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Leveraging bio-active plants in smallholder goat production

Dr. Lovemore C. Gwiriri is a post-doctoral smallholder livestock systems research scientist at Rothamsted Research involved in agricultural systems socio-economic analysis.


Migration and inequality: time for a new story

A Coventry University-led migration project is aiming to tell the the complicated story of the relationship between migration and global inequalities through an animated video, recreated in six languages.


Fashion and Ageing

The ageing population has become a significant topic in the contemporary research agenda. The post-industrial economy of improved health care, leisure and bio-medical technologies has affected both the biological and social spheres of ageing, producing new challenges for individuals, policy makers and associated industries, including fashion. The need to better cater to older individuals’ needs and expectations is the focus of Ania Sadkowska’s resesearch.


SIGNALS

‘Signals’ is a choreographed live action performance made in response to a series of constructed sound loops that are triggered for the duration of the piece. It is based on an original set of sketches titled ‘Broom-Self/Mop-Spirit’ (1980) found in the Spect. Anon book by the late D. John Briscoe. The performance attempts to decipher fragments from the notes, drawings and typewritten texts, taking cues from invocations and litanies from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and suggesting relationships to breathing, air and marriage.


COV(ID) RESIDENCY

Under the moniker of SPECT.ANON. George Saxon and Ryan Sehmar worked with Vivid Projects as part of a year-long residency to re-imagine worlds under curfew during a shared self-isolation. A series of events, referred to as interludes and intervals, were developed within the environment of an empty space. The audience was beckoned into a wooden structure, where potential action and intervention were recorded at given intervals, as the artists deciphered the interior world (inner space) of this existence together with the fragile tensions and antagonisms presented by the exterior world (outer space).


The Shape of Sound

The project ‘The Shape of Sound’ is a scaled-up installation of elements of the human ear and is a supported projext as part of the Being Human Festival 2021 (Coventry Hub).


Virtual Inclusive Cultural Entrepreneurs (VICE)

The Virtual Inclusive Cultural Entrepreneurs (VICE) project has 5 partners from 4 countries: UK, Sweden, Austria, and Croatia. Each bringing complementary skills and expertise in the fields of adult education, teacher training, post-digital cultures, archives, museums, and cutting-edge learning technology.


Transdisciplinary Research (TDR): Building Excellence in Research Communities

Coventry University's first Transdisciplinary Research event, featuring external keynote speakers


Disability sport and social change: An introduction to my research

Dr Brittain is an Associate Professor (Research) in CBiS. His research focuses upon historical and sociological aspects of disability and Paralympic sport with specialisms in Paralympic history and Paralympic legacies.


Economic Imagination

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) presents a panel discussion for 17, Institute of Critical Studies colloquium on Economic Imagination. Coordinated by Benjamín Mayer Foulkes, the colloquium “honors and gathers the fruits of the two decades of the Institute's life”.


Nonlinear connectivity and frequency-domain analysis in neuroscience

The Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling invite you to their two hour seminar 'Nonlinear connectivity and frequency-domain analysis in neuroscience'.


RISING Global Peace forum to welcome key international leaders

The former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will be speaking about leadership at the sixth annual RISING Global Peace conference.


Peace means more for Coventry in 2021

Coventry, being the UK’s only City of Peace and Reconciliation has become more important for the city over the past 12 months, according to a recent survey organised by the RISING Global Peace Forum.


Your Right to Privacy Online: CSI-COP's informal education workshop - 2021

The workshop will explore privacy, data, how we are tracked online, the regulations to protect our data, and free online tools to help us reject tracking in websites and apps.


Building Positive Relationships among University Students across Religion and Worldview Diversity

This project asks how we create a positive university climate for student engagement across religion and worldview diversity.


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.


Virtual Reality Archive Learning - Teaching Skills Through Heritage And Technology

Join us for an online celebration of the end of the EU project ViRAL - Virtual Reality Archive Learning. We will be promoting the project and demonstrating the free resources and learning material we have made to be used for training and upskilling adults, using exciting assets from heritage and culture and new technology such as 360, AR and VR.


(Post)digital Data and Health

This symposium will explore how the conjoining of data, health and the experience of our bodies shapes how we feel, including the new “moral-intimate-economic” fantasies incorporated into social media and online digital health technologies.


Postdigital Intimacies and the Networked Public Private

The network looks to create new knowledge on intimacy in a postdigital context. It understands intimacy in the broadest sense. Where most accounts of intimacy focus on sexual or kinship relationships, the network looks to widen this, thinking about intimacy as a relational concept, or series of relationalities.


Coventry University researcher presents at United Nations Energy Debate

A Coventry University researcher had the honour of being the only speaker from a UK university at a prestigious United Nations debate on energy hosted in New York.