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Coventry University researcher wins Lifetime Achievement Award for extraordinary services to Marketing

A Coventry University researcher has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her extraordinary and distinguished services to marketing.


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.


Mental Health and Productivity Pilot

Coventry University is co-leading a group of health professionals, academics and business leaders who have been awarded £6.8m by Government to tackle poor mental health in the workplace with a focus on the East and West Midlands regions.


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.


From undergraduate to Coventry University’s Postgraduate Researcher of the Year for 2022

Shannen Gibbons, a PhD candidate from the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), has been named Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) of the Year 2022.


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).


Three ways we can empower future generations to improve their physical and mental health

This World Health Day, Professor Michael Duncan, Director of Coventry University’s Research Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Sciences, shares three ways to improve the mental and physical health of future generations.


Research study discovers that face masks release microplastics and chemicals that could harm people and the environment

The global use of face masks surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but many have since been discarded as waste, contributing to land and water pollution.


Co-creating a HealthTech evaluation approach that captures what matters most to people living with one or more long-term conditions

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities are offering a fully-funded opportunity that seeks to explore the balance of the data needed to ensure useful, valid and reliable measurement.


New Coventry University online self-management programme successfully supports the well-being of people living with long Covid

Researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Intelligent Healthcare (CIH) working alongside social enterprise Hope For The Community (H4C) and collaborators Atrium Health Coventry have seen promising early findings from their programme supporting people with long Covid


Westminster briefing for Coventry University professor

A professor in children and family nursing at Coventry University was invited to the House of Commons to speak as part of a Teenage Cancer Trust briefing for the shadow secretary of state for health.


Embedding care for people and planet? Designing sustainable floristry

This project focuses upon ways of integrating technology into flower bouquet design. Traditional bouquet design is based upon human skills and instincts, however the advent of technology opens up a new array of possibilities for designing bouquets that speak to consumer desires and wider societal goals.


Identification of novel double-stranded RNA elements in developing antibiotic resistance in the agricultural environment

The goal of the project is to identify and subsequently characterise the dsRNA dimension of the animal gut microflora (both the differential presence of antisense bound to mRNA and phage dsRNAs containing novel genetic information in response to AB pressure). Identification of novel functional dsRNAs (asRNA bound to its target and phage dsRNAs involved in AR) will mark a paradigm shift in our understanding of the development of AR and future approaches to treating infections.


Does the Earth magnetic field spin up the polar vortex in the outer core?

The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Professor Alban Potherat. Applications are invited for a PhD position in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics within the project "Does the Earth's magnetic field spin out the polar vortex in the outer core?", funded by the Leverhulme Trust, at the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems (FCS) at Coventry University.


Dr Geraldine Brown Hosts Black History Month Seminar Series

In partnership with Coventry University Black & Minority Ethnic Staff Network, Dr. Geraldine Brown hosted a series of seminars to mark Black History Month.