Linking Jobs and Poverty in Cities
This project aims to evaluate the UK and international evidence to help identify the most effective local level approaches which can link poor households to jobs that enable them to move out of poverty.
MAGELLAN - A Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location based collaborative Adventures
MAGELLAN - A Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location based collaborative Adventures.
Financial citizenship: building financial security, capability and inclusion in communities
The project explored the concept of ‘financial citizenship’ and the extent to which credit unions are able to secure financial inclusion, financial capability and financial security of their members.
CHANGE Plus: Promoting Behaviour Change towards the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation in Practising Communities and Community-Based Advocacy
The CHANGE Plus project aims to raise awareness, change attitudes and promote behaviour change on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in practicing African communities in four EU countries: Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and France.
The temporary staffing industry and economic change
The analytical work of the different national temporary staffing industries and the way they operate in different labour markets is designed to advance our understanding of labour market operations, challenges and developments, particularly around the use and nature of temporary work. This project is designed to deliver impact to a broad range of stakeholders, including academics, policy makers, those working in the industry and the general public.
The Emerging Ethical Profile of Mega-Events
The emerging ethical profile of mega-events: exploring the governance, standards and sustainability issues that contribute to corporate social responsility legacies.
Towards consumption reduction in clothing: An exploration of the motivators, facilitators and impediments to buying less
Towards consumption reduction in clothing: An exploration of the motivators,facilitators and impediments to buying less
(BASE) British Academic Spoken English Corpus
The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus is a record of the speech of university lecturers and students at the turn of the 21st century. The corpus consists of 160 lectures and 39 seminars recorded in a variety of university departments.
Evaluating the value-added impact of teaching assistant-based reading programme
This project is a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a reading intervention aimed at Key Stage 1 in primary schools, running from Sept 2014 – July 2016.
Improvement Science Training for European Healthcare Workers (ISTEW)
Developing shared academic and practice based programmes that enable European universities to build improvement capability and capacity within their own healthcare workforce.
Beyond Booked Up
The Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement have been commissioned by the BookTrust to evaluate their initiative Beyond Booked Up: a suite of activities that aim to engage secondary school pupils in Year 7 and 8 with reading.
Healthy Gardeners
Biomechanical software has been developed at Coventry University which has the capability of analysing musculoskeletal systems.
Virtual Exhaust Prototyping System (VExPro)
VExPro aims to optimise a lightweight exhaust system encompassing areas of thermo-mechanical, mechanical, acoustics, vibration, manufacturing and light-weighting analysis and design in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.
Developing UK Motorsport: A Supply Chain Analysis
This project maps the supply chains of three areas of motorsport – Formula One, Formula E and Endurance Sports Car Racing – to identify strengths, weaknesses and local economic growth opportunities which may be targeted for economic development support by Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), UKTI and BIS.
Digital Environment Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS)
DEHEMS aims to help Europe to achieve its carbon reduction targets by supporting households in reducing their energy usage through better analysis and management of their energy consumption.
Cytokine and growth factor mediated regulation of cell polarity in liver regeneration and fibrosis
Dr Christopher Mee's project looking at the ability of the liver to fully regenerate after injury.
Collective Emotions and the 2014 World Cup: Understanding Collective Shame and the Emotional Dynamics of Group-Related Failure
This project is lead by Dr. Gavin Sullivan and looks at Collective Emotions and the 2014 World Cup.
EcoDry
Eco-Dry is a 4-year €560,000 IRSES FP7 project that aims to enhance understanding and share knowledge on agroecological strategies to build the resilience of farming systems in dryland and drought situations.
WORKPLAN
WORKPLAN is a feasibility study of an RCT of an intervention aimed at improving return to work among cancer survivors.
UN sponsored conflict resolution in Kyrgyzstan: Why do external peacebuilding interventions not correspond to insider needs?
This project responds to the experience of policy-makers and practitioners working on ‘preventing violent extremism’ (PVE) who find policies developed and implemented under the rubric of PVE to be ambiguous and vague which can lead to dignity being compromised.
