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Coventry leads £20m global research hub aiming to harness benefits of South-South migration Research News
Coventry University will lead a £20 million global research hub – funded through UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) – to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
DOS International symposium Research News
The Data, Organisations and Society research cluster aims to advance research and promote the debate on the challenges and opportunities related to the adoption of technologies in business and society. To that aim, the cluster organised the First International Symposium on Data, Information and Knowledge Management Research.
Britain’s Most Admired Companies - The voice of the C-suite for nearly 30 years Research News
Based on peer and analyst review, the Britain’s Most Admired Companies study is the longest running annual reputation survey of Britain’s leading companies. Compiling data across 25 sectors and rating each business through 12 key criteria, the findings are celebrated and published annually in Management Today magazine.
Sustainable society through Tokyo 2020 Research News
Dr Ian Brittain recently visited Tokyo, Japan supporting a variety of discussions about disability sports in the run up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. Whilst there he was a keynote speaker at several events.
The Lanchester Interactive Archive at Coventry PechaKucha Night Research News
On February 27th, three Outreach Workers from the Lanchester Interactive Archive (LIA) delivered a presentation at the 36th PechaKucha Night in Coventry.
A new Special Interest Group Research News
Ran Holtzman, from the University’s Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, is leading a new Special Interest Group (SIG) entitled “Flow, deformation, and reaction patterns in porous media.”
Newbits project Research News
Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez reflects on the activities of the NEWBITS project which produced science knowledge to support the development of the European ITS industry and improve the impact of research on European policy-making.
ESRC Japan visit Research News
This month, Dr Ian Brittain, as Principal Investigator for an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK-Japan Social Science and Humanities Connections Grant, hosted five Japanese and four British academics.
Pirate Care Conference Research News
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), Coventry University, UK invites contributions to its second annual conference, which will explore the phenomenon of ‘Pirate Care’.
Food waste seminar Research News
This year’s seminar series continued with a seminar delivered by Kirsten Sims, a sustainability professional from Woolworths Supermarkets in South Africa.
Strengthening the work of faith-based organisations in education
Strengthening the relationship between religion and education through policy, guidance and training
Maritime threats like piracy and fisheries crimes significantly undermine the global economy and impact on the sustainable development of coastal states.
A list of publications by CTPSR including latest books and reports.
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.
Direct Democracy Event
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of referendums and public votes. Here in Britain, we have held some of the most headline-grabbing ones; the Brexit vote and the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. More recently, there have been votes on immigration in Hungary, gay marriage in Australia and abortion in Ireland. Why have governments turned this form of public involvement? Is it a sign of populism? And what does it mean for representative democracy? Professor Matt Qvortrup will presents his findings based on more than 30 years of research in the field and his new publication Government by Referendum.
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.
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.
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.
