‘new normal’ and enrich the teaching and student experience.

Cover Photo: Taxi in the old Cathedral ruins – Andrew Moore

What BREXIT and COVID19 can teach us about crisis management

Dr Alessandro Merendino is a researcher within Coventry University’s Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), specialising in how leaders’ actions can directly affect the performance of a business. In this blog, he looks at how they can survive crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit by ensuring they are resilient.