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CWX Expo

A showcase of the Creative and Immersive Technology sector within the West Midlands.


Fraud and Finance: Protect, Detect and Succeed

The event will discuss the legislation around fraud.


Researchers discover how plants protect themselves from global warming

Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that plants use to protect their fertility while under heat stress – a finding that could have far-reaching consequences as the planet tackles global warming.


New research project to promote equal access to education for Roma women

Coventry University researchers are to take part in a “visionary” European project that will explore how Roma women are transforming educational systems through social and political mobilisation.


Great expectations: a predictive processing account of human balance control

This research considers ways we can deliberately “manipulate” our predictive brains by using various interventions to modify our beliefs/expectations about an important perceptual-motor skills.


Professor Elena Gaura recognised as one of the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021

Coventry University Professor Elena Gaura has been given a prestigious place in the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) for 2021, awarded by The Women’s Engineering Society in association with The Guardian newspaper and Assystem.


Coventry University Game-based Learning research shortlisted for Global Reimagine Education Award

A Coventry University practice-led research initiative, led by Professor of Game Science Sylvester Arnab from the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), has been nominated to receive the ‘Science of Learning’ award.  


Coventry University shortlisted for 'Best Wellbeing Initiative' Postgrad Award 2021

Coventry University has been shortlisted for the award for the ‘Postgraduate Researcher Wellbeing Initiative’, organised by the Doctoral College & Centre for Research Capability and Development (RECAP).


Coventry University calls on public to help protect sweet chestnut trees

Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) has teamed up with The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) on a new citizen science project to help save the at-risk sweet chestnut trees from an invasive pest.


Coventry University Postgraduate Researcher represents African Youth Delegates at Pre-COP26 event

Coventry University Postgraduate Researcher Rose Kobusinge was selected to lead the African Youth delegates at a Pre-COP26 event.


PEGASO: Personalised Guidance Services for Optimising Lifestyle in Teenagers

Challenging teenagers in their own fields and areas of interest, PEGASO aims at promoting a sustainable change towards healthy lifestyles, with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.


Identifying Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Clinical Features of FXS

This study is the first sufficiently powered examination of the relationship between genetic variation and behaviour in Fragile X Syndrome. 


METRIC

METRIC maps regional transport innovation capacity and identifies the competitive advantage of regions. 


Artful Research Cultures

Please join us for this interactive discussion on how the CST and CAWR are together developing transformative research approaches for responding-with diverse communities of place. These artful forms emerge within a worldview that values and helps flourish our essential interconnectedness with animate world of which we are a part.


Midlands African Studies Hub (MASH) Conference

Following the establishment of the Midlands African Studies Hub (MASH) in Birmingham in September 2017, we are holding a one-day conference at Coventry University on the theme of ‘Contesting Injustice: People’s mobilisation from below’ and invite you to submit a paper proposal. 


Climate Change and P/CVE (Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism) Policy: Strengthening Knowledge Systems in Kenya and Beyond

In Kenya, as in many ODA countries, climate change and violent extremism (VE) are pressing societal challenges.   


Obtaining richer insights from survey data using Bayesian econometrics: Applied to a food waste study

This seminar will explore a paper on food waste that used survey data and Bayesian models and it will discuss how these models can be applied to survey data.


Securing a greener future? Net Zero and the challenge of securing a sustainable transport system

This event will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing transport policymakers due to the transition to net zero.


Practical Guide to Resolving Societal Grand Challenges in Developing Economies through Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda

With a focus on SMEs in non-Western transition economies, this study moves beyond a grand theory of global SDGs designed for national- macro level implementation, and instead theorises on SMEs’ inclusivity, a necessity if the SDGs are to be achieved by 2030.


Transformations in thinking about feedback: Implications for research and practice

This interactive session will focus on the nature of the transformation in how feedback has been conceptualised and will illustrate the implications this has for the way courses and assessments are designed and conducted.