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Food waste seminar

This year’s seminar series continued with a seminar delivered by Kirsten Sims, a sustainability professional from Woolworths Supermarkets in South Africa.


UN sponsored conflict resolution in Kyrgyzstan: Why do external peacebuilding interventions not correspond to insider needs?

This project responds to the experience of policy-makers and practitioners working on ‘preventing violent extremism’ (PVE) who find policies developed and implemented under the rubric of PVE to be ambiguous and vague which can lead to dignity being compromised.


Evaluation of 'Unlocking Nature: Greening our prison spaces

Unlocking Nature targeted two areas, an improvement in the built prison environment and the introduction of land-based interventions. Both activities have been acknowledged as influencing the physical and mental health and wellbeing of incarcerated men and women.


Understanding and co-designing mechanisms for research participation within the DDRI model

Under the programme we undertook a 12 month project employing co-creation as a tool to develop a shared understanding of the DDRI concept and to develop and agree some initial guiding principles for researching and working together in this context.


The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution Research

The AIR (Air Pollution Interdisciplinary Research) Network is an interdisciplinary research partnership of African and European researchers and African community members, with the long-term aim of creating innovative, participatory solutions to air pollution and its effects on human health in low-resource settings in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).


STARTIN Developing inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship education in Europe

The aim of START IN project is to stimulate the “social entrepreneurial mindset”, developing capacities and abilities from early ages, laying the foundations for young social entrepreneurs to transform ideas into action in different social, cultural or economic contexts.


Commercialisation of a Micronutrient Delivery Platform for targeted iron absorption

The aim of this project is to commercialise our unique, newly developed, micronutrient delivery platform (MDP) for iron absorption, for safe, cost-effective and efficient iron delivery.


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.


Coventry University to play five-year host to UN academic council

Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been selected to host the headquarters of the prestigious Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) for five years starting in 2018. The university’s research centre, which is based on its Technology Park and which specialises in trust, peacebuilding and human security, will assume the role of secretariat to ACUNS from next year. 


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 ‘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).


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.


Europeana Space: Spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content

We recently completed the project and received an ‘Excellent’ for the project in our final review. The project has been hugely successful and we are hoping to continue working with our partners on other projects.


NEWBITS - Through an improved understanding of ITS services towards innovative business models

The European Commission sees an important role for Intelligent Transport Systems – short ITS - in order to enhance greening transport and improve transport efficiency, safety, and security.


What the Prevent duty means for schools and colleges in England: An analysis of educationalists’ experiences

New report from CTPSR seeks to get beyond the polarised public debate about the Prevent duty to explore the experiences of ‘front line’ education professionals.


Five year anniversary of vital maritime security research at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations is celebrating five years of research into the developing arena of maritime security. 


Sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration - REACH

The upcoming three-year REACH project will establish a Social Platform as a sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration.


EDUHACK – Hacking Education by improving open e-learning teacher competencies

Participants in this capacity building programme for university educators will learn how to produce digitally-supported learning experiences and will have the opportunity to experiment with innovative models and approaches to teaching and learning; with a focus on fostering collaborative learning and enhanced student engagement.


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.


The ‘Prosper’ programme – researching business support for cultural and creative organisations

The Prosper programme aims to strengthen the resilience and investment readiness of arts organisations, museums and libraries in England.