Restorative Business Models for the Automotive Sector and Beyond: Developing a predictive maintenance industrial symbiosis

A consortium of Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) stakeholders covering the business, engineering, applications and circular economy dimensions, focussed on exploring the future lives for HFCs first used in the automotive settings.


Reducing Financial Vulnerability within Birmingham's Muslim Community

A research project led by the Centre for Business in Society aiming to Reduce Financial Vulnerability within Birmingham's Muslim Community.


Knowledgeable, comprehensive and fully integrated smart solution for resilient, sustainable and optimised transport operations (KEYSTONE)

The overall goal of KEYSTONE is to support the development of a sustainable, efficient, and safe transport system, allowing enforcement authorities to access data for the purpose of compliance with rules applied in the transport of goods and passengers.


How do we ensure responsible lending and borrowing?

Our research on 'responsible lending and borrowing' undertook a follow-on project to explore innovative impactful ways for the research findings to encourage greater responsible lending and borrowing.


Cyber security monitoring and risk assessment in local government authorities: a social engineering exercise

The aim of this project was to achieve the operational change required to overcome some of the key barriers to eGovernance and ICT adoption, particularly those related to data security and operational resilience.


Managing the Impacts of Mega-Events: Towards Sustainable Legacies (CARNIVAL)

Investigating the factors that impact upon the planned and unplanned legacy outcomes of sporting and non-sporting mega-events and their implications for stakeholders.


Creative Freelancer Business Models and Place-based Growth

The project is designed to address an important evidence gap around the contribution of freelancers to the economic and place-based impacts of the creative industries.


TechSTER: Tech Students, Entrepreneurial Routes

aiming to enhance entrepreneurial and soft skills and behaviours of teachers and students in Higher Education Institutions


Urban and Rural Connectivity in Non-Metropolitan Regions (URRUC)

This project brought together stakeholders and research institutions from four EU countries to address the challenges of mobility and accessibility in four specific regions within their borders.


Payday futures: sub-prime credit markets in transition?

The project investigated the impact of the regulation of UK payday loans or High-Cost, Short-Term Credit (HCSTC) and how this is reshaping credit markets for borrowers.


Managing My Money for the Just About Managing

Through this project in collaboration with the Open University, we explored the potential for education-based interventions to increase people’s financial motivation and generate more positive financial behaviours. 


An Assessment of the Outcomes of the Social Incubator Fund

In July 2012, the Cabinet Office established a £10 million Social Incubator Fund as part of its broader strategy to grow the UK’s social investment market. The aim of the project was to assess the success and effectiveness of different forms of incubator and their finance and business support packages on the development of early stage social ventures. Acting as a sub-consultant to policy consultancy ICF Consulting, Nick Henry provided expert peer review on the evaluation methodology, findings and recommendations.


Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal 2015/2016 Evaluation

Acting as a sub-consultant to policy consultancy Carney Green, Nick Henry provided expert peer review on evaluation methodology and local economic development context. The aim of the evaluation was a) to assess the process of initial development and set-up of the Growth Deal Programme and its assurance infrastructure and b) report on initial project progress and impact.


An Examination of Customer Engagement on Mobile Apps

The objective of the study is to examine the factors that drive customer engagement on mobile phones apps. The study assesses the role of mobile apps in two mega events; Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.


A data-driven approach to sustainable operation, maintenance and development of the railway electrification system

Funded by Network Rail, this project seeks to use a data-driven approach to sustainable operation, maintenance and development of the railway electrification system.


FaçadeReLog Reverse logistics for the recovery of metal in the façade industry

A CBiS Project with the aim of supporting innovation, technology, and skills in the façade industry, particularly by directly addressing raw material challenges that require collaboration amongst stakeholders along the value chain.


Coventry Made Me

This rapid response project investigates how the city of Coventry and its various places have influenced the identity of creative individuals of the city – and acts as the inspiration for new work by the artist Mary Courtney.


Financial citizenship: building financial security, capability and inclusion in communities

The project explored the concept of ‘financial citizenship’ and the extent to which credit unions are able to secure financial inclusion, financial capability and financial security of their members.


An investigation of the impact of multi-platform media coverage of the 2012 London Paralympic Games and the 2015 Toronto Parapan American Games upon perceptions of disability (LONTOR)

The main objectives of the London-Toronto (LONTOR) project were to obtain a better understanding of the nuanced and sometimes conflicting attitudes towards disability and media/technology use in the context of mega-sport events.


Scoping knowledge of gambling and gambling-related harms amongst international students

Across two UK universities, we will conduct a preliminary exploratory online survey with international students about awareness of and attitudes to gambling.