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Institute for Future Transport and Cities joins leading national cyber security consortium 30 Nov 2020

The Institute for Future Transport and Cities (IFTC) has joined the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for Internet of Things (IoT) Systems Cyber Security.

Coventry first university to receive top accreditation for PhD students’ training 21 Feb 2018

A Coventry University research centre has become the first in the country to receive a prestigious accreditation for the training it gives to its science PhD students.

Human-environment interactions in the Himalayan Sutlej-Beas system 10 Dec 2020

The talk will focus on environmental research quantifying geomorphological and vegetation dynamics over multiple timescales.

Sustainability Values in Alternative Food Networks: The case of box schemes and CSAs 03 Dec 2020

This seminar will show the results of a PhD research on box schemes and CSAs which concludes that they practice sustainability by choosing two main values: The principle value and commercial behaviour.

CBiS Seminar Series: Innovations for tackling the plastics crisis 12 Nov 2020

The panel will discuss how the curse of plastic pollution is being tackled using circular economy principles.

Agency of Change: Energy in the Displaced Context 04 Nov 2020

The conference aims to offer a platform for exchanging experiences and learning from researchers and practitioners in the humanitarian energy sector as we share and debate HEED's findings on designs and community co-design processes for sustainable energy interventions.

Power to Change: Energy in the Displaced Context 12 Nov 2020

This digital exhibition documents the impact of the HEED project on refugees in Rwanda and internally displaced people in Nepal to give insight into the relationship between energy poverty and technologies in the displaced context.

Enhancing staff doctoral training provision in South Africa 09 Nov 2020

Coventry University’s Centre for Global Learning: Education and Attainment (GLEA) recently launched its pre-doctoral research programme in collaboration with South African partners at Stellenbosch University (SU) and Walter Sisulu University (WSU).  

Celebrating local stewardship in a global market: community heritage, intellectual property protection and sustainable development in India

This project engages with three Indian cases to investigate how developing ‘heritage-sensitive’ marketing and intellectual property protection strategies can give communities greater control over the commercialisation of their heritage to strengthen competitiveness while contributing to its safeguarding and on-going viability.

Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions

Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions

Launch of the ‘Postdigital Intimacies’ Network at Coventry University 16 Nov 2020

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a new network exploring how digital technologies change our understanding of intimacy in the 21st Century.

Fully funded Arts and Humanities PhD opportunities for the next generation of researchers from the Midlands4Cities partnership 20 Nov 2020

Coventry University is proud to be part of the Midlands4Cities (M4C) funded Doctoral Training Partnership

What works in supporting children with Special Educational Needs in the classroom? A literature review and teacher survey

Department of Education funded research on supporting children with Special Educational Needs. Created a free resource for teachers on what works in the classroom. Aims to help schools use evidence-based practice.

BiLex: A Psycholinguistic Database for Bilingual Children

BiLex is the first database compiled from textbooks used in bilingual education and provides word translations, pronunciations, spelling and psycholinguistic values. The database will provide the basis for the development of teaching and research material.

Literacy development: a review of the evidence

Literacy development: a review of the evidence

Small Group Reading Support

Small Group Reading Support, a literacy intervention for Year 1 students. Funded by Education Endowment Foundation. Impact: If successful, improve literacy outcomes for KS1 pupils across the country.

How does diagnosis of dyslexia impact on identity, self-belief and reading progress in children and adults?

This study aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the impact of identifying dyslexia in children and adults.  Of specific interest is the effect on identity, self-belief and reading progress in light of the age at which a learner is identified as dyslexic.

Morphology, phonology and literacy in primary years: Evidence from eye-movements and dynamic assessments.

My PhD research investigates the role of morphological awareness in the literacy development of budding readers. The project will take a closer look at the developmental trajectory of morphological awareness development, as it relates to other literacy skills by testing three different age groups within primary years.

Prosody, Morphology, Phonology and Multisyllabic Word Reading

We hope that this project will provide us with further insight of a newly emerging side of literacy research as it incorporates the metalinguistic skill of prosody.

CAWR researchers release multi-lingual film on DVD to influence transnational policy 19 Feb 2015

The film, Imagining Research for Food Sovereignty, highlights key moments in the process and outcomes of the St. Ulrich Workshop on Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty and Peasant Agrarian Cultures.