How can siblings of children with a life-threatening or a life-limiting genetic condition be best supported?

Previous research has tended to focus on the effects of childhood diagnosis on mothers, but this study will aim to increase professional’s understanding the experiences of the whole family, including other siblings. 


Hamilton Studio, Bombay: the first twenty years after partition

This project will digitise negatives, prints and documents at Hamilton Studio from the twenty years after Partition (1947-67), a period of change and political flux in India and of mass migration to the UK.


What the new counter-terrorism duty means for schools and further education colleges

The first major mixed-method study into the enactment of the Prevent counter-terrorism in statutory education.


Don’t Dis my Ability: Marginalised voices from sport (Pilot)

This project investigates how technological tools, such as social media, may support or constrain people with disabilities in the development of their political interests and careers.


The Effects of Yoga & Meditation in a Prison Environment

The Effects of Yoga & Meditation in a Prison Environment is a study by Dr Miguel Farias, exploring how prisoners can benefit positiviely from meditative practices. 


Young People’s Understanding of Sexual Consent and Sexual Exploitation

Research seeking to explore young people’s understanding of sexual consent, using qualitative research methods. 


Stop-App: Increasing Access and Attendance at Stop Smoking Services

The aim of this project is to develop an evidence based behaviour change app to enhance access and attendance at Stop Smoking Services: the Stop-App.


Innovative designs of sustainable agro-hydro-health systems

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and Akademi Sains Malaysia will be holding a 5-day workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia commencing on 31 July 2017. The workshop is being coordinated by Professor Sue Charlesworth (Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University) and Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Halim Ghazali (Universiti Putra Malaysia), and will have contributions from other leading researchers. The workshop will explore the following research topics in relation to ‘off-grid’ communities.


Optimisable system-level thermal models for power electronic converters

This project is focused on the design of reliable yet efficient thermal models underpinning an optimal design framework for power electronic converters. Due to the high number of times these models must be evaluated during the optimisation process, they are required to be of low computational cost (so-called ‘optimisable’).


How do EV adopters make decisions? Understanding their behaviours and exploring the strategic role of brands for CBiS

This study aims to assess whether an alternative approach of new market entrants, such as Tesla, in marketing the EV as a desirable gadget, badge of honour and ‘must-have’ brand, is likely to bring about mass adoption and a step-change in sales.


Performing Empowerment: Disability, Dance & Inclusive Development in Post Conflict Sri Lanka

This project examined an innovative way of empowering persons with conflict-related disabilities in Sri Lanka through a combination of dance and law that was pioneered and piloted by VisAbility, a Sri Lankan/ German association, in mid-2015.


Community Action Platform for Energy - The CAPE Project

Developing an interactive platform that puts Big Data tools in the hands of communities to explore what it takes to get communities involved in local energy projects.


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.


Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change

PRO-CLIMATE aims to investigate the drivers and barriers to behavioural change, explore pathways towards achieving effective governance and organisational improvements for example in processes and procedures, to enable and enhance climate resilience.


Intelligent Wind Turbines for Cold Climates

More than a quarter of the world’s wind turbines are installed in cold climates and suffer from icing, which damages turbines, causes dangerous break-off ice and reduces annual power generation by up to 20%. 


Beautiful places as contested spaces

Examining the potential effect of Welsh Governments new landscape management schemes on the economic, environmental and cultural activities and values of Cambrian Mountain Range residents and stakeholders.


Wildpluk: Promoting sustainable harvesting of wild foliage

Wild harvested foliage products are a significant component of the overall cut‐flower industry, with international exports being worth around $0.75bn.


Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political mobilizations (RTRANSFORM)

The project addresses a main challenge which is social inclusion with the potentiality of promoting education among Roma women and girls. The European Union has taken action to implement Roma integration strategies and sets of policy measures aimed at improving the situation of Roma and at closing the existing gaps between Roma and the general population.


Your money, your life: Lived experiences of young people’s borrowing

This research will explore young people’s (aged 18-24) lived experience of borrowing, their use of credit and perceptions of their current (and of their future) financial vulnerability. Young people will actively participate in designing solutions to reduce their financial vulnerability.


Rapid evidence review on the causes and identification of individuals with specific learning difficulties (SpLD)

In January 2020, Professor Julia Carroll was invited to provide a rapid evidence review on recent research on Specific Learning Difficulties for the UK government.