Promoting ethical flowers for improved working conditions in supply chains: The disconnect between increased certification and poor purchaser knowledge

This project examined how the promotion of ethical flowers can contribute to improved working conditions in supply chains.


Tackling loneliness and social isolation: An evaluation of the Chatty Café Scheme services

This research project is designed to explore the impact of the Chatty Café Services. To explore how people perceive these services, the difference they make in people’s lives and to understand if there are ways in which these services can be improved.


Your money, your life: Lived experiences of young people’s borrowing

This research will explore young people’s (aged 18-24) lived experience of borrowing, their use of credit and perceptions of their current (and of their future) financial vulnerability. Young people will actively participate in designing solutions to reduce their financial vulnerability.


Co-designing Digital Strategies for the Museum and Education Sectors

The objective is to investigate the challenges and ‘good digital practice’ activities undertaken by museums, primarily with schools, during the pandemic.


An agent-based modelling simulation on nudging recycling behaviour for novel materials: A case study for bioplastics

This project examines in what ways a nudge recycling campaign influences the disposal behaviour of bioplastics in higher education (HE) students.


Export-readiness in the Thai edible insect industry: Devising a Roadmap

Thailand is the world’s largest producer of edible insects, supplying into domestic and regional markets. This research will underpin the development of a roadmap to overcome barriers and which will enable Thailand's edible insect industry to achieve export readiness.


Be Digital to be Strategic in the Museums Sector: Surviving the Pandemic

This project addresses particular economic and social issues museums in Coventry and West Midlands are facing, whose issues have been exacerbated by the current pandemic.


The Roles of Science Diplomacy in Combating Global Plastic Pollution

This project is proposed to explore the roles of science diplomacy in combating the global plastic pollution.


Negotiating the creative ecosystem: cultural and creative microenterprise business journeys

Sponsorship of a PhD studentship by Creative United to support their work in providing financial goods and services to enable the growth and development of the UK’s cultural and creative industries.


Expert Advisor to MEPC High Performance Technology and Motorsport Cluster Study

Commissioned SQW to investigate the high performance technology and motorsport (HPTM) cluster across the geography “within about 30 minutes” of Silverstone.


Innovation in Tackling Food Waste

This ESRC Festival of social science event, aimed to showcase new and innovative research strategies of tackling food waste and connect social innovators with the business community.


A Self Contained British Empire in Metals

This project explores attempts after the First World War to organise a British imperial minerals strategy, to ensure British control over the mineral reserves of the Empire.  


Flexible ethics across space and place: A study of tourists’ ethical food consumption and the tourism industry’s response

This study aims to examine the flexible nature of ethical consumption by understanding how food habits change across space and place. 


Exploring the role of moral norms and neutralisation in environmentally conscious behaviour: The case of UAE Consumers

This research seeks to understand the environmentally conscious behaviour of consumers in United Arab Emirates.   


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.


Building Japanese research capacity around disability studies and sport to positively impact the lives of people with disabilities - 2020 and beyond

The aim of this bid was to expand an already existing international collaboration and foster a long term sustainable multi-partner network in order to further develop our understanding in the field of disability studies and sport (DSS).


Examining Sustainability Risks in Indonesia-UK coffee supply chains

Examining Sustainability Risks in Indonesia-UK coffee supply chains


Sustainable Wild Harvest Products

Much wild harvesting is unregulated and poses sustainability risks, and retailers increasingly want transparency concerning social and environmental impacts within supply chains. This project is a response to the need to identify solutions to meet this assurance gap.


COVID-19 and Future Transport

Working in-conjunction with Coventry City Council’s Transport and Infrastructure team, Dr Andrew Jones and Dr David Jarvis sought to interrogate emerging thinking surrounding the future of transport in order to support the Council’s COVID-19 recovery plans.


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.