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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. 


How does diagnosis of dyslexia impact on identity, self-belief and reading progress in children and adults?

This study aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the impact of identifying dyslexia in children and adults.  Of specific interest is the effect on identity, self-belief and reading progress in light of the age at which a learner is identified as dyslexic.


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.


Prosody, Morphology, Phonology and Multisyllabic Word Reading

We hope that this project will provide us with further insight of a newly emerging side of literacy research as it incorporates the metalinguistic skill of prosody.


Small Group Reading Support

Small Group Reading Support, a literacy intervention for Year 1 students. Funded by Education Endowment Foundation. Impact: If successful, improve literacy outcomes for KS1 pupils across the country.


Literacy development: a review of the evidence

Literacy development: a review of the evidence


Tire Technology 2016 Young Scientist Award for Coventry PhD Student Greg Smith

The Tire Technology 2016 Young Scientist Prize was won by Gregory Smith for his paper on 'GS2MF', an advanced, flat-track tire test procedure used to gather data to parameterise Magic Formula 6.1 tire models. Smith has his own company, Tyre CAE & Modelling Consultants, but does much of his work at Jaguar Land Rover. He is also studying for a Ph.D, supervised by Professor Mike Blundell at Coventry University in the UK, and in his spare time writes for Tire Technology International.


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?


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.


Migrant Voices in the British media

Victims and Villains explores how migrant voices and experiences are framed in Britain’s migration debate, against the backdrop of a complex relationship between the media, political debate and public attitudes.


Prof. Hazel Barrett represents Coventry University at Change Plus Kickoff Meeting in Berlin

Prof Hazel Barrett was pleased to represent Coventry University alongside all the partners of the Chang Plus project.


Call for papers: Arend Lijphart Symposium

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, at Coventry University, is delighted to present the symposium, Arend Lijphart Power-Sharing and the Politics of Intercultural Dialogue.


Joel Busher wins BSA Memorial Prize

Joel Busher wins British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for Making of Anti-Muslim Protest


CBiS in the Automotive Sector

CBiS in the Automotive Sector


Breaking Bad: How transnational drug trafficking creates violent masculinities in local Caribbean communities in Port of Spain

This project addresses the impact of transnational organised crime (TNOC) and drug-trafficking on poor urban communities in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, by considering the ‘transnational-to-community’ impact of drug-trafficking.


Democratic responsibility in a divided society: exploring public trust in post-conflict Northern Ireland

Trust in democratic institutions is vital within post-conflict societies like Northern Ireland in reducing division and sustaining peace. Through in-depth interviews with three fundamental groups in the democratic process, the media, government and community representatives, this project aims to produce new insight into trust in Northern Ireland.