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Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problems: a review, some models and direction for future research

This event by the Centre for Business in Society discusses the relevant work around two-echelon vehicle routing problem.


Rebels without a cause? Rosewood and insurgency in Senegal with Dr Martin Evans

Illegal cutting of rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) in Casamance, Senegal, and its trafficking into The Gambia for export have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The seminar discusses recent dynamics and their historical, political and biogeographical contexts.


Rethinking how to deal with contemporary AI: Ethics is not a ballast but a need

This Centre for Business in Society event will analyse the relationship between AI and ethics, and the potential impact of AI on society


Violent Extremism in West Africa Coastal States

In this CTPSR Webinar Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn will explore issues of violent extremism in “Understanding the Drivers and Dynamics of Violent Extremism in West Africa Coastal States”.


National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR - Coventry University) and the Institute of British - Irish Studies (IBIS- University College Dublin), supported by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)'s Science for Peace and Security Programme, will convene a two–day expert Advanced Research Workshop entitled ‘National Action Plans (NAPs) on Women, Peace and Security’ at the National University of Ireland in Dublin, on 11 and 12 May 2016. 


Gaza Foodways: Towards Resilient Women-led Urban Agroecological Food Systems as a Pathway to Women's Economic Empowerment

Gaza Foodways is a transdisciplinary research collaboration to contribute toward a ‘just transition’ to diversified low-carbon urban food and farming systems.


Evaluation of the Coventry GP Alliance: Best Care, Anywhere: Integrating Primary Care in Coventry Programme

The aim of this project is to use a mixed method approach incorporating patient and public engagement to comprehensively evaluate across the three intervention sites.


Social capital and financial access to healthcare in Ghana

This research seeks to critically examine the dynamic nature of informal risk sharing networks and their mechanisms for dealing with health care expenses among poor households in Northern Ghana.


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.   


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.


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. 


Collaborative innovation in a local authority – ‘local economic development-by-project’?

This paper analyses how local authorities address the challenges of prolonged austerity by making use of collaborative innovation, financed through bidding for instrumental technology-based projects.


Examining Innovation: University-Industry Collaboration and Responsible Innovation

This event will examine two approaches to examining innovation: university-industry collaboration and responsible innovation


Remote4All: How to create an inclusive workplace for neurodiverse and/or disabled remote workers: Festival of Social Science

Webinar with animation and slides (powerpoint) via MS Teams – 1 hour. Followed by a short video debrief to cover the main points of the webinar.


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