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.


Enabling Students with Neurodiversity (ENTENDER)

The project aims to promote inclusion and support for students with neurodiversity in higher education in Argentina and Mexico.


Cyber security monitoring and risk assessment in local government authorities: a social engineering exercise

The aim of this project was to achieve the operational change required to overcome some of the key barriers to eGovernance and ICT adoption, particularly those related to data security and operational resilience.


Austerity Retail in Britain

This project from the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) aims to critically examine the emergence of what we call ‘austerity retail’ initiatives amidst rising food poverty in Britain. These include ‘social supermarkets’ and other forms of ‘community shop’ offering highly discounted products, and often making use of ‘surplus’ or ‘rejected’ foods which would otherwise be thrown away. 


Regional Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Territorial Development (ReSSI) – Regional Interplay and Dialogue

The ReSSI project will examine how sustainable, inclusive and smart economic development (as defined by the Europe 2020 strategy) can be promoted by local and regional authorities in Europe, in the context of evolving landscapes of territorial governance and planning. 


Service Evaluation of Lifestyle Clinics

Due to the limited examination of lifestyle clinics this research involves conducting a mixed-methods service evaluation of lifestyle clinics in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire.


Story Choices

All Early Years settings know about the value of storybooks to their day-to-day practice, and most already use some of the principles of interactive book reading. This project will investigate how much planning these storybook activities makes a difference to outcomes.


LIFT: A community-centered intervention to improve infant feeding practices among Pakistani and Bangladeshi families living in the UK

Earlier research revealed that Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities living in the UK may be more vulnerable to lower breastfeeding rates than previously thought. We are working with local communities to create resources to influence infant feeding practices.


IFS - The Intervention Toolkit

This project will produce a coherent system, supported by data analytics, to identify students at risk of underachievement at four UK institutions, and offer solutions in the form of appropriate, high quality academic interventions to ensure those students continue and succeed.


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. 


Reality Remix

The 'Reality Remix' project brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts to address challenges and opportunities that emergent technologies bring to content creation and interaction methods in Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality.


Knowledgeable, comprehensive and fully integrated smart solution for resilient, sustainable and optimised transport operations (KEYSTONE)

The overall goal of KEYSTONE is to support the development of a sustainable, efficient, and safe transport system, allowing enforcement authorities to access data for the purpose of compliance with rules applied in the transport of goods and passengers.


MASELTOV - Mobile Assistance for the Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services

MASELTOV - Mobile Assistance for the Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services.


Emotion processing and intervention in Autism Spectrum Conditions

This project aims to develop new innovative methods to explore how those with autism process emotions in realistic social situations, as well as new evidence based interventions to improve emotion processing skills in people with autism.


Essential features of serious games design: A critical review and game pedagogic planner

This study aims to provide guidance on design of serious games that reflects the principles underpinning learning design. 


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.


Becoming the Terror: Foucault on Violent Politics

This research will examine previously undiscovered correspondence between Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari specifically regarding political violence, vigilante attacks, and resistance to state repression.


"A Sea of Opportunity” - The Maritime Dimension of Brexit Narratives

This project aims to address this gap in scholarly knowledge through new data and outputs that will, for the first time, reveal the maritime dimension of Brexit narratives, why this mattered, and how it continues to create impasses in UK-ROI-EU relations


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.


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.