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Award-winning photographer reveals unseen and unfiltered realities of homelessness

A distinguished photographer and academic from Coventry University has won the Portrait of Britain Award for creating powerful insights into homelessness.


Coventry University to play key role in £5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books

A new project that works to increase access to valuable research is to receive more than £5.8 million in funding.


A PROactive approach for COmmunities to enAble Societal Transformation

The PRO-Coast project aims to stimulate and empower local communities and civil society in general, to support restoration and maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe.


How consumption becomes reterritorialized: An interdisciplinary investigation of sports betting

This presentation will share findings from an Australian Research Council Discovery project that aims to better understand how young adults use, communicate about and experience mobile phone sports betting applications.


Tackling loneliness and social isolation: exploring the impact of the Chatty Café Scheme

This event will discuss findings from the initial stage of a research project exploring the impact of the Chatty Café scheme on tackling loneliness and social isolation in England.


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.


Personal identities and the transition from school to university: Festival of Social Science

We invite A-level and equivalent home-schooled students to hear about research of the importance of identities when going to university.


Enhancing Financial Wellbeing Mini Fair: Festival of Social Science

The Mini Fair will provide information for local people on various issues, tools, techniques, and resources that can be used to improve how they manage their financial well-being on a day-to-day basis.


Community-Driven Agroecology on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua

This talk will explore the foundation of Casa Congo, a small NGO on the pacific coast of Nicaragua, and its mission and vision.   


The relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect

This project is a rapid evidence review of the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect. 


Launching the Clean Futures Catalyst

The Clean Futures Catalyst (CFC) aims to help businesses operating in the transport sector to transition to net zero – whilst increasing the regions capacity for clean technology.


RISING forward

A panel debate to consider what are the practical steps that need to be taken for the UK and the EU to move forward in peace after Brexit - with UK and European politicians.


Suburb

This body of paintings continues Graham Chorlton’s research into the possibilities of representational painting within contemporary art practice.


Power & Politics in the Neoliberal University: A Dialogic Discussion

This CBiS seminar will revolve around the political economy of neoliberalism in higher education.


STRANGE/R/NESS: Who Am I Without The Things That Are Familiar To Me?

Part of a series of online events that explore what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.


Clean Futures - Sustainability: Benefits for your Business

This event will aim to leave the audience motivated to improve sustainability of their business with the right knowledge.


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.


“The Farmers are taking care of this”: Food Sovereignty in Haiti & Uganda

This seminar explores the impact of participatory learning and action approaches on the development and implementation of the Konbit Vanyan Kapab Farmer-to-Farmer Agroecology for Food Sovereignty Initiative (“FAFSI”).


UNDERTREES - Creating knowledge for Understanding ecosystem services of agroforestry systems through a holistic methodological framework

The overarching objective of UNDERTREES is to form an international and inter-sectoral network of 15 organisations in 3 continents (Europe, Africa and South America) working on a joint research programme in the field of agroforestry (AF) and ecosystem services (ES) assessment.


Xtended Reality Leadership for Xtraordinary Leaders

XRL aims to promote innovative methods and pedagogies that blend the use of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and face-to-face collaboration to create innovative workshops, training programmes and self-assessment for future leaders.