Curious Stories

This was a programme for reception and year 1 classes in which children were encouraged to develop oral and written language skills through storytelling and understanding of other times and places.


A new spelling test for primary school children

A new spelling test for primary school children


Researching the dance ecology of Coventry: resilience, creativity and imagining the future.

COVID-19 continues to have an impact on all areas of society, and the cultural sector is still in the process of learning about what this means long term. Contemporary dance in particular has had to discover new ways to be resilient and creative not only in terms of social distancing with its impact on how dancers can train and rehearse, but also adapting priorities for audience engagement and participation.


InoCardia: Delivering Improved Cardiac Safety Liabilities for Therapeutic Drugs Using the Contractome-AI

The commercialisation of Professor Maddock's academic research started with a vision that there was a fundamental need within the Pharmaceutical Industry for the development of improved physiological relevant model to assess cardiac contractility.


E2-Create - Encoding Embodied Creativity for Computational Art

Dance represents a rich resource of bodily expertise that is exciting and challenging for other scientific and artistic domains to draw from. E2-Create addresses this challenge by providing generative approaches to facilitate the exchange between dance and computer-based art.


Innovatory Methods in Policymaking: The Use of Verbatim Theatre

Funded through the Strategic Priorities Fund, the project explores new forms of data gathering for policy making, and specifically the role of Headphone Verbatim Theatre in assessing the impact of Coventry City of Culture 2021 on citizens and their views of Coventry.


Using movement and story telling to enhance motor and cognitive development in preschoolers

This study sought to pilot an innovative intervention for pre-schoolers whereby movement is linked to storytelling in a fun and accessible manner.


STEM and Belief in UK and USA Higher Education

To promote meaningful university STEM opportunities for underrepresented belief groups, this mixed methods project seeks to better understand how to foster STEM environments inclusive of belief diversity.


The rise of Christian social franchises: responding to UK poverty

Whilst geographers of religion, poverty, and volunteering have given attention to faith-based organisations, the question of how UK faith-based organisations have grown so rapidly has not been addressed.


Becoming the Terror: Foucault on Violent Politics

This research will examine previously undiscovered correspondence between Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari specifically regarding political violence, vigilante attacks, and resistance to state repression.


Lived experiences of gambling, gambling-related harms, and crime within ethnic minority communities

The overarching aim of the research was to amplify the voices of people from ethnic minority communities who have been affected by gambling and crime.


Investigating the health benefits of hot water immersion as an adjunct to exercise

This work will form the basis of empirical evidence to develop this emerging field. From a health perspective this work will inform and develop a novel area of complimentary therapy for populations who struggle to meet national exercise guidelines.


Scoping knowledge of gambling and gambling-related harms amongst international students

Across two UK universities, we will conduct a preliminary exploratory online survey with international students about awareness of and attitudes to gambling.


Systematic Reviews to Underpin the Development of a Generic Blood Test for Cancer

Detection of very early cancerous changes has the capacity to save many lives and reduce the burden of disease for cancer patients and treatment costs for healthcare systems. This is the vision of the Early Cancer Detection Consortium. Building on recent technological developments, we aim to develop a blood-based screening test for multiple tumour types so that most cancer patients can be cured without experiencing any of the symptoms of cancer or the side effects of treatment. Systematic reviews and economic modelling are underway to underpin future advances.


BioRich: Feeding Biochar to Ruminants

Agriculture now finds itself in a changing landscape where old methods and expectations are now being questioned. It is critical that new, holistic, methods are found to improve animal and soil health whilst benefiting the environment and financially supporting farmers.


Nonlinear flow states and turbulence produced by helical magnetorotational-type instabilities (Solar Studies)

 To investigate the origin of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable astrophysical flows by developing a nonlinear stability theory of helical magnetorotational instability (HMRI)


CoPED: Catalogue of Projects on Energy Data

CoPED: Catalogue of Projects on Energy Data


iFeed: User-centred development of an online and mobile phone intervention to support infant feeding choice and confidence to sustain breastfeeding and/or safe formula feeding

In order to improve public health we aim to improve the available information and behavioural support for infant feeding, and improve access to it via the web and smart phones since their use is becoming prolific.


Understanding user trust after software malfunctions and cyber intrusions of digital displays: A use case of automated automotive systems

This research investigates the cyber security, human factors and trust aspects of screen failures during automated driving.