Surviving in a post-COVID world? Creative freelancers, business models and policy support
This project aims to provide updated insight into creative freelance business models in order to inform policy and support.
Community Food Hub in Foleshill, Coventry: An Evaluation
The Community Food Hub (CFH) in Foleshill, Coventry, started operating in March 2020 as a pilot project delivered by Feeding Coventry in partnership with Feeding Britain and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Widening access and improving retention and career progression into the Paramedic Profession for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups within the West Midlands
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) NHS Foundation Trust successfully recruited 10% of their applicants from black and minority ethnic groups in 2011–2012 but this fell to around 3% in 2012–2013, then rose from 6.0% in 2019 to 9.8% in 2020.
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)
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.
Solar Energy Transitions (SET): Inclusive e-cooking in sub-Saharan Africa
This project aims to conduct an early-stage techno-economic feasibility study to arrive at a financially viable and sustainable solar home e-cooking system that can power a range of appliances.
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.
Tackling loneliness and social isolation: An evaluation of the Chatty Café Scheme services
This research project is designed to explore the impact of the Chatty Café Services. To explore how people perceive these services, the difference they make in people’s lives and to understand if there are ways in which these services can be improved.
A Record Of Undying
In 2013, Saxon commenced development on the central work for A Record of Undying in collaboration with his late partner John Briscoe (1949-2013). With Briscoe as subject, he developed intimate photographs and films shot during the period leading up to and including his partner’s death.
Assembly: Socially engaged photographic practice with people experiencing homelessness
For over 15 years Anthony Luvera has created long-term projects with homeless people in cities and towns across the UK, including London, Colchester, Belfast, and Brighton.
Managing Ash Dieback Disease
This project aims to identify whether factors associated with soil health influence ash tree susceptibility to ash dieback disease.
Cyber security monitoring and risk assessment in local government authorities: a social engineering exercise
The aim of this project was to achieve the operational change required to overcome some of the key barriers to eGovernance and ICT adoption, particularly those related to data security and operational resilience.
Drawing Conversations
Whilst both collective and collaborative drawing is being widely explored internationally, both within and beyond educational institutions, there is surprisingly little serious research published on the topic. This realisation led to the first international Drawing Conversations Symposium, accompanied by the Drawn Conversations Exhibition at Coventry University, UK, in December 2015, and a series of publications.
Transforming Trajectories of Vulnerability: Re-examining Educational Achievement (2TV)
2TV provides a transdisciplinary networking space for participants to engage in international research focused on transformative practice in education and public policy that enable researchers to understand cycles of vulnerability.
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.
NEFELI
Project NEFELI is an EU funded Erasmus+ KA2 social inclusion project with a focus on adult education, extending and developing the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners.
6-0! Promoting health through recreational football
This project focused on enhancing physical activity with aging people through recreational football activities.
Phase diagram of the random-field Potts model
The Royal Society Newton Fellowship is aimed at non-UK scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Dr Manoj Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, will be working with Dr Martin Weigel in the field of computational and theoretical condensed matter physics.
JRP-g15 LNG III - Metrology for LNG III – Metrological support for LNG and LBG as a transport fuel
The overall aim of the project is to enable the large scale roll-out of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied biogas (LBG) as a transport fuel.
3D Printed Cooling channels for extended tooling life
The objective of the project is to develop a full thermal and optimization model to design cooling channels in a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) steel tool for high pressure aluminium die-casting (HPADC).
