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Transforming Trajectories of Vulnerability: Re-examining Educational Achievement (2TV)

2TV provides a transdisciplinary networking space for participants to engage in international research focused on transformative practice in education and public policy that enable researchers to understand cycles of vulnerability.


Aalsmeer flower workshop

Dr Jill Timms, Dr David Bek and CBiS’s PhD Candidate Nora Lanari led a workshop with stakeholders from the cut-flower industry hosted by Fleurametz in Aalsmeer, Holland in April.


NEFELI

Project NEFELI is an EU funded Erasmus+ KA2 social inclusion project with a focus on adult education, extending and developing the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners.


Promoting agroecology and community water resources management in the tropics - lessons

Rose Hagen has a lifetime commitment to sustainable agriculture and forest management in Ireland and globally. She designed and is embedding an agro ecological approach in twelve Trócaire country programmes.


Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The case of Nigeria

Dr Zainab Mai Bornu will introduce her research into oil and political violence in African conflicts, including a synoptic overview of a number of resource-rich countries in Africa.


Escape from Empire: Agroecological autonomy in European peripheries

This presentation summarises Simon's thesis, which explores the theoretical meaning of autonomy in agroecology and food sovereignty and explores farmers’ autonomy in Cornwall and Calabria.


Community finance workshop

At this event we will present new ideas and tools on how credit unions can support financial capability of their members and discuss the challenges credit unions face in helping improve their members financial wellbeing.


Decolonisation (beyond) the Curriculum: Early Insights from Staff and Student research at Coventry University

This seminar showcases the process, insights, and impact of three strands of work acting concurrently at Coventry University.


Connected and Autonomous Vehicles MTI Seminar

CCAAR's Dr Huw Davies will be discussing the impact of regulation on the development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology in the next in a series of free online industry seminars from the MIRA Technology Institute.


Encounters

Encounters addresses and explores the liminal experience of walking through the built environment, where part of that experience is observing planted trees, and wild planting, where vegetation had sprouted of its own accord, particularly in the suburban setting.,


How did Covid-19 change the pricing of retail deposit funds?

This event will share research and a discrete-time option-analytic valuation model of the participatory fees earned by Islamic banks for managing third-party funds.


Beyond fear and hate: mobilising people power to create a new narrative on migration and diversity

Across Europe political and media debates on migration and diversity have become increasingly negative. There is growing evidence that narratives of fear and hate have moved from fringe positions to occupy the mainstream, changing the terms of the debate in many countries. This project explores who is driving dominant narratives on migration and diversity and their purpose.


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.


Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon's Anglophone conflict

This research investigates community-led initiatives of unarmed civilian protection in the ongoing ‘Anglophone conflict’ in Cameroon.


Exploring the relationship between uniform and perceived employee happiness and productivity

This project sought to understand the employee perspective on the impact uniform has on their happiness and productivity in their role.


VIRTEU: Vat fraud: Interdisciplinary Research on Tax crimes in the European Union (Grant Agreement no: 878619)

Exploring the interconnections between tax crimes and corruption


Creative Freelancer Business Models and Place-based Growth

The project is designed to address an important evidence gap around the contribution of freelancers to the economic and place-based impacts of the creative industries.


Whiteness: issues of allyship

In this presentation using physical education and community sports as examples of racialized social spaces we will step by step examine why whiteness threatens allyship, constrains learning and restricts community participation.


Minorities on Campus: Discrimination, Equality, and Politics of Nationalism in Indian HE

This research network, at its very heart, is conceptualised as a response to students' activism for equality and rights. In doing so we address issues around sustained inequality and discrimination as experienced by minorities and women on Indian campuses.


Development of a uterine electrohysterogram system to predict preterm labor

Preterm labor which occurs in ~10% of pregnant women is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. However, unsatisfactory and inaccurate diagnosis of preterm labor is an immense clinical challenge to the obstetricians.