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Life on the Breadline: Christianity, Poverty and Politics in the 21st Century city
The aim of this project is to understand how the social context resulting from the 'age of austerity' has affected Christian engagement with poverty in the UK and the theological motivations, which underpin it.
What the Prevent duty means for schools and colleges in England: An analysis of educationalists’ experiences 04 Jul 2017
New report from CTPSR seeks to get beyond the polarised public debate about the Prevent duty to explore the experiences of ‘front line’ education professionals.
Professor Heaven Crawley joins the Overseas Development Institute 30 Jan 2017
Professor Heaven Crawley has joined the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as a Senior Research Associate to develop and strengthen links with the newly established migration research programme.
CTPSR at the Guardian University Awards 31 Mar 2017
Coventry University has been shortlisted for a prestigious award by the Guardian for the impact of its research shedding light on the dynamics of Europe’s migration crisis.
Petals - FGM web app for young people wins Gold London Design Award 24 Nov 2016
In the Digital community category, the app, created to help protect young girls and women from female genital mutilation (FGM), has beaten off stiff competition to win a 2016 London Design Award.
Coventry Researcher Bastien Dieppois awarded Stanley Jackson Prize 11 Nov 2016
Regarding his last paper identifying the climate processes driving decadal timescale fluctuations in southern African rainfall and droughts, Dr Bastien Dieppois has recently been awarded the Stanley Jackson prize. This prize rewards the annual best and most significant contribution in oceanography and atmospheric sciences (including environmental and hydrological sciences) in southern Africa.
International Conference Attendance: Trust Team attend FINT 06 Nov 2016
CTPSR's Trust Group will visit Dublin in November to contribute to the First International Network on Trust (FINT). The theme of the conference, “Reaching Out”, is about challenging the trust research community to stretch their thinking and influence, to encourage wider participation in the community from practitioners and academics in related fields.
Conference at the Arab American University in Jenin (AAUJ), Palestine 04 Aug 2014
Three members of staff and one postgraduate student from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) presented papers at the first international conference on ‘Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Palestine’ between 1-2 June 2014.
Leading Locally: Sustainable Food Tourism in St Ives – Event summary 01 Jan 2016
Read our research findings report and a brief event summary on our ESRC funded event: 'Leading Locally: Sustainable food tourism in St Ives' hosted by Jordon Lazell in the Centre for Business in Society.
CBiS researchers collaborate with BJA to launch new Jewellers Social Responsibility Framework 28 Nov 2014
The British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) has officially launched the new Jewellers’ Social Responsibility Framework to its members in November 2014.
Building an Urban Serving University: a social relations programme for Coventry 25 Jul 2014
Urban universities are a huge asset for their home cities. They are catalysts for social mobility, investors in infrastructure and providers of extensive employment opportunities.
Early career researchers at the Royal Geographical Society Conference 01 Jan 2014
Early career researchers at the Royal Geographical Society Conference
Dr Leonardo Mataruna starts a new project: “Ball, Rings & Peace” in Brazil 01 Jan 2014
Dr. Leonardo Mataruna starts a new project: “Ball, Rings & Peace” in Brazil
WREV Showcase 01 Jan 2016
Read all about our Warwickshire Rural Electric Vehicles (WREV) showcase event summary and download our report findings.
REcovery the CRisis through Entrepreneurial ATtitudE - RECREATE
RECREATE aims to foster the creation of links between higher education, research and business, and the acquisition of transversal and entrepreneurial attitude among young researchers and students, in order to contribute to recovery of the current economic crisis.
Training in Social Impact Management for Social Enterprise Mentors and Policy Makers
Workshop in response to the Mexican Government’s belief to tackle the economic and social development challenges that the country faces requiring innovative and financially sustainable initiatives which intentionally look to solve social or environmental problems.
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.
BiLex: A Psycholinguistic Database for Bilingual Children
BiLex is the first database compiled from textbooks used in bilingual education and provides word translations, pronunciations, spelling and psycholinguistic values. The database will provide the basis for the development of teaching and research material.
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.
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.
