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New Living Library launched to influence sustainable food systems 25 May 2022
A new ‘Living Library’ showcasing good-practice examples of collaborative short food supply chains has been launched.
Anthony Luvera: Taking Place 11 Jan 2020
Homelessness in the United Kingdom is on the rise. At the start of 2020 at least one out of every 200 people in England is living without permanent or safe accommodation. Homeless deaths have increased by 20% in England and Wales over the last year. Sustained campaigning from Crisis resulted in the Homelessness Reduction Act coming into force in 2018. Despite this, 91% of local authorities in the UK did not respond to basic questions about homelessness in their communities when contacted. Clearly, with such staggering figures, we face a major national crisis.
Quantifying the response of macroinvertebrates to gradients of fine sediment pollution 05 Nov 2020
This project examines how fine sediment is driving macroinvertebrate responses in order to help improve biomonitoring, i.e. the practice of using biological communities to track environmental change.
Bamboo: the mean green carbon fixing machine 24 Sep 2020
David Trujillo (MSc PhD CEng) has been researching, teaching and promoting bio-based materials (timber, bamboo) for over 20 years.
Project to improve infant health in refugee camps shortlisted for the Newton Prize 2020 07 Sep 2020
A Coventry University research project, aiming to develop a wearable, accurate and affordable respiratory monitor for newborn babies in refugee camps, has been shortlisted for the Newton Prize 2020.
Professor Mike Hardy steps back from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations 08 Sep 2020
Professor Mike Hardy stepped down from his role as Executive Director of the centre at the end of July 2020.
Reconstructing education through a global lens 02 Nov 2020
A showcase of work from the Centre for Global Learning: Education and Attainment.
A Record Of Undying
In 2013, Saxon commenced development on the central work for A Record of Undying in collaboration with his late partner John Briscoe (1949-2013). With Briscoe as subject, he developed intimate photographs and films shot during the period leading up to and including his partner’s death.
Assembly: Socially engaged photographic practice with people experiencing homelessness
For over 15 years Anthony Luvera has created long-term projects with homeless people in cities and towns across the UK, including London, Colchester, Belfast, and Brighton.
CFCI Seminar Series: Incentives and Whitelist in the Area of Anticorruption 01 Oct 2020
CFCI Seminar Series: Incentives and Whitelist in the Area of Anticorruption
Managing Ash Dieback Disease
This project aims to identify whether factors associated with soil health influence ash tree susceptibility to ash dieback disease.
Cyber security monitoring and risk assessment in local government authorities: a social engineering exercise
The aim of this project was to achieve the operational change required to overcome some of the key barriers to eGovernance and ICT adoption, particularly those related to data security and operational resilience.
Drawing Conversations
Whilst both collective and collaborative drawing is being widely explored internationally, both within and beyond educational institutions, there is surprisingly little serious research published on the topic. This realisation led to the first international Drawing Conversations Symposium, accompanied by the Drawn Conversations Exhibition at Coventry University, UK, in December 2015, and a series of publications.
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.
Evaluating the potential of intensive grazing and corralling to enhance ecosystem services in Africa’s communal rangelands
This study seeks to quantify the effectiveness of these practices by measuring changes in vegetation, soil quality and wildlife and livestock use, associated with livestock corral sites.
Outstanding Research Supervision Team Awards 2020 03 Apr 2020
This year’s Outstanding Research Supervision Team Award was presented as part of the Doctoral Capability and Development (DCAD2020) Online Conference.
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.
6-0! Promoting health through recreational football
This project focused on enhancing physical activity with aging people through recreational football activities.
The Future of Food Symposium 2021: From Recovery to Resilience 08 Sep 2021
The Future of Food 2 symposium invites stakeholders across business and society to present, discuss and collaborate in moving forward the sustainable food agenda: eating socially and sourcing sustainably.
Phase diagram of the random-field Potts model
The Royal Society Newton Fellowship is aimed at non-UK scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Dr Manoj Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, will be working with Dr Martin Weigel in the field of computational and theoretical condensed matter physics.
