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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).
Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Event
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures brings together media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists. It draws on cross-disciplinary ideas associated with open and disruptive media, the posthuman, the posthumanities, the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene to explore how innovations in postdigital cultures can enable 21st century society to respond to the challenges it faces at a global, national and local level.
5th SIMBIO-M Conference Event
This conference is organised every other year, aiming at introducing new technologies, advances and tools in the fields of Biomechanics and Biomedical engineering. As usual our focus is on research and in particular introduction of young researchers into the applications world.
175 Open Lecture Series Event
As part of our 175 year anniversary celebrations, Coventry University are holding a series of open lectures to showcase just some of the research activity that we undertake.
Petals - FGM web app for young people wins Gold London Design Award Research News
In the Digital community category, the app, created to help protect young girls and women from female genital mutilation (FGM), has beaten off stiff competition to win a 2016 London Design Award.
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.
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 ‘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).
Europeana Space: Spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content Research News
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 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.
Professor Heaven Crawley joins the Overseas Development Institute Research News
Professor Heaven Crawley has joined the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as a Senior Research Associate to develop and strengthen links with the newly established migration research programme.
Katharine Jones joins the One World Media Awards as a judge Research News
Katharine Jones has been invited to act as a judge for the One World Media Awards, Refugee Reporting category, 2017.
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.
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.
First responders in war-torn Syria feel ‘abandoned’ by international community Research News
First responders providing emergency aid to civilians in horrific conditions in Syria’s war-torn cities feel ‘abandoned’ by the international community, a survey found.
Sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration - REACH Research News
The upcoming three-year REACH project will establish a Social Platform as a sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration.
Multiplicity: The Varied Roles of Universities Supporting Small Businesses
Guest blog by: David Pickernell: Visiting Professor, International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University 2016 has heralded a period of significant uncertainty for the UK economy, and this is likely to continue for several years. It is precisely during such times, however, that innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship become even more important, as new products, services, processes and business models are required to meet market challenges.
