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

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.


Protecting Biodiversity through Sustainable Redevelopment of Urban Medieval Gardens in Italy: an ATTER Case Study with Lucia Nicastro

Lucia Nicastro will present a Community of Practice, based in the Italian town of Ostuni, that is working towards the sustainable re-development of the Ostuni medieval urban gardens that were abandoned in the 1970’s.


CHANGE Plus: Promoting Behaviour Change towards the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation in Practising Communities and Community-Based Advocacy

The CHANGE Plus project aims to raise awareness, change attitudes and promote behaviour change on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in practicing African communities in four EU countries: Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and France.


Human-environment interactions in the Himalayan Sutlej-Beas system

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


Universities' Internationalisation: A Catalyst for Public Diplomacy

Public diplomacy is an essential channel for building and maintaining long-lasting international relations. However, new public diplomacy involves a complex array of non-state actors, leading to debates about their roles and significance.


Selected Matheuristic algorithms for VRP (Review)

Matheuristics are algorithms which are using mathematical models to accelerate the heuritics algorithms to solve large size mathematical models.


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.


Festival of Social Science 2024: Data and AI - Empowering Communities

A talk followed by a panel discussion and photography exhibition on collective responsibility around our use of AI and data.


Scale model of Earth reveals clues about the planet’s magnetic field

Researchers at the Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems at Coventry University used a scale model of the Earth’s liquid core to learn more about the formation of the planet’s magnetic field.


Tire Technology 2016 Young Scientist Award for Coventry PhD Student Greg Smith

The Tire Technology 2016 Young Scientist Prize was won by Gregory Smith for his paper on 'GS2MF', an advanced, flat-track tire test procedure used to gather data to parameterise Magic Formula 6.1 tire models. Smith has his own company, Tyre CAE & Modelling Consultants, but does much of his work at Jaguar Land Rover. He is also studying for a Ph.D, supervised by Professor Mike Blundell at Coventry University in the UK, and in his spare time writes for Tire Technology International.


Corporate Social Responsibility, Gender and Career Capital in the UK Jewellery Industry

Exploring similarities and differences in men and women’s expectations and experiences of jewellery work.


Developing an action research based approach for understanding local institutions and improving livestock-based livelihoods of communal farmers in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The proposed project brings together scholars from Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University (CU) and Department of Animal Sciences (DoAS) at Stellenbosch University (SU) as part of a knowledge exchange around action based research approaches that can be applied in exploring local institutions and livelihoods of communal livestock farmers in South Africa.


New research unveils impacts of being in the care system for young people from minority backgrounds

Research by Coventry University has led to improved guidelines for supporting young people from minority backgrounds in the care system.


Black Arts Movement in Coventry

This project explores the unique and exceptional role of Coventry and the Midlands in the foundation of the British Black Art Movement (BAM) in the 1980s.


Co-developing and applying a Social Impact Toolkit for Community Food Businesses in the UK

Since 2016 CAWR has collaborated with The Real Farming Trust to explore the social impact of community-scale, agroecological food provisioning systems. This has culminated in the co-creation and application of a Social Impact Toolkit for Community Food Businesses in the UK.


HDRC: Co-creating training opportunities to involve people in research

Coventry City Council is home to a newly establishing Research Collaboration, working with collaborators from our local universities in Coventry and Warwick and voluntary and community organisations in the city.


Coventry University joins £11m power electronics consortium to drive sustainable electrification

Coventry University will play a key role in a project designed to revolutionise the UK’s ability to manufacture power electronics to enable the shift to sustainable electrification.


CyberOwl granted US Patent for cutting-edge network security monitoring technology

CyberOwl, a Coventry University spinout cybersecurity company, has today announced the issuance of a new U.S. patent for the invention of its groundbreaking network security technology.


Major international gothic exhibition unveiling the dark roots of modern art guest curated by university professor

Professor Juliet Simpson from Coventry University has led the international research concept and guest curated the major international exhibition, Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light, now open at the Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.


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

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.