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Domestics against domestication 30 May 2019

This event is supported by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University) and the  Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange (University of Roehampton). How to uncouple the idea of ‘home’ from the realm of private life and make it an instrument to think and build public life? The starting point for this study day is the idea that the set of activities associated with organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a house constitutes a category in its own right. As much as the organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a polis, this category is not a given, but a field of struggle and imagination.

(RE)CREATE your entrepreneurship 15 Jul 2019

The summer school will be open to students on a programme of study in the area of business studies to boost their skills in the field of leadership, risk-taking, marketing, business planning and start-ups

What do we mean by "belonging"?: Festival of Social Science 13 Nov 2023

Working in partnership with autistic people to understand belonging for suicide prevention exhibition.

Evaluation of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

This project provides a profile of UK CoC 2021, its governance and direction, funder agreements, details of stakeholders and timetables, as well as a Theory of Change, performance monitoring, measurement and evaluation.

City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place Legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021

This place-based knowledge exchange project, led by Coventry University, was one of nine grants awarded as part of the AHRC’s wide place-based programme.

Your money, your life: Experiences of young people’s borrowing 31 Jan 2024

At this seminar, we will share young people’s (aged 18-24) personal experiences of borrowing and their use of unsecured credit.

Surviving in a post-COVID world? Creative freelancers, business models and policy support

This project aims to provide updated insight into creative freelance business models in order to inform policy and support.

Own Art Gallery impact study

This commissioned rapid-response research focused on Own Art member galleries, a key segment of Creative United’s arts market activity.

Let's Discuss the Diversity of Chronic Pain 28 Nov 2023

Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network webinar

Community-Driven Agroecology on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua 30 Nov 2023

This talk will explore the foundation of Casa Congo, a small NGO on the pacific coast of Nicaragua, and its mission and vision.   

Hidden Figures: Invisible barriers in mathematics education and how to overcome them. 06 Dec 2023

In this seminar, I will discuss the current issues surrounding maths anxiety and mathematical resilience, focusing particularly on work with students in higher education who are not mathematicians but have some form of mathematics or statistics on their course.

ESRC Japan visit 02 Apr 2019

This month, Dr Ian Brittain, as Principal Investigator for an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK-Japan Social Science and Humanities Connections Grant, hosted five Japanese and four British academics.

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.

Katharine Jones joins the One World Media Awards as a judge 30 Jan 2017

Katharine Jones has been invited to act as a judge for the One World Media Awards, Refugee Reporting category, 2017.

Europeana Space: Spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content 03 Apr 2017

We recently completed the project and received an ‘Excellent’ for the project in our final review. The project has been hugely successful and we are hoping to continue working with our partners on other projects.

Coventry University to play five-year host to UN academic council 01 Jan 1753

Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been selected to host the headquarters of the prestigious Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) for five years starting in 2018. The university’s research centre, which is based on its Technology Park and which specialises in trust, peacebuilding and human security, will assume the role of secretariat to ACUNS from next year. 

NEWBITS - Through an improved understanding of ITS services towards innovative business models 02 Jan 2017

The European Commission sees an important role for Intelligent Transport Systems – short ITS - in order to enhance greening transport and improve transport efficiency, safety, and security.

The ‘SMART’ way of assessing the sustainability of English and Welsh farms. 02 Jan 2017

Holistic sustainability assessment of farms in the UK managed according to Permaculture principles and compared to certified organic and conventional farms using the Swiss SMART indicator system (Sustainability Monitoring Assessement RouTine).

The Other America: White working class views on belonging, change, identity and immigration 02 Oct 2017

This report presents an analysis of white working-class communities’ perspectives on belonging, change, identity, and immigration.

ITS Market Watch: Valuable insights from 4 case studies across Europe 01 Nov 2017

The market for ‘Intelligent Transport Systems’ (ITS) is changing rapidly: topics like urbanisation, sustainability and digitalisation are changing the environment as well as the near future. Despite the investments in technology development and feasibility demonstrations, the systematic market penetration of ITS applications remains a major challenge.