(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.


Dance Educator’s Network - Critical Dance Pedagogy Network through Discourse and Practice

The AHRC-funded Dance Educator’s Critical Dance Pedagogy Network challenges biases in dance education.


Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive

This research project is designed to contribute to innovative understandings of the value of local media to people and places.


Teenage Cancer Trust North-West Pilot Site Evaluation: A participatory action research project in the NW of England evaluating Teenage and Young Adult cancer services

Coventry University were tasked with providing a  longitudinal evaluation of the Teenage Cancer Trust's pilot scheme in the North West. 


Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal 2015/2016 Evaluation

Acting as a sub-consultant to policy consultancy Carney Green, Nick Henry provided expert peer review on evaluation methodology and local economic development context. The aim of the evaluation was a) to assess the process of initial development and set-up of the Growth Deal Programme and its assurance infrastructure and b) report on initial project progress and impact.


Economic intelligence for the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP

This project showcases the important relationships the Centre has with economic development agencies in its own sub-region. The Centre works closely with Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) in developing, hosting and maintaining an economic intelligence hub which provides a gateway to key data and economic reports on the sub-region as well as hosting relevant strategies and plans. 


Influences on and Impact of Mathematical Resilience in Year 1 Children

Coventry University research project on mathematical resilience in Year 1 children. Aims to develop a scale & interventions to improve performance, study links with performance & parental involvement.


Midlands Centre for Data Driven Metrology (MCDDM)

The Midlands Centre for Data-Driven Metrology (MCDDM) is a multi-site collaboration between the University of Nottingham, Loughborough University, and Coventry University.


Community Food Hub in Foleshill, Coventry: An Evaluation

The Community Food Hub (CFH) in Foleshill, Coventry, started operating in March 2020 as a pilot project delivered by Feeding Coventry in partnership with Feeding Britain and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.


West Midlands Local Productivity Innovation Partnership

Coventry University are a project partner to phase 1 work which provides resource and support capacity across stakeholders to undertake partnership development and landscape evidence analysis required to design the phase 2 work programme.


UpFront Survivors

Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) often face ongoing silencing, stigma, and isolation, with limited opportunities to safely share their experiences or connect with others. The UpFront Survivors partnership was launched in 2022 to address this gap by creating a national, survivor-led, creative arts-based community service designed by, with, and for survivors.


SHIFFT: Supporting Holistic “Innovation” and the diFFusion of Agroecological innovaTion

This project will look at how processes of ‘innovation’ in agroecology and food sovereignty – what does it look like, is it different from other innovation approaches, and how do agroecological innovations spread around? The goal is to support farmers, communities and social movements in developing approaches to innovation that can help to develop agroecology as an alternative paradigm to corporate-industrial agriculture.


Talking Back: Hip Hop through research and practice

This three day event is grounded in feminist and critical theorist Bell Hook’s idea of “Talking Back” and will open up a space to learn more about the five pillars of Hip Hop (Knowledge, Graffiti, break dance, Djing and Emceeing).


COACH - Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers

COACH will help coordinate strategies and disseminate good practices on how to strengthen territorial food systems and collaborative agri-food chains based on three building blocks: short food supply chains, civic food networks and sustainable public sector food procurement.


Enhancing mathematics and statistics support through developing individual practices and establishing effective networks

Coventry University is seen as a world-leader in excellence in maths and stats support and in this project we will use our expertise to help the development of maths and stats support networks across Europe and globally.


Co-development of CPD for GCSE and A-Level Mathematics teachers on Maths Anxiety and self-explanations

This project aims to co-develop existing CPD for teachers of mathematics at GCSE and A-Level, focused on supporting their students to overcome Maths Anxiety, and improve attainment using self-explanation training.


SPRINGBOARD - Addressing the under-representation of women in Higher Education leadership: Ukraine and UK

This project addresses the under-representation of women in higher education leadership in Ukraine and the UK by focusing on the unique leadership challenges women face during times of crisis.


‘Faithful’ Mothers and the Politics of Nurturing Future Secular Citizens

This fellowship will build a body of scholarship and a research network to explore the significant but unrecognised roles that mothers play in the formation of citizens and state-building, during and beyond times of conflict.


Developing a Needs Assessment Plan for Self-Management of Adult ADHD

New research and awareness of ADHD symptoms outside of the socially recognised ‘physical hyperactivity’ presentations of the condition, has led to adults being ‘missed’ in childhood or misdiagnosed with anxiety and depression throughout life.


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.