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Evaluation of City of Culture Transforming Leadership Programme

Working within evaluation design principles and a methodology which aligns with the City of Culture Trust’s strategic approach, and to the outcome-led / partner-driven model deployed across the city.


The Better Place Index

The Better Place Index (BPI) is a global measure for peace, prosperity and sustainability. It also identifies if governments do a good job.


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.


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.


Understanding the role of prolactin on neuronal metabolism and its implications for gestation and lactation conditions

The pituitary lactogenic hormone prolactin (Prl) has well recognised physiological actions in humans and rodents in lactation and reproduction.


Coventry University academic joins delegation to Palestine in support of the right to education

Dr Ken Fero, Assistant Professor in the Centre for Global Learning (GLEA), was selected for a fellowship of the first Palestine Academic Links Seminar (PALS) organised by the Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU).


Entrepreneurship in Context: Systemic and Behavioural Explorations

This CBiS seminar provides insights into the relationship between Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) and regional economic development in the Italian regions, with a particular focus on the moderating role of firm size.


Researchers develop a new approach to improve future diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Coventry University researchers have developed a new tool which could help diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease.


Innovative designs of sustainable agro-hydro-health systems

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and Akademi Sains Malaysia will be holding a 5-day workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia commencing on 31 July 2017. The workshop is being coordinated by Professor Sue Charlesworth (Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University) and Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Halim Ghazali (Universiti Putra Malaysia), and will have contributions from other leading researchers. The workshop will explore the following research topics in relation to ‘off-grid’ communities.


VIRTEU Roundtable Discussion: Institutional Corruption and Avoidance of Taxation

This is the final event in the VIRTEU project's roundtable discussion series and will explore the interconnections between institutional corruption and avoidance of taxation.


Energy For Development: unanswered questions on socio-technical design frameworks

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations is hosting a webinar by Professor Elena Gaura and Dr Alison Halford on the use of socio-technical energy design frameworks in the HEED project.


Lanchester Interactive Archive

The project has created a ‘Lanchester Interactive Archive Space’ within the Lanchester Library, following the first phase, which saw the formalisation and realisation of plans for how the space would look and operate.