Launchpads Cluster Management - Immersive Future CW: Paving the Way for Coventry & Warwickshire's Creative Tomorrow

Innovate UK have funded 11 Launchpads across the country aimed at supporting clusters of innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to progress their ideas toward commercialisation, contributing to local economic growth.


British Academy Innovation Fellowship: Local Policy Innovation Partnerships and Cultural Infrastructure

Centre for Creative Economies researcher Victoria Barker has been awarded a one-year Fellowship award, partnered with the Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Strategic Coordination Hub.


Nexeon Faraday Challenge R5: NewBATSEED- New Biomass Anode Technology and Silicon Electrodes with high Energy Density

The New BATSEED (New Biomass Anode Technology and Silicon Electrodes with High Energy Density) project supports two innovative development strands for the next generation of automotive EV battery cells and anode materials, delivering a significant boost in energy density.


r-LightBioCom

r_lightBioCom’s ultimate aim is to enable the design and production of sustainable composite structures. Ultimately, this will lead to more efficient systems such as lighter and more durable planes and cars which can be re-used or recycled.


Breaking the Time Barrier: Using AI to Map the Evolution of Legal Precedents

This research aims to fill two important research gaps: Dynamicity of law and reasons for citation.


A Web-Based Cardiac REhabilitatioN Alternative for Those Declining or Dropping Out Of Conventional Rehabilitation: The WREN Feasibility Study

The WREN Project will assess the feasibility of delivering a web-based cardiac rehabilitation intervention (ACTIVATEYOUR HEART) for those who decline or drop out from conventional supervised cardiac rehab. The feasibility trial will collect qualitative and quantitative data to inform the design of a definitive largescale multi-centre trial.


Understanding young people in Coventry’s knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, behaviours, and influences in relation to the use of contraception, the use of contraception services and to pregnancy

Understanding young people in Coventry’s knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, behaviours, and influences in relation to the use of contraception, the use of contraception services and to pregnancy


6-0! Promoting health through recreational football

This project focused on enhancing physical activity with aging people through recreational football activities.


Investigating GPCR:RAMP interactions using nanobodies

Professor Mark Wheatley and collaborators have been awarded a grant from the BBSRC to investigate the G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family of proteins.


Music, Medicine and Dance - exploring what it means to perform

This AHRC-funded Network project is led by Prof Roger Kneebone (PI), Imperial College, London and Sarah Whatley (Co-I)  and brings together a network of practitioners, academics, and educators from music, dance, fine arts, medicine, and science to investigate the role of cross-disciplinary approaches to performance.


Freelance Dance Artists and Representation

This project will bring together freelance dance artists, representative agencies, policy makers, organisations and academics with a view to inform and influence public opinion, policy and practice.


Performing AI

Young people will be most affected by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, according to UNICEF (2018). They therefore require knowledge and agency regarding Al systems.


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

ifeed was launched in August 2018 to coincide with World Breastfeeding week. In the first week it had 800 views and was shared by organisations supporting mothers and babies across the UK and globally.


Somatic practice, chronic pain and self-care technology

This network brings together experts from dance and somatic practices, health and digital design to explore the living, sensate and subjectively experienced body in context as a means of understanding chronic pain and self-care strategies. 


Exploring Understanding of Sexual Consent Amongst Young People

The overall aim of this research was to explore young people’s views on sexual consent, investigating how contexts affect the understanding and ability to consent, and beginning to explore the influence of social differences on attitudes towards consent.


KEEPFISH

KEEPFISH is a Marie Curie RISE project that brings together an international team of biologists, engineers and interdisciplinary researchers. It is led by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University.


Great expectations: a predictive processing account of human balance control

This research considers ways we can deliberately “manipulate” our predictive brains by using various interventions to modify our beliefs/expectations about an important perceptual-motor skills.


Young People and Smoking Project

The purpose of this study is to collect questionnaire data and conduct focus groups with young people in Warwickshire to better understand their views and beliefs regarding smoking, stop smoking services and e-cigarettes.


Sleep and Early Cognitive Development in Down Syndrome

The Sleep and Early Cognitive Development in Down Syndrome study explores the relationship between sleep and early cognitive development in young children with Down syndrome.


Young Carers Project

This project aims to develop and evaluate an evidence-based online intervention for young carers in Warwickshire.