Critical Practices Talks

The Critical Practices Talks is a series of monthly conversations curated by Carolina Rito with researchers and practitioners in the fields of art, curating, critical theory and museum studies.


FALLCHECK

FALLCHECK is an innovative project designed to support people at risk of falling.


Positioning Brazil the Global Creative Economy

Unlocking the potential of the Creative Economy involves promoting the overall creativity of societies, affirming the distinctive identity of the places where it flourishes, enhancing local image and prestige and strengthening the resources for imagining diverse new futures.


Curious Stories

This was a programme for reception and year 1 classes in which children were encouraged to develop oral and written language skills through storytelling and understanding of other times and places.


An evaluation of a digital reading intervention for beginning readers

Nessy is an online reading intervention tool for poor readers that enables teachers to track progress in a number of key skills for reading so that they can effectively identify specific difficulties in individual children.


A new spelling test for primary school children

A new spelling test for primary school children


Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s — From Munch to Kollwitz

Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s is the first in-depth study to explore the pivotal importance of late medieval Gothic art for the artistic modernisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.


Veiled Cities – Haunted Urban Realities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This project on ‘Veiled Cities – Haunted Urban Realities’ is addressed to art, cultural and memory historians of urban spaces between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as of the art, literature, music that solemnized the city.


MAGELLAN - A Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location based collaborative Adventures

MAGELLAN - A Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location based collaborative Adventures.


Polish Émigrés in London

The project seeks to establish the ways in which Polish émigrés contributed to debates concerning empire and how race and racial identity shaped engagement with discussions of imperial issues.


The British Council Coventry University Pharmacoeconomics Programme (BCCUPP)

The aim of this development programme is to build upon the expertise, knowledge and skills of the pharmacy workforce in Egypt. In recent years, the economic evaluation of pharmaceutical technologies has become an important issue for many health care systems, worldwide. This collaboration will help transfer knowledge and skills from the team at Coventry University to academics working in Egypt and pharmacists in select Egyptian hospitals.


REFS: Inspiring the next generation of sport officials in Europe

The overall aim of REFS is to inspire the next generation of sport officials in Europe.


Kaleidoscope - The 1950s in Europe

The project aims at leveraging photographic content in Europeana depicting the 1950s in Europe, connecting today’s citizens with the post-war generation whose dreams of a better life led to the establishment of the European Union. Kaleidoscope wants to increase engagement with Europeana content, by heightening user interaction through crowdsourcing and co-curation. 


Social Choreography network

What does social choreography mean today, and to what extent can this field provide new frameworks to help address the issue of cultural stereotyping of refugees?


Enabling and translating advances in diagnostic and communication technologies to reduce the burden of STIs (eSTI2

Enabling and translating advances in diagnostic and communication technologies to reduce the burden of STIs (eSTI2).


RIPPLE: Respiratory Innovation Promoting a Positive Life Experience

The RIPPLE project applied an asset-based community development approach to improve wellbeing and reduce the high levels of anxiety and social isolation observed in individuals with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Coventry.


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.


Hearing, Speech and Literacy

When children have difficulty making connections between spoken and written words this makes it hard to learn to read. Because of this, difficulties hearing and speaking can affect literacy.


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


Developing novel ionomer binders for catalyst layers to address key challenges associated with green hydrogen production and utilisation

The purpose of this proposal is to establish a platform for research collaboration between Coventry University (CU) and Johnson Matthey (JM), aiming to accelerate the development and implementation of advanced ionomer binders for hydrogen technologies.