DAISY - DigitAl, technologIcal and Social innovation mixes enabling transformation for biodiversity and equitY

DAISY - DigitAl, technologIcal and Social innovation mixes enabling transformation for biodiversity and equitY


Story Choices

All Early Years settings know about the value of storybooks to their day-to-day practice, and most already use some of the principles of interactive book reading. This project will investigate how much planning these storybook activities makes a difference to outcomes.


LiSTAR - Li-Sulphur Technology AcceleratoR

The UK Government has banned the sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles from 2040. For this to be achieved and for the adoption of increasing amounts of renewable energy, improvements in battery technology are needed.  


MyCoventry

The MyCoventry project is an initiative that supports Coventry as a ‘City of Peace and Reconciliation’, by welcoming non-EU and EEA National newcomers and giving them the opportunity to make a meaningful and positive contribution to the community.


Empowering older people and families in fall management: a usability study of the Fallcheck app

Fallcheck is a web-app developed at Coventry University and enables a user to conduct a home-hazard assessment in their own, or a relative’s home. 


Disability, Neurodiversity, and Remote E-working: Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace (Remote for All)

Disability, Neurodiversity, and Remote E-working: Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace (Remote for All)


Digital peer-supported and peer-led self-management of mental and sexual wellbeing for people with acquired brain injury (HOPE4ABI): a feasibility randomised controlled trial

ABI can cause a range of problems across multiple areas of health and wellbeing - including relationship and intimacy issues. 


Expressions of Self: Race, Religion and Representation of care-experienced children and young people

This research will work with Black, Asian and mixed-heritage children and young people to generate child-led narratives of their identity, focussing on understandings of ethnicity and religion and how these intersect with being in adoptive or foster care.


Evaluating the potential of intensive grazing and corralling to enhance ecosystem services in Africa’s communal rangelands

This study seeks to quantify the effectiveness of these practices by measuring changes in vegetation, soil quality and wildlife and livestock use, associated with livestock corral sites.


Institution as Praxis

Institution as Praxis is a research project initiated by Carolina Rito that examines new modes of knowledge production and research in the field of visual culture, art, and the curatorial.


Sustainable management of an Ethiopian rangeland for biodiversity and pastoralists

This project looks at how sustainable management of the Liben Plain enhances livelihoods and food security for 10,000 pastoralists, prevents mainland Africa’s first bird extinction and integrates biodiversity conservation into Ethiopian rangeland recovery.


Concentration or composition that is the question! How do exogenous fatty acids contribute to changes in metabolic flexibility of skeletal muscle?

Using Real-Time Cell Metabolic Analysis to establish how physiological and pathophysiological concentrations of FA impact mitochondrial function, capacity and substrate utilisation in human skeletal muscle cells.


Variability and Self-Organisation in Stellar Evolution

Ever improving observational technologies have enabled access to the complex and rich dynamics of solar/stellar surface phenomena on a broader range of time/length scales, revealing new features that cannot be explained by existing theories. 


Boaters and Showmen Influencing policy and the GRTSB schools and HE Pledge through their Cultural Heritage

The Pledge for Schools is a commitment schools sign up to, to work towards creating a welcoming environment and conditions in which Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater (GTRSB) pupils can stay resilient and thrive academically. 


Citizen Sourced Solutions to Local Landscape Challenges (CiSSLL)

The project is designed to reach local people who would not normally associate with landscapes and landscape management to support with knowledge transfer.


PLANET4B project - Better decisions for biodiversity and people

The PLANET4B research project aims to understand and influence decision making affecting biodiversity.


The HOPE Programme

The HOPE programme has been designed to provide parents of children with ASD and ADHD with specialised support and training in coping skills.


OPENMED: Exploring Intercultural Learning through Open Education Practices across the Mediterranean

OpenMed ‘Opening up Education in South-Mediterranean Countries’, is an international cooperation involving five partners from Europe and nine from the South-Mediterranean (S-M) region (Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan). The project is focused on how universities from the designated countries, and other S-M countries, can join the action as community partners in the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of higher education. Open Education represents transparency, equity and participation. Such values are core in widening participation and building capacity in Open Education Practices, important to the national contexts of the Mediterranean countries.


Accessibility and Adaption: Disabled dancers’ lived experiences of Covid-19

Dramatic changes to communication modes, working practices and teaching methods had to be quickly implemented to make work and study remotely accessible at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. 


IFS - The Intervention Toolkit

This project will produce a coherent system, supported by data analytics, to identify students at risk of underachievement at four UK institutions, and offer solutions in the form of appropriate, high quality academic interventions to ensure those students continue and succeed.