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ITS Market Watch: Valuable insights from 4 case studies across Europe Research News
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 Research News
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.
The ‘SMART’ way of assessing the sustainability of English and Welsh farms. Research News
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 Research News
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 Research News
This report presents an analysis of white working-class communities’ perspectives on belonging, change, identity, and immigration.
NEWBITS - Through an improved understanding of ITS services towards innovative business models Research News
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 Research News
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 Research News
The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations is celebrating five years of research into the developing arena of maritime security.
Partner countries, UK and Turkey, seek to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of the existing and new built environment. This can only be achieved by introducing novel technologies, low carbon solutions, renewable energy integration and better urban planning. The UK have well established urban planning infrastructure, whereas Turkey has a heritage of architectural design, cultural aspects, and diverse urban planning.
Building energy and technology perspective in China and UK Event
The programme, ‘British Council Researcher Links’ provides opportunities for early career researchers from the UK and internationally to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building energy conservation research collaborations.
The geographies of sex-product retailing in the UK Event
This seminar explores the changing spatiality of the sex retail industry in England, from highly regulated male-orientated sex shops, pushed to the legislative margins of the city and social respectability, towards the emergence of unregulated female-orientated ‘erotic boutiques’ located visibly in city centres.
Factors Leading to Health Exclusion among African Refugees in Australia: The Case of Blood Donation Event
Developed countries that accept refugees are obligated, under the UN Convention for Refugees, to integrate refugees into host communities, with inclusion in the health system being pivotal. Integration programs can be difficult, as many refugees’ home countries have different health systems, they have lower health literacy, and different expectations of health services. Join us for this engaging lunch time seminar with guest speaker Professor Michael Polonsky from Deakin University, Australia.
Breakfast Briefing: The Global Refugee Crisis Event
For this Breakfast Briefing, Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre with the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations invite you to reflect on what is meant by the ‘refugee crisis’ and the possible responses. Is there really a crisis? Where is it and who does it involve?
Egregiousness and Boycott Intensity: Evidence from the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Event
Consumer boycotts are triggered by egregious events, but the literature has not distinguished the level of egregiousness from consumers’ preferences or disutility associated with a given level of egregiousness, nor has the literature studied how these two components of egregiousness affect boycott intensity. Join us for an engaging lunch time seminar with guest speaker Professor Michael Polonsky from Deakin University.
Sustainable production and consumption: Woolworth’s Farming for the Future Programme Event
This seminar will: chart the development of the Farming for the Future Programme; describe the methodologies deployed to improve farming practices; outline the metrics captured to assess the effectiveness of the programme and will provide evidence of the programme’s successes.
Who is Fairtrade for? Critical Reflections on Producer Experiences Event
Dr Agatha Herman visits us from Cardiff University and in this talk she will explore who exactly is the subject of the contemporary Fairtrade movement.
Crisis, what crisis? Assessing international responses to refugees from 2010 to 2020 Event
With around 22.5 million people are currently displaced across international borders by armed conflict, persecution or human rights violations and two thirds living in long-term, protracted displacement, there have been repeated political and media claims of an unprecedented ‘global refugee crisis’. But how useful is it to think of this as a global crisis? How have states and international organisations sought to address the issue? And what lies ahead for international politics and policy making?
Annalouise Paul Residency and Workshop Event
Annalouise Paul creates dance narratives inspired by histories, bodies and an observation of cultures and peoples. She also works closely with digital technologies and somatic practices. Dance DNA draws on somatic ideas to develop unique movement vocabularies from bridging cultural and contemporary dance forms. Dance DNA is a ‘non-scientific’ term used to describe where movement begins in the body, identifying trigger points for initiating visceral movement and sensibilities. Hidden Rhythms refer to the intrinsic ‘character’ of a rhythm that are danced so that inherent qualities are exposed but not necessarily heard.
Grassroots to Global: Development from Below Event
The Global Development Research Group at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University is pleased to announce a call for papers for their forthcoming academic conference entitled “Grassroots to Global: Development from Below”. This one-day conference will bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers from across disciplines, focusing on development practice at grassroots level and implications for global development discourse.
BERA seminar open to staff: ‘Dutch courage in internationalisation’ Event
We are pleased to announce the first of our research seminars hosted as part of the Intercultural Engagement and Global Learning Theme of Coventry University’s Research Centre, Global Learning: Education and Attainment (GLEA).
