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Jobs and Skills in the Leeds City Region

Low-paid work and in-work poverty are significant issues in the UK economy. The aim of this project is use research insights to help inform choices in Leeds City Region around employment and skills policy, particularly relating to in-work progression.


Civil Engagement in Social Work: Developing Global Models

The overall aim of this joint exchange programme is to examine the role of social work (SW) and its engagement with civil society in supporting vulnerable members of the community. 


TASHBEEK

EsTAbliSHing female academic networks: a pathway for Better addressing and managing womEn undEr-representation in senior leadership ranKs in Egyptian universities (TASHBEEK, تشبيك )


Reducing plastic and packaging and waste in the flower industry

This project supports collaborative work between academic researchers, industry bodies and UK-based cut-flower firms to tackle these problems resulting in reductions in usage of plastics and packaging and better management of waste products.


Consent, Coercive Control and Technologically-facilitated abuse: Co-building policy and digital toolkits for the elimination on digital violence against women and girls

This project has produced a digital toolkit co-design, built to enhance digital literacy and influence public pedagogy and policy around consent and coercive control in gender-based technology-facilitated abuse.


Brussels Summit: Future Proofing Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Dr Lindsay Balfour and Dr Adrienne Evans will be hosting a two-day summit at the CU Brussels Hub, on the subject of preventing technology-facilitated gender-based violence.


New Director of the Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems to accelerate next-generation clean tech

Coventry University is pleased to formally announce the appointment of Deepak Farmah as Director of the Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems (C-ALPS).


Bulgaria’s Political Turmoil as a Democratisation Event?

This research project will address whether Bulgaria’s current phase of political turmoil can justifiably be considered a positive phase in the country’s path to democratisation.


Frugal Artist-in-Residence Programme for Playful and Co-Creative Community Engagement in Environmental Awareness and Impact (FAiR)

FAiR will promote environmental awareness and practice in coastal fishing communities in Malaysia, utilising community-centred playful art-based approaches to embed scientific research in environmental conservation.


Dance Research Matters Networks Programme Midpoint Event: Making Dance Research Legible

With the theme ‘Making dance research legible in the Creative Industries and beyond,’ the event aims to facilitate knowledge exchange beyond the dance sector and networks, enhancing the visibility of dance research within the broader Creative Industries ecosystem.


Coventry University welcomes Independent Review of University Spin-out Companies

The review is led by the Government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and HM Treasury.


Documentary Film Screening: Exposed

Join the BME Staff Network as they host a screening of the documentary film 'Exposed' on 31 October 12.30-2pm in the Lanchester Library, DMLL teaching room.


Practice Research: Interdisciplinary Methodologies in Cultural and Higher Education Institutions

This research event brings together international practitioners and researchers in the field of practice research to explore and discuss the challenges and opportunities in developing new methodologies in research-led practices and in collaborations with the cultural sector.


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.


Book Launch – Research Handbook on Democracy and Development

The Research Handbook on Democracy and Development is a new publication edited by CTPSR Professor Gordon Crawford and Professor Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, University of Ghana Business School.


GameChangers

GameChangers is both an open game design course and community, co-created by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab of Coventry University together with staff and students interested in exploring the opportunities of creating games as a medium for both expression and learning.


Event - Talking Back: Hip Hop through research and practice

Talking Back: Hip Hop Through Research and Practice is grounded in feminist and critical theorist Bell Hook’s idea of “Talking Back”. This three day event will open up a space to learn more about the five pillars of Hip Hop (Knowledge, style writing/graffiti, b-boying/breaking, Djing, Emceeing) and will allow artists and researchers to sit down and discuss their practice and reflect on their research.


MyCoventry

The MyCoventry project is an initiative that supports Coventry as a ‘City of Peace and Reconciliation’, by welcoming non-EU and EEA National newcomers and giving them the opportunity to make a meaningful and positive contribution to the community.


RISING Global Peace Forum 2021

The 2021 theme is Leadership for Peace, with a full line-up of speakers to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Speakers already confirmed include The Right Hon Kim Campbell, the first and only Prime Minister of Canada, and Archbishop Justin Welby.


Postgraduate Researchers bring their projects to life for the ‘Visualise Your Thesis’ competition

Coventry University postgraduate researchers (PGR) have created provoking videos that represent their research projects for this year’s ‘Visualise Your Thesis’ (VYT) competition.