Research search results

1775 items found

Use the filters below to refine your search...

Digital financial inclusion and bank stability Nexus: International evidence

This event is part of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity's public seminar series


Call for Papers

This interdisciplinary event invites papers that consider how media images and narratives of violence provide spaces of care, wish-fulfilment, and escapism for violated communities, and how trauma and survival are modelled in the stories we tell. 


Life on the Breadline: Christianity, Poverty and Politics in the 21st Century city

The aim of this project is to understand how the social context resulting from the 'age of austerity' has affected Christian engagement with poverty in the UK and the theological motivations, which underpin it. 


ÜberReste. Strategien des Bleibens in den darstellenden Künsten (On Remnants and Vestiges. Strategies of Remaining in the Performing Arts)

The project investigates the challenges inherent in remaining and preserving in the fields of dance, music theatre and performance that otherwise operate under the primacy of presence. 


The Roles of IP and Diversity in the Creative Industries

The objective is to inform policy-making in both South Africa and the UK in relation to IP and diversity strategies for the micro creative industries and international trade. It is also to create strong and lasting conversations among academic researchers, creative industry participants, policy-makers and practitioners across South Africa and the UK; and to foster new academic links between South Africa and the UK through which new research proposals can emerge. This project, and subsequent ones arising out of network activities will also help to strengthen understanding of, and adoption of good practice around IP and diversity by arts and cultural practitioners, thus ensuring greater sustainability for this sector. 


From Indonesia to the UK: The sustainability risks of the coffee supply chain

This event is part of the Centre for Business in Society's public seminar series.


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

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


Addressing household food waste through a focus on planning

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.


Nobel Peace Prize recognises food security as an instrument of peace

We asked Mike Hardy, founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) for his views on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.


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

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


Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive Town Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.