"A Sea of Opportunity” - The Maritime Dimension of Brexit Narratives

This project aims to address this gap in scholarly knowledge through new data and outputs that will, for the first time, reveal the maritime dimension of Brexit narratives, why this mattered, and how it continues to create impasses in UK-ROI-EU relations


Hearing, Speech and Literacy

When children have difficulty making connections between spoken and written words this makes it hard to learn to read. Because of this, difficulties hearing and speaking can affect literacy.


Dancing Bodies in Coventry

Dancing Bodies in Coventry is a Coventry City of Culture 2021 funded project that is being led by researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE). 


In-Situ Mobile Application for the Triage of Pedestrians in Vehicle Collision (Sentinel)

In the UK, in 2022, 376 pedestrians were killed and 19318 were injured, highlighting the important societal impact and a notable economical loss of £2.2M per death and £261,498 for each seriously injured victim. 


Consent, Coercive Control and Technologically-facilitated abuse: Co-building policy and digital toolkits for the elimination on digital violence against women and girls

This project has produced a digital toolkit co-design, built to enhance digital literacy and influence public pedagogy and policy around consent and coercive control in gender-based technology-facilitated abuse.


‘Procurement for Good’ - Place-based approaches to sustainable food supply chains: scaling socio-technical innovations as enablers for enhancing public sector food procurement

To critically evaluate the conditions in which place-based public food procurement networks, utilising open-source socio-technical innovations can scale to deliver the transformative changes needed for socially just transitions in food systems.


AccessCULT - Innovative Higher Education teaching contents for achieving sustainable ACCESSibility of CULTural heritage for ALL

AccessCULT seeks to improve the accessibility of cultural heritage across Europe through the exchange of good practice. The project will develop, implement, test, and promote innovative multidisciplinary, learning content targeted at students as future experts, and existing cultural workers.


Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s — From Munch to Kollwitz

Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s is the first in-depth study to explore the pivotal importance of late medieval Gothic art for the artistic modernisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.


CreativeCulture 4.0

The project aims to broaden and extend the impact of experiential learning through play and gamification as a creative, emphatic and inclusive pedagogical practice in Malaysia towards Education 4.0 responding to Industry 4.0.


Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal 2015/2016 Evaluation

Acting as a sub-consultant to policy consultancy Carney Green, Nick Henry provided expert peer review on evaluation methodology and local economic development context. The aim of the evaluation was a) to assess the process of initial development and set-up of the Growth Deal Programme and its assurance infrastructure and b) report on initial project progress and impact.


The temporary staffing industry and economic change

The analytical work of the different national temporary staffing industries and the way they operate in different labour markets is designed to advance our understanding of labour market operations, challenges and developments, particularly around the use and nature of temporary work. This project is designed to deliver impact to a broad range of stakeholders, including academics, policy makers, those working in the industry and the general public.


Performing Inclusion

Performing Inclusion examines audience responses to dance performances by disabled people in North and East Sri Lanka and seeks to develop strategies for capacity building in ‘mixed able’ dance practices and the evaluation of arts for development activities. The project is a collaboration between University of Essex, Coventry University, VisAbility (a German and Sri Lankan ‘mixed-able’ dance organization) and 15 Sri Lankan researchers.


Managing the Impacts of Mega-Events: Towards Sustainable Legacies (CARNIVAL)

Investigating the factors that impact upon the planned and unplanned legacy outcomes of sporting and non-sporting mega-events and their implications for stakeholders.


Evaluation of the Shuttletime Programme

This project examined the effect of engaging in the BWF Shuttle Time programme, compared to traditional Physical Education, on children's current and future engagement in sport and physical activity and health.


Transitions and Transformations in the Rehabilitation, Retraining and Rehoming of Racehorses

This pilot project will explore spatial transitions and relational transformations experienced by animals due to interventions in their lives by humans


Clean Futures

Clean Futures is a government backed programme designed to support the West Midlands transport sector to be at the heart of the Green Industrial Revolution.


Voices from ‘Ground Zero’: Interrogating History, Culture and Identity in the Resolution of Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone’ Conflict

The overall aim of this project is to contribute towards resolving the conflict in Cameroon and enable peace which is in line with the CTPSR’s mission of fostering peaceful relations as well as CU’s aim of making positive impact and difference within communities.


Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities - RBOC Network Plus

The RBOC (Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities) Network Plus will create new knowledge, new capabilities and new opportunities for collaboration to help the UK prepare for security threats in the coming decades.


Digi CAV

Investigating the feasibility of building a connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) simulation platform that enables plugging in external heterogeneous components.


Creative Freelancer Business Models and Place-based Growth

The project is designed to address an important evidence gap around the contribution of freelancers to the economic and place-based impacts of the creative industries.