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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.


Nourishing Life -Territories of Life & Food Sovereignty

This Policy Brief focuses on the contributions that the territories and areas governed, managed and conserved by custodian indigenous peoples and local communities.


Ready, Healthy, Eat!

This project brings together five established local community food projects throughout the UK that will trial different ideas for improving the nutritional value of the cooked food eaten by the most vulnerable groups in their community.


Security and conflict researcher awarded place on prestigious leadership programme

A Coventry University researcher has gained a place on a prestigious fellowship programme run by one of the most influential leadership institutes in the world.


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.


Food waste seminar

This year’s seminar series continued with a seminar delivered by Kirsten Sims, a sustainability professional from Woolworths Supermarkets in South Africa.


Democratising Agricultural Research in Europe (DARE)

Democratising Agricultural Research in Europe, or D.A.R.E., is a project that brought together food producers, researchers and activists from Europe to share knowledge on participatory and transdisciplinary approaches to research in agriculture. The project focused specifically on agroecological initiatives in Europe, and explored how research can help to realise the potential of these approaches to enable sustainable and just food systems.


Migrant Voices in the British media

Victims and Villains explores how migrant voices and experiences are framed in Britain’s migration debate, against the backdrop of a complex relationship between the media, political debate and public attitudes.


Three ways we can empower future generations to improve their physical and mental health

This World Health Day, Professor Michael Duncan, Director of Coventry University’s Research Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Sciences, shares three ways to improve the mental and physical health of future generations.


Creative Fabric Puppetry: Festival of Social Science

Build a puppet session where participants will explore character creation, narratives and small-scale puppet making. 


An Overview of UK Retail Financial Scandals in recent decades: Uses and abuses of Behavioural Finance

This event by the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity will explore the behavioural aspects underlying inefficient decision making of retail consumers in the banking/financial services sector


New Heart, New Horizons: Exercise in the journey after heart transplant

This one-day meeting will be focused on the heart transplant recipients’ journey from pre- to post-transplant.


Promoting and critiquing global citizenship education: Mobilising reflexive approaches

In this talk, Professor Pashby will draw on critiques of global competence to raise the ‘diversity dilemma’ at the heart of work towards SDG 4.7.


Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism? Gary Hall in conversation about his new book A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain

In this in-conversation, Gary Hall and Carolina Rito explore Hall's latest Book A Stubborn Fury. The discussion will be followed by an open Q&A, where Gary and Carolina will invite questions from the audience online.


Coventry University to play five-year host to UN academic council

Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been selected to host the headquarters of the prestigious Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) for five years starting in 2018. The university’s research centre, which is based on its Technology Park and which specialises in trust, peacebuilding and human security, will assume the role of secretariat to ACUNS from next year. 


Aotearoa Somatic Practice, Chronic Pain and Design Network

This project will develop a network of Aotearoa experts in chronic pain from dance and somatic practices, kaupapa Māori methods, health and wellness/hauora, and design.


Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place

The overall purpose of the research is to model a usable practice-based template for sensing the city, drawing on the city of Coventry (UK) as a case-study in the first instance. The template will offer a range of methodologies towards, first, engaging constructively and productively with urban sites using the sensate presence of the human body as the primary means of gathering data and, second, processing and presenting that data in innovative ways within a critical framework that assesses the city's habitability and sustainability. 


The ‘SMART’ way of assessing the sustainability of English and Welsh farms.

Holistic sustainability assessment of farms in the UK managed according to Permaculture principles and compared to certified organic and conventional farms using the Swiss SMART indicator system (Sustainability Monitoring Assessement RouTine).


Examining Sustainability Risks in Indonesia-UK coffee supply chains

Examining Sustainability Risks in Indonesia-UK coffee supply chains


PhD researcher nominated for Student Nursing Award 2025

Ebenezer Akore Yeboah, a PhD student within Coventry University’s Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities, has been nominated for the Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Award at the Student Nursing Times Awards for 2025.