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Managing Ash Dieback Disease

This project aims to identify whether factors associated with soil health influence ash tree susceptibility to ash dieback disease.


Sustainable Practices make Sustainable Businesses

Dr David Bek led a project exploring how the implementation of sustainable practices helps businesses to be more resilient, productive and profitable. The project focused upon the horticultural sector in South Africa.


Sustainable cut-flowers project

Between 2015 and 2019 Dr David Bek and Dr Jill Timms managed externally funded projects examining different facets of sustainability within the global cut-flower industry.


Coffee Ingestion: Interaction Between Sex and Cycling Performance

The aim of this study was to investigate whether sex differences exist with regard to 5 km cycling time trial performance and affective responses following the ingestion of 300 ml caffeinated coffee, a placebo (coffee flavoured solution) and a control (no fluid).


The Effectiveness of a Primary School Based Badminton Intervention on Children’s Fundamental Movement Skills

This project examined if a badminton based intervention is effective in enhancing fundamental movement skills, physical activity, motivation to undertake physical activity, fitness and health in children aged 7-9 years.


CONCERTA: Contribution to Community Enhancement Through Rural Touring Arts

CONCERTA was a national study of the benefits for local community development of a relatively under researched form of creative activity: rural touring arts.


Gothic Modern, 1880s-1930s

Gothic Modern, 1880s-1930s is the first in-depth study (comprising a scholarly, multi-author book, articles, an international touring exhibition with linked research publication and a series of international symposia) to explore the pivotal importance of medieval, in particular Gothic art for the artistic modernisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.


MATUROLIFE

This project brings together Coventry University expertise in Material Science and Design to develop products that embed innovative smart textiles in order to support healthy ageing and independent living.


Adding value to contaminated media: green catalysis of nanoparticles

My research focuses on the upcycling of waste and recycled materials for the manufacturing of high value products such as nano-particles, metal/polymer- matrix composites mainly in view of energy applications.


JRP-g15 LNG III - Metrology for LNG III – Metrological support for LNG and LBG as a transport fuel

The overall aim of the project is to enable the large scale roll-out of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied biogas (LBG) as a transport fuel.


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.


Multiphase Flow Metrology in Oil & Gas Production (MULTIFLOWMET II)

Multiphase flow measurement is a fundamental enabling metrology in subsea oil and gas production. However, field measurements exhibit high measurement uncertainty, costing industry billions of euros in financial exposure and production inefficiencies.


Urbanising in Place. Building the Food-Water-Energy Nexus from Below (UiP)

Exploring the physical and metabolic context, scenarios for economic valorisation and political processes that can enable alternative metabolic capabilities, and specific practices and configurations that food growing communities could develop to regain control over resources.


Improving the digital resilience of the Aluminium sector

Presentations from key industry players and from Coventry University colleagues helped the sector understand the multi-dimensional nature of the problem of digital resilience in Aluminium.


Digital Infrastructures of Inequality: Between #MeToo and Technologies of Race

A facilitated discussion with Dr Sanjay Sharma (Brunel) & Dr Adrienne Evans (Coventry University)


Doctoral Capability and Development Conference (DCAD2020)

All postgraduate researchers and staff are invited to join the Doctoral Capability and Development Conference and learn about the exciting research taking place across the University.


Outstanding Research Supervision Team Awards 2020

This year’s Outstanding Research Supervision Team Award was presented as part of the Doctoral Capability and Development (DCAD2020) Online Conference.


Imagining the Future: Engaging young people on environmental challenges to create new and sustainable livelihoods in Algeria

The research investigates root causes of environmental degradation and connections to lack of youth livelihoods, youth disengagement or exclusion from public life, using political ecology, humanities and social sciences methodologies.


Virtual CAMC Postgraduate Symposium

CAMC are delighted to invite proposals for short talks for the fourth joint PGR event, co-organised by Coventry and Warwick Universities.


Generations: Online Preview of Coventry’s Roma Community Exhibition

Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) has teamed up with the Belgrade Theatre to host a taster of an exhibition spotlighting Coventry’s Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) community.