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Training in Social Impact Management for Social Enterprise Mentors and Policy Makers

Workshop in response to the Mexican Government’s belief to tackle the economic and social development challenges that the country faces requiring innovative and financially sustainable initiatives which intentionally look to solve social or environmental problems.


BiLex: A Psycholinguistic Database for Bilingual Children

BiLex is the first database compiled from textbooks used in bilingual education and provides word translations, pronunciations, spelling and psycholinguistic values. The database will provide the basis for the development of teaching and research material.


Training of Trainers in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Training programs for start-up coaches and E&I at Universities in Hanoi, Vietnam.  HE institutions and organisation in Vietnam mainly teach business with traditional business models such as small and medium-sized enterprises or corporate business models.


What works in supporting children with Special Educational Needs in the classroom? A literature review and teacher survey

Department of Education funded research on supporting children with Special Educational Needs. Created a free resource for teachers on what works in the classroom. Aims to help schools use evidence-based practice.


Literacy development: a review of the evidence

Literacy development: a review of the evidence


Developing an action research based approach for understanding local institutions and improving livestock-based livelihoods of communal farmers in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The proposed project brings together scholars from Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University (CU) and Department of Animal Sciences (DoAS) at Stellenbosch University (SU) as part of a knowledge exchange around action based research approaches that can be applied in exploring local institutions and livelihoods of communal livestock farmers in South Africa.


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.


Performing Empowerment: Disability, Dance & Inclusive Development in Post Conflict Sri Lanka

This project examined an innovative way of empowering persons with conflict-related disabilities in Sri Lanka through a combination of dance and law that was pioneered and piloted by VisAbility, a Sri Lankan/ German association, in mid-2015.


Correlation between the Zika virus and sanitary and drainage conditions in the Metropolitan Areas of Fortaleza/Ceará (Brazil)

The aim of this project is to investigate the relationship between mosquito-vectored Zika, inadequate provision of secure and safe potable supplies, drainage and sanitation. 


On Behalf of the People: Work and Community in the Nationalised British Coal Industry, 1947-1994

This 3 year study will conduct a revised history of the nationalised British coal industry (1947-1994), examining this from a macro-, meso-, and micro-, perspective.  


UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (UK CITE)

The overall project aim is to create one of the world’s most advanced environments for connected and autonomous driving.


Exceed in Coventry

Exceed in Coventry is a three-year project providing tailored help and support to over 1,300 Coventry residents, enabling them to progress into education, training, job search or employment.


Power to Change

This project aims to assess the social impact of small-scale agroecological businesses and food producing enterprises in the UK.


Making voices heard: Exploring opportunities and challenges of technology use for people with disabilities to engage in politics

This project investigates how technological tools, such as social media, may support or constrain people with disabilities in the development of their political interests and careers.


RISING forward

A panel debate to consider what are the practical steps that need to be taken for the UK and the EU to move forward in peace after Brexit - with UK and European politicians.


The Big Question. Lecture Series. The US Presidential Election 2016. Fact or fiction?

In the USA Republicans and Democrats are fighting to select their candidate for President. From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, unexpected candidates have come to the fore. Controversy, criticism and confusion have dominated the headlines and thrown the future of American politics up in the air. But what is fact and what is fiction?


Children, health and wellbeing book launched at Swedish Symposium

The Centre for Communities and Social Justice's Dr Geraldine Brady launched the book 'Children, health and wellbeing: policy debates and lived experience' at the Children, health and well-being symposium at Linkoping University, Sweden.


Postgraduate Research Symposium

The Postgraduate Research Symposium for the Faculty of Business and Law was held in the Jaguar Atrium on Wednesday 20th April 2016. Some 35 PGR students exhibited posters and the event was very well attended by fellow students and by academic staff from right across the Faculty.


Lecturer in Dance Nicola Conibere wins the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award

C-DaRE's Dr. Nicola Conibere is awarded a prize of £10,000 and support from a creative producer, to pursue a project of choreographic research.


Call for Proposals; Digital Echoes Symposium 2016

For the 6th edition of the Digital Echoes Symposium, we focus on participation as one of the most prominent legacies of the digital, in particular how it invokes processes of collectivity, democratisation and decentring.