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CFCI Seminar Series - Corruption in the Oil and Gas Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa 06 Nov 2020

CFCI Seminar Series - Corruption in the Oil and Gas Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Addressing household food waste through a focus on planning 22 Oct 2020

Food waste resulting from households continues to be an abhorrent problem. Researchers have called for greater attention on how food behaviours are situated in the prevailing organisation of everyday life to give explanation to why food comes to be wasted.

Ankara bombs: Turkey is being torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours 12 Oct 2015

Turkey: torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours. Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem investigates.

Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive Town Hall 01 May 2025

Coventry University is leading a pilot project to help secure the future of these unique records and are urging anyone with an interest in the area to get involved.

Clean Futures - Managing Supply Chain Risk Sustainably 17 Dec 2024

Clean Futures offers this masterclass in collaboration with Sustainability West Midlands.

Solar-powered cookers improving the daily lives of communities in Rwanda thanks to Coventry University researchers 02 Dec 2024

Coventry University researchers are easing access to cooked food in Rwanda by introducing solar-powered cookers to households with limited energy access.

Co-creating Alternative and Sustainable Futures of UK-East Asia Partnerships 10 Oct 2022

The PEER project has been investigating policies, underlining principles, institutional arrangements, contexts and actors that foster or weaken UK-East Asia partnerships in Transnational Education (TNE), Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Research and Innovation (R&I). Please join the PEER concluding Conference and Roundtable Dialogue to know the key research findings about different trajectories and alternative futures of regional and bilateral UK-East Asia partnerships. Discover the newly launched interactive maps We have recently published two sets of interactive maps on TNE and SDGs research partnerships. The maps visualise a large volume of quantitative data at regional and national levels and present the findings in a user-friendly manner. Please help to disseminate the webpages below to our HE networks. Interactive Maps of the SDG Research Partnerships Interactive Maps of UK TNE in East Asia

WiCET: Wireless Charging of Electric Taxis

Researchers from Coventry University have played a pivotal role in the UK’s first trial of wirelessly charged electric taxis through making the charging process effective and easy to use.

Consuming the Body: Food, Selfies and Adverts 31 Oct 2022

Dawn Woolley critically examines gender stereotypes in advertising and on social media. Drawing on the key findings in her book, she will discuss different types of selfies, including #fitspiration, #thinspiration and #bodypositivity.

Showcasing latest transport innovations at the UK’s largest Low Carbon Vehicle event 11 Oct 2022

Showcasing latest transport innovations at the UK’s largest Low Carbon Vehicle event

Fire risk management through asset protection routing; optimisation enhanced with machine learning 06 Dec 2022

This event will discuss about a wildfire risk management by asset protection strategy through operations research with a focus on the Australia bush fire event.

Hidden hardship: everyday experiences, coping strategies, and barriers to wellbeing in rural Britain

To understand lived experiences of people in hardship in the rural North Cotswolds

Visualising early warning and preparedness in civilian protection: Investigating local vernaculars of community adaptations to insecurity

The overall aim is to investigate the under-studied topic of community signs, symbols and culturally specific communications for gathering, sharing, and responding, in the face of threats of violence.

Reflections on the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 23 Nov 2022

In this webinar, Professor Jinghan Zeng will discuss the key themes arising from the Congress, and what it means for China’s place in the world.

Extremist Islam: Recognition and Response in Southeast Asia 30 Nov 2022

The book shines a light on specific beliefs, behaviours, and policies that impact these challenges, ultimately offering cutting-edge, effective tools for response.

Talk Money: How to make meaningful change for those struggling to access credit 11 Nov 2022

This discussion will explore how we make meaningful change to help support financially vulnerable people who are unable to access affordable credit.

The STEAM Stars Project: Supporting gifted pupils using STEAM 10 Dec 2022

Want to find out more about research into supporting teachers’ understanding and use of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education?

Identity and Governance of Bodily Extensions: The case of Prosthetics and Avatars

Prosthetics and avatars can both be defined as forms of bodily extension – one mechanical, the other digital. The project investigated what we can learn about bodily extensions by examining these two different forms alongside each other.

Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition: An introduction to the GODAN initiative 27 May 2021

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), launched following a G8 Summit in 2012, supports global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.

Intelligent Variable Message Systems (iVMS)

The aim of the project was to develop, demonstrate and test new traffic management systems, based on innovative iVMS technology, on three main road arterial routes into Coventry; and to demonstrate the potential for a reduction in congestion in one sector of the city.