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Human Library Talks - 'Time for Change: Action Not Words'

The concept of the Human Library talk is a space that offers dialogue through personal conversation.


Enacting solidarity, ritual and collective emotions in a Black Lives Matter protest: An affective practices and virtual reality analysis

Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd spread quickly in 2020 to include many cities and towns outside the United States. Indepth investigation of these protests will provide insights into how and why it is important for people to enact complex shared emotions as part of a physical and psychological group. 


Veiled Cities – Flanders and the Urban Imaginary around 1900 Research Symposium

This one-day international symposium is co-organized by Prof Juliet Simpson (CAMC-Coventry University) and Prof. David Hopkin (University of Oxford), supported by the John Fell Fund (Oxford). It brings together scholars in art history, visual and material cultures, cultural memory studies, literatures, languages and music to consider the particularities of Flemish cities around the turn of the twentieth century: cities as they were imagined by artists and writers, and as they were shaped by architects and designers.


Impact of oil price fluctuations and volatility on the business cycle of major oil exporting and importing countries

This research aims to analyse the relationship between oil prices changes (volatility) on the business cycle of major oil exporting and importing countries.


Understanding user trust after software malfunctions and cyber intrusions of digital displays: A use case of automated automotive systems

This research investigates the cyber security, human factors and trust aspects of screen failures during automated driving.


Development of a Roadmap for Scaling-up Use of Solar Energy for Climate Resilient Water Supply Systems in Rwanda

Given Rwanda’s hilly topography, water supply systems require significant pumping to move water from valleys to hilltops. This leads to high electricity and diesel costs, and in many remote areas, intermittent power supply causes frequent water shortages. Consequently, water provision is often expensive and unreliable.


Learning to conduct social research in local communities - Coventry University provides free course

Coventry University spin-out FabLab and the university’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) recently welcomed more than 70 new students into their Open College Network West Midlands L2 accredited Citizen Social Science programme.


TASHREE ” تشريع”: Towards Advancing and Securing Higher education legislation for the Representation of females in Executive leadership in Egypt

The TASHREE project, which translates to "proposing legislation" in Arabic, is a transformative initiative designed to build on the foundational successes of its predecessors: TAMKEEN (empowering) and TASHBEEK (networking).


Children, health and wellbeing book launched at Swedish Symposium

The Centre for Communities and Social Justice's Dr Geraldine Brady launched the book 'Children, health and wellbeing: policy debates and lived experience' at the Children, health and well-being symposium at Linkoping University, Sweden.


The Neurostimulation of Belief

The aim of this project is to examine the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie beliefs in the supernatural using non-invasive brain stimulation.


Democratisation of Luxury: Current State and Future Directions

This CBiS event will discuss aspects related to luxury consumption


Evaluating Extra Curricular Reading Groups

Professor Clare Wood's project investigating approaches to improving reading for pleasure and reading comprehension in year 7 Chatter Books.


EFFECT

The EFFECT project will provide EU policy-makers with a definitive body of knowledge concerning the nature, extent and impact of gun enabled crime (gec), the effectiveness of interventions aimed at combating gec and the cross-border sharing of ballistic intelligence.


Faith Based Conflict Prevention

The aim of this project is to understand the role of churches and other faith groups in helping to spot early signs of violence and to stop it from happening. Examples in Nigeria and the Solomon Islands will be observed. 


FOODMETRES

This FP7 funded project assesses both the environmental and the socio-economic impacts of food chains.


Identifying and Understanding Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates

This Nuffield Foundation funded project aims to detail the relationship of deprivation, policy and other factors to inequalities in key child welfare intervention rates through separate and comparative studies in the four UK countries.


Amman Message Project

Working across Jordan, the wider Arab region and Europe, CTPSR and partners have embarked upon a two-year project to support and enhance the work of the Amman Message – a landmark statement which seeks to clarify the true essence of Islam in the world – in addressing contemporary concerns surrounding peaceful co-existence, both between and within faiths.


Arts Based Approaches to Consumer Research

This evolving area of research aims to explore the value of arts-based approaches in enabling consumers, marketing researchers and other relevant stakeholder groups to engage in dialogues and devise solutions to diverse consumption issues.


Bark and Butterflies

Bark and Butterflies is an audio visual installation produced by Adrian Palka in collaboration with Wolfram Spyra and Roksana Vykyaluk. 


Changing Attitudes Towards Dating Violence in Adolescents (CAVA)

The CAVA project focused on Changing Attitudes to Dating and Violence in Adolescents through the use of an immersive and engaging video game designed to appeal to young people.