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Geraldine Brady to feature as Guest Presenter

Geraldine Brady is to feature as Guest Presenter at the International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child at Universite de Moncton in Canada.


CU Researcher Wins International Award for PhD Thesis

Coventry University's research Dr Jeane Gerard has received the coveted Richard Block Award for her PhD thesis. 


Julie Bayley Wins National Research Impact Award

Coventry University's Impact Officer Julie Bayley has won a coveted national award for research impact. 


The Big Question: Election 2015: How was it for you?

The Big Question seminar series discusses the 2015 election.


Self-sensing and somatic awarenesses: A movement improvisation study of interoception and physical literacy

Entitled Self-sensing and somatic awarenesses: A movement improvisation study of interoception and physical literacy this project is nested within the ‘Art Meets Sport’ program and will engage two postgraduate research candidates.


Risk Factor Trajectories and Development of Diabetic Retinopathy

PhD studentship exploring Risk Factor Trajectories and Development of Diabetic Retinopathy


Towards quick clinical adaption of Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS) for pregnancy monitoring in low-resource settings

This project aims to develop advanced algorithms to convert EHG to TOCO-like waveforms to assist clinicians for fast adoption of EHG in clinical practice. Further, clinically useful features will be extracted from the derived waveforms to develop a Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS), which helps reducing the training requirements for clinicians, enabling wide pregnancy monitoring for low-resource settings.


FOODMETRES

This FP7 funded project assesses both the environmental and the socio-economic impacts of food chains.


Celebrating local stewardship in a global market: community heritage, intellectual property protection and sustainable development in India

This project engages with three Indian cases to investigate how developing ‘heritage-sensitive’ marketing and intellectual property protection strategies can give communities greater control over the commercialisation of their heritage to strengthen competitiveness while contributing to its safeguarding and on-going viability.


Youth, Violence and Conflict Transformation: Exploring mobilization into violence and the role of youth in peacebuilding

This project looks at how we can ensure that young people’s voices are listened to and acted upon in societies where youth marginalisation has previously been a factor facilitating their mobilisation into violence.


Addressing inequality, enhancing diversity and facilitating greater dialogue in the hosting of sporting mega events (EventRights)

The EventRights project will explore and produce recommendations as to how major sporting events (MSEs) can influence MSE organising committees and other stakeholders to ensure that progressive social opportunities to address inequality, enhance diversity. 


Energy Revolution Research Consortium: EnergyREV

EnergyREV is focused on delivering (by 2022) investable and scalable local business models which use integrated approaches to deliver cleaner, cheaper, energy services for more prosperous and resilient communities.


Xtended Reality Leadership for Xtraordinary Leaders

XRL aims to promote innovative methods and pedagogies that blend the use of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and face-to-face collaboration to create innovative workshops, training programmes and self-assessment for future leaders.


ViRAL - Virtual Reality Archive Learning

The aim of the ViRAL project is to upskill less advantaged community groups through engagement with local cultural heritage and the use of archives.


Sustainable hydrogen production from municipal waste streams

Join a fully-funded PhD program at Coventry University to research sustainable hydrogen production from municipal waste streams. Eligible UK/EU graduates will receive bursary plus tuition fees, research training and career development support. Application deadline is 28th March 2019


BioRich: Feeding Biochar to Ruminants

Agriculture now finds itself in a changing landscape where old methods and expectations are now being questioned. It is critical that new, holistic, methods are found to improve animal and soil health whilst benefiting the environment and financially supporting farmers.


ITS Market Watch: Valuable insights from 4 case studies across Europe

The market for ‘Intelligent Transport Systems’ (ITS) is changing rapidly: topics like urbanisation, sustainability and digitalisation are changing the environment as well as the near future. Despite the investments in technology development and feasibility demonstrations, the systematic market penetration of ITS applications remains a major challenge.


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).


ALERT and the Human Wildlife Conflict Update

Over a year and a half into ALERT and CU’s program to reduce human-lion conflict within Zimbabwe’s Matetsi Conservancy, the database of images captured on specially-installed camera traps outside selected homesteads is growing steadily.


The Other America: White working class views on belonging, change, identity and immigration

This report presents an analysis of white working-class communities’ perspectives on belonging, change, identity, and immigration.