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. 


DanceMap: Innovation Pathways and Policies to Promote European Dance Heritage at Home and Abroad

DanceMap is a pioneering heritage initiative funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation.


Gypsy Roma Traveller in Higher Education: Influencing Policy

The project aims to shine a light on marginalised communities and attempts to bring those voices to the forefront and into the university.


‘Strictly’ Inclusive: Co-creating the past, present and future

The BBC, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), are celebrating their centenary year with a series of new public engagement research projects, recently announced. This programme of activities seeks to connect the public with the BBC’s past, present and future. Coventry University are pleased to have been awarded funding to explore the BBC’s work in televising dance, looking at the impact of Strictly Come Dancing on public audiences and its recent focus on inclusion through dance.


Performing Arts Advocacy Alliance

This project is a partnership between Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), OneDanceUK and Birmingham Dance Network (BDN). The aim of the project is to understand how small arts organizations, artistic researchers and local artists can connect with and influence local & regional policymakers.


Interactive Dialogues: Ethics and Equity in Practice Research - Dance and Theatre

The necessity to engage in a dialogue around the issues of Ethics and Equity in Dance and Theatre have been identified in the field of artistic practice and in the academic sector of Practice Research. This project is directed to PGRs, artists and ECRs.


Embodied trust in TAS: robots, dance, different bodies

The project explores the idea of deeply embodied trust in autonomous systems through a process of bringing expert moving bodies into harmony with robots.


Research Capacity Building Programme in Pakistan

A capacity building programme for researchers, reviewers and the institutional research management of Offices of Research, Innovation, & Commercialization (ORICs) in Pakistan.


RTransform: Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political Mobilization

Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political mobilizations (RTransform) addresses a main challenge which is social inclusion with the potentiality of promoting education among Roma women and girls.


Gypsy Maker 5: LifeStrings Screendance

 The Romani Cultural and Arts Company was the lead for the ‘Gypsy Maker 5’ programme a development of the highly successful ‘Gypsy Maker’ project.


Dance after Lockdown

Dance and Lockdown is a small-scale qualitative study designed to generate richly detailed experiential data from two key layers of the dance industry’s ecology: artists and organisations.


The Shape of Sound

The Shape of Sound, is an interdisciplinary exploration into the relationship between movement, touch and sound. 


Politics of Otherness in Contemporary Concert Dance: (In)visibilities on Stage and the White Gaze

This research addresses the experience of Otherness in Swiss contemporary concert dance, exploring the mechanisms of Othering/exclusion.


BRAID: Responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives

This project is part of the new BRAID programme, which generates key new knowledge on responsible innovation and creativity when AI is used to create, document, reactivate and conserve artworks and their archives.


Somatic Performance Practices: Sandra Reeve and Ecological Movement

Developing a UK case study on somatic practices in performance, whilst drawing out information on ‘context’ as an aspect of somatic practices in performance.


Capturing Stillness: Visualisations of Dance Through Motion Capture

The Capturing Stillness project places a microscope on the dance practice Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), in combination with motion capture and game engine technologies.


Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society (RICHES)

RICHES is a research project about the change that digital technologies are bringing to our society, culture and heritage.


Digital Dance Archives

This AHRC-funded project provided public access, via one web platform, to several distinct dance collections from the NRCD.


Live Archive: Revisiting Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre Archives

This project revisits and develops sections from ‘Lunar Parables', choreographed by Sara and Jerry Pearson.


The Library of Processes

This project investigates the various ways in which artists document reflections and experiences of working within an artist venue.