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Excluded Voices: Democratising Agricultural Research

The aim of the Excluded Voices project is to identify and support processes that can help democratise the governance of food and agricultural research. The project combines participatory methodologies and institutional innovations to make excluded voices count in food and agricultural policy-making. 


EFFECT

The EFFECT project will provide EU policy-makers with a definitive body of knowledge concerning the nature, extent and impact of gun enabled crime (gec), the effectiveness of interventions aimed at combating gec and the cross-border sharing of ballistic intelligence.


Faith Based Conflict Prevention

The aim of this project is to understand the role of churches and other faith groups in helping to spot early signs of violence and to stop it from happening. Examples in Nigeria and the Solomon Islands will be observed. 


Evaluating Extra Curricular Reading Groups

Professor Clare Wood's project investigating approaches to improving reading for pleasure and reading comprehension in year 7 Chatter Books.


EcoDry

Eco-Dry is a 4-year €560,000 IRSES FP7 project that aims to enhance understanding and share knowledge on agroecological strategies to build the resilience of farming systems in dryland and drought situations.


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. 


Exploring the Impacts of Brexit for Protected Food Names PFN in the UK

This research aims to explore the potential impacts and opportunities associated with Brexit for UK Protected Food Name Schemes (PFNs), and to create policy recommendations at the UK member state and national devolved scale for the future governance of PFNs.


From the Grounds Up: The Coffee Shop Industry and the Circular Economy

This study aims to explore how businesses and consumers can engage in the circular economy, the facilitators and inhibitors for doing so, and the importance of these actions for sustainable economies and societies. The UK and Germany are used as two case studies for exploring how and why the coffee shop industry takes part in the circular economy.


How do EV adopters make decisions? Understanding their behaviours and exploring the strategic role of brands for CBiS

This study aims to assess whether an alternative approach of new market entrants, such as Tesla, in marketing the EV as a desirable gadget, badge of honour and ‘must-have’ brand, is likely to bring about mass adoption and a step-change in sales.


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.


Building Resourceful and Resilient Communities through Adaptive and Transformative Environmental Practice (RECOMS)

RECOMS is a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. It is comprised of a transdisciplinary consortium of scientists, practitioners and change agents from eleven public, private and non-profit organisations located in six European Union countries.


BOND - Bringing Organisations and Network Development to Higher Levels in the Farming Sector in Europe

The aim of this project is to reach higher levels of organisation and networking, and develop a healthier, and more productive and harmonious farming sector in Europe for the long term.


Coventry University’s Professor Helen Maddock receives Women in Innovation Award for her contribution to the pharmaceutical industry

Professor Helen Maddock, Director of the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Life Sciences at Coventry University, has been recognised in this year’s Innovate UK - Women in Innovation Awards for her use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the pharmaceutical industry.


Coventry University part of groundbreaking initiative to install world’s first pop-up airport in heart of the city

Researchers from Coventry University are working with a consortium headed by Urban Air Port Ltd to design and implement the world’s smallest airport with no runway.


Saif Alatrash announced as Coventry University’s Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2021

Saif Alatrash, a Cotutelle PhD candidate in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, has been awarded Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2021.


Learning to conduct social research in local communities - Coventry University provides free course

Coventry University spin-out FabLab and the university’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) recently welcomed more than 70 new students into their Open College Network West Midlands L2 accredited Citizen Social Science programme.


The Aziz Foundation announces new preferred partnership with Coventry University

New fully-funded scholarships for exceptional British Muslims to study at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) have been made available by the Aziz Foundation for 2021.


Study aims to understand experiences of, and attitudes towards whistleblowing

A collaborative research study between Coventry University’s Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) and WhistleblowersUK aims to identify people’s experiences and analyse attitudes towards whistleblowing in the UK.


UK-Indonesian research consortium unite to address global challenges

On 25 February 2021, the members of the UK-Indonesian Consortium for Interdisciplinary Sciences (UKICIS) met to participate in the formal signing of the consortium’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), following the establishment of UKICIS on 20 August 2020.


Williams Advanced Engineering and GB Snowsports join forces in boost to Paralympic Winter Games effort

GB Snowsport Athletes, Sport Scientists and Engineering experts will apply ground-breaking motorsport derived techniques to Paralympic Snowsport preparations